"Is there any way to get that Copper Bean out?"
Jiang Yu, who had remained silent all this time, finally could no longer ignore the flirtatious glances between the Great Fox and a certain male wizard. She spoke up, breaking the silence in the room after the glass shattered. Looking at Professor Monteria, her tone was earnest.
The professor gave her a surprised look.
"Why must it be taken out?" A trace of puzzlement appeared in his eyes before he turned to Zheng Qing again. "Has that Copper Bean caused you any harm so far?"
"It..."
Zheng Qing got stuck after saying just one word.
That was true.
Other than accidentally crushing a few chairs and breaking several cups and bowls, the Copper Bean had not caused him any greater harm so far.
On the contrary, because of it, Zheng Qing had avoided the risk of having his skull cracked open by a Flying Centipede—though the young wizard suspected that even without the Copper Bean, that little centipede would have had a hard time sucking out his brains. After all, an even fiercer Little Green Snake was living in his head.
But it was still a foreign object.
Zheng Qing was not one of those deranged alchemists fanatical about self-modification. Compared to stuffing things into his body at random, he preferred original factory parts.
Even if the Copper Bean seemed harmless for now.
"There are plenty of curses that seem harmless at first, only to erupt suddenly at some point in the future as time passes, causing lasting damage to a wizard's body or soul."
As the other Archwizard present, Su Shijun's words were clearly more persuasive. "I've dealt with those crows and seen their test subjects. The antennae and eyeballs on those subjects were not merely the result of