I Killed the Mage
Linley stared at the empty plate. "Where's my meal?" "Your Highness, they won't let me cook for you." "Nonsense." "It's true! Just now, those mages snatched my kitchen knife again to use as a flyin
“Little Highness! Little Highness, are you awake!”
As the first rays of morning sunlight pierced into Lin Lei’s bedroom, he was still deep in slumber when the commotion jolted him awake. In a flash, he opened his eyes wide, rolled over, and scrambled under the bed to hide.
A loud bang followed as the bedroom door was flung open. A swarm of elderly men, all garbed in the royal mage’s robes, poured into the room and threw back the covers.
“He’s not here!”
“Damn it, His Highness has escaped again!”
“Why has the little prince become as quick-witted as a rabbit lately? Could he have predicted we’d mount a dawn raid?”
“Highly likely. After all, the little prince has acquired the knowledge of the multiverse and learned the ways of cultivation!”
“Looks like we’ve missed another chance to hear him explain cultivation today.”
The old men chattered noisily among themselves before finally shuffling out of the room one by one.
Lin Lei strained his ears, and only when the last trace of sound faded did he wipe the sweat from his brow and crawl out from under the bed.
“Heavens! These mages have no business to attend to, chasing after me every single day!”
“They just want to learn cultivation from you!” A clear, laughing voice sounded suddenly behind him. “The whole palace’s mages are looking for you. You can’t keep hiding forever!”
Lin Lei spun around. By the window, where just moments before there had been nothing, now stood a beautiful youth in a long robe.
The youth was sixteen or seventeen, with golden h