What kind of thing was that supposed to mean?
What did they mean, legends never lied? Weren't legends usually the ones that lied?
But... he was an outsider. He should believe first, then question it.
Everyone tilted their heads up like that and stared blankly at the sky for a while.
"Ah!"
"Right!"
"Let's hurry back!"
"What's wrong? Is there going to be danger?" Zhou Er suddenly suggested. Lu Cang felt a little wary.
It was already getting dark, and nighttime was more dangerous than daytime. That was common sense.
Zhou Er's suggestion came so suddenly that Lu Cang had a bad feeling something was about to happen.
"No... it's not really dangerous."
"It's just that the moon changes today. It's the best day to worship Yakartikto, and if we go back now... there'll still be time to pray."
Seriously... go back and pray?
I thought something important had happened.
You're just some ordinary person from the middle of nowhere. Do you really think a god will listen to your prayers?
Even Lu Cang, who had only just arrived in this world, knew that gods didn't casually pay attention to mortals.
Otherwise, if everyone in the world worshipped them, wouldn't the gods be worked to death?
Still, he had a point.
Night was more dangerous than day, and even with the "Everlight" to light their way, Lu Cang didn't want to expose himself carelessly to unknown dangers.
They had already finished today's commission. His spirits were still decent, but his body was definitely tired.
As expected, a mage's stamina was a well-known weakness...
It was time to head back.
"Okay, let's go back."
The other two had been nothing but spectators in that fight.
But Lu Cang didn't mind the small sum of two gold coins in total.
It was like a safety rope: it could go unused the whole time, and it was better if it did.
But they absolutely couldn't go without it.
It was just...
Lu Cang glanced at Gaiton and Jidi.
The uncle was quite useful as a gatherer, but the healer and defender were only level two. That was far too low.
It'd be safer to switch to level-three adventurers.
Especially a level-three defender. Lu Cang hoped one could protect him from sudden dangers he didn't react to in time.
As long as he had time to react, a barrier or wall could quickly block the damage.
But after seeing this guy's performance, Lu Cang was worried he wouldn't react in time.
Still, level-three adventurers probably wouldn't come at this price.
They returned to Rhein Town.
The commission rewards came to four gold coins in total, and the three second-tier lords had paid two gold coins and twenty silver coins altogether.
The third-tier lord's reward was one gold coin and eighty silver coins, making exactly four gold coins.
Lu Cang gave them two gold coins to split among themselves. His own net earnings for the day came to thirty-one gold coins.
Most of the money had come from what they'd collected from the corpses.
Today's pay for them all came to two gold coins and sixty silver coins.
For them, it was nearly a gold coin earned in a day without any risk.
After receiving the money, they thanked Lu Cang.
They also praised young Lu Cang as a prodigy, saying he would surely make a name for himself in the world someday, and so on.
After settling their pay,
each of them placed a silver coin—precious to them—before one of the blank god statues displayed in the guild.
They prayed to the statue with devout expressions.
Oh?
They were willing to give that much?
If so, the Adventurer's Guild must be making a fortune...
Collecting silver coins from the altars beneath the statues every day and all that.
Lu Cang couldn't help thinking that.
However, the very next second, he immediately took back that thought.
The silver coins tossed onto the platform beneath the statue began to evaporate, bubbling like water boiling away.
Lu Cang's mouth twitched as he looked up at the sky.
Huh?
Hey—
You're a bit much, aren't you, god?
You really take people's money?
You'd better actually do something for them!
He'd spent the entire day on a commission, and his body was exhausted.
Lu Cang returned to the inn to take a bath.
He took off all his clothes and stood in front of the mirror.
He seemed to have grown a little taller... Come to think of it, when he stood on tiptoe today, his head had already been a whole head higher than the counter.
He really had grown taller, hadn't he?
Did children in this world develop that quickly?
Lu Cang looked over his body again. His muscles weren't sharply defined, but he had built up quite a bit of muscle.
He flexed his biceps and felt them. They were rock-hard.
He had some abs and chest muscles, too.
As expected, his body had gotten stronger.
After all, unlike in a game, this world didn't show him exact stats. Lu Cang could only judge himself by what he could see.
"My magic is powerful, but my body is incredibly weak."
His body had gotten a little stronger, but compared to his progress as a mage, it was still far behind.
"If I could, I'd really like to switch classes and become a Warrior."
But Kumiloni wasn't here now.
The corruption that came with promotion was dangerous for him.
He couldn't rely on Kumiloni forever, either. He couldn't spend his whole life needing someone else in order to advance.
He still had to find a way to remove the corruption himself.
Sigh, why had he transmigrated into the body of a child?
If he were sixteen, things would be so much easier.
As Lu Cang bathed, he couldn't help sighing to himself.
His body was already exhausted from the day, so Lu Cang used the stretching method Chicheng had taught him to ease his muscle fatigue. That way, he wouldn't be sore all over tomorrow and have it affect him in battle.
The people Lu Cang interacted with most were Kumiloni and Iz.
After them came Chicheng.
As for Stone, Lu Cang had barely seen it at all.
He could go from morning to night without seeing it, and didn't even know whether it lived at the inn.
But whenever it happened to run into him, it would say hello.
It also occasionally liked to tell him a corny joke.
Hmm...
Other than that, Lu Cang didn't know anything else about Obades.
Chicheng had said that when Izpalut and the others weren't around, Obades was its partner in battle.
That made sense...
Chicheng, if even Obades wouldn't go fight with you, you really would be soloing everything.
The relaxation technique Chicheng taught Lu Cang was pretty useful.
He'd heard that combat techniques in this world were divided into many different schools. To learn them, people generally had to focus on an established "style," then add other supporting "combat techniques" to build a combat system of their own.
Of course, that didn't mean they could only learn one style. It was just that, like magic, each combat style required years of dedicated practice.
Learn too many, and you'd end up biting off more than you could chew.
The relaxation technique Lu Cang used now was the Living Body Form from the "Invincible Style," the school Wu Wei had created himself.
Invincible Style...
He had some nerve naming it that.
Come to think of it, Iz and Chicheng both seemed to like creating their own skills and styles.
Iz had apparently created "Void Magic" at level one.
And Chicheng had created the "Invincible Style."
Should he try to develop a skill of his own, too?
Iz's teachings flashed through Lu Cang's mind again.
"The Promotion Ritual is a testament to how you put your profession's principles into practice..."
"While you learn, you also need to do some thinking of your own."
Putting the principles into practice?
It should be something like the college entrance exam, right? Ordinary people took the test, and any score from zero to 750 was still part of the assessment.
But some ridiculously brilliant prodigy might publish a paper in a top journal or win a Nobel Prize while still in high school... In that case, the college entrance exam score wouldn't matter much.
In other words,
it didn't matter whether he got a perfect score on the Promotion Ritual's assessment.
What mattered was... how exceptionally he put the principles into practice.
But did Transcendent Magic count as something he'd created himself?
It had come from his talent, but he was still the first person in the world to possess Transcendent Magic. That should count, right?
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