The most shameless alchemist in history

"Don't look at me like that. I know what you're thinking. The one who attacked us wasn't human or a ghost. I think it must be a monster." Nono saw the confusion in Dure's eyes and told him the answer before he could ask.

“But the voice of the monster was clearly human before.” Although the possibility of “monster” did come to Du Lei’s mind, he quickly rejected it because of the “human voice”. In his knowledge and among the monsters he had encountered, he had never heard of a monster that could talk.

"Who told you that Warcraft can't talk?" Nono retorted to Dure.

"What? But I've never seen any record of magical beasts talking in any books." Dure was a little confused by Nono's question.

"That's because you haven't read enough books. You're really ignorant." Nono gave Dure a disdainful look.

"I'm so ignorant!" Du Lei stared at himself, his eyes wide, and suddenly blushed. If someone said that to him, he would have slapped them across the face. But these words came from Nuonuo, who was a magic teacher at Maple Leaf Academy.

“That’s right. Low-level magical beasts do not have language capabilities, but high-level magical beasts are different. They can not only speak like humans, but they can even transform into human form.” Nono nodded. As an academy teacher, her knowledge was naturally far superior to Du Lei’s.

"If magical beasts can transform into human form and use human language, wouldn't it be very difficult to detect them if they were to live among humans?" This was the first time Du Lei had ever heard of such a thing. Although he loved reading, there was one thing Nono was right about.

Limited by his environment, he hadn't read nearly enough books, so while he could argue with Nuonuo and debate with her on other matters, he couldn't on this one.

"That's roughly it. Once a high-level magical beast transforms into a human and hides in a human settlement, unless you also possess high-level magical power, ordinary people won't be able to detect it. But what time is it now? Why should I explain all this to you?"

While bandaging Feiyu's wounds, Nono gave a brief reply, explaining that Feiyu had been injured while fighting Kashu.

"So that's how it is. So what attacked us just now was a high-level magical beast? But isn't the Ash Tower considered a forbidden place by your Maple Leaf Academy? Maple Leaf Academy has been operating here for so many years, how could you not know what's inside the tower?" Du Lei asked again.

"What do you mean by 'Maple Leaf Academy'? Aren't you a member of Maple Leaf Academy?" Nono interrupted Durei.

"Oh, I just joined the academy and I'm not used to this identity yet. Okay, let's call it Maple Leaf Academy." Du Lei immediately changed his tune.

“Although the Tower of Ashes is a forbidden tower, the secrets of the tower have always been known only to the higher-ups of the academy. We ordinary students are not only unaware of it, but we are not even allowed to approach the Tower of Ashes.” Flying Fish shook his head, giving a negative answer.

"Isn't she among the higher-ups in the academy?" Du Lei asked, pointing at Nono.

"Nono? She's just an intern teacher at the academy, so of course she's not in the upper echelons." Feiyu was very clear about the academy's situation.

"What? She's just an intern teacher. I thought she was some kind of high-ranking official." Du Lei suddenly realized.

"What do you mean by that? So what if she's a student teacher? She's still a teacher, and you have to respect her. Do you understand?" Nono was a little unhappy with what Du Lei said and immediately emphasized her status as a "teacher."

"Okay, okay, I understand, Nono, the intern teacher." Du Lei nodded in agreement.

"Please remove the word 'internship'." Nono was very concerned about these two words.

"Hey, why do you want to remove 'you'? Aren't you an intern teacher?" Du Lei asked again.

"So what if I'm a student teacher?" Nono didn't deny it.

“Since you are a student teacher, I will call you student teacher. Is there a problem with that?” Du Lei asked again.

“This is wrong, something is definitely wrong. You’re clearly looking down on me.” At first glance, Nono thought there was nothing wrong with it, but upon closer inspection, she realized that Du Lei was targeting her, which made her particularly unhappy.

“How could a good student like me, who respects teachers, possibly look down on you? Intern Teacher Nuonuo, intern teacher Nuonuo, intern teacher Nuonuo, which of these three titles is better?” Du Lei deliberately emphasized the word “intern”.

"I've told you eight hundred times not to use the word 'internship,' I really hate it!" Nono was almost going crazy.

“Okay, Ms. Nono will be doing her internship.” Du Lei nodded.

"That's more like it, that's not right. You just said the word 'internship' again, and you said it again!" Nono pointed at Du Lei and denounced him loudly.

"Did I say no? I don't remember." Du Lei denied it outright.

"It's obvious! How despicable! A student as wicked as you should be completely destroyed!" Nono gritted her teeth in hatred.

"Alright, Nuonuo, and you too, stop arguing. By the way, haven't I seen you somewhere before?" After bandaging the wound on Feiyu's arm, he waved his arm to make sure he could continue fighting. While trying to make peace, he took a closer look at Du Lei, who looked somewhat familiar.

“If we’ve met before, I should definitely remember someone as short as you,” Dure said, resting his chin on his hand as he thought carefully.

"What did you just say, you little dwarf?" Flying Fish was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed drastically as he stared intently at Du Lei.

"Hey, I definitely didn't say 'shorty' just now. You must have misheard. You must have been hallucinating. That's right, that's exactly what I said." Du Lei had just blurted it out unintentionally because he had labeled Flying Fish as "shorty."

In that situation, he blurted it out without thinking. He wanted to slap himself across the face; why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut?

197 Six Brothers

Just as Fei Yu said, this wasn't the first time he and Du Lei had met. It wasn't because they had a fleeting encounter within the academy; their first meeting was outside the academy, specifically outside the blacksmith's shop, where Du Lei met Sherry on the street.

When he first arrived in Maple City, he rescued a lovely girl next to a fruit stand. To express her gratitude, Sherry took him home and let him stay overnight, which naturally displeased Sherry's father, the blacksmith named Tie Xin.

However, Tie Xin couldn't go against his daughter's wishes and had to agree. At that time, the look he gave Du Lei was clearly a message that said, "Don't even think about messing with my daughter, or I'll kill you." In fact, Tie Xin worked exceptionally hard that day, as if every hammer blow was hitting that little bastard in the chest.

But on that very night, an unexpected situation occurred. Tie Xin left home in a hurry for some unknown reason. At the same time, someone knocked on the door that night. It was a girl covered in blood. At that time, the girl was wearing a veil, and Du Lei could not see what she looked like.

At Sherry's request, he had no choice but to take her back for treatment. After all, he was someone Sherry had taken in. At that time, a patrol team from the academy came and knocked on the blacksmith's door. The person leading that patrol team was Flying Fish.

"So you're the kid I met that night. I didn't expect you to get into Maple Leaf Academy. You really can't judge a book by its cover." After careful recollection, Fei Yu also remembered what happened that night. He didn't have a particularly deep impression of Du Lei.

"What do you mean by 'don't judge a book by its cover'? Is your aesthetic sense flawed, or is it just jealousy? If I consider that 'don't judge a book by its cover,' then what about you? Don't think that just because you and your six brothers helped Snow White, I won't be angry." Du Lei was enraged by Fei Yu's words.

"Ha, I'm an only child, I don't have any other brothers or sisters, where did you get six brothers from? What are you talking about? And what's Snow White?" Flying Fish couldn't understand what Du Lei was talking about at all; the two of them were completely on different wavelengths.

"Although I don't understand what that guy is talking about either, I remember reading a fairy tale about Snow White when I was little. It was about Snow White and the seven little puppies." Nono didn't understand Du Lei's meaning at first either, but she remembered the fairy tale.

When the pages of the fairy tale books she had read flashed through her mind, she suddenly burst out laughing for no apparent reason.

"Nono, what are you laughing at about Snow White and the Seven Little Things?" Flying Fish was completely confused; he had never read this fairy tale.

"Sigh, you haven't read any of those interesting fairy tales? Then your childhood must have been incomplete." When Du Lei was a child, he once found a fairy tale book while rummaging through a warehouse. It contained many fairy tales, including the story of Snow White.

"What does my childhood have to do with fairy tales? So, Nono, Snow White and the seven...?" Flying Fish glared at Du Lei, then looked at Nono, who was laughing so hard she was almost injured, eager to know the answer.

"No, it's nothing, Feiyu, you'd better not ask." Nuonuo knew that two words were taboo for Feiyu, so she decided to gloss over them.

"Tell me quickly, what are the seven things?" The more Du Lei and the other man refused to tell him, the more Fei Yu wanted to know, and he immediately pressed for an answer.

"Since you're so eager to know, I'll tell you then. There are seven...hmm, there's movement." Du Lei saw Fei Yu's serious expression and felt a little guilty for teasing him. He was about to tell him the rest of the story, but at that moment, his ears twitched, and he pulled Nuonuo back.

"What are you doing? How is he still alive? Didn't I just see him being swallowed by the dragon flames?" Nono initially didn't know what Du Lei was up to and was about to scold him, but a playing card flew past her temple, cutting off a lock of her hair in the process.

She then realized that if Dure hadn't pulled her away so quickly, she probably would have been hit. She looked in surprise at the direction from which the playing cards had been thrown, and there was Kashu walking towards them. However, compared to before, Kashu's upper body clothes were now completely destroyed.

Even half of his body was charred black, which was terrifying. However, he walked over as if nothing had happened. This horrific scene alone had a strong visual impact, causing Nono to take two steps back.

"Even after enduring the dragon's flames, he didn't suffer a fatal injury. No, he wasn't uninjured; rather, his wounds are healing rapidly. This guy is truly a monster." Flying Fish, who had been fixated on what Du Lei and Nono were mysteriously talking about, became wary.

Just now, when the three of them were escaping, he had personally witnessed Kashu being burned to a crisp by the dragon flames, with only a charred outline vaguely visible. They all thought Kashu was dead, but now Kashu had reappeared in front of them. Flying Fish was experienced and had keen observation skills, and immediately found the key.

"This is really something. I never expected there to be a high-level magical beast with dragon flame abilities here. I almost got burned to death." Kashu said with a strange smile. He didn't look like someone who had just survived a disaster at all. Instead, he seemed to be immersed in the excitement of dancing with death.

"Even lava couldn't do anything to you, let alone something like this. I'm really curious how you survived last time." Dure looked at Kashu, who was pressing forward, and was on high alert. He still didn't understand why the star stones had completely collapsed last time, and lava had poured in.

A mere body of flesh and blood could not possibly stop the erosion of magma, but Kashu stood calmly not far from him.

"You mean last time? Compared to last time, this is nothing. To make me suffer like that, I have to admire your unique skills." Kashu stopped about five meters away from Dure, and Flying Fish held a black short blade, wary of him.

"Stop wasting time talking to that serial killer. His body is still recovering and he's not in top condition. Flying Fish, let's attack together and take him down while he's weak, to avenge our dead students." Nono harbored deep hostility towards Kashu.

She also observed that Kashu's magical energy was now less than 30% of what it had been before. If she was completely helpless against Kashu at his peak before, she was now quite confident in dealing with Kashu at 30% power.

198 Talking about a transaction

Nono was determined to kill Kashu while he was weak. Flying Fish, standing on the other side, nodded in agreement. They hated Kashu, the murderer who had openly killed students of Maple Leaf Academy, to the bone. Before, they were no match for Kashu and had no way to deal with him, but now it was different.

Just as Nono moved forward and Kashu was ready to fight, Du Lei suddenly rushed forward and blocked Kashu's path. This surprised not only Nono and Feiyu, but also Kashu, who did not expect Du Lei to do such a thing. For a moment, all three of them looked at Du Lei in confusion.

"What are you doing blocking my way? Get out of the way!" Nono shouted angrily. She knew very well that now was the best time to kill Kashu. Once this opportunity was missed, and Kashu's magic power was restored, even if she and Feiyu joined forces, they would have no chance of winning.

"Wait a minute, this isn't the time to fight each other." Du Lei shook his head decisively, stopping Nono and Flying Fish from moving forward.

"Do you even understand? If we don't kill him now, it'll be difficult once his magic power recovers. Get out of the way, or are you trying to protect him?" Nono was getting anxious. She had chased him all the way to the Ash Tower to kill Kashu, and she didn't want to be delayed here by Durei.

"Coo coo coo coo, interesting. You don't actually think you can kill me with this level of skill, do you? Come on, a one-sided situation would be too boring. Bring it on, the next moment will bring you to your deaths." Kashu held the playing cards between his fingers, ready to defend himself.

"Nono, calm down. Even if we kill him now, what good will it do? Will we be able to leave here unharmed? And are you only thinking about avenging the dead, while disregarding the lives of many more people?" Du Lei sternly reprimanded Nono, leaving the latter somewhat bewildered.

"What do you mean by more lives and deaths? What are you talking about?" Nono was completely confused by Du Lei's meaning.

“Haven’t you noticed that the tower is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s shaking a lot? I think it’s going to collapse soon,” Dure said, pointing to the ground.

"Temperature? Now that you mention it, it seems to make sense. This rumbling sound..." Nono had initially thought the intense heat she felt was due to the effects of the dragon flames she had previously experienced, but now, thanks to Du Lei's reminder, she realized that it was continuous.

"It's that guy who attacked us earlier. She's destroying the Ash Tower, and it's shaking more and more violently. It'll collapse sooner or later if this continues." Flying Fish immediately checked the ground and quickly confirmed Durei's statement. The entire Ash Tower was indeed on the verge of collapse.

"But even so, are you going to let us run away? I can't just let the murderer go unpunished and slink away like that." Nono assumed that Dure was just afraid of dying and wanted them to leave quickly, otherwise no one would survive once the Ash Tower collapsed.

"Who said that the guy who used to use Dragonfire didn't cause any trouble after he ran away?" Du Lei shouted. At this moment, waves of steaming air came from the other side of the corridor, accompanied by crackling sounds.

“The Ash Tower has always been peaceful before, and no sudden events have occurred. But this time…” Flying Fish frowned. He had been at Maple Leaf Academy for two years. Although the Ash Tower was a forbidden place, the students considered it a useless ruin.

But now, purple dragon flames have suddenly appeared in the Ash Tower, and there is a strong momentum to destroy the tower that was already burned once before. This makes Fei Yu worried. He can't imagine what consequences Maple Leaf Academy will suffer if the Ash Tower collapses.

“Once the Ash Tower collapses, that high-level magical beast, filled with resentment, will inevitably vent her anger on Maple Leaf Academy, which is closest to here. You should all know what the consequences will be if dragon flames descend from the academy’s sky,” Du Lei warned.

"The consequence is that the academy will be completely burned down and turned into ruins?" Flying Fish saw cold sweat dripping down his forehead, realizing the seriousness of the problem.

“Flying Fish, don’t listen to his nonsense. It’s just a mere dragon flame. Our Maple Leaf Academy can easily withstand it,” Nono offered a contrary opinion.

"That's right, the teachers are all very capable, with enough ability to protect themselves and even the academy. But in a short period of time, if the dragon flames are allowed to rage, can you guarantee that ordinary students won't suffer undeserved disaster? Especially since there are more than a dozen students on the outskirts, no, even more are rushing over."

"Do you have sufficient capacity to ensure their safety and prevent the vast Misty Forest from being burned?" Dure asked in quick succession.

Nono, who had been so confident just moments before, was stumped by Du Lei's question and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"So what we need to do right now is not to engage in hatred and slaughter, but to solve the problem over there first. Otherwise, not only will the students of the academy suffer, the forest will suffer, but we will not escape either," Du Lei said firmly.

"Coo coo coo coo, kid, what you said seems to make a lot of sense, but what Maple Leaf Academy is like has nothing to do with me, so the truce only works for them, not for me. Thanks for buying me time, I feel much better now and can easily kill you all."

Kashu licked his lips. While Dure and Nono were arguing, he kept speeding up his repair process to ensure that his magical energy could be replenished in the shortest possible time. Now he was fully confident that he could completely defeat Flying Fish and Nono.

“Kashu, you must have come to Ash Tower for a reason. I bet you’re looking for something, right?” Dure remained calm despite Kashu’s threat. He turned around to face the Death God playing cards in Kashu’s hand and asked the question with composure.

"So what if it is, so what if it isn't? Don't presume to guess what others are thinking; that's very dangerous," Kashu warned Dure.

“If this place is completely destroyed, you won’t be able to get what you want, right? Since you’re here instead of fighting Long Yan head-on over there, I think the only explanation is that you can’t beat her, right?” Dure ignored Kashu’s warning and continued to offer his speculation.

“You’re right. Clever kids always die the fastest.” Kashu didn’t deny what Dure said.

“How about we make a deal?” Dure chose to set aside his position and spoke calmly.

This was the only solution he could think of to resolve his current predicament.

Did the 199 earthquake occur?

The commotion caused by the Ash Tower was quite significant, even reaching inside Maple Leaf Academy. Inside the training grounds, the ground began to shake, and even hanging chandeliers fell down, nearly hitting people. This disturbance interrupted the students' training, and they all rushed out of the training grounds to check the situation.