Chapter 84 (1/2)

Translator: Sigma  Editor: Sigma

Even a child would able to pick up on Ray’s discontent and suspicion toward the wishing magic.

Sui Xiong couldn’t help but say, “The wishing magic is also known as advanced magic. Even if they are legendary shamans, not all of them would be able to display this magic. This is a lower level wishing magic, normally an advanced shaman or even a legendary shaman is capable of displaying it. Why do you seem to look down on them?”

Ray sighed, telling him what he had experienced before.

When Sui Xiong heard about his “the strongest warrior” medal, he could not help but laugh out loud.

“These people are very creative! Brilliant! Brilliant! Do you still have that medal?”

Ray was silent for a while, and then took out an ancient bronze medal.

Just from a glance, one was able to tell this medal had been held onto for a long time. Countless touches had made the sharp edges of it become smooth, and had turned it a light golden color. It seemingly gave off a time-condensed feeling.

This medal was made very ordinarily or the smith making this medal had indeed put in a lot of effort, but his technique was not good enough, hence everything was in vain. In other words, due to the poor materials, it was not very water resistant. The writing on the medal had become extremely blurry, only a few words could be vaguely made out. As for the original patterns on the medal, more than half of them had rubbed off and could not be seen clearly.

Steele took a swift look, then immediately lost her interest. Coming from nobility, she could also be considered a slight expert in jewel evaluation. With just a glance, she could tell that this medal was of poor quality goods, which was put on counters in all souvenir stores in the big cities. It could be bought with a few copper coins.

But Sui Xiong stared attentively at this medal without blinking for a long time, then gently asked, “Do you regret making that wish?”

“Regret? On the contrary, it is not that bad.” Ray shook his head, “I’ve done too many regretful things in my life, but that medal is not worth mentioning.”

“If you don’t really regret that, why do you have such a spiteful attitude toward the wishing magic? This doesn’t make sense.”

Ray hesitated for a while, sighed deeply, and then changed the subject.

That was when he hadn’t become a lonesome thief yet, and had explored the Westfall under the identity of an adventurer.

At that time, he hid his true identity and ability, disguised in a mid-level adventurer’s appearance, and joined a pretty-famous adventure team. The ability of this team was not very powerful, but the atmosphere in the team was very good. The captain was kind and righteous and everyone helped each other, which made him satisfied.

Just like that, two years had passed by, until one day they had come across part of a treasure map. After having been through countless hardships, they had finally found treasure.

That treasure was indeed very satisfactory. They distributed many good items amongst themselves— the leather armor he was wearing was also from that treasure.

And inside the treasure, the most precious things were two magic scrolls.

Surrounding these two scrolls was the ability to make wishes come true, so everyone crazily fought for them, which was extremely messy. In fact, the majority of them were disturbed. In the end, after discussing it with everyone, the captain used one scroll.

His wish was “I want to live forever and be immortal.”

“This wish is very unreliable,” Sui Xiong said. “A wishing magic can’t do such a thing.”

Ray painfully smiled, then nodded. “You are right. After the captain made the wish, space and time suddenly solidified, imprisoning him. He then was sucked into a black hole to some unknown place.”

“If he was locked up, he might really become immortal…” Sui Xiong shook his head and sighed. “Wrong wishes often lead to a similar result like that. After all, the mortal willpower is strong enough to resist the world. It is also not strange for one to be fooled and misrepresented.”

Ray and other people were dumbstruck when they saw this scene. They all wanted to bring the captain back, but there was basically no way to do that. After tormenting themselves for a period of time, there was no way left to try.

Having lost a highly prestigious captain, the adventure team collapsed very soon after. Ray continued being an adventurous soloist as other people parted ways.

Not too long after that, Ray took a mission to escort a caravan past the Orc Empire. It took more than several months for him to get there. When he returned to the Westfall, he saw a scene like a bolt from the blue.

The story about the wishing magic scroll had leaked out. The famous “Pellets” Smuggling Chamber of Commerce had found their place. Each and every comrade in his team was either betrayed or killed.

Finally, the entire family of the captain, young and old members, were murdered. Due to the group’s earlier disbandment, the remaining scroll was left to the captain’s son.

“Is the scroll snatched away in the end?” Sui Xiong coldly asked.

“Did the birth of your “Family Extermination” title come from that war too?”

“That’s right… I took my savings out to hire thieves and spread false news, making the Iron Sand Chamber of Smugglers think that another organization wanted to have a bloody fight with them. All of them retreated to their headquarters. Then, I carried my sword and killed all of them from the big gate to the inside,” Ray coldly said, his face emotionless.

That fight was extremely fierce. The widely famous Iron Sand Chamber of Smugglers disappeared. All the key members of the chamber of commerce were killed, except for some lucky escapees. He didn’t let a single chick or dog slip away. The title of “Family Extermination” also came from this.

Also starting from that day, he was no longer an adventurer, but became a lonesome thief.

Ironically, when Ray killed everyone on the way to the room of the President of the Pellet Smuggling Chamber of Commerce, he discovered that the President was in a secret room, which was completely isolated from the outside world. He then, very carefully activated the scroll and made a wish: “I want bottomless wealth that can never be used up.”

Therefore, Ray chopped down on him with one sword, conveniently stuck a gold coin on his body, and said, “If you have an ability to use up, then feel free to use it.”