Chapter 797 Comprehension Test

Chapter 797 Comprehension Test

Empress' Castle, Star Dragon City.
"You're back," were the first words of Mayzin as she saw Lith.
Lith waved at his aunt and replied with a smile, "I hope aunt is in good health."
Mayzin nodded her head. "Aunt sure is. You've made me proud with your ascension."
Dragons loved strength, the Dragon Empress was no exception to this.
If Lith had that one treasure Mayzin was looking for and was stronger than her, she would've immediately kidnapped and married him. That's how much strength mattered and Lucifer wasn't the only one with this mentality.
"I'm glad," Lith said and went to sit in front of her.
Mayzin was in a lavish lounge area, sipping tea and going through some papers.
Lith joined her and got served some tea. He took a sip and asked, "What will you teach me today, aunt?"
Mayzin, still going through the papers, instead of answering, asked, "What do you want to learn?"
"Where am I lacking according to you?" Lith didn't answer her trick question and instead asked another question.
Mayzin was testing his intellect with her question. If he gave a cocky answer or appeared oversmart, she was ready to whack some humbleness and humility into him.
It was not good to act smart while trying to learn something as chances of messing up were way too high.
Lith evaded the question properly and Mayzin was slightly amused by it. Just slightly. This was not any big or worthy achievement for her.
"You lack comprehension." Mayzin gave it straight to Lith. Sure, he did have genius comprehension abilities, but it was not upto her standards.
Lith could probably see what even experts couldn't see in a situation, but he couldn't see everything there was and was bound to miss a few things here and there.
Mayzin wanted him to be capable enough to handle those and overall be well rounded.
It was only natural that Mayzin thought of this since the training Lith got from Lucy and Lilith was quite a long time ago.
Plus, he didn't even have a Magic Core at that time and whatever abilities he may possess now, they needed to be updated again according to his prowess.
Since Mayzin was supposed to teach about crowd control and strengthen Lith's will power, she had to get down to the very basics and target his comprehension capabilities.
As the fault was out in the open, it needed to be fixed and Lith understood and nodded in agreement.
"Finish your tea, we'll leave in a few minutes," said Mayzin and got back to sipping tea and going through the papers.
In the papers, Mayzin was reading through reports of the things happening in her kingdom. She was browsing through them to find something interesting in which she could have Lith take part.
Pretty soon, she found the exact thing she was looking for and once the tea time was over, took Lith to the place of training.
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Somewhere in the Dragon Continent.
In a dark alley, an innocent boy covered by ragged clothes was running away from a group of pursuers.
The boy had horns on his forehead like a usual dragon and the pursuers too were dragons, but in uniforms, chasing the boy.
These were the mortals of the Dragon Continent and not the high ranking immortals.
Normal people lived completely different lives and were actually the ones who made up the major part of the population in this world.
Cultivators were immortals and didn't need offsprings or anything to continue their legacy. They also weren't lonely as they were busy meditating and pursuing their paths.
The population was thus not growing and it was actually on the decline as cultivators were easy to offend and wreaked havoc wherever they wished.
In any case, mortals were more and everything was made to fit their needs.
Immortals were lazy beings and could make do with merely good big trees that provided shade for them to meditate or even a nice branch on which they could sit and avoid all sorts of earthquakes and floods.
Mortals weren't lazy and worked hard. They were also more artistic and creative with their imaginations, thus different types of art and styles were developed too in this world.
The Vampire Continent followed a Victorian Era theme while here in the Dragon Continent, the ones following Mayzin followed typical cultivator themes with only Arya's kingdom having some form of vintage theme to it.
Arya didn't like the bland looks of cultivators and when she took the throne of her kingdom, the dragons naturally followed her and stopped wearing boring clothes.
Dragons under Arya were stylish and more modern than their counterparts in the other two kingdoms.
The alley where the innocent boy was running from the pursuer dragons was at a border city between Mayzin and Arya's kingdoms.
This city was under Mayzin's care for a long while, but after Arya's take over, these guys got influenced over a eight decades and changed their appearances and even dialects into the ones spoken in Arya's kingdom.
The mortal uniformed pursuers were yelling at the innocent boy and asking him to stop running in a mixed old and new dialect.
This made it clear that they were middle-aged and after understanding the fact, the boy ran even faster and eventually jumped over a few walls and then objects and escaped.
The uniformed officers were physically unfit and couldn't chase after him anymore, so they gave up and called for backup.
The boy was running on for dear life and had no idea on how he could shake off these pursuers. There was no escape route he knew of and was now stuck.
Luckily for the boy though, he felt a pale hand on his shoulder and turning around, saw a tall and handsome silver haired guy staring at him.
"Why are you running?"
The silver-haired man, aka Lith, asked the guy.
The guy had no idea how to respond, so he simply answered, "Kill they. Me. After bag."
The boy tried his best to speak the old dialect from Mayzin's era and make Lith understand that he was no suspicious person and was actually the victim these guys were trying to scam and bully.
The boy handed out the bag to Lith and looking into it, he saw a few low level artifacts.
They were low level but definitely useful for mortals as they could fetch enough money to take someone out of poverty and put them on a big pedestal.
Lith turned to the innocent boy and instead of diving right into the topic, he first asked sweetly, "Your name?"
The boy answered Eldo in a timid manner and after knowing his name, Lith talked to him a similar fashion as to how one would talk to a child.
"Are you alone?"
"Did you get lost?"
"Are you fine now or did you injure yourself?"
"How did this bag end up with you?"
"Why were there pursuers?"
The list went on and on.
Lith maintained a calm demeanor throughout despite finding the situation annoying. He didn't like to talk so softly and sweetly, but it was training time now and he had to go through everything his aunt had planned for him.
After the tea session was over, he was teleported to some alley and here he saw this innocent boy running.
The people chasing and the boy both seemed weak though and Lith understood from here that he had to solve things with his brain and not brawn.
He had the ability to kill them all with just the flick of his finger, so flicking or killing probably was prohibited and Lith had to go through things without magic.
Lith continued on with his journey despite finding this stuff boring.
He asked the boy many questions and the boy answered them all honestly… Almost honestly, that is.
"If you lie to me again, I'll kill you," said Lith as he stared into the boy's eyes.
The boy trembled under the pressure from Lith, but still said, "I have no idea, sir…"
Lith didn't even know how many times this annoying kid had said this by now. He wanted to punch him, but couldn't do so as he was bound.
If this boy was killed, Lith might probably fail his comprehension test that his aunt gave him.
This was less of a test and more of an observation thing. He had to observe each and everything without meddling too much and then whenever his aunt wished, she could come and ask him questions.
That was about it for this test.
Lith couldn't simply observe from afar as that would take a lot of time. He thus turned into a detective type personality and asked the boy questions while also comforting him to have him speak out some more.
The boy eventually told Lith that he had found this bag by the side of an old street where he regularly visits. There was also a weird stench coming from this area and once the boy went to the foul smelling spot, he found someone buried deep in the ground.
The boy was scared and ran away, eventually he was met by the patrolling securities who happened to know something regarding this situation and were now following them.
After knowing all of this, Lith scrunched his nose slightly and thought to himself, 'What sort of situation is this even… What can I even comprehend from this…'