Chapter 25

Trust Grandpa on this. Set aside your hatred for now, and first keep walking the path

you ought to be walking right now. Think about the rest when the time comes. What do you think?"

Shafu bit her lip and said, "All right. I'll listen to you."

Seeing that Shafu had agreed not to pursue the matter of Peiganbo for the time being, Fields said happily, "Good child. Don't worry. When your family

reaches Dead City, I'll take care of them."

Seeing Shafu keep looking at him, Lin Hanxuan also wondered what exactly Grandpa was saying to her, but because Peiganbo had killed someone, it was not right for him to go over and listen. For a moment, he felt a little at a loss.

Hal, on the other hand, saw Grandpa talking so much to a female classmate and laughed with a "gaa," saying, "Grandpa, are you luring away little girls

again?" Fields's embarrassing incident in front of the bunny girl Hong'er had once been privately revealed to Hal by Hong'er. Thinking of that matter now, Hal brought it out to tease Grandpa.

Afraid Shafu would overthink it, Fields said angrily, "You little troublemaker, say one more word of nonsense and I'll throw you into the rotting swamp." Then he turned to Shafu and said, "Don't worry. That Goblin just loves making trouble. Don't listen to his nonsense."

Lin Hanxuan thought, Grandpa really needs to change up that threat. Once Hal enters the rotting swamp, he'll turn into a handsome elf.

"Lin Hanxuan, come here." Fields glanced at Peiganbo, only to see his cold eyes looking into the distance, paying no attention at all to what was happening here.

Hearing Fields call him, Lin Hanxuan hurriedly ran to Shafu's side.

"Peiganbo killed her younger brother," Fields said. "Grandpa has already promised to let her family move into Dead City. Grandpa

wants her family to stay in your house temporarily first. What do you think?"

"Ah? But my house is really dirty, Grandpa," Lin Hanxuan said, somewhat embarrassed.

"What do you think the school gave you a holiday for? Can't you go home and clean up? Her family isn't moving over that quickly." Fields

rapped Lin Hanxuan on the head and said fiercely, "This is trouble your magic pet caused, and Grandpa is helping you handle it. You should at least make

some contribution, right?"

Lin Hanxuan rubbed his head and said aggrievedly, "I didn't say I wouldn't clean. I only said my house was really dirty."

Fields blew at his mustache and said to Shafu with a smile, "Lin Hanxuan is good in every way. He's just a little slow to react."

Shafu broke through her tears with a smile, her eyes curving into two new moons, though tears still hung stubbornly at their corners.

Fields pulled Lin Hanxuan aside and said by his ear, "Lin Hanxuan, Peiganbo killed her younger brother. From now on, you must care more

for this classmate. After all, this can be considered something you owe her. Understand?"

Lin Hanxuan nodded helplessly. He had just obtained a high-level Magic Beast, had not even tasted the sweetness yet, and already had to shoulder a new responsibility. Life, ah...

After helping Lin Hanxuan settle the matter, Fields bid farewell to the academy's teachers. "Vice Dean, teachers, I've already handled the matter

of the student who was killed. It won't bring trouble to the academy. Peiganbo will live in Rotting Swamp Forest, and without Lin Hanxuan summoning him, he also

will not appear at the academy. If there is nothing else, then I'll be leaving."

"City Lord, we've truly troubled you," Luo Lun said with some emotion. "Lin Hanxuan... can he keep that Blood Mantis under control? If the continent's

natural disasters really were all caused by him alone, I'm afraid..."

Teacher Heifan, who was standing to the side, cut in and said, "Vice Dean, I think the natural disaster caused by the Sand Tigers should have nothing to do with Peiganbo."

"Oh, could I ask you to explain why?" Fields asked.

"Perhaps asking Peiganbo will make things clearer," Heifan said.

After Peiganbo's explanation, everyone finally learned that the Locusts had indeed been forced to move toward the Thunder Eagle Empire

under Peiganbo's intimidation. Originally, Peiganbo had wanted to attack the first city he saw, which was Dead City, but when he approached, he discovered that Dead City seemed

to have some mysterious force, frightening the Locusts so badly that they would rather die than go near Dead City. With no way to command them, Peiganbo had no choice but to turn

and attack Axon Town.

As for the Sand Tiger, Peiganbo had encountered it during flight, and there had only been one. He fought the Sand Tiger. The Sand Tiger could not win and wanted

to flee, so Peiganbo followed it underground and beat the Sand Tiger all the way until it obediently listened to him. When the Locusts attacked, Peiganbo noticed

there was a magic array on the mountaintop. Thinking that he could slaughter magicians, he decided to ride the Sand Tiger and break through the defensive magic array from underground.

"Sigh, defensive magic arrays still have weaknesses," Duoduo said with a sigh.

"Exactly," Tidavi also said. "We have to think of a way to strengthen our defenses below the ground. Otherwise, if next time we encounter another

Magic Beast skilled at traveling underground, the defensive magic array will only kill us ourselves."

"Heifan, do you have any way to infer where the other Sand Tigers went?" Fields asked.

Looking at the simple map of the continent drawn on the ground, Heifan said thoughtfully, "Judging from the route Peiganbo passed through, if

we exclude the possibility that the Sand Tiger pack was being commanded by a high-level Magic Beast, and all their actions followed instinct..."

Seeing the teachers solemnly sit down on the ground and start discussing it, the students all gathered around one after another.

The gazes of Fields, Luo Lun, and Heifan fell respectively on the two ends of the map. Then they heard Heifan say slowly, "The imperial capital, or the Xiheibazi Ruins. The ruins are most likely, because we still haven't heard of any disaster spreading within the empire's territory, and the Sand Tigers couldn't possibly be this well-behaved."