What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

Even Kazuma was able to figure it out through luck, but Aqua didn’t realize it until now.

"Strange... I must be responsible for reincarnating too many people, so I don't even remember this person..."

"Damn it... How come I can't even remember what artifact he chose..."

Just as Aqua was racking her brains to think of Connor's cheat, the Adventurer's Guild's host, the blonde "big" sister Luna, called Aqua over.

At her feet, there was a pile of round green vegetables, which looked like flying cabbages.

"What? You said the cabbages I caught can't be exchanged for money? What's going on? You must explain clearly today!"

Aqua grabbed Luna's chest and shook the pair of towering peaks back and forth. She had already caught so much, and she had also paid a lot in advance with the possible reward from cabbage. If she couldn't exchange it for money, she would almost instantly become the first indebted goddess, right?

That would definitely make the younger goddesses look down on you!

"It's like this..." Luna said calmly, "All you caught were iceberg lettuces... Although they look similar to cabbages, you can't exchange lettuces for money..."

Aqua: ...Lettuce...Why did cabbage turn into lettuce?

And it can’t be exchanged for money... Doesn’t that mean she really can’t pay back the money she paid in advance that has now become debt?

It's over! It's over! Those creditors will chase her to the ends of the earth. It's so embarrassing!

Aqua originally planned to borrow some money from Kazuma. Kazuma would definitely have some money since he had caught so many cabbages.

Wait, someone just said that task rewards can be paid, right?

Aqua turned to look at Connor, who had not yet reached an agreement with Kazuma, with golden light in her eyes.

"Mr. Connor, how much is your mission reward?"

Connor: "About a million eris."

Aqua: “Kazuma~ Let’s just agree, okay? I’m in urgent need of money right now!”

Kazuma: …

"Then I'll take that as your consent? Mr. Connor, the adventure team is at your service!"

92. Excellent effect of attracting monsters

Teaming up is a common yet not so common way in this dangerous world.

When one team of adventurers is not enough to complete a mission, they can choose to join forces with other teams of adventurers with similar goals.

For example, the mission of some adventurer teams is to purify the lake water, while the mission of some adventurer teams is to defeat the crocodiles in the lake.

It's just that Connor now looks like he has hired a team of adventurers, but the mission he accepted was to defeat the crocodile.

Hiring is actually an advanced way of forming a team.

After the memory world ends, he can use his relationship with the goddess he once hired to get a goddess who can use divine power from Prism for free.

As the saying goes, friendship is revealed when two people are rich and humble.

Prism did not react to this at all, as it had already been overwhelmed by the previous life-and-death friendship and sworn brotherhood.

After witnessing Kazuma being teased by two moving vegetable sticks, Connor gained a better understanding of the strength of the bottom layer of this world.

Even freshly killed vegetables will avoid human hands...

Why do we need to "kill" vegetables?

All in all, Connor had no intention of eating anything with seeds in this world.

The guy next to him who started drinking in broad daylight had already told many stories about the tragic deaths of adventurers.

One of them was a case where a person ate melon without spitting out the seeds. As a result, the seeds were extremely active and took root and sprouted in his stomach.

“No wonder Prism said the world is difficult. I really don’t know if I’ll die in some weird way…” Connor retracted his attention. He was going to go on a joint mission with Kazuma’s team next.

Kazuma's team, who had already packed their equipment, was waiting for him at the door. It had been several days since they received their reward. Aqua was working part-time to pay off Kazuma's debt, and the adventurer team also upgraded their equipment. However, all their savings were wiped out, and now they were all waiting for Connor's hiring money, especially Aqua.

"Did you know? I heard that one of the leaders of the Demon King's army occupied an ancient castle. The castle is just outside the town, a little up the hill."

Connor paused. Has the Demon King’s army finally arrived?

"The chief of the Demon King's Army, that sounds really scary, it's better not to get close. This is not the capital of the kingdom, who knows what the chief of the Demon King's Army is doing here?"

"It's most likely an ogre lord or a vampire? Otherwise, it could be a big demon or a dragon. But no matter which one it is, it has nothing to do with us."

"Yes."

Connor smiled and agreed with the adventurers' negative and irresponsible remarks.

But it will be about you guys later...

During these idle days, Connor used his Eagle Vision to see that Kazuma would go out with Megumin every day and then come back carrying Megumin on his back.

Before the officers from the Demon King’s army arrive, go kill some monsters and level up!

Connor has been out of town alone these days and killed many weak monsters like toads. Toads are covered with mucus and have smooth skin. Blunt blows and some basic magic can't hurt them at all. However, their shortcomings are also obvious. Sharp swords are enough to break through defense, and toads can't see anything as long as their bodies don't move.

几天下来，他的经验条也从6级（698/4000）上涨到6级（814/4000）,还顺便激活了两个击杀任务。

One is the [Long-Range Kill] that has not been completed for a long time, and the other is [Kill Mission Four].

However, with the arrival of the Demon King's army cadres, the weak monsters had already hidden themselves, and those that remained were very powerful monsters that did not need to hide from the Demon King's army cadres.

These monsters that were rated as high-risk during the mission were put aside for the time being. Connor planned to find out his own strength level in this world and then try to find an opportunity to deal with them alone.

Therefore, the two highly related tasks became the first choice for Connor and Kazuma's team.

[Purify Lake]: The lake, one of the water sources of this town, has deteriorated in quality and has been inhabited by ferocious alligators. You need to learn purification magic to purify the lake, which is the water source of the town. After the water source is purified, the monsters will naturally move to another habitat. Reward: 300,000 Eris.

[Defeat the Crocodiles in the Lake]: Due to the deterioration of water quality, ferocious alligators appear in the lake and attack passers-by. You need to defeat the ferocious alligators in the lake. Reward: 50,000 Eris for one alligator corpse. There will be additional rewards if all are cleared.

"Mr. Connor! Come on! We're ready!"

Even though this mission was to pay off Aqua's debt, the reward for purifying the water belonged to Aqua alone, and Kazuma did not intend to fight the crocodile and give it all to Connor, but under Aqua's constant persuasion, Kazuma still came up with an idea -

In order for Aqua to purify water, you only need to put your hand into the water and keep casting purification magic. Even letting Aqua soak directly in the water will have a purifying effect.

Why not just put Aqua in a sturdy cage? This will allow her to have access to water, protect her from being disturbed by monsters, and gather alligators for Connor to kill.

Kazuma was proud of his genius idea for a long time.

As soon as she walked out of the door of the Adventurer's Guild, Aqua consciously sat in the capture cage.

"I feel like a rare monster that has been captured and will be sold soon."

This rare monster was currently locked in a steel cage, sitting in the middle with his knees hugged, while saying this.

The carriage borrowed from the guild started moving slowly. Amid the strange looks from the people around him, Connor pulled up his hood to show that he did not know this group of people.

Kazuma: …

The group walked out of the city gate smoothly, but the success only ended there.

When the horse pulling the carriage saw the thing outside the city gate, it was so frightened that its four legs went limp and it fell to the ground, taking the carriage, the steel cage, and Aqua with it.

"Hey! Are you kidding me?" Aqua shouted, but no one responded.

Lifting up her messy sky-blue hair, Aqua saw the source of the commotion through the iron cage.

Howling!

Outside the city, a headless horse was neighing, and on its back sat a dark knight.

There was no head on the knight's neck, it was empty. His head was held up by his arms, with only two scarlet eyes under the pitch-black helmet, and his other hand was wielding a long sword emitting black energy.

To be exact…

The Demon King's army cadre, the Dullahan, is coming!

“Who is it that…?”

“Every day, every day, every day! Who is this psychopathic idiot who always comes to my castle and casts explosion magic every day without fail—!”

Obviously, the Demon King's army leaders were extremely angry.

93. Let me have my own experience

The Headless Horseman didn't come alone, he brought a bunch of monsters with him.

They were a group of knights wearing rusted and tattered armor, the undead knights under his command. Through the cracks in the armor and helmets, one could vaguely see rotting bodies that were disgusting if one looked closely.

An alarm has been sounded in the city to summon adventurers, but the Dullahan doesn't care.

"I'm Beldia, one of the officers of the Demon King's army! I came here because our fortune teller said that there were several strong lights falling near this town, so I came to investigate."

"But now you have angered me! I might as well raze this town to the ground! Come on, brothers, let these guys who offended our Undead Association see what hell is like!"

As he spoke, the Dullahan tilted the head in his hand that was looking at Connor and Kazuma's team to the side, just as a tilt of the head.

Connor took out the golden apple from his arms, and after the golden light came on it, it immediately turned into an axe with armor-piercing properties.

Equipment such as hand-and-half swords do not perform very well when facing a fully armored knight, especially an undead knight with magical protection.

The headless horse of the headless knight stopped where it was, and the headless knight also stopped with it.

He scanned the team in front of him and felt an inexplicable threat from this group of people, the kind that could really threaten his life.

I just don't know on whom.

Why not just use all your strength to kill them all!

One of the knight's rules is to never swing your sword at the weak!

So every time he swings his knife, his target is something extremely dangerous! Maybe the seemingly harmless civilians are assassins in disguise!

The Headless Knight Beldia snorted coldly, he was sure that he was affected by the prophecy and was scaring himself, this was a novice village!

In the Novice Village that was looked down upon by the Dullahan, Huihui, as the culprit who released the explosion magic, did not run away but stood up instead.

“My name is Huihui, I am the Great Mage of the Crimson Demon Clan, and the best magician in this town! The reason why I keep using explosion magic is to lure out the battle plan of you, a cadre of the Demon King’s army!”

Although she definitely didn’t mean it that way, Huihui quickly came up with an excuse that the magic power surging from her body was to make the Dullahan have to be careful.

"Oh, the Crimson Demons, I see, so that unusual name is not a joke?" The Dullahan put the head in his right hand and stretched it forward. The Demon King's army had countermeasures against the Crimson Demons, and they had to be careful when facing this mentally ill race.

"Hey! If you have any problem with the name my parents chose for me, just tell me!"

Huihui maintained the posture of pointing the staff in one hand at the opponent, her face slightly flushed, and she seemed to be very proud of her quick wit.

Kazuma quietly discussed countermeasures with Connor and Darkness, and ignored Aqua who was squatting alone in the iron cage. After all, Aqua was the safest among these people.

The gist of it is that Huihui hasn't used explosion magic today... Use all the tricks you have while Huihui is in high spirits!

Connor remembered that the Dullahan's weakness was water, but the Dullahan was very agile and ordinary water magic had no way of splashing on him.

In order to deal with this cadre of the Demon King's army who was blessed by the Demon King, they finally relied on Aqua's goddess power to bring about a flood. The water from the sky swept in with a mighty force, not only weakening the Dullahan but also flooding the entire novice town, forcing them to pay a large sum of money in compensation.

The problem could be solved by letting Aqua go, but the cost would be too high.

Connor planned to try his own method first and gain personal experience at the same time.

"If I remember correctly, Aqua is now the high priestess, right? She knows a lot of blessing magic?"

Connor flexed his wrists. The Dullahan on the opposite side was very particular about etiquette. After Huihui, the Crimson Demon, introduced herself, he gave them ten minutes to assemble their team, and then he would lead the Undead Knights to raze the novice town.

"That's true, but Aqua..." Kazuma's face looked very ugly. Aqua wasted a lot of skill points on banquet skills, and she didn't seem to have the talent of a high priest at all.

Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon cost five skill points and you can just click on them. It's hard to say whether there are any skill points left.

“Kazuma, please ask Aqua if she can give me a blessing.”

Although Kazuma didn't quite understand, he still asked Darkness to keep an eye on Megumin and not let her use the explosion magic too early. He then ran to the cage that had been forgotten for a long time.

"╭(╯^╰)╮Huh, now you remember me as your goddess?" Aqua was still upset about being forgotten. Even the cadres of the Demon King's Army were not as prioritized as her in person.

A goddess was placed in a sideways iron cage? Now she looks more like a pet, right? And she's not even rare! No one wants her!

"Aqua, can you do what he said?" Kazuma glanced at Connor who was hiding in the shadow of Darkness and Megumin, and was almost scared by the sight.

Kazuma had learned perception skills from a thief named Chris, but apart from seeing with his eyes, he was unable to detect Connor's presence at all.

If he hadn't been so close and hadn't just finished talking to Connor, he wouldn't have noticed the existence of this person.

Shaking his head, Kazuma was already used to his own devastating start, so he turned to explain Connor's needs to Aqua.

Connor only wanted Aqua to cast a blessing magic on him. Kazuma didn't know what it would do, but if a high priestess of Aqua's profession could use it, perhaps the cadres of the Demon King's army would be eliminated.

"Stupid Kazuma, how is that possible? If it can improve luck, wouldn't I use it on myself first?" Aqua rolled her eyes. How could Kazuma become a fool?