"Put it to good use. This stone is our favor to you. When you make it big, remember to carry us along." Nina was short, much shorter than Ke Meng. She tilted her head up and tapped the stone against his chest.
"You need me to carry you?" Ke Meng did not believe it. He took the stone and immediately felt a spatial distortion extending steadily upward.
After silently sensing it for a while, Ke Meng realized the coordinates pointed toward the Sky Island overhead.
"Who knows? Just consider yourself in our debt for now." Nina pursed her lips, stepped back into the crowd, and soon her presence vanished.
Ke Meng glanced at his friends list. Both were online, so they had not logged out. Instead, they had used some kind of instantaneous movement skill to leave, traveling so far that their presence had disappeared entirely.
Ke Meng left. He had bought a home in the city. Since all his money came from grinding monsters, and he had more than he could spend, he had casually bought a small detached villa. It was peaceful and secluded, built halfway up a mountain. His villa was the only one on the mountain-one mountain, one house.
Ancient trees towered over the mountain, and moss-covered stone steps climbed upward one by one. Clouds and mist swirled around the mountainside, obscuring half the villa and leaving it faintly visible.
The other mountains were much the same, possessing a hazy beauty.
Villas like this were expensive. He did not know whether anyone else could afford one.
After all, Orange Star was exceptionally good at coordinating its resources. Under Orange Mother's meticulous budgeting, even the Orange Star Players' financial capacity was included in the calculations.
Ke Meng climbed the mountain and looked up at the sky from