Chen Yin smiled and said, "Thank you, and as it was thanks to you, we will pretend that we didn't hear anything"
He let out a long sigh which made the three of them laugh, they then started to eat and chat happily.
Still feeling a little weird with his parents around, he ran to his classroom after eating.
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At school, very few students were in the classroom, not even the idiot Shen Yue who usually stalked Ye Ziyun was here. So Xiao Yan decided to start talking to her since she was sitting alone at her desk.
He recalled her story, {Right now she feels really lonely, she came to school in the same class as Xiao Ning'er to have a chance to be her friend again, because she was the only one she ever had. At home nobody takes care of her, her father even adopted a son he thought was a better successor than her for the position of City Lord. What she needs the most right now is a friend, so I mustn't let her know that I'm interested in her, at least not for now}
He went in front of her and said, "Classmate Ye Ziyun, good morning"
"Classmate Xiao Yan… Hi", {What does he want?}
"A teacher told me to try to help you finding out what was wrong with two Bronze Rank Inscription Scrolls that you had, do you mind showing them to me?"
Inscription scrolls were battle techniques stored in Inscription Patterns by using demon beast blood on a scroll, making it possible to release a powerful technique without spending a bit of energy during a fight, since the energy used was the blood on the Inscription Scroll.
"Ah?", She was quite surprised as she considered herself as the most knowledgeable of the younger generation. If she couldn't understand something, could another one of the same age understand it? Not to mention that even the Vice Principal who was a Gold Rank couldn't tell what was wrong with these scrolls.
{Well, I just need to show him the scrolls}
She took out two inscription scrolls from her storage ring and said, These are two Ice attribute inscriptions, they must have some error in them since they are unable to be activated, but I can't find the root of the problem". She sighed, it has been days since this was on her mind and nobody could find the answers to help her.
He looked at them, used the LoHP and looked at the informations in his mind, {I could have told her the exact lines of Nie Li, but I'd look like an idiot if I mix these two inscription scrolls since I can't find anything wrong without the LoHP. I even have to use the LoHP to tell them apart}
He pointed at one of them and said, "Nothing is wrong with the inscriptions of this one, it's the Bronze Rank Inscription "Icy Wind, Sharp Knives", but it was drawn by using the wrong blood. For the Inscription Pattern to work, it would need at least Bronze Rank Ice attributed or Silver Rank with other attributed blood. This silver-red colored blood proves that it's the blood of an Ice Attributed Demon Beast, but of a rank below the Bronze Rank. If if was of the Bronze Rank, it would be silver-grey colored, and as the blood isn't strong enough, the scroll is unable to activate. I think that even the one who drew it was unaware. You should make your family send an Inscriptionist Master to check the shop where you bought it, maybe there are still others"
"So simple?", she was taken aback, no wonder she couldn't find any problems in the inscription pattern, since they didn't even exist.
{But Xiao Yan managed to see through it with just a single glance? Something even the teachers and the Vice Principal were unable to see?}
"And this one?", She asked him, she wanted to know if he was lucky or if he really was much more knowledgeable than the teachers of the Institute.
He replied her, "It's the inscription "Icy Wind, Sudden Snow" which was originally a Silver Rank inscription pattern, but the one left behind by the Age of Darkness was incomplete. People tried to patch it, causing the level to drop to Bronze Rank and it even gained a problem within it's structure. It would often have problem activating, causing it to be unusable"
He then looked in the LoHP in his mind to check if that inscription was recorded from one of the untranslated books. He thought "Icy Wind, Sudden Snow" and a book appeared in front of him, opened at the concerned page.
"The complete version is inside the school library, in the corner of the fifth bookshelf on the right, an untranslated book written in the language of the Snow Wind Empire Era, with the head of a wolf drawn on its cover, page 89. If I remember correctly it was something like…", he then took out a pen and a paper from his storage ring and started to draw.
{Since the LoHP is giving me a photographic memory, I should as well use it}
She watched him as he drew the inscription pattern as if it was something simple, and in just half a minute he already finished.
Using the LoHP to check his work, he was satisfied as it told him that there wasn't any flaw.
He was really shocked, {So I can perfectly replicate any Inscription Pattern recorded in the LoHP? I must make a trip to the Inscriptionist Association when I have the time}
"This should be the original "Icy Wind, Sudden Snow", but you'll need to check inside the book I told you before if you want to ask someone to make an Inscription Scroll with it. If you have any question relating Inscription Patterns, don't hesitate to come ask me in the future", As he said that he went to his seat, making her astonished as he was the first boy who didn't seem to want to get close to her.
{I'm not that repulsive! Countless boys want to court me and I'm the one rejecting them, okay?}
She clenched her teeth, went to sit next to him and asked him some questions as she indeed had some problems with Ice attributed Inscription Patterns.
He would answer her questions with a calm face, but in his head he was each time hoping that she wouldn't ask a question that he would be unable to answer even with the LoHP.