After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Chapter 260 229, Tasya longs for a touch

[9.27, Slay the Evil Dragon Adventure Team: Beautiful Captain Minnie live playing with plants, teaching you how to identify useful magical materials (Paid/admission 20 gold per person)]

[9.27, Valiant Adventure Team Robert: A strong contender for the Iron Level Adventure Team, tries to find the Fruit of the World Tree. Whether found or not, three lucky viewers will win a giveaway (Paid/admission 50 gold per person)]

[9.27, Snow Goose Adventure Team Aiko: Beautiful girl's picnic, come and watch! Five lucky viewers will win chicken soup! Rest assured, this live broadcast won't be troubled by annoying Polia! (Paid/admission 10 gold per person)]

In front of the notice board, the crowd surged.

"It's a live show by Holy Mage Miss Aiko! I missed it last time, but this time I must watch it. 10 gold coins is such a bargain, you have to buy a ticket to see it!"

"Tsk tsk, Valiant Adventure Team really knows how to impress, putting up the Fruit of the World Tree for 50 gold coins. Even the poorest quality white Fruit of the World Tree would cost 1000 gold."

"I want to learn about magical materials from Captain Minnie!"

A group of people hurried to the counter to buy tickets.

By tomorrow, they could enter a specific room with their tickets to watch the respective adventure teams' live broadcasts.

"Isn't there a live show from the Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team?"

The speaker was a swordsman with golden curly hair.

He stood in front of the notice board with a lively spirit, wearing neat clothes and shiny boots.

Many who knew him almost didn't recognize him.

Half a month ago, this man had the look of a half-dead vagrant who had given up hope on adventuring and was ready to just drift along.

This man was indeed Finch, the adventurer who had failed in the World Tree and lost the courage to wield his sword.

Finch had been saved by Lin Da twice.

Once in spirit, and once in body.

During the Monster Tide, Finch was nearly killed by the giant pincers of a Murderous Crab, and it was Lin Da who arrived just in time.

And in spirit... Lin Da's strategy live broadcasts gave Finch the courage to grasp the sword again.

Finch, who had been stuck on the 6th floor, recruited new team members, reached the 8th floor by using Lin Da's methods, and no one was left behind.

Now, Finch was a level 16 adventurer.

Finch's impression of Lin Da had undergone changes in three stages.

From a nearly equal competitor at the beginning, to an enviable lucky guy, and then, after seeing Lin Da's strategy broadcasts and reaching the 8th floor using Lin Da's methods, Finch had become a complete fan of Lin Da.

In the Support Group for the Eye of True Knowledge, Finch took the position of vice-captain.

The Great Mystic Realm on the fifth floor was Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team's first entry, and Finch had long been expecting whether Lin Da would start a strategy broadcast to teach everyone how to fight the magical creatures of the fifth floor Mystic Realm.

But after looking around, he did not find the Phoenix Tail Flower's name.

Finch sighed.

He was about to leave when he saw a guild worker run over with several notices.

"Excuse me."

The guild staff brought over a small ladder, climbed to the top, and put up the new notices.

Finch's curiosity made him stop in his tracks.

That spot was the kind of treatment reserved for Iron Level adventure teams.

However, the announcement was not about an Iron Level adventure team.

Because the captain of that team was a Glorious Adventurer.

He had special privileges at the guild.

The onlookers near the notice board, upon seeing the contents above, had expressions that instantly became extremely exaggerated.

Some rubbed their eyes, fearing they had read it wrong, while others stood dumbfounded, questioning the authenticity of the notice.

The content of the notice was:

[9.27, Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team: Captain Lin Da joins hands with Snow Goose Captain Lia and Ice Flower Captain Isa to subdue the hidden Epic Demon Creature in the fifth floor Great Mystery Realm! (Free/limited to 1000 people)]

Three highly anticipated teams joining forces to conquer an Epic Demon Creature!

This was like dropping a huge rock into a calm pond, causing the fish within to boil over in an instant.

Such explosive news should have been hyped up months in advance, so why has it been tossed out so casually?

The most outrageous part was that it was free.

A live broadcast of subduing a hidden Epic Demon Creature, and it's free to watch?

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, unable to make heads or tails of it.

The captain of this Phoenix Tail Flower was being way too generous, right?

The absurdity was like walking in a filthy alley and being dragged into a room by an scantily clad elf miss. After all is said and done, not only do you not owe any money, but you are also given 10 gold coins as a thank you—making you suspect whether something shady is going on in that room, like catching a disease or something!

"If it were the Specter Adventure Group, they might be conning everyone into showing up... But this is the Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team. I think it's reasonable!"

Finch said aloud, "The captain of Phoenix Tail Flower really wants to teach us how to subdue an Epic Demon Creature!"

"Wait, this live broadcast is free, but it seems to be limited to 1000 people?"

"Just 1000, that's not nearly enough!"

"I'm a staff member, just to let you know, those who can't see the live broadcast on the day can purchase the replay video. If we don't set a limit, all our halls will be filled with people watching the Phoenix Tail Flower broadcasts."

That being said.

But watching a video, how could that be as thrilling as the live experience?

People rushed towards the counter desperately.

"A Phoenix Tail Flower ticket for me, please, thank you!"

"I want one too!"

"Don't push!"

Within just a few minutes,

the thousand live-view tickets for Phoenix Tail Flower were sold out.

While they were free factors certainly played a part, the truth was, even if not for free, just for the reputation of the three captains joining hands to hunt an Epic Level Demon Creature, plenty of people would buy them even for a hundred gold coins each.

Many adventurers who failed to grab a ticket simply squatted at the entrance in wait.

"Do you have a Phoenix Tail Flower ticket? I'll pay three hundred gold coins for it."

"Three hundred? I'll give five hundred! It's the hunt for an Epic Demon Creature, wouldn't it usually sell for a thousand gold?"

"Then I sell it for nine hundred."

"You little..."

The live-view tickets of Phoenix Tail Flower caused quite a stir at the Adventurers' Guild.

That evening, some even got into fights and were hauled off by knights from the Law Enforcement Bureau.

Besides issuing the 1,000 free tickets for Phoenix Tail Flower, the Adventurers' Guild also created several VIP tickets and distributed them among various Steel Level Adventure Teams and some veteran Rock Level Teams. Explore more at empire

What the common folk did not know was that, although the live-view seemed to be free, President Velen had, in the name of White Dove City Adventure Guild, paid Lin Da 1 million gold coins when they negotiated.

Lin Da was willing to treat the adventurers of White Dove City well, and as an official of White Dove City, President Velen naturally wouldn't fall short in his duties.

To freeload off Lin Da once or twice was acceptable, but too often could lead to Lin Da being poached by neighboring Red Heart City or South Rock City.

Even though White Dove City Adventure Guild paid Lin Da one million gold, from a long-term perspective, these million were more than worth it.

The adventurers attracted by Lin Da's reputation would continuously join White Dove City, expanding the city's size.

The more adventurers there were, the more prosperous the city, and the higher the house prices could be.

But that was a story for another time.

In short, within an afternoon, the news of Phoenix Tail Flower's hunt for an Epic Demon Creature the next day spread throughout White Dove City.

White Dove Adventure Team's quarters.

Leopard Princess Jiete received the VIP ticket sent over by the Adventurers' Guild.

In the spacious armchair, Leopard Princess Jiete lounged with one leg crossed over the other.

Her thighs were plump and smooth, yet not lacking in muscle tone, filled with explosive power.

Jiete glanced at the contents of the notice and handed it over to Gale, "For free? Is this Phoenix Tail Flower trying to curry favor with President Velen?"

A free strategy could attract adventurers from other cities to settle down and also bring some fame to White Dove City.

"Too trivial, the scope is too trivial."

Gale took the notice, read it, then shook his head with a light smile, "The one Lin Da probably wants to please is not President Velen, but... the adventuring community itself."

"What do you mean?" Jiete frowned.

"The most numerous in this world are the lower-level adventurers; they are the poor who can't afford equipment or spare the gold coins to watch expensive live-view events. But being lower-level doesn't mean they will stay that way in the future. Family circumstances, financial status, various external factors may hold them back from advancing."

Gale's eyes shimmered with a keen light, "If those people are given enough opportunities, it's not impossible that a batch of geniuses might emerge, stronger even than you or me."

"The weak are just that, weak, with no other reason behind it," Jiete dismissed the idea. "You mean to say Lin Da wants to use a free strategy to help the useless low-level adventurers progress?"

"That's only part of the reason."

"There's more?"

"What Lin Da is plotting is probably much bigger than we assume," Gale sighed. "I thought Lin Da's biggest aim was to reach Sunrise Level Adventure Teams, but it seems that's not the case."

"Stop beating around the bush," Jiete, almost dizzy with confusion, slapped her thick leopard tail in irritation.

Gale shrank his neck and explained, "To qualify to enter the Royal Sanctuary and the main World Tree that reaches the 50th floor, a team that carries the hopes of all adventurers... must possess either extreme strength or reputation. With that said, do you understand now?"

Jiete paused, her expression changing, "You mean, Lin Da is laying the groundwork for later entering the Sanctuary's World Tree? How could that be? They haven't even reached Iron Level yet and they are scheming about the top of the World Tree?"

"It's just my intuition," shrugged Gale. "It might just be that there are not so many complex reasons, and Lin Da is simply too kind to want to make money. It depends on which one you're more willing to believe."

...

Meanwhile, in The Mandalas family estate in White Dove City,

in an elegant small room,

Tasya, dressed in a black and white maid's outfit, stood statue-like by a desk.

The window was open, letting in the cool breeze of the twilight.

The white curtains fluttered gently, like a caring hand caressing Tasya's cheeks.

In a daze, Tasya saw him again, the quiet man in black sitting at the desk.

As usual, she waited for his orders.

To close the window, to brew a cup of 'White Striped Cat Coffee' from the 20th floor of the World Tree, extra bitter with no sugar.

After doing these tasks, she had a one-in-four chance of receiving 'a pat on the head' from Dark Shadow.

As for why there was a one-in-four chance, it was a result Tasya had calculated after meticulous tallying.

She did not know when Dark Shadow would pat her head and when he would not. But with each preparation, she waited expectantly, ready to crouch down like an obedient kitten before her master.