Chapter 277: Preparing to Set Sail!

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you the serious business."

"What serious business?"

Yun Mu paused her steps and turned her head to look at Lady Night.

"You are all heading to the Beastkin Federation next, right? This goddess happens to know some intelligence, so I specifically came to explain it to you."

". What intelligence?" Hearing Lady Night's words, Yun Mu was slightly stunned for a moment.

Intelligence that could make a deity personally notify her—her intuition told her this would likely be a very troublesome matter.

"Relax, this matter isn't as important as you think." Lady Night looked at her expression, roughly guessed the thoughts in her heart, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"It's just that the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala, happens to be in that country recently. Although I don't know what He wants to do, I imagine it's nothing good."

"That guy only thinks about finding amusement for himself all day long; he might stir up something earth-shattering, so you should also be careful and not get targeted by Him," Lady Night instructed.

"Oh."

The God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala?

She seemed to have been noticed by that guy a long time ago. If the other party was really in the Beastkin Federation, she could only hope that she wouldn't be dragged into some strange whirlpool.

"Is there anything else?" Yun Mu asked Lady Night.

"No, that's all." Lady Night waved her hand casually.

Then why haven't you gone back yet!? Yun Mu had the urge to say this sentence, but she still held it back in her heart.

Although Lady Night could hear her inner voice, that was actually something that could be controlled.

As long as it was a thought she didn't want to speak out, the other party wouldn't hear it, so she didn't have to fear mind-reading or anything. Of course, the premise of all this was that she hadn't been pulled into a dream world by some unscrupulous deity; otherwise, even the thoughts in her heart would likely be known by the other party.

"Eh, is that Miss Yun?"

A familiar voice came from behind. Yun Mu turned around, and before she could speak, another equally familiar voice followed.

"Ah, it really is Miss Yun!"

"Meilaer?" Yun Mu looked at the person who spoke: familiar long black hair, light brown pupils, wearing a set of cloth clothes convenient for movement, with a pitch-black cloak over the cloth clothes, and a dagger hanging at her waist—she was already completely in the appearance of a Thief.

And the person who spoke first... "Lixia, why are you here too? Besides that, there is also..." Yun Mu paused and looked at the woman following beside the two: "Ruixi?"

"How did the three of you end up together?" She appeared very puzzled.

"Isn't that obvious?" Lixia looked at her puzzled expression, her demeanor somewhat confused.

"We had just left the Church, and Miss Yun was standing at the very front of us at that time," Ruixi explained to Yun Mu at this moment. "Because Lixia and I are both Bloodline, we were together."

"I heard them discussing Miss Yun at the time, and I was a bit curious, so I went up and asked," Meilaer added.

"So that's how it is..." After hearing the three's explanation, Yun Mu suddenly understood.

"Does Miss Yun have anything to do next?" Lixia suddenly asked her.

"Hmm." Hearing Lixia's question, Yun Mu pondered for a while and shook her head: "Nothing for the moment."

"Great, ah no, I mean, since Miss Yun has nothing to do, would you like to go shopping with the three of us?" Lixia asked, looking at Yun Mu with anticipation.

Shopping, huh... Yun Mu's gaze looked at both sides of the street, but she did not find Lady Night's figure.

The other party had already left at some point.

Thinking about it carefully, from the day she transmigrated until now, she hadn't properly strolled through this city.

Practicing Painting could be left for the evening, Brenna was already arranging things on the Xiangyang, she didn't need to go to work at the Painter Association right now, oh right, and the part-time job at Sisilaiya Cafe... In short, she had nothing to do right now.

Since that was the case, accompanying the three of them to go shopping wasn't impossible.

"Alright, where should we go first?"

Thinking of this, Yun Mu decisively squeezed a smile onto her face and joined the group of three.

"Bye-bye~"

The entire day passed in a flash, and Yun Mu bid farewell to Meilaer and the others.

After everyone disappeared from her line of sight, she hailed a Steam Taxi and chose to head to the location of Frost Bank.

Actually, she could also go to Sisilaiya Cafe; she had her room there, and inside the room were the pieces of furniture she had bought at a high price back then, and it was also very clean.

It was said that this was because Lita would take time out of her daily exercise to help her clean the room by the way.

However, she didn't know whether to say it was because she had lived at Frost Bank for a bit too long and had gotten used to it, or some other reason, but every time she hailed a taxi, she would subconsciously forget Sisilaiya Cafe and choose the direction of Frost Bank.

She felt this was likely the power of habit; perhaps if she chose to head to the cafe for a period of time every day, she would be able to recover.

No... by that time, she would probably frequently forget to come to Frost Bank.

Speaking of which, agonizing over such things was meaningless, right? Where one lived was just living, wasn't it? What's more, she was about to leave here soon, and by then, she wouldn't be living in either room... no, that's not right.

Yun Mu suddenly remembered something.

The earring Lady Night gave her, didn't it have an active skill called 【Ultra-long Distance Teleportation】?

Relying on this skill, she could completely leave one coordinate here in Frostfall City and set the other coordinate inside the Captain's cabin of the Xiangyang.

This way, she could come back whenever she wanted.

If one had to say the only problem, it was that the teleportation array could only set two coordinates at most.

In other words, she had to make a choice between Frost Bank and the small room at Sisilaiya Cafe, choosing only one as the coordinate for the teleportation array.

Hmm... I feel like the room at Sisilaiya Cafe would be better; mainly because it's very spacious, after all, it was a room originally used as a warehouse.

Hey wait, warehouse, magic array—why is there a strange sense of déjà vu?

Shaking her head, Yun Mu removed the messy thoughts from her mind.

Climbing up the stairs to the second floor of Frost Bank, Yun Mu returned to her room and took out the various items she had bought while shopping today from the space of the Divine Blood Pendant.

After playing with them for a while, Yun Mu threw all these things back into the space of the Divine Blood Pendant, then took out the Painting Board, as well as the Paintbrush and other painting tools.

She was going to practice Painting, striving to break through her level to Expert before heading to the Beastkin Federation.

Otherwise, once she arrived at the Beastkin Federation, in that country where thin Ether was everywhere, she wouldn't be able to advance! Thinking of this, the expression on her face became much more serious. What should I paint? Following the routine of daily Painting practice, Yun Mu first started thinking about what she should paint.

Actually, it didn't matter what she painted; the point was whether the completed Spiritual Painting could break through to the blue quality.

Only in this way could she complete her advancement quest. Yun Mu thought this to herself, as the Paintbrush in her hand gradually outlined several towers with multi-faceted prisms on the Painting Board, and at the tops of the towers, azure light connected between them, flying off into the distance.

That's right, this is the Allied advanced defensive structure from Red Alert 2, the Prism Tower! According to the game's settings, this thing uses the prism technology invented by Einstein, which is essentially firing laser beams, only the laser beams are continuously amplified through the refraction of the prisms.

When Yun Mu was young, she often played this game, and her favorite thing to do was play against easy AI, surround her buildings with walls, then set up a circle of Prism Towers and wait for the AI enemies to come and throw their lives away.

Of course, the French Grand Cannon was also good. However, she didn't draw it this time, so she wouldn't provide too much of an introduction.

Perhaps due to the effect of the newly acquired trait 【Painting Harmonization】, Yun Mu felt her touch was surprisingly good this time, and she could distinguish the discordant "sounds" within the painting at a single glance.

And after dealing with those discordant "sounds," the quality of the entire painting rose by a grade! That feeling was like a natural gemstone, without any flaws. Boom! The Spirituality within the painting ignited instantly, and a flash of pale blue radiance flickered across the top of the painting.

Seeing this, the corners of Yun Mu's mouth couldn't help but lift into a smile.

She had succeeded!

【Painting · Prism Tower (Blue)】

【Comic / Mechanical / Electricity / Light】

【Skill · Prism Tower】

【Summon a Prism Tower to fight for you】

【Prism Tower cannot move】

【The attack range of the Prism Tower is a radius of 50 meters】

【Multiple Prism Towers can be placed simultaneously, with a maximum quantity of 5】

【Skill · Prism Refraction】

【When Prism Towers are close to each other, the light beams of the Prism Towers will refract between multiple Prism Towers; for every additional Prism Tower, damage increases by 30%】

【Usage count 50/50】

【Validity period: 9 days 23 hours 59 minutes】

【A Spiritual Painting drawn by 【Civilization Spreader · Painter · Yun Mu】, capable of summoning multiple defensive weapons that use light beams to attack.】

Fifty uses. It is worthy of being a blue-quality Spiritual Painting.

Even though Yun Mu didn't use any real-world items as painting materials, the validity period could still be maintained for ten days.

This was already quite good; at the very least, it gave her sufficient time to complete advancement quest 5.

【5: Draw a Spiritual Painting of blue-grade quality, and use this painting to defeat an enemy whose rank is at most 5 levels lower than yours! (Incomplete)】 Drawing a blue-grade Spiritual Painting was already finished. The only problem was, with a level of 20+, it probably wouldn't be easy to find an enemy that could be defeated relying on Prism Towers. Should she go to the Painter Association and find some suitable commissions to do?

Or should she go to the sewers and see if there are any Elite-level Monsters? Just kidding, after those previous clean-up operations, there weren't any powerful Monsters left in the sewers now.

Going there to look for opponents would just be a waste of time.

It would be better to go to the Painter Association tomorrow morning to check for commissions; if the Painter Association didn't have any, she would go ask Brenna.

If that really didn't work, the Guard Hall would surely have some. With her status, it shouldn't be a difficult thing to take on a commission.

If none of the above methods worked, then she would have to go to the Church. She imagined Bishop Muse wouldn't refuse her request.

"Unh-huh~"

Putting away the finished painting, Yun Mu stretched her body to her heart's content.

Sitting in a chair to paint for a long time still made her feel somewhat tired.

But the time was still early, only just reaching 9:32 PM, and she felt she could still do something else.

Taking a look at the advancement requirements: 【4: Create a work, and reach at least 【Emerging】 popularity (Incomplete)】 For the remaining time, she would go draw "Torina's Adventure Journal"!

Although there was still some time until the magazine updated, it was never wrong to be prepared in advance. As for the content of the third chapter of the Comic, she had thought of it back when she was drawing the first chapter.

As a Brave, how could Torina not have teammates?

So this third chapter, of course, was to advance the main plot.

However, although it was to advance the main plot, the necessary scenes couldn't be missing; after all, Yun Mu hadn't forgotten what the positioning of this Comic was.

And the plot this time mainly revolved around subjugating the Slime King.

That's right, the Slime King, as the boss of the Slime Monsters and also a subordinate of the Demon King, was the weakest BOSS. After Torina accelerated her growth for a period of time in a few pages of the Comic, she prepared to challenge this creature.

And on the way to the Slime King's territory, she would meet her first teammate! Apprentice Priest Ranier! Blonde hair and blue eyes, a cute Young Girl, wearing white priest robes, holding a magic staff that was almost taller than she was.

Because the former teammates were too arrogant in wanting to challenge the Slime King, they ended up being wiped out by the Slime King four-on-one, with three killed. And just as it looked like it was about to finish off Ranier as well, Torina, as the protagonist, appeared and saved Ranier.

And in this chapter, the one responsible for selling fan service was naturally Ranier.

Before the protagonist Torina arrived, Ranier had been thoroughly "humiliated" by the Slime King, and most of the clothing on her body had been corroded.

And when Torina appeared, the content of this chapter was considered finished.

What, you ask about the Slime King?

Of course, that has to wait for the content of the next chapter. It's a small early-game BOSS after all; it would be too embarrassing to finish it in just one chapter.

Besides, cutting the content of the Comic right here would definitely allow the people of this other world to experience what it feels like to be left on a cliffhanger.

Only then could she better attract those guys to purchase Rain Curtain Magazine, or the underground versions of the Comic circulating in the Black Market.

Just selling sex appeal and fan service wasn't enough, because they would get tired of it sooner or later, which is why she had to use her brain.

Although as of now, no one in this world could master Yun Mu's style of two-dimensional drawing, who could say for sure about the future?

Especially with the existence of Supernatural power, and the fact that Painters could also be Transcendental.

She wouldn't naively think that her drawing style wouldn't be learned by others in a short time.

So it was better to put more effort into it.

(End of this chapter)