Chapter 180: The Girl with the Birthmark

“Hehe, I even dare to smash the Imperial Palace, you count for nothing!” Old Xie said, directly throwing the Manager out.

The poor Manager crashed through the exquisite wooden carved door, then rolled all the way onto the street, his body covered with cuts from wood splinters, blood flowing freely, plus several bones were also broken, so much so that he was teary-eyed from the pain and cried out loud on the spot.

Just then, the Guards in the shop were also alerted and ran over one after another to deal with Old Xie. However, just as Old Xie was planning to stretch his muscles properly, an extremely majestic voice suddenly shouted: “Stop!”

Everyone turned to look and saw a handsome young man, surrounded by some people, walking out from the private room upstairs. Old Xie knew at a glance that the fight today couldn’t happen, because he recognized the leading young man; it was the Third Prince Karapani of the Griffin Kingdom.

Seeing Karapani arrive, the Manager immediately felt full of strength all over, and disregarding his injuries, scrambled in front of Karapani and cried: “Respected Highness, you saw it yourself, this barbaric fellow actually dared to commit violence in your presence!”

“All right, all right! It was just a misunderstanding!” Karapani smiled very gently, and then said, “This is the hero of our Griffin Kingdom, the direct heir of the Stephen Family. As a Great Noble with a history of several hundred years, how could he be an unreasonable person?”

“This~” When the Manager heard this, he finally understood Old Xie’s identity. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat, scared quite badly by Old Xie’s notorious reputation for liking to kill. He thought to himself, this guy killed the father of the Augustus Family Clan Head’s concubine over a single sentence; wouldn’t killing me be as easy as killing a chicken?

“All right, you go down and treat your injuries first. I’ll handle things here!” Karapani said to the Manager with a smile.

“Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!” The Manager immediately said to Karapani with extreme gratitude. After speaking, he left with the support of his subordinates.

Old Xie, as a sharp observer, watched coldly from the side and immediately saw through Karapani’s little trick to win people’s hearts. Although Old Xie was very disdainful of this, he had to admit that this Karapani was not simple. At the very least, he was very deep and calculating. Coupled with his family background, he could probably already be considered the most ideal candidate for the Throne. His own fiancée, whom he had not yet met, was probably no match for this kid.

After Karapani sent the Manager away, he said to Old Xie with exceptional politeness, “Hehe, what wind brought you here today?”

“I was just gathering with two friends. I didn’t expect to run into such a thing!” Old Xie said with a wry smile and shook his head. Then he directly said, “I still have things to do, so I will take my leave now!” After speaking, Old Xie left very straightforwardly.

Karapani originally wanted to use this opportunity to get close to Old Xie, but he didn’t expect the other party to be so disrespectful, leaving just like that and completely ignoring him. His face immediately turned a little ugly. However, in order to maintain his demeanor, he held back and did not get angry.

But his subordinates couldn’t hold it back. A few impulsive guys even planned to go over and teach Old Xie a lesson. But they were directly stopped by Karapani reaching out his hand.

A guy with a very hot temper couldn’t help but complain, “Your Highness, this bastard is too arrogant. He simply doesn’t put you in his eyes! How can you remain indifferent? As long as you nod, we will immediately teach him a severe lesson!”

“He does more than just not put me in his eyes. This kid even dares to quarrel with Father Emperor and fight with the Elf Prince Arthas, dismantling the Imperial Palace. And he’s still fine, isn’t he?” Karapani said somewhat helplessly, “Forget it, let him go!”

Hearing Karapani say this, the others had no choice but to endure this anger depressingly. However, although Karapani endured it on the surface, a surging anger ignited in his heart. He thought, ‘Damn bastard, one day, I will make you know the consequences of offending me!’

…

Speaking of Old Xie, after leaving that hotel, he casually rented a carriage on the street and hurried towards the Academy. After driving for a while, the carriage arrived at the town at the foot of Academy Mountain. But just at this moment, the carriage stopped. At the same time, a burst of noisy sounds came from outside. There were arrogant jeers and also the screams of a girl.

Old Xie immediately frowned and looked out through the car window. He saw seven or eight Noble disciples surrounding a little flower-selling girl in the middle of the road, harassing her. While saying obscene words, they were groping her body non-stop.

The poor little girl couldn’t block so many perverts’ harassing hands with just her two hands. She was really taken advantage of quite a bit. Only then did she let out screams, and tears of shame and anger also flowed from her eyes. Although there were many people watching around, no one dared to help her. There was no helping it; who asked for the people harassing her to be a group of Nobles with status?

“Young Master, I’m truly sorry. The road ahead is blocked!” The carriage driver explained to Old Xie helplessly.

“Hmph!” What Old Xie hated seeing the most was this kind of trash that only bullied the weak. He just let out a cold snort, and then directly waved his arm lightly.

Subsequently, people heard a boom. A Lightning bolt struck down from the sky and hit the leading Noble youth heavily. It electrocuted that kid until his whole body was Charred on the spot. A smell of burnt meat spread out. Then, he fell straight to the ground, maintaining the posture of reaching out his hand. There was even a trace of a weird lewd smile on his face.

This sudden disaster immediately stunned those bad guys. They were all scared pale and hurriedly looked around. They soon discovered Old Xie, who had attacked. They all looked at him with extremely puzzled expressions, not understanding why this person would attack a Noble for a commoner. In their view, harassing a commoner was not a big deal at all. Even if they killed her, they would just have to pay some money. It shouldn’t result in being electrocuted into Charcoal. A Mage who knew magic was absolutely not a fool. How could he make such a low-level mistake? Did they meet a fool?

Old Xie didn’t care about this and directly cursed, “Still not getting lost? Are you waiting to die?”

Only then did the few Noble disciples wake up. One of them just wanted to curse angrily but was immediately pulled back by another partner. Then that person said in horror, “This is Little Stephen. I’ve seen him beat up Prince Mark’s son!”

Another person also said, “I’ve also seen him fight with the Little Princess. I was almost hurt by mistake back then. Let’s scram. This guy can’t be provoked!”

The others also looked terrified after hearing this. They didn’t dare to talk nonsense anymore and hurriedly carried their fallen companion and ran away in a sorry state.

Seeing them fleeing in panic, Old Xie cursed disdainfully, “A bunch of trash!”

Then he instructed the carriage driver, “Keep going!”

“Yes, Young Master!” The carriage driver immediately agreed happily. Being able to see the villains get punished, he was also very happy in his heart.

But just at this moment, a soft voice sounded tremblingly, “Please wait a moment, okay?”

The carriage stopped again. Old Xie stuck his head out a little impatiently once more. But unexpectedly, what welcomed him this time was a beautiful fresh flower and the grateful smiling face of a little girl.

“This is for you, as thanks for saving me!” The tears on the flower-selling girl’s face hadn’t dried yet, but she smiled extremely sincerely.

Old Xie had killed people and looted countless times in his two lifetimes, but this was the first time he was given flowers so gratefully. In fact, he didn’t expect a reward for saving her; he just simply couldn’t stand watching. Moreover, in his mind, whenever victims encountered this kind of thing, they would always take the opportunity to flee. It was rare for someone to specifically come to thank him.

But the little girl in front of him was obviously an exception. Her pure heart hadn’t been polluted by the filth of this secular world. That extremely pure gaze made Old Xie’s stone-like heart feel a trace of warmth.

“Thank you!” Old Xie reached out and took the flower. Then he tossed a Gold Coin into the flower-selling girl’s basket. This was the smallest unit of currency on him. In fact, if he wasn’t worried about causing too much trouble for the little girl, he would have even wanted to toss a handful of Gold Coins over.

“Ah, no, no, this is a gift for you. I don’t want money!” The flower-selling girl was obviously scared by Old Xie’s big spending. She hurriedly picked up the Gold Coin and wanted to return it to Old Xie.

“Hehe!” Old Xie smiled slightly and said, “I know the flower is a gift from you, but the Gold Coin is also a gift from me!”

“No, no, I can’t take your Gold Coin for nothing!” When the flower-selling girl said this, her face even showed a trace of fear. Obviously, she had thought of something very bad. She regarded Old Xie as a member of those Nobles, thinking he wanted to use this Gold Coin to buy her body.

Old Xie immediately understood her thoughts and couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Don’t be afraid. I have no other intentions!”

“No!” The flower-selling girl still shook her head firmly, insisting on returning the Gold Coin to Old Xie.