My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

"What do you mean?"

Mona forced a smile and explained, "Sir, the situation near the Black Realm border is a bit different from other directly controlled areas of headquarters. We're just a night patrol branch here."

"Whether it's a white token or a black token, they can only mobilize the night patrol forces; they have no binding force on the local nobles' right to trade..."

"and......"

Mona swallowed hard, her voice trailing off: "And even our Night Patrol branch's salaries are paid by the nobles of the Upper City of Moonlit City, so strictly speaking, the Selenes family is our superior..."

To put it more bluntly...

The Night Patrol Division is simply the bodyguards for the various nobles in the Upper City.

If anything unexpected happens, they'll get a lecture.

However, since Adele has always served as the captain of the night patrol, the nobles of Moonlit City have always treated the night patrol members with utmost respect, and no conflicts have ever arisen.

As Mona finished speaking, the Snow Knight froze on the spot.

For the first time, a rare look of blankness appeared on his usually icy and indifferent face.

As a 7th-tier transcendent.

He never imagined that the saying "even a powerful dragon cannot suppress a local snake" would happen to him.

Just as the Snow Knight was still immersed in this feeling of bewilderment.

Weiss had already walked up to him with the white cat.

Just as the two brushed past each other, Weiss gently patted the Snow Knight's shoulder twice, encouraging him in a friendly tone:

"Okay, keep it up, patrol well."

"The safety of everyone in Moonlit City is now in your hands, sir."

"..."

"..."

As those condescending words fell to the ground.

Weiss then arrogantly took the white cat and drove off.

The Snow Knight was left standing there, his expression stiff, looking like he was questioning the meaning of life for a long time.

...

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Regarding the bounty issue, the current monthly pass count is 2387, which has actually been paid off long ago.

Because I didn't include word counts in the chapter titles a few days before the book went on sale, some people went to the chapters where I offered bounties and said I was only offering bounties but not actually giving rewards. That's not true. The current word count for this month is 13. After deducting the guaranteed minimum of 4000 words per day, that's already 5 words more than I've written. Even if we calculate it at 3000 words per chapter, I've already made up for it.

Chapter 56: Reencounter with Jiahao Oliver 5K in the Rain

After leaving the construction site of the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce.

The white cat perched on his shoulder was watching the silver-haired boy with a rather complicated look.

That Snow Knight was a genuine Tier 7 transcendent being, and a master personally dispatched by the Night Patrol Headquarters to guard Moonlit City.

But Weiss, a mere 9th-level Wind Addict, not only remained unfazed throughout, but even dared to provoke them.

Does he even know what a level 7 transcendent being really means?

Thinking of this, Aunt Bai gently poked Weiss's cheek with her paw: "Weren't you... scared just now?"

"afraid of what?"

"He's a level 7 transcendent!" Aunt Bai emphasized seriously, "If he has an extreme personality, he might really kill you first and ask questions later. After all, there have been many cases throughout history of conflicts between night patrol guards and local nobles..."

Upon hearing this, Weiss remained calm and composed.

"If I'm killed, I'll just die on the ground."

"There's no other way. We can't just be so scared that we kneel down and beg for mercy every time we see a level 7 superhuman, can we?"

"Wouldn't that be too embarrassing for the Selenes family...?"

"..."

Aunt Bai was stunned when she heard this.

Then, in a fit of annoyance, it flicked the back of his head with its tail.

What does it mean to be killed and die on the ground?

Making jokes like this at a time like this.

but......

To be honest, Weiss is completely different from how he was when he first arrived at the Selenes family a month ago.

Especially in the short week since Adele left...

It seems to be increasingly in line with the free and unrestrained nature of the natural system.

Just as Vera, a dreamer, is purely a perverted, yandere, and obsessed person, almost all extraordinary individuals become increasingly aligned with their own path of knowledge and action after awakening.

This is one of the reasons why the killing system is more discriminated against.

"I wonder what Adele will think when she sees Weiss like this after she comes back?"

Aunt Bai winked quietly, still somewhat expectant of Adele's reaction.

After all, the better Weiss performs, the shorter Elune's treatment cycle will be.

Currently, everything seems to be moving in a positive direction...

at the same time.

Weiss wasn't as nonchalant as Aunt Bai thought.

Because he wasn't thinking about the Snow Knight at all—

Within ten seconds of meeting the other person, he had already completely seen through their emotions.

He possesses extraordinary power at the seventh level, but it is not enough.

However, he is a person who is deeply bound by rules.

Unless you directly defecate on his head, the other party will at most be impotently furious and sulk, but will never really have the intention to kill someone as insignificant as you.

More than fighting and arguing with that Snow Knight to determine a winner, Weiss was more troubled by the matter of the 7th-tier magic potion.

Since Aunt Bai was also there today, he didn't extort the Starry Sky Merchant Guild in person. Instead, he casually inquired about the market price of 7th-tier magic potions from Zell.

Then......

He immediately abandoned the idea of ​​buying it.

Let alone trying to save money on your own.

Even if he were to sneak into the Serenis family's treasury right now and take all the stock to sell, he probably still wouldn't be able to scrape together enough to buy a few drops of a Tier 7 potion.

"It seems I'll have to settle down at level 8 for a while..."

"Compared to Tier 8, the price difference for Tier 7 is ridiculously high."

"That Zell was incredibly wealthy to give me a drop yesterday. It seems he's really going all out to secure the license to Moonlit City."

Weiss sighed silently to himself.

Just then, Aunt Bai, who was perched on my shoulder, suddenly let out a soft "hmm," and then stretched out a cat paw, gesturing towards the side of the street.

"Weiss, look over there."

"Wow, there were so many people gathered around!"

Weiss looked in the direction Aunt Bai pointed.

Not far away, a large crowd had gathered around a spacious fountain square, where a temporary platform with a night patrol flag had been erected.

A banner hung next to the platform—

Temporary Night Patrol Recruitment

Whether commoner or noble, anyone registered in Moonlit City is eligible to answer the call.

Only for the extraordinary

"..."

"..."

"Hiring night patrol personnel?"

Weiss raised an eyebrow slightly.

He remembered that when he first awakened to be a vagrant, he went to the night patrol to ask about it, and was then kicked away as if he were just a stray dog ​​on the roadside.

Back then, the rules and regulations were incredibly complicated, and there was a one-year probationary period before one could officially start working.

Ordinary civilians simply could not pass through.

Unexpectedly, all these restrictions have now been lifted.

"It seems the situation in Moonlit City is really not optimistic lately..."

"It feels like the number of tourists from outside the area has increased more than tenfold in the past few days."

"There weren't many people who would have gone to the underworld before."

Aunt Bai also sighed softly.

The number of ordinary tourists and extraordinary beings from outside the city has increased dramatically, and the current manpower for night patrols in Moonlit City is clearly stretched thin and simply cannot keep up with the demand.

That's why they suddenly need to expand manpower from the Upper District, right?

Moreover, a closer look will reveal this.

Surprisingly, most of those surrounding them were well-dressed and distinguished noblemen.

Logically speaking, these young masters and ladies born with a silver spoon in their mouths would never care about the meager salary for night patrols.

What they really coveted was the identity of a member of the Night Patrol.

It's equivalent to having a formal employment contract...

I couldn't pass the exam before.

Now you can come in freely.

Moreover, once they have the right to travel freely at night, even a good-for-nothing aristocratic playboy like Oliver will be looked up to by his family.

Weiss originally intended to take a detour, but Aunt Bai unexpectedly became very interested.

There was nothing he could do but stand on the periphery and show Aunt Bai around.

Fortunately, I have a height advantage, so I don't have to squeeze to the front of the crowd to see clearly.

...

On the platform, several members dressed in night patrol uniforms were casually screening the extraordinary individuals who came to apply.

The process is very simple.

After the extraordinary individual reports the information, they must demonstrate their extraordinary abilities to prove that the abilities match the information, and then they will pass the test.

After more than ten minutes, even those methods that were weaker and less effective than those for drug addicts were easily chosen.

They've practically accepted anyone who comes their way.

Just as Weiss was getting drowsy, Aunt Bai on his shoulder suddenly let out a strange cry.

"Hey? Weiss, look, who's that?!"

"Ok?"

Weiss forced himself to look around the crowd and, sure enough, spotted a familiar figure at the very front.

He was a brown-haired young man dressed in an expensive suit, with an arrogant expression and cold eyes.

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