The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 94 - 95: King of Flame Demon Jiang Xiaoding
Chapter 94: Chapter 95: King of Flame Demon Jiang XiaodingJiang Shu looked at her, feeling that Shen Xuwan’s words were verging on boastful. A T1 at the age of 24 was indeed a rare sight in the entire Lonely City.

Moreover, he had witnessed Shen Xuwan’s abilities firsthand, which led him to sincerely admire, ”A T1 at your age is already very remarkable. You have a lot of time, and you will eventually have an epiphany.”

”Thank you,” Shen Xuwan’s voice was still somewhat subdued.

She rarely showed her vulnerable side. Living alone in New Moon Hall, she always appeared unworldly, naturally keeping all external disturbances out of her own world.

Now, having come to Black Currant and stepped out of her comfort zone, she felt anxious.

Unlike Jiang Shu, an outsider, Shen Xuwan was acutely aware that she had hit a bottleneck; if she couldn’t find the right path, she would likely be stuck at T1 forever, and might even fall in rank.

”Maybe, Su Xiaoou was right.” Jiang Shu recalled the first lesson Shen Xuwan gave to Su Xiaoou, ”Art needs to connect with life; you probably haven’t experienced enough.”

”Were you eavesdropping on my class?” Shen Xuwan turned her head, her eyes filled with suspicion.

Jiang Shu: ”...”

So can your focus not be so weird every time!

”But, you make a lot of sense.” Shen Xuwan suddenly smiled, ”I’m not thinking about practicing music for now.”

Jiang Shu looked at her. She was like a serene ice lake isolated in the midnight, her entire being enveloped in a clarity that rivaled the moonlight.

So he pondered for two seconds before continuing, ”It’s okay if you don’t want to practice, but you still have to perform. You’re my cash cow now.”

Shen Xuwan: ”???”

”All right... boss,” she said slowly, sweeping her melancholic gaze over Jiang Shu.

”Cough cough.” Jiang Shu cleared his throat twice, capturing Shen Xuwan’s attention, and then said, ”After this trial period, the head of the Magic Troupe is very satisfied and specially appoints Miss Shen Xuwan as the sound effects designer for the Magic Troupe.”

”Will I be paid?” Shen Xuwan looked at him with interest.

”Yes, you’ll get paid in Black Silver,” Jiang Shu gritted his teeth, making a significant investment.

Let’s be real, adding special sound effects to magic makes the atmosphere beyond amazing, and it certainly dazzles the audience.

”Paid monthly?”

Jiang Shu, without hesitation, ”Paid per show.”

Shen Xuwan gave him a disdainful look, ”Stingy.”

She understood that Jiang Shu didn’t perform every week, and even if he did, it wasn’t a given that she was needed for the performance.

”It’s too expensive to support,” Jiang Shu said with a pained expression.

Black Silver was so valuable that it couldn’t be bought with money. He wouldn’t have hired Shen Xuwan if he hadn’t been intent on perfecting every single detail.

”Too expensive to support and yet you still hire me?” Shen Xuwan lifted her head, prideful, with her delicate chin’s contour very pretty.

”Let’s just give it a try.” Jiang Shu took a step back towards the Black Currant Theater, ”Let’s go, it’s getting late. Let’s head back.”

——

Inside the Magic House.

”So, after drawing lots, the ownership of the ’Flame Spirit’ Derivative Entry goes to Jiang Xiaoding,” Jiang Shu raised Jiang Xiaoding’s hand.

Ding: smile gradually becoming eerie.GIF

After repeated consideration, Jiang Shu still decided to let the Tablet Spirits use the ”Flame Spirit.”

Firstly, there were three Derivative Entries with damaging abilities. ”Shadow Cutting” and ”Paper Card Technique” made up a small combo that definitely couldn’t be separated. And the ”Paper Card Technique” had key survival moves that he had to keep for himself.

Secondly, the consumption of ”Flame Spirit” was terrifyingly high. Although its destructive power was astounding, Jiang Shu simply didn’t have the capital to use it; he had to hope that the Tablet Spirits could upgrade their battery life and maybe get some power banks.

Lastly, if he were to control flames, discerning individuals might become suspicious; but if the Tablet Spirits used it, as long as it wasn’t too much, most people would probably think it was just high-tech, right?

Xiaoding jumped around excitedly, a command issued and flames appeared around it, wrapping tightly around its body—Fire Claw, Fire Armor, two reddish Demon Horns—it’s small bun-like feet locked in, replaced by a vortex of flames for its lower half.

The flames roared on its body but it didn’t feel any discomfort.

The ”Flame Spirit” entry also simulated ”The owner’s flames cannot harm the original host” as a special trait.

Looking at Xiaoding growing more unrestrained, Jiang Shu revealed a helpless expression.

So you’re the ”King of Flame Demon Ragnaros”?

But Jiang Xiaoding looked both fierce and cute at the same time, quite a nice design.

The next second, Xiaoding reverted back to a Tablet Spirit, and in just those few seconds, its power dropped by two percent.

The power consumption is a bit too fast, isn’t it?

”Right.” Jiang Shu remembered something about the Tablet Spirits, ”Don’t you all have a Derivative Entry that lets you repair your companions?”

A: Repair companions?

B: We can repair companions without a Derivative Entry too.

As soon as the comments were sent, the four Tablet Spirits started fighting, with punches and kicks flying everywhere. In the end, the battle concluded with Jiang Xiaoding cheating and threatening with fire.

Jiang Shu: ”...”

Are you freaking kidding me, repairing your companions?

”Can the batteries be replaced?” he asked directly, not wanting to beat around the bush with the Tablet Spirits.

The four Tablet Spirits looked at each other with their cameras, showing four puzzled faces, shaking and nodding their heads for a while, and after a brief exchange, they all looked at Jiang Shu.

A, B, C, Ding (shaking heads): No, we are noble integrated tablets.

”Speak human language.” Jiang Shu said with a dark face.

A: Can’t be modified, batteries can’t be removed either, try asking Kirie.

B: Or just go straight to Sister Su.

”Uh...” Jiang Shu pondered for a bit, then sent a message to Kirie.

Jiang Shu: The four tablets, I want to upgrade their batteries to increase their capacity, can you do it?

Kirie: ...Show me their specs.

Jiang Shu took a screenshot and sent it to Kirie, quickly receiving a reply.

Kirie: Their battery capacity is already quite high, increasing it further would require technological innovation. Plus, they are integrated, without knowing the internal structure, disassembling could cause irreparable damage.

Jiang Shu: Fine, then are there any high-capacity portable chargers?

Kirie: We have those, you need one? I can make some, small size and large capacity, better than what’s on the market.

Jiang Shu: Great.

Hiss—

Wait a second.

Jiang Shu suddenly remembered that one day he saw the Tablet Spirits playing poker, and their chips seemed to be disposable batteries...

”What are you doing with disposable batteries? You can’t install them.” He cast a hawk-like glance, staring at the four Tablet Spirits.

A: They’re for chips.

”Just for chips? Then why don’t you use something else?” Jiang Shu suspiciously eyed them, then looked at the youngest, little Ding, ”You tell me, what are they really for?”

Little Ding glanced at his second brother, little B, seemingly wanting to communicate through eyes, but was discovered by the ever-vigilant Jiang Shu, who immediately stopped him: ”Confession gets leniency, resistance gets severity.”

So little Ding demonstrated for him. It took out a battery, then pulled out a metal plug from a slot on its side, and directly connected it to the positive and negative ends of the disposable battery.

Jiang Shu understood the concept of a short-circuiting battery.

When the battery short-circuited, the current surged and flowed into little Ding’s body. It vibrated suddenly, collapsed on the table, and occasionally twitched.

Ding: white_eye.JPG

Jiang Shu: ”...”

”Whose freaking idea was this?” He immediately looked at little B, who was the prime suspect.

At that moment, little C tugged at his sleeve and eagerly showed him a video, which featured little B.

There it was, nonchalantly approaching little Ding, with a small briefcase under its arm, a disposable battery peeking out from the briefcase, and a line of comments on the screen:

”Yo, isn’t that little Ding? Fancy a jolt?”