Chapter 427

"Professional habits." Cheng Rang smiled and waved his hand, "If it's okay, I'll leave first."

"Have you thought about the wedding?"

Cheng Rang stopped holding the door handle and turned around in surprise, "Fantou, when did you start caring so much about the members' personal issues?"

"After all, you are a special guy."

"What's special about me? I'm just an ordinary person."

"That's it."

Stephen responded perfunctorily, refocused on the report and stopped talking. Cheng Rang, who was confused about this, raised his eyebrows. Seeing that Fan Tou had nothing else to say, he opened the door and left.

[Mission Briefing: LB-ZK-007459 "DeusMachina·Maxim"]

[Undertaken by: Cheng Rang]

[Assistant: Leonardo Watch]

[Use God's Prosthetic Eye to track the traces of the target and discover clues on the first night. The investigation phase continued until the evening of the second day, and the target hiding place was locked. 】

[After that, I took Leo to have a meal of fried chicken. I treated Zabu, and I extorted the money from him for other reasons. 】

[On the third day, I also had Mexican tacos for breakfast, stuffed with fried chicken, from the one on 14th Street in Brighton. Leo ordered another bottle of Coke Zero, and the 0.5 zer was credited to his account. 】

[There are still three hours left in the mission, so there is plenty of time. Leo said he didn’t want to fly anymore, so we chose to ride a motorcycle. 】

[On the third day of the mission, the remaining time is 24 minutes and 36 seconds when the mission target is contacted. 】

[On the third day of the mission, with 24 minutes and 35 seconds remaining, the mission target was successfully eliminated. For evidence and on-site pictures, please see the attachment below for details. 】

Stephen turned over a thin page of report paper and held several developed photos with paper clips at the back.

The empty alley was clean. Cheng Rang opened his hand in front of the camera, indicating that there was nothing left, so let me take a hammer.

"Tsk, it's still the same. The mission execution was perfect, and the time was just right... but the briefing was a mess."

Stephen's heavy sigh came from the office, and with a bang of seal, the mission report marked "Archive" was thrown into the folder beside it.

Stephen then made the call.

"Hello? Elaine, Maxim's matter is over, um... um... yes, there is nothing left, just like the previous times. There is no way, after all, this thing has the ability to regenerate, It’s too troublesome for us, so it’s normal and necessary for Cheng to choose to eradicate the root cause...Okay, that’s it.”

The phone hangs up.

...

What's the first thing you do after completing a task?

No need to ask, then of course he should go to his wife to ask for the mission reward!

Returning home with unbearable excitement, Cheng Rang opened the door and was greeted by a cold wind that was more biting than the winter cold in the empty home.

"Where's my wife!?"

After calling, I learned that Isabella was called by her master Leticia today.

This time Cheng Rang walked to the front door obediently and chose to ring the doorbell.

"——Why are you here to join in the fun?"

Leticia folded her arms and looked at the guy Isabella brought into her home, her expression seemed dissatisfied.

"You don't want to see me that much? Hey, speaking of you..."

Cheng Rang pointed to Letitia's hairstyle. The long silver hair that had reached her waist had been cut short by her and returned to its original appearance.

"What's wrong?"

"...Uh, nothing."

Others don't know that Leticia actually traveled through the world with them in the past few days when she disappeared, and she has also changed a lot...both in appearance and strength.

As expected, Isabella didn't understand the conversation between the two at all, but she didn't say anything, just tilted her head.

Cheng Rang quickly changed the subject: "Have you finished all the things you were busy with?"

"Well, I've been away these days. Isa, have you continued to practice?"

After Leticia faced Isabella, her tone changed and she took on a sense of dignity as a teacher.

"Of course...!"

Suddenly, a fireball condensed from behind Leticia without any warning and shot towards Isabella in an instant. It exuded incandescent heat and its trajectory distorted the air.

Isabella's reaction was also extremely fast. She cast the spell silently and instantly projected the shield from the front of her arm. Even if the Lin curse shield was condensed in such a hurry, its coverage area protected the entire front of her body from head to toe.

There was a loud noise, and the fireball exploded in front of the shield, but it did not touch the shield.

Detonate early?

Cheng Rang, who saw this, discovered that Isabella had not noticed at all the small fireballs that had split off from the fire wave that exploded in front of her. They turned around the shield in front of them and headed towards Isabella was left unprotected by the physical attack.

The moment before Cheng Rang took action, he seemed to understand what he meant.

In the palm of Leticia's raised hand, black and gold intertwined cursed light cannons came towards her, even mixed with the power of the curse's ultimate intention, and she had to temporarily avoid the sharp edge. The original intention flashed in his hand, and he drew his sword to block it.

The guardian pendant with a single attribute defense was triggered and ineffective in an instant, and the high-sequence attack mantra carrying the power of chaos even used 50% of Cheng Rang's strength to successfully neutralize it.

After the strong spell dissipated, Cheng Rang put down his weapon and saw that Isabella had been knocked to the ground.

Isabella, who seemed to have fainted briefly, coughed a few times, then cried out in pain and got up from the ground in disgrace. Her beautiful long golden hair was burnt to a large extent and was curled up. Smoke swirls upward.

"No way at all, you have regressed, Isa." Letitia then looked at Cheng Rang and raised her hand: "And you, if you want to do it for your wife's good, don't interfere. You can always protect her. Isn’t she hurt?”

"But your attack was a bit too harsh... Isa is your disciple, right?" Cheng Rang helped the injured Isabella up with some distress, and threw a healing spell on her.

"Can't die."

"Is this the only standard? It's too strict!"

Leticia's expression was serious, and she said word by word: "Be injured in my hands, or die in the hands of the enemy, which one do you choose?"

Cheng Rang hesitated to speak, but Leticia continued:

"I think you have a deep understanding of the meaning of revenge. Whatever you do after what happened, it will be too late anyway. No matter how powerful the power is, it can't make up for it, right?"

The dead will never come back no matter what... Even if the world and time and space are torn apart, they will only be a completely different person.

".....I know."

Cheng Rang nodded, looked at his slightly trembling left hand, and then clenched it.

Isabella gritted her teeth and stood up from Cheng Rang's arms. She smiled and told him that it was okay. Then her expression became serious and she bowed slightly to Leticia.

"I understand, Master...I'm sorry!"

"You are no longer an ordinary girl, not when you choose to take the responsibility of maintaining world balance on your shoulders, so grit your teeth and don't just use beautiful words to express your determination!"

"yes!"

Leticia showed her strict side in front of Cheng Rang, very strict...

But it was this strictness and seriousness that made him feel at ease...

Cheng Rang put away his weapon and stepped aside.

Leticia first analyzed the shortcomings that Isabella had just dealt with, and then proposed a reasonable response plan.

After Isabella nodded to express her understanding, the second spark exploded.

boom!

She didn't feel any distress about her room that was blown to pieces. Leticia had the ability to restore it all with a wave of her hand.

The hot and beating flames hit Isabella's shield. Having learned from the previous experience, she considered attacks from other directions this time and made corresponding defenses around her.

But the condensed fireball did not explode this time, but rumbled against the shield, completely shattering it from the front, and Isabella was knocked to the ground for the second time.

Although Cheng Rang felt distressed, he could not deny that Letitia's practical teaching method could make the students' strength and experience improve by leaps and bounds.

because--

"Isa, although you took into account the variables of the enemy's attack this time, the areas on the front that need the most defense are weak. The enemy's attacks cannot be the same every time. You will lose the moment you fail to adapt. The loss will be your life." Leticia's words coincided with Cheng Rang's thoughts, and he, who was equally experienced in combat, nodded secretly.

The battlefield is ever-changing, cruel, unknown, soaked in blood and life - life and death can only be decided in an instant, it is true.

"have you understood?"

Isabella gritted her teeth and pushed herself up from the ground. The clothes that had been instantly carbonized by the high temperature had turned into ashes and fell. The forearm that was blocking the shield in front of her had been cracked by the heat and emitted an odor. The pungent burning smell and heart-wrenching pain radiated throughout the body along the wound.

Although the girl tried her best to endure it, the pain still made tears fall from her eyes.

But she didn't complain at all. She just stood up again and shouted with choked sobs:

"Yes, I...I understand!"

"There is nothing wrong with your defense logic just now. What needs to be strengthened is the speed of condensation and mobilization of the spell. The treatment of the wound will come after you block one of my attacks. Don't worry, your husband, there won't be any scars." Stay…continue!”

Isabella wiped away her tears, released the Lin Curse and temporarily bandaged the wound with a spell ribbon, then regained her momentum and faced Leticia again, who had the sparks of the Mantra condensed behind her.

"yes!"

Chapter 9 Pure White Curse Shield

An hour and a half had passed since the brutal face-to-face teaching, but Isabella still had not been able to successfully defend herself against Tissia's attack even once.

The defense was ruthlessly broken again and again, and Letitia beat her to bruises all over her body as if on purpose.

boom!

Once again, Isabella's shield was shattered, and she flew backwards, hitting the bookshelf hard.

Leticia put down her hand, and the spell circle disappeared from under her feet.

"No, you haven't been able to reproduce the key points I just said."

"Get up and continue." He said.

.......

My whole body was wailing - it hurts, it hurts...it hurts so much!

But Isabella knew that these were just flesh wounds. Leticia's grasp of power was extremely wonderful. She endured hardships but at the same time, she still cared about herself.

I am still too weak...

To this extent, if you can't even protect yourself, how can you protect others?

Isabella is not stupid, she is very smart, and she understands that everything Leticia does is for her own good.

But she still felt wronged, and pain spread throughout her body, making her want to cry, consider giving up, and act coquettishly like before...

There is no way, I am a girl, it’s okay to be a little willful!

Thinking like this, Isabella curled up on the ground, her sobs gradually getting louder.

"The person who wants your life will not sympathize with you just because you are pretending to be pitiful. Get up!"

"Sister Leticia is bullying people! She was able to defend herself before, so why did she increase the power of the spell this time?"

"Because I've become stronger."

"But I didn't!"

"..."

Leticia stared at the crying girl curled up on the ground, with a trace of distress in her eyes. She sighed secretly and asked in a soft tone: "Then are you willing to stop here and stop persisting? You were doing the Lin Curse at the beginning. When you took the teacher's exam, where did your momentum go? Where did your eyes go?"

After a moment of pause, Leticia stared at Isabella's closed eyes and said: "Okay, then let's add another rule. If you want to give up, I can stop immediately. As long as you shout 'I want to give up, I If you can't hold it any longer, I won't ask you for anything more, and this lecture will end here."

Leticia slowly walked towards Isabella and stretched out her hand to her, the emerald green light of the Time Curse shining in it.

"But you need to admit your failure this time. Come on, shout out - 'I give up'."

Isabella clenched her fists unwillingly, gritted her teeth together, and opened her eyes again to stare at the Time Curse Healing Light that was ready in Leticia's hand.

"Choose to give up or get up."

Cheng Rang, who was watching silently from the side, told the truth because he hoped Isabella would give up.

Who can watch the person they like being knocked to the ground again and again without the ability to resist?

The sweat and tears almost formed shallow puddles on the ground, and were dried by the scorching heat, forming circles of salt stains under the girl's body.