Chapter 429: Chapter 238: I’m Watching Over Raine for You! (Part 2)

At this moment, suddenly, Laisa shifted her hips uncomfortably and said, "Raine, your hammer handle is poking me, move it."

"Can’t move it."

"Move it, it’s uncomfortable poking me."

"Uh... awkward." Below, Raine was a bit stimulated and couldn’t help but speak.

As a Level 4 Wanderer, Laisa, although petite and with only an A-cup top, had extremely flexible, well-trained legs, smooth hip and leg lines, and a rather perky and firm backside.

So, this feeling made Raine a bit peculiar.

Hearing Raine’s words, Laisa didn’t understand at first, but the next second, her whole body stiffened, and her face turned bright red!

"Ah! Raine, you’re bullying me!" Laisa, like a startled rabbit, leapt forward, almost jumping off the griffin.

"Careful!"

Fortunately, Raine reached out and held her, and Laisa, being a Wanderer, was excellent at balancing. Normally, she would not make such a basic mistake, so, holding onto Raine’s hand, she immediately steadied herself.

"Raine, you absolutely cannot tell Elise about this." Laisa, blushing, gave Raine a sidelong glance and said.

"Poking you to death! Hmph!" With that, Laisa pulled the frying pan out from the leather armor gap at her abdomen, putting it back behind her.

However, at this moment, Laisa’s feelings were not nearly as firm as her expression.

At this moment, her emotions were like waves during stormy weather, constantly churning—

’Back at the Baron Castle, I had promised Elise confidently and even prided myself as a supervisor, but if this gets out, wouldn’t that be betraying my own trust?’

’But Raine doesn’t seem to have confirmed any relationship with Elise or Sulfur Vine or even Reya yet.’

’So being with Raine like this, it shouldn’t count as betraying my best friend, right?’

’And that feeling...’

’No, no! Laisa, what are you thinking!’

For a moment, even someone as carefree as her didn’t know how to face Raine or Elise.

Meanwhile,

Raine inadvertently saw Laisa’s blushing face and somewhat dreamy eyes in front of him, his heart stirred. It seemed like the first time he realized, that the now-quiet Laisa was actually quite a beauty.

After the small interlude during the journey, they flew for another five hours, passing through three cities, but Raine still hadn’t found a suitable task related to mid- to advanced-level demons.

It’s not that there were none, they just weren’t suitable.

One task description read: "...thick, sticky black mud rising in the cellar, a missing servant... suspected multiple fear demons."

Another description was: "...beams in houses in Maple Town were corroded with holes, sharp laughter at night, several livestock deaths... suspected quasit demons."

Both fear demons and quasits are low-tier demons, even the stronger quasit only has a Challenge Level 2. For Raine, to detour and spend days investigating and killing would not be worthwhile.

What’s more important is that it’s easy to guess that such low-tier demons, even if killed, are unlikely to grant any sort of near-immunity resistance.

Since there were still multiple cities to pass through later, and Raine approached the task with a ’best if there is, but it’s fine if not’ mindset, he didn’t feel any sense of loss.

"Raine, look!"

Following Laisa’s slender finger, they saw on the distant ground, shimmering lakes reflecting the sunset and dense sprawling forests.

At first glance, each lake looked like a golden gem, adorning the green forest.

"That’s Fadir Wetland Kingdom ahead, it’s so beautiful!" Laisa marveled.

"Yes, it is indeed a beautiful scene."

As he spoke, Raine suddenly realized something.

’It seems this is my first time going abroad?’

Half an hour later.

The two of them smoothly arrived at the border city of the Fadir Wetland Kingdom—Warwick.

As they jumped off the griffin at the top of the guild building, Laisa went to explore the nearby market while Raine descended the stairs to the second floor of the guild.

"Hello, could you help me check if there are any demon-related tasks?" Looking at the receptionist in a black apron, wearing a uniform just like Liya’s new one, Raine handed over his Bronze Level Adventurer badge.

"Sure, sir." Upon seeing the Bronze Level badge Raine handed over, the receptionist’s eyes lit up, and she stood up respectfully to take it.

Unless it’s a big city like Winterless City, in any ordinary city on the continent, a Bronze Level Adventurer is someone who needs special service.

"Sir Raine, there is one task, highly suspected of being Flom Demon activity, in the town of Dagen."

"Flom Demon?"

"Here’s the task introduction, would you like to take a look?"

"Thank you!"

Raine’s face lit up with joy as he took it and read in detail:

"...At night, the residents of the small town hear piercing screams from the sky, and experience headaches, confusion, nightmares. Occasionally, flocks of birds are seen frantically flying out of the dense forest, several loggers and hunters have gone missing..."

Reading the above task description, Raine mused to himself.

"It really resembles the description of the Flom Demon."

And in Raine’s mind, the image of the Flom Demon emerged as well.

Flom Demon, also known as Crow Demon, resembles a mix between a vulture and a human, with a normal entity’s challenge level being Level 6.

For a Bronze Level adventurer squad, it is relatively easy to deal with. Of course, for a Black Iron Level adventurer squad with an average classes level of Level 3 or 4, it is quite challenging.

To Raine, the task is not of high difficulty. The Flom Demon is somewhat too weak for him.

"As for ordinary Flom Demons, I doubt their resistance is very high."

"But since they’re there, I might as well take a look."

Raine immediately made up his mind.

"By the way, where is Waypoint Town?"

If he needs to take a long detour, Raine would need to reconsider.

"It’s about two hundred miles southwest of Warwick, near Misty Gorge."

"Southwest? Alright, I’ll take up this task." Since it’s on the way, Raine had nothing to hesitate about.

"All right, Master Raine, I’ll just...." Suddenly, the senior female receptionist’s expression froze, staring blankly at the side of the counter.

"Uh... I’m sorry! Master Raine, the task has just been taken by someone else."

Hmm?

Raine’s scrutinizing gaze brought quite a bit of psychological pressure to the female receptionist.

"Master Raine, I’m truly sorry! It just displayed that the Waypoint Town division, there’s a Black Iron Level 3 adventurer squad that took the task. So on my side..."

Since Waypoint Town is the site of the incident, naturally this task was also posted there.

"It’s okay." Raine waved his hand and said.

He could tell that the female receptionist in front of him was quite anxious.

After all, if she encountered a Bronze Level adventurer with a bad temper or a domineering attitude, this matter could be escalated by saying it was her unfamiliarity with the business that caused the task not to be taken promptly.

Retrieving his badge, Raine planned to go downstairs to meet up with Laisa.

However, at that moment, Laisa returned from outside and ran up excitedly:

"Raine, let’s stay overnight in Warwick City?"

"Hmm?"

"I just asked around, Warwick City’s culinary delight is ’Crocodile Soup’, let’s give it a try."

"And I’ll see if I can learn this dish."

"Crocodile?"

Raine was taken aback, like trying to be a Guangdong native?

At least in his past life, although he heard of it, he had never tasted crocodile meat.

"Yes, there are many crocodiles in the wetlands, and the chefs here learned how to turn crocodiles into delicious ingredients long ago."

"I heard it’s really tasty."

"Alright!"

...

Next morning.

Clouds hung in the sky, and a fine drizzle began to fall.

Raine and Laisa mounted the griffin parked atop the adventurer division of Warwick City, the raindrops splattered on the plate armor, besides bursting into finer droplets, it also emitted a dull clang sound.

"I’ve heard this kind of drizzle is common in the wetlands, often raining in the morning and stopping by noon." Laisa shielded herself from the raindrops with her hand.

"Hmm, I don’t mind rainy weather." Raine looked up at the sky.

Many people dislike the dreary, slightly sticky feeling of rain, but Raine feels rain has its own characteristics.

A quarter of an hour later.

On the griffin.

"Raine, what’s up?" Laisa suddenly noticed Raine behind her had gone silent.

"The smoke isn’t right."

"Eh? Smoke."

Laisa followed Raine’s pointed direction in confusion.

Amid the drizzle, faint grey smoke rose from the middle of a distant gorge, but not like a single straight plume of cooking smoke, rather three or four columns varying in thickness.

It closely resembled the aftermath of using oil bottles and other explosives.

....