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A farewell gift to witness friendship.

Aesop didn't know what to give Stank, so he looked around and found Stank's sword.

Otherwise, let's enchant Stank's sword, which can be regarded as a testimony of friendship.

Thinking of this, Aesop pulled out Stank's sword, but because of the large movement, Stank woke up.

Then the two looked at each other.

So when Stank just opened his eyes, he saw Aesop holding up his sharp sword and speaking to him seriously.

"Goodbye, Stank."

Who is 280 Abel? I've never heard of him!

"You f**king scared the hell out of me, asshole!"

A few minutes later, Stank, who had recovered, was still holding his chest, looking frightened.

Not only Stank, but Jer and Ganqiu had also woken up, but Stank was woken up by Aesop, while Jer and Ganqiu were woken up by Stank.

"What are you yelling about in broad daylight?" Gan Qiu said angrily. "It's louder than those nightmare demons."

"Do you think I want to scream like that?!" Stank glared at Ganqiu. "Do you know how horrible it was for me to wake up and find that bastard Aesop holding my sword and saying 'Goodbye Stank' to me? Can you understand, huh? If you can't understand, then don't make sarcastic remarks, bastard!"

Jer turned to look at Aesop, thoughtfully: "So, do you want to kill Stank, or do you want to kill Stank's little brother?"

Aesop asked, "Does it make any difference?"

"Of course." Jer said with a smile, "One is to kill Stank, the other is to make him suffer a fate worse than death. Of course, you may not even need to actually strike with the sword. Just scaring Stank awake like this might cripple Stank's little brother."

"Stop making sarcastic remarks, okay?" Stank said. "Besides, how could I be so fragile? My brother is as strong as iron, indestructible, okay?"

"Why don't you try it with a sword?"

"Why don't you give yourself a sword!"

After several jokes, Stank's nervousness eased a little, and he also wanted to figure out what Aesop wanted to do. After all, killing Stank or castrating Stank was just a joke, and everyone believed that Aesop would not really do that.

……Maybe?

"So what do you want to do?" Stank turned his gaze to Aesop.

Aesop answered honestly, "Actually, I wanted to give you a gift, but I didn't know what to give you, so I thought of enchanting your sword."

Stank: "..."

What kind of weird train of thought is this?

But Jer quickly grasped the point and asked, "Why are you suddenly giving Stank a gift?"

"Yeah, why did you only give me Stank?" Gan Qiu crossed his arms, also very dissatisfied, "Why can't you enchant my sword? I obviously need it more than Stank, okay? You abandoned me in the snowfield before, and those penguin girls destroyed my sword every day..."

"Ahem, Ganqiu, we're not talking about a sword. And can that thing of yours really be called a sword? I think it's more appropriate to describe it as a knife or a dagger."

"Asshole! Stank! Who are you looking down on? Stop talking nonsense and draw your swords! As men, let's determine who's better with swordsmanship!"

Originally, Stank didn't care about Gan Qiu's provocation, but after his close contact with Bruce in the snowy field and their passionate sword fight, Stank had developed a huge psychological trauma from the saying that men should be judged by their swordsmanship. He immediately roared at Gan Qiu, "Can you please stop being so filthy!"

"How am I dirty? Aren't you a swordsman yourself? Are you afraid of fighting?"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Aesop added slowly: "I'm leaving."

"If you want to leave, just go ahead. Just leave and wait for me to get rid of this little dagger first!"

"Haha, Stank, don't you know what concentration is the essence? Aesop, don't leave yet, watch me give Stank this guy... hm?"

As they were talking, both of them felt that something was not right, and then they realized something belatedly.

With Aesop's independent personality, he can go wherever he wants and doesn't need to report to them at all.

In fact, he wasn't the only one; most adventurers were like this. Even when walking side by side on the same street, someone would suddenly stop making any noise, and when they turned around, they would find that they were gone. But no one was worried at all, because in all likelihood, they had been abducted into the lair of a nightmare.

Of course, there is also a one in ten chance that he died.

But Aesop's "I'm leaving" made several people smell something different.

They weren't fools. Considering Aesop's previous intention to give Stank a gift, they seemed to have guessed something: "You're talking about leaving. Isn't that the leaving we understand?"

Aesop nodded and replied, "Yes, I am leaving Dream Town, and I don't know how long I will be back."

The three of them were a little stunned. They didn't expect that Aesop was actually going to leave.

They stared at each other for a while before coming to their senses.

"Wait, why are you leaving so suddenly? This is too sudden."

"You can't stand Stank either, so you're finally leaving?"

"Asshole! Stop joking around at a time like this."

"Is it possible that I'm not kidding?"

"What the hell..."

If the news of Aesop's departure had not been so sudden, Ganqiu and Stank would have definitely dueled again.

"What the hell is going on?" Jer held Ganqiu's head with one hand and Stank's head with the other, making them calm down for a while. "This is too sudden."

Aesop thought about it and felt that since everyone had already discovered it, there was no need to hide it, so he answered honestly: "My teacher may come to find me."

"Your teacher?" Stank frowned slightly. "Why did he come to see you?"

Aesop said, "They should take me back to the academy. I sneaked out at the beginning. My teacher doesn't want to see me outside. He just wants me to stay in the academy."

Hearing this, Stank slammed his hand on the table and said, "This is outrageous! What era is this? There are still such old-fashioned old men?"

"Yeah, you're already that old!" Gan Qiuqiu pointed at Aesop and said, "You still need the teacher's supervision? How can you say that to others? Even after finally getting out, he still takes you back? That doesn't make sense."

"Yes, Aesop." Stank crossed his arms and nodded repeatedly. "If that's the case, then don't worry. We will never let your teacher take you away. Really, such a feudal and conservative old man should have been washed to death on the beach by the tide long ago. What's your teacher's name? Tell me, and I'll go find him right away."

Aesop said, "His name is Abel."

"Abel? What a name! I've never heard of it." Stank was very dissatisfied and pretended to be fair to Aesop. "Where is he? I can go find him right now."

But before Stank could make any move, Jer stopped him.

"What are you doing?"

Stank turned to look at Jer, and was surprised to find that Jer's expression had become slightly... strange.

"Wait a minute, Stank." Jer swallowed the saliva stuck in his throat, then looked at Aesop and asked, "The Abel you are talking about, isn't it... the Abel I know?"

Aesop nodded again.

"What Abel? Which Abel?" Stanker said, "Is he a famous person? No matter how famous he is, he can't be unreasonable."

"Yeah." Gan Qiu agreed, "If it weren't for the fact that he's Aesop's teacher, I don't know how many guys like him I would have to deal with every year."

"Can you deal with the arcanist?" Jel glanced at Ganqiu.

"Arcanist? Are you kidding?" Gan Qiu smiled disdainfully. "I don't care what kind of Arcanist he is... Arcanist... Ouch?"

Halfway through his howl, Gan Qiu suddenly remembered something, his expression changed slightly, and then he stared at Jer in a daze.

"Oh what?"

Jel repeated, "Arcanist."

Then, without waiting for Ganqiu's response, Jel turned to look at Stank and said, "You are a human, but you don't know Abel or the Arcanist?"

Seeing that Jer was so serious, Stank frowned slightly, and then began to think about this name and title.

So, the more he thought about it, the paler his face became.

"Your mother." Finally, he stared at Aesop blankly, "Your teacher is that guy?! The strongest man in the world, the only arcanist at the moment—Abel?!"

Aesop nodded again, confirming it again.

Now, everyone couldn't sit still.

Arcanist, Abel.

This is a name that all humans, and even all alien adventurers, should know. He is one of the strongest in this land.

However, due to the post-war treaty, he could not leave the Kingdom of Deya at will, so for most adventurers, he was just a name. This is why Stank and Ganqiu did not remember who he was at the first time.

But when I think about it, all I feel is a chill.

"You're actually Ebel's student?!" Stank's mouth twitched. "So, you ran away from Deya College?"

Aesop nodded.

The expressions of several people suddenly became complicated. Although they had long guessed that Aesop's origins would not be simple, after all, he was so young, yet so powerful, how could he be a simple person?

But this is not simple... it's too simple.

It's not so simple that they are all afraid.

But thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that Aesop has been able to accomplish all those things in the past year.

Aesop asked, "Do you still want to help me stop the teacher?"

Stank and Ganqiu's expressions suddenly became unnatural.

"Haha, that's not necessary. Since you've been skipping school, you've had enough fun for a year. Go back and study hard."

"Yeah, study hard, make progress every day, and don't let your teacher down. He's quite old, and it wouldn't be a good idea for us to get physical with him, don't you think, Jer?"

Jer didn't respond to Stank and Ganqiu, whose expressions changed very quickly. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Aesop seriously and asked.

"Can I know what you think?"

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"So, you just don't plan to go back and decided to run away, so you said goodbye to us. You don't want to implicate us?" Jer summarized Aesop's words.

Aesop nodded, and then said seriously, "My teacher once told me that my journey should be to the sea of stars. I think it makes sense, and I have always regarded this as my motto. I haven't even reached the other side of the sea of stars yet, so how can I give up halfway?"

After hearing Aesop's words, Gan Qiu's mouth twitched violently. "Is it my illusion? I always feel that what you pursue is not the same as what you say. Is the water in your starry sea yellow?"

"It can be yellow."

Gan Qiu: “…”

Stank didn't dwell on how Aesop described his actions. Anyway, this guy always thought so. In a sense, Aesop was indeed a very pure person. His mind was filled with pure yellow, and it seemed that nothing could stop him from pursuing people's hearts.

But now, someone who can stop him has finally appeared.

Stank spread his hands and said, "There's really no other way. Since your teacher has come looking for you, you either surrender or run away. If you don't want to go back to the academy, then run away quickly. Well, we have to part ways. To be honest, you're quite interesting, and I really don't want to leave you, but since things have come to this, there's nothing we can do..."

"No, it hasn't come to this." Jer interrupted Stank, then turned to look at him and said, "He should indeed run away, but that doesn't mean he has to separate from us... We can run with him."

Stank was stunned for a moment, then realized that Jair wasn't joking. He couldn't help but drop his mouth and said, "Are you crazy? We're going to run away with Aesop? To avoid being captured by the most powerful guy in the world?!"

"No, it's not that serious. Aesop's teacher can't leave the Kingdom of Deya, which means he can't come to capture Aesop in person," Jel said. "That means we don't need to face the arcanist directly. While the arcanist does have many ways to project his power, it's not him in person. This means that even if he is discovered, we still have room for negotiation."

"Uh..." Stank felt that what Jair said made some sense, but it also didn't seem to make much sense. "Even if you say that, do we really have the ability to mediate in front of the Arcanist? He's an Arcanist."

"Yeah." Excitement gradually appeared on Jer's young face. "But this is what makes it interesting, isn't it?"

After hearing what Jer said, Stank finally understood what Jer wanted to do.

The guy's desire for excitement and adventure was ignited again.

As mentioned many times before, most immortals cherish their lives very much. So, in order to live longer in old age, they really try to do as little as possible and stay as still as possible. But Jer is the complete opposite. He despises those who live like turtles, or even worse than turtles.

His heart is longing for excitement and adventure, and he has been doing so for many years.

The teammates who accompanied him on adventures changed one after another. For example, this food and wine stall was originally opened by Jer's teammates. Now his teammates have died for decades, and the store has been handed over to his daughter Zita, but Jer is still the same as he was back then, constantly craving adventures, more exciting adventures.

In a sense, Stank was brought into this industry by Jer. Before meeting Jer, Stank was just a young man.

It was Jer who trained him to become the Wild Cowboy who roams the continent today.

And this time being "hunted down" by the arcanist was nothing more than another adventure in Jel's eyes.

Stank, understanding Jer's intention, couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "You really are... not afraid of death."

"Don't you think this is exciting?" Jer said, "The chance to face the Arcanist directly. This is something that so many people want to do but can't."

"...Honestly, I don't think many people want to face the Arcanist head-on." Stank turned to look at Aesop and said, "Besides, Aesop just said that after his magic power has reached a higher level, he no longer dares to use magic recklessly, otherwise his teacher will keep an eye on him. And Aesop is the strongest among us. If he can't take action himself, it will be very dangerous for the two of us alone."

Jer raised an eyebrow. "So, you don't want to come?"