Mages, Adventurers, and Women

"The deconstruction wasn't just aimed at the magic stone tablet. This upgrade was because in the dark world, the secret language of my Chain Fireball spell was also deconstructed, which made it easier for me to find the true name of the Chain Fireball spell."

"Also... I'm so hungry! So thirsty!"

outside the house.

After eating two pieces of dry bread and drinking a whole horn-shaped jug of water, Li Wei recovered.

The goblin corpses were piled up together.

Li Wei set them ablaze and performed a ritual to help them pass on to the afterlife.

Softly chanting, "Amitabha, Infinite Heavenly Venerable, may the Lord bless you."

Bones and Duron exchanged a glance, wondering what Levi was doing.

However, given Li Wei's apparent erudition, they feared that if they asked any questions, he would ridicule them as "illiterate."

I decided to keep quiet.

The four planned to rest here for the night and return to Rolling Stone Town at dawn the next morning.

The Scandinavian Mountains are not suitable for traveling at night.

"Ow—"

"Ow—"

Plans can't keep up with changes.

The sudden, continuous barking of dogs disrupted the four's plans.

Li Wei warned, "The sound is probably from level 1-6 kobold monsters in the central region of the Navia Mountains. These guys love to travel in groups. If we can't beat them, we'll retreat!"

The four had already packed their things and immediately took the map of the "Goblin Camp" and ran in the opposite direction.

They left not long ago.

Twenty or thirty kobolds stormed into the goblin camp, bravely extinguishing the flames and dragging out the burning goblin corpses to feast on.

A night of running around.

We'll be back in Rolling Stone in a little over half a day.

Li Wei and his three companions found a place to rest on the grassland.

The bone cursed:

"Monsters are a bunch of savages too. They clearly stay in the middle circle and don't bother each other, but we just happened to run into a bunch of crazed kobolds who came to the outer circle to prey on us. A bunch of mongrel dogs, taller and stronger than me, what did they eat to grow up like that?"

"A savage life" is a proverb from the continent of Grand.

Because a barbarian's life consists of a litter of cubs, it's difficult for him to take care of each one.

In the continent of Grande, the treatment of barbarian cubs is mocked as "bastard treatment."

The vulgar translation is: son of a bitch.

Duron's wound was simply bandaged with strips of cloth, and after a night of running, it was bleeding profusely again.

Thanks to his dwarf physique, he looked energetic and asked with great interest:

"Li Wei, everyone says that monsters are smart, but I don't think they are that smart. They stay in the central circle and stay in the central circle, unlike us, who can go all over the continent."

Li Wei sat beside Julia, and when he had something to ask, he gave a perfunctory answer:

"If you were a nobleman from the Golden Kingdom, would you come to Rolling Stone Town for an adventure?"

Before Duron could answer, Bones spoke first:

"Forget the rich Golden Kingdom, I wouldn't come to Rolling Stone Town even if you gave me a noble position in the barren Sand Duchy. I need to sleep with five... no, a hundred dancers every day!"

Li Wei shrugged: "The monsters in the middle circle think the same way. The deeper into the Navia Mountains, the better the resources. They would have to be crazy to run to the outer circle to steal resources from goblins, mud monsters, and minotaurs."

Yulia, envisioning the hot springs of Rolling Stone, smiled and said in a good mood, "A straightforward explanation."

Li Wei closed the book he was reading and asked calmly but firmly:

“Yulia, Bones and Duron believe that I am possessed by a monster, but you obviously don’t think so, right?”

"To put it more bluntly... have you encountered or witnessed a situation similar to what I experienced in the goblin camp?"

Yulia was taken aback.

He said softly, "That's right."

Li Wei's pupils contracted as he recalled the boundless darkness and the solid elemental boost feedback, which was both unsettling and intoxicating.

That might be a shortcut to rapid improvement and becoming stronger.

He asked, "Where is that?"

"The World of Mysterious Mist".

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Chapter 14: Trinity

Absolute ignorance is no different from idiocy, while relative ignorance is a kind of happiness.

Bones and Duron were very happy.

They could understand the words "Secret Mist World" that Li Wei and Yulia used, but they couldn't understand what the two said next.

It's like a book written in the heavens.

Play the piano on the cow.

The Scandinavian Mountains are rich in spruce wood, with grain patterns resembling undulating ocean waves. It contains oils, making it ideal for firewood.

The crackling firelight illuminated Yulia's beautiful face.

Her sky-blue eyes flickered as she recalled a strange and unsettling experience.

“I’m not a native of Rolling Stones.”

"It was calm," Yulia said.

The explanation of "The World of Mystery" is related to her experiences.

After much deliberation, Julia decided to open her heart to Levi.

It wasn't a signal that she was willing to sleep with Li Wei, but rather that she needed someone to confide in about her homesickness.

"I know."

Li Wei analyzed:

"Your eyes are characteristic of the White Tower region's humans, but your language has a very heavy southern accent, while your body belongs to the Pinku people of the Eastern Continent."

"I guess one of your immediate family members is from the South. He/she was there as you grew up, and your White Tower lineage is relatively diluted. Perhaps your ancestors migrated from the White Tower region to the Eastern Continent?"

Yulia said admiringly, "You're right. I am indeed from the Eastern Continent. My mother is from the Southern Continent, and my grandmother was a mage's servant in the White Tower region. Later, she followed the mage to settle in the Eastern Continent."

"The Eastern Continent?"

He interjected, munching on a bone while chewing on dry bread, "Is it far from Rolling Stone?"

Li Wei used the most apt word possible to describe it:

"From the day you were born, you could walk from Rolling Stone Town to the Eastern Continent, and you would never reach the Eastern Continent until the day you die."

The lifespan of an ordinary orc is approximately 150-200 years.

Upon hearing this, Bone scoffed, "That's so far! It must be an even more barren and desolate place than the Mad Sand Kingdom. I'm not going."

His words provoked Julia, who argued back:

"Ignorant orc, what do you know!"

"My hometown has a highly developed alchemy and economy, a million times better than Rolling Stone Town!"

The bones, lacking knowledge of alchemy and economics, offered a poignant retort:

"Your hometown is so nice, what are you doing in Rolling Stone Town?"

Julia laughed in exasperation and cursed:

"Do you think I wanted to come to this shitty place, Rolling Stones?!"

"The streets reek of sweat and stench! Rolling Stone is the worst town I've ever seen in terms of living conditions! If I hadn't been forced to, I would never have come here to suffer like this!"

Bone wanted to argue his point, but Li Wei stopped him.

He asked softly, "Tell me about the Misty World—the Eastern Continent is too far away; perhaps we'll never have the chance to go there in our lifetime."

Yulia said irritably, "Shut up! Don't rush me! I'm talking!"

Touching the most sensitive part of her heart, the simple-minded Yulia turned into a mad dog.

Yulia said that the Eastern Continent was completely different from the Northern Continent where Li Wei lived.

Alchemy was highly developed there.

They admire "secret martial arts" and despise the "secret techniques" of legal professionals.

"You would never imagine that there exists a colossal creature in the world capable of slaying a dragon with a single alchemical cannon shot—'The Boundless Wheel' is the pinnacle of alchemy in the Eastern Continent. Even those who operate it are not as skilled as Level 1 professionals, yet it can unleash such immense power!"

"The magic system? Heh, they're just a bunch of barbarians who use elements—Li Wei, don't get me wrong, I wasn't talking about you, you're different from them."

“Bones and Dulong cultivate battle qi, while I cultivate ‘secret martial arts.’ Everyone in the Eastern Continent cultivates secret martial arts. This is a way to become stronger that has been passed down since ancient times. After being improved by generations of secret martial arts experts, it has become the most suitable way to become stronger for the Eastern Continent.”

"The difference between battle aura and secret weapons is like the height difference between Duron and a giant."

Li Wei understood.

Duron understood the racial slur in the last sentence and responded with a low curse in Dwarven language.

The Eastern Continent is a region where the mysterious art of alchemy has been maxed out.

As for the secret weapon...

Li Wei asked, "You came to Rolling Stone Town by chance. Is it related to the Secret Martial Arts?"

Yulia nodded, her expression slightly forlorn, and said:

“Every martial arts practitioner will encounter the ‘Mystic Mist Domain,’ where the most needed professional initiation ceremony, ancient martial arts heritage, and other secrets are found…”

What is the relationship between the World of Mysterious Mist and the Realm of Mysterious Mist?

Li Wei pressed for an answer.

Julia thought carefully, and then said:

"The Misty Realm is like the garden of an ancient castle, and the Misty World is like the residence of an ancient castle."

"There are two ways for the Secret Mist Domain to appear. One is that after a long period of training, a Secret Martial Arts practitioner can actively summon the Secret Mist Domain. Although this takes a long time, it is safer and the Secret Mist Domain they enter is more controllable."

"Another scenario is like mine. The Mystic Mist Domain randomly summons exceptionally talented martial arts practitioners to enter—don't even think about escaping. When the Mystic Mist Domain appears, there's no disturbance whatsoever. I was eating breakfast, and the moment I took my first bite of the truffle jam bread my mother made, I was chosen by the Mystic Mist Domain..."

“There was only a bow and arrow and a fixed target there. I couldn’t escape or leave. There was no concept of time or direction. Everything around me was white. There was no darkness or fatigue. All I could do was keep practicing archery.”

"I don't know how long I trained, until one day, my memories told me that I had become a 'Hunter,' a special class within the 'Ranger' profession that specializes in secret weapons. The bow and the target disappeared, and I appeared in the unfamiliar Rolling Stone Town..."

"A hidden profession?" Li Wei muttered to himself.

The memories stirred up Julia's homesickness.

In her desperation, she asked, "Li Wei, you've read a lot of books, do you know how to get back to my old home through the Misty Domain?"

"No."

Julia was greatly disappointed and said:

"This is the Mist World as I know it. I have never been inside the Mist World, but my teacher told me that the Mist World is a real world."

"Going in too much will drive you crazy and cause mutations—every year, a large number of weapons and equipment are sealed by powerful organizations in the Eastern Continent. I overheard my teacher mentioning this by chance. She said that those sealed weapons and equipment were actually mystical weapon practitioners who went crazy after entering the Mystic Mist World too much!"

"I understand."

Li Wei said calmly.

The idea of ​​people being turned into weapons sounds like a fantasy.

However, it failed to elicit even the slightest emotional response from Li Wei.