Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin-Chapter 51

To my surprise, no matter how tired I was, I somehow end up waking up in the middle of the night, probably too alert in a strange place to fall into a deep sleep. With a foggy mind and a body embraced by the warmth of the sheets I see no reason as to why move out and not try to go back to sleep, figuring it must have been that I’m just not used to this environment, and perhaps my body had been on alert even while asleep, but as soon as I close my eyes again I hear just what had woken me up, a solid knock on the door, soon followed by a familiar voice.

"Young mister, may I have a word with you?" I grunt in my half awaken state as I recognize the cultivator’s voice, and as tempted as I am to simply ignore him, part of me is curious enough to make me sigh and sit up.

"A moment please."

"Of course, sorry to disturb."

I shake my head sideways, trying to chase the drowsiness away, and with a deep breath and some slaps on my face I’m soon awake and aware enough to discover that the little devil that slipped off somewhere in the middle of the night and was nowhere to be found, gone for who knows how long since daylight already shone through the cracks on the window.

Is no surprise that is already daytime since we went to bed very late, but still I’m not happy to be awakened like this, even if the other had been polite thus far, but I at least remember to cover my wings before going to answer the door.

"Thank you for having me young mister, I-" He starts talking the moment I open the door to him without even looking, but once he does he chokes on his words and stare at me for a long time, making me fear for a moment that I forgot to cover my wings or that they were peeking on the sides even if I was sure that I had them covered well, but the next moment that I use my Appraisal to have a look at his status I understand what happened.

Name: Jiang Min

Gender: Male

Race: High Human 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Age: 45

Status: Mesmerized.

Forty-five years old? He looks to be in his twenties at best, even younger with such baby smooth pale face like that, and is the first I see to have a High Human race, perhaps it has something to do with being a cultivator? Is hard to say, and although my Appraisal is still not good enough to show all his information, I let least get enough to understand a few things, especially his status.

Because that reminds me... of a very useless ability of mine.

Captivating Gaze 55

Wait, didn’t it just level up? When? Twenty levels at that, but I haven’t even been using it now, barely seen anyone, leaving the cave only now, how odd... but this is definitely one of the side effects of such passive always working ability of mine, so with an annoyed gaze at the other I close the door back up, and just go back to open it once I have my veil back in place, waiting for the effects to wear out while my sour mood goes down even further when I see a new skill that has popped up beside my gaze.

Mesmerizing Lips 10

...Please stop.

"...What is it?" In the end I have to speak up to break him away from the spell, and as he blinks a few times he finally comes back to it and seems ashamed to be staring at me for so long.

"Ah, sorry, sorry, mind if I came in?"

"I do." Who would in their sane mind invite a stranger into their room, even more after such... reaction to my face.

"Oh, then perhaps downstairs? If we are quick we may still grab some breakfast." It does sound better, in an open place with more people passing by, and even if I was not hungry after eating too much yesterday I still had to put something in my belly to help me recover faster so in the end I follow the cultivator down the stairs, still feeling that their aura is a little bit... too blinding, so thick that I could almost make out the magic that surrounded him like a curving twisting mist.

They do not seem to be as simple people as I thought at first... and not evil intended either at first, but if I could grasp the way to have such thick magic surrounding me too, then I can lend an ear for now.

"Where are the others?" I ask once we sit down and there is no sight of his companions, tea being poured as the cultivator sits on the other side of the table, pulling his long sleeve to the side with his other hand while reaching for the tea, and habitual yet elegant behavior that makes me pay more attention to his mannerism so I could use it later own too.

And yet every move seems staged, well thought, and not at all natural, which only makes me wonder just how many masks is he wearing.

I narrow my eyes at that.

No matter his intentions, on how he plans to use me, I might as well use him back and gather as much information as possible.

After all I’ve been through I will always have my guard up from now on, and the little devil’s words from yesterday do not help my tense self to relax at all the presence of this cultivator.

"Who are you?"

"Pardon me, my name is Master Jiang Min, I’m a cultivator from the Enlightened Sun Bearers Cultivator Realm, one of the peak mountains guarding the path to immortality."

Seems like his kind enjoys using fancy words all around as if it should mean something.

"...Immortality path?" He takes a sip from the round cup before smiling kindly and answering, almost as if expecting the question:

"We cultivators are mortals who work hard and study to transcend our mortal bodies to achieve immortality through many cultivation methods."

"Wait, is that possible?" Immortals? Humans? How so? For all I’ve come to know so far they are one of the races that live the less, but now they can live forever? That strikes me as odd to say the least.

"Ah, yes, but is very hard you see, many try but only a few truly ascend. Is not only a matter of being the strongest you see... but well, is a complicated matter, as if the answer was that easy I’m sure many more would have ascended by now."

"Uhm..." I say. So they are basically chasing something practically impossible? Well, I would call it sounded silly if I did not feel to be in the same shoes as well. It is only a matter of focusing on your objectives... and what are you willing to sacrifice for them.

So I look at this strange person in front of me, trying to look simply curios when I say:

"That’s amazing, how does all of that works? Can you tell me more?"

And that hits the jackpot when a bright smile curves his lips and he says:

"For such a good behaving child like yourself, of course I can!"