"Mr. Mage, I have a few questions for you, if you don’t mind. And please don’t misunderstand me; I have no ill intentions. I’m willing to pay for the information," The beautiful blonde woman in the red robe spoke with a smile as she came in front of Myne and gently tapped her wooden staff’s butt on the ground, creating a transparent barrier around them.
Trouble... Sigh, but still, compared to that old man Tharnak and red-haired woman, she at least didn’t want to extract information and treat me like an ant. Myne realised that was no match for this blonde woman, and she also seemed to have some tricks to remove his Ethereal Phase skill effect forcefully. He could only nod his head.
"As long as I know, I will try to satisfy your curiosity, My Lady."
"I like honest people like you the most," The blonde woman grabbed Myne’s cheek between her index finger and thumb and continued, "Don’t worry, I’m not an ungrateful b*tch. If you cooperate well, trust me, we both will be happy. Now before we start, can I ask you from which basement you came out?"
"Number 5, maybe? I seem to have heard a young girl and a bunch of her bootlicking followers talking about it," Myne thought for a second and replied while enjoying the blonde woman’s gentle pinching. She seemed to have some talent in massage.
"Tell me she wasn’t cursing trouble there," The woman’s smile suddenly froze, and unconsciously she increased her strength.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, it hurts, be gentle, be gentle…" Myne let out a painful cry, bringing the woman back to her senses, and she quickly let go of his cheek.
"Sorry, sorry, I was just distracted," After apologizing, the woman touched Myne’s cheek with her palm, and a green light shone on her palm, relieving Myne of his pain. Although Myne didn’t care about such a small amount of pain, he feared that his clone’s weak body might not be able to handle it, after all, the other party’s strength wasn’t as weak as she was trying to show.
"Well, by trouble, if you mean releasing a bunch of monstrous ants and some kind of weird creature to torture teleported people. Then she was enjoying it a lot. By the way, she also said something like she wasn’t afraid of her b*tch mother; she now had her father’s support, and if her mother dared to order her around anymore, she didn’t mind beating her to a pulp and showing her who’s the boss."
Because the woman before him and that arrogant girl in the basement looked 80% similar, and even their voices were the same, along with her questioning about that girl, it didn’t take long for Myne to realize that she was the mother in that girl’s mouth, who seemed very strict with her daughter. And as a qualified troublemaker, how could Myne let go of such a good opportunity to teach that arrogant brat a good lesson?"
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"Oh, she really said those things?" The woman somehow managed to maintain her smile as if this had nothing to do with her.
"Yes, and her followers also were very arrogant and trying their best to pour oil on the fire, filling that girl’s mind with all kinds of bad words about her mother and provoking her to do bad things for fun’s sake, so she could continue fooling around for enjoyment and increase their favorability in her eyes. You know, nowadays, how easy it is to fool young people, just say some comforting words and nonsense they want to listen to the most, and they will believe in you unconditionally."
"Anyway, forget about that little fool. I still couldn’t believe how easily she was fooled by those bunch of idiots. So what do you want to ask me?" Myne casually waved his head with an irritated expression, behaving like he didn’t want to talk about that fool, which made the woman, the mother of the girl, grit her teeth in anger. After all, no parent wanted to hear that their child was an idiot and people were using her to their own advantage, and most importantly, expecting their child, everyone else knew that they were using her.
"Hooo… Mr. Mage, so from which world did you come here?" It took the woman a few seconds to calm down her anger before she stopped herself from rushing into the basement and beating the hell out of her daughter. She managed to bring out a smile and asked.
She seemed very emotional; it was easier to fool her than I expected, like a mother-like daughter. Maybe I can try to get on her good side, and she’s also very much my type, Myne thought as he observed the beautiful blonde woman in the red robe up and down.
"A small world, not worth mentioning, it accidentally connected to this place, and now you guys are playing tricks to rob our poor people and bring them here for some unknown purpose. Can I ask you, why are you so interested in our little world’s people?" Myne, making his voice serious, behaved as if he cared about the people of his world, and asked with a frown.
"Well, Mr. Mage, I won’t beat around the bush. To be blunt, we need people, a lot of people, actually. Like your world, ours is also connected to this mysterious dimensional creak, and we get trapped here as well. The only difference is that we came here earlier than you. We have no idea about this place until now, like how big it is, or what we need to do to get out of here. The only thing we know is that we have three days left for preparation, after which something extremely horrific is going to happen."
"The people of my world rely on human emotions and sacrifices of lives to get power from our god. This is why we are desperately using all our available resources to teleport weak people from all worlds connected to this mysterious dimension, so we can squeeze out their emotional energy and sacrifice them to our gods to get blessings and become powerful before the cooldown time ends."
"And how did you know that something horrific will happen in three days?" Myne asked with a suspicious expression.
Why does her method of getting powerful sound so familiar? Where did I see it before? Myne couldn’t help but fall into deep thought, hearing about collecting emotional energy and sacrificing people to gods and goddesses to become powerful.
"Huh? Didn’t you receive the mysterious notification when you first entered this world? Look at your vision’s lower right corner. There should be a small blue transparent window box in which the countdown time is showing. How could you miss such an obvious thing? As far as I know, except for those weakling commoners, every person with a certain level of strength will receive this notification when they first enter this place," The woman blinked in confusion, and looked at Myne as if he was a fool. Then she looked at the lower right side of Myne, where a small blue digital window box was floating in the air showing [ 2:15:49:09 ].
"Notification? What notification? I didn’t receive anything," Myne was shocked by the woman’s words and quickly looked at his vision’s lower right corner, but there was nothing.
Is this because I am in my clone body? Otherwise, with my strength, there shouldn’t be a problem recognizing this mysterious dimension. It seems like my cheating was found out, Myne thought while rubbing his chin. Enjoy more content from freewebnovel
Damn it, now until I didn’t see that notification this hot woman is talking about, I probably won’t be able to get any sleep.
"Strange, how did you not get the reminder... I see, I understand, so this is how it is," The woman, seeing Myne’s confused expression, started muttering to herself. But before Myne could even sort out his thoughts, and make some excuse to fool her, she made an understanding look.
"No wonder you didn’t look the slightest bit nervous even after I trapped you in a space prison. You are just a clone. As expected of a world-travelling mage, you can never underestimate them," The woman spoke while nodding her head, catching Myne off guard.
He didn’t expect that she would actually be able to see through his trick.
"Don’t be surprised. Our Pope knows this magic as well. He always uses it to deal with all official business of the church, while his real body is always either completing God’s tasks or looking for some way to take tasks from our God, he is a workaholic and power-hungry restless old man who can do anything to increase his strength," The woman let out a helpless sigh and shook her head.
"By the way, Mage, are you interested in joining me? Your magic is very useful for us, and believe me, you will be satisfied with the reward. We are not stingy with our partners."
"If you answer my two questions, then I will definitely consider this proposal seriously," Myne pondered for a minute before speaking with a serious expression.
"Ask!" The woman seemed really eager to recruit Myne into her team and replied as soon as his words fell.
"First, what is your name? Mine is Myne, Myne Fortuna. Nice to meet you," Myne raised his hand at the blonde woman.
"Huh? That’s it? I thought you would ask something serious," The woman let out a light chuckle and held Myne’s hand gently. "Finn Osciana. Nice to meet you too."
"Finn, you have a beautiful name. Now, my second question... please don’t be offended. Are you married? If so, then do you love your husband? Don’t misunderstand me, but female mages like you are very rare in my world, and as you can see, as a young man in his prime, currently finding a beautiful girlfriend is my most important task.
"Although I don’t know about your personality, at least your figure is to my liking. You can say that you are the woman whom I always dream about. Please give me a chance," Myne grabbed Finn’s hand with both of his hands and spoke with eyes full of passion, like a lover who, after going through hellish struggles, was finally able to make up his mind and propose to the girl he always loved.
"What!?" Finn was completely dumbfounded by Myne’s words. She didn’t understand what was going on in this weird mage’s head. How could he possibly propose to a stranger he met only ten minutes ago, and that too with such a confident look on his face?
"Sorry, but we can’t be together. First of all, I have a husband, and although nowadays our bond is on the verge of getting destroyed, I still have no intention of looking for another man. And you are not my type. You better find a young girl of your age instead of trying to eat someone else’s sweet," Finn’s expression turned cold, and she forcefully pulled her hand away from Myne, after breaking Myne’s beautiful dream bubble, she quickly made some distance from him.
"Well, forget it then. Now, if you don’t have anything else to ask, I will take my leave, and thanks for your time," Myne sighed heavily with a depressed look on his face, like a heartbroken lover who got rejected by his crush. After giving Finn a forced smile, he lowered his head and started walking toward the left. The entrance to the basement was behind a giant building, surrounded by a three-meter-tall wall.
"The exit is on the other side," Finn, although feeling a bit sad that she couldn’t pull such a good talent under her wing, since the other party was just a clone and it was a bit too dangerous to let such an unstable factor join the church, she didn’t try to pursue him at all and let him go.
"Thanks, and take care, I hope we meet again," Myne raised his head slowly and gave her another forced smile before exhaling a deep breath, lowering his head, and starting to walk towards the other side.
"Nowadays, children, only God knows what’s going on in their crazy minds," Finn shook her head and walked into the basement, putting Myne’s matter aside. Now she had more important things to do, which was to teach her daughter and her bastard henchmen a good lesson. As for Myne getting to death by guards after getting seen by them? What does this have to do with her?