Chapter 19: Notting Academy

After Ghost left the room, Vaiss waved his hand, and in front of him, a small silent drone slowly appeared. It was a baseball-sized black ball with intricate runes on its body, it had a big lens on it. The drone was a mix of technology and magic.

This was the drone he used previously but after the fight with the evil spirit master, he upgraded and multiplied it so it would serve as a recording device. 

He added a flying rune, silent rune, and camouflage rune, which made the drone basically invisible and undetectable to anyone below god level, except for some with high sensitivity or divinity.

He also added a high-definition camera and audio recorder. For energy, it uses his blazing sun energy. The only flaw was that it cannot move on itself, so Dawn was controlling it. It was tricky to mix technology and magic, but Vaiss succeeded.

The only flaw was it had a range limit, for now. The range was 500 meters away from Vaiss.

It was an artifact for keeping evidence, and the little guy in front of Vaiss had been recording since he rescued Ah Yin until now.

There were ten of them, and usually, he only let out one. He wanted to record all the bad things that the three hypocrites, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao did and went through.

"Dawn, you get all of it, right?"

"Yes, master."

"Perfect, now send these drones to Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and record everything."

"Order received."

Vaiss took out two drones and Dawn took control of it. The drones turned invisible and went out, Vaiss chose this hotel because it was close to Notting academy, and it was within the range of the drones.

Vaiss wanted to see if he could get some evidence of Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's true faces as hypocrites.

Vaiss then stretched his body, went for a bath, and slept. 

........

In the morning, Vaiss and Ghost were eating breakfast, at the same time, Vaiss was watching the grandmaster and his apprentice through the drones but nothing interesting was going on.

Well, except that the relationship between Xiao Wu and Tang San was estranged. But Vaiss already expected this since he sent a letter to Xiao Wu. But it was amusing seeing Tang San perplexed about Xiao Wu's sudden change and trying to get close to Xiao Wu.

As for Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Records, Vaiss looked down on it. In his eyes, it was a low-end technique. The technique had potential and could be improved, but that was also something that bugged Vaiss.

Through the original series, Tang San never bothered upgrading the technique, Vaiss didn't believe Tang San couldn't do it. It would be a joke if a god couldn't improve a mortal technique. But Vaiss remembered that Tang San was a sect slave like Tang Hao, maybe Tang San believed that the Mysterious Heaven Technique Records was already perfect and changing it was blasphemous.

As for Yu Xiaogang, he was keeping his act as grandmaster and was reading a book, it was a record of poisonous soul beasts and plants. Vaiss didn't know what to say about this master and apprentice, why were they so hung up on getting poisonous soul skills?

"Grandpa, you will wait at the city gate, after I pick up a friend at the Notting academy, we will go straight to the capital, Heaven Dou city."

"Young master, I won't leave you. It is too dangerous."

Ghost knew that Tang Hao's son was there, and the young master might conflict with him because of Tang Hao. Then wouldn't it attract Tang Hao's attention?

Tang Hao was a well-known bully that would attack anyone who had a conflict with the Clear Sky clan back then, no matter how trivial, if the young master fought Tang San, Tang Hao would 100% attack Vaiss.

Ghost was still worried even if Vaiss was fast and could escape easily.

"Don't worry, Grandpa. Trust me, you know my speed, Tang Hao won't be able to touch me."

"...Can't I just follow you in the shadows?"

"No. If Tang Hao really attacks me later, I will run while carrying my friend, it would slow me down if I add you.

And if he knows that the Spirit Hall knows where he is, he will run and hide again, it will be hard to toy with him. So, you can't appear in front of him."

"This…Understood, please be careful, young master."

"I know, Bye bye."

Vaiss left the hotel and walked toward Notting academy. He took out Ah Yin and her plant body lay limp on the vase, she was still in shock.

"Sister, sister."

"..."

Vaiss tried communicating with it telepathically but Ah Yin was motionless like a corpse, if she were in human form, she would be lying on the ground with hollow eyes. Vaiss didn't know what to say to comfort Ah Yin, after all, the hit was too heavy.

Vaiss scratched the back of his head, then he thought maybe talking about Tang San would revive her.

"Sister, right now I'm heading toward the academy where your son is studying."

Ah Yin moved a little and light slowly returned to her eyes.

"...My son, yes, I still have my son."

Vaiss grinned, he was right. But then he felt like a bad guy since he would give her the bad news and deal another mental damage to the already sad Ah Yin. He didn't mind torturing the three hypocrites but he felt really bad when it came to Ah Yin.

But he steeled his heart, it was better to hurt her now than let her die for Tang San. Vaiss would help her recover and compensate her heavily later.

"But, I hope you'll be ready."

Hearing Vaiss's words, Ah Yin became nervous.

"Wh-what do you mean? Did something happen to my son?!"

"No, your son, Tang San, is healthy."

"Then…"

"You see, sister. I already said that I had read about what happened when the Spirit Hall hunts you, and I know that Tang Hao protected him when they were escaping, but just the residual energy of a titled douluo is lethal to a low-level spirit master, do you think a baby would survive?"

"That…"

Ah Yin faltered and didn't know what to say.

"But didn't you say that my son is healthy, that means he's fine, right?"

"That's just it, sister. When I was investigating Tang Hao, Tang San was included in the scope, and I found some bizarre details about him.

Tang San is abnormally mature, he can take care of his father and do chores at the young age of two. He frequently talks about the Tang Sect and wants to rebuild the Tang Sect in this world.

And he has multiple self-created soul skills but no one taught him.

And there is also the fact that he knows how to create things he calls hidden weapons, a weapon with considerable power that can be used without spirit power."

"Ma-maybe he is just that much of a genius?"

Ah Yin didn't have any confidence in her words but she defended her son, bad premonition filled her heart. 

"I won't deny that possibility, but sister, do you know about usurping the body?"

"W-what is that?"

"There is a very rare case where another soul enters a freshly deceased body. 

And I have a suspicion that is what happens to your son. Your original son died that night but another soul took his place."

"No! No! I don't believe that!"

Ah Yin yelled hysterically, she was already hit by the fact that her husband killed her, she couldn't take it if she also lost her son. And imagining others occupying her son's body was too much for her.

Vaiss pitied her and felt even worse.

"One of the reasons I'm going is to make sure whether it is true or not. If it was false, then I will not do anything to him, as long as he doesn't do anything stupid. The grudge between Tang Hao and Spirit Hall does not include him or you.

But if it was true, then I'll help your son's body rest peacefully.

If you want to know, then you can attach yourself to me and see it for yourself."

Vaiss knew that she could leave the soil for a few days without any side effects at her level.

Ah Yin didn't say anything, she too wanted to know if it was true or not. She still couldn't believe it but Vaiss didn't have any reason to lie to her, Ah Yin moved and turned to a bracelet on Vaiss's right hand.

Vaiss saw Ah Yin on his hand, he smiled and stored the vase in his space ring. 

He didn't lie that he would kill Tang San but he didn't say when he would do it. He wouldn't kill him now, he wanted to toy with him first, and taking Xiao Wu from him was one.

Although Vaiss wasn't interested in Xiao Wu, he felt a little strange since it could be said that he NTR Xiao Wu and gave Tang San a green hat. 

Vaiss easily entered the academy, the guard let him in after Vaiss gave him the gold soul coin he dropped.

Vaiss's handsome appearance quickly drew attention, female students blushed when they saw him while the male hated and envied him.

After asking around, Vaiss found room 7. When he walked there, he found Xiao Wu walking in front of him.

"Stupid Rabbit!"

"What did you say?!"

Xiao Wu turned around angrily but was stunned when she saw Vaiss.

'What a handsome little brother!'

Xiao Wu was staring at Vaiss with a blush, she forgot about the rage from before.

"Stop staring, stupid rabbit, I know I'm handsome but I'm not interested in you."

"Hmph! Who is interested in you! And I have a name, Xiao Wu, not stupid rabbit."

Xiao Wu said but she glanced at Vaiss from time to time.

Cute face and slender legs, if it was others, he might be interested but not Vaiss. He liked her talent but not her, Vaiss liked sexy beautiful big sisters.

"Okay, pack up, I'm here to pick you up. I don't know how you even lasted this long. 

Oh and return the money I lent you."

"Pick me up?

Y-you…Are you Vaiss?"

"Yup."

Xiao Wu looked at Vaiss, she didn't expect he was younger than her. 

Xiao Wu hesitated, she knew that there was a titled douluo nearby, but she was reluctant to leave since she made friends here.

"I know you're reluctant but you will be in danger if you stay here even if you had the necklace, after all, there might be accidents where you lost the necklace or it was broken. At that time, it will be too late if you regret it.

You can meet your friend again after you grow up and you can grow faster if you follow me.

Besides I'll be going to your home, I'm sure you miss your family, you can meet them later."

"...Why do you help me?"

Hearing Vaiss's words, Xiao Wu asked. This was something she wanted to know since she couldn't think just what Vaiss would get for helping her.

"Simple, I fancy your talent and felt a little sorry for you. So I wanted to help you, that's all."

And Vaiss also wanted to see Tang San's face when he saw Xiao Wu leave him. Vaiss felt that he was a villain more and more, but he thought that in this world, he really was the villain for going against the original son of destiny, Tang San.

Xiao Wu lowered her head and stayed silent, but after thinking, she felt that Vaiss was right. And she thought that if Vaiss had any bad intentions, he could just send a titled douluo to take her away. She knew that Spirit Hall had many titled douluo, and since Vaiss was the son of the pope, he could easily order the titled douluo. There was no need to protect her or even come in person.

"Okay, I'll go with you. Wait here, I'll pack up."

"Here, use this. Just input your spirit power to store and take things out."

"Thanks"

Xiao Wu wore the rabbit shaped space ring, she really liked it!

Vaiss had many space rings. He found that he could create items with space law after his [Space Mastery] reached level 1, but he had a limit of a two-story house-sized space. And he couldn't create a space ring that can store living things.

Xiao Wu quickly packed her things and said farewell to her friends, the two then went to report Xiao Wu's withdrawal from the academy.

But midway, they were stopped by a boy that was frowning at Vaiss.

"Xiao Wu, who is he?"

Vaiss grinned.

'Here comes the two-faced future Ashura god.'