My family runs an adventurer's guild.

Coincidentally, at the same time, Princess Catherine, the Golden Dragon, far away in Europe, also had the privilege of "enjoying" the treatment of an Earth pet...

Zhang Tui: "My Years Hiring Female Slaves at the Everything Bar"

Congratulations to Mr. Li Wei, the founder of the "Valkyrie Bar" team, on acquiring another new female slave in full payment!

Mr. Li Wei's three-month venture with female slaves yielded more profit than his entire ten-year solo operation of the Yorozuya business! Initially, Mr. Li Wei couldn't even lie, couldn't defeat Shoggoths, and dared not even encounter Cthulhu. However, under the meticulous care of the female slaves, Mr. Li Wei overcame numerous difficulties, completing almost every mission, from lowly scouts to those outside the stargate, exchanging his earnings for countless amounts of hard currency from various worlds. Through his own efforts, he happily acquired new slaves in full!

Li Wei of the Yorozuya is a modern man of the new era, with a career in one hand and slaves in the other. He's enthusiastic, generous, and youthful. Buying a new slave is simply to let the women in his bar team experience the warmth of family, marriage, and kinship, and to add a new sister to their ranks!

The Immaculate Comprona, delighted to write a new work.

Combrona (Li Jiacheng) is a veteran writer from the same era as Lao Lao Wang. They initially worked together on Qidian, then moved to Chuanshu together, and now they're together on Huanleshuke. Combrona's Li Wei and Lao Lao Wang's Wang Qiu have both become their respective signature writers.

So, let me introduce his new book here. Although it feels like it's missing a prologue that describes the background, making it unclear at first what the apocalypse he's describing is all about, you can still see Cambronna's quirky sense of humor amidst the fun and chaos.

Chapter 39, Blonde Loli and Silver-haired Loli

The day after the summoning of the Heroic Spirit, in Einzbern Castle, Germany, Europe.

This is a thousand-year-old winter city surrounded by ice, snow and forests.

To live in seclusion and escape the world, the Einzbern family set up a magic circle around the castle, keeping it forever isolated from the world by endless blizzards, and the snow inside and outside the castle never melts.

Darkness, coldness, loneliness, and solitude are the eternal themes of this small world.

Only during brief lulls in the blizzard can the warm sunlight pierce through the leaden clouds and bring a touch of life to the place.

Hmm, it seems like it has a bit too much energy.

"...Whoa! Get your filthy hands off me, you brat! Give me back that book!"

"...Stay in your room all day reading isn't good for your health, little sister! It's rare that it's not snowing today, come out and play with me!"

"...No way! I'm so busy! You little brat! Give me back my book! I was almost finished reading it!"

"...Oh! How rude! What a brat! You're clearly younger than me! Call me 'sister' right now! If you do, I'll give you back your book!"

"...Are you kidding me? Do you know how many times older I am than you?"

"...So much older than me? What a braggart, little sister! If you don't call me 'big sister,' I'll squeeze you until you cry!"

Inside the library of the Einzbern family castle, two petite and adorable little girls are playfully fighting and making a ruckus.

The taller silver-haired loli, with a mischievous smile on her face, held a thick, ancient parchment book high in her left hand, while her right hand firmly pressed down on the head of another blonde loli, preventing her from snatching the book back no matter how much she struggled.

Although the blonde loli fought back with all her might, her efforts were ultimately futile, given her pitiful height—a head shorter than the silver-haired loli.

—Looking at the adorable blonde little sister struggling in vain under his clutches, Illya, the silver-haired princess of the Einzbern family and the only daughter of Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel von Einzbern, felt a kind of unprecedented pleasure deep in his heart.

For Ilya, who had lived in Eindzbern Castle since birth and never left it, her childhood was very lonely.

Although she lived a pampered and comfortable life in the castle, with her gentle mother Irisviel always by her side, and her father Kiritsugu Emiya and Aunt Hisau Maiya occasionally bringing her interesting little trinkets, she never had any playmates her own age, which always made her feel like something was missing in her life...

She also dreamed of playing happily with other children, just like the children in the storybooks!

Unfortunately, dreams are just dreams.

Every time Ilya wakes up in bed, she still has to accept the cold reality that she is the only child in the castle.

However, it seems that the gods finally answered her prayers. This morning, when Ilya woke up, she found that there was a super cute blonde little sister in the castle!

A blonde little girl who is shorter and cuter than me!

In an instant, Ilya's eyes lit up!

Haha, finally someone in the castle is younger than me! I must make her call me "big sister" and play with me!

Unfortunately, this blonde little girl doesn't seem to be easy to get along with.

Despite Ilya's eager attempts to get close to her, the blonde girl remained indifferent, instead squatting in a corner of the library, engrossed in reading several thick books.

Yes, they are all those ancient, profound books that Ilya would never be able to understand.

This made Ilya very unhappy: What's so interesting about this boring, tattered book? How can a sister be so disrespectful to her older sister?

In a fit of anger, she snatched the parchment book from the blonde girl's hand: "Let's see if you still talk to me!"

So, the blonde little girl was no longer as indifferent as before, but instead, like a cat with its fur standing on end, she started fighting with her.

However, due to her physical disadvantage, no matter how much she jumped around, she couldn't snatch the book back, and Ilya even took the opportunity to pat and rub it to her heart's content.

It has to be said that bullying little girls is a lot of fun, which makes Ilya feel very happy.

Especially seeing her glaring angrily but helplessly looking at him, it was really... so interesting!

Bullying others is so much fun! We should do more of these enjoyable things!

However, the next moment, without any warning, Ilya suddenly felt a chill from the bottom of her heart.

—The blonde girl in front of me, who looked like a petite and adorable doll, suddenly seemed to transform into an indescribable and terrifying monster!

The chilling fear and the imposing majesty, like a tsunami, instantly engulfed Ilya from head to toe!

This silent and invisible area-of-effect mental attack is one of the most impressive and cool skills of the dragon race: Dragon's Might.

While it's difficult to defeat an opponent solely with dragon might in a real battle, it can at least significantly influence the enemy's judgment and actions, preventing them from performing at their normal level...

If you encounter some vulnerable little animal, you might be able to scare it into submission just by using your dragon might.

And Ilya, this silver-haired loli, happens to be just such a vulnerable little animal.

Although she had never seen a dragon before and did not know what dragon might was, the fear that came from the depths of her soul still made Ilya kneel down in an instant, trembling like a little rabbit caught in the jaws of a wolf, and the book in her hand slipped to the ground with a "thud".

So the blonde little girl glanced indifferently at Ilya, then withdrew her dragon's might, picked up the book, and squatted back down by the window (because she was too short to jump onto the chair) to continue reading.

After a while, Kiritsugu Emiya walked into the library and saw his Saber Golden Dragon Princess Catherine, whom he had just summoned the day before, sitting in the corner reading, while his own daughter was curled up against the wall, trembling with tears streaming down her face. He was immediately taken aback.

—At this moment, thanks to his Master's authority and Princess Catherine's initiative in informing him, Kiritsugu Emiya had a rough understanding of the identity and origin of this strange Saber:

A dragon princess from another world travels to this world out of curiosity. She has no desire for the Holy Grail; she simply wants to learn about the knowledge and culture of other worlds to broaden her horizons and gain experience...

Although he didn't entirely believe the golden dragon princess's words, Kiritsugu Emiya still instructed the castle maids to take Catherine to the castle library, since it wasn't a big deal...

But what's going on with this scene right now?

What's Ilya doing here?

Then, before Kiritsugu Emiya could figure out what was going on, Illya burst into tears and threw herself into his arms.

"...Waaaaah—Daddy! That new little sister is bullying me! Not only will she not call me 'sister,' she's also scaring me!"

Illya complained with tears streaming down her face, making Kiritsugu Emiya quite embarrassed.

His daughter's subsequent cries made him feel as if everything was going to go black. "...Is she your illegitimate daughter that you had with another woman behind your mother's back?!"

"...Who taught you to say that? Oh well, that blonde girl was really too fierce. Dad will give her a good talking to."

Kiritsugu Emiya sighed, his face full of exasperation, then smiled and coaxed his daughter, whose tears were still wet on her cheeks, "...But she has very important things to do, so Illya, don't bother her. Now, come play with Daddy in the woods outside and have a contest to count the winter buds of the walnuts, okay?"

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With Kiritsugu Emiya and Illya gone, the castle library returned to its tranquility, with only the occasional rustling of pages turning.

After a while, Mrs. Irisviel also entered the library, carrying a large plate of fragrant black pepper roasted steak.

"...Your Highness Catherine, this is the breakfast we prepared for you...How are you doing with these magic books in the castle?"

She smiled and placed the plate next to Princess Catherine, the Golden Dragon. "...Did you find anything that pleased you?"

"...Not good at all! I simply cannot understand the way your magicians behave! It's one thing to inexplicably call magic 'magic,' but magicians have to maintain their mystery? They can't show spells to ordinary people? What kind of ridiculous rule is that?"

Smelling the aroma of the steak, Catherine casually tossed aside the thick "Chronicles of the Magicians' Association," turned around, and without even using cutlery, grabbed a steak and began to devour it. "...Back where we're from, only thieves' guilds and cultists would hide like this so stealthily..."

For Catherine, the golden dragon princess from a fantastical world, magic, in the eyes of her and her entire family, is either a decisive weapon on the battlefield or a pastime that makes life more convenient, but definitely not a secret that must be hidden.

On the contrary, in her world, magicians are keen to show off their novel spells in exchange for money, fame, and status.

According to the education Princess Catherine received, the strong are never afraid of the prying eyes of ants; only cowards hide and dare not show themselves.

Therefore, Catherine looked down on the so-called "keeping secrets" and "not letting mortals notice" practices of the magicians in the Type-Moon world, thinking that these were despicable things that only assassins, thieves, cultists and other contemptible people would do.

Well, they are even more despicable than those cultists who are constantly being denounced and forced to hide.

Because the ultimate goal of the vast majority of cult members is to seize power, step out of the shadows, and walk openly in broad daylight—just like the ultimate goal of any anti-government armed group on Earth is to seize power and become a legitimate government.

The magicians in the Type-Moon world, however, willingly wish to hide in the shadows forever and do their utmost to suppress anyone who tries to step out of them.

"...Alas, there's nothing we can do about it! After all, in our world, concealment is the essence of magic. The more people know about and use magic, the more its power will be dispersed and weakened."

Because the total amount of magic in the world is constant, and this total amount is not very large.

The misuse of magic will lead to the demise of the magic path.

Every magic trick uses power that has been determined in the 'root', and the more people know about it, the less of that power there is.

For example, if ten units of power are used by one person, they can create a spectacle like a volcanic eruption. But if they are divided among a thousand people, they can only ignite a small flame on a fingertip.

The more people who can use magic, the less power each person receives.

Mrs. Irisviel sighed and shrugged. "...I suppose magic in your world isn't like this?"

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—According to a certain Japanese author, Mushroom, the total amount of magic power in the Type-Moon world, or the total "blue bar" of the entire Earth, has been limited and constant from the beginning, and the amount is not very large.

While the use of magic and spells themselves does not change the total amount of magic in the world, if there are more magicians casting spells, increasing the denominator, then the amount of magic that each person can be allocated will decrease accordingly.

This not only makes it difficult to reproduce many of the miraculous magic tricks from the mythical era, but also greatly increases the difficulty for magicians to perform ordinary magic tricks. Just as track and field athletes can run like the wind on the coastal plains, but if they go to the thin air of the high plateau and mountains, they will have difficulty even breathing.

To give an analogy, it's like being in an isolated space station with only a thousand tons of recycled water. If there are only a few astronauts on board, they can use it however they want.

If there are hundreds of astronauts on board, a strict freshwater rationing system must be implemented to prevent waste.

If the number of astronauts reaches tens of thousands, even with the most thrifty water conservation efforts, it will still be insufficient. In that case, the only option would be to kill some of the astronauts to save water.

Even more critically, just as there is still loss even when recycled water is recycled with high efficiency, the total amount of magic in the Type-Moon world is also declining.

As the number of magicians increases, the "mystery" of the Type-Moon world itself is steadily declining.

Many of the great wonders created by ancient spellcasters in the mythological era have been lost in modern times, or even if they have survived, they cannot be performed due to environmental degradation.

Therefore, in order to save, or at least delay, the decline of magic in the Type-Moon world, the Clock Tower Magic Association in London has never intended to popularize or promote magic knowledge from the beginning. On the contrary, it has been extremely reluctant to let the world know about magic.

Anyone who dares to use conspicuous magic tricks and reveal them to unrelated mortals will be eliminated by assassins dispatched by the Magic Association.

Author's message

I'd like to ask for everyone's opinions. The first arc of this book is the Fourth Holy Grail War, the second is the Marvel universe, and the third is a beginner's village for the inexperienced cats in Totoro Town to practice and get a feel for adventure. My initial consideration is to set it in *Game of Thrones* or *OVERLORD*. What do you all think? Should we set the beginner's village in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, with Ainz Ooal Gown as the village chief? Or should we use King's Landing as the beginner's village, with Daenerys Targaryen as the village chief?

It could have been set in the Harry Potter universe, but the magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts Castle can't be killed casually, so there are no monsters to fight. Therefore, it was removed from the shortlist.

If you have any better suggestions for setting up the beginner village, please feel free to share them in the book review section. Thank you.

The third section includes advice, suggestions, and complaints about the Australian cat plague.

According to the current plan, the first instance of this book is the Type-Moon Fuyuki Fourth War, the second instance is Marvel, and the third instance is after the protagonist Ferry encountered some setbacks in the Marvel world. He felt that he should create a beginner village with a similar environment for his fellow cat-like players to practice in, so that they could at least learn some adventure common sense before venturing into those dangerous other worlds.

Regarding the location of the starting village, Lao Lao Wang initially wanted to write A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) and build a starting village in King's Landing, with Daenerys Targaryen as the village chief. However, he quickly discovered that, firstly, A Song of Ice and Fire didn't seem to be very popular on Books.com, and secondly, A Song of Ice and Fire lacked monsters; just fighting humans and White Walkers was too monotonous.

Later, I wanted to write "OVERLORD: The Undead Lord," but using the Great Tomb of Nazarick as the starting area felt a bit too difficult! It's like having the big boss sitting in the starting area—which could easily discourage players.

There's also "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!", which has too many gods to defeat and can't overturn the existing order. They can only use the existing adventurers' guild in Axel City, which is completely outsourced and doesn't suit the interests of Feli the cat.

Touhou Gensokyo might be passable, but making players take turns fighting those monsters would probably infuriate Yakumo Yukari.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? The battles take place entirely in fixed locations within fixed dungeons, which doesn't align with the mainstream adventure genre of the protagonist's world (fighting monsters in the wilderness). It doesn't serve as a training exercise and is instead misleading.

So now Lao Wang is getting more and more confused, so he has no choice but to ask the readers for their opinions: which world is the most suitable as the starting village for a newbie in a fantasy otherworld?

Then comes today's rant: Australia has so many ecological problems. Last century, they had a rabbit plague so severe that they had to deploy the army to control them, and embarrassingly, they even lost. Afterwards, they tried all sorts of outlandish solutions like sending planes to drop poison and building a Great Wall to keep rabbits out, but none of those worked. Finally, they barely managed to curb the explosive rabbit population by using "viral weapons" against them. And now, just a few years after the rabbit plague ended, Australia is facing a cat plague!

—Due to residents' long-term neglect of their pet cats, the number of feral cats in Australia has increased, resulting in the killing of 400 million birds annually, including many rare and endangered species. The largest dingoes can weigh up to 15 kilograms and are capable of killing and eating kangaroos, demonstrating their formidable fighting prowess.

The Australian government had no choice but to follow the example of the past human-rabbit war and wage another human-cat war. But before the battle even began, animal protection organizations were already taking to the streets, urging people to show more compassion and use gentler measures to control the stray cat population, such as spaying or neutering cats.

The problem is, Australian feral cats aren't just roaming around big cities; they're outright wilderness hunters. Where are you going to find so many veterinarians stationed in millions of square kilometers of uninhabited areas, catching cats day and night to neuter them? Have they lost all their intelligence from being so obsessed with cats?

In short, the Australian authorities are determined to eradicate cats and are already developing viral weapons for cats—that is, creating a plague specifically designed to kill cats. Although they have already used the same method on rabbits, it is still worrying that Australians might overdo it and cause a biohazard.