211: A scarred teenager

Chapter 211 A Thousand-Scarred Youth

After several explanations, Xiao Nai understood the effect of Soul Control, but instead of marveling at the magic's profundity, she unpromisingly suggested that Dick could help her with her exams.

"Dick, with you here, I can get perfect scores on all my final exams from now on, hahaha..."

"I won't waste time doing such boring things," Dick shook his head gently, then added, "Instead of using Soul Control to cheat on exams, I can directly have Your Majesty give you a perfect score."

Efficiency has always been Dick's guiding principle. What's the difference between using Soul Control to cheat on exams and using a cannon to swat a mosquito?

Isn't it just a perfect score on an exam? It's a matter of a single sentence!

"Wow, that's great. I haven't studied much this semester, and I was worried about failing the theoretical exam..."

In fact, Xiao Nai is very smart, but she spent a lot of time making money, skipping classes was commonplace, and she didn't review at all.

Despite this, Xiao Nai was still able to pass every subject. In this regard, she was much stronger than Beyonce.

The reason Orcs are discriminated against, besides their appearance, is also largely related to their savage, vulgar, and low-intelligence characteristics.

Although there are indeed intelligent and elegant Orc races, once prejudice is formed, it is difficult to reverse.

Failing subjects would lead to make-up classes during the holidays, but Dick wasn't worried about this. Anyway, he would soon be taking the women to leave the Aimiya Empire.

In this life, Dick had already delayed too long in the Northern part of the continent. Afterwards, he would continue heading North to the Eternal Frost Forest to obtain Vivian's sacrificial kiss.

Due to the existence of the System, Dick's trajectory in this life was completely different from before.

Originally, in the previous ninety-nine lives, Dick would have been already pursuing Isurna at this time.

Speaking of which, every time Dick was reborn before, he would give the precious chance for the one and only Soul Contract to Isurna.

After all, she was the woman with the greatest luck in the world, and also the strongest Witch and the strongest Hero. Isurna was the biggest unstable factor.

With the experience of many lives, Dick had long since concluded that Isurna could only be an ally, not an enemy.

And the best way to be an ally was undoubtedly the Soul Contract.

Starting from the sixty-sixth life, Dick's beginning was pursuing Isurna, and subsequently forming a Soul Contract with her.

In the following dozens of lives, Isurna never betrayed him once. Besides the powerful effect of the Soul Contract, Isurna herself was also a woman who would be loyal until death.

For a long time, Isurna was always the white moonlight in Dick's heart, his most solid spiritual pillar.

Interests were intertwined; anyone could backstab Dick, but only Isurna would not.

Even if Dick were an enemy of the whole world, Isurna would stand by Dick's side, never leaving.

But in the ninety-ninth life, which was the previous life, Isurna betrayed him.

She didn't know how she managed to find Anopis, the God of Contracts, and unilaterally dissolve the Soul Contract.

Then, on the bed, Isurna, with tears in her eyes, pierced her own heart with a dagger.

Thinking of this, Dick's usually still eyes, extremely rarely, showed emotional fluctuations.

Even now, Dick still hasn't moved on. The greatest pain in the world is the betrayal of one's white moonlight.

Even now, Dick still hasn't figured out why Isurna would betray him.

More than immense hatred, Dick wanted to go back to the previous life and question Isurna face-to-face.

Why... would she be filled with tears, wearing an expression of utter grief.

If Isurna's expression had been cold, her eyes filled with hatred, Dick would have been relieved instead.

After all, Dick had seen too many dramas where people killed their loved ones for profit, and had even become accustomed to it.

But precisely, Isurna was crying so hard she was a tearful mess at the time.

She held his dying body and wept sorrowfully, still crying until the very last second of his breath...

"Dick, what's wrong? Your expression is so scary..."

Xiao Nai cupped Dick's face with both hands and asked with some concern. It was the first time she had seen the young man's eyes waver.

It was clear that Dick gave her the feeling of remaining expressionless even when mountains collapsed before him, and only sneering even if the world were destroyed.

"Nothing," Dick directly pushed Xiao Nai down, the wavering in his eyes disappearing. "You performed very well just now, now it's reward time."

"Dick..."

Xiao Nai didn't resist anything; she just felt a little heartache.

Because for a brief moment just now, Xiao Nai seemed to see a different Dick – a frail young man who was tattered all over and covered in scars.

"Dick, come on..."

Looking at Xiao Nai, who held out her hands like an older sister, Dick's expression turned cold, and he whispered, "You should worry about yourself first."

...

The next morning, Xiao Nai woke up from bed, turned around, and saw that Dick was already gone, while a steaming hot breakfast was placed on the table.

Xiao Nai slowly sat up, tidied her messy brown short hair, and showed a lazy, silly smile on her face.

Although last night was intense, it was the first time she had heard Dick's low growl.

It was clear that before, it had always been Xiao Nai herself who shouted until her voice was hoarse, while Dick was just calm and composed, full of ease.

"Hehehe... I told you there's no such thing as a perfect person in the world."

On the carriage heading to the Royal Palace, Dick observed the streets through the window. He noticed many newly posted notices.

Those were announcements from the Royal Family regarding the "Issuance of National Bonds". Elizabeth's actions were very swift; she was ready to issue national bonds the very next day.

At this time, many commoners were already gathered around the notices, discussing heatedly.

The Royal Capital was the most prosperous city in Amyria. The literacy rate among commoners here was not low, but next to each notice, there was still a knight standing and explaining.

Dick had the coachman stop the carriage and listened for a while.

Elizabeth kept his instructions in mind. The content on the notices and the knight's explanations were easy to understand, and many commoners immediately showed interest.

Dick nodded, didn't stay long, turned around and got back into the carriage, continuing towards the Royal Palace.

But this time he wasn't going to find Elizabeth, but to find Cecilia. It was her turn to sign the Soul Contract.