Chapter 1097 - 535: Zoe, the Artistic Young Girl (2)

Chapter 1097: Chapter 535: Zoe, the Artistic Young Girl (2)

What stunned him was the realization of another possibility outside of life. This isn’t just wishful thinking, but the accumulation of countless "what ifs" that are more beautiful.

And the heart that people have to achieve such goals is the motivation for effort and struggle.

Li Ang silently watched the young girl paint stroke by stroke. He adjusted his angle and saw that she was about to finish the picture, softly stepping and slowly approaching.

Even if she voluntarily stayed behind after class, Li Ang could understand her determination to complete the artwork; it’s because she wants to capture the feeling she found while painting.

This further proves that Zoe after the transformation is undoubtedly an art-oriented young girl.

Previously, when she flew over the campus, Li Ang thought her transformed persona was athletic, but now it seems she’s just a bit "eccentric".

To put it nicely, she’s following her heart with strong action capabilities—she decides to fly and she flies.

At this thought, Li Ang suddenly understood why the current scene didn’t feel out of place; from a certain angle, a wild cat that does what it thinks resembles an artist who freely expresses inner emotions.

Seeing clearly what Zoe was drawing stunned Li Ang once again.

The sky, the boundless sky.

Even with his interrupted painting experiences, he could tell her brushstrokes were raw, but Li Ang could responsibly say that the young girl’s use of color was high-tier.

Even if she really chose art classes in the real Mistrem, surely in the few days of study, aspects like form which require practice would be lacking.

However, she seemed to have a strong understanding of space and skill in using color, with the sky under her brush presenting a profound and vast visual effect through color gradation.

Sometimes, artistic talent is unreasonable.

The gift she holds allows her to reflect inner matters onto paper, just like her simple natural style in the past.

The originally indistinctive clouds wouldn’t look abrupt due to her lack of skill.

Turns out, Zoe clearly wasn’t satisfied with this painting; this was also why she lingered here.

The young girl furrowed her brow slightly, sighed, "It always feels like something’s missing."

She raised her hands, stretched a big stretch, the brush almost poked Li Ang’s face.

Even though he dodged, the paint tip of the brush had already dripped a few spots on her hair and uniform.

This wasn’t a big deal, since she was already covered in "battle scars," with colorful paints all around, even with her straightforward and instinctive painting habits, some parts were directly painted with hands, and it’s hard to say whether her paint palette was messier or her palm was more colorful.

Zoe was stretching, head leaned back, her gaze meeting Li Ang directly.

"Ah!"

No time to wear shoes, the young girl jumped in place, stepping on the cold floor, then hopped away on one leg.

"You, you, you, when did you get here? Who are you?!"

After the surprise passed, a slight anger appeared.

"Sorry, I didn’t mean to peek, I just arrived." Li Ang said.

Originally, in the script, the two of them were stranger.

Zoe scrutinized him for a few seconds, hopping back to her seat to put on her shoes and socks.

Throughout the process, she didn’t say anything, until her shoes were on, she began tidying her painting tools, seemingly not caring about Li Ang.

Is this her personality? Not timid and shy, but rather indifferent to anything outside of her mental world.

Li Ang smiled slightly, just about to speak, but seeing his movement, Zoe spoke first, "About the morning matter, my answer is all negative."

"Morning?"

Li Ang quickly realized, in her eyes, he’s someone who approached because he appeared in the morning.

Maybe such people have come before, so she decided to reject them all uniformly.

"I am more interested in your painting." Li Ang said.

"Haha," Zoe darted a cold glance at him, let out a cool hum, "I heard similar words for the fifth or seventh time."

"Perhaps what’s missing from the painting is—"

Zoe shook her head coldly, her face full of a "don’t bother directing my painting" attitude, tidying her things ready to leave.

Li Ang didn’t say anything further.

The attitude of rejecting a thousand miles away, after all this time, turns out compared to aggressive ALulu and others, the hardest to communicate with is this original warmest person.

Initially only came over to check on her situation and relieve the longing not seen for long; even if she wasn’t exactly the same person, Li Ang still felt she was indeed herself.

Just like a natural confidence flowing from within his heart.

Her current indifference instead made Li Ang find it interesting and also interested in experiencing a renewed acquaintance after switching circumstances.

Zoe downstairs, he also followed from a distance; after leaving the teaching building, he didn’t continue following, while Zoe only slightly puzzled looked back at him once, then left by herself.

The morning class had ended, and it was lunch break.

Mistrem’s teaching is very open; if there’s no class, you can do anything without supervision, and noon is when students leave school to find food outside.

According to the script, Li Ang’s lunch break was basically spent with Da and Xiao Mei, they had already conventionally waited at the school entrance.

However, this time, the three didn’t leave school to eat at their regular restaurant.

"This is Sister Farin’s prepared lunch." Meimei said carrying a small basket.

"Farina... No, why is the lunch prepared by my sister with you?" Li Ang said helplessly.

"She handed it to me when leaving home, and it’s not just prepared for you. We have portions too!"

Meimei’s last words added with emphasis on each word, then happily smiled with a sound as crisp as shattered jade.

"Recently, many bad things happened outside, she hopes we stay in school." Meluna said quietly.

"I got it."

Didn’t see it while coming to school, Li Ang just noticed that from the inside Mistrem posted notices, same notices were also at a distance notice board, it looked like the school took it very seriously.

Due to frequent death events in Thousand Tower City recently—the notice headline read.

This was obviously the puppet master speeding up the progress.

As Li Ang discovered through gathered information, transformation was just a means and process, the intended result was the destruction of the entire city.

Simply trying to attack this city, there shouldn’t be any group in the world capable alone, maybe if all Celestial Group were summoned by the guild, but this issue itself is purely hypothetical, impossible to realize.

No matter who the mastermind is, "transformation" might be its best choice to destroy Thousand Tower City.

The true pillars of this city are the high-tier casters who possess vast knowledge, no matter which field, someone standing at the top is never simple; the more complex and difficult the project, the more challenges there are to overcome.

So, the top-tier mages wouldn’t be weaker in will and determination compared to top-tier Knights; along their path, their hearts became resolute and clear, knowing what they pursue.

These strong individuals even have their Magic Towers as bases, harder to deal with than average high-tier Sky Knights, wanting to conquer them truly is a daunting task.

But nevertheless, the strongest fortress often breaks from within, since hard tactics don’t work, let these supreme casters destroy themselves.

Transformation... perhaps this is the breakthrough method.

A person’s strongest enemy might be themselves; transformation amplifies and intensifies internal conflicts.

Whether self-destruct on transformation or doing something unacceptable with irreversible inner collapse post-transformation, it’s an effective attacking method.

Li Ang felt urgency because the transforming slaughter was slowly approaching, Andasu’s situation already reminded him, maybe there’s a spreading net ready to tighten around each Star Flower Travel Corps member.

And the path to breakthrough might start with lifting transformations, adding methods for his side companions.

Li Ang looked at Meluna, the young girl looked expectant, not knowing he was contemplating "This person seems to have stronger resistance, lower transformation degree, should I start with her?".