Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 398 - 317

This scene left Ajing somewhat at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and for a moment she wasn’t sure whether to praise Jiuyue or scold her.

Being able to change the form of a curse in such a short time is something that only master-level wizards could do. On her first day of learning witchcraft, Jiuyue achieved what many wizards couldn’t throughout their lifetime, but the downside was that she had used her wit to create an utterly boring and useless spell.

"Cupid’s Arrow" is a highly directional spell with a clear target.

Whereas "Cupid Grenade" by the sound of its name alone suggests it’s a wide-reaching spell of mayhem, leaving Ajing at a loss to imagine its effects.

What if the grenade affected more than one target, what sort of curse would it then impose on those people?

But soon, these questions were answered.

Earth Wolf Twelve, patrolling the cabin, sent word that he had, just minutes ago, worked with the security personnel on the Eco-Ship to apprehend a group of suspects.

The charge was organizing a party.

Fortunately, with surveillance everywhere on the Eco-Ship, these criminal suspects were arrested before they could commit their crime.

"Look at the mess you’ve made!"

Ajing’s face was red all the way to her neck.

She recognized that the arrested were members of the Witch Council and now, even separated in different interrogation rooms, they couldn’t stop making eyes at each other through the walls.

The Witch Council’s reputation had been thrown all the way to grandma’s house!

She quickly realized that Jiuyue had not only transformed a directional curse into an area-of-effect one but also amplified its potency manyfold.

Originally, according to the Grimoire, two people struck by "Cupid’s Arrow" would go through a process of getting to know and fall in love with each other—just like countless others who have fallen in love, which is why those in the throes of passion wouldn’t realize they’ve been cursed.

However, Jiuyue’s spell skipped all those stages and fast-forwarded right to partying.

"You foxy head filled with dirty junk!"

Ajing was once again infuriated by Jiuyue, not only because Jiuyue had caused the Witch Council to lose face, but more importantly, because this apprentice was mentored by her personally.

If others in the industry found out that the Dawn Witch’s apprentice had concocted something like the "Cupid Grenade," who knows how they would backstab her!

"I told you, it was a mistake, a mistake!"

Jiuyue, knowing she had erred, sounded meeker, her voice becoming delicate.

This was the typical trick of a Fox Demon. When they found themselves at fault, they’d attempt to melt away criticism with charm tactics.

Shameless, but effective.

Ajing held her forehead, and for a moment, she envisioned the scene of Jiuyue as a child hugging her arm and acting coquettishly after doing something wrong—it’s hard to continue scolding them after withstanding the charm offensive of a Fox Demon.

Perhaps this was the innate allure of the Fox Demon race.

Ajing sighed deeply, "Explain it to me properly, what exactly happened? How did you end up inventing "Cupid Grenade" on the way to gather materials and manage to detonate it among members of the Witch Council?"

She felt it was nearly impossible for these two events to occur at the same time.

"Didn’t you say to get dog blood and cat’s tail grass, so I found out that these creatures were placed in the Eco-zone and they were kept together with many brutal large animals. As a delicate, slender girl, of course I had to find something for self-defense!"

Ajing ignored Jiuyue’s delicate explanation and asked sternly, "The truth, please?"

First of all, Jiuyue was far from being weak and helpless.

And she hadn’t seen anyone using grenades for self-defense in her life.

"The truth is, it’s not very nice to use people to test new spells. Taking life sciences as an example, whenever they develop new drugs, they first experiment on small animals."

Jiuyue felt her scientific spirit deserved commendation.

"And then?"

"And when I infiltrated the Eco-zone, suddenly a group of people popped out from around the corner; they even knew my name. I got nervous, my hand shook, and I just threw the grenade at them."

...

Ah Jing painfully covered her forehead, she had already roughly understood the situation.

Just as she had said, wizards were able to recognize each other’s identities. Jiuyue’s painstaking research on curses had attracted the attention of other Witch Council members, who naturally mistook Jiuyue as one of their own. They decided to approach and reveal their identities, but before they could utter a word, they were solidly hit by a grenade.

Now all these people were quarantined under the charge of illegal assembly.

This was enough to indicate the severity of the situation.

After all, this was an open era, and as long as it was not too excessive, security personnel usually opted for a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil approach.

Being isolated for such an incident was sufficient evidence of its egregiousness.

Earth Wolf Twelve quickly explained the reason.

The members of the Witch Council had chosen the multimedia conference room as their party venue, where an academic conference was scheduled to take place shortly. They initially tried to persuade the intruders calmly but instead were met with an attack.

Earth Wolf Twelve had also rushed over upon hearing the news, acting as a righteous peacekeeper.

"Acting all high and mighty..."

Upon hearing this, Jiuyue muttered under her breath.

She knew all too well about this Interstellar Cowboy’s past. When she had encountered him at the hotel on Mechanical Star, this cowboy had hit on the bionic waitress and was constantly scheming to invite Mr. Mingyuan out for a night of debauchery at the bar.

The guy was a regular party-goer!

"He wasn’t pretending."

Duan Mingyuan stood up to defend his friend, saying a fair word for him. The Interstellar Cowboy was true to himself. When he was assisting security personnel in arresting these suspected criminals, he made clear his motive for executing justice:

— How could they have a party without inviting him!

— How preposterous!

Just thinking about these people freely enjoying themselves in broad daylight, while he had to protect the steward of Saintfield VI, Earth Wolf Twelve felt indignant.

"It’s all because of you, you’ve indulged her too much!"

Ah Jing pointed the finger at Duan Mingyuan, "Aren’t you going to scold her a bit? Throwing a grenade in a public place, such behavior is almost no different from that of terrorists!"

In their culture, Cupid represented a fairy embodying beauty and romance, yet Jiuyue single-handedly turned them into terrorists.

"This might not be such a bad thing after all."

Facing Ah Jing’s accusation, Duan Mingyuan once again indulgently waved his hand, "There is still much that can be explored with this curse."

He always saw the brighter side.

In Ah Jing’s words, all members of the Witch Council gathered on the Eco-Ship were ready to sacrifice their lives.

This was a rather positive assessment, but when viewed from a different angle, it also meant that these Witch Council members were a group of extremists who viewed death indifferently.

To realize their ideals, they were not only willing to give up their own lives but also to drag any unrelated individuals down with them.

But just now, Jiuyue had changed their will with a single grenade.

Modification on the level of cognition and consciousness...

This might be the truly terrifying aspect of the love curse.

The witches who created them were truly worthy of their name.

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