Chapter 556: 417. Aiko’s Plan, Peeping on Lia
Kafni curled her lip and said, “With the time you spend crying and wailing, you could have already cast another Light Spear Technique. Here, Mana Recovery Potion, worth thousands of Gold Coins per bottle. Drink it quickly.”
“I don’t want to! I’ve already drunk five bottles. If I drink any more, my Magic Circuit will hurt terribly!” Sally’s small hands frantically waved.
“What? Do you think the one million Gold Coin bounty we’re offering is easy to get? Who cares if your Magic Circuit hurts, your actions are indirectly saving the world, you know? Even if you die, this lord will remember you in his heart.”
Kafni bared her teeth and grinned, one hand grabbing Sally’s cheek and the other holding the Mana Potion, forcibly pouring it down her throat, “Drink this!”
“Wuuu, Mommy, I want to go home!” Sally cried helplessly, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked towards Lin Da.
Within the Phoenix Tail Flower team, there were only two kind people, one of whom had no say in the matter—the brown-haired loli—and the other was the captain of Phoenix Tail Flower.
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But Sally seriously doubted whether Lin Da was really a “White Face,” and suspected that Kafni and the others’ bad behavior might be instigated by Lin Da behind the scenes.
“This makes it really difficult for me…” Lin Da sighed.
Sally: “I’m tired. It’s normal for casting speed to be slow when tired!”
“I know,” Lin Da said, “but at most it should only drop by 30%, and a powerful Mage can even keep it within 10%.”
“Impossible! Even the first in our age group would see a reduction by half!”
Sally felt that Lin Da was lying. If such people truly existed, they must be among the top-ranked Mages in Cangqing Province.
The timer on the wristwatch reached 18 minutes, and there was no way they could finish the dungeon in the remaining 2 minutes.
Lin Da shook his head and said, “Let’s return to town for now, don’t make it difficult for Miss Sally.”
This attempt ended in failure.
Luckily, Lin Da obtained valuable experimental data.
Next time he recruits, he can use Sally as a benchmark to calculate the kind of Mage strength he needs.
The group pulled out the blue Town Portal Scrolls.
A flash of light passed and their figures vanished from the desert.
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“I’m sorry!”
In the reception room of the Adventurers’ Guild, Sally repeatedly bowed in apology.
“It was my oversight, I didn’t expect your abilities to be… well… pretty average,” Lin Da chose his words carefully.
He tried to find something positive to say, but Sally’s performance made it hard for him to compliment her.
Across the table, Weylon’s face was burning hot as he drank tea to cover up his embarrassment.
After all, Sally was the Adventurers’ Guild’s recommendation.
“Speaking of which, aren’t your requirements a bit too high? Why assign all the Magical Creatures to a Light Mage?” Weylon couldn’t help but ask.
“This matter involves the secret trial on the 16th floor,” Lin Da vaguely brushed it off, “Anyway, I’ve increased the bounty to two million Gold Coins. Could you connect with the Adventurers’ Guild in Cyan City to issue a recruitment quest?”
If it was the top-ranked Cyan City within the province, they should be able to find the talent he needed.
Weylon: “With a two million Gold bounty, um… let’s give it a try.”
Meanwhile.
Aiko returned from shopping, humming a cheerful tune, and wheeled herself back to Snow Goose Villa.
“Hahaha~”
Taking advantage of the deserted street, Aiko happily laughed out loud.
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Things were going just as she had thought.
The Light Mage that Lin Da recruited failed to meet Phoenix Tail Flower’s standards.
The gap between adventurers was quite significant.
To catch the eye of Lin Da, who was rated with a Nine-star Rating, one had to be at least Eight Stars.
Aiko had a hunch from the very beginning that Lin Da’s recruitment plan would end in failure.
“Now Lin Da must be anxious. Despite his desire to conquer the Flame Giant, he’s stuck on the 16th floor of this Minor Secret Realm… If this goes on, the success rate of my second move will greatly increase.”
Aiko had started taking action days ago.
While everything around Lin Da seemed normal,
in reality, it was anything but.
Using a black cloak that could conceal her presence, Aiko had been tracking Lin Da for several days.
The net was cast, and the trap was set.
The only thing left was for the big fish to bite.
“Hehehe…”
As soon as she entered the room, she happened to hear a certain red-haired dwarf emitting a disgustingly silly chuckle.
What was he doing?
Aiko blinked curiously and, light on her feet, quietly crossed the entryway to peek into the living room. It would be great if she could catch Lia in the act of doing something bad.
‘Captain, you wouldn’t want everyone to know about the reward you’re giving out in the living room, right?’
For three years, Aiko had been trying to catch Polia red-handed.
She didn’t believe that a girl with normal development could resist dabbling in some crafty activities.
Putting herself in someone else’s shoes, Aiko thought that if someone were trying to catch her,
She would’ve been sentenced to life without parole long ago.
But the fact was, Lia really was different from the rest.
There was a time when Aiko would peek through the door crack at Lia every night.
All she saw was Lia either doing push-ups or swinging a sword. The one time she “caught” her was when Lia sneakily ate a strawberry cake with her back to the door.
Aiko was frustrated to her core!
If you have time to pick at your strawberry cake, couldn’t you pick at something else?
After that, Aiko stopped paying attention to Lia’s private actions.
But now things were different.
Lia had turned eighteen and had fully become an adult.
Who knows, she might get a surge of interest.
Aiko subdued her magic aura and sneakily poked her head out from around the corner, looking quite cunning.
All she saw was Lia, shoes off, curled up on a beige single-seater sofa.
She was bent over looking at something, her back turned this way.
From time to time, she let out strange chuckles.
“She’s definitely secretly watching some indecent little video!”
Aiko held her breath and slowly edged closer to the sofa.
“Captain, what are you watching?”
All of a sudden, popping up from the other side of the sofa, Aiko asked with a beaming smile.
“Wah!?”
Lia tumbled to the ground, her red hair on end and her silly smile turning into shock.
She frantically reached for the tablet magic guide that had fallen to the floor—this was a new device developed by the Alchemy Workshop. It could broadcast videos onto it through an Array, allowing one to watch at any time, which was much more sophisticated than a disposable Recording Stone.
Of course, it was also priced very “sophisticatedly,” and Lia definitely wouldn’t normally indulge in buying it.
Aiko squinted her eyes, looking like a fox who had succeeded in a scheme.
She thought, sure enough, it’s a little recording, watch me record it all with a Button Recording Stone.
Lia, you’ll be the first to become this Mage’s dog!
“Don’t look!” Lia said urgently.
She will look, Aiko thought with a sly laugh in her mind.
And then.
Aiko regretted it.
What are you watching this kind of stuff for?
As if struck by Medusa’s Petrification Ray, Aiko stood there motionless, dumbfounded as she gazed at the recording on the tablet.
It was the fifteenth-floor battle of the Great Mystery Continent, the Silverback Giant Ape subjugation, where Lia and two others combined their Rare Techniques.
At the end, Lin Da unconsciously took Lia and Isa’s hands and smiled, saying, “We did it.”
The screen was paused by Lia’s touch, right on Lin Da’s sunny side profile, turned toward Lia herself. To the uninitiated, it would appear as though the two were in an incredibly close relationship.
So, was Lia chuckling over this photo of Lin Da’s side profile just now? Emitting that strange, somewhat foolish “hehehe” sound?
Aiko’s smile froze on her face.