Mages, Adventurers, and Women

"Who knows?"

He looked into the distance, where a convoy was slowly approaching.

Once you've clearly seen the leader, you can relax.

The goblin merchant "Chewing," who had previously traded with Li Wei, saw Li Wei standing in the cratered battlefield and quickly waved to stop the three hired adventurer teams from being wary of Li Wei and his companions.

He jumped off the carriage, and before he even arrived, he greeted them warmly:

"Lord Li Wei!"

"I never expected to meet you here!"

"Goblins?" Sylvie recognized the chewing race and instinctively took a few steps back, her brows furrowing involuntarily. Suddenly remembering that this was a form of racial discrimination, she tried to restrain herself from pinching her nose before she could even smell it.

Seeing the bones being chewed, the bone said disdainfully:

"That's enough, you green-skinned dwarf. Stand there and don't move forward. You smell terrible!"

The man, who was the same height as Duron but much thinner, chewed with disappointment:

"I haven't licked myself for three days because of this trip. You have a huge misunderstanding about me."

Bone pinched his nose and buzzed:

"You've been licking for so many years, you're practically pickled by now. What good are you if you don't lick for three days!"

Chewing, standing about ten meters away from Li Wei and the other four, said sadly:

"I thought we were friends."

Bone was about to scold him again, but Li Wei stopped him and said gently:

"If you dare take one step closer, I will definitely send you a fireball."

He hesitated for a moment, then stood rooted to the spot, too afraid to step forward, and said awkwardly:

"Lord Li Wei, what are you doing here?"

Li Wei asked from a distance:

"What about you? How did you end up on the outer edge of the Monster Hills?"

Mentioning this matter, he sighed with regret:

"It's all because the Navia Mountains were designated as a forbidden area. There aren't enough resources to go around. Staying at the city gate, I couldn't compete with them because of my racial identity. So I had to hire a greedy adventurer team to try my luck in the Monster Hills, hoping to run into some teams that had just killed monsters and monsters and snatch their loot first."

Levi skipped over the question of why the Scandinavian Mountains had become a forbidden area, and said:

"Let's do the math, I'll sell this to you."

Chewing excitedly upon hearing this:

"Don't worry, I'll definitely give you a high price!"

He rushed to the bones and Dulong's neatly arranged spoils, and said with surprise and doubt:

"My God! This pile of charred remains is actually a Tier 1 Black Dragon-level Typhoon Giant leader?"

"Lord Li Wei, how did you burn it to death?"

"You're too strong. I saw this monster attacking other teams with its minions on the way here—to be honest, this is the first time I've thought of using 'tearing dry bread' to describe a monster attacking an adventurer's team."

"It's a pity it's burned like this; all the valuable parts are destroyed. Here's what we'll do: I'll take the body with me and give you 1 gold coin. I guess some monster corpse collectors from the Three Kingdoms period might be interested in this pile of... charred remains."

"..."

He chewed out 5 gold and 20 silver and handed them to Dulong, who was reluctant to step forward and was pinching his nose, afraid to breathe.

The remaining 4 gold and 20 silver were the price for taking away 42 barely intact Typhon Giant fangs.

Before leaving, he looked at Li Wei, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

Li Wei: "You are my friend, and they are my most trusted teammates. Just say what you want to say."

Yulia, Bones, and Duron didn't react to Li Wei's words.

Upon hearing this, Sylvia's freckles seemed to jump up.

Chewing, he chuckled and said:

"I'm just reminding you to be careful of the 'Wild Leopard Adventurer Team.' I heard... their captain has some connection with a fat pig named Belle. Belle died and was discovered around the same time you left the Navia Mountains. He also knows you have a grudge against that fat pig Belle and was planning to kill you and take you back to Belle's house to curry favor."

Finally, he glanced at Sylvie in the distance and reminded her:

"The princess of the Golden Kingdom can't stop them. The Mad Leopard Squad plans to kill you and return to the Mad Sand Duchy, never to leave the country again, so they are not afraid of the Golden Kingdom's revenge..."

It's those wild dogs from the Duchy of Mad Sand again.

Mad Leopard is ranked 42nd in the Goblin group.

Li Wei carefully wrote it down and said:

"Chew, and when you've washed yourself clean with water and there's no more smell, I'll treat you to drinks and women."

Chewing and mocking himself:

"Okay, I'm looking forward to it, but I doubt that day will ever come..."

……

After parting ways with Chewing, we continued towards the Peso camp.

en route.

Sylvie, using the fact that the Mad Leopard came from the Duchy of Mad Sands, started a conversation about something.

"Aunt Frey has an enemy in the Duchy of Mad Sands."

"She hates the people of the Duchy of Mad Sands."

Li Wei recalled the first time he attended a party, when Frey discovered that he had tampered with the people of the Sand Duchy but did not warn him, which he guessed was related to this incident.

"Then why did Lady Frey invite four adventurers from the Duchy of the Sands as competitors for the recommended spot?"

Li Wei was referring to the four people: Fia, Beni, Robinette, and Gwado.

They belong to the Brave Shield, Thorn Slaughter, Blood Butcher Squad, and Blood Butcher Squad, respectively.

And they are all outsiders from the Duchy of Mad Sand.

Sylvie knew a lot about the gossip surrounding the top 100 adventurer parties in the Goblin Gang, and she explained:

“Fia, Beni, Robin, and Gwado were all local adventurers recruited by those four teams after they came to Rolling Stone Town—they were also afraid of going too far and being expelled by Guild Master Langsis, after all, Guild Master Langsis had said more than once that he would crush all the teams from the Duchy of Mad Sand and feed them to the wild dogs.”

Li Wei understood; no wonder they didn't wear black robes during the meeting.

Being recruited by a team ranked in the top 100 must mean they have good talent, which fits Frey's strategy of picking the tallest among the short guys in Rolling Stone.

Li Wei then asked curiously during their casual conversation:

"Sylvie, what exactly is Lady Frey's recommendation spot? Is it really for the White Tower region?"

As soon as the question was raised, Yulia, Bones, and Duron all perked up their ears.

Sylvie recalled:

"I don't know much either. I heard my teacher mention it by chance. When Aunt Frey was a child, she saved a mage who was seriously injured while on a mission or exploring mysteries in the White Tower region. She took her home and cared for her until she recovered. The mage left Aunt Frey a recommendation spot from the White Tower."

"It seems to be in the White Tower area, where you can join their faction?"

"I don't know the specifics either..."

"After all, the White Tower area is really too far away from here."

Li Wei had a pretty good idea of ​​the truth behind the recommendation quota.

It's likely that Lady Frey's talent wasn't recognized by the other party.

However, the debt of saving her life was hard to repay, so she simply left the recommendation slot for Frey to be given to a talented successor.

However, Frey is unmarried.

As he got older, he began to use the recommendation slots as a competitive tool, trying to give them to a truly talented legal professional.

It can also be considered as forging a positive connection with a talented magic-based professional.

It was originally Li Wei's for the taking.

Now I don't know who will benefit from this.

……

Li Wei and his five companions arrived at the Peso camp before nightfall.

I followed the map and searched around.

They found an abandoned mine shaft.

Li Wei and the other four suddenly realized what was going on.

The orc named "Biso" was not kindly setting up a camp for passing adventurers to rest.

Rather, it was to cover up the discovered mine shaft.

Deep within the mine, there stands a dark, magical stone tablet.

Li Wei said to Julia beside him:

"Remember to wake me up on time."

"If all goes well."

Yulia's heart skipped a beat.

Grasping Li Wei's arm, she said worriedly, "Why don't we rest first... and then deconstruct it tomorrow?"

Li Wei smiled calmly and walked towards the dark, magical stone tablet.

……

"Li Wei! Li Wei!"

Julia's urgent cries woke him up.

When Li Wei opened his eyes, he found himself still in the mine.

He recalled his experience of exploring the mysterious world with his mind.

He thought to himself:

"I succeeded?"

……

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Chapter 63: The Indispensable Initial Members of Yulia's Squad

[Element +5%]

[Exploration +5%]

[Deconstruction +1%]

[Truth +0.1%]

……

[Element Lv1: 37.53%] ↑5.5%

[Exploration Lv0: 71.11%] ↑5.15%

[Deconstruction Lv0: 16.31%] ↑1%

[Truth Lv0: 1.70%] ↑0.1%

……

[Elements] steadily improved. Due to the deconstruction of the dark magic stone tablet, Li Wei's spirit once again entered the secret world.

In the secret world, he mastered the necromancy spell "Bone Trap".

Due to time constraints, Li Wei didn't have time to insert the "Bone Trap".

Based on his current understanding, he believes that the "bone trap" has great potential for development.