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"You can trust the dragon to handle things!" Serfar patted his chest confidently and said, "The dragon's gone, don't miss it too much!"
"Wait!" you called out instinctively. Serfal paused for a few seconds, then a look of realization dawned on her face. She grinned and reached for her hot pants, saying, "Latis must be thinking about that! No problem, come on!"
"I didn't!" You exclaimed, your eyes wide as you stared at the gap in your hot pants created by Serfal's tugging. "I just wanted to warn you to be careful! The families on the floating islands are quite powerful, so watch out and don't spit anywhere!"
"So that's how it is!" For some reason, you felt the red-haired girl's smile became even more cheerful. She leaned closer and licked your cheek, saying, "Serfar knows! Latis, don't worry! I'll make you my husband when the dragon returns!"
[Amid your blank stare, the red dragon spread its wings and soared into the sky above Lundia amidst scattering clouds of magical energy.]
You stared at the red dragon's agile silhouette, then suddenly paused. You seemed to have forgotten to ask her if she knew how to get to the floating islands. Recalling the scene of her getting lost and falling from the sky at the beginning, you muttered to yourself, hoping the dragon was alright.
The next morning, after bidding farewell to the girls at home, you high-fived Jennifer at the entrance to the Golden Hall. She gave you a knightly salute, her hand on the longsword at her waist, and then said with a grin, "Looking forward to working with you from now on, my partner!"
You patted her head helplessly, and before entering the teleportation hall, as if sensing something, you suddenly turned back.
On the high hill of her own mage territory, a half-elf stood gracefully on a branch, watching you. When you turned, she gently touched her chest in a solemn gesture, then continued to gaze at you with her lake-blue eyes.
You gently patted the head of the petite Ate in your bag, suddenly recalling the same courtesy she used when addressing you as "future king consort" in the previous simulation, and remembering what she said during the site selection process, such as that you would see her vegetated mage tower top the moment you emerged from the Golden Hall.
"But if that's the case, you'll just keep watching my departing figure..." You sighed helplessly and stepped onto the teleportation array.
[After a period of intense spatial turbulence, you and Jennifer arrived at Ma Yan City, the northern capital of Senhai Territory.]
Compared to the towns in the southeast, this place gives you a feeling of "the end of the forest." In the strong winds, the swaying and fallen flowers, grasses, and shrubs resemble waves crashing to their end, stretching towards the desolate wilderness of the distant mountain region.
You glanced at the teleportation point at your feet, made of a kind of rocky wood, shook your head, and walked towards Jennifer, who was waiting for you ahead.
"Let's go! This journey won't be easy!" Jennifer drew her longsword, slung it over her shoulder, and haughtily raised her head, saying, "I'll show you just how I've changed after absorbing pure light!"
You looked at the ball of light gathering in her hand, then suddenly chuckled and said to her bewildered expression, "More than that, I'd like to look at your fluorescent watch with you in bed!"
Jennifer paused, and just when you thought she completely missed your flirtatious joke, her face flushed bright red. She gritted her teeth, sheathed her sword, remained silent for a moment, and then suddenly said, "Let's talk about it later... later!"
You subconsciously pinched Jennifer's cheek, chuckled awkwardly under her glare, and pinched it a couple more times. After a moment of silence, she suddenly smiled and asked, "Hey, Jennifer, your writing is pretty good, isn't it?"
Your hand, which was pinching Jennifer's cheek, trembled slightly. You took a deep breath, withdrew your hand, and nodded without changing your expression amidst her mischievous smile, saying, "Just a little teasing."
Jennifer raised an eyebrow, clearly not satisfied with your fearless performance. She snorted, puffed out her still-rosy cheeks, and said, "What about Big Se? Let me see!"
You gasp. This little knight is truly brave! Are you about to give up? No! You frantically think of a counterattack. Your gaze sweeps over her deliberately thrust-out chest, then over her bare thighs beneath her armor. Just as you're organizing a more vehement retort, your eyes suddenly freeze, fixing on her rosy lips.
You hesitated for two seconds, then leaned closer to her face. Just as Jennifer thought you were about to whisper something suggestive and proudly raised her chin, you kissed her on the lips.
Half a minute later, you licked your lips, still savoring the moment, chuckled, took a step back, looked at the dazed Jennifer, pinched her cheek, and asked, "This is pretty horny, isn't it?"
Jennifer rubbed her hand against yours, then slowly came to her senses. Feeling the lingering warmth on her lips, she cried out in a flustered and embarrassed voice, "Hey...hey!!"
"Golden Cicada... no, little knight, I've won again!" You resume your steps, waving and laughing, "Let's go, the road ahead is still long!"
"You, you...!" Jennifer rushed to your side, tugged at your sleeve, and exclaimed, "I, um, you... eh?"
She looked down, paused, staring at your hand that was holding hers, then looked up at your grinning face.
"Yuan, so that's how it is...?" She looked at you, who was silently nodding, as if she finally understood your feelings. She staggered two steps, then tightened her grip on your hand.
Jennifer stood silently beside you for a moment, then suddenly her eyes lit up, and a light emanated from her.
Just when you thought she was about to deliver some profound insight, she waved her arms excitedly and shouted, "I finally understand! Pure love is the most astringent! Ah, I get it!"
Your head started buzzing as you listened to Jennifer, who was muttering to herself while connecting to the magic network to search for doujinshi (fanfiction about pure love stories). You couldn't help but think to yourself, "Jennifer, how do you manage to be both so innocent and lewd at the same time?!"
[Following this brief interlude, you chose to rent two Eagle-Horse steeds at the city gates of Mayan City. These monsters are bred from a close relative of the Griffin and a common steed. They can travel long distances, fly short distances, and transport goods; in times of crisis, they also taste quite good. However, if you intend to use them for special purposes, be careful to tie their hind legs, as they possess steed instincts and might kick your testicles while you're preparing to pounce.]
[You and Jennifer gallop through the low bushes, the ever-changing scenery indicating you've entered the border between the Forest Territory and the Wilderness Territory. Your gaze sweeps across this lifeless land, and suddenly you notice a high cliff.]
The massive roots of the ancient tree were planted on the edge of the cliff, their withered roots stretching thousands of meters down the cliff face. At the top, the dense, seemingly withered branches swayed menacingly in the wind, emitting a chilling cracking sound.
[You recognize that this is the Morning Glory Tree that Princess Slingk brought you to in the previous simulation. She probably hasn't planted the cuttings at the top yet, so the tree is still withered.]
"There's a legend about that tree!" Jennifer followed your gaze, spurred her horse, and took a few steps toward the ancient tree of the Morning Glory Flower, then said:
"Legend has it that many years ago, when this ancient tree existed, there were no seasonal tornadoes in the Wilderness Territory. It wasn't until it began to wither that the power of light broke through its cover and covered this territory, and all kinds of heat-loving monsters began to stay here."
"Of course, there is also a theory that the withering of the ancient tree freed this land from the entanglement of tree roots, allowing various demonic creatures existing deep underground to overcome the obstruction of the tree roots and gradually land on the surface."
"In short, people always associate the monster's intrusion with the withering of the ancient tree, but ultimately no one can save its life. They can only imagine its past existence under the impartial protection of the light."
You scratched your head, glanced again at the ancient tree of unknown age, and laughed heartily at Jennifer's bewildered look, saying, "The day when people's beautiful dreams become reality isn't far off!"
[After using the wings of your steed to fly from the cliffs of Senhai Territory down to the rugged wasteland, you immediately felt what it meant to experience off-the-charts ultraviolet radiation. The bright sunlight shining on your exposed skin caused a stinging sensation. You howled and hurriedly pulled out a large hat and robe from the dimensional rift, transforming yourself into a walking garbage bag.]
However, Jennifer's sudden smug laughter startled you. You turned to look at Jennifer, who was enveloped in a visible aura of light, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Little Knight, you forgot to turn off your auto-pickup!"
Jennifer obviously didn't know what automatic pickup was, but that didn't stop her from giving you a light kick while riding her horse. She snorted and explained:
"The reason why the holy cities of the Church of Light are all located in the Mountain Wasteland is because of the omnipresent divine power of light here. This power is relatively thin in other places, but it is very concentrated here. Therefore, ordinary people may not be used to it when they come here, but they will be fine after a while. The divine power of light is not harmful."
You awkwardly draped yourself in a garbage bag, watching Jennifer play with the light energy around her, then gently flick it away, dissolving it into the air.
For some reason, you suddenly remembered the vampire you encountered in the underground world. Although you couldn't remember her name, Saria or something else, you vividly recalled her constitution, which made her suffer more and more when she was near the light. You couldn't help but think maliciously, "If I brought a vampire to this place, would she die on the spot...?"
After adjusting to the intense light for a while, you felt like a shut-in who had just stepped out of a room, and weakly said, "I'm completely fine now. It's just light, my corpse wasn't sizzling..."
Suddenly, a scream interrupted your playful antics. Your expression instantly turned serious as you looked towards the source of the sound. Not far away, in a stone forest, you saw a dwarf scurrying about, dodging an attack from a bird-like monster!
You and Jennifer exchanged a glance. The divine light magic that had already risen around you told you that she was ready for battle!
Chapter 153 Even among fools, there are differences in skill.
"Hey! Take this 'Mage's Black Hand'!" Right off the bat, you used your most ruthless move, performing a nucleic acid test on the monster. However, to your surprise, the bird-like monster simply moved its throat and swallowed your black hand whole!
"What... what kind of magic is this?!" You exclaimed in shock, staring at the bird-like monster's long beak. Suddenly, you remembered seeing these kinds of vicious birds at the zoo in your past life, eating their colleagues on their way to work. It turns out that even in this other world, it still eats everything!
However, in the slight surprise on its face after it opened its mouth, you could tell that the silencing spell cast on the black hand had worked; at least its mouth was now full.
"So even spells can be countered because of their inherent weaknesses?" You managed to glean a mage-playing strategy in a moment of quiet reflection, then cleared your mind of these distracting thoughts and dodged the barrage of feathers.
[Third Ring Racial Spell - Storm Blades: Fires five feather blades at the target area. These blades can be retrieved by the Third Ring Racial Spell - Barbs, dealing multiple instances of damage.]
【DaDaDa (Long-beaked Demon Bird) #Online】
[The familiar spell prompt appeared again, and you readily activated it. The long-beaked demon bird, about to retract its fired feather blades, hesitated, startled by the broken magic net. With its bald head now devoid of feather blades, it suddenly became fierce, charging towards the dwarf despite Jennifer's divine spell.]
"Its resistance to light is very strong!" Jennifer shouted anxiously as she slashed off the demonic bird's tail feathers with a backhand strike. "I can only restrain it, but I can't get close enough to deal effective damage!"
[Just as it had already caught the dwarf and was about to stuff him into its mouth, you glanced at the list of spells with limited offensive options and sighed softly, "So, even mages have their limits..."]
The divine magic bestowed upon you surged forth. Through the connected divine power of light, you could feel the light energy in the air instantly tighten and engulf the demonic bird. You then activated your flight spell and rapidly charged towards the demonic bird.
You abruptly stopped in front of it, staring at the dwarf's legs still thrashing in the demon bird's beak. A cold smile suddenly appeared on your face, and you shouted, "So, Jie Jie, I'm not going to be a mage anymore!"
[The spellbook instantly pointed to "Level 3 Combat Skill - Liquid Shock," a smirk played on your lips, and you suddenly straightened up, aiming at its head, and roared ferociously, "Take this... Ultimate... Bladder Sword Fang!"]
With a deafening roar, the fluid within you suddenly and violently coalesced, and a second later, an indestructible high-pressure water jet shot out, piercing the demonic bird's head without any resistance.
["Hahahaha, I, someone, have finally paid homage to the Supreme Qin Emperor in my lifetime... Ah, ah..." An unprecedented feeling of weakness instantly made you exhausted. You looked at the slumped corpse of the demon bird, and you, like a weakened bull, collapsed helplessly to the ground.]
"Latis, what happened to you!" Jennifer rushed to catch you, and was stunned when she saw your sunken cheek. She quickly used her divine magic to check your body, and then she was slightly relieved.
"Kidney deficiency, always after overwork..." You feel your body empty and sigh sincerely, "Indeed, I still need to be more moderate when it comes to ejaculation..."
"W-what?!" Jennifer couldn't help but pinch your waist, her face flushed as she calmed herself down. She said fiercely, "You're already thinking about restraint before we've even started! There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
[“I said, isn’t anyone here to care about me!” Just as you finished speaking, a loud, boisterous voice rang out. You turned to see the dwarf emerge from the gaping wound in the demon bird’s corpse, struggling to his feet.]
"You wretched little couple, I'm going to write you down in my little book..." The dwarf struggled to free her hands, trying to pry open the bird's beak stuck in her chest. After trying for a long time, she still failed. So, as if she were wearing a long, flowing dress, she hopped in front of you with the bird's beak still attached.
"Anyway, thanks, buddies." The dwarf flashed a hearty smile, and just as she was about to shake your hand, she collapsed in front of you and Jennifer with a thud. She paused for a moment, then looked up and said seriously, "Happy New Year, big brother and sister-in-law..."
"It's not even autumn yet, isn't it a bit too early!" Jennifer shook her head, both amused and exasperated, not refuting the dwarf's words, and swung her sword, severing the bird's beak from her body.
You staggered to your feet, supporting yourself on your empty back. Jennifer frowned, tossed you onto her horse, and then, leading two horses, planned to walk and talk with the dwarf.
[From the distinctive, somewhat peculiar, dwarven accent, you learn that her name is Gangan, a traveler who set out from Yanium with the aim of sampling all the world's delicacies. After accidentally arriving here, she was chased all the way here after rescuing a cow from the jaws of a demon bird, and is now looking for a human town to rest in...]
"Wait!" You lifted your head from the hawk-horse's back, unable to suppress your urge to complain even though you were feeling empty, and shouted, "Your character design, apart from your appearance, has absolutely nothing to do with dwarves! Are you some kind of 'MasterChef'? Take that hood off right now!"
"What do you mean, 'Isn't there?'" Gan Gan touched her round, brown face, and pulled a small booklet from her bag, saying defiantly, "See this? This is proof that I'm a dwarf! This is the 'Book of Hatred' that every tribe has!"
She rattled off a whole bunch of information about the "Book of Hatred," but after listening for ages, you only understood two things: first, dwarves hold grudges and like to keep little notebooks; second, dwarves collect everyone's little notebooks for a future reckoning.
"So petty?" you muttered, then yelled, "Give it to me!" and snatched Gan Gan's little notebook. You wanted to see what they were really hating about.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Gan Gan shouted, but unfortunately, she couldn't reach the harpy's back. She could only angrily curse you in Dwarven language, "You wretched big guy," before continuing to follow Jennifer.
You opened the notebook, glanced at the words "Gan Gan's Book of Hatred, the Invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Universe" on the title page, and immediately tensed up. You took a deep breath and turned to the next page.
[“I, Gan Gan, have four things I don’t eat. First, I don’t eat beef because it’s good for…” You close the notebook, confirm that it is indeed a book of hatred, and then open the page again.]
"I, Gan Gan, will never catch snakehead bass again, because it jumped into my pot when I was starving, it really..." You scratch your head and turn the page with curiosity.
"It smells so good, I'm crying... No, I promise my descendants will never hunt snakehead again, because a second one just jumped in..."
[“…What, Gan Taigong fishing?” You can’t take it anymore. If you keep reading this pamphlet, you’ll be mentally corrupted. You turn to the last page, and a line of still-fresh handwriting appears before your eyes: “I, Gan Gan, remember a human couple who saved my life… The man looks a bit weak. If necessary, Gan Gan will go and give him a little push at night…”]
You silently closed the notebook, beginning to regret your actions. Why did you even bother to steal her Book of Hatred? You were despicable! What were you so curious about? Now you've heard the murmurs of the God of Abstraction, haven't you? Serves you right!
You sighed, stuffed the notebook back into Gan Gan's bag, and eavesdropped on her conversation with Jennifer for a while.
[During their conversation, you learn that Gangan became a traveler entirely because she couldn't remember the way when she left her family's castle and wandered aimlessly through Janium. Having seen so many people, she even forgot what her own family looked like after a few years.]
Realizing she might not be able to find her family on her own, she remembered the legendary power of magic that could help her regain her memories. So she headed towards Norard, hoping to find a mage there who could perform a "Great Memory Restoration Spell."
"Ah, Andora? What's that place? I've never used any teleportation array. Oh, you're asking how I got across those floating landmasses?" Gan Gan scratched his head and said, "I figured that big pit must have a bottom, so I could just walk down from the bottom, right? So I grabbed the edge and used a rope to lower myself down."
A hint of embarrassment appeared on her face as she said, "But it seems the rope isn't long enough. I've been hanging in the air for a while and I'm getting a little hungry, but my backpack is tied to the rope. I thought about it and realized there was no point in having the rope, so I cut it..."
You suddenly covered your face, finding the traveler's behavior extremely difficult to comment on. You felt that the only reason she was still alive was because the dwarf god had gotten drunk in heaven and been beaten by her great-grandfather or someone else. Without that connection, you couldn't understand why she was so lucky.
After cutting the rope, Gan Gan naturally fell towards the bottom of the pit on the floating island. Initially, she thought she would land in two or three seconds, so she even activated her family's martial arts technique beforehand, covering her head and transforming into a dwarf wheel, rolling through the air.
However, almost a minute passed, and the underground entity still hadn't appeared. Looking up at the sky, which was now completely obscured, Gan Gan began to panic.
"It's all dark around here, how am I supposed to get up on time every morning!" Gan Gan sighed. "I hate it when my family members drink and then fall into a deep sleep like the night before!"
She didn't know how long she had been falling; her sense of the fall was becoming hazy. Just as she was about to fall asleep in mid-air, she suddenly heard her great-great-great-grandfather's voice echoing in her ears.
"Little radish head, it's not your time to come here yet! Get out! Wait until the descendants of Powalodden are born before you come in through the kingdom's passage!"
[After that aged voice, Gan Gan lost consciousness. In her daze, she felt as if she had been launched by a cannon. When she woke up, she was already on the land of the Wilderness Territory.]
[Holy crap, Pawa Laoden? Isn't that your great-grandfather? You couldn't help but think to yourself, if your great-grandfather really left you with some historical problems to solve, you'd better show him what true filial piety is when you see him.]
[However, you still kept it in mind, not mentioning to Gan Gan that you were a descendant of the Titans. You planned to first learn about the history of the dwarves. Although Gan Gan said the voice sounded like her great-great-grandfather, she's someone who can't even remember her family's faces, so her words were completely unreliable. If those old Dengs hiding in some corner of the world were deceiving her, then you were very likely to be tricked.]
"You said you wanted to find the 'Great Memory Restoration Spell'?" You searched for magic spells using the keywords, then said speechlessly, "But it seems there isn't such a spell."
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