The brazier was quickly brought over, its charcoal still crackling with sparks. In Wildfire City's freezing weather, such charcoal braziers were everywhere and required almost no preparation.
Barnes looked at Xu Nan meaningfully.
Xu Nan's heart skipped a beat.
Why did the protagonists in the webnovels he had read always succeed effortlessly whenever they went around bluffing and scamming people?
Was it because he had not activated some intelligence-reduction attack?
Barnes looked awfully confident.
Even worse, Pi Pi Qi, the Astral Realm freak who had just been bragging about being capable of anything, had immediately chickened out at the sight of fire.
"Will you die?" Xu Nan asked.
"No, but it'll hurt!" Pi Pi Qi replied righteously.
"If it won't kill you, endure it!" Xu Nan snapped inwardly. "Hold it in, or I'll write a report to the Supreme Council accusing you and your master of fraud!"
Pi Pi Qi was instantly displeased. "Heh, you think the Supreme Council belongs to your family?"
Xu Nan sneered. "When I signed the contract, I wrote Honest Young Man. You probably don't know my real name!"
Pi Pi Qi gave a strange laugh. "Could you be some famous Ron Sorcerer?"
"My name is Xu Nan!"
"..."
Pi Pi Qi fell silent.
Of course he knew that name.
It was a name with countless nicknames, one that struck terror into the hearts of Lost Paradise's low-level sorcerers!
Even more terrifyingly, he had another nickname—the Report Writing Expert.
Rumor had it that everyone in the Supreme Council was related to him. Whenever he filed a report, he had never failed to get someone punished!
What Pi Pi Qi and his master had done did constitute fraud. Besides, whether it counted as fraud or not was just one word from the Supreme Council, wasn't it?
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