Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Request Denied
"Yes."
"I am Cheng Yu." Ah Da nodded, cautiously probing, "May I ask if Master Dodger is unable to make the appointnt at 1:10, or... is it that he can’t et at all today? I... I an, if it’s possible, I can wait for him to finish his work, and then et with him."
The receptionist smiled yet ruthlessly refused, "I’m sorry, he does not have any ti available all day."
Ah Da, who is Cheng Yu, felt a great disappointnt, but still holding onto a glimr of hope, said, "If Master Dodger is free tomorrow, I can co again then."
The receptionist smiled, saying, "Mr. Cheng, if you wish to continue to make an appointnt with Master Dodger, please apply through the normal procedure. I can’t directly decide for you here."
The so-called normal procedure ans first sending an email to Master Dodger’s assistant, waiting for approval, and after the assistant receives approval from Master Dodger – if Master Dodger finds the content of the email interesting – the assistant will reply to the applicant and arrange a eting ti.
...
This whole process typically takes about six months before one can get a chance to et with Master Mickey Dodge.
Cheng Yu had previously followed the normal procedure to make an appointnt with Master Mickey Dodge, but his luck was incredibly bad, just on this day, coincidentally encountering Master Dodge having an ergency and unable to et.
Having missed this chance, to go through the process again... when would that be?
The disappointnt in Cheng Yu’s heart could no longer be concealed, and with a face full of dejection, he said, "Could... could you possibly make an exception?"
The receptionist shook her head and said, "No."
A fire suddenly ignited in Cheng Yu’s heart, but—he simply could not vent it. Offending a rather famous Soul Artifact Maker was more severe than offending a world-renowned chanical Master.
He could not bear the consequences.
Unable—Cheng Yu could only leave the Dodger Research Institute with a heart full of loss and disappointnt.
Mickey Dodge is a soul artifact maker, which as the na suggests, is a person who can make soul devices. As ntioned before, whether natural or artificial, soul devices are extrely rare, with difficult conditions for formation, making them elusive for humans to obtain easily. But there are individuals whose spiritual power magnetic field is highly compatible with soul devices, and with the right thods, they can use this advantage to artificially create soul devices.
As ntioned before, soul devices can effectively enhance human spiritual power, and even break through the barriers between levels, allowing soone with an E talent to have the chance to advance to F level, E level, D level, C level, B level... Therefore, even artificial, expendable soul devices are invaluable treasures.
In this world, not everyone is willing to beco a combatant, piloting chas into battle against Star Beasts and enemy forces... but certainly, everyone wants to be a person with high spiritual power and physical strength!
Because in life, there are simply too many things that require high spiritual power and physical strength—if you don’t et the threshold, you can only be stopped at the door...
So what?
A saying still circulates in interstellar space: "chanical Masters may be encountered, but Soul Artifact Makers are impossible to seek."
This also indirectly reflects the lofty status of soul artifact makers.
Mickey Dodge is such a highly esteed, renowned soul artifact maker. There are too many, too many people willing to hold up wads of money in front of him, simply hoping for the honor of him crafting a suitable soul device for them.
Cheng Yu has very low talent. Although born into a wealthy family, his mother was from a local noble family on a remote planet, which in turn subtly lowered his social standing. Nonetheless, Cheng Yu isn’t lacking in money. The main reason he has gone through the effort to et with Master Mickey Dodge is to request a personalized soul device from the Master—
However—he lanted his lack of connections to directly reach Master Mickey Dodge, so he had to queue up and make an appointnt in advance. This appointnt took him over a year to secure.
But—
After waiting in line for so long, to only receive a flippant dismissal, not even getting a glimpse of Master Dodge’s face. All the ti, effort, and money invested upfront... all gone to waste in an instant.
Cheng Yu felt it impossible not to feel resentful.
The receptionist maintained a smile, continuing to say, "Mr. Cheng, if you have no other business, please leave now."
The reception hall is not a place for the idle masses to linger, so the receptionist had begun to politely issue a departure order.
"Alright." Cheng Yu replied with a smile, his heart as rigid as ice, though.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he caught a glimpse of Master Dodger’s figure walking out of a rest room from the corner of his eye. He moved with a light step, a hint of a smile on his face, heading in a particular direction.
Following that direction, Cheng Yu’s expression sank.
It turned out—
Master Dodger had cancelled the eting with himself to personally receive a distinguished guest, none other than his own half-brother, Cheng Kun.
Cheng Yu’s mother passed away when he was two years old, and his father remarried soon after to a woman of equal social standing. Subsequently, his stepmother gave birth to Cheng Kun. Unlike Cheng Yu, Cheng Kun had been a prodigy since childhood. Now just over twenty years old, he was a Double S talent in both spiritual power and physical strength—a well-known figure among the younger generation of the Alliance.
However—privately, Cheng Kun was soone petty and narrow-minded.
This—
Cheng Yu suddenly realized his eting with Master Dodger had been sabotaged.
Not surprising.
Not surprising at all.
Although the two were brothers, they were not born of the sa mother and with the father’s favoritism, Cheng Yu faced an awkward situation within the Cheng Family. Despite Cheng Kun outwardly showing great respect to his older brother, he was in fact constantly making things difficult for Cheng Yu.
Over the course of more than a decade as brothers under the sa roof, Cheng Yu and Cheng Kun had countless small and large conflicts.
Cheng Kun kept a ticulous account in his mind, seizing every opportunity to tornt Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu had long lost interest in staying at the Cheng Family to be mistreated. After reaching adulthood, he took his own share of the family inheritance and left the clan to forge his own path.
Afterward, he had almost no contact with the Cheng Family, his father, stepmother, and Cheng Kun.
Cheng Yu had not expected that his brother would still have soone watching him, willfully ruining his potential to enhance his spiritual power and physical strength... because—Cheng Kun wanted him to remain a perpetual failure.
In the distance, was a harmonious scene of Master Dodger and Cheng Kun...
"Mr. Cheng, please leave quickly." Seeing that Cheng Yu was still not leaving, the receptionist directly ordered him out.
With a heavy heart, Cheng Yu left the Dodger Research Institute with a darkened expression.
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