Chapter 284: 290.Chapter 290 No Laughing!

290. Chapter 290 No Laughing!

Lin Ke did not stop his upstream movement.

For this extracurricular practical activity, when he chose to proceed normally rather than ask Shan Duo La to operate, he had the mental preparation that his every word and deed would be monitored.

In the academy, the number of people who knew he possessed a 'small world' was neither many nor few.

During the extracurricular practical activity, when trouble arose, deliberately not using the 'small world' instead made his actions seem suspicious.

It was best to let everything unfold as naturally as possible.

Therefore, when facing the road-blocking giant flame salamander and the fire elemental spirit whose surface temperature could easily melt gold and iron, Lin Ke used the 'small world' to move them inside.

The whole process appeared very easy, as if there were no challenge at all.

This is one manifestation of the strength of a wizard who possesses a 'small world'.

If replaced by other second-rank wizards, let alone moving the giant flame salamander, merely approaching it would be an ultra-high difficulty challenge.

Knowing he was being monitored, with only the final segment of the extracurricular practical activity left—healing the fire elemental spirit—Lin Ke would absolutely not do the foolish thing of suddenly changing his expression.

The outside world remained 'calm and tranquil'; besides the injured fire elemental spirit being moved by Lin Ke into the real 'small world', no change occurred that was enough to draw Lin Ke's attention.

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Any startle would surely arouse suspicion.

Lin Ke did not want to invite unnecessary trouble.

Maintaining a calm exterior, Lin Ke promptly activated the Brain Seal Technique, entering a vague, mysterious, dreamy state.

His consciousness turned right and entered the sea-of-consciousness small world.

Then, exploiting his ability to multitask, he smoothly controlled his physical body to swim toward the lava world's surface while checking what goodies the 'sun' had obtained.

In his humanoid consciousness form, he rummaged through the sea-of-consciousness small world, focusing on the 'sun', but found no changes.

"What's going on?"

Lin Ke felt suspicious.

"Sir, sir, come quick and look."

Flan Dora's voice suddenly echoed in Lin Ke's heart.

Lin Ke's consciousness retreated to the fork, turned left into the real 'small world', and, using the authority of the World Lord, instantly appeared beside Flan Dora.

"What's the fuss, making a mountain out of a molehill?"

He patted Flan Dora's little head and asked gently.

Flan Dora pointed at the fire elemental spirit lying in the molten magma and exclaimed in surprise, "Her belly suddenly has a baby!"

"Huh?"

Lin Ke's humanoid consciousness fixed his gaze on the fire elemental spirit, discovering its injuries had healed and its formerly flat belly now slightly bulged.

Moreover, it was visibly growing larger.

"Could it be that the sun took away the injury and gave the fire elemental spirit an offspring?"

Lin Ke's speculation made him feel amused, "Tsk… what is this? The sun's descendant?"

"Sir, sir, what are you laughing at?"

Flan Dora blinked her big, doe-like eyes and asked curiously.

"Nothing."

Lin Ke shook his head, "I just thought of a laughable country and some laughable people."

"Oh."

Flan Dora didn't know which laughable country Lin Ke meant, sensed he didn't want to elaborate, so she didn't press further, switched the topic, and asked, "Sir, how did she suddenly become pregnant with a baby?"

"I don't know either."

Lin Ke was saying that when he suddenly sensed something odd.

The fetus in the fire elemental spirit's belly formed a close connection with the real 'small world', Flan Dora, and Lin Ke.

This connection closely resembled Flan Dora's bond with the real 'small world', only less intimate.

One is a 'world spirit', the other at most a servant of the world spirit.

Well, this exchange is hardly equivalent.

The sun of the sea-of-consciousness small world healed the fire elemental spirit's injury, took it away, or used the fire elemental spirit's body to nurture a new life.

Moreover, without asking whether the fire elemental spirit consented, it simply forced itself upon her.

The rice is already cooked; we'll eat it and talk later!

Truly overbearing!

"Huh? Am I getting another companion?"

Flan Dora also sensed this connection and muttered curiously, "But she's a fire elemental—what can she help me with?"

Having stayed long beside Lin Ke, this black-hearted capitalist, if one were to cut open Flan Dora's heart, it would probably be black too.

Upon realizing she might gain another companion, Flan Dora's first reaction was to consider what the companion could do.

Truly, even capitalists would tear up hearing that.

At most they hire cheap child labor, but Flan Dora is gearing up to use infant labor.

In just this little bit of joking around, the fire elemental spirit's belly had become completely round.

It was no different from a human's ten-month pregnancy.

However, the elemental spirit's birthing method is actually unlike that of humans.

After the fetus matured, the fire elemental spirit, whose injuries had healed, finally awoke from its coma.

Her first action was not to survey the surroundings, but to shift from substance to emptiness.

Her entire body, except for the fetus in her belly which remained substantial, fully entered an elemental ethereal form.

The placenta wrapping the elemental spirit baby, just like an oviparous animal laying an egg, fell into the magma.

Upon stimulation by the high temperature of the magma, the soft placenta suddenly expanded outward.

After a moment, a tender white little hand violently pierced the placenta expanded to its limit and stretched out.

Then came another tender white little hand.

The two little hands scratched a few times, found a small opening, and with a light tear ripped the placenta completely open.

A tiny fire elemental spirit, pure white all over except for its pupils which were crimson red, appeared before Linke and Mo Li.

The tiny fire elemental spirit glanced at the complex‑expression great fire elemental spirit, and amid that gaze filled with various emotions, it flew toward Linke and Mo Li.

Compared to the great fire elemental spirit that nurtured her life, the tiny fire elemental spirit followed an unseen guidance and chose Linke, Mo Li, and the true "small world."

From then on, the tiny fire elemental spirit's allegiance was no longer the great elemental world, but Linke's true "small world."

"Let me out."

Seeing the tiny fire elemental spirit make its choice, the great fire elemental spirit immediately turned its head toward Linke and made a request.

"Wait a moment."

Linke sent a mental message to Mo Li, instructing her to take good care of the tiny fire elemental spirit, and his consciousness then withdrew from the true "small world."

Once his consciousness had fully returned to his body, Linke, with a thought, exercised his authority as "World Lord" and directly expelled the fire elemental spirit.

"Tell me your true name."

The instant the fire elemental spirit appeared in the magma world, it immediately set up a barrier exclusive to elemental spirits, blocking surveillance from the academy headquarters.

The academy headquarters actually could easily force a breakthrough of this barrier to continue monitoring.

Because the elemental world where elemental spirits survive and the wizard world are strategic allies, Fletcher Domingo did not issue that order.

"Linke Grand."

Without concealment or hesitation, Linke spoke his name.

Among the myriad worlds, there indeed exist many supernatural means by which a curse can be placed through a true name.

The wizard world's formerly glorious curse‑craft is capable of doing just that.

However, the true name that can be used for a curse differs greatly from an ordinary name.

Only when humans or wizards reach the sage level and grasp part of the rules can they awaken a true name related to the rules.

Unlike elemental spirits, abyssal demons, and innate gods—these supernatural races possess a true name from birth.

"I have remembered you."

The fire elemental spirit gazed deeply at Linke and said, "Remember, I am Emilyel Samantha Daryl Alflohtena! In the not‑distant future we will surely meet again!"

As the words fell, the fire elemental spirit erupted with an aura equivalent to a fourth‑level sage and instantly vanished from the magma world.

"What's going on?"

The instant before Emilyel Samantha Daryl Alflohtena disappeared, she deliberately dispelled the barrier, allowing the academy headquarters' surveillance to capture her disappearance.

Fletcher Domingo saw this and immediately voiced his doubt.

Elemental spirits can only fully dematerialize and return to the elemental world in one step upon reaching the fourth tier of transcendence.

Fletcher Domingo's team selected this magma world as an extracurricular practice site after confirming that the injured fire elemental spirit was of the third transcendence tier.

They set the unharmed rescue of the fire elemental spirit as a solo‑rescue extracurricular practice objective and requirement.

How did this fire elemental spirit jump from third to fourth transcendence in the blink of an eye?

Moreover, it is not an ordinary fourth‑tier transcendence.

Judging by that fleeting aura, this fire elemental spirit has already reached a level comparable to a fourth‑level sage of the wizard world.

Even Fletcher Domingo, a fifth‑level sage, could not infer what had just happened, let alone the other wizards on his team.

Fletcher Domingo's gaze, through the monitor screen, locked tightly onto Linke.

After pondering, he realized that besides the fire elemental spirit's own secret, the only thing that could have promoted this change was Linke Grand's brief containment of the fire elemental spirit.

In that light, Linke Grand truly deserves the attention of Frister Diomande, who even specially took him to meet two great sages!

Fletcher Domingo decided that even if the academy did not assign Linke Grand to the Shadow City sniper squad mission, he himself would conscript him.

He wanted to see what other astonishing, eye‑opening feats this guy could still pull off.

Magma world.

Linke noted the name "Emilyel Samantha Daryl Alflohtena," memorized her appearance, and then strove to swim to the surface.

He took out a piece of parchment, activated the mark on it, sent a message to the academy headquarters, and called for a transfer.

"Pick him up."

Fletcher Domingo issued the order.

The wizards on the team responsible for transmission and emergency relocation immediately, via authorization, triggered a mechanism of the interworld transfer gate.

A beam of transfer light, in a peculiar manner, crossed countless light‑years, shone into the magma world, and enveloped Linke.

When the beam faded, Linke found himself standing on the platform of the academy headquarters' interworld transfer gate.

The familiar sensation of spacetime disengagement ended.

Linke glanced left and right and discovered that he was indeed the first person to complete the extracurricular practice activity.

With a thought, he deactivated the extreme survival mode battle armor, stepped down from the platform, and located the ordinary three‑ring wizard‑equipment‑grade transport he had later purchased.

Seated in the driver's position, Linke did not rush back to the villa.

Instead, he waited for Mo Li while observing the interaction between Mo Li and the tiny fire elemental spirit within the true "small world."

And how the appearance of the tiny fire elemental spirit would change the true "small world."

This time, Linke chose to let his consciousness enter the true "small world" directly, without passing through the Brain Seal Technique layer.

At that moment, Mo Li had already brought the curious tiny fire elemental spirit to wander around the "small world." Upon seeing Linke arrive, Mo Li immediately put her hands on her hips, widened her eyes, and glared at Linke.

The tiny fire elemental spirit, less than sixty centimeters tall, hovered in the air, imitating Mo Li's pose with hands on hips.

However, the little fire elemental spirit did not glare; instead, its eyes rolled around curiously as it watched the interaction between the Realm Lord and the Realm Spirit.

Lin Ke laughed and asked, "Master, what did you do again to make Mo Li unhappy?"

"Hmph!"

Mo Li turned her head, flicked her head, presenting the back of her head to Lin Ke, and muttered unhappily, "Master, when did your memory become so bad? You just forgot to do something!"

The little fire elemental spirit imitated, also presenting the back of its head to Lin Ke.

"Mm..."

After Mo Li's reminder, Lin Ke immediately recalled something.

He actually forgot to return the giant flame salamander to the lava world!

With a shift of consciousness, Lin Ke glanced at the flame salamander sleeping soundly in the active volcano's magma, and remained silent.

It's all the fault of the great fire elemental spirit, demanding his true name.

Being interrupted like that, Lin Ke then forgot about this matter.

Hmm, that's it!

"What should we do? Master has already returned to the academy headquarters and isn't in the lava world anymore."

He stroked Mo Li's little head and said softly, "We can only keep this flame salamander for now; we'll decide what to do with it later."

The little fire elemental spirit glanced at Lin Ke's right hand resting on Mo Li's head, then suddenly leapt to Lin Ke's left side and rubbed its little head against his left hand.

A satisfied, delighted smile appeared on its face.

As if this were some supreme enjoyment.

"Anyway, I won't raise such an ugly pet; if you want to keep it, you do it yourself, Master."

This time, Mo Li's stance was extremely firm, with no compromise.

"Don't worry, the flame salamander is easy to raise; just toss it into the volcanic magma."

"That's about right."

After soothing the slightly moody Mo Li, Lin Ke then turned his attention to the little fire elemental spirit.

After thinking, Lin Ke directly asked, "Do you have a true name?"

The little fire elemental spirit blinked a few times, thought seriously, and replied in a cute, babyish voice, "Master, I am Koneleria Alflothena."

"Then I'll call you Koneleria from now on, okay?"

"Okay, Master."

The little fire elemental spirit Koneleria has been imitating Mo Li, from mannerisms to speech and behavior.

This is a good thing, but it could also turn bad.

Mo Li is the "Realm Spirit", and Koneleria is an elemental spirit.

An elemental spirit should look like an elemental spirit.

Lin Ke thought, after meeting Mo Li and returning, he would look for some materials and literature related to elemental spirits.

Let Mo Li study how to properly guide a newborn elemental spirit.

"Mo Li, take Koneleria and keep wandering."

After saying that, Lin Ke's consciousness directly left and appeared at the origin of the true "small world".

After communicating with the origin of the true "small world", Lin Ke indeed discovered the changes brought by Koneleria's appearance.

As the Realm Spirit of the true "small world", Mo Li possesses the ability to incarnate as a wind spirit.

This is due to the "small world's" overall attribute leaning toward wind, which gives Mo Li that feedback.

Koneleria's birth has added a hint of fire attribute to the "small world".

As long as Lin Ke is willing to invest.

Besides its natural evolution, the "small world" can absorb some fire-attribute Magic Stone or Magic Stone mother ore, thereby generating fire elements and fire-type free magical power within.

Is Lin Ke unwilling?

Lin Ke is certainly willing!

Earth, fire, water, and wind are the foundational concepts of a world.

The "small world" itself is earth, inherently possesses wind, but lacks water and fire.

Now that there is an opportunity to establish the fire foundational concept, Lin Ke will certainly not miss it.

The "Sun", mainly formed from the favor of the wizard world's will, after undergoing a collapse and explosion, has become even more extraordinary.

This time it again helped Lin Ke a great deal.

As long as Lin Ke can supplement the "water" foundational concept during the fifth or sixth evolution of the "small world".

Then the "small" prefix can be dropped early, becoming a truly formed "world".

Setting aside those daydreams, Lin Ke estimated the required amount of fire-attribute Magic Stone or Magic Stone mother ore, and his mood became less pleasant.

He suddenly realized he hasn't even seen a single standard tier-three Magic Stone, i. e., a shadow of a Magic Stone mother ore, and thus cannot spend money to draw cards.

Moreover, another necessary expense has been added, making the financial pressure truly great.

It's simply huge enough to give him a headache!

As his consciousness returned from the "small world" to his flesh, Lin Ke took a deep breath and chose to temporarily forget the financial pressure.

Being poor, there is a way to be happily poor.

On the other side.

Fletcher Domingo, reminded by a wizard in his team, finally discovered that Lin Ke had casually taken away a level-3 extraordinary giant flame salamander.

"Sage Domingo, should we pursue its return?"

The wizard who gave the reminder, seeing Fletcher Domingo remain silent, couldn't help but ask another question.

"Retrieve what? With what reason to retrieve?"

Fúláichè Duōmínggē retorted.

"This..."

This wizard was left speechless by the question.

That lava world, on the surface, is indeed an ownerless world.

The supernatural beings surviving there naturally have no allegiance.

The fire salamander that someone took by their own ability—neither stolen nor robbed—what right do you have to take it back?

Wanting to understand this logic, the wizard couldn't help muttering, 'Could it be that he just got away with it so easily? We went to great trouble to lure that fire salamander over.'

Fúláichè Duōmínggē didn't speak again.

Just let that wizard who had some thoughts about the fire salamander mutter to himself.

Anyway, he won't show up to go to Linke Grand to demand that fire salamander.

Those who have thoughts, go satisfy their own thoughts.

At the interworld teleportation gate.

Lin Ke waited again for nearly three hours, finally waiting for Mo Li to appear.

Judging by appearance, Mo Li's hair is somewhat messy, her clothes are wrinkled, evidently she has gone through some ordeal.

"How is it? Still going smoothly?"

Picking up Mo Li into the passenger seat, Lin Ke immediately drove back to the villa, while asking.

"Not smooth. Not at all smooth!"

Mo Li looked at the rearview mirror, tidied her sideburns, and complained, 'I went to a planet completely covered by water; the rule is cannot leave the water surface; the target is to take a pearl from the guardians of a group of mermaids underwater; the requirement is cannot kill any mermaid.'

Lin Ke heard that and asked doubtfully, 'Isn't this perfect for you to show your abilities?'

The God-Eating Worm's two major traits of concealment and foresight are very suitable for lurking and treasure hunting.

Mo Li pursed her lips: 'The silkworm baby fears water.'

"Ah... this!"

Lin Ke momentarily didn't know how to express his current mood.

The so-called nemesis of gods, the God-Eating Worm, actually fears water—this truly made Lin Ke feel very surprised.

Mo Li added in a faint tone, 'Wait until the silkworm baby grows a bit, then it won't have this weakness.'

"Like that."

Lin Ke then put aside his doubts and then asked, 'How did you later accomplish the goal?'

"Heh!"

Mo Li gave a cold laugh, 'How did I do it? I'll tell you: I disguised myself as a female mermaid, secretly stole that pearl, then tried every means to escape the large-scale search of nearly 20,000 mermaids.'

After a pause, Mo Li cursed, 'I don't know which pervert came up with this requirement; I damn well can't fight back, for fear that if I strike too hard I'll kill a mermaid, rendering all previous effort wasted.'

"Tsk!"

Lin Ke smacked his lower lip, making a sound of unclear meaning.

It turns out that this time encountering the pervert's rules, goals, and demands is not just him alone.

At least Mo Li is there to keep him company.

I suppose the other participating advanced wizard trainees in this extracurricular practical activity are also not much better off.

All of a sudden, Lin Ke's mood inexplicably improved a bit.

"You're gloating, right?"

Mo Li suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Ke, her voice lowered extremely, she said faintly, 'You're just gloating, right! Isn't it because you saw my situation and your mood suddenly improved?'

"No! Absolutely not!"

Faced with the death-related questioning, Lin Ke hurriedly made a defense.

"Hmph!"

Mo Li simply wouldn't listen to Lin Ke's sophistry, she flicked her head and presented the back of her head to Lin Ke.

Case solved!

Fúlán duǒ's recent little tempers, hands on hips, back of head 'looking at people', are all learned from Mo Li!

Lin Ke burst out laughing with a puff.

"You're still laughing!"

Mo Li, who was waiting for Lin Ke's comfort or consolation, upon hearing this snicker, instantly broke her defenses: 'You're still laughing! Do you have any decency left?'

"Hahaha..."

Lin Ke seeing this, laughed even louder, hurriedly set the transport vehicle to autonomous driving mode.

Listening to Lin Ke's continuous laughter, the indignant Mo Li suddenly also started laughing.

She suddenly recalled her disguise as a female mermaid.

That was stunning!