Chapter 25 The Room at the End of the Corridor

The Cat Boss restaurant, in a room at the deepest part of the second-floor hallway.

Today's aromatherapy was a blend of lavender, sweet orange, and vetiver.

Lavender helps with sleep and relieves anxiety, sweet orange can uplift the mood, and vetiver further enhances relaxation. This combination is beneficial for relieving the day's stress and promoting deep sleep.

Since Hyperion moved into Talia's house, she noticed Hyperion's poor sleep and always changed the aromatherapy at home to a more comfortable combination.

But.

For the two people in Talia's house at this moment, their moods were far from calm.

Accompanied by an explosive bang full of gunpowder, the wide work table fell silent again.

"It exploded again."

Talia stared deathly at Lan Qi.

"No, bro..."

Lan Qi looked away, as if he had some resentment but couldn't express it.

"Tell me, what do you want to say?"

Talia tapped the table and asked.

"...I think you're a bit humorous."

Lan Qi pouted and muttered.

"Say that again."

"I won't say it."

Talia unilaterally reprimanded Lan Qi at the table.

Lan Qi wanted to retort, but he didn't dare.

The time was already three or four in the afternoon.

The Cat Boss looked at the two people next to the table. Now it was no longer as shocked by Lan Qi's card explosions as it had been at the beginning.

Maybe it was used to Lan Qi, or maybe it was used to watching him make cards next to him.

But Tata's teaching of Lan Qi's card-making was always in the style of a demon teacher, and she would never allow Lan Qi to explode cards randomly, especially in her house.

It lay on the ground, listening to the two people reviewing.

The glass skylight near the roof's sloping beams filled the room with warm afternoon sunlight. A few simple green plants and a stack of books were placed on the windowsill, and the lush trees and mountain-like layered buildings outside the window formed a serene watercolor painting.

Even the drowsiness of Sunday afternoon nap time couldn't help but make the Cat Boss yawn.

It didn't know why these two people could still be so energetic, or whether these two people always seemed to have endless vitality when they were together.

"Meow."

The two of them began trying to make cards together this morning. After going downstairs for lunch at noon, they came back and continued working.

However.

The collaboration between these two people basically failed to pass the second step of card-making.

Apart from the step of preparing materials, which was barely okay, the subsequent steps could no longer be described by luck. It could be said that the rhythm and pace were completely out of sync. When Tata wanted to go east, Lan Qi was definitely thinking west.

The Cat Boss saw that the two people had not only made no progress in the afternoon, but had instead become more difficult. It couldn't help but stand up from the ground and walk to their feet.

"How were you two so in sync at the amusement park last time, meow?"

The Cat Boss asked, looking up in confusion.

"Who knows!"

Lan Qi and Talia answered in unison.

"..."

The Cat Boss could see that they were both a little angry.

Because they didn't think they had done anything wrong, it was completely the other person who was making trouble for them.

What's going on? I'm just a little kitty.

"Why don't you have some afternoon tea before continuing, meow?"

The Cat Boss suggested.

The planned collaboration on card-making was more difficult than they had imagined.

It was completely incompatible.

"Or let's go for a walk. If you keep making cards, I'm afraid you two will start arguing, meow."

The Cat Boss continued in its childish voice.

Although it was hard for it to imagine Lan Qi really getting angry, Lan Qi was likely to have emotions that could be influenced by the Great Love Poet every time he was with Talia.

The two were silent at the table for a moment.

"Let's take a break. I feel like that's enough for today."

Lan Qi rubbed his eyebrows and shook his head, muttering to himself.

"If you just run away like this, what results can you achieve? Weren't you very confident this morning?"

Talia looked at Lan Qi with disdain.

She hated Lan Qi's loose state when making cards. This guy always liked to relieve his own pressure, and that was why his card-making success rate was so low.

"But if we continue like this today, I'm afraid we won't be able to make a single card."

Lan Qi retorted weakly.

Although he had gone through Talia's devil training to achieve his current skills.

But he finally understood that once Talia personally took over, it was several times more severe than before.

"..."

Talia looked at Lan Qi's pitiful appearance and wondered if she was being too harsh.

"I really don't have any experience in collaborative card-making. I haven't even successfully collaborated with my sister a few times. Why don't you ask your Dean of the Magic Engineering Institute if there are any tricks to collaborative card-making?"

She stopped looking at Lan Qi, leaned back in her chair, and said with her arms crossed.

"That's true."

Lan Qi asked the Cat Boss to take out the communication magic card and contacted Professor Polao.

Even though it was the weekend, Professor Polao might still be busy with his magic engineering work. No one answered the call for half a day.

"Speaking of which, isn't Miss Iffatiah very in sync with you either?"

Lan Qi waited for the call to connect and glanced at Talia.

"It's okay, but our magic compatibility isn't good. I'm spirit, she's curse."

Talia murmured.

It wasn't until she used [Demon Fusion] to test her compatibility with Hyperion this morning that Talia realized one thing: her compatibility with Iffatiah probably wouldn't be high either.

Even though Hyperion had half human blood, the demon blood inherited from Iffatiah should have been very compatible with Talia. It shouldn't have been as low as 10%.

She didn't know whether she should be more disappointed or grateful for this result, even though she had long had some vague guesses and doubts in her heart, just like the group of great demons had always questioned.

"So you're primarily spirit and secondarily curse, while your sister is primarily curse and secondarily spirit. Your fighting styles look similar, but they're actually completely different?"

Lan Qi asked doubtfully.

In this world, the thirty-one attributes besides [Fate] and [Foundation] determine the characteristic bonuses and mutual restraints.

Any living being who can possess innate magic must have the attribute of innate magic as their inherent attribute, because innate magic will only be born from the most proficient attribute. For example, Talia's mind-reading talent is the [Spirit] attribute, Antanas's boundary informationization is the [Boundary] attribute, and Pulanae's clairvoyance is the extremely rare [Divination] attribute.

In addition, most living beings will also have an acquired attribute, which will be determined according to the quality and quantity of magic mastered through learning and binding magic cards.

It's also similar to the Great Love Poet's [Spirit] and [Wood] attributes.

"That's right. I told you when I tested your attributes that it's important to understand the enemy's inherent attributes. If you only see the acquired attributes, you'll misjudge the enemy's true system and strength."

Talia looked at him and said,

"For example, if you fight the High Priest Loren for a long time one day and find that the High Priest's [Wind] is just an acquired attribute, and he has never used his inherent attribute against anyone, that will be a very terrifying story."

She used an easy-to-understand example of the strongest person Lan Qi knew.

"Indeed, I deeply understand."

Lan Qi nodded.

A year ago, he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

Until Lao Sang taught him with his life.

"Meow."

The Cat Boss felt that Lan Qi was thinking of that legendary seal master again.

However, since obtaining the inheritance, Lan Qi seemed to be starting to go in Lao Qi's direction.

"Hello? Lan Qi, what's the matter?"

The communication magic card suddenly flashed a trace of purple light, and at the same time, accompanied by a burst of noise, Professor Polao's voice came.

Although Polao didn't like being disturbed when doing research, his voice softened when he found out it was Lan Qi.

"Professor Polao, are there any tricks to collaborative card-making?"

Lan Qi quickly asked.

He could hear the roar of machinery behind the other person, obviously Professor Polao's project was halfway through, and he was disturbing him.

"Card makers who can collaborate need extremely high unity of mind and tacit cooperation."

Professor Polao answered concisely.

"I understand the theory, but..."

"Tell me the specifics."

"It's like this, I have a friend who wants to collaborate on card-making with a girl, but their pace is very inconsistent, and their opinions always diverge. They explode as soon as they make cards. Is there any way to quickly improve their tacit understanding?"

Lan Qi raised his eyes and glanced at Talia, then asked the communication magic card.

"Go on more dates, you haven't been dating enough."

"Goodbye, Professor!"

Professor Polao was interrupted by Lan Qi before he could finish speaking, and he hurriedly said goodbye and abruptly cut off the communication.

"..."

When Lan Qi raised his head to see if Tata had heard him.

He saw Talia lowering her head, not saying a word. The air was terrifyingly silent.

(End of this chapter)