“Yeah!”
Lili Ya had no objections at all. Leveling up to Level 6 in two days was something she had never dared to imagine before.
Not to mention not going out today—if Li Si said they wouldn’t go out this whole year, she wouldn’t have any objections either.
While eating breakfast, Li Si didn’t waste time.
She directly posted a message in the regional channel looking for a dungeon agent, planning to hold a small recruitment fair in front of the Trade Guild.
Operating a dungeon requires dedicated management.
At the start of the disaster, few people could handle such work, but with the guidebooks written by Yadana, it saved a lot of trouble.
A whole morning of applications.
Many people came.
As soon as they heard that Dungeon Lord Li Si was recruiting an agent, almost all the adventurers and merchants from the entire town showed up.
The adventurers mostly came to watch the excitement and see the legendary Dictator Li Si in person, while the merchants came for the business opportunities of this new venture.
When the regional announcement popped up with the dungeon claiming information, some sharp merchants had already seized the business opportunity.
Seeing the recruitment post in the public channel today, why wouldn’t they come?
The entrance of the Trade Guild was packed all morning.
Li Si certainly didn’t have time to interview everyone one by one.
In the end, using half a day, she settled on the young lady of a famous local merchant family as the agent.
That young lady was extremely excited. She came up and wanted to give Li Si a big hug.
Li Si didn’t refuse. After feeling the young lady’s youthful, vibrant, and elastic body, the next step was to officially register an identity for Yadana.
As a demon pet, Yadana’s essence was still that of a magic beast.
Although the goddess barrier of Border Town didn’t block Yadana, the barriers of Soronwell and even higher-level capital cities were stronger. Only by registering her identity at the Guild Hall could unnecessary trouble be avoided.
After doing all this, it was already evening. Finally, there was one most important thing left.
Regarding Lili Ya, after discovering that she could cast spells with bare hands, Li Si had been considering a possibility.
“Lili Ya, can you use a shield?”
Li Si brought Lili Ya to the training ground within the town and casually picked up a willow wood round shield.
Using a shield requires considerable strength, but some additional attributes can substitute for the strength requirement.
After seeing that Lili Ya’s adventurer talent was bonus attribute physique, Li Si had considered this possibility.
Shields can greatly increase defense; high-quality shields can even block most negative effects. If a priest can use a shield, it’s like having a mobile purification field.
But then the priest cannot hold a staff with both hands, and thus cannot cast divine spells.
“Shield?”
Lili Ya was a bit puzzled. She was a priest. Common sense told her that her optimal weapon could only be a staff.
She hesitantly reached out, took the shield, and held it easily.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t pick up this weapon, but once she held it, she didn’t know how to use it.
Li Si didn’t rush. She first let Lili Ya get used to it. In her upgraded perception of Strict Father, the path she had constructed for Lili Ya felt very suitable for her.
As Lili Ya entered training with the shield, a faint holy radiance slowly emanated from her body. That was Strict Father’s foresight giving affirmation.
[Strict Father Lv1]: You possess the most successful foresight.
Li Si thoughtfully stepped back outside the field, turned her head, and looked at Yadana, who was laughing like a goofball due to successfully bonding.
Yadana was holding a bucket of butter popcorn she had begged from Lili Ya, grinning blissfully like a jack-o’-lantern. Seeing Li Si looking at her, she quickly sidled over and offered the popcorn.
Li Si pushed it away and asked, “Do you want me to ask you?”
Yadana immediately snapped to attention, balanced the popcorn on her little purple-haired head, looked left and right to make sure no one was around, then said in a low voice, “Boss, you want to know why I first acknowledged Lili Ya as my master earlier, right?”
Li Si said nothing, waiting for the rest.
Yadana turned to look at Lili Ya, who was working hard and sweating in the training ground. Suddenly she let out a mature sigh. “Sigh, because… she is a goddess~”
Li Si tilted her head. ‘If I hadn’t cleared this damn game before, I might have almost believed it.’
‘The goddess was still hiding in some Abyss Trench right now, fiercely struggling against a corrupted consciousness. In the end, she couldn’t overcome it and became a fallen goddess, needing me to purify her with love.’
Li Si waited a moment. Seeing that this lunatic seemed to have no intention of changing her story, and her expression was completely serious, Li Si suddenly understood.
‘This lunatic belongs to the type who thought she understood, but actually doesn’t understand at all.’
Li Si probed, “Is she really a goddess? What are you basing that on?”
“Yeah.”
Yadana nodded seriously. “Boss, I can see the flow of elements. Around Lady Lili Ya there is an extremely powerful force. That force is like the radiance of motherhood, surrounding her and protecting her. Before, I originally wanted to acknowledge a Chosen One as my boss, but the power around them was nothing compared to Lady Lili Ya. So I set my sights on Lady Lili Ya. She was only level 3, and I could have directly forced… ahem, I just didn’t expect that there would be someone as formidable as you, boss, by Lady Lili Ya’s side.”
“Oh~”
Li Si understood.
To sum it up in one sentence: the person chosen by Kind Mother had a stronger aura than the one chosen by Strict Father.
In other words, Yadana was just misled by her own golden finger.
This was very much in line with a fence-sitter’s personality. Later, realizing that Li Si was the one in charge, she wanted to acknowledge Li Si as master instead.
Li Si smirked and stopped asking. That was probably the situation.
Yadana blinked her big eyes, waiting for Li Si to ask more probing questions.
Apart from this question, she had been waiting for Li Si to ask why she had surrendered, why she had betrayed the Demon Realm. Then she would shed big tears, denounce the trash of the Demon Realm, praise the beauty of intelligent races, and earn a big load of trust and sympathy with her bitter tears.
To be honest, she had been holding back her lines for a long time, but Li Si had never asked. Now she finally had a chance to perform, but then the boss stopped asking again, and even looked at her with a hint of sympathy.
That seemed to be pity for low intelligence.
Yadana scratched her head and took down the butter popcorn from her head.
Forget it. Better to eat popcorn and watch the goddess!
Speaking of which, Lady Lili Ya’s shield-wielding posture was super cool! It’s just that her chest didn’t bounce at all, not as nice to look at as Boss Li Si!
They practiced until evening. Through two hours of observation, Li Si confirmed one thing.
Lili Ya was fully capable of using a shield. Under normal circumstances, using a weapon outside one’s class would result in a clumsy reaction.
But Lili Ya had no such issues. Clearly, her physique compensated for the shield’s strength requirement, but this compensation was only absorbed by the shield. Other weapons were completely unusable for Lili Ya.
Having confirmed this phenomenon, Li Si decisively moved to the next stage.
Originally, she planned to have Lili Ya try bare-handed spellcasting the very next day, but it seemed a bit too hasty.
As long as Lili Ya knew she was holding a shield or empty-handed, she couldn’t use divine spells at all.
Conversely, if she closed her eyes and was handed a rod-like object, she had a chance of casting divine spells again.
This phenomenon was almost unsolvable, but after pondering for two days, Li Si finally came up with a solution.
However, this idea seemed a bit difficult to implement in Border Town. Also, the sensation from Kind Mother was becoming increasingly urgent.
That feeling was somewhat like when she saved Lili Ya before, turning into an obvious sense of distress. But it was also a bit different. Perhaps due to Strict Father’s upgraded perception, Li Si could clearly feel that this distress signal could hold out for at least another ten days to half a month.
However, it was about time to set out.