After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Chapter 520: 392, Adventurers from afar gather as the 15th floor of the Great Mystery Continent opens!
 

After finishing the chicken soup, Lin Da lay on the mattress with his arms under his head, as images from moments ago flashed before his eyes.

The warm jade’s soft feel, the inadvertent glimpse of the ravine… all made it hard for his mind to settle down.

Lin Da wondered to himself whether his “brother” was fond of Aiko’s body or Aiko herself?

If it was the former, wouldn’t that confirm his identity as a Lust Demon? Not satisfied with Lulu, Monica, and Tasya, he still wanted to reach out his devil’s claws towards Aiko…

Aiko would surely despise him if she knew he lusted after her body.

“Sigh, I must be sick!”

Lin Da sighed, got up, and took a cold shower to purge the distracting thoughts from his mind.

Tomorrow at noon, the Great Mystery Continent’s 15th level would open, and where did he have the energy to focus on women? An adventurer’s duty was to grow stronger, not to subdue a battalion of beautiful young female team members.

An hour passed before Lin Da finally closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.

“I’m not a Lust Demon, I am the righteous ‘Eye of True Knowledge’…”

In his sleep, Lin Da uttered this unconscious murmur.

…

The next day, in the early morning.

It was January 27 of the Southern Fire Calendar, the day announced for the opening of the 15th level of the Great Mystery Continent.

As dawn broke, sanitation workers were seen cleaning around Central Street.

Normally at this time, White Dove City was like a slumbering giant beast, comfortably snoring away, with only the occasional adventurer out for a morning run.

But today, the streets were bustling with activity and teeming with people.

Adventurers were laughing and chatting as they made their way to the viewing building, amongst them many foreigners with strange accents.

The curious approached and inquired, learning that these individuals hailed from Proclamation Wind City, Aoxia City, and even from as far as Great Sky City.

Their sole purpose for coming was one: to witness the first battle of the new generation of Iron Level adventurers from White Dove City.

The Wilderness Guardian descending upon the 15th level, located right at the border between White Dove City and Red Heart City, which had longstanding grievances, suggested an imminent fierce battle.

White Dove boasted a Nine-Star Potential ‘Eye of True Knowledge’, while Red Heart City had an Eight-Star ‘Power King’. Each enticing element combined to make this adventure live show a spectacle not to be missed.

Adventurers from Proclamation Wind City, thousands of miles away, raced against time, traveling by car just to catch a glimpse of the genius talents from White Dove and Red Heart City.

The viewing building was situated on Central Street, shaped like a giant square column. It covered over eight thousand square meters, had seventeen floors, and could accommodate nearly one hundred thousand people watching the adventure live show simultaneously.

Since its construction, the building had never been filled to capacity.

And today, despite the ticket prices being three times higher than usual, they were still hard to come by.

The interior decoration and facilities of the building became more luxurious the higher one went.

The first fifteen floors catered to middle and lower-tier adventurers, while from the fifteenth floor upwards, the ticket prices skyrocketed by dozens of times.

In contrast to the closely packed, shoulder-rubbing lower floors, here, everyone had an independent sofa with an armrest that could fold out into a refined black table. Beneath was a drawer filled with fresh wheat beer and drinks, including some snacks, all free of charge.

On the top seventeenth floor, the number of people was even fewer.

A floor in the hall could fit ten thousand people, but there were only a few hundred on the seventeenth.

Scanning the room, all who had gathered here were adventurers above level 20 or merchants, Star Rank adventurers who had rushed over from other places.

Red sofas clustered around a gigantic floating screen in the center.

It was made up of three screens to ensure that the audience from any direction could watch the live adventure broadcast.

The time had reached 11:50 am—just 10 more minutes before the live adventure broadcast would begin.

The hall was filled with an electrifying atmosphere, people whispering and chatting excitedly, eagerly discussing the top adventurers from both cities.

Every Star Rank adventurer was a topic of conversation, and watching dozens of Star Rank adventurers share the stage today was undoubtedly a feast for all adventurers.

On the screen was a virtual Magic Conductor Clock, its seconds ticking, teasing the hearts of the audience like the playful finger of a mischievous girl.

“Hey, White Dove City is ranked only 202 among the 300 cities in Cangqing Province, while Red Heart City is ranked 137. Are you sure you can compete?”

A young elf with a brown cap and a bow and arrows on his back asked, looking confused at the excited crowd.

He was an adventurer from Proclamation Wind City, dragged here by his sister to tour White Dove City.

The youth had just bought tickets from a second-hand dealer with his sister to get to the 17th floor, and was not clear about the recent developments of White Dove and Red Heart City.

His sister, with her soft golden short hair, dressed in a white cotton dress, was called Sterry, holding a free booklet distributed by White Dove City.

It featured introductions to outstanding adventurers from White Dove City, and as Sterry flipped to a page, she blinked in surprise at the sight of a tall, young man with black hair and black eyes:

“Rudy, look, there’s an adventurer in White Dove City with a Nine-Star Potential rating.”

“What, isn’t that even more impressive than you, sister?”

Rudy leaned over in a flash, murmuring to himself as he looked at the booklet’s picture and text:

“Lin Da, the Eye of True Knowledge, rated Nine Stars by Adventurer’s Weekly. Skilled in strategy, command, support… No way, can such a small place like White Dove City produce an adventurer with Nine-Star Potential?”

Rudy was incredulous. His sister Sterry had been recognized a month ago by Adventurer’s Weekly with an Eight-Star rating. Even in Proclamation Wind City, ranked 56th in Cangqing Province, Sterry was considered a prodigy.

Could it be that White Dove City, slouching at rank 202, actually had a Nine-Star Potential adventurer?

Rudy found the thought odd, recalling that last year, Proclamation Wind City had only seen one adventurer with Nine-Star Potential all year… Was this booklet from White Dove City engaging in false advertising?

He urged Sterry to turn the page.

To their surprise, they saw that apart from the Nine-Star Lin Da, there were also the Eight-Star Bursting Flames Lia, the Eight-Star Mind’s Eye Abner, and the Seven-Star Frost Swordsman Isa…

The siblings looked at each other, starting to doubt whether they had arrived in a city that would rank at least in the top eighty within their own province.

“Out-of-towners should not underestimate the adventurers of White Dove City!” Finch, with a white cloth tied around his head and the words “Phoenix Tail Flower will win” emblazoned on it, said displeased to the siblings.

“Confidence is good, but this is just blind arrogance,” a sneering adventurer with a foreign accent said.

With purple hair and gaunt cheeks, his cold triangular eyes resembled those of a venomous snake. He snorted disdainfully, “Red Heart City has at least 40 people. How many can White Dove City field? No matter how strong individuals are, they can’t bridge the vast gap in numbers.”

Someone recognized the identity of this slim purple-haired man, exclaiming, “The Poison Scorpion Wez from Giant Scorpion City? He also made it onto Adventurer’s Weekly, a 38-level Senior Star Rank with Nine-Star Potential, mastering the Poison Technique Series just like Lin Da!”

Sterry was also recognized—the Sunlight Dancer from Proclamation Wind City, a 35-level Star Rank with an Eight-Star Potential rating from Adventurer’s Weekly.

Although everyone knew that only the “rich or powerful” could come to the 17th floor, even among this crowd, these two were among the most elite.

Among the adventurers from White Dove City, perhaps fewer than five could match them!