A seemingly travel-worn "adventurer" party stepped into the city at the foot of Longfeng Ridge—White Maple City.
Adventurers were a common sight in this city. As the largest human settlement in the plains and the only stopover before the entrance to the Longfeng Ridge Grand Tunnel, White Maple City had always been a gathering place for travelers from all over. Human scholars from the plains, demi-human merchants from the other end of the Grand Tunnel who had come to trade with humans, adventurers—or mercenaries—from the White Mountain region, and even reclusive warlocks and druids who had emerged from the deep forests of Longfeng Ridge all passed through the city each day. They chased wealth or knowledge, while wealth and knowledge circulated through this ancient city day and night.
Thanks to them, even oddly dressed foreigners and mercenaries reeking of blood and fire could swagger through the city without attracting too much attention. As long as they were not there to cause trouble, that was.
Thus, Hao Ren and his group reached the city streets without a hitch, and successfully lowered their presence by using local clothing as a disguise. Apart from being stopped for an identity check at the city gate and barely slipping past it with the help of Little Demon Elizabeth's mental magic, everything went according to plan.
After all, this was not their first time operating in another world. Hao Ren and his little team had maxed out their skill points in "disguising themselves and blending in with the locals." They changed clothes, altered their hairstyles, and equipped themselves in one go. To make their roles as "a group of travelers from out of town" even more convincing, Nangong May and Vivian had even added a bit of travel-worn special-effects makeup to everyone. The result was practically