"You sure he is okay? The colour of his face seemed off. I mean you compared it to this fake Jin that we have." Qiu Yue said as she pulled the Fake Jin that the celestial had created for the fun of it and shoved it at his face.
"Urgh, can you don't? People would think I have some narcissistic complex if I keep looking at him." Jin said and he got out of his pod. But at that moment, he felt his entire body extremely heavy and he noticed that his healing factor had kicked in. The worms were travelling all over his body as if to repair damages that had long been sustained. He could feel the pain but oddly enough compared, to what he had experienced in the Synthesis World, this was rather tolerable.
"Milk… Peppers… What did you guys do to my body?" Jin immediately called out those names and the two bellators suddenly started to sneak away as if they had done something bad.
"Milk, Peppers," Now Lynn was the one calling out and Peppers immediately pointed at her counterpart.
"It's her! It is all on her! She suggested that smuggling a body out of the celestial plane is out of the question as according to our abilities! She said that we should minimise your body, something akin to a miniature. Then we will sneak out of the celestial plane as if we bought a board game from there!"
"Hey and how did someone fuck it up so bad that they dropped the entire board game right in front of the Celestial Police?! Along with all the miniatures on the ground?" Milk complained
"Says the person who grabbed the miniaturised Jin so quickly just to hide him! You probably crack all his bones and muscles doing that!" Peppers argued.
"Do you want the Celestial Police who were so kind to pick up all those miniatures to find and notice that we had shrunk Jin's body?!" Milk countered. "We are practically doing human trafficking!"
"At least I attempted to use telekinesis magic to pick up those miniatures so that they cannot detect Jin's magical signature, okay?" Peppers let out her tongue and pulled her eye bag down which prompted Milk to pull Peppers' shirt and the scuffle began. The rest knew that this was how they wished to get out of this situation 'alive' as they continued to bicker and argue until they got out of sight of everyone.
"Why the two of them reminded me of Diaz and Click…" Jin thought to himself and started to get out of the Simulation pod. "Hey at least, I am back here, still alive and intact," Jin said to the rest as the first thing he did was to test his Maqi powers. That was the first thing he did since he knew that the Maqi circulation would definitely help ease the pain he was handling right now.
It was then he realised that his Maqi felt different than what it used to be.
"Wait a minute. Are you kidding me?" Jin said and the rest looked at him with curiosity.
"What's wrong?" Lynn asked as Jin tried to emit his Maqi out but they were literally only oozing out bit by bit.
"My Maqi… feels weird. It felt like I lost power or something."
"Mine feels okay. In fact, I think I might have been infected by your Maqi. I can now control chi and my mana circuits relatively well." Lynn said as she snapped her finger and immediately a kindle of fire came out without much trouble. Previously, when she had to cast just that small spark of fire, there was a need for a medium to let it accumulate the chi and cause the fire to spark out. Right now, with the ability to manipulate her mana circuits as well, she did not need to do any casting unlike regular mages and she could get her fire magic out without any problems.
"Sorry to cut short the celebrations but do you guys mind letting me meditate and check my cultivation properly?" Jin said and the rest had no choice but to give Jin some space.
"If that's the case, we will eat first since everyone was waiting for you to start the dinner." Qiu Yue said and Jin nodded his head without looking at her. She merely sighed but knew that the powers of cultivation were equally important to their lives. "Looks like our boss ditched us again, you know what that means?"
"It's on him!" The people and monsters who were there cheered as if to liven up the mood again while Jin asked the System to open a portal for him to return to his cultivation room.
"System, any obvious changes to my Maqi?" Jin tried to see if there was anything hindering his body when he got back to the particular world. He might be thinking that because if his body was left in the celestial world for so long as if it had been ditched to a garbage pile, there might be some changes to it that he was unaware of.
"No. The System had thoroughly checked your body when Bellator Milk and Peppers returned it. There were no significant changes to your internal structure other than some external and internal injury as per their explanation just now."
"Lol, you did not check whether the body was okay or not before you allowed them to put it into the Virtual Simulation Pod?" Jin asked as he took out his shirt and pants, leaving his underwear on and sat at the centre of this empty room meant for cultivation.
"The System believed it was best to leave it as status quo to the best of the System's ability. Any additional external interaction such as Milk's healing magic might be detrimental to your body in the worst case scenario. The System had already triple scanned your body after the miniature magic that Peppers had cast as the System was afraid that it would reduce your weight and height when Peppers returned it to normal."
As much as he did not like what he was feeling, Jin took a deep breath in upon hearing the System's explanation and started circulating his Maqi.
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