An invincible journey starting from a different race

From childhood to adulthood, I have never suffered such injustice!

…But then again, even after such a profound injustice, Fili didn't dare retaliate against Aesop. After all, Aesop's strength was obvious to all. While his previous move was eye-catching, it was also truly impressive. With a single attack, he eliminated the sludge monsters that had been entrenched in Scattered Explosion City for who knows how many years. Such a "feat" would make even the Lord of Scattered Explosion City feel obliged to thank him (literally, he would).

How could Fili dare to retaliate against such a person? She could only crush all the grievances and swallow them in her stomach.

And... this guy has already completed the mess commission. According to the rules, I, the poster girl, will be his tonight.

You ruined me like this, and you still want to have sex with me!

Fili sniffed and could no longer pretend to be charming. She just wanted to cry.

Forget it, think about it on the bright side. This guy is not bad looking, even a little... handsome, and he is a magician. He and she will not suffer any loss in any way.

Fili tried hard to convince herself, but then she saw Aesop weighing the purse for a few seconds, then raised his head and asked her, "Um, can the poster girl's reward be exchanged for something else?"

Uh?

Fili was slightly stunned, and then immediately became angry.

What does it mean? !

Good man, I'm trying my best to convince myself, so you still look down on me?!

This this this TMD...

Fili was even angrier, and this anger was more serious than any previous one.

But before she could question Aesop, she heard Aesop explain: "There's nothing I can do. My sense of smell is quite sensitive, although the smell in this city is too strong and I can't stand it."

"Oh, so that's how it is..." Fili nodded, thinking that it was okay, it wasn't that he looked down on me, but that he disliked my smell...

Wait, didn't you create this smell?!

After getting it out, you just pat your butt and run away, leaving us here to continue sucking it as much as you can, right?

Fili was so angry that her teeth ached. She didn't want to see Aesop anymore, so she just waved her hand and said, "It's up to you. Special rewards can indeed be redeemed, but no one has redeemed them before."

Aesop was a little curious: "Why?"

"Because no one can complete a messed up mission."

Thinking of this, Fili couldn't help but sigh.

I used to work as a mascot here, thinking the pay was good, the job was stable, and I could have fun with truly powerful people. Why not? Who knew that after all these years as a mascot, I'd never met a single adventurer capable of completing my dreadful quests? Now that I finally have one, it's a strange, explosive-shit monster who doesn't want me anymore and insists on exchanging it for other rewards.

"Generally speaking, the special rewards for completing a mess mission include the poster girl, that's me," Fili said, "or special items, weapons, and intelligence. Of course, they're all quite valuable, and you can choose whatever you want, except for the intelligence, which can only give you a general idea of the type. Once you decide, you can't go back on your word."

After listening to Fili's introduction, Aesop found it very interesting. After all, he had never encountered such a thing before, so he chose this.

Then, Fili took him and the other three people to the association's warehouse and let them visit and choose.

"Hmm... the stuff here is really good." Bruce said in a praising tone, looking at the mace in front of him, "I can feel the surge of magic from this mace. It's like a magic mace."

"Ah, this sword is not bad." Stank picked up a long sword, "It's well made."

"It should be made by a dwarf," the knowledgeable Jer explained. "Weapons made by dwarves all look like that... Anyway, what should we choose? This is a commission completed by Aesop, so it's time for Aesop to choose."

But Aesop just shook his head and said, "I don't want anything."

The moment he entered the warehouse, Aesop knew the approximate level of the weapons inside.

He had never seen such a weapon when he was in the academy, especially the staff here. It gave Aesop the feeling that it was like a battle-damaged little brother Bruce, without any vitality. Aesop did not want such a staff.

"Is there nothing you like here?" Fili was a little surprised, but not too surprised. After all, Aesop's strength was already there. Human magicians were built with money and resources, so it was normal for him to look down on the things here. "Then there's nothing we can do. We're a small place after all. If you don't need it, we can only sell you information. What kind of information do you want?"

Aesop replied, "I want information about the Dream Demon Shop."

Stank, Jair, and Bruce immediately gave Aesop a thumbs-up.

Fili felt her eyelids twitching. "You completed a mission of this level just to get information about the Dream Shop?"

Then why don't you just talk to me?! This is so confusing!

"Yeah, isn't there?" Aesop asked, "It's that kind of special dream shop, I've never seen it before."

"What's so special about the Dream Shop..." Fili sighed, "They're all pretty much the same...ah."

She suddenly thought of something and hesitated.

"Now that you mention it, I seem to have heard similar rumors, but they're just rumors. I can't guarantee their authenticity."

"Not keeping the truth?"

"It's not authentic, so it depends on whether you want it or not. I can only guarantee that I didn't make it up."

Aesop thought about it and felt that there was no loss, so he nodded.

"Then let me tell you this. Even if it's a special reward, don't feel you're at a disadvantage. You made such a big fuss today, and we're even helping you pay for the cleaning fee."

Fili muttered, as if she was afraid that Aesop would go back on his word, so she quickly told him the information.

"Adventurers are saying that there are two most extreme nightmares in the world. Everyone has only heard of their reputations, but has never seen them in person."

"One is deep in the lava, in the molten lava where even the fire dragon cannot reach it."

"One is in the snowy mountains, frozen for a thousand years. Even the Snow Maiden dares not approach."

"The two of them are collectively known as—Ice and Fire!"

Sixty-four finally found you, Junior Brother

In the end, Stank, Jair and Bruce took on a few tasks in the association and completed them, then left Scattered Explosion City.

As they left, the adventurers throughout Scattered Explosion City burst into tears, chanting Aesop's name and urging him to go somewhere better, to a larger city, and showcase his talents. This small city couldn't possibly be the perfect setting for a master like Aesop to showcase his talents. In short, they were told not to come again, as they wouldn't be able to endure it. The fragrance that permeated the city for those few days would surely be etched in the memories of many for the rest of their lives.

"After all this trouble, I only managed to get my capital back." Stank looked at the shriveled purse in his hand, then at Aesop's bulging purse, which needed to be hung around his waist, and couldn't help but sigh, "What a huge difference."

"The reward is pretty predictable." Jer's reward was about the same as Stank's, but he didn't really care because he was concerned about something else. "We originally came here for the Nightmare Shop, but we didn't even have a good experience there... Damn it, how long has it been since I had a good time with a Nightmare? I'm going to look for Guanghui when I get back to town."

"I don't really care about that." Bruce, who hadn't recovered from his battle-damaged state, was more concerned about the reward. "It can't be said that this trip was in vain, but it's definitely not profitable. After I accompany you back to town and rest for two days, I should be looking for other work again. I don't know if Gan Qiu is still here. Oh, by the way, before I leave, I will help Aesop choose a nightmare that suits him, I mean from the perspective of smell."

Aesop was a little curious. He asked, "Don't you care about that information?"

"Intelligence? What intelligence?" Stank didn't react at first.

"Are you talking about that Ice and Fire scene?" Bruce scratched his head. "The poster girl didn't even give the location, just some weird rumor. It's hardly intelligence."

"Yeah, I've lived for so many years, and I've heard a lot of nightmare stories," Jer said. "I've also verified quite a few... well, half true, half false. Even if they're true, they're pretty disappointing."

Aesop was puzzled: "Why?"

"Think about it, for men, an outstanding incubus is as dazzling as the bright moon," Jer explained. "But is the bright moon a legend? It's something you can actually see and touch... well, you can't touch it, but it's something you can see anyway. In this line of work, good wine needs no bush. If someone is truly talented, given the drive men have in that area, they'll definitely flock to her."

"You mean, if it's just a legend, it doesn't mean it's that real, or at least not as beautiful as the legend says?" Aesop pondered.

"That's about it." Jel spread his hands. "I've looked for those legendary beauties and incubi before, but when I met them, I found out they were just ordinary old ladies with fading magic power. Just one look at them would turn you into Ganqiu. It's quite disappointing, isn't it?"

At a glance it becomes Ganqiu, which is really disappointing.

At this moment, Bruce seemed to recall something and said, "Ice and fire, ice and fire... I've never heard of ice, and I don't know where it is, but I seem to have some impression of fire."

Everyone turned to look at him.

"Do you know there's a hot spring pool in the Loz Mountains?" Bruce said, "The biggest one."

The Loz Mountains are a volcanic mountain range, home to a fire-familiar race including fire dragons and fire lizards.

Stank recalled for a moment, then nodded. "It seems there really is such a hot spring pool. Do you remember, Jer, when we went to the mountains to purchase volcanic rocks, we were thinking about going in and soaking in the hot springs?"

"Yeah, there really is such a place," Jer recalled. "That hot spring seems to have a history of hundreds of years. It was already there when I first went there. But I haven't been in all these years... Don't ask why. Who would go to a hot spring in a volcano? Do they really have to boil themselves to death?"

"I haven't been in there either, but I've heard from people inside," Bruce said. "The pool is huge. It leads directly from the outside of the mountain to the interior of the volcano, which means there's magma deep inside."

"so what?"

"And there's a nightmare lady at the very back."

"……What?"

The three of them were stunned.

"It's not a nightmare, is it? Anyway, they say there's a woman in the innermost part," Bruce said. "That woman has been staying in the innermost layer of the hot spring pool, right at the core of the volcano, for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years. They say seven hundred years ago, a fire lizard sought out a powerful auxiliary magician, maxed out its fire resistance, and wanted to go in and see what was inside. But it couldn't get to the very end. It's still several hundred meters away, but at least it managed to see something."

"So what did he see?"

"Salamander, adding fire resistance? How is that possible?"

Stank and Jer asked different questions, but after exchanging glances, they agreed on the question.

"What did he see?"

"When he came back, all he said was... 'What a beautiful woman,'" Bruce said. "Then he died... Or rather, he was already dead, and only managed to come back through sheer passion and willpower."

Stank and Jer were immediately in awe.

"What a hero."

"How can we not respect such a senior?"

As he spoke, he made a gesture of taking off his hat, but without a hat, he could only take it off in vain.

"So when are we going to verify it?" He started to get excited after paying his respects. "There's actually such a legend! I've lived all these years and didn't even know about it. What else is there to say? When are we going?!"

……

Half a day after they left, explosions spread out around the city.

A witch wearing a dark blue dress, with a pretty face and a sexy figure, looked at the Scattered Explosion City in the distance, which was filled with residual magical fluctuations. The corners of her mouth raised slightly, and a smile appeared in her deep green eyes.

"I finally found your clue." Demia pressed his wizard hat and said with a chuckle, "My little apprentice brother."

Sixty-five and you’re still a virgin?!

Although the four of them couldn't wait to go to the volcano to see the legend, and even wanted to turn around and set off right away, they were ultimately rejected by the calm Jair.

"It's not the time yet," said Jer.

"Hey, hey, hey, Jer, why are you saying such a depressing thing?" Stank rolled up the sleeve of his left wrist and showed off his muscles. "Have you forgotten our motto? We can't just sit there and wait for death when things happen!"

"...I don't recall such a motto." Jel sighed and said, "I understand your feelings, but that's not just any other nightmare shop where you can just make a decision and go straight there. If it were that simple, how could no one have seen the legendary figure in all these years? Don't forget the actions of those old perverts. If it were that simple, it wouldn't be a legend. They'd clearly tell you everything from your measurements, weight, race, and gender."

Bruce nodded, agreeing with Jel. "Indeed, Stank, have you forgotten what I said before? That Salamander from seven hundred years ago, even with all the fire resistance, was still cooked. Salamanders are second only to fire dragons in fire resistance. Even he can't get in, let alone the rest of us. Going in would only mean death. Looking for the Nightmare is just for fun. If it really costs me my life, I might as well find someone else."

"Hey, hey, hey, how can you retreat here?" Stank said somewhat dissatisfiedly, "How can you call yourself an adventurer like this? The cave of truth is beckoning us. No matter how dangerous it is, I will stick my head in to find out."

"We definitely have to explore," Jer said, "but we have to be fully prepared before we do so. Don't forget, we have an ace in our hand, it's time to play it."

"Ace? What's that..." Stank was still a little puzzled, but suddenly realized something in the middle of his words, "You mean Kolim?"

"Yes, but Klim's fire resistance is maxed out," Jer said, folding his hands. "How could I forget about him when such a good thing happened?"

There is one thing to say, indeed.

After the foursome had their target in mind, they immediately rode back to Nightmare Town at full speed. The journey would have taken at least a full day, but they made it back in less than half a day.

When they were about to enter the Dream Demon Town, a sharp-eyed Dream Demon saw the group of four...mainly Aesop, and his face changed immediately.

"Oh my god! That evil star is back!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, go out and get some customers before he makes trouble, or we'll be left alone again!"

The nightmares, whose working hours had not yet arrived, immediately took action. When the four-person team entered the nightmare town, they found that it was not yet night time, but the town had already entered the night mode in advance, which made them sigh.

The nightmares in the nightmare town are really dedicated and ambitious.

Look at the family in Scatter Explosion City. Do they have the nerve to call themselves nightmares?

Ha, tui!

They immediately felt a sense of belonging, their long spears, long unused, stirring with activity. They thought about returning to the food and wine pavilion to store their belongings before heading out for some fun. Although they hadn't made much money on this trip to Scattered Explosion City, that was only relative to their current status. Compared to ordinary adventurers, it was still enough, at least enough to sharpen their spears a few times.

But when they arrived at the food and wine pavilion, they did not rush in immediately. Instead, they stopped in unison, their expressions gradually becoming dull.

The food and wine kiosk is no longer the same food and wine kiosk as before.

Well, this description doesn't seem right. It's mainly because the scene before them was too exaggerated, and their brains couldn't process it immediately.

Only three-quarters of the original pavilion remained, and the remaining quarter had been blasted open on the second floor, creating a massive gap, much like the gap created when milk spurts out of a plastic cup after being violently hammered.

"What's going on?" The Stank people were a little confused.

"Uh, that place seems to be Aesop's room." Jer said, looking at the approximate location.

At this time, Medori, who was sweeping the floor at the door, heard the voices of several people. She subconsciously raised her head, and when she found out that it was indeed them, she immediately got furious.