Chapter 306: Carried Away Once Again

Julius groaned face-first into the floor. In typical Julius fashion, he had gotten carried away and attempted to jam even more stuff into his Concepts. Once he had learned how well his Sharpness Concept and [Barrier of Severance] had adapted to the new technique, he tried to use it with his aura skill not long after.

That had proven to be a mistake because almost instantly, his construct exploded right in his face.

Apparently, his spike was not able to handle such strains at this stage. He would definitely need to practice before he could. It was something he should have seen coming as well, because in the case of [Barrier of Severance] and his Sharpness Concept, they already had an established connection with [Armaments of the Arcane]. His skill has used the Concept as a basis for evolving itself into an epic skill, and while he had added additional Concepts later on, there was still an originating connection.

Regardless, he shouldn’t have been surprised when things literally blew up in his face. It was bound to happen, especially after he had gotten so excited.

However, what he hadn’t expected was Lily knocking on the door almost immediately afterward. That was definitely not something he had or could have predicted.

“Julius, open up! I know you’re in there!” He heard her yelling through the door.

Instead of immediately heading over to open the door, he stood there in confusion. How did she know which room he was in? Usually, he had to tell them but she hadn’t asked him.

“Open the damn door, I heard the explosion. You better not be blowing yourself up again!” She scolded him.

“I think you have the wrong room, ma’am,” he said in a high-pitched voice.

For a moment, he thought he might have actually tricked her, but she rapped on the door again. “I can literally feel you in there, Julius. Did you forget that I am a mind mage and an empath?” She said with a fed-up tone.

Shit, I didn’t actually think she could sense me through the enchanted doors though. I would have thought they prevented her psychic abilities from detecting me, he thought to himself.

With a heavy sigh, he got up and staggered over to the door, making sure to put on a new outfit to replace the one that had burn markings all over it. It would hopefully prevent Lily from berating him that harshly, though, to be fair, she hasn’t been nearly as bad as she was before he left Goldencrest.

It would seem that she had somewhat accepted that he would be doing dumb things and mostly just gave him disappointed looks from time to time.

Finally, he opened the door to reveal Lily, looking as pretty as ever. Her blonde hair had this ephemeral glow to it as her violet eyes sparkled in the low light of the hallway. However, it was somewhat ruined by the vexed expression on her face.

“Really?” She said to him.

He shrugged unapologetically. “I didn’t know that you could sense me through the doors.”

“And that makes it better?”

He chose not to answer that. He had learned when her questions were just traps, thus it was better to stay silent. He suspected that this was a trick she learned when doing business for her family.

As she strolled into the training room, he noticed that she was holding a bag in her left hand.

“What is that you have?” He asked curiously.

“Nothing you would find interesting,” she replied.

He looked at the bag once again and noticed that there were some kind of rectangular packages stacked on top of each other. He already had a sneaking suspicion of what was inside.

“Seriously, what is inside?”

“It was for you.”

“For me?” He asked with an excited grin.

“Yeah, emphasis on was,” she said with a meaningful look.

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He gave her a look of bafflement. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“What were you doing in here before I knocked? I heard a loud explosion,” she said with an expectant frown.

He decided to come clean as he thought it was more likely she would give him what was in the bag if he was truthful.

“I was playing with one of my constructs and put too much stuff into it, causing it to explode,” he admitted.

She facepalmed and shook her head. “Why do you keep doing such wildly dangerous experiments? Haven’t you learned your lesson already?”

He shrugged. “You’ve seen my healing skill. I can handle a little damage,” he said to her, trying to reassure her of his safety.