Desperate Night

Inside Margaret's water element palace.

Yu Hong and Harvey quietly waited for the inspector's arrival.

The air inside the palace was cold and the humidity was high, but the smell was not pleasant, with a musty odor everywhere.

Clearly, Margaret didn't care about such things.

It wasn't until Yu Hong and the others had waited for more than an hour that she finally arrived late.

"How is it? What are the exploration results?" Margaret's figure coalesced like water onto the seat, looking at Yu Hong.

"Basically, it's a small space, inside..." Yu Hong carefully described the situation after he went in.

"Black Winged Stone Statues? Burning buildings and cities?" Margaret frowned, "I understand. Go outside and collect your mission reward. I'll check the data to see where this place came from. Everything has a source."

"Yes."

Yu Hong was led out of the main hall and teleported away.

Together with Harvey, he quickly arrived at the place where the inspector had said to collect the mission rewards.

A very obese old woman, wearing a green-dotted white apron, was arranging a large pile of material boxes neatly in the empty palace.

Yu Hong stepped forward and queued up at the end of the line.

Time passed, and the people in front left one by one with the items they had received.

Soon it was Yu Hong's turn.

He stepped forward and stood in front of the fat old woman.

"Name, what are you collecting? Who approved it?" the old woman asked coldly, without even looking up.

"I am Yu, captain of the Black Spirit, collecting the mission reward issued by Inspector Margaret," Yu Hong said briefly.

"Margaret?" The old woman paused slightly, then grabbed a head-sized black package from a large pile of packages and boxes.

Picking it up, she casually tossed it to Yu Hong.

"This is yours."

"Thank you." Yu Hong took the package, walked to the side, and quickly opened it.

With a rustle, he tore off the outer cloth skin, revealing a small black box inside.

He opened the lid, revealing a small bottle with the words 'Qing Shen Ling' written on the outside in Night Script.

"?" Yu Hong was stunned.

"This isn't Star Spirit Alloy..." He suspected he had received the wrong reward and went back to ask the fat woman.

"That's right, this is yours. A standard dose of Qing Shen Ling, which calms the mind and spirit, enough for about a week. This is the maximum dose that can be given," the fat woman said impatiently.

"Is there anything else I haven't received? Please check..." Yu Hong said again.

"It's all here, there's nothing else," the fat woman waved her hand, pushed Yu Hong away, and continued to distribute items to the next person.

Yu Hong silently stepped aside, looking at the small bottle in his hand. He understood.

Margaret was going back on her word...

But even if she did, what could he do?

Make a scene here? Attack directly? Snatch the rewards that were rightfully his?

Yu Hong looked at Margaret's tightly closed palace door not far away, and then at the Qing Shen Ling medicine in his hand.

After a moment's hesitation, he didn't say anything, but silently turned and walked towards the teleportation point.

Before long, a flash of white light, and he disappeared into the teleportation array.

And until he completely disappeared and left, a team of tall water elementals, their bodies a watery blue, quietly appeared from the palace door.

"That's a fellow who knows what's good for him." The leading water elemental, clad in armor, muttered with a cold face.

"What could he do if he didn't know what's good for him? Rush in and fight? A level three guy, not bad, but any one of us could easily suppress him." Another water elemental mocked.

"Anyway, the teacher instructed that if he dared to make a move, we should just kill him for trespassing. I didn't expect this guy to be so patient. It saved his little life." The leading water elemental laughed.

"Since that guy chickened out, then our mission is complete, Hunter, it's your treat today, right?" Someone in the team said with a laugh.

"Alright, alright, I, Hunter Deles, keep my word! Let's go to the Dim Forest today, my treat!" The leading water elemental laughed.

The group chatted and laughed, left the palace gate, and disappeared at the teleportation point.

On the other side, Yu Hong silently took the Qing Shen Ling medicine and returned to the Black Spirit.

The ship flew out of the window of light, slowly traversing between the huge floating cities, returning towards Harvey's window of light.

'I should say goodbye one last time when I get back, then it's time to leave.'

He thought to himself, standing in front of the circular window, gazing at the floating city buildings that resembled mountain peaks.

The numerous blue windows of light, like spots on the black buildings, each represented the entrance to a space.

Some were large, some were small, some were private, some were public.

In addition, there were densely packed airships, strange creatures gleaming with golden light, constantly entering and exiting the windows of light, and constantly passing by or traveling alongside the Black Spirit.

Yu Hong looked at the lively and bustling scene here, but clearly felt that he didn't belong here.

He picked up the Book of Teleportation, which was automatically turning to a certain page, the page displaying complex, colorful advertisements.

One moment, a group of rainbow-colored snails were standing on their hind legs, carrying heavy shells and dancing clumsy ballroom dances to strange music.

The next moment, it turned into two dragon-headed men wearing red and blue tights, standing on a boxing ring, looking fierce and ready to fight, surrounded by a large crowd of cheering strange creatures.

The next moment, it became a pitch-black earthworm, standing upright, wearing a Chinese robe worn by ancient men, standing on a pure-colored stage and telling stand-up comedy.

Yu Hong looked at this bizarre scene, and at this moment truly understood the value of these floating cities that accommodated countless races.

Here, humans were not the only ones, or even the largest group.

"What a pity..." If he could, he would also like to stay and settle down, but reality was always so cruel.

He looked at the Qing Shen Ling in his hand again, and put it in his pocket.

Then he sped up and flew towards Harvey's window of light.

Bang.

Suddenly, a lump of green snot-like mucus was smashed onto the Black Spirit's window.

Not far away, a green airship rolled down its window, revealing a strong monster with the head of a crocodile, cursing fiercely at Yu Hong.

"You damn idiot, you're in my way!"

Yu Hong didn't reply, but controlled the Black Spirit to swerve hard, flying past the other party's green airship.

Pfft.

The green airship and the Black Spirit collided, and a large piece of the outer skin was scraped off.

This made the crocodile head even more angry, shouting and throwing things loudly from behind, but he couldn't catch up with the Black Spirit in front.

Obviously, the Black Spirit's speed was slow in actual combat, but here, compared to the other party, it was just a little faster.

More than ten minutes later.

Yu Hong drove into Harvey's window of light and came to Emerald Island again.

The Black Spirit slowly landed.

Yu Hong walked out of the door and found that only Ku Chan, Yi Yi, and Chi Xiao were here.

"Garfie and Fessna are participating in the assessment, they can't come. Because the Natural God isn't eligible, Fessna is now participating in the assessment together with Garfie. Considered her battle partner," Ku Chan explained simply.

"It's okay." Yu Hong didn't care about the two of them, as long as the two in front of him arrived.

"When are you participating in the assessment?"

"It starts tomorrow," Ku Chan said, "But I'm lucky, I met an old gentleman in advance, he admires me very much and thinks I can enter the second stage without taking the exam."

He seemed to be in a good mood. The assessment was also unusually smooth.

"I also tried, but the Arcanist test is too difficult. I only tried the assistant position, I don't know if I passed?" Yi Yi followed along and said.

"It should be fine. The threshold for assistants is not high, if it really doesn't work, I can give her a spot after I pass," Ku Chan said seriously.

"Yeah, I believe you." Yu Hong nodded. He trusted Ku Chan's character very much.

"When are you leaving?" Ku Chan asked in return.

".I'm leaving tomorrow," Yu Hong replied.

He also planned to ask about the price of Star Spirit Alloy himself, and if it was too expensive, see if he could buy some of the resources he needed himself. Then leave.

He remembered Margaret's breach of trust. But that was something to settle later, now he needed to purchase the supplies he would use immediately.

"Harvey said you went on a mission, now that you're back, you should have gotten the Star Spirit Alloy, right?" Ku Chan casually asked.

Yu Hong didn't reply, but took out the bottle of Qing Shen Ling and threw it to the other party.

"What is this?" Ku Chan caught it and asked in confusion.

"Mission reward."

"Huh?" Ku Chan's expression changed, "Breach of trust?"

"Yes, breach of trust. Who told me my weight is too light, in fact, I had some guesses before, but some things, only when they really come to me, do I believe that I have really encountered them," Yu Hong said calmly.

"." Ku Chan flipped through the Qing Shen Ling, the expression under his mask was very ugly.

"This Qing Shen Ling is only worth a few crystal coins a bottle on the market. Captain, the mission you performed is worth at least tens of thousands of crystal coins! Ruthless, dark!"

"It's okay, this is reality. I can accept it," Yu Hong said indifferently.

Ku Chan didn't know what to say, gritted his teeth and looked at the bottle of Qing Shen Ling, and was silent for a long time, then returned it to Yu Hong. Then he left with a confused Yi Yi.

Yu Hong didn't care, in such an environment, the weak are exploited, which is a matter of course. Obviously, Margaret thought he had no future, so she didn't plan to fulfill the reward she promised.

Understandable.

Now he was weak and could accept this reality.

It was okay for the other party to do this.

When he was no longer weak in the future, he would come back and do the same thing to the other party, presumably the other party would have the same awareness at that time.

Reality treats me cruelly, I will repay with equal cruelty.

This was Yu Hong's philosophy of life.

After checking on Emerald Island for the last night, Yu Hong also used the Book of Teleportation to remotely teleport and trade some crystal coins, and then used the crystal coins to buy a set of basic Arcanist meditation methods.

The teleportation transaction process was very simple. Just click directly on the Book of Teleportation, click on what you want, and the book will emit a small teleportation array on the ground in front three times in a row.

Just put the things in.

All buying and selling were checked by Aima and mediated.

Very convenient.

It was equivalent to the Arcane version of online shopping.