Chapter 239 chapter 33 Lion’s Pursuit Adventuring Party
Verafia smiled disdainfully at Ig’s sudden nervousness and emotional fluctuation, but did not show it. Instead, she slightly lowered her golden eyes and began to examine him with her spiritual power.
After a while, the young girl withdrew her small hand, her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.
“Sister, did you find anything?” Flarn quietly approached the girl, her blood-red eyes scanning Ig across from them as she asked in a soft voice.
Verafia shook her head, her expression becoming more puzzled.
Earlier, she had used her spiritual power to search almost everywhere on Ig, even to the most basic particles that constituted matter and could emit light, but she had not detected any trace of unusual substances.
However, neither her own perception nor Ig’s words suggested that it should have vanished without a trace…
Verafia suddenly raised her eyes and looked to the side, clearly at the Wood Elf Girl, Ain, the “culprit.”
Previously, after Ain had eliminated several skeletons with her bow and arrow and picked up the flame pigeon again, she had stood far away, fearing that Verafia would cause trouble for her again. But at this moment, as the girl’s scrutinizing gaze swept over her, the Wood Elf’s long ears perked up in fright, and she quickly waved her hands:
“I, I don’t know! I just melted the ‘material’ on that sword based on my feelings, and the runes on it formed on their own!”
Verafia, of course, did not expect to find the answer from this tender, young elf. As the girl was about to ponder, a fluctuation in her senses made her turn her cheeks, her golden eyes blinking slightly.
Ig also looked in the direction the girl turned, but there was nothing in his sight.
“What’s wrong, Young Lady?”
Ig had tried before, but this place, which Verafia called the Black-Winged Monarch’s domain, greatly restricted spiritual power. For him, it was not as useful as his sight, so he could only ask Verafia.
Verafia’s golden eyes blinked, and she said with a chuckle.
“Hmm, if my senses are not mistaken, someone is coming from that direction… It seems to be a team of adventurers?”
—
It didn’t take long for Verafia and the others to see a well-equipped adventuring party in the gray-white desert that resembled a cemetery, with about ten people in total.
The leader of the adventuring party was a Platinum Rank knight, clad in heavy armor and wielding a greatsword, exuding an impressive aura. In addition to him, the knight leader was accompanied by an archer, a priest, a mage, and other different professions, making for a very reasonable setup.
“My Lord Leader, look, there are people over there! It seems… like girls?” Next to the knight leader, a mage girl with a pretty face and red hair, dressed as a junior mage, her eyes lit up as she pointed at Verafia and the others who had appeared in their sight.
The knight leader’s nerves tensed up, and he dared not be careless. In their adventuring careers, infighting among members was quite common. He signaled his companions to prepare, stirred up his Dou Qi, and stepped forward, loudly addressing the approaching girls:
“Friends, this is the Lion’s Pursuit Adventuring Party of ‘Lion’ Ron. May I ask how you should be addressed?”
Verafia held her staff, tilted her head, and looked at Ig, who was the “landlord,” and asked. Ig shook his head, indicating that he didn’t know either of these names.
So Verafia sent her attendant to talk. After Ig had a conversation and found that the other party had no ill intentions, he signaled Verafia and the other girls to come forward.
Ron the “Lion” sized up the approaching girls. After removing his helmet, his mature and handsome face, covered in a beard, revealed a surprised expression.
Ron expressed his admiration towards Verafia and the girls beside her.
“I never expected that you young ladies are not only young but also possess such powerful strength… It is truly my honor to meet you here.”
He could clearly see that except for the black-haired young man with whom they had initially conversed, none of the other girls had an aura weaker than his. In other words, these very young girls were at least Platinum Rank!
What’s more, among them were dragons and elves of pure and noble blood. As for the remaining two girls, besides Flarn, who made him feel a sense of danger, the exquisitely beautiful girl who called herself Verafia was impossible for Ron to discern even a single bit.
The red-haired mage girl darted in front of Verafia, holding a staff embedded with fire-elemental magic gems. Clearly, she was also a fire mage.
“Wow! You are Miss Verafia, right! My name is Bra!”
Bra raised her pretty face, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Verafia, her voice clear and lively: “Miss Verafia, you are also a fire mage, aren’t you? You are so young, and yet, like Uncle Ron, you have become a titled Platinum Mage! Can I ask how you did it?”
Verafia’s golden eyes looked at the enthusiastic mage girl, thinking that she couldn’t possibly say that she was a legend in her previous life!
So the girl simply put on a cold demeanor, just nodding and smiling slightly at her, before quickly turning her little face away.
“Miss Bra, I’m sorry, my lady is not good at talking to strangers… Please forgive her.”
Ig quickly ran in front of Verafia to ease the atmosphere for her.
Bra calmed down a little, thinking to herself about the many noble young ladies she had heard of. Although they were of noble birth and possessed exceptional talent, they were actually very shy girls.
So, Bra smiled cheerfully and nodded, expressing her understanding.
Among the girls beside Ig, the Wood Elf and the Ice Dragon Girl were quite shy. They were busy gently stroking the flame pigeons in their arms and curiously looking around with their ice-blue eyes. Flarn, on the other hand, had a very reserved personality, and it was clearly very difficult to get her to speak.
As for the Phoenix Young Lady beside them, she suddenly felt playful and pretended to be a shy noble young lady. Thus, only Ig attempted to speak and inquire.
“Speaking of which, why is Mr. Ron here?”
“Ha, young Ig, you jest. Perhaps… when we first came, other adventurers might have had other intentions, but it’s been so long. Our purpose here is naturally to hunt the undead in this world with Bra and the others.”
Ron didn’t mind answering Ig’s question and said with a smile. Verafia noticed that the knight used the words “at first” and “went out.”
“Hunting undead creatures?” Ig uttered the question the girl wanted to ask.
“Yes.”
The knight reached into his breastplate and took out a storage ring. After opening it, he took out a dark blue stone, surrounded by a pale white glow, and said with a smile, “This is the highest quality Undead Stone we obtained after killing a Platinum Rank Ghoul.”
