Chapter 253: He Must Be a Useless Good-for-Nothing!

Ahead were two high-rises separated by a wide gap, at least a hundred meters apart.

Yet Luo Xi showed no sign of slowing down.

The next moment, she stomped hard on the edge of the rooftop, her petite body launching into the air, gliding halfway across the void.

Just as she was about to lose momentum and plummet downward, her expression remained completely unchanged.

She lightly tapped her toes against empty space, as if an invisible gale had suddenly materialized beneath her feet, giving her a new foothold, and then she leaped high.

The girl landed steadily on the rooftop of the building across.

She was like a gust of wind weaving through the city.

Even if an ordinary person on the street below happened to glance up and catch that streak of red afterimage, they would only think it was a trick of their own eyes.

But right now, her face wore an extremely indignant expression.

Luo Xi was very, very unhappy at the moment.

"What the heck... Everyone treats me like a kid!!"

She ran while muttering to herself, cheeks puffed up with frustration: "I'm already a second-grade sorcerer, you know!"

With the Sixth Division's workload being so heavy these days, it was obvious someone in Wind Capital was secretly making big moves behind the scenes, yet no one was willing to entrust her with those important tasks. Instead, they assigned her this kind of mindless errand-running... How infuriating!

I'm a genius too, darn it!

And besides... why did they make me deliver a transformation device?!

Recalling how the Division Chief had said the box contained a second Energy Level early-phase transformation cursed tool, and that it had been specially requisitioned by the Sixth Division at that person's request...

Luo Xi couldn't help but feel a surge of contempt rise in her heart.

Sure, that arrogant jerk Wu Nuo was insufferable on a good day, but he had made a point that was genuinely spot-on.

Someone who was already a superhuman yet still relied on external tools like plug-in spells was nothing but a talentless hack.

This recipient was probably some first-grade sorcerer who had barely scraped their way to above mid-phase second Energy Level by grinding seniority and burning through time.

Luo Xi secretly speculated to herself.

Having the sheer curse power reserves of that grade, but with their innate technique and curse power manipulation being absolute garbage, so they wanted to use this thing to compensate for their combat strength?

Maybe he was even some pot-bellied, middle-aged bald guy with a receding hairline!

She clicked her tongue in disdain: "How boring!"

Just you wait!

Once I grow up, I'll leave all you adults who look down on me far behind in the dust!

And when that day comes, I'll beat that pink-haired arrogant jerk into the ground too!

A flash of self-satisfaction crossed Luo Xi's face.

As the youngest genius second-grade sorcerer on record in Wind Capital, she certainly had the right to be proud.

The minimum requirement for second-grade was breaking through the second Energy Level and passing the Sorcerer Association's examination.

In other words, between the weakest first-grade and second-grade sorcerers, there was no insurmountable gap.

Luo Xi firmly believed that with her mutated Innate Technique, even against an average first-grade sorcerer, she wouldn't necessarily lose.

"Oh, right!"

Luo Xi's eyes rolled, then suddenly lit up.

When I deliver the goods later, I'll deliberately act impatient and as rude as possible, ideally provoking that guy into picking a fight with me first!

As long as he dares to make the first move, I'll have every right to exchange a few blows with him.

If I can subdue a first-grade sorcerer...

Then everyone in the Sixth Division will definitely look at me with newfound respect!

They'll understand that I'm already a force to be reckoned with, and from then on they'll entrust me with important missions, and I can finally share some of the burden for Sister Sheng Shi!

Perfect plan!

............

Not long after.

Luo Xi landed steadily on the rooftop of an old, shabby apartment building.

Her small nose suddenly twitched slightly, and an extremely strange expression flickered across her face.

"Huh."

Come to think of it, she'd been noticing this since a while ago...

The air here didn't smell as awful as she had imagined?

Luo Xi's innate technique was naturally somewhat anomalous, having wrought certain changes on her body.

Besides her wind-affinity curse power, her sense of smell and hearing had also become extraordinarily keen under the influence of her technique.

However, this keenness wasn't merely limited to physical odors. It could even be called a powerful detection-type perception ability.

Only Luo Xi herself knew that she could use her sense of smell to detect the "mystery" in the air, as well as the various pheromones scattered within other people's "curse power."

The West District, especially the Western Suburbs, had the worst public security reputation in all of Wind Capital for as long as she could remember, with crime rates perpetually on the rise.

Chaos and filthy desires intertwined, and to Luo Xi's sense of smell, that was equivalent to a suffocating stench permeating everything. That was why she normally went out of her way to avoid this place, never wanting to come here, and never treating it as part of her patrol area.

What surprised her now was...

It seemed like along the entire route here, she hadn't sensed much in the way of bad odors at all.

And now, standing on the rooftop of this old apartment building, the surroundings were even cleaner, without a single trace of chaotic scent.

Although she found it a bit odd, Luo Xi's head was full of her "perfect plan," so she didn't dwell on it.

She glanced at her phone's navigation to confirm the target location was exactly where she stood, then trotted down the stairs in her leather boots, clack-clack-clack.

Soon, she arrived at the door number she was looking for.

Staring at the extremely heavy, fortified security door that looked completely out of place on this rundown apartment building, Luo Xi froze for a moment, then her eyes suddenly gleamed.

They even specially installed this kind of heavy-duty security door?

He must be a useless good-for-nothing!

As a first-grade sorcerer, he didn't even have an ounce of courage, needing this kind of security door that she could shred with a single swipe of her claws just to feel safe.

Just as I guessed, he's a noob who relies on external props!

How pathetic must this guy be?!

I almost feel bad picking on him now!

Maybe I should just scrap the plan I was thinking about?

After all, everyone in the Sixth Division says bullying the weak is bad behavior!

Even if I beat him, no one will look at me with newfound respect anyway!

A conflicted look crossed Luo Xi's delicate little face as she raised her hand and knocked heavily on the door.

BAM BAM BAM!

Hearing footsteps growing closer from inside, Luo Xi cleared her throat and tried her best to put on a stern expression.

CREAK—

The heavy security door slowly swung open from within.

But at the very moment the lock clicked open and the gap in the doorway widened, Luo Xi's nostrils suddenly twitched.

And then, her pupils uncontrollably dilated.

"..."

Because before she could even see who was on the other side, she suddenly caught a scent completely different from every sorcerer and demon she had ever encountered before.

It was the smell of sweat, yet not merely sweat. It was mixed with traces of curse power and emotion.

Luo Xi felt as if she had smelled blazing flames.

Endless, boundless flames, each wisp so profound and so pure, vast beyond imagination, with no boundaries and no limits.

And within it all, carried an extreme sense of Pride.