Mage The Traveler

The Inn

The dim light of night very quietly enveloped the earth, but Light city was still bustling. With multi-colored magic lights lit up in this city, this city looked very enchanting.

Lu Xiya stumbled and opened her eyes, after she slowly looked all around her, she dully shrieked and jumped up. Before anything else, she checked her clothing. After finding her clothing were in perfect condition, she sighed in relief. She remembered only up to the time she drank alcohol with Long Yi, and all the things that happened after that she knew nothing.

Hearing the shriek of Lu Xiya, Leng Youyou who was tiding up living room came over.

“You are? How’d I get here?” Lu Xiya was shocked to see Leng youyou here.

“That guy carried you here.” Leng Youyou indifferently answered.

Lu Xiya’s face become red, she naturally knew who ‘that guy’ Leng Youyou was referring to.

“Thank you, elder sister Youyou.” Lu Xiya appreciatively thanked Leng Youyou.

Confronting that sincere smiling face of Lu Xiya, Leng Youyou obviously felt somewhat awkward. From her childhood till now she didn’t have any friend, and also didn’t have anyone who would call her elder sister.

Smile was magic weapon of human interpersonal communication, and the lovely smile of Lu Xiya was extremely natural and honest, so whoever saw this smile of hers, they would not be able to forget her magnificent smile. And this smile of Lu Xiya very quickly broke through the heart guard of Leng Youyou, then these two peoples unexpectedly chattered continuously as if they were close sister for many years, making other people sigh with feeling for Lu Xiya’s affinity.

Long Yi dragged his somewhat heavy steps on the street, the bustling crowds of people were not able to block his lonely back. Lightly sighing, Long Yi threw off the distracting thoughts inside his brain, he figured it out, meeting and breaking up is up to fate, so why bother to insist, as the love between man and woman is very long.

Entering the inn, just when he was about to enter his room, the door next to his room opened, and a head emerged from the door slit.

“Where have you been? Why return only now?” Lu Xiya asked.

“I went to stroll outside, little elf, did you sleep comfortably?” Long Yi teasingly asked.

Lu Xiya pouted: “Unwell, my head still ache.”

“Is that so? Come over here.” Long Yi called Lu Xiya.

Lu Xiya bolted out just like a leopard cat, she basically didn’t put up any guard against Long Yi. Basically the elves were very exclusive to humankind, because in their eyes, humankind were selfish, employ scheme to heavily m******e other races and so on, but towards Long Yi, Lu Xiya felt a hard to express in words closeness, and his lazy smile always made her feel at ease.

Long Yi rubbed his hands, and tiny amount of internal force revolve around his palm, thereafter become hot. He pressed both of his hand on the temples of Lu Xiya, and used his internal force to help her circulate her qi and blood. Leng Youyou immediately rushed out, caught Lu Xiya with one hand and pulled her behind herself, just like a hen protecting a chick.

“Little girl, why on the earth are you doing that?” Long Yi helplessly asked.

“What on the earth did you ask Lu Xiya to do? As long as I am here, don’t think that it is possible for you to bully and take advantage of her.” Leng Youyou coldly snapped.

Long Yi was dumbfounded and thought: “Why is this woman joking around like this? Which eye of hers sees that I was taking advantage of this little elf?”

“Elder sister Youyou, you misunderstood. Long Yi didn’t take advantage of me.” Lu Xiya hurriedly tried to defend Long Yi.

“Elder sister Youyou?” Hearing Lu Xiya calling Leng Youyou like this, he was rather surprised, and thought: “When did the relation of these two woman became this good?”

“Hey little girl, I just wanted to treat the headache of little elf. Why are you still distrusting me like this, have some trust in me. Ah, I remembered you saying that you would believe in me.” Long Yi discontentedly looked over the direction of Leng Youyou.

Leng Youyou was somewhat embarrassed, she also remembered herself saying that sentence. Simultaneously she also remembered that Long Yi had seen her underwear and took liberties of her.

Under the electrifying supercilious looks of Leng Youyou, Long Yi’s heart was actually somewhat lightly numbed, he didn’t expect that the electric power of this girl’s look was this powerful.

Immediately after that, Long Yi again called out Lu Xiya, again placed his palms on her temples, then his internal force seeped into her brain from the acupuncture points, and began to unblock the channels by dispersing the deposits of alcohol inside her body.

“Ah, so hot, so comfortable.” Lu Xiya merely sensed a stream of hot airflow gently rushing into her brain, and felt so pleasant that she couldn’t help but exclaimed loudly.

Using internal force, he massaged Lu Xiya for a while. And just when Long Yi was about to stop his service, having tasted the flavor, Lu Xiya unexpectedly didn’t complied: “Long Yi, don’t stop. So comfortable.” Then said to Leng Youyou: “Elder sister Youyou, you should also try this, it’s really so comfortable.”

Long Yi didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, he just withdrew his hand and playing with the nose of Lu Xiya, he said: “Little elf, do you think I am free of charge massager.”

Lu Xiya shook her head, felt completely refreshed and her head didn’t ached a bit. So she curiously asked: “Long Yi, was that your magic? Aren’t you a fighter? Don’t tell me that you are duel cultivator, magic fighter?”

Leng Youyou also strangely watched Long Yi. Magic fighter, a duel cultivator was, some people already possessed magic physique, and also had aptitude to train douqi, these kind of peoples could duel cultivate both magic and douqi. But generally cultivating both results in both being very mediocre, therefore even if someone possess this kind of qualification, they always choose only one type to cultivate.

Long Yi shrugged his shoulder and said with a smile: “As a matter of fact, it’s not a magic or douqi, and as for what this is, you don’t need to know.”

At this time, the blood colored skull mark on his left palm suddenly vibrated, and he sense a strong dark magic fluctuation, and was suddenly overtaken by the feeling of being spied on. He subconsciously looked towards Leng Youyou, only to find that her complexion was completely pale, and her body was slightly trembling with fear. And the dark magic fluctuation was not coming out from her body.

Long Yi was dumbfounded, immediately knew that this feeling of being spied on was very probably towards Leng Youyou. He stepped forward and caught Leng Youyou with one hand, then embracing her, he used his internal force to severe the dark magic fluctuation.

Leng Youyou spared no effort to ward off this dark magic ‘dark temptation’ which had completely enveloped her whole body. This type of magic could make people lose their rational, turning into a puppet of caster, furthermore this dark magic could also cause other people who cultivates dark magic to lose control over their dark magic, letting everyone to know that one cultivates dark magic. Leng Youyou knew that they found her, and as they were not able to absolutely determine her, they were using this method to probe. But just when she was no longer able to suppress her dark magic element, Long Yi suddenly pulled her in his embrace. She was struck dumb with amazement, and believed that Long Yi wanted to take advantage of her, but very soon she discovered that a warm airflow gushed out from his body, and enveloped her whole body severing the dark temptation. After that the dark magic elements inside her body also completely calmed down.

After a while, the blood colored skull mark in his palm finally calmed down.

“It’s all right now.” Long Yi softly whispered in the ear of Leng youyou.

The beautiful face of Leng Youyou became red, pushed Long Yi away and fell back two steps. Feeling awkward and complicated, she just stood there not knowing what to say.

“You…..” Lu Xiya pointed at Long Yi and Leng Youyou with shocked face, she didn’t know what had happened just a moment ago, she just saw that Long Yi suddenly hugged Leng Youyou, and Leng Youyou obediently stayed motionless in his embrace.

“What you, it’s already getting late, so we should get some sleep, as we need to wake up early in the morning tomorrow.” Long Yi lightly knocked the small head of Lu Xiya, then opened the door of his room, entered and shut the door, leaving behind two startled girls outside.

After Long Yi entered the room, he quickly opened the window, and just like a wisp of cyan smoke, he swept past and landed on the roof. After that just like a vigorous eagle, he scanned the crowds in the street, but he didn’t discover anything unusual. It seems the person who had casted Dark Temptation had concealed his magic fluctuation very well. Long Yi basically didn’t know where to start, so he helplessly return back inside his room and began to meditate whole-heartedly. This world was not simple at all, so he needs to increase his strength as soon as possible.

Leng Youyou and Lu Xiya were lying on the bed side by side, the whole room was dark, but their eyes were shining like a full moon in this darkness. It seems both of them were not sleepy at all.

Leng Youyou was naturally thinking about Long Yi, the sensation she felt when she was in contact with Long Yi was extremely mysterious and unfathomable. Thanks to his help just a moment ago, she was able to conceal her identity as a dark magician. Leng Youyou was certain that Long Yi had become aware of dark magic inside her body, but why did he had indifference expression? And why was he able to easily block the effect of Dark Temptation, in the end who is he? A series of questions kept on appearing in her mind, causing her to toss around on the bed.

“Elder sister Youyou, are you asleep?” In the end, Lu Xiya couldn’t bear and opened her mouth.

“M-hn, what’s the matter?” Leng Youyou asked absent-mindedly.

“A moment ago, just what happened a moment ago?” Lu Xiya asked, she felt that the scene of just a moment ago was a little bit unnatural, why did the two diametrically opposite people suddenly hugged each other like that.

Leng Youyou remained silent for a good while, then lightly replied: “Nothing, now sleep.”

“Oh.” Lu Xiya replied. She knew that Leng Youyou didn’t want to talk about it. She was not the type of people who didn’t know where to stop, so even though she was slightly curious and was also slightly uncomfortable, she stopped pestering.

The very long night gently slipped away under the respective train of thoughts of these two girls, sky gave off misty lights, and the bustling sounds in the street began to rise again one after another.

Long Yi and other two walked towards the eastern gate of Light city. Long Yi walked in the front, and two girls just like his maids, one at the left and other at the right followed him behind. All the way, with the exception of silence, they was only silence. Long Yi also didn’t know what happened to these two girls today, as if they had tacit agreement, both of them didn’t speak a single world from this morning.

A little while later, the trio finally arrived at Eastern gate. Swords Master Ha Lei, Fire system Magician Ge Leita, Light System Magician Lan Tian, Advance Fighter Shi Yanshou, and beast-human fighter Shi Manniu were waiting for them.

“Good morning everyone, are we late?” Long Yi greeted everyone with a smile.

“No, we also just got here.” Ha Lei as before had an honest smile on his face.

“Ha Lei, since everyone is here, let’s go.” Barbarian Bull loudly said. It seems he was somewhat too impatient to wait any longer. And he also looked like risk taking fanatics.

Ha Lei nodded, and waved his hand, after that the adventure team compose of eight individuals began to move towards Huangmang plain. They were in the formation which was commonly used by the adventure groups of Canglan continent. Fighters in the outside areas, magicians in the middle, and archer in the rear.

Huangmang plain was a boundless grassland expanding widely, but as a matter of fact, saying this plain was entirely grassland was not correct, because merely the periphery that could be seen was filled with green grass, after passing through this periphery grassland, the inside was more bleak and desolate, swamps were spread all over, and there were many wetlands, deserts and also numerous ferocious magical beasts all over. It is said that even S-class magical beasts appears in this place. This place was adventurer’s paradise, and simultaneously also a graveyard of adventurers. In the past many years, no one knows how many adventurers had lost their life here. But men will die for wealth, as birds for food, many adventurers enter this Huangmang plains which was a treasure trove full of dangers. A magic core of a single B-class magical beasts could be sold for 1000 Amethyst coins, and a magic core of A-class magical beasts could be sold for several thousand Amethyst coins, this was merely very common things, and naturally many peoples risk their lives to get these things.

Huangmang plain was located at the borderline of Kuanglong Empire and Aoyue Empire, and do not belongs to any empires’ jurisdiction, therefore this place didn’t have any law and order, even if you kill people in this place, no one will care about it.

Half a month later, Long Yi and others finally arrived at a small town at the edge of Huangmang plain, and surprisingly, this small town was very bustling. Various kind of shops had everything you could wish for, tens of thousands of adventurer of various profession and adventurers groups were flooded in this small town.

“Wow, this place is livelier than the previous second class city.” Lu Xiya exclaimed. She had already revert back to her former child disposition, and was chattering continuously.

“Everyone, be careful. Killing person is not illegal here, so we should not quarrel with others as much as possible.” Ha Lei warned. He was a little bit more knowledgeable about this place. Many high raked mercenary groups come here for their mission, so if they fight here, then they would only suffer losses.

Ge Leite snorted, clearly not agreeing to this. Long Yi found Ge Leite somewhat funny, it seems this guy who was more than 30 years in age, was merely a frog in a well, could it be that this guy believed that among all these amass adventurers in this small town, he could do anything he wants with his mere Advance fire element Magician ranked strength? In this place, it is of no surprise even if you encounter Mage, truly don’t know where all the food he had eaten for several tens of years had gone.

At this time, just when their party planned to look for an inn to rest, they suddenly sensed a strong magic and douqi fluctuation.

“We better not go over, and also don’t intervene.” Hai Lei warned.

Just when Ge Leita was about to express different opinion, suddenly a figure flew over from the chaos and landed on the ground near his foot. This was actually a half body of magician, and the intestine and internal organs were hanging down from the waist. The complexion of Ge Leita instantly become pale, then he hastily recede.

Lu Xiya also jumped back frightened, and reflexively tightly held the sleeve of Long Yi’s garment. After that she didn’t dare to look over.

“Yi, Master Magician of Aoyue Empire’s Magician guild.” After carefully looking at the magic robe of this half corpse, Ha Lei exclaimed in surprise.

The reason why Ha lei was able to determine the identity of this half corpse, was because of the magic robe and magic guild medal on it. Each country’s profession guild’s profession dresses were different, and also the pattern of each rank dresses were also not completely identical, so anyone with discerning eyes would be able to determine the identity of others.

In Long Yi’s eight man adventurer team, with the exception of Long Yi, Lu Xiya and this mysterious Leng Youyou, everyone else had joined profession guilds. Although after joining profession guilds, one would receive hefty monthly pay, and also receive the protection of respective guilds, but simultaneously they also had corresponding obligation. For instance, if one’s guild and other countries’ guild have a conflict or other members of guild is in danger, then one must aid. Naturally if there is internal strife, then they could either take part or not, according to one’s choice.

Just when everyone were suspicious about the identity of these two peoples, suddenly two fireworks almost simultaneously rose in the sky, and exploded in the sky, making two types of completely different patterns.

“Turned out to be the magician guild of Aoyue Empire and magician guild of Nalan Empire, this has nothing to do with us, so let’s look for an inn and rest.” Ha Lei felt as if he was relieved of a heavy load, if it was Aoyue Empire and Kuanglong Empire, then he and the entire group would be forced to involve in it.

Just at this time, strong magic fluctuation surged from all direction. Sensing this Long Yi was speechless: “It seems the fight just escalated, isn’t this small town very likely to be razed to the ground by magicians?”

“No, they will voluntarily gather outside this small town to settle their score.” Light Magician Lan Tian said and his voice was still mild. But behind those mild voice, there was complete indifference. Everyone always put their own benefit first, even in this group, this light priest who always unreservedly speak about humanity was no exception. This matter had nothing to do with him, so he was indifferent.

Not long after that, multicolored various ranked magician almost filled this narrow street. Among them there were also fighters, thieves, and archers, it may be assumed that all of them were back up forces of respective group who had come over to help. This Huangmang small town was full of adventurers and tens of thousands groups of every countries. Now the magician guilds of two big empire clashed with each other, so how many people would get involved in it?

Just like Lan Tian said, everyone of both side refused to budge for a while, then began to move towards outside of this small town, and a lot of magician actually casted float skill too. This scene was too spectacular.

“How about we also go and see the bustle.” Long Yi suggested. It was not easy to come across such large scale battle.

“No, we shouldn’t. Many magicians are going to fight, and their destructive power is extremely alarming, if we go there, it is very likely to accidentally receive injuries. Now we should just go, look for an inn and rest well, so that we could raise our spirit to enter Huangmang plain tomorrow.” Ha Lei opposed Long Yi’s suggestion.

Ha Lei was leader of this adventurer team, and since he was against that, naturally no one had anything to say. After that they causally found an inn and rent four rooms, two in each room. Lu Xiya and Leng Youyou naturally stayed in one room, two magicians stayed in one room, Shi Yan and Ha Lei stayed in one room, and the remaining Long Yi and Barbarian bull in last room. Including Ha Lei, all others unexpectedly didn’t want to stay in the same room with Barbarian bull. They didn’t expressed it, but this particular aspects reflected the discrimination against beast-men.

Entering inside the room, Long Yi shut the door then said Barbarian bull in a low voice: “Big Bull, came over here.”

Barbarian Bull admired Ling Yi very highly and also treated Long Yi as sworn brother. On one side because beast-men clan worships strong, and on the other side, from the start, only Long Yi and that elf had frequently talked with him, furthermore treated him as a friend. Although he was thick skinned but he clearly knew that other peoples more or less somewhat look down upon him. Only Long Yi even though it seems he was making fun of him, he would always sense warmth in them.

Barbarian bull heard to Long Yi, so he lowered his head. While standing Barbarian bull was more than 8 chi in height, and the posture of him lowering his head to the height of Long Yi’s head looked quite comical.

Long Yi whispered something on the ear of Barbarian bull’s ear, then the eyes of Barbarian bull lit up, as he repeatedly nodded his head.

After hanging the ‘Please do not disturb’ sign outside the door, Long Yi opened the window, bored his head and looked underneath for a while. This window was not faced towards the main street, only a small uninhabited alley was present. So using his internal force, Long Yi caught Barbarian bull, jumped down and lightly landed on the ground. This made Barbarian bull to admire Long Yi even more, and now looking at Long Yi, his eyes lit up in worship.

After that both of them dashed towards outside the town, and just when they reached the doorway, they discovered many peoples were also dashing towards the outside of town to watch the excitement. At that time, the sharp-eye of Long Yi suddenly saw two familiar figures who were in the process of dashing in front of them.

“Little elf, wait for us.” Long Yi loudly yelled, he had never thought that, these two girls have sneaked out ahead of them.

Hearing Long Yi, those two girls stopped, turned around and waited for two peoples to come near them.

“Long Yi, I knew you’ll absolutely sneak out.” Lu Xiya smiled beautifully, as if she was extremely proud of herself for her own judgment.

“You two are too mean, not even calling us.” Long Yi smiled and habitually teased Lu Xiya’s small nose.

“Elder sister Youyou said that you will definitely catch up to us, so we come out first.” As if she was also already accustomed to the teasing to Long Yi, Lu Xiya replied without even a bit of annoyed expression.

Long Yi looked towards Leng Youyou, but she evaded his gaze. In this half a month time, she had basically avoided meeting Long Yi. First he knew that she cultivates dark magic and second, he was extremely mysterious individual, so Leng Youyou subconsciously was cautious towards Long Yi.

At this moment, suddenly explosion sounds came from distance, and earth began to shake.

“Fight have begun, we should hurry over there.” Long Yi excitedly said.

Looking over to the huge distance, Long Yi hesitated for a moment, then he casted gale magic spell on all of them. After that he took the lead and ran forward. Leng Youyou and other three felt their body became light, and their speed suddenly increased. All of them were starlet, and thought what this magic was. But without thinking, they knew that this was the trick of Long Yi, so the mysteriousness on Long Yi increased even more.

The battlefield was at the edge of Huangmang plain, and there were more than thousands of people on the both sides for this battle. So this battle was going to be really spectacular. Other than Long Yi and his group, several others were also on the sidelines.

“What is this? I thought this would be many times more devastating, so what is the meaning of this?” After seeing the scene of battle, Long Yi said with disappointment.

“Yes, that’s right. I knew it, the magicians are turtles who only knows how to shoot from the rear.” Barbarian Bull nodded his head and said with the same feeling.

But Barbarian Bull very quickly discovered that Lu Xiya and Leng Youyou were directly glaring at him. Only then he remembered these two companions were also magicians. Then he immediately stroked his head’s horn and said: “I am not talking about you two, I meant them.”

Both of these girls snorted coldly. Correct Lu Xiya was also a magician, exactly speaking she is a magic archer. It is common knowledge that elves were heavenly-gifted archer and magician. And after adding magic in bow and arrows, the might of bow and arrows become very huge. Compared to normal archer, magic archer were many times more powerful.