"No, no. A defeat is a defeat. It's not your fault, Sister. It's all that fellow's fault."
"That's right, it was him. He always had an arrogant and invincible air about him. He even pretended to be mysterious. It made people angry just from looking at him. At that time, I was confused. I hope that Sister won't take offense."
I didn't know the specific details either. Anyway, it was all my fault. I was the bad guy. The six and a half beauties got along well in a short while. Xin Qing and the others even gave each other a top-grade item, except me. Why did they have different treatment? In the end, everyone unanimously decided that after the individual competition ended, we would set up a guild together. The task of winning the championship was assigned to me. Xiaomao even patted my shoulder and said, "Boss, I'm really envious of you. You're going to attract attention again." I fainted.
There was basically no suspense in the individual competition on the next day. I sang all the way to the semi-finals. The other three people who entered the semi-finals were Xin Qing, Killing Blade (Warrior), and Wind-Chasing Assassin (Thief). Hehe, unfortunately, in the finals, it was still me and Xin Qing again. However, this time, Xin Qing forfeited, and I directly obtained the title of "Number One Under Heaven". Although this made the audience extremely dissatisfied, the gossip behind it satisfied everyone a lot. It was all about the mysterious mage and so-and-so, and also so-and-so… It was really shocking. I really took my hat off to them. The mysterious gift was naturally what everyone paid attention to. At the grand celebration, the NPC beauty announced the mysterious gift—a pet egg.
The Martial Arts Tournament had ended successfully, and people's lives were back on track. However, the new pet function and adventure function excited players again. There were many secret places hidden in the continent. It was a paradise for adventurers. As long as you were brave, smart, and lucky, you would receive unexpected surprises. However, it was still recommended that everyone team up. The greater the wealth, the greater the danger.
Xiaomao and the others looked at the egg in my hand excitedly, hoping that it would give a surprise. They didn't want something disgusting to jump out of the egg. After paying the hatching fee, they looked at the egg quietly spinning in the incubation dish and thought to themselves that it would be embarrassing if it produced something like a skeleton snake. Finally, the egg began to hatch under everyone's anticipation. "Crack, crack." A crack appeared in the middle of the egg, and everyone waited attentively… "Haha!" Damn! There is still an egg inside the egg! How could there be such a strange thing? This was a colorful egg, but its size was smaller than the earlier one. I took the egg and asked the NPCs. They said that this wasn't under their control and everything was random. Then, they turned poker-faced. I had no choice but to carry it and leave. However, this little guy seemed to be conscious. When I placed it on the table, it would bounce on the table and jump straight into my arms. I could only complete the pet ownership procedures. I named it Little White (my dog's name). It was easy to call it a common name. I stuffed it into the space bag. Job done.
Establishing a guild required 200 reputation points, and 1000 gold coins had to be paid to the finance officer of the palace as administrative fees. All of these were not a problem now. I was pushed to be the leader by everyone, so I named it—Gunfire Rose Mercenary Group, with Soul Eater as the leader, Snow and Xin Qing as the deputy leaders, and Xiaomao as the finance officer. There were not many people now, and the others were temporarily not working. We were the 18th to establish a guild, so we were not too early. We were now a D-rank guild.
The guilds were rated 4 grades according to their overall strength: A, B, C, D, in decreasing order.
Everyone discussed and thought that there was no need to recruit people now. After all, it was not the time to make a big deal out of it. We would think about it when our levels were higher.
The five beauties of the Xin family already had pets. All of them were Level-8 Magic Elves. I really did not know where they had gotten them from. Seeing the cute little Elves, Snow was extremely envious. This would not do. It was time for Snow to have a pet. Even I had one—although it was an useless egg.
After assigning the tasks, Xiaomao and the others went to settle our guild's base and prepare to open a restaurant. The seven beauties went shopping.
I secretly bought medicine and went to the Green Wild Forest alone. I decided to enter the third floor to take a look. With my current level and the protection of the Magic Ring (the short for the God of War's Compromise), it shouldn't be a problem for me to escape unscathed if I could not win. Xin Qing and the others were lucky. They had triggered a hidden mission and saved a missing elf princess. Each of them was given an elf that matched their attribute. As for their equipment, they were all bought. They were from a rich family (They were really rich. How good would it be if I too had a father like theirs.)
The third floor was simply a paradise. There were all kinds of high-level phantom beasts everywhere, but there were fewer demonic beasts. Strangely, they didn't attack me. I tried to slowly approach a strange deer. This cute guy was eating grass. Here, even a deer couldn't be taken lightly. Moreover, this deer was twice the size of an ordinary deer and had beautiful fur, which was not bad to make a robe of, hehe. I used the detector to take a look. Oh my god, it's a Level-9 holy phantom beast. Its name was Seven-Color Deer Deity. It had noticed but didn't panic. Instead, it walked towards me, scaring me so much that I quickly retreated (it was a pity that I didn't know how to climb trees). After a while, there was no movement. Only then did I dare to show my head. I fainted. It was still looking at me. However, there didn't seem to have any hostility. I decided to take a gamble and slowly approached it. Alright, there was no reaction. Looking at it up close, it was even more shocking. I gently touched it. No issue. Another touch. The Deer Deity was very docile under my touch. I sighed. How could I bear to hurt such a cute phantom beast? But where could I get a pet for Snow? At this moment, the Deer Deity gently tugged at the corner of my clothes. It seemed that it wanted me to follow it. We walked further and further. Gradually the scenery changed. The surrounding became desolate, and increasingly hot. Could this be the road leading to hell!