I'm tied to Athena.

Hill stroked the children's heads gently. Although they were young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, the way she knelt on her knees and looked at the children with doting eyes made people think of their mother.

The soft silver-gray hair slid down her neck, "Do you want me to help Li Yunjun sleep too?"

Perhaps Hill noticed Li Yun's gaze, and spoke to him with a devilish smile.

"No need." Shaking his head, Li Yun leaned aside and watched Hill take care of the child... Suddenly, he had a warm feeling.

"Mr. Li Yun, Hill, you two must be tired, right? Leave the rest to me, you guys take a rest." The door opened quietly, and Ms. Maria walked in.

After exchanging a glance, Xi'er and Li Yun handed the children over to her care. "Thank you for playing with them." Before leaving, she bowed her head to thank them, and they smiled back and left the room.

"Mr. Li Yun, would you like to go for a walk?" In response to Hill's invitation, Li Yun nodded in agreement.

"But... Hill, how do you know this place?" Li Yun asked softly while walking on Daedalus Street.

PS: There’s more to come (laughs)

PS: Sister Zi is the best in the world, I will always love Sister Zi (laughs)

Chapter 89: Aren’t these chapters just daily? Why did the style change?

Looking up, there was a clear blue sky. On the narrow and quiet road, there was no one except Li Yun and Xi'er.

The two walked on the quiet road of ruins, overlooked by the towering and crooked residential complex.

"Actually... I also grew up in a slum. I don't have parents... Maybe that's why I always miss those orphans."

Li Yun was frightened by Hill's words. He turned his head to look at Hill, while the girl looked ahead with a smile in her eyes.

"I came here... because I knew about the children's situation." She wanted to do something for the children and wanted them to grow up healthily. After learning about the situation, she deliberately came here to communicate with them.

"However, I didn't want Li Yunjun to know this." Xi'er walked quickly to Li Yun, turned to face him, and put his hands behind his back. "Today's me... is different from usual."

"You are cuter today than usual."

"Hmm... Li Yunjun is just a smooth talker." Her little face was slightly red. Although she pretended to be dissatisfied, the crescent shape in her face revealed her owner's mood.

"Although it's embarrassing to say this, but Li Yunjun, it's great that you can come here with me today."

Thank you for giving me an unforgettable memory.

Under the blue sky, the gentle girl carved the name of someone she would never forget in her life.

"Yeah, me too." The boy smiled back.

Maybe he didn't notice his thoughts; maybe he didn't have any thoughts in that regard, but it doesn't matter, as long as he remembers it, isn't it fine?

At dusk, Li Yun and Hill returned to the church. Ms. Maria and the children warmly invited him to have dinner there. Li Yun could not refuse and had to ask them to prepare dinner in advance and then go back early.

By the way, I didn’t tell Athena that I would go out with Hill today...I think that goddess won’t be angry, right?

According to Li Yun's understanding of her, she didn't care about these things. She never asked who she went out with or where she went. Basically, she didn't know anything unless he told her.

This time should be the same.

But...what's going on with this inexplicable feeling of chills?

When Li Yun was wondering if someone was plotting against him and preparing to harm him, someone pulled the corner of his clothes.

"Lei? And Xiaolu and Fina." Li Yun turned around and saw three children standing behind him.

Fina is a child of the dog-man tribe. She was very wary of people at first, but after Li Yun touched her head, she became very close to Li Yun.

Xiaolu is a half-elf, and he inherited the blood of an elf. He looks...very good-looking? Because he is so good-looking, it is difficult to tell whether he is a boy or a girl. At least when Li Yun first saw him, he subconsciously thought he was a girl.

In conclusion, this is a cute boy.

"What's wrong?" He bent down and looked at the three children. The three children looked at each other and handed over the things in their hands. "Um... please accept our commission!"

"This is... our private savings. Sorry, it's just this little... But I hope you can accept our commission..."

I took the thing from Xiaolu's hand and saw that it was three small gold coins - three faris.

The sun gradually set, and the sky was dyed with sunset colors. Under the sunset sky, Li Yun, Lai Yi and the other two walked on the road outside.

"Is this right here?"

"Yeah, it's around here."

Because of the children's request, Li Yun came to the ruins in the back street of the church.

The commission was to investigate a mysterious sound coming from somewhere.

The children told me that they heard a groaning sound nearby. At first they thought it was a dog or something, but after looking around, they found nothing.

Fina and Lei said that they have been walking this road every night to test their courage, and they hear the strange sound every night.

Later on, every time I passed by, I would hear this creepy roar.

Indeed, just as the children said, there was no special smell. All I could see was rubble and wood, and there was no other smell except them....

“.....Woo woo…” I heard a humming sound coming from somewhere.

The sound was so loud that the three children also heard it. They quickly hid behind Li Yun and looked around in fear.

The earth's favor unfolded, and the terrain here was grasped by Li Yun in an instant, and he also saw at once... the passage under the ground!

"Is there an underground passage here?" He narrowed his eyes subconsciously. He had already guessed what was going to happen.

"Lei, can you guys go back first?" He realized now that this was Daedalus Street, the street where monsters appeared during the Monster Festival.

There might be some danger down there.

Although I am confident that I can protect these three children, how can I take them to a dangerous place, right?

"Eh..." The children made dissatisfied sounds, they also wanted to go down and take a look.

"Hill, I'll leave the children to you. I'll go check out the situation." Ignoring the children's pleas, Li Yun looked at Hill who came over.

"Leave it to me, Mr. Li Yun." Although he didn't know what Li Yun had discovered, since the other party said so, Hill naturally would not refuse.

"Okay, Lei, don't cause trouble for Brother Liyun." Saying this, Hill took all the children back.

After the children and Hill left, Li Yun walked to the middle of the ruins, dug up the wood and stone piles, and then... opened the stone door that was attached to the ground.

As the dark night gradually approached, Li Yun grasped the pitch-black sickle and stepped into the darkness that dominated the underground passage.

After entering, Li Yun walked towards the direction where the sound came from. Through his skills, he knew that there was a monster in front.

It is a monster that I encountered during an expedition.

“Wuwu….wuwu….wuwuwu….”

After walking for a while, Li Yun stepped into a dark and open space. It was a room that looked like a cave in an underground city. In the depths of the room, the roar of a wild beast continued to be heard.

Through eyes that could see through the darkness, Li Yun saw the owner of the sound that sounded like both a painful wail and an angry roar.

It was a monster with two twisted horns, black skin, red hair, and a huge body. It seemed to react to Li Yun's sight, and then, the monster kneeling on the ground stood up!

"Injured?" Ignoring the courage the monster showed when it stood up, Li Yun's attention was on the bleeding scars on the monster's body.

Why is there a monster here, why is this monster injured...

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Chapter 90: The Girl's Little Thoughts

Before Li Yun could think clearly, the monster's terrifying roar came directly.

“Oh oh oh oh oh!!!” A roar that made people’s skin numbed was heard, and at the same time, the horrible monster rushed over with the roar!

"Stop making so much noise (Yakamasi)! Shut up!" The pitch-black pupils instantly turned into snake-like vertical pupils. Li Yun raised his sickle and chopped down. The barbarian warrior who could only be found around the 37th floor had his arms and legs chopped off by it!

The barbarian warrior fell to the ground with a heavy sound, and died without even a final wail.

"Although it was just a little bit...but this guy...reacted to my attack." Picking up the magic stone on the ground, his pupils returned to their original shape, "It's like he has fought with adventurers."

"So, this monster escaped from the adventurers?"

"And this underground passage was built by humans." With his palm against the wall, Li Yun had a new guess in his mind.

There are only two ways to go in this underground passage, the stairs down here, and the blocked passage deep inside. However, how did this monster get in? And why was it injured?

This question lingered in his mind.

There were only nine monsters that escaped from the Monster Festival, and they have all been dealt with, so it is impossible that they were left over from the Monster Festival.

Li Yun felt that the biggest possibility was...the dark faction.

After all, in front of the blocked passage, there was a passage that was sealed tightly with stone slabs.

Walking to the passage covered by stone slabs, Li Yun smashed the stone slabs with his sickle, revealing the passage behind. This passage was very wide, so large that even the long body of the Piranha Plant could enter and exit freely.

"There was clearly no trace of it before...but this time I found it right away." Whether it was accidental or inevitable, Li Yun smiled, "My luck is really good."

As adventurers level up, they can learn additional abilities.

Developmental abilities are abilities that can be learned in addition to basic abilities. This type of ability is different from basic abilities in nature and can further develop and strengthen special or professional abilities.

Whether or not one can learn to develop abilities depends on the experience accumulated so far. As for what kind of abilities will be developed, it depends on what actions the person who has received God's grace has taken.

If you don't gain enough experience points, you may not be able to learn any abilities even if you level up. But if you gain a moderate amount of experience points, you may be able to choose from a variety of abilities.

You can only gain one development ability each time you upgrade. As for which one you want to learn, it is up to you.

Li Yun's development skill is luck, although he doesn't know why there is this option of luck, and he has never done anything lucky... If the goddess' forgiveness and care are luck, that was before he became a member of Athena's family, and it cannot be considered experience points.

But, since this option is available, I must choose this one. This kind of ability that cannot be seen or touched, but you can tell it is great just by listening to it, must be chosen.

Following the stairs down continuously, Li Yun walked into another staircase. After many twists and turns, he finally arrived at...

"A metal...door?" Li Yun squinted at the door in front of him and tightened the sickle in his hand.

This is a huge metal door that is more than three meters high. It looks like new with a silver luster and the brilliance of a red gem.

Without any warning, a dark sickle flashed a ray of light in the darkness, and then a metallic sound rang out from the passage.

"This door... is so big and yet so hard!?" His arms were shaking. After the black sickle collided with the door, Li Yun's arms began to tremble.

The sickle condensed by the power of the Gorgon Stone is the most advanced weapon in the underworld. At least for now, Li Yun has not seen anything that can resist this sickle...

Wait...the image of a girl with blonde hair and golden eyes appeared in my mind.

"Sword of Despair!" The young man's low voice slowly drifted away in the darkness.

The only thing that can compete with the sickle is the Sword of Despair in the hands of the Sword Princess. The sword sacrifices its sharpness in exchange for an absolutely indestructible attribute... Only by relying on this attribute can the Sword of Despair fight against the pitch-black sickle.

The necessary material for creating an indestructible metal is mountain copper, which is the hardest metal discovered so far.

Its strength far exceeds that of the super-hard metal mined in the dungeon, and it is undoubtedly the highest grade metal in the world.

If I’m not mistaken, this gate is made entirely of mountain copper!

"If it's all made of mountain copper... then this place will be ruined and we won't be able to get in." This door made of mountain copper, the hardest metal, cannot be destroyed by anyone. Li Yun might be able to tear it open if he tried his best, but he didn't know what Daedalus Street would become.

"....." After standing there in silence for a while, Li Yun sighed, turned around and left.

Although he has discovered the enemy's base, it is obviously not the time to go in yet... No, it should be said that he has no way to go in yet.

Fortunately, the enemy didn't seem to notice that he had found his way here.

In other words, he has already stood in a position that is advantageous to him.

When leaving the underground passage, Li Yun completely erased all traces of his presence.

After finishing everything, he returned to the orphanage. "There is a monster down there, and I have killed it." He used this excuse to explain to the children, and the children naturally believed it, and they all regretted not following Li Yun down.

Only Hill knew that Li Yun was deliberately hiding something.

But Hill smiled and didn't ask him what happened.

After dinner, Hill and Li Yun left the orphanage. They talked and laughed along the way, and before they knew it, they returned to West Street.

After sending Hill back to the bountiful hostess, Li Yun walked towards home.

"Everyone, I'm back."

"Meow? Hill is back." Anya ran out and looked at the smile on the girl's face with a gossipy expression on her face: "What happened between you and Mr. Liyun, meow?"

"what?"

"Meow! A face like a girl in love, meow. Something happened between you and Mr. Liyun, right?"

The cat girl approached step by step, wagging her thin tail, as if to say, "Don't even think about escaping my, Anya's, eyes."