Chapter 7
Chapter 7: I Touched Her, So What?
Boring.
Is this the dull, meaningless life of the wealthy?
After entering the dungeon, the nearly hundred guards disappeared, secretly protecting them from the shadows.
Adelina carried a small bag filled with snacks and water, following beside Filin.
Wait, this isn’t right.
The civilian teams they’d just passed were all struggling in fierce battles, while he felt like he was on a spring outing in the dungeon.
“Filin, look! There’s a magical beast up ahead that’s conveniently injured.”
Huh?
Why was Adelina still putting on this act of “conveniently injured” at this point?
She should have hidden those guards better so he wouldn’t see them.
Filin walked forward. This was a fourth-tier magical beast with a chance of containing a fourth-order magic crystal.
One fourth-order magic crystal equals 100 first-order magic crystals.
“Filin, quickly give it the finishing blow.”
The royal capital had instruments that could detect through magic crystals who had hunted which magical beast.
Otherwise, a noble young lady like Adelina would never personally go hunting.
Filin walked forward, looking at his own reflection in the magical beast’s eyes.
“Even though I want to see my cheat ability, there’s no way…”
Spell seals are tools that store divine magic.
For those who haven’t learned divine magic yet, spell seals are their only weapons.
When playing this game, an old player on the forums discovered a bug in the game.
If you overlap two spell seals of any level, then activate them simultaneously and terminate them at the same time, the system would bug out.
The two spell seals would randomly release effects from 1st to 7th order spell seals, while only consuming one seal.
If the caster could make physical contact with a second person, the game system would become even more confused—the larger the contact area, the higher the probability of triggering high-level spell seals.
He’d originally wanted to touch his teammate this time to increase the probability, but it seemed unnecessary now.
Filin took out a first-order spell seal and ended the magical beast’s life.
“Not bad luck—got a fourth-order magic crystal.”
Filin wiped the blood from his hands with a handkerchief, showing Adelina a reassuring smile.
Spell seals were less powerful than divine magic and very expensive. A first-order spell seal cost a thousand crowns. Fourth-order and above spell seals were hard to buy even with money.
He could only afford to buy a few first-order spell seals. A second-order spell seal cost five thousand crowns each—completely unaffordable.
So spell seals were just additional attack tools. To master true power, he still needed to enter the royal capital to study divine magic.
Along the way, the two “coincidentally encountered” several injured third-order magical beasts.
“Now I have enough magic crystals. Filin, how many more do you need?”
Filin counted the magic crystals in his bag. A few more magical beasts would meet the royal capital’s entrance exam requirements.
So, the question was—when was Adelina planning to make her move?
Did she want to let him get enough magic crystals, then stab him in the back when he was overjoyed?
Was this woman that vicious?
Filin secretly glanced at Adelina beside him.
Someone who could hold a kindergarten grudge until now—she was definitely that vicious!
“What are you thinking about?”
Adelina looked at the serious-faced Filin, a slight smile playing at her lips.
Without thinking, she knew Filin’s head was now filled only with gratitude toward her.
She really was kind-hearted. Even though she’d hired Filin, she was still treating him so well.
“I just think Lady Adelina is very gentle. Even with such superior family conditions, you don’t look down on a fallen noble like me. You’re like a goddess.”
“G-g-goddess? You’re being too dramatic, haha.”
Adelina fanned her somewhat flushed cheeks with her hand, her tied ponytail swaying with the motion.
He thinks of me as a goddess—he loves me so much.
Filin squinted, watching Adelina move mechanically like a doll wound thirty thousand times.
Was this person really okay?
Just as he was thinking this, another magical beast appeared ahead.
This magical beast was relatively healthy—at least it could still run.
This first-order magical beast was the weakest in the dungeon. It charged toward the two of them, roaring and venting its fury.
Wait, here was his chance.
“Lady Adelina, be careful!”
Filin grabbed Adelina’s hand and pulled her behind him.
Her soft chest pressed against Filin’s back, causing Adelina’s eyes to widen as she forgot to cry out.
That’s right—he’d deliberately touched Adelina, what they called a perverted move.
Finally having a moving magical beast, he just needed to act like he cared about Adelina, then use the excuse to touch her hand and test whether his cheat ability actually worked.
If Adelina really was planning to attack him later, at least he’d have some hope of survival.
Filin took out his two precious first-order spell seals and activated them simultaneously, then terminated them together.
Then, gripping Adelina’s hand tightly, he triggered the bug!
Blue spell seal patterns began to appear, then those orderly patterns became chaotic.
A light that definitely didn’t belong to first-order spell seals appeared, shooting out fierce flames.
Fourth-order spell seal—Azure Flame Storm!
Success!
The first-order magical beast was instantly burned to ash.
“Lady Adelina, are you hurt? Sorry, I was so worried about the magical beast charging and hurting you that I got a bit nervous…”
Filin’s voice grew smaller and smaller.
Adelina sat on the ground, head slightly lowered.
Her small hands tucked the stray hair by her ears, revealing the shy pink on her pale cheeks.
Her gaze would steal glances at Filin before quickly looking away, breathing softly with her body rising and falling.
Adelina was now in complete chaos.
That was a fourth-order spell seal, right?
Filin was so poor now—that spell seal must have been something he brought out when his family was destroyed, kept as a treasured life-saving seal.
Just because a first-order magical beast charged over, Filin feared she might get hurt and easily used a fourth-order spell seal capable of killing fourth-order magical beasts.
If it were just an employment relationship, he wouldn’t need to go this far.
He must have panicked, then instinctively wanted to save her, using this life-saving spell seal without hesitation.
From the innocent, brilliant smile on the young man’s face, Adelina felt his confession burning toward her like wildfire.
He loves me so much!
In the small dungeon, both their brains were rapidly operating at high speed.
They were just thinking in completely different directions.
Just as Filin was about to reach out and help Adelina up, he saw the girl’s expression change.
Her eyes widened, lips slightly parted.
A figure instantly appeared before him, blocking Adelina. In that brief moment, Filin caught sight of the Claude family crest on the person’s clothing.
Then Filin heard a violent explosion. He felt dizzy as his vision slowly blurred.
In the end, she still made her move against him?