Mages, Adventurers, and Women

"Li Wei, why aren't you making a move? Have you let that freckled girl's big breasts corrupt your thinking?"

On the way to the Navia Mountains, Yulia's Yin-Yang Path.

Li Wei flipped through the miscellaneous books and said:

"The royal family of the Golden Kingdom has a very unique appearance: irregular pink freckles are distributed on the bridge of their noses and below their eye sockets."

"But the freckles on that girl's face were black."

Julia argued.

“No,” Li Wei continued, “Her freckles were pink, but they were painted black using a special method.”

"You're saying she's a member of the royal family of the Golden Kingdom?"

"At first I was just suspicious. Lady Frey mentioned that a princess from the Golden Kingdom had smuggled herself into Rolling Stone. I thought it was too much of a coincidence, until I examined the rapier in her hand closely. Look—"

Li Wei turned to page thirty-one of the "Illustrations of the Royal Family of the Golden Kingdom" drawn by the bard, and pointed to a passage on it, saying:

"Twenty years ago, the King of the Golden Kingdom named his nineteenth child, 'Sylvie,' to celebrate the birth of his nineteenth child. In the Golden Kingdom's common language, this name means abundance. He also gave Sylvie the 'Sword of Dew,' a symbol of abundance in the Golden Kingdom, as her first gift upon arriving on the continent of Grand."

Below the description, a picture of a rapier is posted.

Bone and Duron didn't notice anything amiss.

Yulia exclaimed, "It's the rapier that the freckled girl was holding?!"

Li Wei said, "Now do you understand why I didn't take action? Sylvie is the person Frey is looking for. If she were to be injured or die because of me and Klek, would Lady Frey spare me?"

"Moreover, the killing of Klek must not be known to anyone else. Lady Frey strictly forbids us from fighting amongst ourselves."

Julia suddenly realized, "I thought you wanted to sleep with her, so I let Klecker off this time."

Li Wei clicked his tongue and shared his thoughts:

"Ever since I slept with Elda, I've realized one thing: the woman I sleep with can't be better than me."

"Neither their strength nor their status can cause me trouble under the bed."

“Sylvie is such a nuisance. Even if a woman of her status stripped naked and crawled into my bed, I wouldn’t touch her.”

"Who knows if the Golden Kingdom will capture me and keep me as a male concubine in a cage because of her? The book says that nobles have some unique fetishes."

Julia scoffed:

"You said last time that you wouldn't be interested even if I took my clothes off, but what happened?"

Li Wei: "You're not a problem. Your family is in the Eastern Continent, and this is the Northern Continent. In fact, even if you were in the Northern Continent, you would have more connections than I do."

"go to hell!"

Julia shouted.

……

The following afternoon.

Li Wei and his three companions approached the reconnaissance site for Frey's mission—the Central Lake.

Bones, in a good mood, said, "Li Wei, wasn't I right before we set off? Those trashy kobolds are no match for me. Did they see me running in and out of the kobold camp eight times at noon?"

"The brave Bilal orcs are ten thousand times stronger than those despicable dwarves!"

Dulong said disdainfully, "I killed thirteen kobolds, and you only killed eight."

Bones cursed, "That's because you always target those kobolds I cleaved in two with my sword!"

Dulong said quietly, "That's also a symbol of my strength."

Seeing that the two were about to argue over such a trivial matter again, Li Wei cursed, "Shut your stinking mouths! We're on an adventure mission, not on a picnic!"

Bones, his confidence swelling, said, "Li Wei, you're too tense. With our strength, what monsters or beasts in the entire central region of the Navia Mountains can threaten us? The kobold mission was completed so easily. Smile, don't keep such a tense face."

“Yes, Levi, relax. This isn’t Baron Della’s castle. There aren’t that many ‘Undead Generals’ here.”

Dulong smiled and echoed.

"Shut up!"

Seeing that Li Wei was getting angry, Bone and Dulong quickly covered their mouths.

The four walked through the spruce forest and stood on a high slope, where a huge, shimmering lake appeared in the distance.

Li Wei paused in his steps.

The bone stepped forward and took a closer look.

He exclaimed in surprise:

"Kurich!"

"What is that?!"

……

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Chapter 43: The Immortal

Life is like a sexually frustrated bitch; just when you think you've conquered her, she tells you:

"That's it?"

Li Wei understood that Yulia, Bones, and Duron were proud and complacent due to their sudden surge in power.

Barren land and a life of hardship cannot cultivate a "rational" person like him.

If Julia and her two companions had Levi's "rationality," they wouldn't have wasted their time in Rolling Stone Town, mingling among the lower-class adventurers and constantly struggling for the meager monthly rent of two gold coins in the Rolling Stone District.

Li Wei won't be tied to them; he doesn't need overly rational teammates.

The current state of the lakes in the central part of the Scandinavian Mountains dragged Yulia and her two companions down from their proud, cloud-like state into a pile of decaying spruce leaves at their feet.

In Li Wei's view, this is a good thing.

Although the current state of the central lakes is truly... bizarre...

View from above.

The Scandinavian Mountains are a giant mountain range with three distinct sections.

One side of the mountain range stands across one of the few grasslands in the Monster Hills, while the other side is adjacent to the central circle of the Monster Hills.

The lake in the middle of the mountain range is located in the buffer zone connecting the second and third sections.

In Li Wei's view, the lake resembles a crescent moon.

The lake, which should have been as smooth as a mirror and shimmering with light, was now filled with a large number of "sawtooth fishmen".

The serrated fish-men have a human-like upper body, flexible arms, and strong biceps, while their lower body is that of a fish with large fins. After landing, they lack legs, which greatly reduces their strength.

Its skin is pale green, and its head is like the back of a toad, with pits and bumps. The most conspicuous feature is the "gills" on both sides of its cheeks.

A quick glance.

Thousands of sawtooth fishmen were floating on the lake, and Li Wei guessed that all the sawtooth fishmen in the lake had gathered here.

They all face the stone statue in the middle of the lake.

The stone statue was too far away to see the details clearly, but it looked like a humanoid woman, all white, naked and spotless.

The strange thing is...

Suddenly, a saw-toothed fishman wore a foolish smile and snapped his own neck without warning.

The sawtooth fishman beside him, seeing his companion commit suicide in such a barbaric manner, not only showed no sadness, but instead revealed an expression of "envy".

Li Wei saw all of this clearly with his discerning eye.

Needless to say.

The cause of all this is related to the stone statues in the lake.

"The slight fluctuation in the lake's magic that Frey noticed, could it be related to the stone statue?"

Li Wei wasn't sure, but he was certain that there were no statues when Frey came to investigate.

Otherwise, he would definitely tell him, or destroy the statue.

There were four adventurer teams on the shore, one of which was an old acquaintance of Levi's.

These adventurers all did the same thing—steal corpses.

Or rather, it's about openly and legitimately stealing corpses.

The serrated fish-men who committed suicide floated on the lake, their companions ignoring their deaths.

An adventurer attempted to enter the water, only to find that the surviving sawtooth fishmen completely ignored him.

If they block the adventurer's path, they will voluntarily move aside.

The adventurers grew bolder and bolder.

He quickly paddled a few strokes, picked up the first sawtooth fishman corpse, grabbed it by the gills and dragged it back to shore. The surviving sawtooth fishman showed no signs of making a move.

puff-

On the shore, the adventurer ripped out the heart of the sawtooth merman and laughed:

"Haha! What a great thing!"

An adventurer's success triggered a chain reaction, with everyone rushing to the lake to snatch the corpse of the serrated fishman who had committed suicide.

The serrated fish-men are like porridge given by a saint to the poor, and their suicide rate is getting higher and higher.

Standing on high ground.

Yulia and the other two remained silent, trembling with fear.

Their inflated power makes them unafraid to engage in a real battle with the Sawtooth Fishmen.

I am particularly afraid of this bizarre phenomenon.

Pato, the mage who had had his fireball spell corrected by Levi at Baron Dela's castle, had just dragged the corpse of a serrated merman who had committed suicide ashore. Seeing Levi and his companions above, he excitedly waved and said:

"Teacher Li Wei! Come quick, the Sawtooth Fishman is giving out gold coins!"

In the adventurer quest that Li Wei accepted, the Serrated Merman Heart was worth as much as 1 gold and 50 silver each.

Normally, the market price is stable at 1 gold and 20 silver per piece.

Pato said that distributing gold coins was reasonable.

“Li Wei…”

Yulia felt a chill run down her spine and hesitated. Instinctively, she grabbed Li Wei's arm, creasing the gray robe in her grip.

Fear of the unknown suppressed her money-grubbing personality.

As Yulia and her two companions followed Li Wei, they witnessed, to varying degrees, the "Dark Space," "True Name," "Secret World," "Secret Techniques," and "Secret Martial Arts," learning that the Grand Continent had a mysterious other side.

The shadow of the undead general lurked in the depths of Baron Della's castle.

Yulia and her two companions were extremely wary of the white stone in the middle of the lake, which resembled an object similar to the Undead General.

No matter how you look at it, the behavior of the sawfish people seems strangely abnormal.

"Come on, go down and have a look."

Li Weidao.

Yulia was taken aback, and grabbed his arm, refusing to move.

Li Wei quipped:

"Didn't you say you wanted to take on more missions in the middle circle before you came? Why are you scared now?"

Yulia pursed her lips and remained silent, like a frightened kitten hiding behind Levi.

Clutching tightly at Li Wei's clothes on both sides of his waist, she pressed herself against his back and walked towards the shore.

Bones and Duron weren't much better off.

Holding his weapon, he was completely focused, and his earlier boastful words vanished.

All I want to do now is finish the mission and get back to Rolling Stones to play with women and drink heavily.