I Really Just Wanted to Fool You

After an unknown amount of time, the two finally emerged from the long corridor into an incredibly vast world.

A slightly damp breeze blew, hitting Li Mo's face and making him involuntarily lift his head to look into the distance.

Once he looked, he couldn't stop!

In the distance, the scene was magnificent, with mountains rising as if they were the mountains of the surface world. Countless glowing plants filled the mountain ranges, and as a gentle breeze blew from an unknown source, plants that resembled dandelions, emitting fluorescence, fluttered up. Looking up again, there was no sun above, but it wasn't just bare rock either. Instead, there were countless sparkling crystals, twinkling like the starry sky at night.

"Is this the Spirit Tomb?"

As expected, Brishisan's explanation before was correct. This place was entirely a different dimension from the surface world!

At this moment, Li Mo was lost in a daze, captivated by the beauty of this underground world.

"Mō-san."

From behind him, Brishisan's gentle voice softly called out.

"What is it, Teacher?" Li Mo turned around.

Brishisan moved his lips as if to speak, but for some reason, he calmed down again, simply staring blankly at Li Mo.

"Teacher, you're only seeing me off here, are you going back?" Li Mo suddenly guessed what Brishisan wanted to say.

Brishisan nodded, then took out a piece of parchment processed with Magecraft from his pocket and said, "This is a map to the exit back to the surface from the Clock Tower. Be sure not to take a wrong turn when you come out."

What would happen if he took a wrong turn?

Li Mo playfully wondered to himself, but his face remained serious as he reached out and took the parchment map.

"Eh!!!"

After scanning it with his eyes, Li Mo, who was about to put the map in his pocket, suddenly exclaimed.

Blindly, I've discovered the key point!

"Teacher, why isn't the Excavation City on here?"

Wasn't the Spirit Tomb comprised of the Excavation City, Grand Magic Circuits, Ancient Dragon Heart, and Fae Domain? Why wasn't the Excavation City on the map?

Of course, if Li Mo had looked closely, he would have noticed that the Fae Domain was also just depicted as a shaded area...

Brishisan chuckled softly, "I thought you already knew."

So, in a strict sense, the components of Spirit Tomb Albion were only the Grand Magic Circuits, the Ancient Dragon Heart, and the Fae Domain. This was because all three were parts of the remains of a Fallen Dragon and were all located within the space of Albion. As for the Excavation City...

It was like a designated area, where the land next to it was categorized as belonging to this area, but in essence, it didn't actually belong to this area?

In short, it was neither loved by its grandmother nor its uncle, existing outside the space~

Li Mo was dumbfounded. So, the so-called Excavation City was truly just a place for underground mining, except they weren't mining ore?

Damn it! He had been planning to dig a few times, hoping to unearth some divine artifacts!

Although he knew it was typical daydreaming, who said he couldn't daydream?

After all, in the novels of the main world, the protagonists not only cut stones and found divine beasts, but they also stumbled upon divine artifacts just by walking. As a transmigrator, why should he be inferior to them?

Thinking of himself, Li Mo, with 365 Magic Circuits, the successor of the Flower Mage, the one who projected the Sun, the inheritor of the Second Magic, this was a perfect protagonist template. Why couldn't he dig up divine artifacts?

That made sense, right?

But since it wasn't there, there was nothing he could do...

"Teacher, am I leaving then?" Li Mo looked at Brishisan and asked.

"Yes, you go. Be careful." A faint glimmer fell on Brishisan's golden long hair, creating strands of different colors. He raised his right hand and gently waved at Li Mo, his gaze as gentle as water, like an elder watching a child depart.

"Uh... then I'm really going!" Li Mo took a step forward, making a gesture as if to leave.

"Yes, you really go."

"I..." Li Mo's face fell, trying hard to squeeze out a few tears.

"Teacher, do you really have nothing else to give me?"

Huh...?

Brishisan was taken aback. Was there something on him that this kid was still after?

Seeing Brishisan's expression, Li Mo sighed with a slight smile, turned around, and strode forward.

Sister, walk forward bravely~

"Mō-san!"

"Hm?" Li Mo turned back.

"I've bought chicken and I'm waiting for you to come back!"

Li Mo: I'm not going to war, for crying out loud!

Why make it so tragic? Li Mo covered his face.

But...

"Okay, Teacher. It's almost New Year's, remember to buy the couplets and everything else too!"

Half an hour later, in a forest composed of luminous plants.

"Where exactly is this place!"

Li Mo stood under what he supposed was a tree, holding the sheepskin map Brishisan had given him, looking at it from every angle, but ultimately making no sense of it.

He... was lost!

Yes, he had a map, but the things written on it, like "Ancient Dragon's Tail," "Ancient Dragon's Left Leg," "Right Leg," "Ancient Dragon's Buttocks"... was it meant for cooking?

Braised Fallen Dragon?

"Where am I?" With this question, Li Mo fell into deep thought.

Because when they entered, Brishisan hadn't told him where they were at all. Before they could clarify anything, he had left with the imposing air of "The wind whistles, and the Yi River is cold"...

"Snap," why can't I control these feet?

Life isn't easy, Li Mo shed tears.

As a top student from the Clock Tower, who would believe this if he said it?

"If only I had..."

Unfortunately, there are no "if onlys," and no "thens"!

Moreover, according to Brishisan, the Spirit Tomb was inhabited by countless Phantasmal Species. Li Mo didn't even dare to shout a few times... not that he couldn't shout, but fighting so soon after descending seemed a bit much, right?

But he still needed to find someone to ask for directions.

At this moment, Li Mo finally remembered his long-forgotten human cheat—3... Pfft, where's a cheat? It's Merlin!

Can't panic now. If I use my brain, there's always a way!

"Great Merlin, are you there?"

Not there.

"Great Merlin, are you there? Reply!"

Not there!

"Merl—"

"What is it you need me for?" A magnetic voice finally echoed softly in Li Mo's mind, exciting him as he was about to put on a pitiful face for the world.

"Great Merlin, do you know where I am right now?" Li Mo asked, his voice as gentle as could be.

"I... Fou Fou Fou—Ugh!!!"

Silence...

"How could I... Fou—Ugh..."

"Casterly Rock, get away from me!!!"

Silence...

Li Mo: ???

Is that Fou's voice?

After a while, as if he had escaped the clutches of the fourth most adorable beast, Merlin's voice sounded again.

"Hey, hey, can you hear me?"

Li Mo: ···

"I can hear you..."

"Oh oh, what did you need me for? I was just about to pack my things and go out!"

Merlin, the oldest simp and shut-in of humanity, was actually going out?

Li Mo felt like he had heard the biggest secret!

"You're leaving the Ideal Land?"

"Yeah, didn't you say I should go out more, see the world?" Merlin explained patiently, sensing Li Mo's surprise.

Li Mo rubbed his forehead, not knowing what to say...

I was really just trying to trick you back then!