132: Chapter 132 Relief for the Poor

After receiving Nie Ning's reply, Amoto left Ska City.

Nie Ning returned to the Wizard Tower and, using the cultivation room inside, began attempting to practice his newly acquired Meditation Technique.

The Meditation Technique was named the Heavenly Pillar Guidance Technique, a very ordinary name.

This technique specialized in Spiritual Power, but its effects on guiding and purifying magic power were mediocre.

Generally speaking, Meditation Techniques are divided by attributes; practicing according to the technique's attribute undoubtedly yields twice the result with half the effort.

Nie Ning's own situation was quite special. It was difficult to find Meditation Techniques for all eight attributes, and his attributes might even increase again in the future.

The Qiong Guang Meditation Method he practiced before was actually a Light-type Meditation Technique.

Without the Light attribute, the condensing effect of Spiritual Power on Elemental Power was not very good.

Nie Ning cultivated so quickly partly due to the traits gained from Supernatural Adaptability, partly due to the physical bonuses from his Strange Beast Body and the Power of a Hundred Beasts, and thirdly due to the crystal core's special method of gathering mana.

Traits went without saying; Nie Ning's elemental talent relied entirely on this point.

His body was of a semi-strange beast constitution. A strange beast's own ability was to grow stronger through food, and after becoming powerful, they could switch to absorbing the Elemental Power in the air.

In common terms, it meant he could absorb the essence of the sun and moon to level up.

Combined with the crystal core's innate mana storage and essence gathering effects, Nie Ning's path to leveling up was much smoother.

Therefore, compared to the enhancement of magic power, Nie Ning needed to strengthen his Spiritual Power more.

If magic power exceeded Spiritual Power, it would only cause the magic power to lose control and become unstable.

As Nie Ning began to cultivate, he could feel his Spiritual Power becoming mellow and solid, which was one of the characteristics of the Heavenly Pillar Guidance Technique.

It was similar to Knight cultivation methods; some would focus on constitution, while others focused on agility.

The Heavenly Pillar Guidance Technique made Spiritual Power as steady as Mount Tai, not easily shaken by external things, possessing good stability and mental resistance.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Pillar Guidance Technique was not an elemental type, as elemental types would enhance the power of sorcery, and special ones would add various special effects.

However, the thing Nie Ning lacked least was attack power; the power of an eight-fold elemental fusion was far beyond what a five-fold elemental fusion could compare to.

Even if he only used a five-fold elemental fusion, with the bonus of a solidified Runic Formula, he could still achieve the super-strong destructive power of the mid-Second Ring.

...

The long-awaited increase in strength made Nie Ning gradually forget the time.

It felt as if only ten minutes had passed, yet the time had already reached the next day.

Nie Ning opened his eyes, wanting more.

It had to be said that the improvement of strength was even more addictive than matters between men and women.

Mainly, there were simply too many things one could do after gaining strength; this kind of mental pleasure far exceeded the physical.

If he had the mighty power of a god, wouldn't he be able to slap whoever he wanted, making himself feel physically and mentally refreshed at all times?

Walking out of the Wizard Tower, ice wings unfurled behind Nie Ning, and he shot into the sky like a sharp arrow, leaving a ribbon of extending ice crystals in the sky.

Aside from the relatively high mana consumption, the Ice Blue Wing Technique was simply a sorcery tailor-made for showing off.

And Nie Ning possessed a crystal core; the thing he lacked least was magic power.

In comparison, the consumption of the eight-fold elemental fusion was still higher.

Just as Nie Ning was heading towards Hervais Manor, his keen Spiritual Power made him feel as if he were being watched.

Nie Ning's ice wings flapped gently, and he hovered in mid-air, his gaze scanning the streets below.

“An illusion?”

Seeing that he couldn't find any suspicious person, Nie Ning couldn't help but scratch his head.

“It seems I've been too tired lately.”

Lately, he had been busy cultivating, studying runes, Alchemy construction, sorcery deconstruction, and so on, so busy he almost had no time to rest.

Shaking his head slightly, Nie Ning did not linger and flew quickly towards Hervais Manor.

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Noon.

South of the city, Yita District.

The famous slum of Ska City.

Compared to the prosperous Shangrong Alley, Yita District was no different from a garbage dump.

The houses here were dilapidated, garbage was everywhere, and dejected Beggars lay by the roadside.

The eyes of the people living here were devoid of light, as if living was merely because it wasn't time to die yet.

There was no yearning for life, only faces full of fatigue, with no hope in sight.

As a line of carriages passed along the street, both passersby and Beggars followed along.

Seeing people crowding around, the Guards near the carriages began to drive them away to prevent these people from snatching the supplies on the carriages.

Finally, the carriages stopped at an open clearing.

From several of the carriages, more than a dozen young people with youthful looks stepped down.

These people were dressed extraordinarily and looked around curiously, appearing completely out of place with the people of Yita District.

“Lilith, even if we're doing good deeds, we don't have to come ourselves, do we?”

One of the young men looked at the poor people gathering nearby and couldn't help but frown.

“You talk too much. Don't you want your credits anymore?”

Evinny glared fiercely at this male classmate.

The male classmate gave a sheepish laugh and didn't tangle with this notoriously shrewish woman.

Lilith looked at this scene helplessly.

Relieving the poor was her idea.

Although her family didn't worry about food or clothing, they couldn't produce too much wealth.

To raise funds, she could only gather some friends from school she got along with and apply to the school for this relief activity.

If it weren't for the credits, probably few people would be willing to accompany her to such a place.

...

As the supplies were unloaded from the carriages, the surrounding area was now packed so tightly that not even a drop of water could trickle through.

Nie Ning helped carry the supplies, his gaze sweeping over the crowd from time to time with a hint of hostility in his eyes.

Although Lilith wanted to do good, in the end, she still didn't understand the wickedness of the human heart.

Just within the surrounding crowd, Nie Ning felt many ill-intentioned gazes and a thick sense of malice being emitted.

And those people had a thuggish appearance; one look and you could tell they were not kind-hearted people.

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Under the shouting of the Guards, the people receiving supplies formed a long queue.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion, but soon some students couldn't stand this atmosphere and, taking a few other like-minded classmates, used the excuse of going to the toilet to sneak out and play.

However, Lilith had many good friends, and Evinny and the others stayed behind to help Lilith distribute the supplies.

Only, during the process of distributing supplies, there were always people who took the opportunity to grope the female students.

The male students naturally couldn't bear it upon seeing this, and an argument soon broke out.

Someone took the opportunity to incite others, using the excuse that the students were arrogant and looked down on them, and began to quarrel with them.

The Guards would not indulge those people.

These young masters and ladies were not ordinary people in the city; any accident happening to them would affect their Guard Hall branch.

Moreover, compared to the sallow and emaciated poor, the Guards had at least undergone combat training, and many of them were Apprentice Knights.

So before long, the poor people who took the lead in making trouble were dragged into a nearby alley by the Guards.

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