Chapter 174 - Ripped Apart

Lisa nodded head in disappointment and said, "I don't know."

She also added that Aria had never mentioned having a younger cousin or relative as young as him. Listening to her statement, Nex was thrown into deep contemplation.

'If this boy is not her relative nor her cousin, then who is this kid?'

Back to the trial Sen was all set to enter the tropical forests. He had set some magic circles on his swords that would auto-activate themselves when the light around goes beyond a certain level.

"All preparation done~~!!" exclaimed Aryan and entered the eastern part of the forest.

The more he went inside, the more it got darker. Huge trees and their leaves were slowly blocking the path of the sunlight. After entering to a certain distance, a place came where everything went dark and a very little was visible with naked eyes.

The magic circles on Aryan's sword detected the low presence of light and began to levitate in the air.

Seeing the levitating sword emitting light and following the kiddo everywhere, Nex stood up abruptly and asked one of his assistants to find out the exact location of the testing ground.

Miss Lisa frowned on his order and asked what he wanted to do by knowing the location of the testing ground. "Do you want to go there and check out those circles in person?" Miss Lisa asked out in suspicion.

As much as he knows this, Nex was one of the biggest nerd guys of that era after a certain someone named Aditya. And to get his hands on such things, stopping the test in the middle was not a big thingy for him.

Nex understood her concern and answered it while laughing.

"Hahahaha!! No, no. Don't get me wrong. I am not gonna stop the test. The test will continue as it should have been."

"Then why do you want to know his location?"

"Cause I want to send my new invention there!!"

"New Invention?!"

"Yes, new invention," Nex added and waved his hand to take out his new invention.

Lisa was dumbfounded by its appearance. No matter how she looked at it, it was nothing more than a big blue crystal ball.

After some moment of hesitation, she opened her mouth that many of her wanted to ask.

"Senior Nex, isn't that just a big crystal ball? What are you planning to do with that?"

After blurting out her question, Lisa was thinking if she had made him angry or not? But after hearing out his reply she took a breath of sigh and continued to watch further.

"Hahahaha," Nex laughed and replied, "Miss Lisa, it used to be a crystal ball. But not anymore!! We have applied magic circles of different varieties on it and made it our third hidden eye."

"Third hidden eye~~!!" Lisa exclaimed.

"Yes, let me show you how," Nex added and asked one of his lab assistants to bring the controller and monitor. Just within a minute, two of his lab assistants brought a small crystal ball and a big mirror. Similar to the one that Lisa was using to monitor Aryan's action.

Nex took the small ball and kept it in his hand. Suddenly, both the ball began to glow and the big ball levitated in the air.

Lisa took a step back as she was afraid of the ball. But after Nex told him it was harmless, she went near and touched the ball.

She could clearly feel the vast amount of mental energy and the sage energy being transferred into it. After pondering over something, she turned out and looked towards Nex in confusion.

As much as she knew, Nex was the head of the research department. Even though he had a vast knowledge of magic circles and weapons he himself had a very low reserve of energy to use them. And for the same reason, he had been allotted some retired knights who could no longer fight, or don't want to fight.

Nex felt awkward upon her gazing and asked her the reason for doing so.

Lisa shook her head and asked, "Senior Nex, I have a doubt, can I ask?"

"Sure, go on."

"I can clearly feel a huge amount of mental energy and sage energy getting transferred into this big crystal ball."

"Yes, it is getting transferred…. So what about it?"

"Ahh…" Lisa hesitated for a second whether she should ask or not. But as the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat, she couldn't hold it any longer and fired it out in one breath.

"Ah, I know you have a very high reserve of mental energy to satisfy the condition, but I don't think you have that much big reserve of sage energy…." She stopped at that to observe his expression.

Nex laughed at her comment and cleared out her misunderstanding.

"Miss Lisa, you are getting the wrong idea. I am just using a small part of my mental energy to control that crystal ball. And the energy transfer you are feeling is from a replaceable crystal battery that we have inserted in it."

"Oh~~!!"

"Yes, and the batteries are filled by my assistants."

"I see~~!!"

After clearing out her doubts, Lisa asked him what he wanted to do with that. And as expected, the answer was clear and simple.

"Ehh… This?!! Isn't that obvious? I wanted to take a closer look at that kid and his magic circles."

Lisa sighed at the nerdiness of Nex and told him the exact location of that kiddo. According to her, if he waits for his assistant to find out the location, it will take an hour or two to do so.

Nex was delighted by her help and checked out the location.

"15 km east, then 2 degrees north~~ All set!!" Nex exclaimed and held the controller again to levitate that giant ball.

Lisa was watching what he would do next when Zwap!!

Came a sound and the ball vanished from that place.

"What was that?" blurted out Lisa.

She was setting her eye on the ball when a light came out of it and disappeared….

"Ahem. Sorry for startling you. I should have told you earlier before doing so." Nex apologized.

"So what was that? And where did it disappear?"

This time Nex didn't answer her question, instead pointed his hand towards one of the mirrors that she was using to monitor Aryan.

She turned around and saw it was already in the place where the kiddo had laid down his bed.

"Woah!!" she exclaimed in amazement and looked towards Senior Nex again.

"Hahaha, It has a good teleportation ability. Though it can transfer up to a 10000 meters from here but well~~ Something is better than nothing!! It's quite useful too."

"Huh!! Better than nothing!! Useful!!" Lisa exclaimed. "Senior Nex, you are underestimating the usefulness of your invention. If you want, I can write a ten thousand lines essay on its different uses."

"Hahaha, you flattened me, miss Lisa."

Both of them laughed at each other and looked towards the mirrors again to check the crystal ball's status. The ball was hovering over the place where Aryan was standing earlier. Since it hadn't got any further instructions it was glowing green at that time.

Nex hold the controller and send it the command to follow the trails of that kiddo. Suddenly it turned blue, then Whoosh!!

It vanished~~~

Lisa frowned and turned back towards Nex to ask him about it.

"Haha, don't worry. I have just activated its invisibility circle. I can perfectly sense it with my controller."

"Oh~~!!"

"Yes, wait, let me make adjustments to your mirrors so that you can see it without the controller."

"Sure go on," She agreed and let him do as he wished with her mirrors.

Lisa left the room for some work and returned only after a few minutes. What she saw then in her department completely blew up her mind.

All the mirrors, literally every mirror in her room, were ripped apart from behind. She began to take heavy breaths and searched for the main mirror of her department. And to her dismay, she couldn't find it anywhere.

Not on the wall where it used to be and not even on the ground, where the lab assistants were applying magic circles on them.

Her mind was getting blank and at one point she was thinking what to say about this to the sage emperor.

She wanted to ask Nex what was happening and where was his main mirror. But to add up her frustration, Nex wasn't there.

She looked around again and called out one of her assistants to ask for Nex. The assistant came around in a daze and said, "He vanished with the mirror~~"

"Vanished with the mirror!! What do you mean by vanish?! Why didn't you stop him?!! And how in the world did he carry that mirror as big as this room's walls!!"

She was literally bombarding that thin assistant with tons of questions.. And the answer she got for all was a simple "I don't know" from him.