Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Li Ang opened the book and found that it was actually a manuscript. Although it was not signed, it was most likely written by her father.

On the first page, the book expounded some exquisite swordsmanship theories. Although Leon knew some top swordsmen, he had not practiced melee combat and could not quite understand them.

After flipping through a few more pages, he determined that this was a sword manual, a training guide for a special profession.

This profession was most likely created by Zoe's father. He must be a top-notch expert.

Even though Li Ang had advanced to level 9 in his profession, one step away from reaching level 10 legend, even though he could use runes to write original spells, and even the universities in the Magic City had offered him a job, he was still far from understanding how to create a new profession.

After quickly flipping through a few pages, I found that the book is divided into four chapters, each of which describes how to integrate the four elements of wind, earth, water, and fire with swordsmanship, and simultaneously produce attack effects similar to elemental magic when wielding the sword.

The difficulty of learning the four elements swordsmanship increases in sequence, so Zoe uses wind swordsmanship.

Li Ang's mind was aroused when he heard the system's prompt.

[Hint: Special class inheritance discovered, importing in progress... Import complete, Special Class: Elemental Swordsman training strategy generated]

[The Master Controller can now take up the Swordsman class, and can advance to Elemental Swordsman when reaching level 4.]

[A similar profession to Swordsman has been detected: Warrior. Taking up the Swordsman profession will directly transfer some experience progress.]

[Profession: Elementalist, Wizard, and Shaman training can reduce the difficulty of advancing to Elemental Swordsman and increase experience progress.]

This book is indeed a complete inheritance of swordsmanship.

Leon must practice this special profession. He has been restricted by the limitations of spellcasters in some crisis situations. Now he has the system and wants to practice a melee profession to fill the gap. This is like a pillow for a sleepy person.

Zoe's father, whom I've never met, thanks. In return, I'll take care of your daughter... for a while.

"What are you thinking about?" Zoe asked softly.

Coming back to his senses from the system panel, Li Ang smiled and said to her, "This is a very good sword manual. It's a treasure your father left for you. You must keep it well."

"I practice very seriously every morning, following the daily curriculum my father told me." The girl pouted.

What she said was true.

A level 2 swordsman is not strong enough in the entire airspace, but at this age, many races are still developing their bodies, and their perception of magic has not reached its peak. Even melee professions rely on the magic in the atmosphere to make their bodies strong.

Many future top powerhouses are not as strong as her at this age.

The terms used in this sword manual were very profound, and with her reading ability, it would take time to understand. Even so, she managed to master the "Secret - Gale Slash" on her own.

Children who are serious and studious always make people feel good. Looking at the girl's serious expression, Li Ang couldn't help but touch her head.

"I understand this book. I will teach you later."

Zoe was startled at first, then she didn't resist and looked at him with a slight smile on her lips.

There was nothing else of note on the bookshelf, and there wasn't much in the room, most of which contained little information.

However, Li Ang eventually discovered the situation.

Hidden in a corner of the shelf, there is a round metal object.

"What is this? I've never seen this before."

It was gray and inconspicuous. Leon held it in his hand, and Zoe also reached over to observe it.

It was placed right in the blind spot of the petite girl's vision.

Li Ang wiped the dust off the surface with his thumb and thought to himself, as expected.

This was a ranking medal awarded by the Sky Knight Guild. Based on the airship wing pattern on it, Leon knew it belonged to the Sky Knight ranked second in the entire airspace, with the title: High-ranking Knight.

Fifty thousand people may seem like a lot, but they are rare in the vast airspace.

The name is the Grand Knight, and Leon is among them. His medal has a cross with a gun and a sword on the basis of the flying wing pattern.

The title of "Paladin" is given to the top 100, an honor that every adventurer dreams of.

The ranking is based on merit, which can be roughly regarded as strength, but it is not completely consistent.

"Your parents are indeed Sky Knights, and their ranking is quite high, which means they have been on many adventures."

Li Ang handed the medal to the girl.

"This is their ranking medal, and it can be seen as a pass in many places."

Zoe blinked her clear eyes, knowing nothing about it.

“You can go to many places for free and eat for free.”

"Really?" Zoe stared at the medal. "Is the food delicious?"

"It's still okay."

The guild's catering partners all have supply quotas based on their rankings. At the high-level knight stage, meals can be eaten for free, and the quality of the food is considered good in the eyes of Leon, who is used to eating good food.

"Can I go eat?"

"It shouldn't be possible. I need to verify my identity."

Zoe looked disappointed.

"Besides, if you want to eat, you have to go to the island outside. You..."

Before Leon could finish his words, Zoe quickly shook her head and stuffed the medal back into Leon's hand.

"You don't want to leave the island?" he asked.

17. It’s hard for me to receive this straight ball.

Hearing Leon's question, Zoe trembled slightly and looked like she wanted to shake her head, but she didn't know what to do.

"I, I don't know, I haven't thought about it...but..."

She crossed her arms, her eyes a little empty, and tried to smile.

"You see, they said they would come back but they didn't. Sometimes I shout their names to the sky. I'm so angry. I want to rush to them and scold them and ask them why they didn't come back. But, I don't even know how to leave here.

"I have no idea what's going on outside."

The girl's gaze fell on "The Adventure of the Sword King" on the bookshelf.

"When I was little, I thought everything in this book was true. But even the people in my village don't like me. What about people outside? Will they hate me even more?"

"I don't even know what to do outside."

Zoe turned her head and looked at Li Ang quietly without saying anything else.

It was as if she was waiting for him to say something.

Come with me, you don’t have to worry about any of this - this sentence was hanging in Li Ang’s throat at the moment.

If he said it directly at this time, perhaps a series of things would happen smoothly - Zoe would leave the island with him, become a member of the team he formed, and get on the boat with him.

As the heroine of the world, she died unexpectedly. No matter what benefits she could bring, the possibilities she possessed fell into his hands. How to deal with her was not up to him.

Yes, that's what it looks like.

But if he did that, he would feel uncomfortable.

This has nothing to do with the problem of bringing up newbies from scratch that he had been struggling with before.

I had never formally discussed this topic with Zoe before.

Whether it is the benefits of being the protagonist in a fantasy world, or his dislike of leading a group to raise children, they are all his unfounded worries and all his subjective thoughts.

Now, having brought up this topic, I discovered that she herself had never had a concrete concept of island adventures.

The home on the edge of the village, the fields and old books here, a fairy tale narrating a hero's adventure, the daily morning exercises assigned by her father, the flowering meadow and the cabin in the woods, the longing for her parents, the imagination of other things under the blue sky... For ten years, these simple and monotonous things have been repeated over and over again, forming the girl's entire imagination of the world.

In Leon's mind, he had only read a small part of the setting for "Newbis Fantasy", and there was no opportunity for her to leave the island.

In other words, as a player, once the game starts, you can only control her "where to go and how many to kill".

But the Zoe in front of him is an independent thinker, but half of her cognitive world is still in ignorance.

Now, whether to decide for her or take risks, or to abandon her to find an ideal teammate, he couldn't do it.

Perhaps it was because before he traveled through time, he himself had experienced the kind of childhood and adolescence in which he was dragged on a train and worked non-stop without even thinking about what he wanted to be or what he wanted to work hard for, which made it so that the end of his life was in sight.

So he didn't want to impose his will on the girl.

What's more, he now wants to reorganize the team and regain control of his destiny. At this moment, it would be a bit presumptuous to make decisions for others easily.

"You don't understand the outside world, I can tell you about it."

Li Ang smiled at the girl.

Let her figure it out herself.

That way, no matter where she goes, she can stand tall on her own.

Adventures in the airspace will bring glory and honor, but also darkness and terror.

He had seen too many adventurers give up because of the difficulty of the journey, or people whose spirits were broken by things beyond their understanding.

Be mentally prepared for anything to be okay.

Zoe probably didn't have a clear idea about leaving the island, and she stammered and was speechless.

"Let's continue talking about your parents."

Leon held the high-level knight medal.

"This medal is useful for traveling. Most people wouldn't leave it with them. If they forgot it here, then they're probably carrying a higher-ranking Grand Knight's Medal."

“Not many people have become Grand Knights. Even if they fall out of the rankings, there will be clear records. Perhaps we can find them soon.”

"Oh."

Zoe pursed her lips and gave a brief answer.

Li Ang thought she would be very excited and looking forward to it.

He suddenly realized that, in fact, from the beginning, when it came to finding her parents, although she was cooperating, she did not show much interest, and was not even as concerned as the free meal she could get from the medal.

Is eight years still too long?

"I promised them to wait patiently."

Zoe put her hands behind her back and looked down at the tiptoes of her feet twirling on the floor.

"The world out there is huge, isn't it? I've read books and heard them and you say that. Traveling must take a long time, so it's no surprise you're delayed..."

"Besides, I have to work hard to find shells in the mountain streams. Even if I look for them, I may not find them.

“If I find it, I don’t know what to do…

"If they are alright, why don't they come back?"

The girl twisted a strand of slightly curly hair on her temples and twirled it around her fingertips, making it more and more tangled.

Indeed, Li Ang was not involved in the incident, so from the very beginning, he ignored the girl's perspective.

After such a long time alone, she must have all kinds of wild thoughts.

In her eyes, if she could wait for her parents to come back, no matter how long it took, it proved that they were just delayed.

But if we find them, we might discover that it’s not that they can’t come back, but that they don’t want to.

How should the girl see herself, an abandoned child?

Li Ang felt that the probability of accidents happening while taking risks outside was quite high, so they might not have abandoned her intentionally.

But considering that they originally planned to come back in six years, six years of separation from their children is a long time for parents, so he was not sure about the situation of the two.

He scratched his head, trying to think of something to say to divert the girl's attention.

“Today, I am actually very happy.”

It was Zoe who spoke first.

The curls on her temples seemed to be straightened by her. She hooked her fingertips and her eyelashes drooped slightly.

"Le Ang was the first person besides my parents to speak to me properly, and he also taught me a lot of things I didn't know.

"Just now, I watched you working in front of that furnace for a long time. It reminded me of my father, who also used to sit there and work, hammering out sparks of various colors. I didn't understand anything, but I could watch him for a whole day, and it always warmed my heart.

“Today, I had that feeling again.”

Zoe's slender hand with distinct knuckles gently touched her heart.

"But I'm not your father."

Although Li Ang had a feeling of being a parent, he didn't want to confirm this identity.