"Lord Pilux, I ran into my friend on the way back. He had heard about your glory, and he admires you immensely. He specially asked me to present the rarest fruits to you. I hope you'll like them," Zhou Kun said while carrying the carton of dragon fruits, in an attempt to sound Pilux out with the excuse that he had thought of in advance.
However, to his surprise, the passage was no longer linked to Pilux's lair. Zhou Kun found himself on a street that appeared to be from the Middle Ages.
Zhou Kun's sudden appearance caused a huge uproar.
Not only was he dressed relatively strangely, but he also seemed to be talking about the evil dragon Pilux.
The people around Zhou Kun were all staring at him with horror in their gazes, leading him to conclude that he was in an unfavorable situation. However, what made him more horrified was the fact that the passage behind him had suddenly closed. It seemed that he could not return anymore.
The passage was still present, but no matter how Zhou Kun tried, it remained still, and he couldn't go through it as he did previously.
Zhou Kun began to panic. He wondered whether he was not going to make it. He thought, 'I still have to take care of my parents. How did things turn out like this?'
Just as Zhou Kun was panicking and looking for a breakthrough, he realized that more and more people were commenting about him.
"Where is the weird intruder you just mentioned?" asked Oakley, who was the captain of the city guards of Lan City. They had just received news that an intruder had suddenly appeared in the city.
The crowd of onlookers dispersed, and Zhou Kun's figure was immediately revealed. His short-sleeved shirt, shorts, and short hair made him look just like an intruder to them.
"Take this intruder away." With an order from the captain Oakley, dozens of guards rushed towards Zhou Kun.
Zhou Kun wanted to run, but it was too late because the guard had already placed a knife on his neck.
"Let go of me. I am not an intruder." Zhou Kun continuously struggled, and at this moment, the dragon fruits in his arms had fallen all over the ground, as well as the Ambergris that he had gotten from Pilux.
"Hold on!" exclaimed an old man in a gray robe who was standing beside a young woman in a purple robe.
"Master Luke!" Oakley exclaimed respectfully when he saw the person who arrived.
After all, the elder opposite him was the director of the Lan City Mage Association who he couldn't offend.
"I have something to ask this young man." Luke motioned for Oakley to let him go.
Zhou Kun didn't expect to encounter such an abrupt matter that caught him off guard. However, it seemed that the old man's status was not low, and he even managed to help Zhou Kun and give him an out with a simple sentence.
"Young man, is this yours?" Luke asked when he picked up the Ambergris on the ground.
"Yes," Zhou Kun answered affirmatively and remained silent subsequently because he didn't know what the old man's motive was.
"Where did you get this thing from?"
Upon hearing that the old man's focus was on the Ambergris, Zhou Kun knew that he probably recognized it.
However, he was in a special predicament now. Hence, he decided to answer truthfully. "I got this from a huge dragon. I heard it is Ambergris."
"Teacher, this person is probably a conman," said a girl who jumped out from behind Luke, who remained silent.
Ban Jiena felt that it was a scam that Zhou Kun had set up for her teacher.
Everyone knew that her teacher required the key material, Ambergris, for his recent experiment. Previously, the Mage Association had also put up a notice for the search of Ambergris throughout the city.
It was not that there weren't people who tried to give counterfeit Ambergris to the Mage Association. However, they simply failed to pass the authentication tests.
The young man in front of him was dressed in peculiar clothes and had suddenly appeared there again. Coincidentally, a piece of Ambergris fell out when he was being arrested. There shouldn't have been so much of a coincidence.
"It's real, that dragon is called Pilux, and he was the one who gave me the Ambergris," said Zhou Kun who decided to mention Pilux because he was afraid that they would not believe him.
"Hmph, if you didn't rush to explain, I might believe you. Everyone has heard of the prestigious Pilux. However, no one has ever left his lair alive throughout all these years. Your excuse is really absurd. "
Zhou Kun didn't expect that legends about Pilux really existed on this continent. He was just notorious.
"Ban Jiena, don't be rude."
"But, Teacher..."
"I just need to give it a try to discern whether it's real Ambergris or not. I believe this young man doesn't have a reason to lie to me." He looked at Zhou Kun and continued, "Young man, can I test this Ambergris?"
Given the current situation, Zhou Kun was not allowed to refuse. Hence, he simply nodded abidingly.
Luke took out a bottle of reagent from his large robe and scraped some powder from the Ambergris before pouring it into the reagent.
The reagent suddenly began bubbling like boiling water. The pure-colored liquid instantly turned red.
"It actually really is the Ambergris of the Flame Dragon!" Luke could not help but exclaim.
He originally thought that that young man had merely gotten a piece of Ambergris by accident. To his surprise, it turned out to be the most precious Flame Dragon Ambergris.
After all, there were very few giant dragons on Aomu Continent, and the Flame Dragons there were extremely ill-tempered and feisty. As such, very few adventurers could get items related to the Flame Dragons.
Seeing that the item, which had rolled onto the ground, seemed to be the Ambergris he had been searching for a long time, he could not help but call Oakley to stop him. However, as soon as he did, he regretted his decision. It was not that easy to get real Ambergris after all.
To his surprise, the Ambergris owned by the young man was authentic. It even belonged to the Flame Dragon.
Could it be what he said previously was true? At any rate, the rumors about the Flame Dragons in the past hundreds of years had come from the vicious Pilux.
"You believe that I'm telling the truth now, don't you?" Zhou Kun gibed after seeing that the Ambergris in his hand had been authenticated and proven to be genuine. He then looked at the girl in the purple robe who had insulted him just now provocatively.
The young girl humphed coldly and moved her head towards the side to avoid looking at Zhou Kun.
"So you are an adventurer?"
"Yes, I painstakingly managed to escape from Pilux's lair, and I even used my only Space Scroll, which caused me to suddenly appear in this city."
Zhou Kun was just blabbering nonsense. After all, he didn't want to be captured by the guards once more.
"Seems like that was a misunderstanding. Don't you agree, Master Oakley?"
It was very clear what Luke meant. Hence, he recognized Zhou Kun's identity.
"It almost caused a misunderstanding. Since you're not an intruder, we will leave now, Lord Luke." The captain of the guards, Oakley, was smart enough to lead them away after hearing his words.
"Sir, thank you for helping me out. This Ambergris shall be given to you as a gift."
However, Zhou Kun discovered that the elder in front of him was unexpectedly frowning.