Chapter 65 - 2.26

"Lady, what do you think about this agreement? It does seem like we would be wronged, but I think that.."

"Zen, you have a good heart. But you can't forget that I simply desire to achieve what I want to achieve, and I want to rush it." Xu Jiaqi spoke, her eyes narrowing down at Zenith.

"However, lady... is it not right that we offer them help if we want to build trust? Perhaps, in the future, we could gain these people's assistance, make them owe us." Zenith frowned as he tried to persuade her.

Xu Jiaqi stretched her arm upwards, trailing her fingers along his face, his neck, and stopping at his chin. She raised his chin up slightly, suppressing him with magical energy so that he wouldn't be able to resist.

"Zen, you are smart, you have the ability to think sharply. Do I seem like someone who would just accept every single person who wants to ally themselves with me? Do you think that they would be of use to me in any sort of way? They are weaklings, and no matter how high they climb up, they would not amount to much. What they achieve in years, I can achieve in weeks. Do you get what I mean?" Xu Jiaqi chuckled darkly, showing an unimaginable side of her that Zenith was taken aback by.

Xu Jiaqi kept the same position for a few seconds before dropping the hold and smiling sweetly.

"Naturally.. I'm just joking. I wanted to see where your thoughts would break in. It's just bandits... Actually, we should just go and beat them up today so we can progress with the journey tomorrow. You go take care of the things inside the town. I want to see everything arranged once I come back." Xu Jiaqi's tone grew several levels colder as she began to walk away from the site, not heeding to Zenith's exasperated calls from behind.

"Do not follow me, this is a test for you." Xu Jiaqi strengthened her claim as she disappeared into the forest.

Surely, Zenith must've noticed the extreme change that Xu Jiaqi went through. And the System also did notice it. His Host was strangely.. in a trance, and had a bad expression. Her thoughts were unknown, but she was walking towards the bandits' camp which she traced using her magic with bloodthirsty eyes.

The System felt an instinctive fear overcome itself. It watched in silence as Xu Jiaqi walked, snapping her fingers ever so often along the way. Then, when she entered the bandit camp, she whistled.

"I'm not in a good mood, I'm very disappointed at him." Xu Jiaqi clicked her tongue.

What benefit would they get from helping these people? There was a limit to stretching her grace. She wouldn't act evil towards these people, but it didn't mean that she wanted to help them. There was no reason she had to, they yielded her nothing important, nothing that she could use.

As cruel as she is, it was what her principles were. And it wasn't going to get changed for a very long time, at least until someone or something could inspire her enough to do so.

Xu Jiaqi created a sword out of ice and pierced the bandits' bodies. There were about fifty people in the camp, but none of them stood a chance to Xu Jiaqi. When she stabbed her sword into the body of one bandit, the others rushed to charge at her, thinking that she would be defenseless since her weapon was stuck in the body.

However, she then manifested a magic bullet at a rapid speed, blasting their heads of and bursting their brains into pieces. It was a one sided massacre committed by an angelic looking child.

"I don't like people like Zenith. They disgust me. It's like.. a worm is crawling inside me. I can't shake the feeling off, it bugs me too much. So you guys will have to be my punching bag.. My apologies, I simply can't take the thrill of killing others, I can't contain the stimulation I feel~" Xu Jiaqi picked up a detached arm and played with it, but she ended up getting blood on her face. She swiped the blood away from her face.

Even if she bathed in a pool of blood, she didn't mind that much, but her face was now dirtied. She spat saliva to the dead corpse.

"Fucking dirty vagrants can't even die cleanly." Xu Jiaqi cast water magic over herself, cleaning her body and purifying herself.

She didn't know where her murderous and crazy traits surfaced from. She had a feeling that these traits were already laid down deep within her heart even in the first world, but it was awakened and spiked up when she entered the world.

All she knew was that it had something to do with her past memory, and that she wanted to avoid whatever was happening at all costs. Submerging herself with blood was one of the ways to do that. Run away from all the crippling abyss that she hovered over.

Xu Jiaqi was never a mentally stable person.

She was a lunatic, if you dared to describe her as that. Like a part of her was missing, she never felt truly in tune with the world, and would very easily be drawn to sadistic or cruel tendencies if it meant that her heart would be stimulated. This was in line with her mundane and perfect life, which she built until nothing could be more perfect than the outcome she would reach. Even so, she didn't feel satisfied just yet.

A lunatic's desire sprouted inside of her, sparking fire and explosions left and right as she lived her life.

The reason she loved fantasy worlds was not only because she would be able to use mystical powers, but also because.. of the things she could do with the power and get away for it. For example, mercilessly killing people like this. Her prey showed pure agony and terror when she slowly ended their life, not letting them escape and instead having to wallow in despair.

Such was Xu Jiaqi, the crazy Host that the System picked without knowing.