Mages, Adventurers, and Women

Chapter 77: The Last Mission in Rolling Stone [4.6k words] [Requesting Monthly Tickets] [Requesting Subscriptions]

Tonight will be a sleepless night.

Rolling Stone Town was brightly lit, filled with fear and unease.

The five members of the Shield of Heroes were extremely grateful to Li Wei.

The five girls, including Ollie, were filled with lingering fear.

If Li Wei hadn't reminded me...

They'll follow that big guy too...

It was blown into the sky with a bang.

Damn the Duchy of the Sands!

That damned third prince of the Sand Duchy!

That damned Cult of the Immortals!

"Let's go home first!"

Li Wei turned around and left, leading Yulia's team back to their lodgings.

The Shield of Heroes returned to their residence to discuss their future return to the Duchy of Mad Sands.

Yulia's squad's quarters were right next to the back wall of the pastor's association.

That night, they heard continuous wails, cries, and sobs.

Li Wei's expression was serious.

He was still terrified when the wild dogs of the Mad Sand Principality dared to bomb the commercial street.

I never expected this.

These wild dogs actually dared to bomb the airship of Eternal Heart!

Rolling Stones is absolutely not a place to stay!

We must leave no matter what!

Even if the wild dogs of the Sand Kingdom had a thousand lives, they wouldn't dare to attack the Heart of Eternity; it must be the Cult of the Immortals behind it.

These bastards dare to run rampant in the White Tower region, so they have no reason to restrain themselves on the inconspicuous Golden Island of the Northern Continent.

Li Wei made up his mind, looked around, and placed his last hope on Sylvia.

Secret passage:

"If all else fails, use Sylvie's status as a princess of the Golden Kingdom to temporarily smuggle herself into the Golden Kingdom."

The next day.

dawn.

Rolling Stones was sealed off by a coalition of associations.

No adventurer is allowed to leave home.

The three vice presidents of the Mage Guild flew over Rolling Stone Town on alert, treating every adventurer who left home without permission as a suspect.

Led by Francis and other vice presidents of various associations, a manhunt has been launched to apprehend the suspects in the attack on the Eternal Heart airship.

Li Wei was at home preparing to "politely decline" Melanie's invitation to decipher the secret symbol explosion array on the dying airship.

This kind of grand-scale secret character explosion magic array is definitely not something he can mess with.

Moreover, what's the point of Livy's deconstruction?

Who cares if Rolling Stones lives or dies?

One hundred years ago, the Three Kingdoms established Rolling Stone Town in the Monster Hills to provide a place for criminals and adventurers who could not survive within the Three Kingdoms and prevent them from causing trouble within the Three Kingdoms.

Now, Rolling Stone Town is experiencing a series of mishaps.

None of the three kingdoms had an obligation to save them.

Anyway, Rolling Stones can be rebuilt in ten or eight years after its destruction.

They can also take advantage of the adventurers in Rolling Stone Town to deplete the potential dangers that are likely to erupt.

Fortunately, Melanie never came to Levi to dissect the airship.

It was getting dark.

The arcane runes and explosive magic circles remaining in the airship have disappeared.

The lockdown on Rolling Stone has been lifted.

Levi led Julia's party to the Adventurers' Guild, intending to find Samantha and Langsis to gather information.

Only with more accurate information can we make more rational decisions.

People passing by on the street looked serious, their eyes filled with lingering fear and dread.

When Li Wei arrived at the Adventurers' Guild, the place was packed with wealthy people from the Three Kingdoms period, who were like frightened birds.

They loudly proclaimed that they would hire adventurers to send them back to the border.

At this moment, an adventurer in the crowd recognized Li Wei and shouted:

"Yulia's squad, ranked 51st in the Goblin Group, has arrived!"

"Look! That handsome guy with black hair and black eyes up ahead is Vice Captain Li Wei!"

As soon as he said that, Li Wei and Yulia's team immediately became the target of everyone's criticism.

The ranking of the top 100 adventurers in the Goblin, Troll, and Gargoyle groups on Golden Island is a topic of conversation for most of the creatures of Golden Island.

Some crazed creatures regard good-looking adventurers as "faith" and spontaneously form believers to support their adventurer party.

Yulia's squad made it onto the Goblin Group's top 100 list for the first time.

But the names "Black Wizard Livy" and "Noble Livy" are very well-known in Rolling Stone.

Wealthy people from the Three Kingdoms period who stayed in Rolling Stone Town for three to five days or more had all heard of Li Wei's name to some extent.

They knew that Levi and Julia's team already possessed the formidable strength to slaughter Tier 1 Black Dragon-level monsters.

The wealthy people from the three kingdoms, unable to squeeze into the Adventurers' Guild, were as enamored with and eager to possess the barbarian's height-increasing boots as Duro had first seen them. They rushed towards Julia's team, led by Li Wei, holding handfuls of gold and silver coins, begging Li Wei to send them back to the border.

I was about to be surrounded by a bunch of emotional idiots.

Li Wei then unleashed ten grayish-white bone spears, each as tall as Duron and as thin as Julia's little finger.

The bone spears gleamed coldly, hovering evenly on either side of Li Wei's ears and temples, their sharp tips aimed at the wealthy man from the Three Kingdoms who was about to rush towards him.

He understood the anxieties of the wealthy people of the Three Kingdoms period and gently comforted them:

"Anyone who dares to approach the area I've marked out, I will definitely shove a bone spear into their head."

Numerous mage hands silently appeared, surrounding Yulia's team of five and forming a cordon to prevent others from approaching.

The wealthy people from the three kingdoms who were rushing forward all stopped in fear.

In chaotic times, harsh measures are necessary. Li Wei knew that anything could happen once he was surrounded by wealthy people from the Three Kingdoms period.

He came here on important business, not to accept a job from a wealthy man from the Three Kingdoms.

Samantha is not on the first floor.

With bone spears on either side of his ears, Li Wei made his way unimpeded to the third-floor stairwell, where he was stopped by two burly barbarian warriors.

"Let him in."

Francis's voice drifted over.

In the vice president's office.

Francis looked extremely pale.

Seeing Li Wei enter, he said:

Logan is dead.

"According to incomplete statistics, the airship bombing last night resulted in more than 15,000 casualties among citizens of the three countries."

“Melanie went to see it, and tens of thousands of arcane characters and phrases remained in the wreckage of the airship. She deduced that they were all explosive magic circles.”

"Heaven knows when those savage dogs of the Cult of the Immortals finished engraving explosive arrays all over the Eternal Heart airship..."

Li Wei suddenly realized why Melanie hadn't asked him for help last night.

It turns out that there were too many secret character explosion arrays, making it unnecessary to deconstruct them.

Logan's death surprised Levi.

The ten pounds of rock beef he gave Li Wei as a housewarming gift yesterday is still in his storage ring.

On second thought.

Logan's death was a good thing for him.

The Heart of Eternity has encountered a series of unexpected events in Rolling Stone, culminating in this major accident. Someone must take responsibility and bear the blame.

If Logan were alive, it would be far worse than being instantly blown up.

Francis seemed to have guessed what Levi wanted to ask, and said bluntly:

"Samantha was taken to the Golden Kingdom by her mother last night to report on her duties."

"She is not an isolated case. The alchemy, blacksmithing, herbalism, archaeology, and bard associations all withdrew yesterday, leaving only some of the native creatures of Rolling Stone to guard the associations."

"The associations of warriors, assassins, rangers, archers, knights, mages, and priests will evacuate within five days."

"The Adventurers' Guild will withdraw by the beginning of next month."

"Nobody wants to stay in this damn Rolling Rock town to face unknown dangers. Nobody knows if the next explosion will happen from the boulder above Rolling Rock!"

Samantha left so suddenly that she didn't need to worry about whether Levi would come to see her off or why he wouldn't.

For Samantha, this might be a good thing...

Li Wei calmly said:

What will happen to the adventurers of Rolling Stone Town?

After a few seconds of silence, Langis looked at Levi and said quietly, "What happens to the Borans Legion is what happens to the adventurers of Rolling Stone Town."

Li Wei's eyes narrowed; the answer was exactly what he had expected.

At the beginning of the monster invasion, the human race formed a "Nameless Suicide Squad" legion, whose leader was named "Boranges". The legion was later known as the "Boranges Legion".

They were the first legion to penetrate deep into the monster's stronghold. Isolated and without support, they fought for half a year before being completely wiped out.

When Francis mentions the "Bronze Legion," he is implying that the adventurers of Rolling Stone will be left to fend for themselves and fight alone.

"President Francis, are the border checks between the three countries very strict?"

Li Wei asked meaningfully.

He glanced at the nervous Sylvie out of the corner of his eye, then looked back at Francis, conveying the question he truly wanted to ask to Francis through his eyes.

Francis was a rough man, and he said directly:

“It’s very serious. The matter in Rolling Stone Town has already spread to the Three Kingdoms.”

"Martial law has been declared in all areas bordering the Demon Hills—Princess Sylvie can return home, but you cannot."

"This morning, the item teleportation array sent news from the Duchy of Storms. Last night, at the same time the Eternal Heart airship was bombed, Prince Rein and his friends, who had just returned to the Duchy of Storms after visiting Rolling Stone Town, broke into the mansion of Grand Duke Fern and self-destructed. Grand Duke Fern died on the spot, and the Duchy of Storms was plunged into great turmoil."

"It was later confirmed that His Highness Raine and his friends were under mind control by the Cult of the Immortals while they were playing in Rolling Stone."

"The Three Kingdoms have come to regard the Cult of Immortals as a major problem."

The Eternal Heart Airship Merchant Guild visits Rolling Stone Town every three months, and each time nobles and members of the royal family from the three kingdoms mingle among them.

Before Li Wei could ask, Sylvie exclaimed in surprise, "What?!"

She quickly explained:

“Raine is the eighth prince of the Duchy of Storms, and Grand Duke Fern is one of only two dukes in the Duchy of Storms, with titles equivalent to those of the rulers of the Duchy of Storms.”

Francis sighed and said: