Devil’s Son-in-Law

slowly feel and improve under the influence of this great environment.

To be precise, I need to increase his reading volume now.
Regardless of whether he understands it or not, get him to remember it first now.
One day he will be able to grasp the true essence of mechanic independently.
Taking a step back, just the accumulation of knowledge from that kind of material books can make the function of the “magic eyes” more accurate and complete. Turia was quite dedicated to nurturing his apprentice.

Masters could bring their disciples into the second floor of the Book Collection Hall to browse for free while ordinary mechanics needed to spend contribution points.
As for the third floor, even masters needed to spend a lot of contribution points.

The second level had fewer books and materials than the first level, but the content was relatively more formal, incisive and advanced.
Chen Rui was still flipping through every book he came across at high speed.
Although this bizarre sight had attracted the attention of many mechanics, with Master Turia by his side, most of those people thought it was a “special task” arranged by him, so they did not step forward to ask.
They watched him for a while and didn’t pay too much attention after that.
After all, they were spending contribution points to be here.

“Turia, this is your new disciple?” A cold voice sounded.
It turned out to be a woman in a black robe who was wearing glasses.
Her face was pretty, and she was tall and thin.
However, her face was cold, as if everyone owed her millions of black crystal coins.

Chen Rui glanced at the master level badge on the woman’s chest, then he looked at the girl who followed behind her.
She was actually Beluan.
Beluan once mentioned that in addition to leather, she had a higher talent of proficiency in accessories, so she worshipped another master of the Bloody Empire Mechanic Association, Mavinna, as her teacher.

The registrant Anracca was good friends with Chen Rui now.
The self-proclaimed “enthusiast”, who claimed to be the association’s know-it-all, had revealed a lot of gossip news.
Mavinna, a veteran master of accessories, was well-known for her cold face and weird temper.
She was one of the most difficult people to deal with.

When Turia saw Mavinna, he quickly got up from his seat and smirked, “It turns out to be Master Mavinna .Richard, come here and meet Master Mavinna.”

Chen Rui walked up and bowed to Mavinna, “Master Mavinna.”

Mavinna ignored Chen Rui.
Her gaze turned to the wine bottle in Turia’s hand, and she frowned in disgust, “The smell of wine on you seems to be getting heavier!”

For some reason, Turia, who was usually carefree, seemed timid in front of Mavinna.
He said with guilt, “This is the Dark Shadow Empire’s specialty purple berry wine brought by Richard…”

Mavinna glared at Chen Rui and snorted.
Just as she was about to speak, another eccentric voice sounded, “I see.
No wonder Master Turia will accept an apprentice.
It turns out that you have accepted his wine.”

This voice made Turia’s face suddenly become cold, “Juliet, how I accept my apprentice is my business.
Who are you to give pointers?”

The situation seemed to become more interesting.
Chen Rui had heard of this Juliet.
He was also a senior master in the association who specialized in metal proficiency.
Judging from the gossip of the enthusiast, Juliet was interested in Master Mavinna, but unfortunately she wasn’t interested at all.
Perhaps due to Beluan, the cold-faced lady seemed to show special attention to the Alcoholic Turia.

There was no room for 2 tigers in one mountain unless one was male and another was female.
There was obviously one more male tiger now.
Between the 2 males with normal orientation, they naturally were deadly opponents who fought with each other.

“It really doesn’t matter to me how you accept apprentices, but as you know, I also accepted an apprentice, Aucklo, recently.
There should be some competition between young people to make progress.
Why not let them compete and learn from each other.
Well, if I lose, I will give you 5,000 contribution points… Oh, I almost forgot, it seems that you only have a little more than 1,000 contribution points left as you have been drinking in the past few years.
Poor fellow… How about you only need to pay 1,000 points if you lose.
I let you take advantage of me.
How about that?”

Juliet’s words were full of sarcasm.
He intended to belittle Turia in front of everyone, especially Mavinna.
Turia was so angry that his nose became redder, but he knew that Aucklo was a genius who had been praised by President Nate.
“Richard” could not compare to him at all.
It seemed that he could only swallow the bitter pill.

“Why? Are you so timid that you dare not even to compete?”

Juliet was still aggressive.
Beluan squeezed her fists angrily when seeing her father being humiliated like that.
Her face flushed, but even she was not Aucklo’s opponent, let alone “Richard”.

At this time, Chen Rui suddenly said, “By the way, teacher, didn’t you say you want to take me to the third floor of the Book Collection Hall? Someone just happened to give us the contribution points now!”

Earning contribution points was not easy even for a master.
Turia promised to bring Chen Rui up to check out the third floor for a few days after some time.
It seemed that he was willing to sacrifice for this apprentice.
Chen Rui was not a person who didn’t know how to differentiate the good from the bad.
He still knew the principle of gratitude to “repay more than received”.
Since Juliet had offered his points now, he could just borrow it to win Turia’s favor.

Turia was taken aback as his newly-accepted disciple continued to say, “Then Master Ju [1], I have only become a disciple for a short time, so my teacher only taught me a little equipment appraisal.
Do you dare to compete with this? Sorry, I came from a village and I am not eloquent.
Please forgive me, master.”

In fact, if Chen Rui demonstrated his true abilities, he would definitely humiliate Aucklo and even Juliet himself.
He was only limited by his current identity.
However, the talent of his “magic eyes” alone was enough to teach them a lesson.

“Hmph! If your teacher has the guts, let us see your newly-learned appraisal technique!” Juliet sensed this bold little mechanic’s rude attitude seemed intentional. He is a villager indeed.
He has never heard of Aucklo’s name.

Aucklo is an uprising metal and accessory duo-specialized mechanic genius.
He has a very unique understanding of materials.
Appraisal is originally one of his strengths.
This little mechanic who doesn’t know the world suggested to compete in appraisal, he is really digging his own grave.

The eyes of the father and daughter of Turia were bright at the same time. I never expected that “Richard” actually has this kind of quick-witted means.
All of a sudden, he dragged the competition to the only aspect that he is best at.
With remarkable magic eyes talent, we will surely earn 5,000 contribution points.

Turia was not a fool.
He rolled his eyes and pretended to blame Chen Rui with a look, then looking at Mavinna again.
He gritted his teeth, “Who has no guts! Bring it on!”

“Okay! Master Mavinna and everyone present today are witnesses of this competition!” Juliet was overjoyed, but he didn’t know that he had dug a hole for himself, and he was going in step by step.

[1] Ju is the same pronunciation as pig in Chinese.

Hmm… they didn’t know this “Richard” would disappear again once he achieved his objective…