Chapter 345: Seno: I am the Gale Agency
Sora: "Okay, let me see your card skills!"
Yidou pulled out a card with tiny dots of light on its surface from the card box and laughed up to the sky: "Ahahahaha, I knew you would accept my challenge. Now, face the disaster, Traveler!"
Jiu Qi Ren narrowed his eyes and said, "Boss, if I remember correctly, this card is worth two million."
Paimon whispered to the air: "It's only two million. The Fire Princess card we drew in Mond a few years ago was worth five million!"
Kong glanced at the card in Yidou's hand. It showed a shirtless man with blond hair. He whispered, "Even for special cards from the same batch, the prices of the cards vary greatly. Prince Lei's popularity..."
"Ren, I swear I definitely did not embezzle funds! I drew this myself! There is only this one!" Yidou explained hurriedly.
Sora coughed lightly and opened his card box, and cards appeared on the screen one by one.
Sora thought, let's choose one of the three single challenge gods. Which one should I choose?
[1. Water Princess (Special Card: Between Heaven and Earth) (Life 3): Substitute ability: During your turn, you can choose to discard any card in your hand, then draw the same number of cards (once per turn), and you can discard a card to change the attack attribute to [Spell]. Attack range +2.
2. Prince of Water (Normal Card) (Life 3): Substitute ability: Before your turn begins, you can draw an extra card from your hand. At the end of your turn, you gain any attack card. All damage caused by attacks is [Spell].
3. Ice Prince (Normal Card) (Life 2): Stand Ability: Carry 1 [Experimental Subjects]. When you have an experimental subject, the maximum damage you can take at a time is 2. You can carry +2 cards in your hand. If you receive fatal damage only once, you can discard all experimental subjects and restore health points.
Before your turn begins, you can choose to devour an experimental subject to gain an ability: During the draw phase of this turn, you will be given N+1 cards in multiple modes. Choose two of them to gain/all attack attributes become [Spells], which last for two turns/use [Strategy Cards] to increase the damage caused by +1 and immediately gain a hand card, which lasts for two turns/immediately reset all hand cards]
Sora: "Then choose her (him)."
Ichito stared at the empty card box and said in surprise, "Traveler, you actually got the Water Princess's special card? You are worthy of being my favorite opponent!"
"This is a gift from the 'Scarlet Sakura Rice Ball Sage' to the Traveler." Paimon and Sora smiled at each other and said, "After General Raiden took back the Eye Hunting Order, he finally cheered up. In order to thank us and to cut ties with his past self, he gave the Traveler his treasured special card.
Well... although he still likes the Water Princess very much, he is currently working on developing a rice ball in the shape of the Water Princess, and wants to cooperate with a milk tea shop..."
Paimon only spoke these words in a voice that the two of them could hear, and Yidou's attention was completely ignored. He looked at the card of Prince Water and his eyes suddenly widened:
"Why are there so many words on this guy's card?! What are they saying? They make my eyes blurry."
Jiuqi Shinobu held his forehead and said, "Boss, you are going to lose."
[Thunder Prince (Special Card: Eat to Your Heart's Content!) (Life 4): Stand Ability: You can use [Attack] cards an unlimited number of times per turn, and physical attacks cannot harm you]
Ichito: "How could that be? I'm very strong, Shinobu."
Jiuqi Shinobu: "Boss, if you lose, go and raise funds quickly. The brothers haven't received their monthly allowance yet."
"No problem, I, your boss, am very reliable!" Yidou assured, patting his chest.
ten minutes later...
Ichito shouted, "How is that possible?!"
Sora: "I win."
"Hey, hey, is there something wrong? Why can you do that? Do that again?! What kind of fighting style is this?" Yidou gestured hastily with his hands.
Sora: "Stand ability."
"Cowherd, you actually haven't memorized everyone's Stand abilities, right?" Paimon said with his arms folded.
"Well... I remembered most of it, but I happen to be unfamiliar with the character you chose." Yidou pretended to be calm.
"Let's go, boss." Jiuqi Shinobu grabbed Yidou's collar.
Ichito: "Wait! Shinobu! Let me play one more round!"
"Boss, the ship the traveler called has arrived at the port." Jiuqi Shinobi nodded to the sky.
Yidou choked: "So you guys are leaving so soon?"
Paimon: "Because Xumi is the land of wisdom, it is very important for travelers to ask their gods something!"
"Oh, it's about your sister, right?" Yidou nodded heavily, "That's indeed very important."
"Don't worry, go back to Liyue. We will also help you keep an eye out for news about your blood relatives here." Jiuqi Shinobi added.
"Well, thank you!" Paimon waved and said goodbye to the two.
"Goodbye," Sora said, before boarding the ship to Liyue Harbor with Paimon.
After returning to Liyue, the two rushed to Xumi without stopping. When passing through the Layered Abyss, they met Dain, from whom they learned the true identity of the Hillock people and clashed with their blood relatives.
When faced with a decision, Kong could not ignore the suffering of the Hillichurls and chose to believe in Dyne, standing against his own blood relatives.
After saying goodbye to Dyne and leaving the Abyss, Kong felt heavy-hearted. After learning some truths about the past, the doubts in his heart grew more and more.
"Wow, there are so many moving mushrooms. Are we almost at Xumi? As long as we meet the God of Wisdom, all your questions will be answered, traveler!"
Walking in the dim tunnel, Paimon keenly sensed his companions' boredom and began to look for topics to break the depressing atmosphere.
"I think so too." The dark clouds on Kong's face dissipated a lot, and he smiled at Paimon, "There is light ahead."
"We must have reached the exit!" Paimon said excitedly.
The man and the floating object quickened their pace, and soon they rushed out of the cave and came to an open space.
"The trees here are so tall!" Paimon exclaimed.
Kong just glanced around casually and then lost interest in the scenery. He pointed to a towering cliff and said, "Let's climb up and take a look."
"Well! Maybe you can see the location of Xumi City by standing there. You are so smart, traveler!" Paimon praised.
"So is Paimon," Sora said with a smile.
The two were about to put it into practice when suddenly a green-haired scholar walked towards them.
"Huh? There's someone here. That's great. We can ask her for directions." Paimon said happily.
Sora nodded approvingly and walked towards the scholar. "Hello, ma'am, can I ask you how to get to Xumi City?"
The green-haired scholar said nothing, but just stood there quietly.
"What's wrong with her? Was it because you spoke too softly just now and she didn't hear you?" Paimon asked puzzledly.
"It's possible."
Sora was confused and was about to ask again when he saw a darker-skinned man walking towards them.
"She heard it, but she is in the 'mad talk period' of her practice. She cannot speak at this stage. She is standing there waiting for me, who is following her, to explain it to you," said the man.
"Who are you? Why are you following her?" Paimon asked warily.
Seno: "I am the Grand Disciplinary Officer Seno. If you are not familiar with this position, you can regard me as an official of the Court of Magistrates. Based on the conclusion of my investigation, I speculated that Miss Hypatia might be in danger, so I have been protecting her in secret."