471 Bloodline Inheritance

"I'll become a hero, defeat the Demon King—just wait and see! When the time comes, I'll take the prettiest girl in the village into my harem! Gahaha!"

Seventeen-year-old Jamie excitedly told the adventurers traveling with him about his aspirations. "First, I'll kill goblins to save up money, then get the best sword in the village. Step by step, I'll grow bigger and stronger and create new glory!"

But his companions were unmoved by his passionate declaration. One of them even poured cold water on it. "Dream on. Bottom-tier adventurers like us are destined to spend our whole lives picking up scraps near the village and clearing out goblins."

"Hehe, everyone needs dreams, don't they?" Jamie remained optimistic. "Yesterday, I specifically went to ask the Witch at the village entrance. She said fate was always unpredictable. Maybe fate would change the very next moment—so we're definitely going to make a big score today."

"Has it ever occurred to you that if you spent your money learning martial arts or upgrading your armor instead of paying the Witch for fortune-telling and emotional comfort, we could have taken on high-difficulty quests long ago?"

His companion grumbled, "It's because you keep obsessing over that stupid 'The Gears of Fate Will Eventually Turn' that we're still stuck doing this grunt work!"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! The Witch is beautiful, kind-hearted, and wears short skirts. She even showed me her thighs. How could she possibly lie to me?"

"Spending a week's savings just to look at thighs... in a way, that's really pathetic. I can't bear to remind Jamie that he got scammed by the Witch..."

"Impossible! The Witch is virtuous and talented. How could she be a scammer?"

Jamie stubbornly insisted, "Something huge is definitely going to happen today!"

His companions all rolled their eyes.

"What