Shameless Warlock - Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Going onto the Battlefield Empty-Handed Is the Mark of a True Man!

Translator: Lordbluefire

Editor: Lordbluefire

Xu Nan replied to Miss Shi San, “Head to my place first. I’ll tell you more about brother Junyi’s condition later. This matter is very complicated.”

After that, his expression turned heavy as he asked Qin Lele.

“What’s going on? Where is the dragon? What type of dragon is it?”

Qin Lele replied, “You actually replied to that ‘Miss San’ first instead of me! As the underground city lord, shouldn’t you be more concerned about your direct subordinate’s safety? There’s a dragon in front of me!”

Xu Nan felt a little headache. “Don’t startle it. Hurry up and come back, this is an order.”

If there was truly a dragon, there would be huge trouble.

Given Xu Nan’s current strength, he was a million miles away from being able to hunt a dragon. And the dragon that suddenly appeared in the underground city most probably wasn’t anything kind.

However, according to logic, before the two planes of existence merged, there shouldn’t be any powerful monsters, right? How did a species as powerful as dragons manage to appear?

One must know that the powerful gods of the Puluo World were still racking their brains over which monsters to send here on the [First day of Warning].

“I’ll take a photo for you.”

Qin Lele replied.

Xu Nan felt a little nervous. He hurriedly typed, “You must definitely not startle it…”

At the next second, he rapidly deleted all the words he typed. He only sent over a speechless expression.

Because in the photo Qin Lele sent.

There was indeed an extremely fat dragon.

An extremely fat chameleon*.

“Scram back for your daddy this instant!”

Xu Nan was almost driven mad by this little brat.

…

Due to his ‘winnings’ from the Lost Paradise, his temporary warehouse was soon going to be full.

Luckily, Old Mister Romand was indeed a good friend. Before Xu Nan left, he got the smith couple to send two treasure chests over.

Although these two treasure chests were empty, there was something special in their interiors. The space within was many times larger compared to Xu Nan’s initial-grade storage pouch. Each treasure chest contained a space the size of a soccer field.

Xu Nan spent quite a lot of effort before he managed to select some of the more outstanding magical items out from his winnings. After storing them properly, he got the little mechanical demons to help store the gemstones and precious metals of higher quality. As for the alchemical blueprints, he temporarily stored all of them in his storage pouch.

For the oddities, Xu Nan decided to carefully preserve the sealed great demon heart. The amount of energy in this thing was astronomical, so he decided to make it one of the motive power cores in the underground city.

As for the other two oddities, he had returned them to the alchemy center through a temporary tunnel opened by them. For this, the two alchemist warlocks even gave Xu Nan an extra compensation.

[Lost Paradise’s Alchemy Center Special Transaction Pass]

In any case, with this transaction pass, Xu Nan could do some simple transactions with other Ron Warlocks in Lost Paradise’s system. Usually, the system would only unlock this ability after one reached the second-stage (lv 5), but the two alchemist warlocks might have been frightened by the relationship between Xu Nan and Mr. Romand. They directly granted him this privilege.

In any case, the access would be given to him sooner or later. Humans must know how to be flexible.

Xu Nan thanked the two alchemists for their compensation. He then continued to draw prizes from the lottery while not batting an eyelid. In any case, he had simply earned too many activity points. Even though it was dawn already, there were still couples contributing activity points to him.

Unfortunately, the reaction speed of the alchemy center was too fast. On Xu Nan’s lottery wheel, there were once again many ‘rubbish’ rewards like bat teeth and bat guano.

It seemed like they managed to urgently transfer these materials over from elsewhere.

“Where did they get these materials?”

Xu Nan felt a little curious, his heart suddenly stirring. He used the [Transaction Pass] and opened up the exchange market of Lost Paradise.

When he saw it, he was instantly cheerful.

At the top of the forum, there was a transaction message stuck there. The seventh alchemy center of Lost Paradise was temporarily using a high price to purchase large amounts of bat teeth and bat guano.

The exchange market used ever-gold coins as a currency. This was a type of coin that would never lose its value. Even the banished arcanist empire and druids in the natural seas would acknowledge this.

They originated from the financial center of Lost Paradise.

Xu Nan couldn’t help but laugh coldly when he saw this. If the words of these warlocks could be trusted, he himself would be an honest and reliable master.

However, in the law system, the ever-gold coins were still quite useful. Xu Nan pondered. In any case, he didn’t use the bat teeth and bat guano in his warehouse, he wouldn’t lose out if he exchanged them for ever-gold coins.

Hence, he anonymously put a large batch of bat teeth up on the market and was selling them at a price 20% higher for what the seventh alchemy center was purchasing.

Not long later, this batch of bat teeth was actually swept clean by the people from the seventh alchemy center.

Xu Nan smiled, he then put another batch of bat guano up.

Most probably, never in their wildest dreams would the two alchemists imagine that everything was under Xu Nan’s control. In any case, the good stuff he could draw from the lottery wheel had been drawn by him. He might as well use his activity points and transform them into ever-gold coins.

…

After settling the problem of Lost Paradise.

Xu Nan arranged a set of powerful equipment for himself.

After all, he was nouveau riche. If he still wore the crude ring he crafted, it would be unsightly.

Xu Nan glanced at the magical equipment in his warehouse. He had enough to fully outfit a small team of twenty job-holders!

As for himself, he naturally had to have the best equipment.

For example, his mage robe. He chose a robe named [Wind of Nottingson]

This long robe could provide a great amount of support for his spells, and there was also a mageforce recovery effect. At the same time, there were three other spells imbued in the robe itself namely, [Winter Warm Summer Cool], [Protection from Arrows], and [Powerful Pretense].

There was no need to mention much about the first two spells. The third spell was also very practical. This mage robe could fit Xu Nan’s requirement and it could change its form to anything Xu Nan wanted.

Naturally, everything was just a pretense. It was still just a mage robe at its base.

However, when Xu Nan took off his clothes and tried wearing this on, an unexpected incident occurred.

The restless mission card started to tingle again~

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[Large-scale mission chain issued]

[I ardently love nature 2: Going onto the battlefield empty-handed is the mark of a true man!]

Mission description: You ardently love nature, nature also ardently loves you. We were born with nothing and would die without being able to bring anything away. Why must we be restricted by worldly possessions? Wear the mage robe for 24 hours. Within 24 hours, you must not wear any other clothes!

Mission rewards: 6 shameless points and initial-grade transformation spell (druid)

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Xu Nan was badly startled. “I thought this mission chain has a total of 36 missions? If the second mission already requires me to go on the battlefield empty-handed, wouldn’t the third mission require me to run around naked? What would it be like for the latter missions?”

He felt that it was impossible for there to be more terrifying missions!

One couldn’t help but say that Xu Nan’s innocence had restricted his imagination.

He didn’t think too much and decided to accept the mission. After all, the rewards for this mission were pretty good.

It was merely going onto the battlefield without equipping any other weapons; he didn’t need to be naked. Also, his mage robes could transform into anything, so who would be able to tell that he didn’t wear any clothing?

Hence, Xu Nan decisively accepted. Before this, Mr. Romand’s words allowed him to learn a lot, and Xu Nan had gained many benefits from it. Since he didn’t want to become crazy, he might as well slowly get used to all these crazy settings!

Naturally, Xu Nan still had his bottom line.

He took off his clothes and wore the Wind of Nottingson. He sent a command for it to transform into a normal set of casual wear. At the very least, from the visual effects, there was no difference between this and the clothes Xu Nan would usually wear.

It was just that…what was this breezy feeling?

He kept feeling a cool breeze at the bottom part of the mage robe, maybe it was due to air leakage?

…

Coincidentally, at this moment, the captain of law enforcement finally returned, carrying her little bag and a fat chameleon in her hand.

Xu Nan waved his hand. “Come over, I prepared a set of equipment for you.”

Since he was prepared to develop his people, Xu Nan wouldn’t be that stingy toward Qin Lele. He wasn’t a stooge like Soupy.

He prepared a set of ranger’s equipment for Qin Lele. The quality was very good; even in the Puluo World, only peak-level rangers had the opportunity to get this.

Due to being severely criticized by Xu Nan via WeChat earlier, Qin Lele unhappily pouted as she ran over. She then stretched out her hand and grabbed the equipment in passing.

Xu Nan was instantly stunned.

A strange tactile sense came in contact with…a certain body part.

The thunder lizard leather armor in his hand fell onto the ground with a clang.

Qin Lele was at her loss as she looked at her right hand. Her face instantly turned red!

“Xu Nan!”

“You, you, you…”

“I, I, I…”

She stomped her foot and ran off with a bashful look on her face. That fat chameleon was tossed to the ground by her and almost fell to its death.

After some time, Xu Nan who had just recovered his senses inclined his head and roared at the skies with anger, “QIN LELE!”

“If you use me as a target to practice your underwear-pilfering technique again, I’m going to rip apart all your clothes and parade you through the future underground city!”

The imps who were watching at the side all revealed looks of anticipation.

…

During late-night, in Xu Nan’s kitchen…

Qin Lele sat at the side bashfully. She was different from her usual self and seemed more like an elegant lady.

Meanwhile, Soupy was watching Thai dramas as always. Next to her, on a table, there was a black-and-white photo of Lu Junyi. 

Xu Nan was sitting on the sofa with his legs clamped tightly, probably just his instinctive reaction. Opposite of him, there was a man with very gentle features.

He had great height, roughly about 1.9 meters, but his actions were very delicate. This was none other than Xu Nan’s best friend aside from Lu Junyi, Shi Fanglin.

Because Shi Fanglin loved performing in opera since he was young, he practiced it for a while. Also, his appearance looked especially like a female; hence, people began to call him “Miss Shi San”. 

Miss Shi San’s looks were elevated and cold. Only Xi Nan and Lu Junyi knew that this fellow was 100% outwardly kind yet inwardly evil, not to mention his wicked tongue.

“In that case, you guys are superhumans, and the recent popular videos online aren’t fake. Is that what you are saying? Moreover, Lu Junyi is now in a coma due to unknown reasons, and you want my help to design a stronghold underground, do I get it right?”

His expression and tone were very cold.

“For the matter regarding elder brother Junyi, it’s indeed extremely troublesome. In the future, it’s still unknown what the world would change into. I just wanted to make some preparations in advance.”

Xu Nan revealed his thinking.

It was impossible for him alone to deal with the invasion of the Alter World. Also, Lu Junyi and Shi Fanglin were both people he could trust.

Shi Fanglin fell silent for a while; his slender fingers rapped on the table’s surface.

“Let’s speak about the matter of the underground fort later, as I need to do an on-site investigation and reference many of the materials from the Alter World. Now I want to go and look for Lu Junyi first.”

Xu Nan nodded. “No problem, I’ll bring you there now…”

At this moment, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Xu Nan had a wary look on his face. Qin Lele had run toward the window to look.

Her tone was strange.

“Xu Nan, why would there be a woman coming to your house to look for you in the middle of the night? She is even wearing a nurse outfit! Quickly say, do you have some special hobbies?!”

…

Note:

In mandarin, chameleons are known as (color-changing dragons)