Before the ruins of the Wealth Goddess Temple in Stan Town, many people had gathered.
A spatial teleportation gate is a kind of spatial magic array. The old magic mentor Merlin only needed to open the gate and periodically inject magic power into it to maintain its active state, that was how it was supposed to be. However, a few hours ago, something unknown happened within the ruins, the teleportation gate maintained by Merlin experienced a powerful repulsion, causing an explosion. Fortunately, he possessed the [Teleport] magic spell and managed to dodge in time.
But in the subsequent time, when he tried to reopen the teleportation gate, he was completely unable to do so—the gate was functioning well, but a force from the other side was repelling its opening, as if someone had blocked it with something on the other side.
Including Ye Chui, Debbie, and Green, a total of forty-six people were trapped inside, among them were the town’s mayor and the presidents of two magic guilds, the top forces of the town. No matter how you looked at it, this was a major incident. Merlin’s forehead was already covered with sweat, his magic guide book flipping rapidly, one mysterious spatial magic symbol after another lighting up and fading on his body.
He was a senior spatial magic mentor, having reached an extremely high level of attainment in spatial magic. However, the force preventing the gate from opening far exceeded his imagination.
He was almost ready to give up.
But when he tried once more with little confidence to push the gate open, the gate, unexpectedly, opened just like that.
“Hm? That force repelling me has disappeared!”
Merlin’s body trembled, but when he looked through the teleportation gate into the ruins, his expression turned to panic: the teleportation gate connected to a corridor in the Goddess Castle, the dark stone walls were now shaking, he could feel an ominous tremor brewing continuously within the castle. Merlin was very clear that this was the prelude to the entire different space collapsing.
For some reason, this divine ruin was about to shatter!
“The curse of the Demon Emperor, what did they do in there!?” Old Merlin shouted in shock—although forty-six people had entered the ruins, for some reason, he instinctively felt that this matter was inseparable from those two little troublemakers, Ye Chui and Debbie…
The teleportation gate began to tremble, and the onlookers gathered around seemed to tremble along with it. As a border town, they had never experienced such a thing. For a moment, feeling the tremor coming from the other side of the teleportation gate, everyone experienced a sensation they had never felt before.
Then, several figures stumbled out of the teleportation gate.
Almost in an instant, the teleportation gate exploded with a boom, much less powerful than the previous explosion, but still raising a sky full of dust.
Members of the three major magic guilds—Bullhead, Goddess’s Kiss, Blue Horn—and some mercenaries rushed forward.
“Where is President Thorne!?”
“Where is Lord Billis!?”
“Green!”
Such exclamations continued.
Loss’s mercenary team was among them, more concerned about Ye Chui and Debbie’s safety.
The dust was suddenly blown away forcefully, revealing a transparent cubic crystal beneath the dust—that was the defensive magic spell [Cube]. Merlin had used the spell at the moment of the explosion to protect those escaping from the teleportation gate.
There were four escapees in total: Ye Chui, Debbie, Green, and Kas.
When the black gold flame dragon killed the devil, it also exhausted all of Ye Chui’s magic power, bringing him immense fatigue. At the same time, probably due to the devil’s death, the entire ruin began to collapse. In an emergency, Ye Chui, Debbie, and Green, supporting the heavily injured and unconscious Kas, hurriedly rushed to the teleportation gate used to enter the ruins. Without the devil, the defensive force in the ruins that prevented the devil’s escape naturally disappeared.
This allowed Merlin to successfully open the teleportation gate, and they escaped at the last moment.
Ye Chui was panting heavily, helping Debbie to stand up, glancing around, and finally looking at the stunned old Merlin standing in front of him. He smiled, “We finally got out!”
“I want to eat a big meal!” Debbie’s petite body swayed as she said this.
Then, with a thump, both of them fell backward together, just pressing onto Green, who was trying to get up from the ground.
“Ouch—”
…
Waking up, Ye Chui found himself lying on the big bed in his room, his whole body sore, feeling like he had just run five kilometers and woken up the next day. He confirmed he was lying on his own bed at home, let out a comfortable yawn, and then recalled what had happened before he fainted: because summoning the black gold flame dragon had exhausted his magic power, coupled with the panic of escaping, he passed out after finally escaping alive.
It seemed someone had carried him to his bed at home, and the injuries on his body had also been healed.
Living in this magical world, the existence of healing magic made him feel deeply convenient.
He was about to get up from the bed, but his hand touched something soft. Uh, this development… Ye Chui turned his head and saw Debbie curled up, lying beside him like a little shrimp. His hand had just touched Debbie’s shoulder—what else could he have touched?
“Mm—” With a groan, Debbie also woke from her sleep. She got up groggily, as usual, dazed for a few seconds, then realised something, her eyes immediately glaring at Ye Chui with fire, “You, you… why are you in my bed?”
“How would I know, and this is my bed, okay!” Ye Chui hurriedly shouted.
The little girl’s face twitched, then she opened her mouth and screamed “ahhh”.
“What the heck are you screaming for!?” Ye Chui quickly covered his ears and shouted. He had just woken up too, okay, and he didn’t do anything to her!
“…I don’t know, isn’t this what you’re supposed to do at times like this?” Debbie calmed down.
“…”
Ye Chui rolled his eyes at Debbie. At that moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a woman with golden hair rushed in excitedly, “You’re awake? That’s great!”
“You?” Ye Chui and Debbie were slightly stunned seeing the visitor, quickly getting off the bed. Debbie glared at Ye Chui again, as if to assert the stance of a girl who had been taken advantage of, but obviously she didn’t take waking up in the same bed too seriously. She asked the blonde woman, “Silas, why are you here?”
The blonde woman was Silas, a maid from the mercenary guild, with whom Ye Chui and Debbie were already quite familiar.
“You passed out after coming out of the ruins and slept for two whole days. Loss and I have been taking turns coming to take care of you,” Silas explained.
Ye Chui and Debbie then realised they had been unconscious for two days. It seemed the adventure in the divine ruins had indeed accumulated immense fatigue. Ye Chui thought of the changes in the iPad magic guide book after killing the devil and quickly summoned the magic guide book to check.
Silas, somewhat curiously, asked from the side, “What happened inside the ruins? Why were there only four of you who came out? What happened to the others?”
“Oh, they all died,” Debbie walked to the kitchen, rummaging through the cupboard to find some hard bread and cured meat, and began eating unceremoniously.
Silas showed a shocked expression, “Dead, died?”
Debbie immediately started recounting the story of the devil, the Valkyrie, and the dragon with embellishments, while Ye Chui flipped back to that notification reminder: [Detected that sufficient points have been obtained, would you like to spend 500 points to unlock the playback library?]
Killing the devil earned him 1000 points, plus the points Ye Chui earned from killing those tempted by the devil earlier, his remaining points now totalled a whopping 1190!
Plenty of points to spare.
“Unlock the playback library?” Ye Chui’s eyes sparkled, and without hesitation, he unlocked it!
Immediately, with a flash of light, a new icon appeared on the iPad magic guide book’s page, an image of a group of magicians and swordsmen standing together. After Ye Chui clicked it, it opened an interface somewhat similar to common video apps from another world.
The difference was that the playback library contained not only film and television videos but also some music resources, and they seemed to come from that other world, names that felt familiar and intimate to Ye Chui.
Of course, playing them required points to unlock.
“After seeing the time remnant in the ruins, the video file of Dragon’s Mourning appeared in my magic guide book, which led to the summoning card for the black gold flame dragon. Does that mean if I unlock video files, I can similarly summon the characters in the videos as heroic spirits?”
Ye Chui was excited by this idea.
However, the points required to unlock those film and anime files were not small. Ye Chui soon discovered that this was related to the power settings of those films and animes. For example, some films involving mythological powers required thousands or tens of thousands of points to unlock, while some romance dramas mostly required no more than a hundred points, some even free—though Ye Chui wasn’t sure what use summoning a handsome man looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle would be…
As for those anime works, because most had exaggerated settings, the points required to unlock them were astronomical.
But while Ye Chui was browsing the anime list, he unexpectedly saw a discount message under a certain anime: This work is on sale this Saturday, only 200 points to unlock the abridged version!
—This continent didn’t have a week system, but the date on the iPad magic guide book always followed the week system.
“Damn, such a powerful anime only needs 200 points to unlock? With 200 points, I can summon that bald heroic spirit who can dominate everything?”
Ye Chui was overjoyed, almost without hesitation, he started unlocking it. Immediately, he received a notification, “New video files detected.” When he opened the player, he found twelve new files in the video list.
Ye Chui eagerly opened the file list one by one, dragging the progress bar to play. When he opened the last file and dragged it to the end, a new summoning card appeared on the playback interface, a card featuring that bald man who didn’t seem to have any aura at all.
“Can I summon him now? I wonder what’s needed to summon him, whether it still requires some medium…” Ye Chui thought nervously.
Just then, a commotion came from outside the wooden house, followed by loud banging on the door.
“Wade! You little punk, get out here! We know you’re awake!” someone shouted.
Silas, who was engrossed in listening to Debbie’s tale of “the summoner girl versus the devil,” turned pale, “Oh no, they’re here.”
“What’s going on?” Ye Chui and Debbie both looked at Silas.
Silas said anxiously, “Only four of you came out of the ruins. The presidents of Bullhead and Goddess’s Kiss, along with many experts, stayed inside. So their guild members think you’re responsible, they believe you used tricks to kill their presidents!”
