Su Ming had originally assumed Zheng Xian would not send someone of Professor Xu's caliber. It was a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. But Old Zheng clearly took anything involving the First Emperor's Mausoleum very seriously and had directly dispatched one of the S.P.E.A.R. Agency's top powerhouses.
Professor Xu had never removed her mask, as though the cat mask were her true body. Her origins were mysterious; no one even knew her exact age. Yet only a little over a decade had passed since she first appeared, and she had already risen abruptly to become one of the universe's foremost Mages.
Aside from her formidable magic, she possessed Elemental Form, allowing her to turn herself into a cloud of mist or a mass of light to launch rapid attacks or become immune to an opponent's assaults.
She called herself Xu Xian, and Su Ming had once suspected that she might be an immortal or some bearded creature that had gained sentience. Sometimes, when people called her Xu Xian, she would zone out as though she had not realized they were calling her.
But Su Ming had later ruled out those possibilities himself. If she really had been an immortal or a spirit creature, she acted far too much like a young girl.
Not only did she always dress herself up like a cute cat, but she had also given herself the magical name "Cinderella." She dreamed of meeting a handsome Prince, liked little pink and white accessories, and had a number of deliberately cute verbal tics.
She sounded like a "normal" Mage.
Yet she was highly capable in other respects as well.
She was not only the S.P.E.A.R. Agency's highest-ranking Occult Consultant, but also a professor of history, archaeology, and ancient linguistics at many of China's