Chapter 17

Hearing Lin Yu's words, Dai Meng finally came to his senses, a hint of a strange expression appearing on his resolute face.

Before coming here, he had heard many rumors about this lord from the commoners.

Among them were evaluations of mystery, majesty, and power, but he never would have dreamed that the evaluation most fitting for the other party's personality was actually the offhand remark Fu Lamei made years ago about being... um, unconstrained by trifles!

Regardless of how Dai Meng evaluated him in his heart, on the surface, he still maintained the respect a commoner should have.

"Reporting to my lord, it is indeed Dai Meng!"

"Then there's no problem!"

Lin Yu smiled and snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the surrounding scene shifted rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them were transported from the grand, imposing hall to the study inside the stone fortress.

The space here was extremely large, and the surrounding walls were lined with five-meter-high bookshelves, which were piled full of various bamboo magic scrolls, as well as new types of paper magic-guided books invented and created by Ridge Peak Territory in recent years, which were gradually beginning to replace scrolls.

Lin Yu sat down behind the desk on his own, looked at Dai Meng, who was still quite composed in front of him, and smiled:

"Sit down and let's chat. I am very interested in the journey you all took!"

Hearing this, Dai Meng realized that a high-backed mahogany chair had appeared behind him at some point.

He hesitated for a moment, chose not to sit, but instead took a scroll of letters from his bosom and said respectfully: "Lord Lord, this is a letter that Lord Fu Lamei entrusted me to bring to you. Regarding the experiences of our journey, I believe Lord Fu Lamei has already written it in sufficient detail..."

It's actually paper!

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow, subconsciously feeling that something was wrong.

It was only two years ago that he secretly guided the old village chief to invent paper.

Nowadays, it hasn't even been popularized in the areas around Ridge Peak Territory yet, so how did Fu Lamei get her hands on it in the Northern Plateau?

While thinking this, Lin Yu gently flicked his fingers.

In an instant, the magic power in the air rippled, pulling the scroll into his hand.

The moment the scroll landed in his hand, Lin Yu's complexion darkened visibly to the naked eye.

No wonder she could write a letter on paper; this thing was simply torn off from the Sacred Scripture by her!

You really can't say otherwise, this is indeed something Fu Lamei would do...

Lin Yu complained in his heart while asking casually: "Where is Fu Lamei?"

Dai Meng said respectfully: "Reporting to my lord, after crossing the Northern Plateau, Lord Fu Lamei left first. I heard that she intends to take her newly accepted disciple to see her teacher, and will come to visit you again after some time."

... A newly accepted disciple?

Has the destiny protagonist of this world, the Elf Mage Frieren, finally come online?!

Lin Yu thought to himself, then nodded and said: "Going to see Serie first, huh? That's fine too."

As he spoke, he unfolded the letter in his hand and read the contents carefully.

"To my friend Lin Yu: It has been ten years since we last met. I wonder if you and Lord Longlongyan are doing well."

"Since leaving your territory, Dai Meng and I have headed north, passing through..."

Lin Yu read the letter from his friend, which had been delayed for ten years, seriously.

The content at the beginning of the letter was very simple, roughly that Fu Lamei and Dai Meng traveled north together, subduing monsters and exploring dungeons along the way, and met the other two members of the team in a city in the north.

These two were both orphans of the Northern War; one was a down-and-out noble knight, and the other was a young female monk.

Unlike Dai Meng, the vanguard with a freakish natural constitution, this noble knight was best at swordsmanship, and in terms of positioning, he was more like Himmel from the hero's party a thousand years later, belonging to the physical output of the team.

As for the other female monk who could use the Sacred Scripture to dispel curses, it goes without saying that she was a proper support girl.

From then on, the vanguard, support, magic output, and physical output were all gathered, and Fu Lamei's four-person team was officially assembled.

They set off from the frontline city in the north of the Unified Empire, headed north all the way, passed through the territory of the Demon Race, defeated countless Demon armies, and finally reached the northernmost part of the continent with great difficulty.

There, they finally met the Demon King.

In Fu Lamei's own words, the moment she saw the Demon King, she knew that it was definitely not an enemy that could be defeated head-on.

But even so, they still engaged in a battle with the Demon King and the Demon Army—

That was a battle that Fu Lamei called a crushing defeat.

Even someone as proud as Fu Lamei had to admit that if it weren't for the Sacred Scripture Lin Yu gave her, all four of them would probably have died in that battle.

In short, after a battle that was too terrible to describe, Fu Lamei was forced to take out the Sacred Scripture and throw out several destructive ultimate moves one after another, turning the entire Demon King City into ruins, only then barely escaping with her three companions.

Lin Yu didn't know if the Fu Lamei in the original work had fought the Demon King.

If her teammates had indeed died at the hands of the Demon King, then his Sacred Scripture undoubtedly saved these three.

If Fu Lamei had not fought the Demon King head-on in the original work, then this battle was very likely that Lin Yu's Sacred Scripture gave her the confidence that she did not have in the original work.

Regardless of which fact it was, his Sacred Scripture had already changed the fate of Fu Lamei's team.

Lin Yu continued to read down, and the content behind it was Fu Lamei's change in mentality.

Fu Lamei admitted that she was definitely not the Demon King's opponent now.

If she intended to fulfill her ideal in her lifetime and promote the development of magic in human society, then until her death, she could never grow to the point of being able to defeat the Demon King.

So, is it to strengthen oneself and gamble on the possibility of defeating the Demon King in the future?

Or to stick to one's original intention and use the rest of one's life to complete that initial ideal...

This was the difficult choice Fu Lamei faced after leaving the Demon King City.

She pondered this question all the way, and gradually changed her style without even realizing it herself.

Before fighting the Demon King, she was an extremely proud and talented young genius, but after the crushing defeat, she began to think about fighting methods other than head-on combat.

In this letter, Fu Lamei emphasized the inseparable relationship between the Demon Race and magic power.

Just like mindless monsters, the Demon Race also distinguishes status by magic power.

For them, magic power is a symbol of dignity and status; they cannot give up everything that magic power brings, and therefore cannot hide the magic power on their bodies forever.

But humans do not have this limitation, which allowed Fu Lamei to see a glimmer of possibility for strategic victory.

She began to hide the magic power fluctuations on her body and maintained this suppressed state during cultivation, combat, and daily life.

Facts proved that her strategy was quite successful. After getting used to suppressing magic power, she successfully ambushed many powerful demons, causing them to reveal fatal flaws due to underestimating the enemy.

For Fu Lamei, who had been quite depressed since heading south, this was undoubtedly a shot in the arm.

It's just a pity that the battle between them and the Demon King still made too much noise.

Not long after, the names of Fu Lamei and her party spread, and many great demons became wary of her, so this method of ambushing people by suppressing magic power didn't work very well anymore.

When writing to this point, Fu Lamei mocked herself, saying that in Lin Yu's words, her account was already scrapped.

Therefore, she wanted to find a peerless genius and cultivate him into a weapon against the Demon King, letting him get used to suppressing magic power from a young age and maintaining it for a lifetime, until the day he defeats the Demon King in the future.

Unfortunately, mages among humans were very dismissive of this method.

They felt that this behavior was extremely despicable and disdained to do it.

Of course, this was just their one-sided statement.

Fu Lamei felt that they just didn't want to give up the status and wealth brought by magic power, and didn't want to play the pig forever like her, just to eat the tiger in a certain battle!

She was not discouraged, but kept looking for that suitable candidate.

Until not long after, in an elf village in the north that was slaughtered by the Demon Race, she met that destined elf girl...

(End of chapter)