【System Weekly Commission completion rate → 100%】
【Detected that all letters sent to Gloomlight Forest have arrived.】
【Ding! Weekly Commission completed!】
【Details: Successfully delivered 89 letters to recipients in Gloomlight Forest.】
【Letter origins:】
【Blackwater City: 53 letters.】
【Stonestrand Town: 9 letters.】
【Longbridge Fort: 5 letters.】
【.......】
【Three-Way Junction: 1 letter.】
【Delivery progress: 89 letters signed for (current progress: 100%)】
【Distributing rewards...】
【You have successfully delivered 89 letters, obtaining random Novice Magic x89.】
【Duplicate magic will automatically be converted into corresponding proficiency.】
【Spells with maxed proficiency can be cast chantlessly.】
【Congratulations to the Host on obtaining:】
【Demon-type Novice Magic: Demon Eyes *30 → Demon Eyes Lv. MAX】
(Proficiency is maxed. Can perform chantless casting.)
【Soul-type Novice Magic: Soul Attachment *21 → Soul Attachment Lv. 6】
【Spatial-type Novice Magic: Spatial Mark *14 → Spatial Mark Lv. 3】
【Wood-type Novice Magic: Flower Growth *14 → Flower Growth Lv. 2】
【New spells added:】
【Earth-type Novice Magic: Smoke Spell *20 → Smoke Spell Lv. 2】
【Extra Reward: Mana Reserve +100】
【Host: Lin Gui】
【Rank: High-tier High Rank Mage】
【Mana Reserve: (10,000/10,200) 9,800 points of mana required for the next rank breakthrough】
【Ding! Letter search beginning...】
【7 days remaining until the search period ends.】
【Do you wish to end the search early?】
No need, Lin Gui replied in his mind.
At this moment, he was driving his flying vessel, speeding toward Blackwater City.
Eve gently hugged his waist from behind, resting her face against his back.
“Mmh...”
She let out a soft, listless hum like a kitten.
“My head is so dizzy... and my wound hurts...”
“Mr. Lin Gui, can you fly a bit slower, please?”
Her injuries had not yet healed.
At least, that was what she claimed.
But Lin Gui highly suspected that the Holy Saintess was “faking her illness.”
He had plenty of evidence.
First, just moments ago, when Lin Gui decided to set off back to Blackwater City.
Eve's initial reaction had been to freeze for two seconds.
Then, a “weak” watery sheen quickly welled up in her purple eyes.
“Oh my...”
She immediately clutched her chest, her brow furrowing as her voice grew weak and reedy.
“My injury... seems to have suddenly gotten worse.”
“My chest hurts so much, and my whole body is in pain.”
“I need very, very attentive care from Mama Lin Gui... to get better.”
Her acting was so exaggerated that even Clotina, huddled inside the glass bead, could not bear to watch.
Second, Lin Gui noticed that every time he turned around to organize their supplies or check their route, the “sickly and weak” expression on Eve's face would instantly vanish.
It would be replaced by a sly, slightly smug smile.
The moment he turned back, she would instantly revert to her pitiful, delicate look.
The transition was so seamless, it was truly masterclass acting.
“...”
Lin Gui steered the flying vessel with a deadpan expression.
Feeling the “weak” yet vice-like grip of the person hugging him from behind, he ultimately dialed down the power of the wind pressure cannon slightly.
The speed of the flying vessel slowed.
“Eh?”
Eve looked up in surprise.
“You really slowed down?”
“Yeah,” Lin Gui stared at the churning gray mist ahead, his voice flat. “I'm just afraid a certain severely injured patient... might get motion sickness and throw up all over me.”
Eve blinked.
Then, she buried her face deeper into the back of his magic robe, her heart brimming with laughter.
The flying vessel soared across the wasteland, leaving the fluorescent glow of Gloomlight Forest far behind.
Beside them, Clotina's glass bead floated in midair.
Watching the gray mist and ruins flash past them, she could not help but marvel, “This flying vessel... is so fast.”
Then, her gaze fell upon Eve, who was intimately hugging Lin Gui.
After hesitating for a moment, she asked softly, “Are you two... a couple?”
Hearing this, Eve curved her lips into a sly smile.
“Nope~” she dragged out her voice playfully. “I'm his 'kept' mistress~”
Clotina's soul shadow instantly froze.
She whipped around to face Lin Gui, her eyes filled with undisguised contempt.
“Scumbag!” her voice rose, filled with an elf's characteristic, unyielding belief in pure love. “An elf only loves one person in their entire life, faithful until death! Yet you actually betrayed your wife and kept a mistress?!”
Lin Gui gave her a speechless look.
“First of all, I don't have a mistress. The one behind me... is talking absolute nonsense.”
“Secondly...” He paused. “My wife is also an elf.”
Clotina's expression shifted. “An elven... slave?”
“No,” Lin Gui's tone was flat. “A perfectly legitimate, normal relationship.”
Clotina stared suspiciously at his face. “But you're so ugly... How could any elf be willing to marry you? And even if there is, you shouldn't betray her!”
Lin Gui sighed.
“First of all, I do not have a mistress.”
“Secondly, please don't judge a book by its cover. My elven wife... was the one who pursued me.”
“Finally...” He glanced at Eve, who was snickering behind him. “You probably won't believe me if I say this, but she actually wants me to 'take down' the one behind me.”
Clotina's soul shadow shook violently. Obviously, she did not believe a single word.
“Sigh.” Lin Gui shook his head.
“If you don't believe me, you can ask her yourself once we get to Blackwater City. As for the matters regarding me and my elven wife...”
A deep sense of helplessness seeped into his voice. “It has probably long been spread by a certain bored little fellow who catches any soul she sees and tells them the story. By now... even your father might know about it.”
He looked up at the sky, his eyes devoid of life.
“You cannot possibly imagine, when a ghost who has been bottled up for sixteen years encounters such 'explosive' gossip, just how terrifying their desire to share is.”
The flying vessel swept through a patch of dense mist, the wind howling, carrying away the lingering, world-weary sigh of Lin Gui.
Nine hours later.
Above the high-altitude gray mist, the faintly visible pale sun completely sank.
Night once again shrouded the land.
The flying vessel cut through the deepening darkness, returning to the largest city-state in the Blackwater Forest—the airspace above Blackwater City.
The ruins stretched out below, far more massive than Deepwood Outpost or Gloomlight Forest.
The broken buildings resembled the skeletal remains of giant beasts, crouching silently in the darkness.
Clotina's glass bead clung close to the edge of the flying vessel.
She stared blankly at the ruins of this unfamiliar, colossal city.
Her soul light flickered slightly, revealing a clear sense of... apprehension.
Sixteen years.
Was her father... really still here?
What had he become?
Would he... no longer recognize her?
It was the anxiety of returning home. Even for a departed soul, this feeling held true.
Lin Gui did not give her much time to lose herself in wild thoughts.
He circled slightly in the air, scanning with his Demon Eyes.
He quickly locked onto the location of the “7-Copper Post Office - Blackwater City Branch.”
The building, built by the ghosts with their own hands, stood out remarkably among the ruins.
The flying vessel adjusted its heading and lowered its altitude.
It swept rapidly toward the post office.
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