Chapter 41: Wanting to Become Someone Like You

[Simulation Year 7, you are 21 years old. You are going further and further down the path of an Elite Mage, with both your Mental Energy and magic power increasing. The strength you have hidden away is breathtaking.]

[The first day of the New Year arrives, and you discover that the witch has a bit more "human" aura compared to usual.]

[You feel very gratified, yet at the same time, very regretful.]

[What gratifies you is that the witch's broken and damaged heart still holds the possibility of being repaired.]

[What you regret is that the difficulty of the repair is at the Hell level. You tried hard to mend it for two months, but only managed to make the witch have a tiny bit more fluctuation.]

[Fortunately, the witch's body, which was on the verge of its limit, has been successfully saved by you.]

[After your treatment and two months of nutritional supplementation, the witch's frail body gradually recovered to a normal state, no longer the skin and bones it was at the beginning.]

[Spring leaves sprout, and the earth revives.]

[The spring of the new year has arrived.]

[Your life follows a three-point line, cycling between meditating on Mental Energy, studying new magic, and teaching Klisa.]

[Only on very rare occasions do you head to the city center's Mages Association to purchase some extraordinary Materials and listen to intelligence from others. You heard a piece of news that was to be expected: the alien races at the border were beaten back by the Church of the Gods.]

[You return home to continue studying magic.]

[You begin to explore and think about how to further Cultivate the witch, so that even if she leaves you, she can still survive stably in this world.]

Winter snow melts, and spring bursts forth.

The heavy snow that once submerged Alenson City has completely disappeared.

Bright spring light spills wantonly, and brilliant sunlight falls from the sky, landing on all people and things that need sunshine, including the withered tree in the corner of the courtyard, which also sprouts new buds in silence.

Xu Xi sits at the courtyard entrance.

The door arch overhead happens to form a natural shelter.

Blocking the sunlight for Xu Xi, casting a cool shadow.

"The first step in cultivating Klisa is to help her possess the ability to protect herself. Now this goal is about to be achieved. In another half a year, Klisa will be able to advance to an Official Mage."

"An Official Mage can learn level 1-3 magic. Unless a higher-ranked mage takes action, with Klisa's talent, she is almost invincible among her peers."

"Let alone ordinary people; even the current Klisa can easily deal with them."

"Then, it is time to prepare for the second step."

In the shadow under the door arch.

Xu Xi holds a thick magic book in his hand, his eyes slightly closed in contemplation.

To let Klisa possess an independent personality, so that after his simulation ends, she can live on strongly by herself and no longer be hostilely targeted or hunted by others, he must make preparations in advance.

Some problems need to be solved as early as possible.

For example, the issue of Klisa's Demon Race Bloodline.

Objectively speaking, Klisa's personality is obedient and well-behaved; she has never thought about harming others. She even feels uneasy when approaching strangers, let alone harming them.

But.

This world is unreasonable.

The Gods rule the land, and the Church is their eyes and ears.

In this world where everyone believes in the Gods and views the Demon Race as enemies, as long as one is even slightly related to the Demon Race, they will be regarded as an enemy.

It is almost impossible for Klisa to integrate into human society.

Unless—

"Strength is strong enough to suppress all dissent, or make others feel that Klisa has no relation to the Demon Race."

Xu Xi muttered to himself.

The former is too difficult to achieve. Even if this life goes smoothly, Xu Xi is not confident in Cultivating to become a god, let alone suppressing all the Gods.

As for the latter, there is some feasibility.

"This world's method of identifying the Demon Race is unexpectedly primitive and crude."

"At first, I thought there would be searches and identifications targeting the Soul, targeting the Bloodline, or even targeting concepts."

"But judging from the Materials I have perused during this time, whether it is the Mages Association or the Church of the Gods, their methods of identifying the Demon Race are all based on appearance."

"In other words, as long as I can conceal Klisa's Demon Race characteristics, I can let her appear openly."

"Furthermore, there has never been an example of the Demon Race mastering magic before."

"Even if she is suspected, Klisa can use magic to prove her innocence."

Xu Xi pondered.

He felt this was quite feasible.

Of course, he is not stupid enough to think that such concealment can deceive the world.

Even if it can deceive humans, it certainly cannot deceive the high and mighty Gods.

But Xu Xi's requirements are not high.

He just wants Klisa to be able to walk around in the outside world, to come into contact with more people and things, so that her fragile and sensitive heart will not become indecisive the moment she leaves him.

Therefore, as long as Klisa's range of activities is restricted, the possibility of being discovered can be reduced.

"Let's ask for that child's opinion."

…

[Simulation Year 7, Spring]

[The witch's strength grows increasingly powerful. To resolve the possibility of the witch being discovered, you begin to think about how to hide the witch's Bloodline characteristics.]

[You ask for Klisa's opinion. If she insists on not hiding, you will respect her choice, but the answer she gives surprises you.]

["Want, want to, want to become someone like Tutor."]

[It is not that she wants to become human herself, but because you are human, the witch also wants to become human.]

[Simulation Year 7, Summer]

[Klisa's Realm breaks through. Through continuous meditation, she improves her Mental Energy and reaches the standard line of an Official Mage.]

[Your witch promotes to an Official Mage.]

[Simulation Year 7, Autumn]

[Through continuous study of ancient books and self-learning life-attribute magic, you devise a method that can effectively hide Demon Race characteristics.]

[You call the witch into the meditation room. In this place where only the two of you are, you begin the secret surgery to hide the Demon Race characteristics.]

Klisa does not have many Demon Race characteristics.

She has neither large wings nor a long, slender tail.

From this point of view.

Xu Xi's luck is very good.

Because this means he only needs to deal with the horns on Klisa's head and the surface scales on parts of her skin. After finishing, Klisa will be able to possess a normal human appearance.

"Hope everything goes smoothly."

In the slightly dim meditation room, it is cool and silent, deep and soundless, looking very much like a place for some cult sacrifice.

"Click."

Xu Xi turns off the underpowered steam lamp, instead controlling magic himself to gather a light source to illuminate the space.

Not far from him.

Lies Klisa, calmly resting on the stone slab.

"Klisa, it might hurt a little bit next."

"I believe in Tutor."

Her pale golden eyes have no fluctuations of any emotion, but through that layer of emptiness, one can feel the existence of trust.

The surgery begins.

[You use Wind Magic, condensing it into a Wind Blade with extremely strong cutting power, to meticulously grind away the remnant horns on the girl's head, leaving only the parts connected to the nerves at the roots, hidden within her hair.]

[You use Level 3 Magic: Earth Shaping.]

[You use Level 4 Magic: Water Isolation.]

[You use Level 4 Magic: Fire Isolation.]

[You use Level 5 Magic: Life Mimicry.]

[You exchange for high-quality Shapeshifter mucus from the Mages Association, shape them into the color of human skin, and slowly apply them to the scales on the witch's body, hiding them with exquisite technique.]

[Furthermore, you imbue the Shapeshifter mucus with water and fire resistance and life characteristics, so that they will not easily fall off and will look more like human skin.]

[Your camouflage experiment is very successful.]

[From the outside, Klisa no longer has any Demon Race characteristics.]