A fantastical journey across the heavens, beginning with the Witcher.

"what!"

A sudden feeling of weightlessness washed over her, and Olivia gasped in surprise.

Fortunately, she was already used to the dizziness of the portal. If it were an ordinary woman, she would have been so frightened that she would have clung tightly to the Witcher and trembled.

The moment the two crashed into the tree canopy, Li De grabbed the female sorceress with one hand and tried to slow them down by grabbing a branch with the other.

However, the branches are too slender; if you grab one, it will break, making it difficult to maintain your balance.

He simply rolled over, face down, using himself as a cushion.

At that height, the sorceress would surely die upon landing first; while he would at most experience a slight nausea.

boom!

Two figures crashed heavily to the ground, the thick layer of humus absorbing most of the impact.

Li De only felt a slight jolt in his back before landing safely.

Olivia sat up, looking around blankly.

"How...how did you do that?"

Li De casually pushed the female elf who was straddling his waist aside, stood up, and brushed the withered leaves off his back.

"Are you out of your mind? You're already inside the portal, why are you running back?"

Olivia pouted, feeling wronged: "Weren't you going to risk your life to cover our retreat? I came back to save you."

Li De rolled his eyes slightly: "That bunch of lousy fish, apart from the leader who has some skill, the rest of them combined wouldn't last more than a few rounds against me. If you hadn't suddenly come back, I would have already been trying to kill General Wild Hunt. I'm quite interested in his armor."

"boast…"

After muttering something under her breath, the female elf's sense of crisis overcame her grievances, and she said quickly, "Now that we've escaped, let's hurry up and leave, lest the Wild Hunt navigator track us down using the teleportation spell."

Before Li De could reply, another somewhat frivolous voice drifted over first.

"It seems this young lady doesn't quite trust my amazing gadget. Rest assured, if Wild Hunt is capable of tracking us down, it won't be chased away like a stray dog ​​by White Frost."

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"Who?"

Olivia looked in the direction of the sound and saw a ragged, short-haired man sitting on a tree branch, looking at them with great interest, a strange smile on his lips.

"Tsk tsk, another stunning beauty. The last time I saw you, you were accompanied by a sorceress, I think her name was... Fringilla Vigo. I really admire you, you always manage to get involved with beautiful sorceresses."

The man in the tree swung his legs, looking as relaxed as if he were on a picnic in the woods.

Li De pulled out a sharp, splintered leaf from his collar and casually pulled the sorceress to her feet.

"You've become interested in beautiful women too? I always thought demons didn't have penises."

"It's just a routine compliment. I always put my clients' feelings first, especially someone like you... what's that word again? VIP?"

The man's voice carried a deliberately feigned ingratiation, making it sound particularly hypocritical.

Li De didn't even lift his eyelids, and said indifferently, "Forget it, Odim. What do you want with me this time?"

"I just noticed that my gadgets were being used, and I came over out of curiosity. I thought you were in big trouble and I could trick you into signing a contract with me. Who would have thought that I would be surrounded by a pack of stray dogs?"

After saying that, Gant Odim leaped down and landed on the ground as lightly as a feather.

"Just a heads-up, this precious little life-saving gadget will be destroyed after one more use. Coincidentally, I have many similar gadgets here, and I can give them all to you, as long as you sign a contract with me."

He walked up to the Witcher, whose ordinary face, so common that it would be lost in a crowd, was now shrouded in shadow, his eyes gleaming with a scarlet light, exuding an oppressive aura.

Li De didn't even look at him, and lightly patted his face twice with the back of his hand, making a loud slapping sound.

He then walked past him, chose a direction, and strode away.

Olivia quickly followed.

She didn't know who this man who suddenly appeared was. Judging from their conversation, the two were old acquaintances, but they were definitely not friends.

Odim seems very powerful, belittling the Wild Hunt and possessing many amazing items.

For example, the badge we just saw not only had no spellcasting process, but it could teleport people away simply by activating it; it didn't even cause any discomfort when crossing space, it was just like... teleportation.

How could such a powerful figure be so lenient with Li De? The two slaps to the face were clearly humiliating. Even friends would fall out, but Odim didn't show any reaction. He even had the leisure to shrug and spread his hands at her, as if to say: There's nothing I can do about it, that's just his temper.

Gantt didn't chase after them, but shouted loudly at the receding figure.

"Fate has told me you'll come for me sooner or later, Li De. Let's sign the contract now while there's still room for negotiation, so everyone's happy. Once I've gained the upper hand, things won't be so easy."

Li De waved his hand without turning his head.

"We'll see when the time comes; fate hasn't told me yet."

Günter Odim chuckled twice, using an aristocratic farewell to bring this doomed conversation to a close.

Then, his body, like a sketch erased by an eraser, slowly dissipated into the air.

After walking for more than ten minutes, and making sure that the man named Odim hadn't followed, Olivia dared to lower her voice and ask, "Who... is he?"

Li De glanced at the cautious sorceress and chuckled, "There's no need to speak so softly. Even if you lower your voice, it will still know who's talking about it. Besides, didn't you already guess?"

Olivia's eyes widened, her suspicions confirmed, and she muttered to herself, "He...he's a devil?"

Li De did not answer immediately. Instead, he walked to a section of broken tree and used his dagger to scrape open the mud grooves on the surface of the stump, revealing the clear growth rings underneath.

The side with sparse tree rings is south, and the side with dense tree rings is north; this applies to the Northern Hemisphere.

Having determined the direction, he continued forward, casually replying to the sorceress's question.

"Who knows? Demons, devils, evil gods... In short, they're the things in folk tales that trick people into signing contracts by promising to grant their wishes, then exploit loopholes in the rules to torture the contract recipients until they're neither human nor ghost, and in the end, they can only cry and beg for their souls in return."

"It likes to call itself the Master of Mirrors, or the Glass Boy. Its real name is Gant O'Dim, though I don't know if it's made up or real. What? You have dreams too?"

Olivia's heart was in turmoil.

With the portal base destroyed, her chances of finding her people again in this lifetime are extremely slim.

If it's a legendary demon, perhaps it can truly help her fulfill her wish.

But... just as Li De said, demons are creatures full of wicked humor, and once a contract is signed, they will inevitably be schemed against.

Her people had gone through countless hardships to reach the new world, and she didn't want to bring the risks with her.

After hesitating for a moment, she firmly shook her head: "No."

"A wise move."

After walking a while longer, Olivia spoke again: "How did you meet it? It seems... it needs something from you."

Even she herself found this statement absurd; it's always been people who beg the devil, never the other way around.

"Want to hear a story?"

Li De suddenly stopped and looked at the female elf with a meaningful expression.

Olivia swallowed and nodded slightly: "I want to."

Li De leaned close to her ear, his breath brushing against her pointed, fair earlobe, as if brewing the beginning of a story.

Two seconds later, a deep voice came: "I'm not telling you."

After saying that, he turned and left.

"you!"

Olivia's cheeks flushed with embarrassment at first, then she turned red with anger.

She stomped her foot angrily and hurried after him.