Chapter 161 – Exploit (1/2)
Note: Regular Chapter 6/7
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SR Note: Due to some RL stuff I was unable to edit timely, which is why we have a delay in chapters. I will try to make it up over the weekend. My apologies...
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Chapter 161 - Exploit
The sun went down, and stars all over the sky lit up the entire Midland. These glowing stars seemed to be only a little bit dimmer than the sun.
In comparison to the Southern Wasteland, the Midland seemed to have been more favoured by the sun and the stars. Whether it was the sunlight or the starlight, both were brighter here by many times compared to the brightness of the starlight and the sunlight in the Southern Wasteland. If you were standing under the starry sky and were to look up, you would discover that there was one type of starlight that was rotating like a whirlpool and seemed capable of even drawing your soul in.
The bonfire was blazing. In the square, which was located in the middle of the village, hospitable clansmen had set a grand banquet for Si Wen Ming, Ji Hao, and Man Man.
Ji Hao had saved the lives of their injured clansmen, and taught them some life-saving detoxifying magical prescriptions for free. Detoxifying was one of the specialties of the Southern Wasteland Maguspriest mediciners; therefore, the entire clan, which had the population of ten thousand people, and worshiped the magic creature, Gold-Eyed Lion, as their totem, was now unspeakably happy and grateful, treating Ji Hao, Si Wen Ming and Man Man with all the best stuff they ever possessed.
Although the flavour of the self-brewed rice wine was rather light, Ji Hao could taste the sincere honesty and gratefulness of those clansmen from it.
Big fat fishes, which were caught from the river just now, were being grilled on the bonfire and were sizzling.
Tens of strong livestock were sliced by the necks, skinned and cleaned, and were also grilling on the bonfire, letting out a strong nice aroma of grilled meat, making people dribble.
Moreover, thousands of chubby gooses, chicken and ducks, wild rabbits, boars, muntjacs, strong and muscular wild boar, delicious wild birds, and fresh, clean wild fruits, which were newly picked up from the jungle, had also been served.
The Gold-Eyed Lion Clan was not that powerful, they only had over ten Senior Magi in total, but they were treating Ji Hao, Si Wen Ming and Man Man with the most sincere hospitality, and had also been trying very hard to push the most beautiful girls of their clan onto Si Wen Ming and Ji Hao.
Whether it was in the Midland or the Southern Wasteland, some clan traditions were shared.
Every time a clan had powerful and talented guests, the best thing that the clansmen would wish to happen was those powerful and talented people leaving a trace of their bloodline in the host clans; this way, the bloodlines of the host clans would be able to merge with the more powerful bloodlines of those guests, giving the host clans better opportunities to grow stronger.
Ji Hao pretended to be not knowing what those clansmen meant by pushing those girls onto him, as did Si Wen Ming, who was happily and excitedly chatting to a bunch of Maguspriests and elders, without taking a glance at those young and beautiful girls.
Only Man Man was very interested in these girls; she grabbed their hands, excitedly and curiously poked their bodies; from time to time, she would pull a poor girl over, whose face had turned death pale long ago, then poured a vat of booze into her mouth, while laughing happily.
Soon, no girl dared to come near Ji Hao, everyone who was brave enough to do so, had already been drunk and had fallen on the ground, with their entire face turned red.
Later that night, everybody was a bit drunk. Si Wen Ming became more and more excited. He was passionately communicating with those Maguspriests and elders about all kinds of topics; Ji Hao could clearly see that Si Wen Ming’s eyes were shining with bright light. When he was teaching some useful skills and knowledge to this clan, he had also been learning some valuable experiences from the Gold-Eyed lion Clan.
Ji Hao seemed to have understood why Si Wen Ming travelled around the world all year round.