T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 586, 585. Hagi Dragon breathed out.
In the game, the group meets Eleravia in the Broken Hammer Mountains in southwestern Anna.

They used the location of the natural teleportation array that they had covered by clearing land, which was also in the southwest, and the two were not too far apart.

Jiang Heyi must travel alone to a key role that will influence Anna's future.

Tier 3, venturing deep into a city-state teeming with monsters and where security is nonexistent. The jailer wanted to stop them, but Jiang Heyi remained adamant.

Having no other choice, he used the excuse of needing to gather inspiration to ask Count Clytek for two scrolls that combined wind element offense and defense.

Jiang Heyi had always been curious about who the powerful figure behind Earl Clytek was.

They supported him in becoming the organizer of aristocratic art exhibitions and funded the prison guard's painting space, servants, and materials.

The key point is that the person behind Count Clytek has never shown up and spoken to the jailer even once.

It's rather strange that they only give but don't let the prison guard draw in return.

Could it be that he had already sent other clients to solicit manuscripts?

The jailer shrugged and said, "If you can't understand it, I understand it even less. Let's just take it one step at a time."

Jiang Heyi nodded, agreeing with the jailer's assessment, as there was no apparent malice from the person behind Earl Clytem.

Similar to the previous method, Jiang Heyi first went to the trading area around Xiangfeng City and paid a fee to hitch a ride with them.

When traveling near major trade routes, potential bandits, unless they want to become wanted criminals with exorbitant bounties, generally dare not openly attack the caravan guards and risk their lives.

After changing routes along the way, Jiang Heyi arrived at his destination three days later.

As he entered Brokenhammer City, he felt that something was missing.

The copper bells on the merchant's pack animals swayed in the wind, and the savory aroma of stewed meat wafted from the tavern, causing him to frown.

Suddenly, a warm breeze carrying the sweet aroma of honey wafted over. He stared at the waiter selling honey and sugar cakes to soothe the palates of his drinkers not far away, and suddenly it dawned on him.

After scouring the city's shops, Jiang Heyi, through a kind shopkeeper, found the captain of a merchant guild that supplied goods exclusively to the local nobility.

"Want them all?"

"Yes, pack up all the ones that weren't reserved for me."

Seeing Jiang Heyi's extravagant manner, the merchant captain was overjoyed and quickly ordered his men to help pack the goods.

Carrying the heavy gifts, Jiang Heyi didn't stop and headed straight into the depths of the Broken Hammer Mountains.

He was walking in such a hurry that he bumped into a beautiful, fair-skinned woman.

Fortunately, the other party didn't mind that he was carrying two large backpacks and weaving through the crowded market like a crab.

After passing the local fox tribe's outpost in the wilderness and traversing the dense forests in the mountains, he finally found a protruding boulder to rest on as the sun set and he had been traveling for most of the day away from the city-state.

Sipping the fruit wine from the water pouch and enjoying the refreshing coolness from the ice element essence fragments that had been added beforehand, Jiang Heyi couldn't help but let out a "pfft."

It's perfectly normal for ordinary people to enjoy drinking.

In the hot weather, there's no magic, many drinks have a limited shelf life, and the water is often cloudy with foreign objects and an unpleasant odor.

Alcohol is the ideal beverage, as its resistance to spoilage and its numerous uses make it akin to hard currency among adventurers.

He took two large gulps, thoroughly quenching his thirst, cooling him down, and relieving his fatigue. Then he weighed the icy water pouch in his hand.

"I said, after following me for so long, aren't you tired? Not eating, drinking, or resting, is that much professionalism?"

Four gray figures clung to the trees a dozen meters away like geckos, their rough linen cloaks blending into the dark brown trees and the gradually darkening forest.

"Have you discovered it a long time ago?"

From the shadows, three men and one woman stopped hiding and slowly walked out.

They are all human, with the only woman with long, straight black hair serving as a messenger in the group.

Centered on her body, she continuously released black smoke that could smudge things onto the ground around her. From a distance, it seemed as if the view was blocked by an imperceptible layer of smoke, making it difficult to see clearly.

She used this unique magic to provide protection for the entire team.

“Ordinary magicians wouldn’t easily see through my methods; I can even deceive their magical perception.” The woman asked, puzzled, “How did you do that?”

"We're not on the same level."

"Rank?" The woman frowned in confusion. "You mean class level?"

As he spoke, the rest of the team burst into laughter.

"We've already investigated your background. The magic power within you is only equivalent to level 3. Trying to intimidate us with your 'fox borrowing the tiger's might' trick won't work, little brother~~~"

Jiang Heyi suddenly realized.

"The person who bumped into me at the market today was one of yours."

The method was quite clever. If these people hadn't pointed it out, Jiang Heyi wouldn't have realized that the seemingly unintentional collision was actually a deliberate test.

With a clear division of labor and skillful methods, this group of people are repeat offenders.

"Since you can afford the fine things that are exclusively for noble merchants, and you even bought all those exquisite pastries in one go, then... lend me some money to spend."

Jiang Heyi said, "With such patience, following you all the way into the depths of the remote mountains, do you really just want to borrow it?"

The woman with long, straight black hair shook her head and sighed, "You can choose a quick and clean way to die."

Jiang Heyi didn't quite understand why these experienced bandits hadn't considered why he had taken these pastries and ventured into the uninhabited area deep in the mountains.

It can't be that they're craving pork and have to eat it all by themselves, so they should find a place for a picnic, right?

The woman smiled knowingly as Jiang Heyi unloaded the four backpacks he was carrying in his hands and the large backpack on his back onto the ground.

"You don't seem to be planning on choosing a way to die. Are you trying to test us?"

"Then..."

Ss ...
In a split second, the woman with long, straight black hair appeared behind Jiang Heyi, her dagger spinning as she thrust it straight at his heart.

The woman with long, straight black hair suddenly contracted her pupils violently.

Her vision distorted without warning, and a buzzing sound exploded deep in her ear canals, like someone shaking a can full of nails inside her skull.

The anomaly lasted only a brief second.

Magic flowed like water along his wrist, rippling and taking shape at his fingertips.

A short sword made entirely of magic appeared out of thin air in Jiang Heyi's hand.

He parried with his knife held in reverse, the dagger, which was delayed in mid-air by the interference, scraped against the magic, and burst out with a piercing metallic whirring.

The woman with long, straight black hair was shocked to find that her supposedly fatal thrust was being hindered by a strange stickiness, and the force was being gradually reduced as the dagger cut in.

"This is."

Before she could voice her question, Jiang Heyi suddenly flipped her wrist.

The magic dagger instantly vaporized, turning into a cloud of dark blue mist that rushed towards her face.

The woman's years of experience fighting on the brink of life and death caused her to quickly retract her magic.

The remaining three members of the team rushed forward to help the long-haired woman with black hair escape from Jiang Heyi's attack range.

"Amy!"

"Amy, how are you?!"

Amy, with her long, straight black hair, clenched her teeth and squeezed out a few words: "Shaping Magic".

"what?"

"Isn't that a type of magic that requires a very high level of proficiency and is extremely difficult to learn?"

"I heard from the merchants that only the Imperial Academy has a relatively complete systematic teaching."

Jiang Heyi's lips curled up, and he looked at her with disdain.

"Unexpectedly, they have a good eye for talent. Level 4, almost Level 5, and they even possess unique techniques for concealment and hiding. Tsk tsk tsk, it's a pity they went astray."

The female magician named Amy's heart pounded.

Their companions only knew one side of the story. The elites in the Imperial Academy rarely chose to study magic-based shaping techniques.

Magic Warrior!
Amy quickly warned her companions who thought they could easily defeat Jiang Heyi by sheer numbers.

"Be careful, this guy is a magic-based warrior. Magic power isn't the only measure of his combat strength!"

The burly man with the buzz cut on the far left had just raised his spear to thrust when he suddenly lost sight of his target.

The next second, a sharp pain exploded from under his ribs.

Jiang Heyi used a spear formed from magic to pierce his chest and abdomen first.

The magic that entered the body twisted like a venomous snake, causing a second deformation within the body, bursting out with several barbs that hooked onto the ribs and flesh.

"Ugh!"

The screams turned into bloody foam the moment they escaped his throat.

Jiang Heyi twisted his wrist and flicked the barbs upwards, creating a fan-shaped mist of blood. The burly man with the buzz cut looked as if his chest cavity had been churned by a meat grinder, with fragments of bone and lung lobes splattering all over the ground.

With a swift motion, blood gushed forth on Jiang Heyi's left side.

The young swordsman's sweeping slashes were intended to coordinate with the short-haired burly man's spear, providing mutual cover.

Jiang Heyi, who had instantly killed the former, condensed magical power into a hidden sword in his left arm.

"Sizzle~~~~"

The young swordsman's pupils suddenly dilated, and the thin line of blood on his neck burst open like a zipper that had been suddenly ripped open.

Hot blood splattered in a fan shape, staining the ground crimson.

His body still carried the momentum of the chopping motion, the blade grazing Jiang Heyi's clothes before finally collapsing heavily to the ground along with its master.

Everything happened in a matter of seconds.

In the first encounter, two players were eliminated.

Amy turned around abruptly, looking at the archer who was covering his head in confusion before finally drawing his bow and nocking an arrow, as if she had seen a ghost.

Just as she was about to succeed, a strange noise suddenly arose in her mind and instantly occupied all her thoughts.

He hesitated for just a second, which gave Jiang Heyi the opportunity to counterattack.

There were only two mages in the team. The other mage, having completed his probing, stayed in Brokenhammer City to await good news.

You only realize how little you know when you need it!
Amy swallowed hard; her breathing was already rapid.

Facing attacks from both sides and hidden arrows, he instantly broke through the encirclement and killed two of them.

"Who...are you?"

Suddenly, her eyes widened in terror.

"Could it be... that you are a skull hunter?"

"What!" The surviving archer trembled upon hearing the name. "He, isn't he, isn't he active along the southeastern coast of Anna?"

As Jiang Heyi unfurled the scroll in his hand, the Tier 6 wind elemental, which combined offense and defense and had been obtained by the prison guard from selling the jade foot painting, devoured the archer.

Within a few breaths, at the center of the tornado, only a mangled corpse remained.

"A magic-wielding warrior, possessing low-level magic power, superb combat skills, and highly efficient killing techniques..."

Amy's breathing became more and more rapid, and she subconsciously took a step back, as if the person in front of her was a demon who could devour her alive.

Jiang Heyi grew impatient: "What are you babbling about? I finally got rid of that annoying guy, now it's one-on-one."

"It's not easy to have such a rare opportunity for real-world killing and rehabilitation life-or-death combat training, so you have to let me have a good time."

From the very beginning, he did not consider Amy and her three companions a threat.

Compared to the group of practical instructors awakened by the Overlord, their moves were so clumsy they were laughable.

If it were a pure contest of physical skills, Jiang Heyi would rather die in Anna's cycle of reincarnation than lose to them—he would be too ashamed to face his teacher.

Amy swallowed hard, forcing out an extremely ugly expression that looked more like a grimace, and pleaded.

“Your Excellency Skull Hunter, I…we are willing to offer all our savings…”

Her words were abruptly interrupted.

"Fight or not?"

"Please spare my life! I... I was just deceived and led astray."

Jiang Heyi frowned.

The headhunter was a ruthless character, and these experienced bandits looked terrified upon hearing that.

"Got astray, fine, then tell me, how did you find out the elective details within the Imperial Academy?"

Amy was speechless for a moment.

"With their strength, even if you all attacked together, it would be difficult to deal with them, so... you used underhanded methods to kill them, right?"

Amy hurriedly said, "I, Lord Skull Hunter, am not only our treasure, I can also offer myself up, woof!!!"

His hands, which he tried to fight back before he died, were severed by Jiang Heyi.

A sharp blade slit Amy's throat, and Jiang Heyi held her head down tightly until her eyes lost their light and her body could no longer support her weight, collapsing to the ground.

"Not fun at all, you piece of trash." Jiang Heyi shook his blood-stained hand with disgust.

"Oh? Did you enjoy it?"

The sudden sound from behind sent Jiang Heyi's soul flying.

He subconsciously gathered his magic and shaped it into a blade.

Before the surging magic could take shape in the void, a slender arm covered with dark red scales emerged from the darkness.

He made a grasping motion in the direction of the flowing magic, then slapped it downwards.

The process of magical shaping is forcibly terminated.

Jiang Heyi was stunned when he saw the tall and beautiful figure bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun.

His strong, curved dragon horns reflected his relieved smile.

"Magic shaping, mental magic, superb physical skills, exquisite combat techniques, tsk tsk tsk, I'm not surprised at all that these elements appear in a high-level mage, but you're just a 3rd-level little brat."

The half-dragon bowed slightly, meeting Jiang Heyi's gaze at the same level.

"Little one, tell me... who did you learn all this knowledge from?"

Jiang Heyi felt light and relaxed, completely free of the tension of being interrogated by a level 9 expert.

Her relaxed demeanor left Elaine momentarily bewildered.

Wasn't the magical pressure she displayed obvious enough? Why is the person in front of me acting as if they're at home?
Seeing her was like seeing a relative... no, it was like seeing someone familiar.

The man sat down with a relaxed attitude, took out his water bag and drank it down in one gulp, without worrying at all that she might suddenly attack him.

Am I really that safe to look at?

Areravi felt that her dragon's majesty had been challenged!

"Roar!!!! Little one, I'm asking you a question!"

She's breathing out, Elena is breathing out.

A mighty dragon behaving like a Hakimi.

The jailer was right, it really is Hagiron~~~
“Haki…” Jiang Heyi smiled and changed his address, looking at his old friend whom he hadn’t seen in a long time with a face full of nostalgia.

"Eleravie, it's been a long time."

(End of this chapter)