Chapter 160
When Michelle finally opened her purple eyes, her long silver hair fell over her face as she sat up, shielding her expression. Alexander could see that her lips were arched into a smile, but unable to see the rest of her face, he couldn’t make out what kind of smile it was. And with the kind of person Michelle was, her smile could mean thousands of things.
Michelle stood up and concealed her smile as she walked towards the door. She didn’t plan to show that smile to Alexander. Because she felt stupid. How could it take her so long to realize something so simple?
She kept her face calm as she prepared to swing the door open. If what she had thought of worked, it would be the last time she needed to do it.
To prepare, she first spread out her void-like spirit energy, creating a big black mist all around her. Some of the mist got under the door and seeped to the other side, where it spread around as much as on Michelle’s side.
Then, Michelle swung the door open, nearly certain it was the last time she was doing it. At the same time, she started moving the void away from the basement, towards the tavern’s ground floor.
In an instant, she felt wet wind brush by her and rush towards the void. The plan worked. Combining science with magic was a good move.
As Michelle moved the void higher and higher up the staircase, she felt the wet wind go after it. But just as the void was about to reach the ground floor, Michelle let it disappear. The tavern was full of people, and it would be dangerous for them if they got exposed to void. So Michelle had to think of a way to get them out of the way. And she had two ideas.
The first was to make it so that the void wouldn’t spread over to the people, for example by creating a pathway from the basement to the door or a window. And the second was to make all the tavern guests leave. Truthfully, Michelle didn’t know which way was better or easier.
So she walked out of the basement and went to the old tavern lady. "Ma’am," she smiled sweetly as she sat by the counter.