"Thank you, Mr. Bruno."
"Mr. Raine, see you in Mill Town."
The others also displayed smiles, enthusiastically greeting.
Soon, Raine was carrying the Gray Dwarf Commander’s corpse, walking with the two women toward the cave entrance.
"Reya, what’s going on?" Elise couldn’t help but ask her friend.
"Elise, is this your impromptu team? Why is everyone treating you so nicely?" Reya didn’t answer, instead, she looked at the crowd still waving, astonished.
"Hehe, you should ask Mr. Raine! Alright, Reya, tell us what’s up?" Elise couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckle.
"Your friend Laisa has been imprisoned."
"Hmm?" Raine and Elise were immediately stunned.
"She’s imprisoned in the basement of my home castle."
This answer left both of them bewildered.
"Two days ago, when I returned home... Father... Shapeshifter... came to the basement through the sewers... Laisa told me she’s your friend..."
Soon, Reya started narrating while walking.
Due to the bizarre nature of the situation, Elise’s eyes grew wider as she listened.
And Raine was also quite amazed.
However, his focus was primarily on the Shapeshifter and that unknown Classes Level Demon Mage.
’A Shapeshifter above Challenge Level 3?’
’If my Golden Finger can enhance monster bloodlines, wouldn’t killing this Shapeshifter be...’ Raine’s eyes sparkled with a keen interest.
His first thought was the shapeshifting woman from a blockbuster in his previous life.
Why was the impression so strong?
During university, his roommate jokingly said that if one could find a woman who could shapeshift, she must transform into different girlfriends every day for him three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
Another roommate chimed in, asking why wait a day, why not hourly?
So, Raine remembered the shapeshifting woman vividly.
’But that Demon Mage of at least Grade Seven presents a significant challenge.’
’I must shop thoroughly after completing the promotion task when back at the guild...’
Raine hadn’t considered refusing, partly due to Reya’s father and Laisa, and partly due to confidence in his own strength and monster skills.
Speaking of which, he realized he hadn’t got around to checking the Monster Skill of that Gray Dwarf Commander yet.
Seeing Elise and Reya engrossed in conversation, Raine focused his thoughts and started checking.
...
Meanwhile, watching Raine and the others disappear into the tunnel, Royce remarked enviously:
"Raine seems to have quite the luck with women; those two beautiful girls appear to be very close to him."
"Let’s go!"
"When you’re wealthy, what woman can’t you find!"
Montoya and his group continued downwards, with Mage Loren’s Light Technique enabling rapid progress.
Also, perhaps due to the high number of Gray Dwarves killed earlier, their journey was unusually smooth.
This heightening the squad’s morale.
Wishing they could sprout wings to fly directly down.
Until they passed through the tunnel...
What appeared before them was an extraordinarily spacious underground area.
Over a hundred Kobolds were hauling starlit-hued minerals, and from afar, came the clinking sounds of a blacksmith at work.
"So many minerals..."
Dwarf Bruno, seeing so much Mithril Ore, his eyes widened, barely suppressing his excitement.
"We’re rich! Karg is rich!"
Half-Orc Karg was equally thrilled.
"All these useless Kobolds, without Gray Dwarves... We’re rich!"
Wanderer Royce muttered to himself, witnessing the spectacle.
Montoya was equally delighted.
"Hold on!"
Mage Loren was a bit more cautious; after surveying the scene, he suddenly glanced toward the Dark River on the right, feeling a jolt!
"Look over there!"
The group quickly followed Loren’s gaze.
They saw a golden-haired stranger in a blue-white Mage Robe, looking at them with equal surprise.
...