Chapter 450 - 231: Miselux - Atlantis City (2)
Lu Luwei was standing at the entrance to the bathroom, stark naked.
"Lu Cang, you absolutely did this on purpose."
Lu Cang had appeared at the exact moment she stepped out of the bathroom.
But Lu Cang’s face didn’t flush in the slightest. He spoke in a placid tone, "Lu Luwei, Destiny has an element of chance."
"Sometimes, things that seem outrageous are merely a coincidence."
Lu Luwei took a deep breath and finally sat down on the bed with an air of resignation. "Now that even Kumironi is gone, there’s nothing I can do about you."
"So, what do you need me to do this time?"
"Lu Luwei, are you sure you don’t want to get dressed first?"
Lu Luwei’s face instantly flushed crimson, but as if in a fit of pique, she huffed, "You’ve already seen everything anyway! Since you’re so eager to look, then I’ll let you look your fill!"
"Besides, if I put clothes on, you’d probably just rip them off me by force!"
Lu Cang asked, "Lu Luwei, is your image of me really that perverted...?"
Lu Luwei turned her head away. "Hmph. Pretty much."
"Now that they’re not here, you can do whatever you want."
’Why does it feel like you’re the one who wants me to do whatever I want...?’
Unfazed, Lu Cang looked at Lu Luwei without a trace of shyness and said, "I’ve familiarized myself with the surrounding area. There’s a vast continent to the west, and I plan on checking it out."
"You should come with me, Lu Luwei."
’This guy... he’s really not shy at all. He has no intention of dispelling the awkwardness; he’s just chatting with me like nothing’s wrong.’
’Shouldn’t he be embarrassed? Shouldn’t he run away blushing like a normal kid?!’
After her initial flare-up, it was Lu Luwei who began to feel utterly uncomfortable.
"Leaving Lorren so soon?" she responded, her tone stiff.
"Yes. I need to get familiar with the environment in the Moon Sea."
Lu Luwei’s face twitched. Lu Cang’s conversation flowed without the slightest awkwardness, as if this were just a normal, everyday chat.
"Oh! Right... Getting familiar with the environment is important."
"It is a new sea, after all... All right, I’ll go with you."
"Ahem, I feel like I’m not quite clean yet... I’m going to go wash for a bit longer." Lu Luwei was finally starting to panic, her fair, flushed thighs rubbing together restlessly.
"I’ll find you in a little while!"
With that, she dove back into the bathroom, slamming the door shut with a BANG!
But she used too much force, blasting the entire door off its hinges!
As a result, the doorway to the bathroom was left wide open.
Lu Cang stared at the door lying on the floor.
’Did I take the teasing a bit too far?’
"Er... Lu Luwei, I’ll go invite Xiaoleng first."
...
[Moon Sea—Miselux]
"Step right up, take a look! White Scale Chest Armor, 5 gold coins apiece, quality guaranteed!"
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"Mystery Potion boxes, clearance sale! 50 silver coins a bottle!"
Lu Cang walked the streets of Yalante City in the guise of an ordinary child.
An ordinary child was the perfect disguise, the least likely to arouse suspicion.
Through Lu Luwei’s Perception, she could tell the city was immense—a single, sprawling metropolis with a radius of over ten thousand kilometers.
The streets were incredibly lively, filled with the cries of vendors and bustling with pedestrians hurrying to and fro.
On this street alone, there were several hundred thousand people.
The crowd was a surging tide.
Though it was a human city, numerous Beastmen could also be seen.
After all, Miselux was a continent primarily inhabited by Beastmen.
Kernoya in Lorren was already massive.
A single city there was far larger than an entire province in China.
But compared to this city, Kernoya seemed like a tiny, unopened flower bud.
The area of this single city was already comparable to the entire surface of Earth.
Yuna stood on the street in a daze, clutching a book. She seemed to be thinking so hard that a few strands of her hair were sticking straight up.
The normally clever little girl looked completely dumbstruck.
’What a huge city...’
’I’ve read about it in books, but seeing it with my own eyes is a completely different experience.’
’And this... is the perspective of an Observer?’
’Such a vast Perception Range!’
’It’s so magnificent!’
Yuna couldn’t fly, her Perception Range was small, and her life had basically been a straight line between two points: the White Tower and Lu Cang’s home.
This was her first time outside of Kernoya!
The world was so much bigger than she had ever imagined.
Yuna suddenly understood what Lu Cang meant when he said that knowledge must be combined with practice.
Yuna wasn’t the only one in shock.
Even Leng Qingying was astonished by Yalante City.
Lu Cang looked at their expressions and couldn’t help but shake his head.
’Are they what you’d call country bumpkins in the big city?’
’It seems the Lorren Continent is nothing special compared to the true metropolises of this world.’
’I wonder if I’ll eventually find a city larger than an entire continent?’
’What kinds of people and events would a place like that hold...?’
"Yuna."
Yuna finally snapped out of her trance at the sound of Lu Cang’s voice.
"Let’s go register at the White Tower."
"Okay!"
The White Tower was a world-class organization.
Therefore, identification from one White Tower was valid at any other.
The Lorren Continent was an anomaly in the Moon Sea, a landmass that had appeared out of thin air. It would be stranger if it hadn’t attracted attention.
So, if they truly wanted to live incognito, coming to one of the Moon Sea’s established continents was a better choice than staying in Lorren.
They could blend in and become just another ordinary inhabitant of the Moon Sea.
Lu Cang stopped flying at high speed.
Instead, he walked along the street like a normal child, making idle conversation with his companions about the city.
Meanwhile, amid the surging crowd, on the opposite side of the street, another child was walking in the opposite direction. Flanked by two adults, this child walked past and entered a massive, magnificent building on the side: the Promotion Hall.
[Atlantis City—Promotion Hall]
At that moment, inside a secret chamber within the Promotion Hall, two middle-aged men were kneeling on one knee before a small child.
"Saint One."
"To undergo so many promotions in such a short period of time..."
"Is it not... a bit too hasty?"
The child known as Saint One simply gave a slight wave of his hand and said coolly, "You need not concern yourselves with my affairs. Just do as you are told."
As Saint One spoke, he glanced down at the piece of leather in his hand. The writing on it had become completely blurred.
’That person... is gone.’
’The one who stole my Reincarnation Mark.’
Saint One could no longer remember who it was. He had once been able to sense them, to feel their presence in the distant Secret Sea... but now, the memory was completely gone.
"Hurry up and complete my promotion to Level 6 Scholar."
"After that, I’m paying a visit to the White Tower myself."