【Ding!】
【The Messenger's Advancement Quest has been completed.】
【Cumulative successfully delivered letters: 10,003.】
【Successfully completed Special Commissions: 5.】
【Successfully completed Long-distance Commissions: 1.】
【All advancement conditions have been met.】
【Messenger Rank increased: Novice Messenger → Intermediate Messenger.】
【Rewards are being issued...】
【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 until next rank breakthrough.】
【2. Core Reward Upgrade:】
【Henceforth, the "magic corresponding to letters" drawn will be randomly acquired from the Mid-tier Magic Pool.】
【Duplicate Mid Rank magic will be converted into corresponding proficiency.】
【Note: The Mid-tier Magic Pool contains all magic systems and types involved in the letters the Host has already delivered.】
【3. New Feature Unlocked: Messenger's Chart.】
【The system will automatically record all valid routes the Host traverses.】
【By combining known geographic information, it will draw and continuously update an exclusive "Golden Chart."】
【The chart will label safe paths, dangerous areas, resource points, and known demon settlements.】
【......】
【Messenger's Advancement Quest 2 has been updated.】
【The 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 of ten thousand li never fade; may the mists on the road ahead gradually disperse.】
After Clotina was taken away by Moro.
With Lin Gui's return, the post office reopened.
Only this time, in addition to delivering letters...
There was an additional business of "transferring ghosts."
Outside the door, the residents of Blackwater City were boiling with excitement.
Countless glass beads rolled and collided, making faint clicking sounds.
Mental fluctuations intertwined into a noisy torrent:
"Young Messenger! Send me first! I was here first!"
"My little 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..."
"It's over! The divorce letter I sent my wife—if she takes it seriously, I'm going to be a bachelor again! Young Messenger, you've ruined me!"
The voices in his mind were extremely chaotic.
Lin Gui simply smiled at this.
Then, with an expressionless face, he closed the post office door.
He sat back at the counter and opened the small round hole in the counter wall.
One by one, glass beads immediately rolled in along the track.
They spun around on the floor and came before Lin Gui.
He would ask for their information and then find the return letter belonging to them.
The spirit warriors beside him would help them open and read it.
Afterward, he would toss the glass bead onto the wooden box corresponding to its city-state.
At the same time, system notifications rang out densely in his mind.
【Ding! Sign-off rate +1%.】
A small incident occurred during the process.
It seemed this particular guest wanted to take the letter with them as a souvenir.
Lin Gui did not refuse.
This behavior led other spirit residents to follow suit in rapid succession.
Consequently, the return letters that were supposed to be given away were ultimately tied to a glass bead and returned to their respective wooden boxes.
Since Lin Gui didn't have to help the spirits write letters this time...
He performed an assembly-line process: asking, opening the letter, completing the sign-off reward, then tying the letter to the glass bead and letting it hop over to the corresponding wooden box on its own.
So, taking advantage of the time, he looked at the advancement reward information in his mind that he had ignored earlier.
His mana had increased, and the magic pool had been upgraded...
These were all within expectations.
However, that "Messenger's Chart"...
With a slight thought, Lin Gui opened the Messenger's Chart on the system interface.
An illusory map unfurled in his consciousness.
The overall outline was precisely that of the Akara Continent.
Lin Gui tried to "zoom in."
The map quickly focused on the borderlands in the southwest corner.
A clear golden line lit up and wound across the map.
Starting from New Covenant City, it passed through the Black Demon Forest, Caran City, the Withered Rift...
It extended all the way to Shield City, then turned toward the Wall of Sighs.
All the city-states he had passed through were marked with golden points of light.
He even used little stars to mark the location of himself and the post office.
He zoomed in on the route again.
Details on the map began to emerge.
Rivers, mountains, markings of demon nests...
Even some subtle geographic names were clearly visible.
But the scope was limited only to the places he had personally traveled.
Other areas were shrouded in a gray "mist."
Only the overall outline of the continent was barely discernible.
Lin Gui watched for a few seconds before closing the interface.
How should he put it...
It was useful, but not that useful.
At least, since he had obtained the flying vessel, his way of traveling had changed long ago.
The Golden Route map he had originally bought from the Carter Royal Capital was still there.
He had planned to follow it, but now he only paid attention to the Epic demon territories marked on it.
For other stretches of the journey, he simply flew directly in a straight line.
He did not follow the paths on the Golden Chart at all.
The iteration of transportation tools had completely changed the way of travel.
If this chart only marked routes he had already walked...
Then there wasn't much difference between it and him cross-referencing maps from memory.
At most... it was a bit more convenient.
He shook his head and pulled back his thoughts.
He continued to look down, picking up the next glass bead that rolled over.
Outside the door, the line of spirits waiting was still very long.
Lin Gui and Eve were completely immersed in the busy work.
They even forgot that...
Sitting in the corner of the post office hall were three uninvited guests.
Hannah the demoness, as well as Rosa and Maren, whose auras were withered and weak.
Hannah leaned against the wall, her red eyes slightly narrowed.
She quietly watched the "working scene" at the counter.
The black-haired youth spoke names aloud into the air one after another.
Following each, faint, blurred responses like sighs would ring out.
It was as if... he were conversing with invisible existences.
Even more eerie were those glass beads.
They rolled in through the crack in the door and automatically formed a queue.
Whomever Lin Gui called, the corresponding bead would roll to the front of the counter.
Eve would press the return letter down with a stone and spread it out on the floor.
The glass bead would roll in a circle over the letter paper.
As if... it were "reading."
Then, the bead would give a light hop and land accurately into the wooden box marked with its destination.
The entire process was so smooth it was almost uncanny.
Hannah's fingertip tapped her knee unconsciously.
Even for her...
Someone who had caught a certain little fellow who had caused supernatural incidents in Avalon and learned some things about spirits.
Watching this scene, she also felt a strong sense of discomfort.
It wasn't fear, but rather a sense of cognitive dissonance from a slight distortion of perception.
She stared at the expressionless youth behind the counter.
Her eyes gradually narrowed.
This guy... can see spirits?
Not only can he see them, but he can also interact with them?
How on earth is he doing this?
A mage specializing in Soul Magic?
Is he of the same kind... as Lord Gusion?
Being able to see spirits meant that he could also see those invisible spectral demons.
Combined with that flying vessel speed that even Hugh admired...
Perhaps, he can take me back.
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