Volume 6 Chapter 87

Volume 6 + Chapter 87: The Times Have Changed 

“Who are you saying won’t wake up?”

The moment Bi Yangde heard those words, his hand froze midair, and his expression changed drastically.

Because the silver dragon loli lying before him had already opened her eyes and was staring straight at him.

Everyone else was equally stunned.

“Oh dear, I knew it. Every single one of you really is a bad person after all.”

Xia Yi slowly rose to her feet.

“That’s impossible! How did you wake up?!”

Bi Yangde took a step back, disbelief written all over his face.

He had personally watched her drink the spiked fruit wine.

“From the very beginning, I could tell you people were approaching me with ulterior motives.”

Xia Yi looked at them with undisguised contempt.

“I just acted along a little, and you idiots really fell for it. Did you seriously think your pathetic tricks could handle me? I stayed on guard the entire time.”

“Tch. Smartass.”

Bi Yangde clicked his tongue in annoyance.

“Very soon, you’ll regret this,” Xia Yi declared.

However, her words failed to intimidate anyone present.

Bi Yangde even burst into laughter.

“Hahahaha! Too funny, absolutely hilarious! Fine, I admit it, you’re a little clever. But now, you’re going to pay a very serious price for that little cleverness.”

“A price?”

“That’s right, Miss Xia Yi. You can dress your words up however you want, but in the end, aren’t you still trapped inside our headquarters?”

Bi Yangde leisurely lit a cigarette.

“This place belongs to us. Even the public security patrols can’t interfere here. You could scream your lungs out, and no one would come save you. The entire room is built with soundproof materials. No matter how much noise you make, forget outside, even the people downstairs probably won’t hear a thing.”

He took a drag from his cigarette and exhaled a ring of smoke.

“Don’t tell me you plan to take all of us down by yourself?”

The moment those words fell, everyone present burst into laughter.

To them, Xia Yi’s earlier declaration sounded as ridiculous as a kindergarten child yelling “I’m gonna beat you to death!” at a group of adults.

“Don’t underestimate me. I’m a mage.”

Xia Yi raised her hand and summoned the Rose Staff into her grasp.

“No wonder you were so confident. So you really are a mage.”

Bi Yangde kept the cigarette hanging from his mouth, utterly unconcerned.

“But have you considered this? Since this place is where we conduct our business, naturally we’ve prepared countermeasures for any merchandise that dares resist.”

“Fire elements drifting through the air, heed my call, gather and become blazing flames!”

Xia Yi chanted a spell. Fire-element mana rapidly gathered at the tip of the Rose Staff, condensing into a blazing fireball that caused the temperature of the hall to soar.

“Told you already, it’s useless.”

Bi Yangde flicked the cigarette to the floor and crushed it beneath his foot.

At that instant, an ear-piercing screech echoed through the hall. Chaotic mana currents erupted from all directions, disrupting the stability of the fire-element mana like a magical fire extinguisher, snuffing out the fireball before it could fully form.

“Why did my magic disappear?!”

Xia Yi revealed an expression of utter disbelief.

“There’s a mana-disruption device installed here. As long as we activate it, any spell in the chanting phase gets destabilized by mana turbulence. The spell can’t maintain form, which means it can’t be cast.”

Bi Yangde explained calmly, completely unconcerned by Xia Yi.

“I… I can’t use magic anymore?!”

Panic was obvious in Xia Yi’s voice as she suddenly appeared at a loss.

“Bi Yangde, stop playing with her already, take her down!”

Lao Huo impatiently slammed his fist against the wheelchair.

“I want to watch her solve equations on a blackboard!!”

“Alright, alright, I got it. Calm down, Lao Huo.”

Bi Yangde waved dismissively.

As a lion beastman, once anger surfaced, the mane around his head flared up like an exploding lion’s mane, making him look especially terrifying.

“Pay the price for your little tricks, foolish silver dragon!”

With a sudden burst of speed, Bi Yangde lunged toward Xia Yi. He raised his arm, intending to knock her unconscious in a single blow.

After all, a mage unable to cast magic who gets dragged into close combat would naturally become a Sword Saint.

The panic vanished from Xia Yi’s face. Instead, she looked like a hunter who had successfully toyed with trapped prey as she cheerfully tightened her grip on the Rose Staff.

“Take this!”

The Rose Staff smashed into Bi Yangde’s arm. The instant it connected, the bone shattered.

An overwhelming force crashed into him like a tidal wave.

It felt as though a dump truck had slammed straight into his body, and his consciousness instantly blurred.

From everyone else’s perspective, all they saw was a dark blur flying across the room before a deafening crash erupted from the wall behind them.

When they turned around, Bi Yangde was already sprawled on the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

What the hell just happened?

That question surfaced simultaneously in everyone’s minds.

“So… who’s next?”

Xia Yi flicked the blood off the Rose Staff and turned her gaze toward the others.

“Aren’t you… a mage?!” one of Bi Yangde’s subordinates shouted.

“Yeah. Wasn’t that magic just now?”

Xia Yi smiled faintly.

“I call that spell, Sleep Magic. Pretty amazing, right? No casting time, no mana required, yet it instantly puts the target to sleep. Though if I don’t control it properly, the target might enter eternal sleep instead~”

“You dare hurt Brother Bi Yangde?! You little brat, I’ll kill you!”

One of Bi Yangde’s subordinates roared furiously and charged at Xia Yi.

Xia Yi casually altered the swing of her Rose Staff and smashed the man straight into the ceiling, embedding half his body into it.

“Next contestant, please~” the silver-dragon girl chirped playfully.

“This silver dragon…”

Lao Huo narrowed his eyes. He could tell Xia Yi possessed genuine strength. Even without magic, she was formidable in close combat.

“Miss Xia Yi, your physical abilities are indeed impressive. But if you think brute force alone can solve everything here, you’re gravely mistaken.”

“What do you mean?”

“Brute force solves nothing.”

The venue Lao Huo had prepared naturally possessed comprehensive countermeasures, not only against mages, but against warriors as well.

No merchandise that entered this place was ever meant to leave intact.

“Move!” Lao Huo shouted loudly.

Every employee in Old Times Wine Café sprang into action. Whether waiters or pianists, they skillfully pried open sections of the floor and retrieved unfamiliar black weapons from hidden compartments beneath.

They distributed the weapons among everyone present, each person gripping one across their chest.

“Miss Xia Yi… the times have changed.”

Lao Huo accepted one of the weapons, raised it from his wheelchair, pointed the pitch-black muzzle at Xia Yi, and pulled the trigger.

[Translator’s Note: Bi Yangde and Beyond are the same person. Replaced Beyond with Bi Yangde.]

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