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If you can't grasp it, then don't try. This is the important truth that Professor Gawain taught her, so Luo Qixi just snorted and started pretending to be dumb.

But Gawain immediately threw back the quilt and sat up, staring quietly at Luo Qixi who was lying in the same place as before. After less than half a minute of stalemate, Luo Qixi sat up in defeat, playing with her hair and complaining:

"Comb my hair."

"it is good."

Gawain was quite good at things related to girls, which he had learned from the years he spent taking care of Sylphy. Even though Roxy's hair was messy from sleeping, he easily combed it without hurting her scalp, and then helped her braid two of her signature pigtails, praising her:

“Silver looks great too.”

Luo Qixi was somewhat coaxed, but not completely. When the topic was brought up, she visibly deflated:

"The hair of the Migrud tribe grows very slowly. It took me almost ten years to grow it this long... Even if it grows back to its original color, it will take ten years to return to its original color, right? Damn it, Gaofu, you have to compensate me! Especially you, a heartless bad dog, you actually dared to bully me without telling me. Do you know what kind of mentality I have been holding all this time? Give back his great enlightenment! Black-hearted maggot!"

Gawain rubbed her head and held the braid in front of her eyes. It was a vast aquamarine, as clear as ten-thousand-year-old ice, with a faint emerald green hue under the light.

"Here, I'll compensate you."

Luo Qixi was bewildered. She looked around at her hair color, her face full of surprise.

"Huh? How did you do that?"

"Structural color magic."

"Does that stuff even work on hair?"

Now that he knew everything, Gao Wen stopped trying to explain and told the truth:

"Hair is primarily composed of dead cells, not part of a living organism. Of course, it can be easily interfered with by magic. The fading of hair when magic power is depleted may also be due to this. Components like pigments are broken down into magic power and then extracted and used. Perhaps this is because the hair still has a certain degree of connection to the body?"

Luo Qixi didn't understand half of what she heard, but she was still contentedly playing with her hair that had returned to its original color. She actually had some opinions about her hair color before, but that was all in the past. After losing her original hair color for a few months, she felt more and more that her original look was better.

Gawain put on his shoes and stood up, holding out his hand to Lokisi:

"Okay, get up, change and eat."

Luo Qixi handed over her hand and said reluctantly:

"I'll count it as one-third of your compensation!"

"So, will it be offset if I help you change back three more times?"

"Don't joke like that! I'll take it seriously!"

"Ok."

"Hehe, that's right, you have to listen to me."

"I didn't mean to say that."

"If I say yes, then I have it. I am your benefactor and creditor. Gawain, you owe me so much that you could never repay me in eighteen lifetimes! Don't forget the interest that's compounded! If you can pay off the interest, you'll be incredibly lucky!"

Gawain pondered:

"If the creditor dies, then you don't have to pay it back, right?"

After changing clothes, Roxy knocked him down with a super headbutt:

"Impossible!"

After the fight, the two went out to eat and invited Elina Lijie, who was still working, to join them.

Gao Wen apologized to Elina Lijie:

"I'm sorry, Mama Lijie, my antics today are causing you trouble again."

He was referring to the fact that the southern nations would inevitably be plunged into political chaos due to today's battle. However, Elina Lijie shook her head, hinting at something:

"Perhaps it's quite the opposite, Gawain. Why don't you listen carefully to what the other guests are talking about? The news has spread throughout the royal city during your rest time."

Gao Wen glanced around the restaurant. It was considered upper-middle-class, and the customers weren't talking too loudly while eating. He turned around, thought for a moment, and then made his arrangements.

"Put my name out there later."

Luo Qixi was puzzled:

"What name?"

Elinarize answered for Gawain:

"Third place on the list of the seven great powers."

Chapter 96 [Martial God]

Chapter 96 Great Powers

Luo Qixi didn't react:

"What do you mean the third great power? Isn't the third one the God of War? Has anyone ever defeated the God of War? Isn't that impossible?"

Elinarize glanced at Roxy, then at Gawain, who then sighed and explained:

"It's me. My battle with Orsted ended in a draw, right? That's probably why the Great Powers Stele listed me below the Dragon God. The Great Powers symbol is the symbol of Vitrum. Many people have already guessed who the new third Great Power is, and it's a hot topic of discussion."

Elina Lijie continued:

"After all, the last time the top four positions on the Great Powers List changed was when the Dragon God Urpe killed the Demon God Laplace. If we consider the replacement, this is the first time in the four thousand years since the Great Powers Tablet was published."

That is, the current seven major powers are changed to:

The First [God of Skill] Laplace

The second [Dragon God] Orsted

Third place [-] Gawain Vitrudia

Fourth [Fighting God] Fighting God Armor

Fifth [Demon] Laplace

Sixth [Death] Randolph Marian

Seventh [Sword God] Gal Falion

The original seventh power [Northern God] was squeezed off the list. The swordsmen of the Water God School and the Sword God School were probably gloating over it.

Luo Qixi wanted to show a shocked expression, but she couldn't hold it back. She felt it would be impolite not to express it, so she suddenly decided to choose between "relieved" and "proud". So she leaned back slightly, crossed her arms, and subconsciously comforted him:

"It doesn't matter, third is also good."

The waiter served the food, but noticed the strange atmosphere among the guests at this table and quickly ran away.

Elinalize looked at Lokisi and Gawain with increasingly strange eyes. Gawain reached out and patted Lokisi on the head, praising her generously:

"Master, too. Short ones are cute too."

Luo Qixi was stubborn and said:

"I'm worried that you're unwilling to be inferior to others. The Great Powers Stele mechanism is too rigid and fails to reflect your true level. You might consider it a disgrace to be ranked third. After all, the God of Skill and the God of Demon are only at the same level. Neither of them is as good as you and Orsted. And if you hadn't had the killing intent today, Orsted wouldn't have been able to fight you to a draw."

Gao Wen did not respond directly, but just told the story of the past:

"Luo Qixi, during my time living in Buena Village, I realized a little skill in interpersonal communication."

Luo Qixi was puzzled:

"Ok?"

Gao Wen replied:

“The more you want to hide how much you care about something, the less likely you are to express your personal thoughts and attitudes about it.”

Luo Qixi didn't understand, but Gawain was hit on the head by Elinalize, so she at least understood a little:

"You only know how to bully me."

Gao Wen said sincerely:

"After all, that's all I'm capable of."

Luo Qixi blushed and joined forces with Elinalize to punish Gawain. The commotion lasted until the waiter brought the remaining meal.

The three of them enjoyed dinner together, and Elina Lijie suddenly spoke with some comfort:

"Little Gao Wen, seeing you so energetic, I feel relieved."

Lokishi spoke for Gawain:

"Miss Elina Lijie, don't worry too much about Gawain. He has made great progress recently."

Elinalize looked at Roxy and smiled lovingly:

"I'm relieved to have you, Roxy, taking care of him. But why is Roxy still calling me Miss Elinalize?"

Suddenly praised, Roxy shyly scraped the side of the plate with her spoon. After Elinalize finished speaking, she waited for three seconds before realizing that Elinalize didn't seem to be planning to tell her the proper way to address her, as she'd predicted. In other words, she was supposed to let her decide for herself, right? Eh... decide for herself?

Luo Qixi didn't know what expression to make:

"That's too much praise... It's all Gao Wen's own progress. I just helped him a little bit. After all, I'm his teacher... Master! This is what I should do. It's my obligation... Ai... Ai..."

Gao Wen looked helplessly at the long-eared mother who also started to tease Luo Qixi, and joined in:

"Just call her Elinalize."

Luo Qixi glared at Gawain like a dog biting Lu Dongbin:

"That's so rude!"

Gawain snatched the spoon from Luo Qixi, scooped up a large spoonful of stew and stuffed it into Luo Qixi's mouth, and corrected her considerately:

"Then call Lijie mom."

Luo Qixi's face turned red again, because she was burned.

It seemed that she had gone too far and was warned by the bad boy's eyes. Elinarize tolerantly stopped this treacherous dinner party:

"You can just call me Lijie, okay?"

After a pause, Luo Qixi swallowed the food, cast a primary healing spell on her mouth and esophagus, and punched Gao Wen before responding sweetly:

"Okay, Lijie."

Gawain then jumped back to the point, first correcting a mistake that Lokisi had made earlier:

"Let's get back to the point. Let me correct one thing, Lokisi. Actually, Orsted had no intention of killing. To be more precise, after the battle entered its real stage, we gradually realized his true position and intentions. Therefore, we did not resort to ultimate means. Although we were fighting with the goal of killing him, we were holding back, so at best, it could only be considered a non-life-or-death duel."

Luo Qixi could easily grasp the logical contradictions in Gawain's words:

"How can there be a fight that is not a life-and-death fight where the goal is to kill the enemy?"

Gao Wen denies it from the root:

"There's no fighting without dying."

Luo Qixi felt that she and a war maniac like Gawain had no connection at all. Even adventurers fought with the goal of not dying. A guy like Gawain who would find it boring without the risk of death was simply a lunatic.

She was just dissatisfied:

"Don't always say such worrying things."

Gawain's soothing words are like a declaration of war:

"But I won't die."

That's enough.

Luo Qixi was surprised by the sudden feeling that came to her mind.

Elina Lijie looked at the two people getting along so well, feeling more comforted and satisfied. She interrupted and changed the subject:

"Little Gao Wen, have you considered your name? It will be easier to promote it this way, right?"

Luo Qixi was very interested in this topic. Although she was not a naming enthusiast like Rudy, this was a name given to a powerful person! It was an honor worthy of being recorded in history:

"Didn't the nobles of Ars call you the Demon God? If you don't like that, you need to think of one quickly, or else everyone will start calling you the Demon God Gawain once the hype spreads."

Demons and evil spirits are evil creatures that do not really exist in the six-sided world. However, because they only exist in folk legends and anecdotal novels, they have derived a notoriety far exceeding that of "demon". If the word "demon god" is frightening, then the word "demon god" is even more creepy.

Ailinalijie analyzes with rich experience:

"[Demon God] is a very intimidating title, but it will inevitably skew public opinion towards the negative. Even if you spend a fortune to change public opinion, the cost will outweigh the gains. It's best to choose a sufficiently positive title. Neutral titles like [Sword God] or [Northern God] are also good."

If Rudy were to choose the name, he might arrogantly associate it with "God", but this title has long had a specific meaning in the six-sided world, namely the Celestial Clan.

Luo Qixi had a flash of inspiration: