Chapter 78
In the morning, Michelle felt too lazy to get up and remained in bed, her face buried in the pillow. She felt Cold Flame’s gaze on the back of her head as he observed her, clearly still thinking about what she had done during the night. She turned her head to the side a bit and opened one of her eyes to look at you. "Is it still annoying you so much...?" she asked lazily.
Cold Flame stared at her for a moment longer before answering: "No!" He shook his head. "I’m just wondering... Why did it take you so long to realize that you weren’t supposed to push against the twists, but that instead you should have gotten in harmony with the space? Most of the time, you are smart, but yesterday, you were just stupid!"
Hearing Cold Flame’s words, Michelle arched an eyebrow. "Are you insulting your contract master now...?" she propped her head up on the palm of her hand as she finally opened both eyes, with a sneer on her lips.
"Yes!" Cold Flame flapped his wings and flew over to the headboard of the bed, landing there gracefully. "I’m accusing you of stupidity!"
Michelle’s sneer widened, and before Cold Flame could react, he found himself bound by a black chain, with golden streaks on it, dragging him towards Michelle. "Hey! You can’t use your soul energy as you like! That’s dangerous since your soul leash is the binding chain!" he protested.
But Michelle shrugged. "I would have to use it a hundred times with the power equivalent to the power of a Paragon-level Emperor ranker, but now, I am not even using the power equivalent to a Spirit ranker, so I would have to use it around 10 billion times to reach the power equivalent of an Emperor ranker since the difference between a Paragon level of one rank and the Junior level in the rank above it is around 100-fold." She clearly didn’t care much about the binding chain, since she had it under perfect control.
Soul energy was something that defied the realm restrictions, so if she trained enough, she would be able to use the power equivalent to an Emperor ranker, but she didn’t really want to. She remembered how ruthless the Archduke’s training was, and though she was thankful for it, she didn’t want to repeat it right away, when she had just stopped the day before.
Seeing Michelle’s nonchalance and laziness, Cold Flame knew she had things under control, so he just sighed. "Michelle, get rid of these chains!" he said after a while, not liking being restrained. "Or I’ll take on my full form!"
Michelle knew that Cold Flame’s full form was probably huge and that its bare size would destroy a big part of the mansion, so she temporarily surrendered and retracted her soul energy, the black chains. "Don’t insult your contract master..." she sat up slowly as she spoke, stretching her arms in front of her. Winter was starting, and she always kept all the windows in her room open, so the temperature was perfect for her cold body. Refreshingly cooling.