Chapter 20: Dungeon Cleared

“Th-this… you want to be my familiar?”

Lili Ya hugged her staff, still not quite processing the clean and efficient adventure.

Li Si tilted her head, wondering why there was no recognition pop-up, then turned and realized that Yadana had pledged loyalty to Lili Ya.

She was a bit confused, but for now, lifting Lili Ya’s charm status was the priority.

She nodded at Lili Ya. 

Lili Ya felt a bit embarrassed, but under Li Si’s affirmation, she clicked confirm.

“Lady Lili Ya, I will become your most loyal servant! This dungeon is yours from now on!”

Yadana bounced up, not spilling a single piece of popcorn from her hand. 

She grabbed a handful and stuffed it into her mouth, then gestured for Lili Ya to look at the throne.

A water-blue sphere of light appeared above the throne.

“Master, integrate it into your Adventurer Panel, and this dungeon will be yours!”

Yadana urged, her expression showing none of the dejection of a loser, but rather the joy of regaining freedom.

This time, Lili Ya really didn’t dare. 

She had never even heard of something like a dungeon.

Li Si stepped forward and integrated that sphere of light into her own panel.

[Obtained ‘City of Temptation’]

[Can purify negative environment. Remove miasma?]

[Yes]

[Chapter 1: ‘Temptation of Yadana’ story cleared]

[Reward: Kind Mother Cultivation Slot 1 / Strict Father raised to Lv1 / Dungeon 1]

Several beams of light merged into the panel. 

Li Si clearly felt that the Kind Mother talent slot had increased. 

The interface that originally only had Lili Ya’s character card now had a blank character slot.

Not only that, with the upgrade of the Strict Father talent, the 12 character cards on the Strict Father interface all showed varying degrees of change, as if the difficulty of gaining recognition had been lowered.

Li Si’s eyes flickered. 

She suddenly looked down at her feet.

At her feet, a purple-haired figure inexplicably clung to her leg, looking up with big, watery eyes, pouting lips like a ball, a pitiful expression.

“I was wrong, you are my true master. Can you grant me a bit of your power?”

“Scram.”

Li Si kicked her away. 

The lord of the City of Temptation, Yadana, was a complete lunatic.

The best thing to do was to ignore her.

Of course, as a city lord, she wasn’t entirely useless.

“Ah, two masters, this is my welcoming gift.”

Yadana sighed, scrambled up from the ground, and holding the cream popcorn she had carefully protected, lightly called out.

“Yada! Come here!”

A stream of water instantly seeped through the rock ceiling and fell to the center of the hall.

After landing, the water transformed into a giant squid-like monster. 

Without any warning, the monster rapidly swung its sixteen tentacles, frantically slapping itself, and in the blink of an eye, beat itself down to 1 HP.

[Lord Information]

[City of Temptation Lord]: Yadana’s Guardian

[Level]: 20

[HP]: 1/20000

“Hey! Master, use my body quickly! Stick your staff in!”

The purple-haired little girl happily stuffed popcorn into her mouth, her eyes full of anticipation for the future.

Lili Ya looked at Li Si in confusion.

Li Si nodded. 

This thing was Yadana’s shackle; only by defeating it could she be allowed to leave.

In the game, even after Yadana surrendered, you still had to make a token attack. 

Transferred to reality, it was pretty much the same.

Lili Ya, seeing Li Si nod, decisively struck it with her staff. 

Then… nothing happened.

“Huh? Master, you’re only level 3, so weak…”

Yadana’s mouth hung open, the popcorn stuck in her throat. 

She had wanted to gift some experience, but she couldn’t even break the defense.

Lili Ya was a bit embarrassed, but she was used to it. 

She turned and retreated behind Li Si.

Li Si cleanly slew the lord with one sword stroke.

[Killed Lord ‘Yadana’s Guardian’ gained EXP +15000]

[Adventurer level raised to 13]

[Teammate Lili Ya gained party EXP +15000]

[Cultivation target Lili Ya gained shared EXP +7500]

[Lili Ya recognition +50%]

[Lili Ya recognition +50%]

[Obtained Child Coin *2]

Li Si glanced at the teammate panel. 

Lili Ya’s level had risen from 3 to 6, recognition had also jumped twice, and from her perception, her status had fully recovered.

It seemed this mission was finally over.

Li Si looked toward the corridor outside the palace. 

Adventurers were already descending from above.

Li Si quickly called Lili Ya to disassemble the corpse together. 

This lord’s corpse was a treasure.

They had effectively stolen the credit from the pioneer group. 

They couldn’t stop others from dismembering it. 

They could only take the most valuable parts and exit the dungeon first.

Li Si also didn’t let the newly sworn Yadana be idle. 

She called her over to help disassemble.

Yadana downed the cream popcorn in one go, her heart surging.

She seemed extremely excited, even bouncing while cutting her own tentacles.

When more and more people came down from the entrance, Li Si immediately stopped and exited the dungeon.

As the lord, she could open any passage leading outside the dungeon.

Outside the dungeon, it was already morning. 

The sun was bright, all the black miasma had vanished, and the road to Soronwell in the east had reappeared.

[Border Town Channel]

[Channel Announcement]

[‘Fairy Tail’ has cleared dungeon – City of Temptation]

[Team member Li Si becomes the lord of the City of Temptation]

[Note: This dungeon has been converted to a private instance. Anyone entering must pay 1 gold coin. Players already inside the instance will be forcibly ejected from the dungeon in 1 minute.]

[Huahua Caifeng: No way? Can a dungeon be claimed? And the speed of clearing is so fast!]

[Stray Dog: Wait, the leader of this team is Lili Ya, right? How did they clear the dungeon? What about the princess and the saint?]

[Yogurt Cake: Wow, Lili Ya is on the rise! Where are the princess and saint’s team getting rich?]

Li Si scanned the chat channel. 

The adventurers’ attitude was still so relaxed.

“Two masters, what are we going to do next! Conquer the world!”

Yadana hopped around in the forest, happily crying out.

Li Si calmly glanced over. 

Familiars came from highly intelligent monsters that surrendered and transformed. 

They were generally for combat.

But as a free familiar from the beginner village, Yadana was different. 

Her existence was closely tied to the story.

In short, she wasn’t a good thing. 

Now that her usefulness had been exhausted, she could be discarded.

Li Si gave Lili Ya a meaningful look. 

Lili Ya understood the meaning, but was a bit confused. 

Still, she didn’t hesitate and silently dissolved the master-servant relationship with Yadana.

“Eh?”

Yadana was happily spinning around a tree when she suddenly froze. 

She didn’t understand. 

She turned to look at the two people walking away from her.

It took several seconds for her to snap out of it. 

Then she burst into tears on the spot and chased after them, crying.

“Waaah! Two masters, what are you doing!!!”

“Yadana is your most loyal servant!!”

Li Si ignored her. 

Suddenly, her eyes moved. 

The Strict Father panel popped up a series of notifications.

[Ao Li An Na recognition +5%]

[Yi Li Sha Bai recognition +5%]

[Mei Fei Er recognition +5%]

[Mei Lin recognition +5%]

Suddenly, all eight former teammates burst out with recognition, and one of them even blew up.

[He Zi recognition +15%]

[He Zi recognition +15%]

[He Zi recognition +50%]

[He Zi recognition 100%]

[Obtained Child Coin *1]

[Open He Zi cultivation panel——]