Ten Days

Today's haul was truly exceptionally abundant; after settling the commissions, the earnings already exceeded 220 gold.

After giving them 30 gold as a reward, Lu Cang was left with 190 gold.

This sum was already a fortune for a child.

As expected, as long as you have strength.

Money is easy to earn.

After completing ten commissions, it was only dusk.

I felt a bit stronger today than yesterday.

Even after a day of rushing around, I didn't feel particularly tired.

There were clearly many more people in the Adventurer's Guild.

Today's teammates planned to go for a drink to celebrate their earnings.

For a Tier 3 adventurer, earning 10 gold in a day was a rare income, even during the harvest moon, let alone so easily.

Lu Cang declined their invitation.

He was alone in Rhein Town now, and although he had gotten to know today's teammates.

They hadn't yet formed a bond where they'd risk their lives for each other.

In such a situation, Lu Cang didn't want to put himself in a state of unconsciousness.

He looked at the sky.

The night sky and stars were gradually being unveiled.

"Forget it... I'll go practice magic."

Lu Cang rented a private training ground to continue grinding his magic proficiency.

And also, to practice flying with Ice Shuttle more.

If you don't count the Demonic Tide arriving and adventurers flocking here.

Life was indeed quite peaceful.

No unexpected storms or dangers erupted as imagined.

Following this, ten uneventful days passed. Lu Cang bought a newspaper every day to see what news was coming from Tomb God Stele Valley.

Tier 7 Dungeons were indeed dangerous.

Bad news was reported daily, and currently, only a handful of adventurer groups had not been wiped out.

Iz's team was one of them.

He couldn't help them; apart from tossing a coin every day to pray for them, there was nothing else he could do.

The magic he had learned so far had almost all reached LV:200.

Just as he had imagined, after evolving, it was impossible to increase the level further, getting stuck at LV:201.

Including "Void Realm," a Magic Enhancement Technique, it had also reached LV:200.

However, the Magic Enhancement Technique could not evolve.

His progress in magic had almost come to a standstill.

During the daytime for these ten days, he had basically been taking adventurer commissions, forming a stable team with Loth and the others.

They had cleared over eighty Tier 3 Dungeons.

They had defeated over ninety Tier 3 Lord-class Demonic Beasts and destroyed more than thirty wild Demonic Beast settlements.

In the Adventurer's Guild, everyone looked at the current month's commission leaderboard.

The Star of the Month on the list... was none other than: Lu Cang.

One person, taking over two hundred commissions in ten days.

And all of them were major commissions involving killing Tier 3 Demonic Beasts, exploring Tier 3 Dungeons, and wiping out Demonic Beast hordes.

He hadn't taken any small commissions like "investigation," "harvesting," "gathering," or "transportation."

The commission rewards alone had already exceeded 300 gold.

It was hard to imagine how he had managed it.

Completing over 20 commissions on average per day; even just traveling from one location to another would take considerable time, wouldn't it?

Even without relying on the name of Izpalut.

Lu Cang had now become a legend whispered among adventurers.

[Rhein Town Library]

Lu Cang didn't take any missions today.

Taking on Adventurer quests was primarily to test my own strength, improve my magic proficiency, and get used to combat.

This world requires fighting, and Lu Cang didn't want to be like an idiot when danger struck.

On the other hand, adventuring increased his understanding of the world, and he could also gain a lot of information from communicating with teammates.

Now, his magic was maxed out, and he had accumulated a lot of combat experience.

He had explored many Dungeons and talked with his teammates a great deal. Currently, there was no particular information he wanted to learn from them.

Therefore, there was no longer a need to continue taking quests.

"Yo~ Little Lu Cang!"

"Are you really not taking any quests today?"

In the library, Loth saw Little Lu Cang and threw an arm around him, her chest pressing against his shoulder.

Ah, it's the indebted healer...

"Heh heh, I've taken quests for too many days in a row. I want to rest a bit today," Lu Cang replied smoothly.

Loth: "That's true, adventuring for so many days straight. Alright, alright."

"But this Demonic Tide is getting stronger and stronger."

"I saw on the weather forecast that the Demonic Tide is about to reach Tier 5 concentration. If this continues, a Tier 5 Demonic Beast might really appear in the wild."

"That's really dangerous," Lu Cang replied, turning a page of his book.

A Tier 5 Demonic Tide.

The wild was different from Dungeons. It was difficult for high-tier Demonic Beasts to appear in the wild; most of the time, Demonic Beasts encountered in the wild were Tier 1 to Tier 3.

Most towns were not near any Tier 4 Demonic Beasts that could be hunted; they were basically only encountered in Dungeons.

Lu Cang did not dismiss Loth's words.

Instead, he seriously flipped through Magic Advancement while contemplating countermeasures.

This was not a good omen. Did he need to avoid it?

A Tier 5 Demonic Beast was three tiers above him. The possibility of not being able to defeat it was very high. The best course of action would be to hide in another safe place...

And wait for this Demonic Tide to pass.

Lu Cang pretended to ask casually, "Sister Loth, are there any other relatively safe towns nearby?"

Loth tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Hmm, there probably isn't anywhere safer than Rhein Town."

"The strong individuals of the kingdom are rushing here. They definitely won't ignore a Demonic Tide of this magnitude."

"Besides, Rhein Town already has several Tier 5 Adventurers."

"It's actually more dangerous to go out randomly now and encounter powerful Demonic Beasts alone."

"But with your strength, Little Lu Cang, you can definitely survive against a Tier 4 Demonic Beast~"

Oh, so that means I can't survive against a Tier 5 Demonic Beast.

Lu Cang mused inwardly.

He calculated. Iz and the others said they would return in about half a month.

Thirteen days had already passed since they left.

They should be back soon.

Moreover, other Tier 5 Adventurers had already arrived in Rhein Town during this period. Theoretically, the town was extremely safe.

If the sky were to fall, it would hit them first.

If it really reached the town, he would still have time to escape.

For the next few days, he would stay in town, read, and rest.

He would also put into practice his recent ideas for magic. Thinking about magic with a transmigrator's mindset really allowed for a unique approach.

"If you want to rest, Little Lu Cang, I've made plans with Maizer to explore a Tier 3 Dungeon with another team today."

"You don't mind, right~?"

Lu Cang nodded, "Mhm, it's fine. Be careful."

Loth had sufficient strength, and a Tier 3 Dungeon wasn't that dangerous. Based on his tests these past few days, escaping from a Tier 3 Dungeon was also not a problem if he encountered a situation he couldn't handle.

Loth waved goodbye to Lu Cang.

After she left, Lu Cang glanced at her retreating figure.

A very lively healer. Once you got to know her, she talked the most. The reason she was in debt was that she trusted people too easily.

As long as someone tried to sell her something, it didn't take much effort to make her buy it all.

As a result, even though she was a Tier 3 Adventurer and earned a lot of money, she bought a pile of things she didn't need: Defender's armor, Warrior's swords, Blacksmith's anvils, Assassin's shoes...

Heh, no wonder she's going bankrupt.

As for Maizer, after adventuring during the day, he could manage his time at night to juggle two women without them discovering each other, even going so far as to sleep with one, make an excuse, and then go to the other...

Heh, truly a model of scum.

Thanks to him and Lu Cang earning quite a few Gold Coins, using money as a weapon, his progress with those two girls has been heating up these past few days.

Every day on their journey, he'd talk about his romantic escapades as if no one else was around.

Of course, Loth and Trand's disgust towards him was also unavoidable.

But no matter what, they were the first group of friends Lu Cang had made since arriving in this world.

As for Iz and the others... he felt more of a mentor-and-friend relationship, like guides, like enlighteners.

Lu Cang spent a whole day at the library. As he returned to the inn in the evening, he passed by the Adventurer's Guild.

He saw a white notice posted on the wall.

Another Adventurer has gone missing.

Even though they make all sorts of preparations before every adventure, there are always cases of missteps.

Some Adventurers who narrowly escaped would report the deaths or disappearances of their teammates in the Dungeon to the Guild.

The Guild would then post the list of missing people, just like now.

They call it "missing," but in reality, they're probably dead, as very few ever return.