You sneaked into my simulation world and started spamming the panel?

Hagen has already become one of the adventurers.

The blacksmith and adventurers got along very well, and when they learned that Hagen was related to the blacksmith of White Rock, they immediately accepted him.

Soon, after several cheers, Hagen was flushed and drunk.

He got up and sauntered toward the bar, quietly tossing a piece of paper behind him as he passed Lotte.

Lott picked it up without making a sound and examined the location on it.

"The lake to the west is inhabited by ice slimes, the grasslands to the north by knight goblins, and to the east by dryads and lynx ants. The single twin nuns often take walks in the forest late at night... wait, this isn't it."

Lott put the note away and hid it. "The mission starts in an hour. We'll go west to hunt ice slimes first. By the time the adventurers realize what's happening, we'll be in the east. If we're efficient, we can even go north to fight some goblins."

Today, Lotte earned 10 silver coins from a single [Explosion] spell. All he can say now is:

I have to be all!

With a little effort, one could easily earn dozens of silver coins, and even nearly a gold coin.

After the expedition is over, Lotte can go to the blacksmith to forge weapons. By then, money will be no object, and he can use the best materials to make them.

"We're going to have to hunt down so many monsters?" Chloris raised an eyebrow. "I was originally planning to take down a few... Are you sure you're sure it's okay?"

“The monsters around Whitestone Town aren’t very dangerous. Besides, Miss Chloris is protecting me.” Lotte stood up and extended her hand to Chloris. “Let’s go.”

Lotte's breathing meditation allowed him to fight continuously without needing to recover his energy. With Chloris's protection, the two of them were more than capable of sweeping away the low-level monsters in the vicinity.

The two walked onto the streets of Whitestone Town. By now, it was completely dark, and the distant church emitted a gentle white light, symbolizing an inextinguishable hope.

The two went back to the hotel to get their equipment. Lott went downstairs first and left, while Chloris changed her clothes in the room.

After changing, Chloris draped Lott's coat over her arm and headed downstairs.

At the corner of the stairs, a hooded woman was walking uphill.

As they got closer, the figure under the hood gradually came into view.

Those were a pair of ice-blue eyes.

Chloris brushed past the other person, but the color of their eyes seemed very familiar to her.

She slowly stopped walking, turned around and glanced at the other person again, only to find that the other person was also looking at her from the steps.

The two stopped on the stairs, one going up and one going down, staring at each other.

Chapter 37 Fireworks Under the Night Sky

Chloris spoke first: "Do you know me?"

The girl in the greyish-white cloak shook her head, then bowed to Chloris and turned to walk upstairs.

Chloris found it strange. She waited a little longer and found that the other person opened the door to the room next to Lotte's, went in, and then closed the door.

Those beautiful ice-blue eyes of hers must belong to some powerful family. But Chloris couldn't quite place which family they belonged to.

Chloris went downstairs while thinking about it and came to Lotte's side.

Seeing Chloris's furrowed brow, Lott asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just ran into our employer."

"Employer? Is he from that powerful family?"

"Of course it wasn't them; they must have been scouts sent to explore. Their room is right next to ours."

"Oh? We're not going to run into them, are we? Dealing with nobles is so troublesome, we have to bow and all that."

"They must have checked in secretly and wouldn't have deliberately revealed their identities. Judging by the time, they won't arrive in Whitestone Town until after our campaign is over."

Chloris was right; it would take Isolde's carriage more than a day to reach Whitestone Town.

The night in Whitestone Town was quiet, and Lotte and Chloris quietly left.

They headed straight for the lake to the west, intending to hunt ice slimes.

Under the moonlight, the ice slimes surrounding the lake glittered, and wisps of ice mist rose around them.

Chloris donned a tight-fitting cloth armor that accentuated her curves. Close-fitting trousers hugged her long legs, and her black boots landed softly on the ground without making a sound.

She and Lott crouched in the grass, gazing at the vast, shimmering lake in the distance.

Lotte turned his head and saw Chloris's fair profile, her amber eyes filled with excitement.

"Chloris, the Ice Slimes aren't hard to beat. What we lack most is time. We need to wipe them all out before the other adventurers come out."

"clear."

"Go and lure them."

Chloris turned around, staring wide-eyed at Lotte. "Me?"

“It’s just about gathering them all together, then hiding behind and casting the spell.” Lott patted Chloris on the shoulder. “How about we split it 20/80 afterwards?”

"Why only 20/80?" Chloris was getting anxious. She didn't care about aristocratic etiquette anymore. She moved closer to Lotte and said, word by word, "I want 50/50."

"I'm a monk, shouldn't I get at least 70%?"

Chloris bit her lip lightly, and Lotte felt that she was about to pounce on him and bite him at any moment.

He compromised, saying, "Okay, okay, fifty-fifty it is then."

"That's more like it."

Chloris stood up and tied her hair into a high ponytail. "Master Lotte, don't hit me."

After saying that, she held a shield in one hand and a gun in the other, and charged down the slope of the lawn towards the ice slimes.

The ice slimes quickly spotted the intruder. They began to hop around, releasing icy vapors that froze the surrounding lake surface into a thin layer of ice.

A giant ice slime swallowed a smaller ice slime beside it. It then aimed at Chloris, who was charging towards it, and its body glowed blue as it activated its special skill.

[Spray]

The ice slime in its mouth flew out like a missile, covering the lawn with a layer of ice sand wherever it went.

As the ice slime grew larger in her field of vision, Chloris did not choose to dodge. Instead, she raised her shield in her left hand and used the momentum of her forward charge to block the opponent's attack head-on.

"Whoosh—"

The ice slime shattered upon impact with the shield, making a crisp sound, and transformed into a wisp of ice mist that blew towards Chloris's face.

Several layers of frost clung to her eyelashes, and her body felt a bone-chilling cold at that moment.

The enemy's attack had not stopped; several large ice slimes continued to launch [Spray] attacks at Chloris.

Chloris's shield grew heavier and heavier, covered with a thick layer of frost. Her speed began to slow, as if she was finding it difficult to withstand the chill.

She rushed to the side of an ice slime, thrusting her right-hand spear straight into the center of its body.

The moment the spear tip struck the ice slime's body, the violent recoil traveled along the shaft to Chloris's palm, causing the spear tip to slide to the side and ultimately pierce the grass.

Adventurers in White Rock Town rarely provoke Ice Slimes, not only because they are troublesome, but also because their skin is extremely tough, far tougher than that of ordinary monsters.

Most importantly, once you get entangled by a slime, it's very difficult to get rid of it.

Chloris also noticed this.

The surrounding ice slimes hopped and skipped over, and instead of using the [Spray] skill, they squatted down next to Chloris, trying to freeze her with their own icy aura.

Chloris pulled a spear from the grass and stabbed it at the slimes around her, but it was all in vain.

Gradually, more and more ice slimes appeared around Chloris, as if an igloo had been built for her.

Lott sensed something was wrong; he could barely see Chloris anymore!

"Cloris! Are you alright?!"

"It's okay! Don't come any closer!"

"Even if you're stubborn, you'll still..."

Lotte drew his sword, ready to go and provide support. If anything happened to Chloris, he wouldn't be able to explain it to Bald.

He had just taken two steps forward when something strange happened to the igloo made of ice slimes.

Even from a great distance, he could still hear the cracking sound of the igloo splitting open.

A purple blade of light shot out from the cracks in the igloo, followed by a second and a third, the light growing brighter and brighter, as if something inside was rapidly expanding.

"Boom—!"

The roof of the igloo was lifted, and ice shards flew everywhere under the moonlight, glittering brightly.

Like a purple meteor emerging from its cocoon, Chloris soared into the sky, spear in hand.

Under the stars, the girl's graceful figure floated in the air. She flipped lightly in mid-air and landed on the lawn, leaving the encirclement of the ice slime.

"Lotte, prepare the magic quickly!"

Lotte hadn't expected Chloris to be so fierce. He quickly dropped his sword and raised his staff behind him.

A red magic circle appeared, and Lotte began to chant the [Basic Fireball] spell.

Chloris didn't leave immediately. Instead, she lowered her center of gravity and rushed to the ice slimes scattered nearby. With a flick of her wrist, she lifted the ice slimes into the air and precisely placed them into the holes in the igloo's roof.

As the last one was precisely plucked into the hole, all the ice slimes by the lake gathered together. Chloris holstered her gun, leaped back, and called out to Lotte, "Master Lotte, that's enough!"

At that moment, Lotte's magic circle was also completed.

The fireball streaked across the dark night, leaving a trailing arc across the grassland.

"Cloris, run even further!"

Chloris immediately turned around and ran towards Lott.

Although she didn't think a basic fireball was that powerful, it was always better to listen to Lott at this time.

Lott suddenly realized that Chloris was a perfect teammate; at least she wouldn't ask "why" at crucial moments.

The power of a basic fireball spell is indeed not great, let alone a level 2 fireball spell.

But since Lotte has decided to follow the path of a [Construction Mage], he must start practicing the coordination between spells from now on.

Lotte raised his staff, using his senses to aim at the speeding fireball in the air.

A thin blue line appeared above the ice slime, and as the fireball flew past that line, Lot immediately activated [Explosion Lv.5].

The magic exploded in the center of the fireball. Chloris turned around, her bangs being ruffled by a gust of wind.

Beneath her disheveled hair, a dazzling firework reflection appeared in her amber eyes.

As fireworks burst brilliantly in the night sky, the adventurers of Whitestone Town beamed with joy.

After learning that they would receive extra subsidies from the guild for hunting monsters in designated areas, they immediately returned home to retrieve their equipment.

The once quiet streets were now filled with adventurers who jogged towards the nearby hunting grounds, eager to kill as many monsters as possible before anyone else could.

The nuns outside the church also saw the fireworks in the sky. They stopped to watch, put their hands together, and prayed to God and the nuns.

The limited-time commission system in Whitestone Town has officially begun.

Countdown: 48 hours.

Lotte's current earnings: 10 silver coins

Chapter 38 Lotte, Chloris, and Isolde

Dia, a seasoned adventurer from White Rock Town, is well-versed in the areas where monsters roam near White Rock Town.

He led his team to the lake to the west, where a large number of ice slimes usually gather.

"Listen up, Ice Slimes are very difficult to fight. We must not be greedy, or it will be a waste if we get injured." Dia looked at her teammates and kept warning them. "We will kill them one by one, seeking stability while pursuing efficiency."

"Understood, boss."

Dia carefully climbed the hillside, scouting the lakeside for any activity.

The lakeside was deserted and quiet, with no trace of monster activity.

"That's strange... Ice slimes gather here at night, don't they?"

After thinking for a moment, Dia decided to lead the team to the lakeside to investigate.

The four of them nervously scanned their surroundings, fearing that a monster might suddenly appear from somewhere.