【Ding!】
【Messenger's Advancement Quest completed.】
【Total successfully delivered letters: 10,003.】
【Successfully completed Special Commissions: 5.】
【Successfully completed long-distance commissions: 1.】
【All advancement conditions have been met.】
【Messenger Rank upgraded: Novice Messenger → Intermediate Messenger.】
【Rewards distributing...】
【1. Basic Reward: Mana Reserve +3,000.】
【Host: Lin Gui】
【Rank: High-tier High Rank Mage】
【Mana Reserve: (10,200/13,200). 6,800 mana points away from the next rank breakthrough.】
【2. Core Reward Upgrade:】
【From now on, the drawn “letter-corresponding magic” will be randomly obtained from the Mid Rank magic pool.】
【Duplicate Mid Rank magic will be converted into corresponding proficiency.】
【Note: The Mid Rank magic pool contains all magic systems and types involved in the letters the Host has already delivered.】
【3. New Function Unlocked: Messenger's Chart.】
【The system will automatically record all valid routes the Host travels.】
【Combining known geographical information, it will draw and continuously update an exclusive “Golden Chart.”】
【The Messenger's Chart will mark safe paths, dangerous areas, resource points, and known demon gathering sites.】
【...】
【Messenger's Advancement Quest 2 has been updated.】
【Advancement conditions are as follows:】
【Successfully deliver 100,000 letters: 10,003/100,000】
【Successfully complete 10 Special Commissions: 5/10】
【Successfully complete 3 long-distance commissions: 1/3】
【May the bonds across thousands of miles never fade; may the fog on the road ahead gradually disperse.】
After Clotina was taken away by Moro, the post office reopened with Lin Gui's return.
Only this time, in addition to delivering letters...
...a new service of “transporting souls” was added.
Outside the door, the residents of Blackwater City were in a frenzy.
Countless glass beads rolled and collided, making soft, clinking sounds.
Mental waves intertwined into a chaotic torrent:
“Little messenger! Send me first! I was here first!”
“My younger brother is at Longbridge Fort! I can feel that he's still floating there!”
“Let me go back to Whitestone City... I miss my hometown so much...”
“I'm finished! If my wife took the divorce letter I sent seriously, I'm going to end up single! Little messenger, you've ruined me!”
The voices in his head were extremely chaotic.
Lin Gui just smiled at this.
Then, with an expressionless face, he closed the post office doors.
He sat back down behind the counter and opened the small round hole in the counter wall.
One by one, the glass beads immediately rolled in along the track.
They spun around on the floor and came to a stop in front of Lin Gui.
He asked for their information, then found the corresponding reply letter.
The soul warriors beside him helped them open and read the letters.
Then, he tossed the glass bead onto the wooden box corresponding to that city-state.
At the same time, system prompts chimed rapidly in his mind.
【Ding! Letter signing rate +1%.】
A minor episode occurred during this process.
A certain customer seemed to want to keep the letter as a souvenir and take it along.
Lin Gui didn't refuse.
This behavior prompted the other soul residents to follow suit.
As a result, the replies that were supposed to be handed out ended up tied to glass beads and returned to their respective wooden boxes.
Since Lin Gui didn't have to help the souls write letters this time, his work was completely streamlined: ask, open the letter, claim the signing reward, tie the letter to the glass bead, and let them hop over to their own wooden boxes.
Thus, taking advantage of the free moments, he looked at the advancement reward information in his mind that he had ignored earlier.
His mana had increased, and the magic pool had upgraded... all of which was within his expectations.
But that “Messenger's Chart”...
With a thought, Lin Gui opened the Messenger's Chart in the system interface.
An illusory map unfolded in his consciousness.
Its overall outline was precisely the Akara Continent.
Lin Gui tried to “zoom.”
The map quickly focused on the borderlands in the southwestern corner.
A clear golden route lit up and wound across the map.
Starting from New Covenant City, it passed through the Black Demon Forest, Caran City, and the Withered Rift...
...extending all the way to Shield City, before turning toward the Wall of Sighs.
Every city-state he had passed through was marked with a golden point of light.
There were even little stars marking his own position—the post office.
Zooming in on the route again, details on the map began to emerge.
Rivers, mountains, and demon nest markings... even some minor geographical names were clearly visible.
However, the range was limited only to the places he had personally traversed.
Every region he had not visited was shrouded in a gray fog.
Only the overall outline of the continent was barely discernible.
Lin Gui stared at it for a few seconds before closing the interface.
How should he put it... it was useful, but not incredibly so.
At least, after he obtained the flying vessel, his way of traveling had long since changed.
The Golden Route map he had purchased from the Carter Royal Capital back then—he had originally planned to follow it, but now he only paid attention to the Epic Demon territories marked on it.
For other segments, he simply flew over them in a straight line, completely ignoring the routes on the Golden Chart.
The iteration of transportation methods had completely revolutionized travel.
If this Messenger's Chart only marked the routes he had already traveled, then it wasn't much different from him recalling the path by looking at a map.
At most, it was slightly more convenient.
He shook his head and pulled back his thoughts.
Lowering his head again, he picked up the next glass bead that rolled over.
Outside the door, the queue of souls waiting was still very long.
Lin Gui and Eve were completely buried in their work.
They had even forgotten that there were still three uninvited guests sitting in the corner of the post office lobby.
The demon Hannah, along with the dispirited Rosa and Maren.
Hannah leaned against the wall, her crimson eyes slightly narrowed, quietly watching the work scene at the counter.
The black-haired youth called out names one by one into the empty air.
Then, vague, sigh-like responses would ring out, as if he was talking to invisible entities.
What was even stranger were those glass beads.
They rolled in through the crack under the door and lined up automatically.
Whomever Lin Gui called, the corresponding bead would roll up to the counter.
Eve would weigh the replies down with small stones and spread them out on the floor.
A glass bead would roll over the letter once, as if “reading” it.
Then, the bead would hop gently, landing precisely inside the wooden box marked with its destination.
The entire process was so smooth it was almost eerie.
Hannah's fingertip tapped her knee unconsciously.
Even for her, who had caught a certain little fellow who caused paranormal incidents in Avalon and learned a bit about souls, watching this scene still brought a strong sense of discomfort.
It wasn't fear, but rather a bizarre sense of incongruity, as if her cognition was being slightly warped.
She stared at the expressionless youth behind the counter, her eyes gradually narrowing.
This guy... can see souls?
Not only can he see them, but he can also interact with them?
How on earth did he do that?
A mage specializing in Soul Magic? The same kind as Lord Gusion?
Being able to see souls meant he could also see those invisible spectral demons.
Combined with his flying vessel speed, which even Hugh admired, perhaps he could take her back.
Rate on N.U.
