Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy-Chapter 558 - 550: At Worst, Just Cough Up Some Blood
Qian Qi: "Wanna give it a try?"
System: [Who are you gonna try it on?]
Qian Qi: "How about Hu Zi?"
System: [Hiss, you sure have a big appetite!]
Qian Qi: "Just tell me if it’s doable!"
System: [Sure, you can try! At worst, it’ll just cough up some blood, but it won’t die!]
"Exactly, it’ll just cough up some blood!" Qian Qi said vigorously.
She grabbed the fainted Moyu beside her and shook him, "Moyu, wake up, time to work!"
Moyu rolled his eyes back and still hadn’t recovered from the earlier fright. He held his head in a daze for a moment before finding his voice, "Wh-what are we trying now? Please don’t scare me again; my little heart is fragile!"
"You put a curse on Hu Zi." Qian Qi pointed at Hu Zi who was just waking up in a daze, "If it can’t succeed in contracting with you, it’ll immediately cough up blood!"
System: ?
When you said at worst it’d cough up blood, you meant Hu Zi?!
After instructing Moyu, Qian Qi then addressed Venom, "Boost Moyu’s spiritual power as well, to make his curse more potent."
"No problem!"
Venom cleared his throat, "Shall I start then?"
"Go ahead!"
Venom’s translucent snake scales began to emit a slight noise, as a dazzling array of rainbow colors flowed over them like quicksand. He suddenly widened his eyes, feeling as though every living creature within a hundred miles was under his control.
The cooldown period for the Sixth Skill is one month; if it’s only used to enhance the Contractor and Su Ang’s spiritual power, it seems a bit wasteful. Might as well use all five available slots!
Frugal Little Poison picked two others with high spiritual power from the orphanage and included Su Ang, channeling all his skill into them.
"I’m ready!"
Next, Moyu began his ritual.
He hopped around Hu Zi like a spirit-conjuring shaman, "I curse you, if the contract fails you’ll cough blood~ I curse you, if the contract fails you’ll cough blood~ I curse..."
Hu Zi blinked his bewildered eyes, watching Moyu bouncing back and forth.
Wow... this is kinda cool.
Qian Qi began forming the Contract Pattern, a golden pattern wrapped in a faint black hue signifying her B-level Spiritual Power being temporarily enhanced to S-Class by external forces. She pushed the Contract Pattern in front of Hu Zi.
Hu Zi curiously poked at Qian Qi’s Contract Pattern.
"Hu Zi, activate your Contract Pattern." Qian Qi said.
Hu Zi tilted his head.
"Could it not understand?" Seeing its expression, Qian Qi felt a bad premonition, "System, are you sure it isn’t mentally challenged?"
The system also seemed uncertain, circled Hu Zi twice, knocked on its head, watching it wave its front paw searching for itself, [There’s definitely no problem.]
"How long does Venom’s spiritual power boost last?"
[Half an hour.]
With 5 minutes already gone, Qian Qi pondered and had the system spit out the Black Demon Fruit to tempt Hu Zi, "Hu Zi, if you make a contract with me, you can eat this Black Demon Fruit, okay?"
Hu Zi stared at the fruit, blinked, still showing no reaction.
Qian Qi then released Bai Ji, attempting to have Bai Ji communicate with it.
After Bai Ji finished speaking all the tiger languages, Hu Zi still maintained the confused expression, meowing like a little cat.
Bai Ji helplessly shook his head, "Contractor, could it be mentally challenged?"
Qian Qi’s icy gaze shot toward the system.
System: [I can’t possibly be wrong!]
Qian Qi: "The curse was used, the temptation was employed, even Bai Ji suspects it’s mentally challenged, what else can you say!"
System: [How would I know? Anyway, I can’t possibly be wrong!]
Qian Qi: "Then what could it be, surely it can’t be unwilling to contract with me, pretending to be nuts—"
Just as the word "nuts" fell out, Qian Qi suddenly felt her hand empty. The Hu Zi at her feet leaped up unexpectedly, snatched the Black Demon Fruit from her hand, spread its wings, and flew out of the room swiftly.
"What the heck!"
[What the heck!]
People who are usually astute and sharp-faced, when had they suffered such a loss? Immediately leaping up, Qian Qi shouted, "Brat! Stop right there!"
Hu Zi sneered, gulped the Black Demon Fruit in one bite, and flew swiftly downstairs.
That snake was spot on; its contractor indeed has the ability to empower Magic Beasts. It wasn’t a wasted effort when it heard that snake say he would bring it back as a gift to the contractor, immediately starting to feign ignorance, waiting for the moment to snatch the Black Demon Fruit.
Ha, foolish humans! Your Contracted Beast ate my eggshell, and you tried to make me mentally challenged, yet you want to contract me, Hu Zi?
In your dreams!
It wants to absorb this Black Demon Fruit, become a true Epic Level Magic Beast, then expand its territory and establish its own Black Tiger Territory—"Ack—"
The blueprint of its future life as a tiger wasn’t even fully outlined when Hu Zi suddenly coughed up blood, and before the Black Demon Fruit even reached its stomach, it was regurgitated, rolling down the stairs.
From behind, Qian Qi’s voice chasing after could be heard, "Two more minutes! If you don’t contract now, it’ll be too late!"
Two more minutes! Just endure two more minutes!
Hu Zi struggled to keep its wings flapping, picked up the Black Demon Fruit from the ground, darted out of the dorm building. Unexpectedly, "Ack—"
It coughed blood again, spitting out the half-swallowed demon fruit onto the ground.
Body gradually weakened, it folded its wings and landed on the ground, glanced back at Qian Qi chasing from behind, picked up the demon fruit again, swallowed it vigorously.
It wouldn’t believe it, it insists on swallowing the demon fruit before being captured!
"Ack—"
The Black Demon Fruit flew out of its throat, "plop" onto the ground, Hu Zi’s eyes widened in disbelief, the blood it vomited becoming more and more profuse...
Why, why can’t it stop vomiting blood?
Just as Hu Zi gradually became dizzy from blood loss, a voice suddenly echoed ominously in its mind like a demonic whisper.
"I curse you, if the contract fails you’ll cough blood..."
Hu Zi understood.
It was cursed; if the contract fails, it will continuously cough blood, to death!
What a malicious Contracted Beast, what a malicious human!
It absolutely refuses to contract such a scheming contractor; if it were to contract, it should be with someone gullible and easy to deceive—
"Qian Qi, what are you doing?"
A child’s voice rang out; Child B walked over holding a sun-dried sheet, curiously staring at the weakened Hu Zi on the ground, "Is this your new contracted Magic Beast?"
He’s the one!
Hu Zi’s eyes lit up, used its last bit of strength to fly up, decisively spewed a mouthful of blood towards Child B’s face.
This was the blood contract initiated by the Magic Beast itself, the master dies, so does the beast, the beast must obey the master’s commands.
Although it’s a slight loss, but such a gentle and simple young contractor, his mind is surely not fully developed yet. As long as it raises him from a young age, in the future, who knows who will be calling the shots!
Hu Zi just about to revel in its crafty decision, suddenly heard Child B in front of it let out a sharp explosive shriek.
"Ah! My freshly washed and sun-dried bed sheet—! You owe me a bed sheet—"
