Unless...let the gargoyles show up on their own.

Chapter 48

Ever since Shi An revealed his power abilities, his life at school was immediately easier.

It didn't matter if you slept through theory class, and it didn't matter if you completed your homework poorly; after all, the strength department focused not on theoretical studies, but more on the physical aspect of strengthening.

And the people who wanted to go after Shi An fell silent.

After all, after seeing the way the other party pierced through the Rock Armor Beast's armor with a single round that day, no one wanted to be crushed and beaten by a slender teenager.

Shi Rui and Shi Zechun have not made any progress.

Ever since Mu Hang took him out of the main house of the Shi family, Shi Zechun, who had been persistent in wanting him to move back to the main house of the Shi family, had never contacted him again, and Shi Rui had been a lot more peaceful as well.

This is good for Shi An.

After all, these two humans were too much trouble, but he couldn't do anything about them because of his position.

It's best if he doesn't come to him, Shi An is happy to be left alone.

And work on the translation side is progressing steadily.

Since Mu Hang had left the Academy of Abilities to attend to the affairs of the Administration, Shi An felt that her sense of shame in the translation process had been greatly reduced.

Although there are times when the graphics are just too detailed ......

Translating the ancient common language of mankind is a big project, even President Pei, as an expert in this field, had a very difficult time translating and only translated less than one chapter in two months ......

And there is absolutely no information within this chapter that Shi An wants to see.

Shi An couldn't show his extraordinary familiarity with ancient languages, so he could only watch Principal Pei's slow progress and get anxious.

Overall, Shi An had a good two months.

Only except for ......

As the months go by, the temperature gets lower.

Even though the Ableist Academy was located on the warm plains, it was slowly beginning to show signs of winter's arrival.

As the temperature drops every day, Shi An's dozing time becomes longer and longer.

He sits in the back row of the theory classroom, his furry head hanging low, his eyelashes blinking sluggishly, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, his body staggering, slowly falling a little.

Just before Shi An's eyes were about to close, Lin Yanming, who was sitting next to him, nudged him and lowered his voice:

"Hey, hey, don't fall asleep."

Shi An opens her eyes a slit with difficulty and lets out a sleepy grunt:

"...... Don't, so sleepy."

Looking at the young man in front of him, who seemed to never wake up, Lin Yanming could not help but laugh and cry.

"You say why you always sleep in theory class, theory class at the end of the semester can also be an examination, and the credit ratio is also very high, if you can not graduate can do ah!"

Shi An slouched on the table, her soft white cheeks contorted by the pressure:

"What not to do ......"

The Ableist Academy school year is a six-year program.

By then, I guess he'll have regained his strength before he graduates, robbed the humans of their treasures, and taken Mu Hang back to his cave to continue sleeping.

Who cares about graduation!

Lin Yanming: "......"

No shame in you.

While this was happening, there was a knock on the classroom door.

The teacher at the podium looked up and his eyes fell precisely on Shi An in the last row:

"Shi An, come out here with me."

Shi An: "......"

No way, is he so unlucky that he was directly caught in the act of dozing off in class?

But it's not the first time, so Shi An is very familiar with the whole process.

Outside the classroom, the corner of the teacher's mouth twitched he watched as the genuine looking teenager in front of him sincerely and skillfully apologized to him and promised with conviction that he wouldn't do it again - I'll believe the hell out of you.

This is a great example of "I was wrong, but I'll do it again".

By now he was too lazy to care, and even when he saw the other party touching the fish and dozing off, he treated them as invisible and let them go with one eye open.

But that's not why he came to Shi An this time.

The teacher scanned down the communicator in his hand, then looked at the teenager in front of him, and asked with some incredulity, "You're in the power department?"

Shi An thought about it and nodded.

"You go to this address." The teacher said as she sent a message to Shi An.

Shi An: "This is ......"

Teacher: "You'll see when you go."

With that, he hurriedly turned around and went back to the classroom to continue with the theory lesson he had just gotten halfway through.

Shi An was a bit puzzled.

He glanced down at the half-comprehensible human text on the screen and surreptitiously called out the magic bug.

The magic bug poked its head out and looked around, telling Shi An the location briefly.

It's not far, maybe five minutes away.

It's not far, but ......

Shi An twisted her head to look at a bleak and desolate scene outside the window and sighed - ah, at this temperature, I really don't want to move.

Twenty-five minutes later.

Shi An finally arrived slowly.

Here is a huge stadium, there are already quite a few people waiting there, one by one all of them are tall, strong and robust, even in this kind of weather they are only wearing a single coat, the slender and short Shi An standing in the middle of them is like a thin sapling in the center of a giant rock, looking extraordinarily weak, pathetic and helpless.

Shi An: "......"

His neck was a little sore from leaning back.

Damn it, you guys wait for me to get back in shape!

"Student, are you going the wrong way?" A third year student close to two meters tall lowered his head and kindly struck up a conversation with Shi An.

Shi An looked down at the address on the screen and frowned in confusion, "I don't think so ......?"

He'd followed the directions exactly as they were written - although he'd stopped halfway for a couple of hot drinks and snacks and sat on a rock for a while, but he definitely hadn't deviated from the route!

It was at that moment that a familiar voice rang out from behind him, "Eh? Shi An?"

Shi An twisted her head and looked in the direction the voice came from.

Only to see Zhao She standing not far away, looking at him in surprise.

"You guys know each other, huh?" The third year student raised an eyebrow in some surprise.

Zhao She nodded and enthusiastically patted Shi An's spine with his palm, almost sending him stumbling, "This is a friend of mine from the first year called Shi An, don't look at him like this, but he's actually very strong oh!"

Shi An and Wang Li have also met a few times since their return from the Irving district.

Although the number of times is not that many due to the busyness of school, Shi An eats a lot every time.

Shi An struggled to steady himself.

He looked around the room and spoke up with some confusion, "Speaking of which, what are you guys doing here?"

Jo She raised an eyebrow in surprise, "You didn't know?"

Shi An answered honestly, "...... don't know."

"Each academy on the continent will conduct academic exchanges every year, each time the direction of the exchange is different and the place where it is held will change, this year it happens to be the turn of the strength department." Zhao She sighed: "Although it is the turn, but the degree of importance is completely inferior to usual, after all, the strength department is generally speaking mainly physical and defense, poor ornamental, and tactically not as important as other categories of ability, so you see, this year has not been much publicity ...... "

Shi An suddenly had a bad feeling.

He looked down slowly, to the still lit screen in his hand, and while his learning of human language was still sluggish, he had learned quite a bit in the meantime after all, Shi An stumbled to discern a few words in the pile of text.

"Entered in the "...... "Department of Strength"...... "Selected in the "......" contest".

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait? It's not what he thought it was!

As if thunder and lightning had struck, Shi An was dumbfounded.

Is this what he gets for masquerading as a powerhouse all this time?

He's completely out of touch with the power department!

After turning into a human, this body of his was slim and weak, and his physical strength was still poor, the reason why he was able to break the shell of the rock-armored beast with a single punch last time wasn't because of how strong his physical ability was, but because he mobilized his magical power and covered his fists with a layer of indestructible dragon scales.

"Oh yeah, by coincidence, the organizer this time is the academy over in the Avon District." Zhao She suddenly thought of something and added.

Avon District.

Avon District.

Those three words awakened memories Shi An couldn't bear to look back on.

Two months ago it was already too cold to survive there, so now ......

Shi An had a jolt.

I'm not going! Absolutely not!

"Also oh, you seem to be afraid of the cold ...... " Zhao She scratched his head.

The tall student who chimed in just now came over and said, ''Afraid of the cold? Eh, then you might need something like a fire gem, it seems that as long as you have one on hand, any body that is afraid of the cold won't be afraid of the cold, speaking of which, a while ago the auction over in the Aiwen district but several fire gems appeared, it's just a pity that they were all auctioned off at sky-high prices, so we shouldn't be able to get our hands on them at our level ...... "

...... several?

Shi An was a bit confused.

The deposits of fire gems had pretty much died out in his own time of existence, and even in his collection there were only so many of them, how did humans-

Shi An's eyes snapped open.

Wait a minute?

*

Inside the Avon district.

Mu Hang, dressed in black, with eyes like ice.

He sat in his office, looking down and scrutinizing the papers on his desk.

During this period of time, Mu Hang has been tracking down the movements of the mercenary group, and his men have destroyed the nests of several mercenary groups, although the other party's leader is cunning and has yet to be found, but they have also captured a lot of the top level of the mercenary group, and they have pieced together the fragmented information, and they have also touched on some of the veins.

He also noticed the Fire Gem that appeared in the recent auction.

This gemstone is so rare that it hasn't been on the market for at least a century, and it's a rarity to see it circulating so intensely and in such large quantities now, at this juncture.

Mu Hang sent someone to buy a piece and send it to Zhuo Fu for study.

In the report given by the other party, there were remnants of Abyssal poison gas in the subtle patterns on the surface of the Fire Gemstone, and it should all have come from the Abyss.

And then link it to the dragon's lair in the Avon District canyon, and the obsolete human traces in the dragon's lair ......

The answer cries out.

The dragon's treasure came from the abyss along with the cave to the continent above, and the reason why this dragon appeared from that abyssal crevice inside the school this time, I'm afraid that it was also after its own treasure.

The existence of the giant dragon had already leaked out, and many of the higher-ups of the forces had already learned of the news.

Those humans who had once hijacked the dragon's treasures and were now afraid of being retaliated against by the dragon were naturally eager to realize what they had in their hands and destroy the evidence in case they were approached.

A warm, dark light swept across the bottom of Mu Hang's eyes.

There must be a reason why the gargoyles hadn't shown up for so long.

Now that the continent was littered with human traces, it wasn't that easy to hide in some backwoods area, and the dragon's disappearance instead verified another of his suspicions.

Gargoyles can take human form.

In fact, in the records of the relevant books, most of the fantasy species have this ability, only that, out of pride, they prefer to keep their original forms.

Trying to find the human form of a gargoyle on the continent is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Unless ......

Let the gargoyles appear on their own.

"Sir, the message has been put out." Wen Yao reported succinctly as he knocked softly on the door.

Mu Hang nodded.

Wen Yao's look was a bit hesitant, "But will ...... the dragon really come?"

Mu Hang said faintly, "Will."

--The extent of the dragon's paranoia towards treasure was almost deeply written into the soul of this race, since it had left the Abyss to come to the continent in order to search for its own lost treasure, it must not be able to ignore this news that pointed so clearly, and even, even if it knew that it was a trap, it couldn't help but come.

Treasure is to dragons what dragon hunting is to him.

It's an irresistible instinct.

Wen Yao turned around and walked out the door, but when she was halfway there, she seemed to suddenly think of something and twisted her head to look over, asking cautiously:

"Speaking of which, the last gift the Avon Sector Chief gave you was a fire gem?"

Mu Hang's vision faltered for a moment.

A familiar figure appeared in his mind, the figure of Shi An had almost ceased to appear in front of his eyes due to the busyness of things over this period of time, coupled with his own deliberate neglect, and he was finally back to his familiar state of being, calm, efficient, and unaffected by any emotions.

And now the feeling of being disturbed reappeared without warning.

"Uh-huh."

Mu Hang's face remained calm and introverted, and did not seem to fluctuate in any way as a result.

However, the man's long knuckles curved up slightly and tapped the desktop.

It was a subconscious action when he was annoyed.

"So ...... if that fire gem is also a dragon's treasure, as we suspect, will Shi An ......"

Wen Yao asked hesitantly.

Mu Hang's movements stopped.

A dead silence fell over the office.

He lifted his eyes, their color dark, and his voice, though still smooth and calm, took on a bit of imperceptible dryness:

"Call the Abilities Academy."