· Senior, Who Should We Cut?

After Finn returned to the Loki Familia, he looked awkwardly at his familia members and Loki. Especially when he met their concerned gazes, his toes curled inside his boots, wishing he could dig a hole deep enough to hide in.

"Finn, you don't need to mind it. That child is completely different from you all."

Loki looked at Finn. Having lived for hundreds of millions of years, she saw through his embarrassment and gently comforted him, telling him not to let what just happened affect him.

"Lord Goddess, are you saying Lu Qiming is different from us?"

Finn looked at Loki in confusion. He admitted that Lu Qiming's strength surpassed his own, but he hadn't perceived any fundamental difference. If Lu Qiming was stronger, he would just strive to become stronger himself; one day, he would catch up.

"Hmm, that child might just be the one to realize the wish we gods have held for eons."

After saying this, Loki turned and left. She already knew Lu Qiming's choice, so she would wait until he finished his mission to invite him to join her familia. However, it certainly wouldn't be that simple when the time came.

After all, every god now believed Lu Qiming possessed the potential to become a god, so they certainly wouldn't let him join her familia so easily, even if hers was one of the top familias in Orario.

But it was only one of them. Other familias were also eyeing Lu Qiming, and the gods of weaker familias wouldn't give up easily either—after all, it was the familia that was weak, not the god!

Nearby, other gods also smiled and greeted Lu Qiming before leaving with their own familias. They had to start preparing for the 'Qiming Scramble' that would ensue once Lu Qiming completed his mission.

The beauty goddess Freya, in particular, was practically draped over Ottar as she left, her face flushed with a deep crimson, her eyes locked intently on Lu Qiming not far away.

On the other side, Apollo was staring at Lu Qiming with an expression much like Freya's.

"Hiss~!"

As Lu Qiming was putting on the backpack he had set down, he felt a chill run down his spine and shivered. His top-tier perception made it clear that some pervert was staring daggers at him.

"Damn it!"

Lu Qiming turned his head, Divine Judgment appearing in his hand, and glared fiercely behind him. However, he couldn't see which pervert was staring at him, only the large crowds retreating.

"Don't let me find you, or I'll definitely hack you to death!"

Lu Qiming muttered as he put away Divine Judgment. He knew it had to be that pervert Apollo staring at his backside, but unfortunately, there were too many people here to locate him. Otherwise, he would have definitely gone over and given him a few slashes.

"Senior, who are you going to hack? Let's go together!"

Hearing Lu Qiming, Aili leaned in with a curious look, seemingly ready to rush off and help him hack someone the moment he gave the word.

"It's nothing, just a pervert. Don't worry about it."

Lu Qiming patted Aili's little head and shouldered his backpack, heading toward the Adventurer Guild.

He didn't want to tell them he had just been planning to hack Apollo. In this world, an adventurer hacking a god would be reviled. He was just a passerby here; at worst, he could just run into the Dungeon and grind until his mission was complete before heading to another world, but Aili and the others couldn't do that.

"Oh."

Aili pouted and followed behind Lu Qiming. She had decided that since he wouldn't tell her, she would just quietly follow him and jump in to help when it was time to hack someone.

Before long, Lu Qiming's group walked into the Adventurer Guild.

Because of the earlier events, most adventurers had already left, having returned with their respective gods. Only those who had just returned from the Dungeon to exchange their Magic Stone remained.

Just as they walked in, a pair of adventurers from the corner approached them.

"Sir! The task you gave me has been completed. All the Valis are with Miss Eina."

The burly captain pointed to the bag beside Eina at the counter not far away.

"Mm, thank you. By the way, wait for me for a moment."

"Yes."

The captain and his teammate exchanged a look and sat down at a nearby table, intending to see if Lu Qiming needed anything else. Besides, they hadn't properly thanked him yet, so it wouldn't be right to leave.

Seeing this, Lu Qiming nodded and walked past the big man to Eina.

"Miss Eina, I'm back."

Lu Qiming smiled and placed all the backpacks from his back onto the counter, taking the opportunity to set Aili and Ailin's bags up there as well, as the two little lolis weren't tall enough to reach the counter.

Behind him, the others also placed their bags on the counter, looking at Eina with excitement.

They remembered Lu Qiming saying he would share one percent of the earnings with them upon their return.

"Mm!"

Eina looked at Lu Qiming with a complex expression. She hadn't expected him to cause such a stir only two days after becoming an adventurer. She had been worried that, without a 'Falna', he would be crushed by the terrifying monsters of the Dungeon.

But now, this guy had become the strongest adventurer in Orario. That's right—after the clash between Lu Qiming and Finn, all the gods and adventurers acknowledged that Lu Qiming was currently the strongest adventurer in Orario, and would be the strongest in the future as well.

Even the former strongest adventurer, Ottar, did not object to this, tacitly accepting the fact.

"Eina, are you feeling unwell?"

Noticing Eina's strange expression, Lu Qiming leaned over the counter toward her, looking at her with concern. She was his second friend in this world, and he cared about her.

"I'm fine."

Eina looked at Lu Qiming, who seemed completely oblivious to what he had accomplished, and sighed helplessly. She called over a colleague to start estimating the price of the Magic Stone Lu Qiming had brought.

"That's good. I thought maybe your period had started, and I was going to tell you a great trick for it."

"You're the one whose period started!"

Hearing Lu Qiming, Eina looked up at him, her face flushed with embarrassment. This jerk—didn't he know you shouldn't talk about a girl's private matters in public?

"I don't have that 'period' thing, but I still drink plenty of hot water. You should remember to drink more too, Eina."

"Drink your head!"

Eina glared at Lu Qiming, puffed up with anger, then lowered her head to focus on her work, ignoring him entirely. She felt that if she kept talking to him, she would die of frustration.

Lu Qiming watched Eina as she stopped paying him any mind, curled his lip in boredom, and opened his status panel.

Mission Index: 73000/10000000
Mission World: 362 days 5 hours 36 minutes

Name: Lu Qiming Lv31 (177700/200000)

Spirit: 18.1
Strength: 18.1
Agility: 23.1
Constitution: 18.1

Class: Assassin

Skill Points: 3