Chapter 216: Increasing Fame, Turning to the

"Reacting so strongly, a bit petty, isn't it."

Tang Zheng felt a bit of a headache; he really hadn't expected Go-Gin's departure to cause such a huge impact.

It was not unexpected that the Bloody Emperor could guess that Go-Gin's sudden departure had something to do with him.

Even if he created a diversion, specifically letting Go-Gin wait until he had completely left the Empire before proposing to leave the Imperial Arena as a cover.

But it was impossible to clear himself from this matter.

The Bloody Emperor was a smart man; it was expected that he would suspect him. Tang Zheng just hadn't anticipated that the Bloody Emperor would be so certain and issue a wanted notice for him directly.

"It seems the Bloody Emperor is very angry." Tang Zheng chuckled inwardly; it would become much more troublesome to go to the Empire with a normal identity in the future.

However.

With the Empire's wanted notice.

His fame within the Kingdom was probably quite high now; after all, "the enemy's enemy is my hero" applied even in the other world.

One could infer quite a bit from the excited expressions of the city guards before him.

Tang Zheng's eyes flickered, and after thanking the city guards, he took the Miss Cuiye Witch and Enri into the city gate.

Inside "E-Rantel".

Prosperity remained; even in such cold winter weather, there were still many pedestrians on the street.

The war between the Empire and the Kingdom had ended, and as a border city, "E-Rantel" naturally returned to normal commercial activity.

Tang Zheng learned from the city guards that although the Kingdom didn't gain any advantage in this war, the losses weren't severe compared to previous years.

This was also closely related to the departure of the Empire's symbol, "Martial King" Go-Gin, and the presence of Reynas, the "Rose of the Kingdom."

That's right!

Reynas now had great fame in the Kingdom; the Kingdom's nobles contributed quite a bit to this, and "Rose of the Kingdom" was Reynas's current title.

On the wide road.

In the cracks of the gray floor tiles, thin, hardened gray-black snowflakes remained. Pedestrians on the street looked at the evil spirit dog, over a meter tall and fierce-looking.

One by one, they showed fearful expressions, and some children even cried out in terror, quickly having their mouths covered by their parents, not daring to look in Tang Zheng's direction.

A large monster like the evil spirit dog that looked like an adult was a rare sight, even in "E-Rantel," a border city near the Great Forest of Tob.

Tang Zheng walked at the very front, raised his hand, and patted the evil spirit dog's sturdy forelimb: "Don't look around, you're scaring the children."

After speaking.

Tang Zheng showed an apologetic expression toward the children, immediately causing their parents to bow hurriedly.

"Awoo~"

The evil spirit dog wagged its tail and retracted its gaze.

Enri observed her surroundings with curiosity, her gaze occasionally falling on Tang Zheng's back as he wore a priest's robe and looked very gentle, her brown eyes unable to help but take a few extra glances.

Then she looked cautiously at the cold Miss Cuiye Witch and couldn't help but lower her head.

The lord was both gentle and powerful.

Although Miss Miss Cuiye didn't like to talk, she was also a very capable person.

Only she... couldn't do anything.

Enri was wrapped in thick, old clothes, shrinking her chin into the collar, her eyes somewhat dazed.

Even now, she didn't know what the "talent" the lord mentioned about her was.

"Enri." A gentle voice rang out.

"Yes!"

Enri hurriedly looked up and spoke.

"No need to be so constrained, take this." Tang Zheng chuckled and took out a money bag from his bosom and threw it over.

Enri raised her arm to catch it, feeling the hard, round objects in the money bag, and immediately realized it was filled with coins.

Through the opening of the money bag in her hand, a flash of golden reflection passed.

It was gold coins!

Enri's heart shook, her hand holding the money bag tightened. She had only seen what silver coins looked like in the village; this was her first time seeing gold coins.

"There are 20 gold coins here. You take them to purchase supplies for the upcoming journey, and by the way, change the set of clothes you are wearing."

Tang Zheng said softly.

"Ah!"

Enri's rough hand tightened around the money bag again, unable to help but let out a cry of surprise.

20 gold coins; she had never seen so much money. After their village sold the wheat and herbs harvested each year, the money they could get was only about 3000 copper coins.

Enri quickly calculated in her heart; it was less than 18 coins, and this small bag of coins before her was already catching up to a year's income for their entire village.

"Clothes and such aren't needed; what I'm wearing now is just fine." Enri reacted and said somewhat flustered.

She actually wanted to say, handing so much money to her and having her purchase supplies, could she do such a thing well?

"E-Rantel," this border city, was her first time here; she wasn't familiar with it at all.

"Your physique is too thin. We still have to travel; if you catch a cold and get sick, it will delay the itinerary quite a bit."

"Compared to the money needed for you to get sick, I think the cost of buying a few pieces of clothing is cheaper." Tang Zheng said this, then added:

"Little Black will pull the carriage and follow you to load the supplies, and Miss Cuiye will also accompany you. However, she doesn't know much about these things, so you need to do the main work."

Hearing these words.

Enri felt less constrained and nervous, her cheeks tightened, and she nodded forcefully: "I will do it well."

Her life in the village was like time standing still.

Every day when the sun appeared, she had to start busy fetching water because that was a girl's job, then help with farm work, or pick up firewood in the edge area of the forest.

Repetitive and bland!

Enri had thought a long time ago, how long would such unchanging days last? As a young girl, she was always full of expectations and special fantasies about the future.

Now.

Enri felt full of drive.

"The things I told you to buy before, let Enri help you purchase them." Tang Zheng turned his head and said to the Miss Cuiye Witch.

"Yes, my lord."

The Miss Cuiye Witch glanced at Enri, who held no interest for her, and nodded respectfully.

She knew that the master letting her follow this weak human was to protect her.

After Enri and the others and the evil spirit dog left, Tang Zheng entered a nearby inn and opened three rooms.

"Click"!

The door closed.

Tang Zheng simply looked at the room environment in the inn; he wasn't short of money now, so he didn't look for a small inn to stay in like usual.

"The Empire's wanted notice is a bit unexpected; the plan needs to be slightly changed, but overall it counts as a good thing."

Tang Zheng walked into the room, found a chair, sat down, leaned back, and showed a thoughtful expression.

His plan this time was to increase his fame, and now it had invisibly completed half of it.

That's right!

Tang Zheng currently intended to move himself to the front stage; of course, this "front stage" was an intentionally thrown-out identity.

Genius Alchemist + Faith-based Magic Caster!

Using this identity to indirectly complete some layouts, "fame" is sometimes better than rough fighting. It is also easier to reveal some wrong information, allowing the future descending "Great Tomb of Nazarick" to shift some attention away from him.

"The Bloody Emperor has brought some small trouble; sure enough, it's not suitable to contact such smart people."

Tang Zheng chuckled, shook his head, and had a general idea for the next actions.

Although it seemed like it would waste some time, for Tang Zheng, who had mastered teleportation magic, it only looked like a waste of time on the surface.

Secretly, it was enough for him to complete many things.

"Heh, no rush; however, the 'profession' aspect needs to be carefully thought about."

Tang Zheng's gaze became somewhat deep, he snapped his fingers, and whispered:

"Greater Teleportation!"

Swish!

The space in the room twisted slightly.

Tang Zheng's figure had already disappeared, and as the view changed, scorching heat waves and orange-red light came into view.

Central area of the lava zone.

Read every word carefully!

The group of dwarf craftsmen placed on the periphery didn't need to worry; under the leadership of the gray dwarf forging minister, the Lu En craftsman master.

All the dwarf craftsmen had become the other party's apprentices, all learning Lu En technology diligently, plus the Lizardman's treasure 【Wine-Filling Jar】.

That group of dwarf craftsmen had long been enjoying themselves too much to think of home.

Ignoring the terrifying temperature in the central area.

Tang Zheng waved his hand and took out a piece of raw ore rock over two meters tall from the item box.

This was a rock with a groove in the center, which was filled with a large amount of bright red blood.

Dragon blood!

As soon as the deep red blood appeared in the air, a faint pressure was released, the ancient aura vibrated, pulling the surrounding high-temperature air to form a tornado circling up around the dragon blood.

This pressure had no effect on Tang Zheng, but it could form a strong mental shock to ordinary creatures.

Tang Zheng looked at the high-temperature tornado that was gradually forming and waved his arm to pat it expressionlessly.

Bang!

The fierce force hit the air and emitted a dull explosion, and the high-temperature tornado air that was gradually forming was directly scattered under this force.

Tang Zheng casually put away his clothes and jumped into the dragon blood to soak. He stayed in Carne Village that night.

He didn't really stay in the other party's village, but used teleportation magic to return to the lava zone to soak in dragon blood.

He had experimented for the past few days and had a basic understanding of the dragon blood's effect.

Drinking dragon blood would increase certain attributes.

And soaking in dragon blood would gain corresponding resistance increases.

For example, after soaking for these two or three days:

"Poison Attribute - Weak Resistance" had evolved into "Poison Attribute Resistance I".

Passive: Poison Attribute Resistance I

Effect: Applicable to resist low-level toxicity (≈ less than 20lv).

Tang Zheng closed his eyes slightly, soaking his whole body in the dragon blood, only exposing his head. The rich bloody smell hit his nasal cavity, making him frown slightly.

Compared to the ability of "Poison Attribute Resistance" gained, the mere unpleasant smell was obviously tolerable.

Because dragon blood was not ordinary blood, even though the ancient fire dragon as the master had died, the blood still contained a unique power.

Ordinary objects simply couldn't carry this power.

Tang Zheng could only dig a large stone on the mountain wall around the lava zone and make it into a simple stone bucket to hold the blood.

Time passed bit by bit.

The dragon blood in the stone groove, which was originally somewhat thick and emitted a bright red luster, had clearly faded, and the height had dropped by about half a fist.

Soon.

Tang Zheng opened his eyes and jumped out of the groove with a light leap. His whole body's skin was extremely red, full of red marks.

Regarding this.

Tang Zheng didn't care but waved his hand to put the stone into the item box and looked at the attribute panel: "'Poison Attribute Resistance' did not continue to strengthen."

"Sure enough, just like drinking blood, there is an upper limit. However, since there are still red marks on the body, there should still be some effect."

The effect of "Dragon Blood" was not just increasing "Poison Attribute Resistance," but also increasing "Fire Attribute Resistance."

It's just that Tang Zheng had already obtained "Fire Attribute Nullification," so this effect increased by dragon blood couldn't be displayed.

"Unfortunately, the blood of the Sun Angler cannot increase attributes." Tang Zheng remembered drinking the blood of the Sun Angler a few days ago and subconsciously twitched his mouth.

"Dragon Blood" was already hard enough to drink, and the blood of the Sun Angler was even harder to drink, and the degree of unpleasant smell even exceeded "Dragon Blood" several times.

"Is it because Dragon Blood has already increased the base value, so the blood of the Sun Angler can no longer increase it?"

Tang Zheng also had this guess in his heart, but he couldn't be sure.

Just based on the experiments obtained through the evil spirit dog, whether it was "Dragon Blood" or "Sun Angler Blood," ordinary creatures couldn't directly devour them.

"Dragon Blood" contained a curse.

"Sun Angler Blood" contained a high temperature like magma.

Waiting for a while.

Tang Zheng observed the red marks on his body, and after they all faded, the magic power in his body surged.

"Fly!"

His figure rose into the air.

Tang Zheng flew into mid-air, quickly changed his clothes, and began to continue to detect the mountain walls around the lava zone.

He was looking for the ancient fire dragon's cave; there must be a large amount of treasure in the other party's lair, but a dragon's lair was obviously not easy to find.

Tang Zheng could only take the stupid way, searching bit by bit. This was also a matter of no choice; currently, he hadn't mastered any good exploration magic.

Speaking of which.

Tang Zheng had always been interested in the other dominator, but during the search process during this period, he hadn't discovered the other party's existence.

After carefully checking this area and gaining nothing, Tang Zheng took out his pocket watch to check the time: "Time to go back."

"Greater Teleportation."

Space twisted,

Tang Zheng returned to the inn room in "E-Rantel" in an instant.

At this moment, the two who went to purchase supplies had returned.

In the empty corridor, the Miss Cuiye Witch stood quietly outside the door of Tang Zheng's room, looking like a servant guarding the door.

With a wave of magic power appearing in the room.

The Miss Cuiye Witch held the package in her hand, then walked to the door and knocked gently.

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