RETURN OF THE EMPEROR

CHAPTER 57: GRISTI'S REASONS

Myro stood up while staring at the tens of thousands of this already burning centipede army, while Zhi Li moved his ant and spider spirits to search for the monster cores of these centipedes. After all these centipedes had the strength of Martial Soldiers, so their monster cores were still very useful for Myro and Zhi Li to increase their strength.

Myro now felt a little lucky, if he came here alone then he might not be able to take all of these monster cores. After all, there were tens of thousands of corpses here, it would take too much time to search all of its monster cores. But there was Zhi Li here who had hundreds of fire ant and spider spirits summoned by their queen, therefore the work of collecting this core could be completed in just about 5 minutes.

When the entire monster core of the corpses of these centipedes Zhi Li had already taken, he immediately gave it all to Myro "Teacher, there were about 100 monster cores that we got, he said, while the other bodies then they have absolutely no".

Myro nodded, not strange among the 10,000 monsters then there were only hundreds of monster cores, after all the monster cores were rare and not all monsters had them. This is what makes the monster core more valuable.

After storing all of the monster cores, Myro said "Then we'll be leaving, next you'll have to move more carefully since we don't know if there's a trap or anything on the way".

Then Myro turned to leave, but Zhi Li stopped him "Teacher, wait a minute! Zhi Li might have a way to figure out a trap here".

Before Myro could speak more, Zhi Li had already joined Arachne and spread his net of spiders towards all parts of the tower.

This tower is almost the same as the labyrinth, there are many streets that can make others never find the right way.

"Did he try to spread all his nets in this tower so that he could detect the presence of each trap through the vibrations in his net? Who taught him this ability? Is that Cristi?", thought Myro.

When the entire net was spread, Zhi Li stood up again "Teacher, let's go! I've been able to figure out most of the traps in this tower, but there are possible traps hidden so we still have to be careful".

"Was Kristi teaching you?" said Myro who started walking in the tower, Myro walked while staring at the vibrations on Zhi Li's thread in order to know where the location of each trap was.

Zhi Li who was chasing after Myro nodded without covering up anything "Gristi who taught me, even Kristi is also the one who advised me to follow the teacher to this tower".

"What exactly did he tell you?", Myro asked a little carefully, though Aries said that Cristi was trustworthy but better be careful that Gristi not try to trick her student into framing Myro.

Zhi Li walked over while telling her everything that happened.

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A few days before Myro announced that he was going to the Mille Mundi Tower, Cristi came to meet Zhi Li who was at his home.

"Gristi, why did you come here? I've learned the spider web detection skills you taught me, are you interested in seeing them to the point of coming here?" said Zhi Li who prepared a drink for Gristi as he is his guest now.

Cristi took the glass with a smile, "I didn't come here because of that, but I will tell you that you will go to the Mille Mundi Tower today, there may be no chance to see you".

"I didn't come here for that, but for another matter. Zhi Li, you must follow master on this journey" said Cristi firmly.

"Following teacher? Wouldn't I just disturb him, if I followed the teacher then I just slowed him down to be strong" said Zhi Li rejecting the idea of Cristi, according to Zhi Li he would only slow down Myro as long as he was in.

For Zhi Li, Myro was the most important. Therefore, Zhi Li must have rejected all the things that could harm Myro.

"I have 3 reasons for this" said Cristi who raised her 3 fingers "Reason 1 is that you have learned the Arachne detection net ability, the reason I taught you this ability is so that you can help master. That net detection capability could greatly help the master speed up the resolution of the Mille Mundi Tower problem. Reason 2, during this time then you can try to attract the attention of the master to make the child together-".

Zhi Li immediately blew up the tea he had just drank, he was very surprised at the words of Cristi who was too sudden "What are you saying? Making kids with teachers?".

"That's right, once the master becomes a Martial Emperor then having a child becomes much more difficult. You should have children so that he will not be lonely. Recently, bad news continues to happen to us, namely the death of Lars and the passing of Aries. You must be so devastated that having a child could be good news for a master who is easing some of the burden on his mind right now" said Cristi.

"What's? Aries also disappeared?", asked Zhi Li again surprised, after all Myro never told anyone that Aries disappeared.

"That's not important, listen! You must follow sir! In addition to helping him, you must accompany him so that master does not think too much about this new death. In addition, with children, you can have a successor, you can be the wife of the master" said Cristi.

"What about you? Aren't you also trying to be a teacher's wife?", asked Zhi Li looking at Cristi suspiciously, she didn't believe that she was very good at helping him.

"I am interested in being his wife, but I know that I can't" said Kristi with a sad face.

"Gristi, what exactly have you been hiding from us all this time? Isn't it too hard to hold it alone, you might be able to tell it to me or the teacher. Besides, you haven't told me the 3rd reason, I agreed to come with you but what's the last reason you have so I have to go with the teacher?", asked Zhi Li.

Cristi finished the drink that Zhi Li had prepared for her "Last reason, you don't need to know now, but you'll find out later. Then I'll go first, take care of yourself and the master as long as you're gone".

Without waiting any longer, the figure of Cristi directly left this place.

Zhi Li looked at the suddenly departed Cristi full of weirdness "I really can't understand her thoughts to this day, actually what this woman is planning".

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Zhi Li told Myro all of the events, except for the 2nd reason for having children. However, this reason must be kept secret, lest Myro find out because he must attract the attention of Myro. If Myro already knew it then Myro would definitely not be interested.