Chapter 190

"Did you see that person?"

"Although I'm not clear on why he came to Dragonspine, I think this should be a rare opportunity for you."

"After all, you are a member of the Lawrence family. If you truly want to become a knight, it is very difficult to achieve through normal means."

Su Bai looked in the direction Alice pointed.

By the bonfire near the camp at the foot of the mountain, a man with a greatsword on his back was sitting nearby, doing who knows what.

"Who is that person?"

Su Bai asked curiously.

He didn't understand why Alice said that person was a rare opportunity for him to become a knight.

"His name is Varka, the Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius."

"Varka's personality is quite free-spirited and laid-back; he loves adventure."

"He has a quirk: he likes to pick up children and bring them back to Mondstadt."

Varka: "???"

Alice: "Why are you typing question marks? Is what I said wrong?"

Rosaria: "That's right, that's right. I can testify to that."

Razor: "The Grand Master is a very good person."

Lisa: "Alice doesn't want Su Bai to change his identity and pretend to be picked up by Grand Master Varka and brought to Mondstadt, does she?"

Jean: "Given the situation, it seems there is indeed a possibility of that."

Barbara: "Oh my, I didn't expect Master Alice to be so competent, already thinking of ways to help her disciple realize his ideals?"

Alhaitham: "Setting aside identity and speaking only of strength, ten-year-old Su Bai is fully capable of becoming a decent knight."

Mona: "Suddenly encountering Grand Master Varka, I have the right to suspect all of this was deliberately arranged by Miss Alice."

Eula: "....."

Paimon: "Eula is so envious she doesn't even want to speak."

Eula: "Sigh, when getting by in the world, it seems you really do need a background. It's truly unbearable."

Alice glanced sideways, observing Su Bai's reaction.

She knew that with Su Bai's intelligence, he certainly knew what she was saying.

However, she was equally clear on Su Bai's personality.

Just as she expected.

Su Bai flatly refused: "A Lawrence is a Lawrence. If I give up my own name, what would that make me?"

"If I don't even recognize my own identity, then so-called ideals change their flavor and are no longer as desirable as imagined."

Alice pouted.

A stubborn one.

But this kind of backbone is still likable.

"Hmph!"

"I guessed you would say that."

Alice sighed helplessly.

"So just now, I thought of another path for you."

Alice's words made Su Bai's eyes light up, and he smiled: "Master, you are truly too good."

"Hold it."

Alice stopped Su Bai's excitement and said seriously: "From today on, you cannot spread to the outside world that I am your master."

"Why?"

"Because..."

Alice coughed lightly, her gaze becoming somewhat evasive: "Because my reputation isn't necessarily much better than your Lawrence name."

Recalling herself who had once destroyed countless buildings.

Alice felt slightly embarrassed.

"If others found out you were my disciple."

"Lawrence plus a dangerous person, you would become the Dangerous Lawrence."

"That would be even more inconvenient for you."

Su Bai was suspicious for a long while, then slowly said: "I actually think this isn't necessarily a bad thing."

"If they fear me, their attitude towards me will naturally be much better."

"Even if you, Master, are a dangerous person, aren't you still highly respected in Mondstadt?"

"Idiot!" Alice lightly tapped Su Bai's head: "The two of us have an essential difference."

"The people of Mondstadt hate the Lawrences, but they do not hate me."

"Moreover, if the people's fear of you reaches a certain level, the Knights of Favonius cannot just let it be. At that time..."

She stopped speaking there. Alice suddenly had a wild idea and smiled: "If it really doesn't work out, change your ideal."

"For example, leading the Lawrences to counterattack Mondstadt."

"In that case, you wouldn't have too many entanglements; kill whoever you don't like."

Su Bai was speechless.

But he still asked: "And then..."

"And then at that time, I could represent Mondstadt and have a battle of estrangement between master and disciple with you."

"Ah, the feeling of personally killing a disciple or being killed by a disciple, surely one side would be very sorrowful."

【Su Bai: "....."】

【"Dear Young Lady Alice, please act normally."】

【"You are my Master; how could I possibly attack you?"】

【"Then there's no choice." Alice finally turned her gaze to Ye Er, who was squatting at the foot of the mountain.】

【"Since you insist on becoming a knight of Mondstadt, go find that uncle."】

【"Regardless, first leave a certain impression in his heart; as for what comes later, we'll just have to take it one step at a time."】

Venti: "I told you nothing good comes from these two together. Alice, how could you trick ten-year-old Su Bai like this? What if he actually listens to you and truly becomes an enemy of Mondstadt?"

Alice: "....."

Alice: "I was just joking. In the end, I revealed my identity anyway. If anything really happens, I'll stand on Mondstadt's side."

Rhinedottir: "Alice's wild leaps of imagination are sometimes too much for even us to accept."

Barbatos: "I suspect that during her past life, Alice must have read some strange novels..."

Lumine: "I know a bit about this."

Furina: "Although I don't quite understand, Lumine just explained it to us; it seems to be a tragic romance between master and disciple."

Nahida: "Finally discovered the benefits of long-lived races? Can a husband be raised from childhood?"

Alice: "Stop talking nonsense. Su Bai's trials are already over. From now on, he will leave Dragonspine and enter Mondstadt. By then, Eula and Jean should make their appearance."

Tartaglia: "So, how does Su Bai Lawrence plan to leave a deep impression on Grand Master Varka?"

Osial: "The most direct method is to have a fight, of course."

Tartaglia: "Challenging Mondstadt's Grand Master at ten years old? Truly enviable."

【He simply greeted Su Bai.】

【Alice then bid him farewell.】

【The five-year master-disciple experience officially ended the moment Alice left.】

【But fortunately, Su Bai had good luck; on this final day of farewell, Alice discovered the whereabouts of Varka, the Grand Master of the Mondstadt Knights of Favonius.】

【Given Su Bai's background, joining the Knights through normal means would be harder than climbing to the sky.】

【All he could do was follow Alice's advice: take the opportunity to meet Grand Master Varka and leave a deep impression on him, which might play an important role in the future.】

【Su Bai sat alone, calm for a long time.】

【Recalling Alice's previous warning.】

【Varka appears laid-back on the surface and occasionally likes to use flowery language to fool his subordinates.】

【But Varka's strength is absolutely the peak of the Mondstadt Knights, and in Mondstadt, he can make decisions on almost anything.】

【Su Bai naturally understood what Alice meant.】

【Nothing more than wanting Varka to recognize his strength.】