Chapter 136

Luge was actually still thinking about that so-called Sanction Wizard, thinking about why he would appear here, thinking about who exactly had reported the situation here. Perhaps there was another pair of brighter eyes in the city, able to learn of matters here, yet unwilling to show themselves, and who knew even earlier than he and the old drunkard; only thus could the Sanction Wizard have arrived so promptly. He remembered the old drunkard had said he could help Dasuo Ya Fanxing deal with other hidden dangers in the city, but Luge always felt he was stringing Dasuo Ya along.

When he once again arrived in an open environment, Luge felt his mood seemed to improve somewhat.

In the time it took to climb the stone steps, the few injuries on his body had already basically recovered, and he sighed once more that he was a special Dragonborn Kobold, not the fragile Young Master Lorigo.

He raised his head to look at the dazzling sunlight, chatting with Lorigo in fits and starts.

In the morning he had still been sitting at home, drinking the leftover wine from last night's banquet with a teacup and teapot; looking at the situation now, it was only around noon, merely a morning's time.

After handing over Young Master Lorigo, whose forehead was covered in blood, to the red-haired woman with a face full of surprise, Luge declined the luxurious beast cart Lorigo had arranged and strolled alone on the streets of Fanxing City.

Luge walked all the way at an unhurried pace.

He quite liked this feeling.

According to the content he chatted about later with Young Master Lorigo.

The Upper Realm is incomparably vast; even Wizards cannot attend to so many places, or rather most Wizards have no mind to do so, and thus Sanction Wizards were born, and those clauses were born. Even so, there are many things Wizards can't be bothered with; for example, Fanxing City has ninety-eight towns under its jurisdiction — if a band of ruthless mercenaries wanders in and loots an entire town, even kills everyone, that is City Lord Lorigo's affair; Sanction Wizards will not intervene.

Even now, regarding Fanxing City's matters, even if the Fanxing Family disappears and the Underground City is destroyed, as long as the evildoers do not touch the Light Stones, it will not draw the Sanction Wizard's gaze.

Listening to this, Luge felt it was more like a free-range system: giving a certain degree of rigid assistance, the rest is survival of the fittest, including natural disasters and accidents — Wizards won't bother anymore, and even many extraordinary events rely on the City Lords' own extraordinary forces to resolve.

Walking all the way back to his home near the Inner City District, three craftsmen were busy repairing his house; seeing him enter they were a bit restrained and hurriedly saluted him — obviously these were all arranged by the red-haired woman after he and the old drunkard left; everything looked so peaceful and matter-of-course.

"Adult, you're back; would you like to eat now?" Daisy seemed very happy to see Luge return.

"Sure!"

Luge said happily, and a smile finally squeezed onto his face that had been calm all the way.

He waved a hand again, letting Aijin and Dasha, these two Kobolds who were studying culinary arts, come out to help Daisy.

While listening to the busy sounds of the craftsmen and Daisy and the others.

He turned his head and went into the courtyard, throwing himself onto the old recliner under the tree.

Right at this moment, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration; that small spell he had always treated as a pastime, and the Writing Technique he had forced himself to learn without rushing progress — the last point he had not mastered also naturally became clear.

This was the last Zero-Circle Spell he could learn in his hands.

This seemed to be reminding him that it was time to leave this place.

He first did a simple Meditation on the recliner to recover his fatigue and consumed Spiritual Power, then waited to happily enjoy a sumptuous lunch.

In fact it did not disappoint him; Daisy indeed produced new dishes again, and even commented on the two Kobolds' culinary skills; the two Kobolds' appearance was quite modest and eager to learn.

Luge had long guessed Lorigo could not possibly calm down to recuperate.

Sure enough, an invitation was sent in the afternoon.

Lorigo Fanxing will hold a ceremony in ten days to become the new Star Baron.

"Ten days?"

Luge looked at the invitation in his hand and also set a date for his own itinerary in his heart.

Let everything take its natural course; he was just considering when to set off, and this invitation arrived — then ten days later will do.

When Daisy saw the invitation, she seemed still puzzled by Young Master Lorigo's such hasty succession, as if there were some places not conforming to traditional etiquette; but Luge merely smiled upon hearing this — the entire Ground Cave Domain would likely enter a very hurried ten years. But these matters need not be known by everyone; that would only slow things down.

For the coming time, every day would probably just be sunbathing, right? Luge thought.

He suddenly slapped his forehead.

"Ah! I actually almost forgot!" he said in a low voice.

At the same time he perceived this seemed somewhat abnormal.

"Interesting." he murmured to himself.

For such a long time, he had always been ignoring Half-Man, that is Kalu. He had thought of him a few times in between, but also quickly forgot — this was obviously not right. But the interesting thing was that he actually hadn't thought of this point; how similar this was to their state when they first met — Half-Man had said before that he once gave him the Black Book, but he forgot; but after he later became a Wizard Apprentice, nothing similar had ever happened again, so he completely didn't think in that direction.

Thinking like this, the current situation is also because of Half-Man — no, should be called Kalu — it is Kalu's doing, not because he only cared about cultivation and enjoyment and forgot the person.

The next day, Luge had someone notify the red-haired Motel, arrange a beast cart, to send him back to that Yuanwo Small Zhenzi from the beginning.

The beast cart shook all the way, and there was an imposing escort of a small squad of Knights; at Luge's request, the beast cart directly abandoned stability, so the speed was not slow.

From light into dimness.

From far away he had the beast cart stop, and walked that stretch of road alone; back then he and the two Kobolds walked from here every day.

He stepped into that courtyard.

This place near the edge of Yuanwo Small Zhenzi seemed truly not safe enough; it actually still remained in the state when he originally left.

Full of anticipation, Luge arrived before Kalu's room door and knocked lightly once.

After waiting a moment, he sighed and pushed the door open.

He simply walked a circle around the room, only stirring up a layer of gray dust.

Ten days' time, gone in a blink.

Fanxing City, the most magnificent castle.

Different from another lively place in the castle, at a fork in the road of a small square, following a gentle slope extending upward, there is an extremely secluded place; in the hundreds of years since the castle was built, this place has always been the most tidy and quiet spot.

Luge showed his face at Lorigo's succession ceremony, then came here alone.

Lorigo knew he would leave soon, but did not know it was today.

In his Abyssal Bedroom Space, a large amount of food convenient for storage was already piled up, and some were frozen with Freezing Ray and stacked in a corner; additionally there was a box of Sun Coins Lorigo gave him — the coins are uniformly made by Wizard Adults, so they will also have uses in Upper Realm life.

He stepped onto the Teleportation Array, embedded the Magic Stone, and took out the Passage Ticket Lorigo had found for him. Although he already possessed the qualification to use this Teleportation Array, he was very interested in the place this Passage Ticket pointed to; that place is very close to a place called Snail Plate Academy.

He took a deep breath, and with Spiritual Power connected to the Teleportation Array beneath his feet.

Vision blurred in an instant.

Everything of Fanxing City disappeared before his eyes.

He suddenly felt that for physically weak ordinary people, using this Teleportation Array would be a kind of torture.

Before he could even fantasize about Snail Plate Academy.

Suddenly, a twisting force tore at his body and spirit.

He cried out in pain, and in the blink of an eye appeared in a mountain cave; for a moment he only felt his vision go black, and leaning against the cave wall it took a long while before he recovered.

"Long time no see, little kobold who always creates surprises for me," Kalu said from the side.

Luge looked him up and down, and amid his surprise his emotions were somewhat stirred, making his head ache again; he hurriedly braced himself against the cave wall.

"This place deviates a lot from your target; you probably won't be able to reach that place anymore," Kalu said with a smile, handing over a book, "Take this, consider it compensation."

Luge pressed his forehead and took it — it was actually a one-ring spellbook.

"Originally, I should give you one more thing, as a reward for helping me through a crisis, but Kalu's possessions are only these; they were what he prepared for his own promotion. Consider it me owing you once. You've probably already guessed many things," Kalu spoke unhurriedly, "Someone is looking for me, and I don't want to show my face; they also don't know my current identity, so they won't implicate you. However, you managing to find a way to use the teleportation array to reach the Upper Realm on your own helped me greatly — it counts as helping me break free of trouble, and I can finally reveal myself..."

Luge rubbed his temples and suddenly thought of a question: "These past days, have you been on me the whole time? I mean back when we were in Fanxing City."

"Theoretically speaking, more or less. I've been in slumber, not daring to reveal any breath, like a wisp of wind, merely using you as an anchor, drifting beside you. You can also imagine it as a mote of gray dust fallen on your shoulder," Kalu said.

"We must also part ways here, strange little kobold. Staying together longer would easily bring you trouble, and I still have some things to do — like fulfilling some of Kalu's dying wishes, so that I can truly become him, permanently break free of trouble. Hope there's a chance to meet again in the future," Kalu suddenly said.

(Chapter End)