BXBX NOVEL Chapter 553: Style
Lucifer Serage started at Qian Jin silently for a few seconds as he tried to spot some nervousness. If he was able to find any, it would prove his point. However, he felt like this mixed-blood’s confidence was as firm as a diamond.
Qian Jin was very confident in his own judgment. He had seen these types of extraction runes before, he had seen it because of the existence of Undead Queen’s Heraldic.
Akenash told him before that the Undead was a very complex class of runes, entities would be able to achieve the realm of immortality with it.
Although this type of rune would allow someone to become a god, Akenash believed that it was an extreme and incorrect direction of development.
By now, Qian Jin had already realized that both Akenash’s Rune Art and Eulalia’s Mystic Pharmaceuticals wanted to create gods.
Even though Uncle Adams wasn’t as extreme as Eulalia, he also wanted to create a potion that could even make a pig into a god. Of course, Uncle Adams’ potion making skill was already on another level, it was god-tier.
Uncle Adams’ method was a lot more practical. He wanted to find a good enough body and make it the carrier, and he would then be able to use different potions to make this carrier into a god gradually.
Because Qian Jin invested a lot of time into Undead Queen’s Heraldic, his understanding of runes and magic arrays skyrocketed, especially in the area of extraction and conversion.
As soon as Lucifer Serage drew the magic arrays on the ground, he knew what it was for and where the issues were. Just when he started learning about extraction runes, he had similar ideas. But after he went through the book that Akenash gave him to read, he realized that his ideas were wrong and the magic array he thought of could potentially suck away his own energy.
If this magic array was drawn on a living creature, a Rune Heraldic would appear on the head of the carrier, and it was very possible that an Undead Creature would be created.
"This magic array would start extracting, but here..." Qian Jin pointed at one location of the magic array and explained, "This is for increasing the extraction intensity, right? It is correct in theory, but..."
Qian Jin pointed at the part he added and continued, "This is also for speeding up the extraction. Both of these are for speeding up the extraction, but when they are combined together... they would form a special pathing."
Lucifer Serage stared at where Qian Jin was pointing and thought, "Really? Is that true?" he thought.
"Although this pathing is still for extraction, but..." a cold grin appeared on Qian Jin’s face as he said, "It would change the target and focus on extracting energy from the other side. In less than five minutes, you will be sucked dry."
Lucifer Serage felt a chill in his spine as he thought of the scene where he was sucked so dry that his skin literally wrapped around his bones.
He started to rub his arms together subconsciously to get rid of the chill he was feeling.
Qian Jin didn’t pay attention to the Crown Prince, he continued to complete the design. As the magic arrays appeared one after another on the ground, Lucifer Serage felt like the chill he was trying to get rid of got stronger and stronger, what Qian Jin was drawing was completely the same as his design!
If they weren’t talking for the first time, Lucifer Serage would have thought that this mixed-blood in front of him saw his hidden design before.
"Here, here, here, here and here...."
Qian Jin pointed at the runes on the ground using the stick and said, "These magic runes would change the extraction into suction. With these runes here, you would be sucked dry in four minutes. This rune is for making you comfortable. Your energy would be getting sucked away, but you would feel like you are getting stronger and stronger."
The chill Lucifer Serage was feeling turned into cold sweats on his forehead. "If what he is saying is true, I’m in danger..."
"I don’t think you completed this project on your own." Qian Jin pointed at the locations he identified and said, "Although they are a complete design, they aren’t completed by one demon’s idea."
Lucifer Serage started to believe what Qian Jin was saying. It was true that he didn’t create this design himself. Even though he was very skillful, he couldn’t complete such a complicated project himself, he needed assistance from others.
The locations that Qian Jin pointed out were put together by the leading designer – a Fasthink Demon.
The Fasthink Clan is a small clan, and the demons in this clan were all weak in terms of combat abilities. However, they were great at thinking, learning, and researching. Their special talent allowed them to master areas such as runes, architecture, laws, sociology, and economics.
As Qian Jin pointed forward and continued to dissect the design, he suddenly paused. He squatted down to take a closer look and his frowned more and more.
It was... a bit too familiar.
Qian Jin sniffed subconsciously even though there was no strange smell around here, it felt like he was really able to smell something from around here.
The smell of conspiracy! The smell of Undead!
Qian Jin suddenly shivered, there was a thick smell of conspiracy and Undead.
"This rune... this magic array..." Qian Jin rubbed his noise and thought, "This is created for a reason. There has to be a trap!"
What happened in Ancient Desert Sea involving Hai Luna and Lucifer Nihan quickly reappeared in Qian Jin’s head, it was the familiar cold and lifeless sensation.
"There are some major issues with this design, someone is trying to harm you." Qian Jin looked up at Lucifer Serage and said confidently.
"Harm me?" Lucifer Serage was surprised. He looked at Qian Jin skeptically and thought, "This mixed-blood is the retinue of Lucifer Lucy after all. I must carefully evaluate everything he says. But I can’t sense any slyness on him."
"Authority!" Lucifer Serage could only sense authority from Qian Jin, that authority was similar to the aura on Fasthink Mingxiang when he was in control of the design and engineering process.
Although they both had authority, they were different. Fasthink Mingxiang made other felt like he was at the peak of knowledge, but it felt like Qian Jin was so confident in his judgment that he won’t change his mind even if the Demon King had his palm on his head.
"Yeah, a demon is trying to harm you." Qian Jin patted the dust off of his clothes and stood up. "You can believe me, but you don’t have to. But this design will kill you in a short time, and it will allow one of your ancestors to climb out of his or her tomb," he said.
"Climb out of the tomb?" Lucifer Serage shivered as that chilly image appeared in his head. He knew that he would be frightened if he saw that in real life.
"If you want me to help you, you need to lend that Saint Item to me to study for a few years after I help you achieve your goal," Qian Jin said.
Lucifer Serage wasn’t surprised. To Rune Masters and Forge Masters, although money was value, they would rather study the Saint Item and not get paid.
"You can choose to help me or not, but... I won’t lend the Saint Item to any other demon," a confident smile appeared on Lucifer Serage’s face.
"Really? Ok then, please exit on the right," Qian Jin pointed at the door and said, "Goodbye."
The confident smile on Lucifer Serage’s face froze. "What is going on? There isn’t a Rune Master who rejected me after knowing that they could participate in such a huge project," he thought.
That was right! Lucifer Serage recalled that there were a few Rune Masters who voluntarily came to him and wanted to join in. After Lucifer Serage rejected them, they even kneeled and begged just to have the chance to see the higher-level rune arts.
No demon Rune Masters could resist it, and no human Rune Masters could resist either. There were currently a few human Rune Masters working for Lucifer Serage right now.
Since Lucifer Serage knew runes himself, he knew that this huge project was more attractive to Rune Masters with higher skills.
However, in front of him was a highly skilled Rune Master, but that demon rejected his offer directly. "Could it be that he is throwing a tantrum? Pretending he is mad?" Lucifer Serage thought as he looked at Qian Jin in the eyes, but he couldn’t find any dishonesty.
That was right! This was the first time that Lucifer Serage encountered a Rune Master who didn’t react to his project at all. If he didn’t meet Qian Jin, he would have thought that such a demon was lying about his Rune Master identity.
"Your Highness, remember this." Qian Jin said to Lucifer Serage as he pretended that he was mad, "If you walk out of this yard today, I won’t help you in the future even if the Demon King His Majesty ordered me to. I, Jiliu Feijing, would never yield to threats. If you want my help, you should treat me as a partner and an ally."