Leah felt offended.
She gritted her teeth and said, "If you don't want to, then don't come. I'll find another healer!"
Hearing Lia's words, Linda was utterly heartbroken, but also felt a sense of relief.
Perhaps he had been waiting for such an opportunity to give himself a reason to leave this suffocating place in a legitimate way.
"What are you daydreaming about? Remember to be on time for the meeting tomorrow, or I'm really going to find another healer!"
After saying this in an annoyed tone, Lia yawned and prepared to go back to her bedroom to rest.
"I'm leaving the team."
Linda suddenly said.
"ah?"
Leah froze as she reached for the doorknob.
It seems that this situation was completely unexpected.
A look of astonishment appeared in the girl's large, ruby-like eyes, as if she couldn't understand what Linda was saying.
Linda stood up, her 1.8-meter height looking down at Lia, who was a head shorter than her, with her mouth agape and a somewhat blank expression.
"There's no need to wait until tomorrow. You can contact the healer named Phyllis right now and join the Snow Goose Adventure Team."
After saying that, he grabbed a brown coat, put it on, and walked out the door.
"stop!"
Just as Linda was about to step out of the room, a sharp sound rang out behind her.
You could tell that Leah was wavering; otherwise, her voice wouldn't have sounded as shrill as a chicken whose neck had been stepped on.
Linda stopped in her tracks, hoping to hear some words of persuasion to keep her.
But what followed was the girl's complaints and confusion.
"All I'm doing is asking you to get up early tomorrow and go to the ninth floor together, and you're going to quit the group? Is it really that serious?"
Leah's face flushed red, and her chest heaved violently with anger.
She really wanted to go over and kick Linda hard twice, grab Linda's ears and ask her loudly again: Do you know what you're saying?
The Snow Goose Adventure Team was originally founded by three people, one of whom was Linda. Lia had considered the possibility of everyone leaving the team, but she felt that Linda would not leave.
After all, she and Linda came up with the name of the adventure team together, so how could anyone abandon their team and choose to leave?
Leah took a deep breath, clenched her fists, stared at Linda's back, and said in a cold, slow but extremely firm voice, "Linda, if you dare to leave, never come back."
"Um."
Linda nodded.
This casual "hmm" made Leah's expression even more unpleasant.
She said, "I will definitely recruit that Phyllis into the team tomorrow."
"casual."
"There's no room for you anymore?"
"Um."
Linda ignored Lia's silly expression and let the girl stand like a pillar in her room.
If it were the same Leah from three years ago who looked like this, Linda would have offered a few words of comfort. But now, he found he no longer had that feeling or emotion. It was as if he were seeing a stranger; he was completely indifferent.
Linda thought to himself with a self-deprecating smile that he should never have accepted Lia's invitation to create the Snow Goose Adventure Team in the first place.
Three years with teammates, and in the end, we amounted to nothing.
Da, da.
The sound of footsteps descending the stairs echoed through the large villa, sounding somewhat cold and desolate.
Linda entered the living room.
"It's late at night, stop playing and go back to sleep."
"Reading so late? It's bad for your skin."
As he passed through the living room, he noticed that the other two young ladies in the group were still awake.
The former is Echo, a mage from the Church of Holy Light. She has a mature and alluring appearance, and her stunning curves are accentuated by her white dress. She is lounging on the sofa, looking at the latest summer fashion magazines.
The other is a little girl who hasn't grown up yet, with pink twin tails, who plays the heavy armor warrior Chrona, and is playing whack-a-mole with a competitive look on her face.
Linda has a pretty good relationship with these two young ladies, at least much better than with Lia.
"Where are you going so late?" Ai Ke put down the magazine and tilted her head, looking at Linda with a puzzled expression.
Chrona, on the other hand, ignored Linda completely, hoping he wouldn't come home that night. A new board game had recently come out at the store, and she planned to play it all night; Linda would definitely nag her if he were home.
"It's nothing, I just went out for a walk to clear my head."
Linda smiled faintly, not intending to tell the two of them about her departure from the team.
He was genuinely afraid they would show a happy expression; just one of them, Leah, was enough to make him feel disheartened.
"Oh, come back soon."
Aiko only noticed that his expression was a little strange, but she didn't think much of it.
Neither Chrona nor Linda, who was engrossed in playing whack-a-mole, realized that this was Linda's last day with the Snow Goose Adventure Team.
Linda stepped out of the villa and disappeared into the dark night outside.
This villa is located in a luxury neighborhood in White Dove City. The roads are wide and clean, and the summer nights are very quiet, with only the occasional chirping of insects.
Unlike the small, run-down house I rented in the Sparrow District at the beginning, which was often chaotic with drunken adventurers causing trouble nearby.
After three years of hard work, Linda and her friends bought this large villa, which occupies nearly 300 square meters and is located in the prime inner city area.
The Snow Goose Adventure Team has become wealthy and famous, a well-known team in White Dove City.
But Linda became increasingly depressed, facing Lia's questioning every day in the team.
'When are you going to finish making the walkthrough?'
'I'm level 23, what about you?'
'There aren't any level 15 healers in the top-tier adventure teams in White Dove City?'
Wait, wait, wait...
Before the team became famous, Lia was not like this at all.
Linda sighed.
At first, Lia was down-to-earth, sincere, always full of energy, and beautiful, which is why he was willing to create the Snow Goose Adventure Team with her.
But right now, all Lia is thinking about is how to conquer the next level, catch up with those veteran adventure teams, and crush them underfoot.
Lia, wielding a small leather whip, relentlessly exploited Linda, just like whipping a donkey pulling a millstone. Even though Linda stayed up until midnight every day, she still felt he was slacking off and not working hard enough.
I'm tired, so I have to quit.
Linda put her hands in her pockets and looked north with a somewhat desolate expression.
That towering, verdant tree that still shimmered with a magical glow even at night.
The World Tree Secret Realm.
It's exactly the same game that Linda played in her previous life.
There are 50 secret realms inside the World Tree, each with a different guardian. Defeating these bosses will earn you rewards from the World Tree Goddess.
Various equipment, skill books, gold coins, magic potions... the rewards become more generous as you go higher.
For example, the Snow Goose Adventure Team recently conquered the eighth floor, and the reward they received was tens of thousands of gold coins, enough for an ordinary person to work from the ancient times to the present.
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