The Legendary 45-Degree Angle

Watching Liu Feng and Elena leave one after the other, the sharp glint in the middle-aged man's eyes flashed past once more. At that moment, a young man in a blue mage's robe suddenly leaned in and said in a low voice, "Vice Captain, Eli's injuries aren't serious, but there's something strange about them!"

"Strange?" The middle-aged man's face darkened. "Strange how?"

"The young man seemed to be using an extremely rare kind of battle qi, with numbing and scorching properties. It seemed... it seemed to be lightning-attributed battle qi!" A trace of confusion flashed across the young mage's face; clearly, even he did not dare be certain.

"Lightning battle qi? Such battle qi exists on the continent? You don't mean lightning magic?" Shock flashed through the middle-aged man's eyes, then instantly turned to suspicion. In his impression, he had heard of lightning magic, but he had never once heard of battle qi with the lightning attribute.

The young mage shook his head and said with absolute certainty, "It wasn't magic, because from the moment that young man made his move to the very end, there was never any elemental fluctuation around him."

The middle-aged man nodded. In truth, he had noticed this long ago as well; it was just that he had been truly shaken just now and had not thought of it for a moment. On the Falan Continent, whether Magic Beast or mage, whenever magic was used, it was impossible for there to be no elemental fluctuation.

"Vice Captain, someone actually dared to injure a member of our mercenary group. Do you think we should..." The young mage suddenly stopped there, then a fierce light flashed through his eyes as he made a beheading gesture.

The middle-aged man pondered briefly, but shook his head and said, "Forget it. This mission is far too important. There's no need for us to stir up other trouble. Judging from that young man's clothes and bearing, he should be a noble too, and he can use such rare lightning battle qi. His family background must be very deep. It's better we don't provoke him. In any case, Eli's injuries aren't anything serious."

The young mage froze, unable to understand why this Vice Captain—who had always protected his own more than anyone and whose methods were extremely ruthless—had suddenly changed character today. Yet he still did not dare refute him. He shot Liu Feng's back a hate-filled look, nodded, then called a few men over to help the tall warrior Eli up and followed the middle-aged man in another direction.

"Hey! Stop right there!" Just as Liu Feng was starting to regret why he had not gotten a carriage when he came today, and now had to waste his two legs traveling, a crisp, pleasant voice rang out from behind him, mixed with some inexplicable anger.

Oh my god! Why isn't this girl done yet! Liu Feng let out a powerless groan and had no choice but to stop and turn around, looking at Elena as she chased after him all the way, panting delicately.

Perhaps because she had used up a great deal of strength hurrying after him, Elena was breathing nonstop at this moment. A moving blush colored her lovely face, and paired with that delicate body made even more visibly curved by her panting, it left Liu Feng unable to help staring blankly for a while.

"How can you be so irresponsible? You just say you're leaving and leave—can you even be considered a man?" Elena's face reddened again under Liu Feng's somewhat burning gaze. She rolled her eyes at him in annoyance and questioned him angrily.

My dear sister, topics like being responsible and whether someone's a man can't be brought up so casually, or people will misunderstand! Liu Feng sighed helplessly in his heart and could only give a bitter smile. "What exactly do you want? Isn't it just because I beat up that triangular-eyed guy? Is it really worth you clinging on and refusing to let go like this?"

"Triangular-eyed?" Elena froze, but immediately realized Liu Feng was talking about the noble young master who had been with her last time. She could not help saying irritably, "What does that have to do with him? I only want to ask you—do you really not know me?"

Sweat! Why do I absolutely have to know you? Liu Feng could not help feeling the urge to laugh, but he tilted his head slightly to the side and lifted it, gazing up at the sky as he said leisurely, "Although there's no denying I'm very handsome, and you're also very beautiful, I am already a man with a fiancée. No matter what, I cannot accept these feelings!"

Was this legendary forty-five-degree angle of gazing up at the sky really as pretentious as the legends said? But this angle really wasn't easy to find. If I'd known, next time before going out I should've brought a tool that could measure angles! Liu Feng sighed again as he worked hard to position his head, searching for that legendary forty-five-degree angle.

Naturally, Elena had no idea what madness had possessed Liu Feng to suddenly adopt this posture of checking whether the weather was clear, but when she heard his words, she could not help letting out a delicate pfft of laughter. Her tender body trembled as she covered her little mouth and said, "You have a fiancée? Then tell me, who is your fiancée?" At the last part, for some unknown reason, Elena's face reddened again.

"Well..." Liu Feng had merely been speaking nonsense off the top of his head and, incidentally, had adapted the words that had nearly struck him senseless when he met the ancestor. How could he have expected Elena to suddenly turn into an inquisitive baby who liked digging down to the roots? For a moment, he actually froze.

But in that instant, inspiration suddenly flashed through his mind. He said once again with incomparable seriousness, "Actually, my fiancée is very famous. And her beauty is even more heavenly in fragrance and national in color, loved by every person who sees her, blooming flowers at a glance. Although you're quite good-looking, compared to her, I have to say there's still a very large gap!"

Pfft! Elena laughed delicately again, feeling more and more that this fellow before her, who was very good at putting on an act, was somewhat interesting. A cunning glint flashed through her beautiful eyes, and she asked with a laugh, "Oh? There's actually such an outstanding person in the Saint Mavana Empire? How come I've never heard of her? Who is she? What's her name?"

Liu Feng choked again, but since things had already reached this point, he could only brace himself and keep holding on. With an expression of boundless admiration on his face, he continued to maintain that forty-five-degree angle and said leisurely, "She is the daughter of the empire's Minister of Internal Affairs. I think you should have heard of her!"

In any case, the Palister Family and the Minister of Internal Affairs had indeed had this marriage agreement back then. Although it had already been dissolved, using it now to fob off this curious baby made for a good excuse.

"Oh? The daughter of the Minister of Internal Affairs? Which daughter? What's her name?" Elena's face reddened again, but a hint of teasing appeared in her beautiful eyes.

How the hell would I know which daughter! Liu Feng instantly felt the urge to cry, but he could still only force himself to say, "It's... it's the youngest daughter!"

Although there had been a marriage agreement with the Minister of Internal Affairs' family, Liu Feng really did not know anything about that household. He did not even know the name of that fiancée whose engagement had ended before it had truly begun. But he guessed that he was not that old now, and that Minister of Internal Affairs sounded very old the moment one heard it, so this fiancée should be the youngest daughter.

"That can't be right! How come I heard that the Minister of Internal Affairs' youngest daughter is only two years old this year? Could it be that you want to marry a two-year-old child?" Elena forced herself not to burst into laughter, her face completely flushed from holding it in.

"I..." Liu Feng forcibly endured the urge to curse aloud. His old face finally could not help turning red, and he hurriedly explained, "I said that wrong. It should be the eldest daughter!" As he spoke, inwardly he kept cursing that this Minister of Internal Affairs was definitely an old lecher. Why the hell did he have to go and produce such a young daughter for no reason!

"Oh? So it's the eldest daughter! Right, you still haven't told me her name!" The teasing in Elena's eyes grew thicker and thicker as she held back her laughter and asked again.

"Why should I tell you!" Liu Feng had already become somewhat embarrassed into anger, and he still gazed up at the sky as he said in an unfriendly tone. In his heart, however, he had begun incessantly cursing that this job of gazing up at a forty-five-degree angle really was not something ordinary people could do. After gazing upward until now, Liu Feng felt that his neck had started to ache.

"Don't you know it's very rude to pry into other people's privacy? Are you done? If you're done, I'm leaving!" Liu Feng truly could not be bothered to keep studying with this curious baby what exactly the name of his unnamed fiancée was. He moved his somewhat stiff neck and turned to leave.

"Then do you know who I am?" Seeming to see that Liu Feng had already lost his patience, Elena stopped continuing to pester him on that topic.

"How would I know who you are!" Seeing that this curious baby had finally stopped asking about his fiancée, Liu Feng finally let out a complete sigh of relief. He halted, but still said irritably.

"My father is the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Saint Mavana Empire. In other words, I'm the older sister of that two-year-old little girl you mentioned!" Elena's pretty face flushed again, and at last she could not help laughing delicately.