Louis took out a roll of bandages engraved with mysterious words from his dimensional bag.

After a moment, Louis realized that he had taken the wrong bandage and immediately took it back.

The little swan widened his eyes and said:

"How do you use this bandage? Tie it around your hand?"

I, Little Swan, am a book lover.

She was already thinking of the 100 uses for bandages described in the book.

For example, tying here, tying there, packing it into a gift, wrapping it around the body and so on.

No, it feels so bitter just thinking about it!

Olivia's meager ideas on this subject came only from some books she had stumbled upon.

Alice felt the same way and started laughing teasingly.

Louis looked at the two of them calmly and said:

"So you two understand each other very well?!"

Then the little swan proudly puffed out his chest and said, "I saw it in a book."

Alice then gave a dangerous smile and said, "I'm not married yet."

The old driver is indeed an old driver, but she has no practical experience.

Louis coughed and cleverly changed the subject: "It's okay, I haven't seen it either."

Then he said some weird stuff like “I bought this because it is scarce in the market”, “Do you understand what value investing is”, “Believe me or not, I can sell it for three times the price”, etc.

Then Olivia and Alice burst into laughter.

——Except Grace.

Poor Grace never figured out why they were laughing so happily.

Fortunately, Louis also knew that this was not a good place to chat.

He took out a scepter from the dimensional bag, as well as a rather gorgeous shawl with black and white interwoven and delicate patterns.

She was also given a white hat that emitted a strong magical aura.

"A saint's cloak of the same style as the Church of Glory, a replica of a scepter, and a hat with a medium-level divine power."

"Let me make it clear first. These things are only loaned to you temporarily. If they are damaged in the Shadowfall Underworld, it will be my fault."

"If there is no damage, it will be returned to me later."

"Grace, you must protect yourself, these things are very expensive!"

Louis covered his chest in pain.

"Little Swan, I have spent a lot of money to prevent you from getting into trouble."

"If anything happens to this equipment while saving you, you'll have to pay for it with yourself!"

This set of equipment is indeed intended to be used for value investment.

It should be said that this is Louis' first step in getting involved in high-end luxury goods.

As we all know, when a brand wants to sell products at a value far exceeding its actual price, it has to learn to tell stories.

This Saint's suit is a masterpiece designed by Louis with the help of talented people and skilled craftsmen.

The purpose is indeed as he said, to make value investments.

But what he wants to invest in is not just the brand, but also the people.

The nun's uniform exclusive to the Libra Saint comes from our Meyer Chamber of Commerce.

This advertisement is more shocking than those nonsense "stories" made up by some stores.

but……

So expensive!

It was so expensive that his heart was bleeding.

It is impossible to give it as a gift, but Grace can be given the right to use it.

Take it out now in advance and consider it as the price you have to pay to save the little swan.

His [Sin: Greed] tells him that this is definitely a qualified value investment.

"So now, could you ladies please turn your heads a little bit?"

"I'm going to change my armor, don't look at me!"

Louis tapped his helmet and walked behind a twisted tree.

…

The Shadowless Underworld was actually very dangerous in the beginning.

But with the arrival of the black sun in the sky, the most dangerous factors have been eliminated.

There were only a few newly born monsters wandering around.

Louis got enough of the appearance of these monsters in a quick glance.

The Shadowless Underworld is a reflection of the real world, and it is an evil version of it.

The shadow of the glamorous imperial merchant will be transformed into a fat, big-eared humanoid monster wielding a whip.

They would wield long whips and drive some skinny monsters with hunched backs and wearing human clothes.

These skinny monsters will then drive some confused monsters to attack Louis and his group.

——What a pity, it’s too weak.

They are basically monsters between LV1 and LV3.

So much so that Louis only used two swords to kill the fat and big-eared merchant.

But this is not the worst.

When he launched the attack for the first time, he did not deal with the monster transformed by the Shadow of Haoshang. As a result, the other monsters driven by it quickly ate the body of Haoshang and evolved into a new Shadow of Haoshang.

Louis was fed up with watching and just started killing people.

It's the drama of [capitalists] driving [labor scabs] to enslave [social animals], right?

Now eat your worker grandpa's iron fist! After a lot of killing, Louis found that the situation had changed.

The other wandering wealthy businessmen turned and ran away as if they had seen a ghost.

Olivia chuckled and said, "Don't be surprised. This is a special phenomenon of the Shadowfall Underworld."

"Every once in a while, it will rely on the main material plane to generate this distorted reflection."

"It is said that some of the reflections even have the memories of real people."

"But most of them are just pure monsters. Don't hesitate to kill them. They won't have any impact on people in the real world."

“Sometimes you can even see monsters from outside the Star Continent appearing here.”

"After all, the Shadowfall Underworld is only a part of the Shadow Plane, and the Shadow Plane breaks through the barriers between different worlds."

"It is said that outside the Star Continent, there are some main material planes that we have not explored yet."

"Sometimes there will even be unlucky people who escape from the shadow plane and find themselves in another world."

Alice pulled the scimitar from the monster's body, looked at Louis and said, "Are you sure this is the direction to leave the Shadowfallen Underworld?"

Louis glanced at the pocket watch in his hand that looked a bit like a compass and said:

"I'm sure Beatrice told me before that Olivia could easily be pulled into the Shadowfall."

"If she accidentally falls into it, I hope she can be rescued by me."

"The exit shown on the pocket watch is in this direction."

Olivia pouted.

She has nothing to do with the Shadowless Underworld.

As the group was walking, they suddenly felt something was wrong.

The little swan whispered, "No, why are the colors around here becoming richer?"

In the Shadowless Underworld, there shouldn't be a third color other than black, white and gray.

Looking around, all I see is a vast and lifeless world.

But as they walked, they found that the colors around them began to change a lot.

Finally, at noon of the next day, or maybe in the afternoon, the few people who had been walking and stopping along the way found the end of the direction indicated by the pocket watch at the foot of a mountain.

It was near a high mountain.

"No, I can't walk anymore, let me have a good rest."

The little swan took a breath, fell back, and lay on the lawn where a little green could be vaguely seen.

"Let's take a break. Everyone is in a bad state."

Stepping on the soft soil, Louis said, "This at least proves that we are looking in the right direction."

He pulled out a piece of wild grass that was slightly green and said:

"Beatrice told me that when other colors appear around the Fallen Shadow Underworld, which is filled with black, white and gray, it means we have entered the subsidence zone."

"The rules of the main material plane and the rules of the Shadowfallen Underworld collide with each other, causing colors to appear in the surrounding area that shouldn't exist here."

"As long as we continue walking in this direction, the colors will become richer and richer. At the end of the road is the gate to the main material world."

…

At the same time, in another corner of the Shadow Underworld.

Accompanied by a sudden earthquake, a pillar of red-gold light shot up into the sky.

The vast land was littered with the corpses of monsters.

[Soul-burning Magic Incense]

A special magical fragrance developed by spellcasters. Once ignited, the magical fragrance will spread to almost the entire mountain at an incredible speed.

The hunger and animality that already exist in the monster's body will be awakened, and hunger will drive the monster to move towards the direction with the strongest fragrance.

About 100 years ago, the Soul-Burning Magic Incense was banned from sale in the markets of various countries on the continent because it was extremely likely to cause magical disasters.

Even if mages want to apply to use the Soul-Burning Magic Incense, they need to go through the approval process in advance.

However, Lumi had bought a lot of this stuff long before the Soul-Burning Magic Incense was banned from sale.

In the past, in the dungeon, when they were preparing to have dinner, she would light a small pinch of soul-burning magic incense, and then monsters within a few kilometers would come to add to the dishes.

Mainland countries strictly prohibit anyone from using this thing on the mainland.

But it doesn't say that it can't be used in dungeons or places like lower planes or sub-planes.

However, this time, she burned half of the Soul-Burning Magic Incense in one breath, but her purpose was not to have an extra meal.

Because after she rushed into the Shadowless Underworld, she was embarrassed to find that she seemed to have lost contact with His Highness.

In order to avoid the possibility of possible high-level monsters harming the little swan, she simply lit half a stick of Soul-Burning Magic Incense wherever she went.

——She wanted to use the simplest and most brutal killing to reduce the possibility of the little swan encountering danger.

This was the seventh monster gathering area she had cleared out that day.

She raised her head and looked at the black sun in the sky.

There was a hint of complexity in his eyes.

She wasn't so bloodthirsty before.

Lumi narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked tired.

After fighting for a whole day, even though they were just a group of miscellaneous soldiers who had been cleared out by the Emperor, she felt a little tired.

Wearing armor, she found a crooked tree, jumped up, and closed her eyes to take a nap.

In a trance, she had a dream.

…

"Lumi, Lumi, I'll be angry if you do this again!"

A series of rapid sounds rang out.

Rumi slowly opened her eyes in a trance, and saw long golden hair spreading out like waves.

This is……

She was stunned.

Looking at those concerned eyes, Lumi subconsciously said:

"Sorry, maybe I'm a little too tired."

The girl said with a smile, "I guessed it. After all, Lumi has been working very hard during this period."

She shook the staff in her hand, and a warm light poured into Lumi's body.

Shaking and laughing:

"Elf, oh fairy, you will not get tired after receiving my magic."

Hearing this, Lumi subconsciously raised a smile at the corner of her mouth.

It was as if all the tiredness in my heart disappeared.

She looked up and realized that she was sitting in the library.

Looking at her friend, Lumi smiled dotingly: "Diana, don't you dislike reading books and prefer to practice magic directly?"

The girl smiled and said:

"I'm looking for the great secret treasure!"

"Great secret treasure?"

Lumi showed a bewildered look:

"What kind of great secret treasure? The kind found in the dungeon?"

The girl stood up and spun her around happily.

The hem of her light blue skirt bloomed like petals, and she said mysteriously, "I heard from a senior from the previous year that there is a great treasure hidden in the corridor of our St. Louis College library that was left behind by a certain generation of brave team."

"I heard that if we can find that secret passage, we can go to a mysterious space that few people go to. Lumi, come with me to find it!"

Lumi frowned and chose to refuse without hesitation.

Diana immediately showed a sad expression, but Lumi remained unmoved: "Diana, the great secret treasure does not exist."

Diana said unconvincedly:

"How do you know the great secret treasure doesn't exist?"

Lumi tapped her head with her finger and said:

"A dungeon that revolves every 500 years. It requires brave men to form a team to conquer it."

"St. Louis College has only been established for over 900 years. The brave team two generations ago was over a thousand years ago."

"Some of them became kings of small countries, some became the highest fighting force in their own countries, and some simply died."

"When these people were active, St. Louis had not yet been established, so it is basically impossible for them to leave treasures here."

Diana said unconvincedly:

"Aren't there still two generations of heroes?"

Hearing this.

Lumi laughed out loud.

Diana said sullenly, "What are you laughing at?"

Lumi snorted softly, ruffled Diana's hair and said:

"The current generation of heroes has not yet been selected. The previous generation of heroes do have a slight chance, but..."

"But what?"

“The current St. Louis Library was built only five years ago and is connected to the main teaching building by an aerial corridor.”

"The dean even specially made it in a retro style. It's normal for you to have such a misunderstanding."

"What? It turns out it's fake!" Diana looked depressed.

"Ladies, please be quiet."

Not far away, a young man whispered.

"Sorry, sorry." Diana said embarrassedly, "Kulin, are you here to read again?"

The boy looked up and said, "There is no end to learning."

Diana nodded, turned to Lumi and said, "I'm not happy without the great secret treasure. Lumi, go eat with me."

Lumi stared at Diana blankly, and suddenly, the corners of her mouth rose and she said:

"Okay, where are we going? What are we going to eat?"

Diana put her hands on her hips and said, "Of course it's the college's open-air restaurant! There's a strawberry cake there that's really, really delicious."

Sitting in the open-air restaurant, Diana ate cake happily.

Lumi watched her eat quietly.

"Lumi, you eat too."

Lumi shook her head and said, "I'm not interested in sweets. You should also eat less and be careful of tooth decay."

Diana snorted and looked at Lumi with sparkling eyes: "Lumi, let me tell you, the secret room in St. Louis is real, and the great secret treasure is real too!"

"Diana, I said this..."

"Lummi, do you believe me?" Diana said with a smile, "Believe me, one day a real great treasure will appear."

"Why?"

"Because I, Diana, never tell a lie."

She forked a strawberry and stuffed it into Lumi's mouth, smiling and saying:

“Sweet?”

"sweet."

"Still tired?"

"I don't seem so tired anymore."

"Of course, this is my magic, the magic that removes fatigue!"

"You lied!"

…

In a trance.

Lumi opened her eyes and yawned softly, feeling all the tiredness in her body disappear.

"It was a good dream."

She stood up, looked at the black sun in the sky, and shook her head.

"The legend of the great secret treasure really doesn't exist."

(End of this chapter)