Chapter 519: Persuasiveness
"Teacher, what happened?"
Beckfen, one of the three, asked cautiously. Their teacher's condition was rather unsettling.
The awe-inspiring, weathered middle-aged man merely shook his head, his imposing aura gradually subsiding.
"I don't know exactly what happened either, but it certainly wasn't anything good..."
At that, Qin Xiaoxia suddenly turned to look at the three.
"Who told you to stop? Keep going!"
The three jolted and shouted in unison, their response practically a conditioned reflex.
"Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!"
This felt even more frightening than before. Usually, a situation like this meant extra training. Fortunately, they escaped any further punishment today.
Seeing his three disciples train conscientiously, Qin Xiaoxia turned and headed toward the city-state.
"I'm going out for a while. I'll test your martial skills when I return."
Without waiting for his disciples to answer, he gradually picked up speed. Under their watchful gazes, his figure took on a peculiar, drifting quality before quickly disappearing from sight.
In the dining hall behind the residential quarters of the Fanite City-State cathedral, Leit was having breakfast with the local bishop and several senior Divine Officials.
Oil lamps burning in the hall's chandelier supplemented the dim light, while smokeless charcoal burned in stoves at all four corners, driving away the winter chill.
Leit seemed rather troubled. While praying devoutly the night before, he had kept experiencing a strange sense of unease, something he had never felt before.
He had originally intended to ask the archbishop and Divine Officials here whether they had felt the same thing, but their cheerful exchanges before breakfast made him abandon the idea.
Perhaps it was just my imagination!
Holding on to that thought, Leit ate his breakfast quickly, while glancing at the gold thread woven into the bishop's robes and the glittering jewels concealed inside