Child

Thirsty...

Lu Cang leaned on his wooden staff, looking up at the seemingly endless rock walls around him.

Where is this place?

His last memory was in a waiting hall. He seemed to have suddenly heard a booming explosion and seen a fierce flash of fire.

Then he opened his eyes.

And found himself in this place.

His body felt so weak, his vision was darkening, and he felt like he could pass out at any moment.

"Ah!"

"It looks like someone's about to die!"

What were they babbling about...

The voice sounded pleasant, but it was speaking a language he couldn't understand.

No.

He could understand!

He saw a woman with long green hair rapidly approaching at the edge of his vision!

Swish!

A verdant green light flared.

It enveloped Lu Cang's body.

His body, which had been on the verge of collapse, miraculously began to recover at an astonishing speed.

"How could a human be in such a dangerous dungeon?"

The tone of the woman with long green hair was clearly worried.

Whoosh!

Behind the woman, flames coalesced into a human form.

It was a man who, at first glance, was clearly cosplaying a Mage.

However, a hearty voice rang out, "Kumiloni, you say there's a human here?"

"We should have cleared out all the Demonic Beasts in this dungeon already."

The one called Kumiloni was clearly the woman currently healing him.

Her ears were pointed and long.

Was she an elf?

This was a dungeon?

And this miraculous power... could it be magic?

Even if it wasn't magic, it was certainly a power beyond human capabilities...

Lu Cang couldn't help but think this.

Kumiloni: "Yes... We definitely didn't see him when we came over."

"Was he randomly teleported to us by some unlucky teleportation array?"

"Or perhaps a lost child."

"Hmm... Of course, it's also possible he's a Demonic Beast disguised as a human, trying to trick us." As she said this, a solid Fireball materialized in the Mage's hand.

Lu Cang quickly spoke up, "No, no! I'm human!"

He had a feeling that if he didn't clear up this misunderstanding immediately, that Fireball would be smashing down on his head!

Whoosh!

The flames dissipated.

The Mage grinned, "Just kidding."

"I can tell at a glance if you're a Demonic Beast."

"And even if you were, it wouldn't matter. We're very strong."

Kumiloni chided, "Iz, he just recovered. Don't joke around like that."

The Mage, known as Iz, offered an apologetic smile, "My apologies. It's just that seeing a child here, I found it quite interesting and couldn't resist teasing him a little."

"I don't see any class traits on you."

"You must be a newcomer who hasn't undergone your first job change yet."

Lu Cang didn't understand what he was talking about specifically.

But he had just transmigrated.

It wasn't surprising that he didn't know, but he still nodded.

Iz scratched his head and said, "It's no good just leaving you here. We just finished clearing out this dungeon and are heading back anyway, so why don't we take you home on the way?"

"Where is your home?"

When asked this...

The faces of his parents flashed through Lu Cang's mind in an instant.

Home...

He was flying back to go home.

His parents were waiting for him at home.

But...

But.

It seemed he couldn't go back now.

He didn't know if it was because his body wasn't used to it, but tears inexplicably streamed from the corners of his eyes, flowing uncontrollably.

Lu Cang tried to wipe away his tears with his sleeve, but they only flowed more.

"Iz..."

Kumiloni glared at Iz with a hint of reproach.

"You made him cry. He's just a child."

Damn it...

I don't want to cry.

He suddenly thought that while his parents' situation was sad, crying so easily in front of strangers wasn't the mindset of an adult.

Moreover, he was in an unknown world right now and definitely needed to stay rational.

Wait.

A child?

As Lu Cang wiped his tears, he looked down at himself.

He was so close to the ground.

He looked at his hands again.

His hands were so small.

Uh... it looks like I really have been transmigrated into a child.

As his attention shifted, the sad emotions gradually subsided.

So it's true that children can't stop crying? As soon as I think of something sad, my nose starts to sting. This body is so annoying.

If I accidentally cry in front of someone again in the future, it'll be so embarrassing.

But luckily, it seems that if I shift my attention in time, it's also easy to stop.

"Home... I don't know," Lu Cang replied in a childish voice.

Now that he spoke again.

Lu Cang realized how childish his voice was.

How old was he?

Ten years old?

Or perhaps younger.

Iz looked a little helpless but still walked up to Lu Cang. "If you don't know where your home is, it's going to be difficult."

"We can't just leave you in some random town."

"Could it be... your home has already..."

A flicker of pity crossed Iz's face.

In this era where Demonic Beasts ran rampant, there were always disasters where villages were trampled. In such situations, some Mages in the village with weak power would use random teleportation magic to send the village children away.

If they were lucky.

Those children might survive.

But in reality, random teleportation could send them to any corner of the world.

And safe places in this world accounted for less than 1% of the world.

Not to mention the death zones that even Level 8 adventurers dared not enter, even the vast ocean, boiling magma, or glaciers that were perpetually frozen...

These were not places where children could survive.

The land with civilization and cultivation was only a tiny fraction of the whole.

This child cried when home was mentioned.

It seems... he already knows what happened to the village, he just doesn't have the courage to face it yet.

Iz smiled, "Alright, you'll come with us. You can go wherever we go."

Lu Cang: "Is that okay?"

Even though he had just arrived in this world, they looked like adventurers exploring dungeons everywhere.

Casually bringing along a child with no combat ability.

No matter how you look at it, it feels like they're tempting fate.

Iz: "It's fine, we're very strong."

"Let me introduce you. This is our team's healer, a level 5 Healer, Kumiloni."

"I'm the spellcaster, a level 5 Mage, Izpalut, but everyone usually calls me Iz."

"Besides the two of us, there's also a level 5 Defender, Obades, and a level 5 Warrior, Chicheng."

"However, they're currently in the depths of the dungeon collecting spoils. You'll see them when we all gather later."

Mage, Warrior, Defender, Healer.

It really sounds like the real deal.

But level 5, isn't that a bit low?

Sounds like they're practically newbies.

You say you're strong, but isn't that a bit of an exaggeration, Izpalut?

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