Mages, Adventurers, and Women

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The border of the Principality of Mad Sands is more than 3,000 li away from Rolling Stone Town.

Since the yellow horse is a living creature, it cannot be put into a storage ring, so it can only be reached on foot in Rolling Stone Town.

Along the way, they will also face unexpected risks such as attacks by monsters and beasts, and natural disasters.

If five out of ten yellow horses manage to survive when they reach Rolling Stone Town, that would be considered lucky.

With the addition of hiring escorts, the cost of a yellow horse sold to Rolling Stone Town skyrocketed to 30 gold coins.

In contrast to the exorbitant pricing practices of dry bread.

The horse traders in Rolling Stone Town are only selling for 50 gold coins, not because they've had a change of heart.

50 gold coins is an astronomical price for many adventurers. He dared to imitate the pricing method of the dry bread vendor, and the already hard-to-sell yellow horse could only be "priced but not available".

"Li Wei, let's do it!"

The skeletons were relentlessly searching for adventurer teams suitable to seize territory.

Duron and Julia were eager to try.

This is the law of the jungle for the adventurers of Rolling Stone.

Li Wei temporarily held them back.

You have to use your brain to fight for territory.

The adventurer party in Baron Dela's castle was entirely composed of level 1 goblin adventurers.

There are more than 20 teams in the collapsed residential area.

Each team has a double digit number of members. According to the Adventurers' Guild's requirements, a level 1 goblin adventurer team, including the team leader, can register a maximum of five members.

The extra people were hired by these small teams.

Many adventurers who have lost their teammates are not eligible to regroup within a year, and having no quests in Rolling Stone means they are waiting to die.

He then infiltrated other teams as a "temporary worker," doing the hardest work and receiving the lowest wages.

If the adventurer party they're attached to turns out to be weak, the temporary worker will also take on the role of a bandit.

Hiring "temporary workers" in Rolling Stone is a double-edged sword; if managed well, it can enhance the team's strength, but if managed poorly, it can increase the danger.

Li Wei pondered for a moment, realizing that there were too many adventurer teams in the residential area, making it unsuitable to engage them.

In the Baron's Castle area shrouded in mist, small teams could be seen occasionally moving in and out.

Seven carriages were parked outside the misty area.

Each one has two yellow horses.

A squad that dares to display its carriages outside, unafraid of being targeted, demonstrates confidence in its strength.

In Rolling Stone, a horse-drawn carriage signifies wealth and status.

You can't go inside the castle either.

Finally, Li Wei turned his attention to the fifty-eight adventurer teams in the farmland area.

Observe them one by one.

He had a goal.

The farmland area may seem like a deserted expanse, but it is also divided into different levels.

Those teams with "magic-based professionals" are the bosses, and their territory is about three times larger than that of adventurer teams without "magic-based professionals".

There are a total of eight adventurer teams in the farmland area, all of which have "magic-based professionals".

Six priests and two elemental mages.

One of them is a fire elemental mage.

His adventurer party had the largest territory, which was related to the fact that the fire elemental mage had the strongest attack power.

This squad brazenly encroached on the space of the surrounding squads, while the other squads swallowed their anger and dared not speak out.

Li Wei set his sights on him.

Taking over territory under the guise of "eliminating harm for the people" provides a legitimate reason for the action.

Moreover, this squad is the most domineering in the farmland area, so dealing with them can avoid a lot of trouble later.

Li Wei, along with Julia and the other two, approached.

Along the way, someone whistled rudely at Yulia, uttered vulgarities, and even tried to take on Yulia after dealing with the skeletal undead in front of him, which caused the people around to burst into laughter.

This is not the Adventurers' Guild.

Yulia decisively shot an arrow through his shoulder blade, causing him to howl in pain on the ground.

His teammates tried to retaliate, but Bones and Duron reacted quickly, each taking down one of them, leaving only the lone captain, who was sweating profusely and waving his hands, saying:

"Don't...don't be impulsive, I'll give you this place."

Li Wei remained unresponsive throughout, allowing Yulia and the other two to take action.

The adventurers in Rolling Stone Town are all scoundrels; they'll only stop bullying you when you really hurt them.

If you show even the slightest sign of "weakness or forbearance," these guys will swarm you and devour you whole, leaving not even a bone fragment.

Other adventurer teams in the farmland turned their attention to this, unsure of what these four troublemakers were up to.

The fire mage targeted by Li Wei is dealing with a "ghost".

His four teammates wanted to save the "True Potion" and protected the fire mage, letting him handle the situation alone.

The fire mage was a pure-blooded human, dressed in a pale red mage's robe, and holding a slender 50-centimeter-long staff with a fiery red gem the size of an eyeball embedded at its head. This staff provided little help; its only purpose was to prove that he was a mage with a staff.

This person had short, neat hair, a round face, and raised eyebrows. The way he looked at his teammates was similar to how he looked at ghosts.

He scolded, "Someone's coming! Are you blind? Don't let them disturb my spellcasting!"

Li Wei and his three companions stopped at the right moment, standing on the edge of their territory, waiting quietly for the round-faced monk to perform.

The round-faced mage glanced at Li Wei and his group of four. Apart from Julia, who had just made a move, who was worth noting, were they an orc, a dwarf, and a black-haired, black-eyed human in a tattered gray robe pretending to be a magic-based professional?

How vain!

No matter how you look at it, Li Wei and the other three were just a bunch of rabble in his eyes.

He then turned his attention to the ghost.

He raised his staff forward, like a conductor of a concert, and devoutly said:

"e-long, lili, ku-long, beng!"

As he finished casting the spell, a fireball the size of a baby's fist condensed at the tip of his staff, which he then threw at the floating ghost. The fireball struck the ghost, sending sparks flying and utterly enraging it.

Bone burst out laughing:

"Li Wei, this guy mumbled a bunch of nonsense and then conjured up a spark?"

"This is called a fireball spell?"

Bone's words pierced the round-faced mage's ears, enraging him at the ignorant and despicable orc.

Just as he was glaring angrily, Li Wei's explanation drifted over.

"It's not nonsense. Spells require the use of arcane languages to communicate with the elements and gather magical power."

"The esoteric language has a total of 98 single characters and 298 combined characters."

"Each character has eight tones, the first four are monotones and the last four are combination tones."

"Each tone of each character has a different meaning."

“When he cast the spell, he chanted ‘e-long,’ which you can understand as ‘devout believer,’ ‘lili’ is a call, ‘ku-long’ represents the element of fire, and the final ‘beng’ means to descend.”

"The full meaning is—devout believers call upon the fire element to descend."

"But he mispronounced the tone of 'ku-long'. 'ku-long' should be pronounced as the third single tone, but he pronounced it as the sixth combined tone. This is a common mistake that many fire element mages make. It changes the meaning from 'fire element' to 'flame', so his fireball spell became 'sparks'."

The round-faced monk was taken aback. He glared at the unkempt Li Wei and angrily rebuked him:

"Who are you! What do you know?!"

"That's how the Mage Association teaches!"

"Are you more proficient in magic than the Mage Guild?!"

Li Wei snapped his fingers lightly.

A fireball the size of a human head, blazing with flames, suddenly appeared above the enraged ghost's head.

It crashed down with lightning speed.

The ghost was swiftly blasted into dust by Li Wei's fireball.

In comparison, the round-faced mage was instantly annihilated, leaving not a trace.

Li Wei said calmly:

"The power of magic-based professionals does not lie in controlling the elements, but in finding the root of the elements' activity on the continent of Grand by deconstructing each spell."

"If you are just a sorcerer who follows teachings and chants spells, you will be nothing more than a slave bound by the elements throughout your life."

"The Mage Association is powerful, but that doesn't mean every mage in the Mage Association is right."

The round-faced monk blushed deeply, overwhelmed with shame, and stammered for a long time before finally saying:

"You...you didn't chant any spells or cast any magic...how am I supposed to know you're right..."

Bones sneered loudly:

"Because he's older than you!"

Most of the farmland's gaze was fixed on this area.

Li Wei revealed his intentions:

"Now, do you want to give this place to us?"

"still……"

Li Wei paused for a moment.

Five fireballs, each the size of a human head, appeared out of thin air above the heads of the five round-faced mages.

They felt an imminent threat of death.