Mission: Find the River God! Chen Luo: ???

"You're ruthless. Go learn it now, and then give me a massage in 10 minutes, you hear me?!" Chen Luo roared at Yakumo Yukari.

"Okay, okay, why are you so angry?" Yakumo Yukari said sullenly.

Then Yakumo Yukari got up and walked towards... Fu Hua?

Wait, who are you going to learn massage from?

Generally speaking, Fu Hua should indeed know about massage, but... Chen Luo wanted a less formal massage, not this kind of overly formal one.

"Yakumo Yukari, you just wait. Once I actually create your Golden Gensokyo, I'll show you what cruelty is!"

If Chen Luo remembered correctly, he didn't seem to have told anyone that the contracts he signed through the Book of Contracts could cost Chen Luo Primogem, and that Chen Luo himself.

That's right, it's the kind of situation where Chen Luo breached the contract, but others couldn't.

"Jingle!"

"Chen Luo, I'm here." A slightly childish voice rang out, and Chen Luo looked up to see a dignified young lady.

"Oh, it's Remi." Chen Luo greeted her after looking up.

"Hey Chen Luo, isn't there a big difference between your attitude towards me at the beginning and your attitude towards me now?" Remilia crossed her arms, trying to look angry at Chen Luo.

When I first met Chen Luo was very polite to me and completely subservient to my authority.

But now he just calls her Remi directly, without giving her any face at all. How can that possibly make him seem authoritative?

"Well, I only call you that because I consider you a friend. Besides, if someone came to your house and smashed more than 10 of your keyboards because they were bad at games, you wouldn't have much respect for them in terms of authority, would you?" Chen Luo rolled his eyes at Remilia.

"Uh..." Remilia's eyes darted around.

Although Remilia didn't count exactly how many keyboards she smashed, it must have been quite a few.

But can I blame myself? Wasn't it because Chen Luo initially said he would grant me a wish after I finished the game, and that's why I went to finish it?

As a result, you can't pass the level, right?

And besides, couldn't you have made a smaller keyboard? How am I supposed to type all the keys on such a big keyboard with my short fingers?

Isn't this bullying a little girl?

"Fine, I'll go with you then," Remilia said, sticking her neck out.

"No, forget it. I'm not so poor that I need you to compensate me for a damaged keyboard. Anyway, the reason this keyboard wasn't protected was because it was meant to be smashed." Chen Luo waved his hand.

After all, if you can't smash things to vent your anger after losing a game, someone with a bad temper might just start flipping the table.

To avoid disrupting the bar experience for regular customers, it's better to let them smash their keyboards.

"No way, you can't just say you won't pay. Wouldn't that make me lose face? Sakuya!" Remilia snapped her fingers.

"Understood, Miss." Izayoi Sakuya bowed slightly, then walked out of the bar, which was still open, and disappeared instantly.

Since no one except Chen Luo, a privileged individual, could freely use their abilities inside the bar, Izayoi Sakuya could only use her Time Ability after leaving the bar.

Perhaps because the door was open, Chen Luo was able to sense something amiss the instant the other party used their Time Ability.

But before this strange feeling had even disappeared, Izayoi Sakuya had already returned to the Bar Door and walked in.

Thinking of this, Chen Luo glanced at the Moon Clock in his backpack.

If I had been outside the bar instead of inside, perhaps I would have been affected by the other person's Time Ability?

Who knows, something interesting might happen then.

Of course, nothing might happen.

Because the bar was so independent that no force could invade it, the other party's Time Ability did not include the bar. This made Chen Luo somewhat confused as to whether Izayoi Sakuya's ability was to pause the world's time or to pause her own time.

But in reality, there shouldn't be much difference in combat.

The only thing that's clear is that the other party can't harm anyone else while time is frozen.

Just like when Izayoi Sakuya fought Reimu Hakurei, she would only pause time and throw knives around her opponent's body.

Wait, pause time?

Throwing knives?

Element detection!

"Is this enough?" Remilia took the small piece of gold from Sakuya's hand and tossed it to Chen Luo.

"It's enough, but there's really no need to pay for it." As Chen Luo spoke, he used his Friend's Ledger to slap the flying gold into the river in front of him.

Chen Luo always been curious: if he could create a golden version of everything if he threw it into the river, what would the golden version of gold be if it fell into the river?

This is a question worth pondering.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Remilia was taken aback when she saw Chen Luo's actions.

Did giving someone gold offend their pride?

Do you want the other person to feel like you're giving them charity?

Should I apologize?

Remilia thought about many things in that instant.

Sakuya, who was following behind Remilia, also showed a hint of surprise in her eyes when she saw the gold piece fall into the illusory river.

"..." This time Chen Luo didn't jump into the river, because even without jumping into the river, he could still summon three things.

However, you lose your divine power if you don't jump into the river, but the divine power of gold is negligible.

It's not Primogem, so there's no need to haggle over every little detail.

But...

"So, do you think this has appreciated or depreciated in value?" Chen Luo asked Yakumo Yukari, who had just walked over.

Chen Luo had three metal objects in his hand. The one in the middle was ordinary gold, which was normal, but the ones on the left and right were not quite normal.

"A silver version of gold... Is this silver?" Yakumo Yukari asked after taking the silver gold from Chen Luo's hand.

"You're asking me?" Chen Luo shook his head.

"Isn't this a form of devaluation? Chen Luo, it seems your River God Ability aren't so incomprehensible after all. Take this moment, for example." Yakumo Yukari laughed, tossing the silver gold in her hand.

Having been shocked by Chen Luo's River God Ability several times, and finally managing to turn the tide, they naturally wanted to mock him mercilessly.

Although Yakumo Yukari knew that Chen Luo might retaliate against her.

But what does the revenge that Yakumo Yukari suffered later have to do with the present Yakumo Yukari?

Enjoy life to the fullest when you're successful!

"Yakumo Yukari, have you ever considered that what you hold in your hand isn't actually silver?" Chen Luo suddenly asked.

"Huh? How is that possible? If this wasn't Silver, I would have eaten the keyboard Remilia smashed right there and then." Yakumo Yukari was stunned for a moment.

"Ding-a-ling!" The wind chimes rang again, and this time it was Patchouli who came.

"Yakumo Yukari, show Patchouli the silver in your hand. I'm not sure what it is, but she should know," Chen Luo said to Yakumo Yukari.

"..." Yakumo Yukari frowned and tossed the silver in her hand to Patchouli had just entered the bar.

Could it be that I misjudged him?

"Hmm? This is... Mithril? Chen Luo, are you going to forge a staff?" Patchouli asked, seeing the silver metal in her hand.

"No, I wasn't thinking about forging a staff. I already have my own staff, and I'm very satisfied with it." Chen Luo said, taking out his crowbar.

"You think this is a crowbar?!" Patchouli exclaimed, looking at the crowbar in Chen Luo's hand.

"This crowbar staff is practically trash for weak Magus like you, but for Magus like me who knows everything except magic, it's a perfect fit," Chen Luo said, shaking his head.

This is the Staff of Physics, a truly valuable item.

But for Patchouli, with her tiny arms and legs, using this thing would be suicidal.

Chen Luo is different; Chen Luo can even use it to deliver a head-on blow.

"Of course, that's not the point. The point is what you have in your hands."

"What's that in your hand? Mithril, what's wrong with it? But this piece of Mithril doesn't look very high grade."

"And what about this?" Chen Luo asked after tossing the golden coin in his hand to Patchouli.

"Refined gold. The level isn't extremely high, but it's already quite good. As I suspected, Chen Luo, your theoretical knowledge is very rich, but your practical knowledge is quite lacking," Patchouli said.

"There's nothing I can do, I've only been learning magic for a little over a month," Chen Luo said helplessly.

Chen Luo has only been learning magic for a little over a month. Where is Chen Luo going to gain so much practical experience?

You only hire recent graduates, but you need ten years of work experience, right?

"..." After hearing Chen Luo's words, Patchouli glared at Chen Luo, then threw both pieces of special metal back to Chen Luo.

So you're in Versailles again?

I'm not sour.

It's not sour at all.

Patchouli threw both special metals back, but Mithril was half the weight of ordinary metals, while adamantite was twice the weight of ordinary metals.

Patchouli was frail and sickly, and not very strong, or rather, not very strong.

So... after receiving the Mithril, Chen Luo watched helplessly as Jin Jin fell into the river.

"... My precious gold!" Chen Luo cried out in grief.

Chen Luo has conducted experiments.

If the gold version of the item is thrown back into the river, Chen Luo's powers will not react in any way, and the item will sink to the bottom.

Unfortunately, the river has no bottom.

"Uh, did I mess up?" Patchouli asked worriedly.

"Ah, it's okay. I can just cancel it and throw it away again." Chen Luo said as he canceled the gold and silver versions of the item, which were made of gold.

Then they threw the gold back into the river.

Although Chen Luo probably won't be able to retrieve the item, Chen Luo can cancel and discard it again.

This is much more efficient than jumping into the river to retrieve the sinking gold.

"Also, I forgot who said it, if this isn't Silver, then eat the keyboard Remilia smashed on the spot. Right?" Chen Luo squinted at Yakumo Yukari beside him.

"..." Yakumo Yukari looked around.

"Wait, I'm going to smash the keyboard right now! Yakumo Yukari, you old hag, just wait and see what happens to my keyboard!" Remilia jumped up instantly and then ran excitedly towards the corner where the computer was placed.

"This doesn't make sense. Why would throwing gold in result in a piece of Mithril and a piece of fine gold?" Yakumo Yukari was puzzled as she looked at the two items, gold and silver, that had reappeared in Chen Luo's hand.

"Smack!"

"Ahem, um, I suddenly remembered something. I need to go back and maintain Gensokyo." Hearing the sound of keyboard banging coming from the corner of the bar, Yakumo Yukari paused for a moment, then quickly walked towards the Bar Door.

"Come back," Chen Luo said softly.

Yakumo Yukari's body obediently stopped there.

According to the contract, in the bar and in the Different World, Yakumo Yukari must listen to Chen Luo.

"The keyboard is here!" Remilia's excited voice rang out, as she held a keyboard that kept losing keycaps.

Watching Izayoi Sakuya close the Bar Door that was just a stone's throw away and give her a polite smile, Yakumo Yukari felt like crying.

What a terrible thing!

And as for the keyboard and stuff, there's no way you could possibly get in, right?

Chapter 598 Mission: Find the River God! Chen Luo:???

"Wow, this monster is really amazing. It can actually eat a keyboard. If she were to take a bite..." Chen Luo watched as Yakumo Yukari bit the "Shift" key to pieces and shuddered slightly.

Yakumo Yukari is a youkai, after all. Putting aside whether her physical skills are on Yuuka Kazami, her physical attributes are certainly not weak.

Good teeth, can eat anything with great relish.

If it accidentally bites a part of Chen Luo's body, wouldn't it be a disaster?