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Chapter 42: Negotiation

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Chapter 42: Negotiation

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The Evil Lady looked at me nervously, probably guessing what I had in mind. 

"Who said I am going alone?" Fighting such strong spirits could lead me to my death. "You know that sabotaging me could lead to your death. Don't test me again."

She nodded. "I wasn't in any way implication to put you into danger. But simply giving you a choice."

Smart. She had already found a loophole in the contract that I hadn't thought of. Well, it wasn't that big of a deal, as something like this couldn't have harmed me, because she would have to not withhold any important information from me. But, maybe she could have said the information just when I was about to jump through and that would have technically been; 'Not withholding information from me'.

Well, the latter was a clause I had intentionally put in. Knowing that she would find another way to withhold information from me, like deleting her memories. That would also be okay with the Gias contract.

"Anyway, you are coming with. Show me which one of the portals leads to the strongest spirit," my words were neutral and didn't have any emotion in them. 

She knew what would happen after this was over. By failing right now, she had just pushed her time of death closer.

There was no need to get angry over this small trickery. I predicted something like this might happen.

[Intelligence increased by 1 for predicting your enemy's carefully thought scheme.]

This was also one of the reasons I was willing to put up with it. She was an intelligence stat grind, always keeping me on my toes while making me stronger.

When freezing the river, I knew that my Chi, or as it is represented in my Status Page as MP was above what most masters had. Meaning I could control a large amount of water. 

It would have taken at least three waterbenders to do what I had done to save the village.

"Seems like your friends flew off," the Evil Lady said with a confused look on her face. She then looked me in the eyes. "What are you?"

No wonder she was confused, having seen my water clone with them.

"Maybe I will explain it once you give me something useful," I chuckled and offered her my hand.

She then pointed towards one of the portals. "That leads to the Spirit of Endurance, Namean, the strongest spirit I have been able to trick into a contract until now."

"What are its powers?"

"Physical invincibility," she said casually. "No arrows can pierce his skin, no fire can burn him, no weapon can even scratch him. Also, its strength and speed are quite powerful. Even I would have a hard time protecting myself if he attacked."

Looking at her eyes, I saw that she seemed to be hiding something from me. Well, I couldn't read her expression, but going logically the Evil Lady still would try to trick me. "If you hide something from me, the contract will kill you. Do you want to test it without thinking things through?"

"Damn," for the first time she swore and winced. Finally, her true feeling slipped through, she was annoyed. With a resigned sigh, she added. "Even its eyes have a layer around it and can't be pierced,"