"Ask away if you want. As long as you can afford to support me, I don't care." Yu Ling spoke the truth, abandoning the fallen Pai Liu and chatting with the guards about the customs and culture of the Kingdom of Lunke.
The more Yu Ling talked, the more she felt that there was something fishy about the Kingdom of Lunke, but she wasn't very interested in actually cosplaying as a detective and solving a mystery.
It's okay, there's still a ready-made reference point lying on the ground, right? He'll figure it out sooner or later without even thinking. He's not here to save the world, why bother with this?
In short, all he needs to do now is let Pai Liu go to the wizard guild to work alone and test how deep this water really is, while he himself can enjoy the benefits that belong to wizards, and wait for the original mermaid body to successfully transform into an egg-shaped form.
Meanwhile, in Payiru's inner world...
A towering scale was placed amidst a white mist, tilted to the left and lower than the right. On the left was a thin piece of parchment, the very contract that had just been signed, while on the right was a strange black sphere.
At that moment, an echoing sound came from within the white mist:
"The contract is being signed in depth... Please take your reward from the right side of the scale until the scale is balanced."
Since it's supposed to be a reward, it should be some kind of treasure or something valuable. But this black sphere exudes an incredibly dense aura of darkness, with wisps of black smoke constantly swirling around it, like wriggling snakes and worms, emanating a terrifying and chilling aura.
However, in his spiritual world, Pailiu seemed to be unaware of, or perhaps ignored, the strangeness of this aura.
He walked straight up and simply touched it with his finger, and he clearly understood what each wisp of black smoke represented.
It contains knowledge, power, treasures, magic, wealth, beauty, and everything else imaginable.
At this moment, Pailiu had almost lost her ability to think independently. Driven by a mysterious and unknown force, a greedy desire suddenly surged in her mind, and she walked straight towards the black sphere...
Just as Payiru's consciousness was about to descend into chaos, the jade egg in his storage bag began to tremble, emitting inaudible sound waves.
This incredibly delicious sound wave entered Pailu's brain with perfect precision, exploding outwards like water being poured into a frying pan.
Payi felt as if he had been punched hard in the head, his entire mental world buzzing as if it had been violently stirred by countless hands. The white mist began to clear, but Payi didn't have time to look closely before it closed up again in an instant.
"What on earth is going on? Where am I...?" Pai Liu was shocked by the impact from both sides, and her head felt like it was about to explode, but she managed to barely clear her mind.
After seeing his surroundings clearly, he subconsciously took two steps back, especially the strange black sphere that his fingers were touching, which gave him a great sense of fear.
It's a fear that's ten or a hundred times stronger than a life-threatening situation—a subconscious, heartfelt fear.
Remembering the phrase he had just heard in the white mist—"receive payment from the black sphere"—he quickly replied before he could answer:
"I refuse! I don't want the payment! Let me out!"
After being rejected by the contractor, the voice in the white mist paused noticeably before slowly saying, "The contractor has refused the equal exchange of abilities, the transaction contract is invalid, and it is being processed... The equal contract has been successfully signed, and the contents of the contract have been displayed."
With the powerful help of Yu Ling's egg-like body, Pai Liu successfully escaped a disaster. Still shaken, she suppressed her lingering fear and waited to flee.
The scales disappeared, and the parchment flew back into Payiru's hands in the spiritual world. The writing on it gradually emerged, which read—
[Lunkor Kingdom Wizard Employment Contract:]
1. The wizard and the king have a subordinate (crossed out) equal relationship.
2. The king will pay a price to acquire the right to use the wizard's abilities (crossed out). The wizard and the king have the right to enjoy all of each other's abilities equally.
3. This contract must not be verbally communicated to any party outside the contractual relationship; otherwise, irreversible consequences will result.
Although there are only three simple points, just looking at the first two crossed-out points reveals just how domineering this contract is, and you can tell how deceitful it is. It doesn't seem like something that the kind-looking and unpretentious King Renko would have made.
This isn't a job offer; it's a contract of servitude, where you sell yourself and your abilities in exchange for that weird black ball... a rather unpleasant thing.
The contract ended, and her mental world collapsed. Pai Liu, who had escaped an unequal contract, woke up in fear, covered in cold sweat.
He already guessed that it must have been the merman king who secretly intervened, as he had been carrying the necklace with him to enhance its power.
Thinking of this, before Pai Liu could even check if he had been infected, he looked at Yu Ling with gratitude. At this moment, he finally understood the camaraderie he had built with Yu Ling without the necklace as a bridge.
But when he looked at it this way...
Well, all that enthusiasm has been wasted.
The merman king was clearly engrossed in a conversation with the guard who was leading the way, and wasn't even glancing in his direction.
Did I interrupt your fun? I survived such a dangerous contract and nobody cares? Especially the little shark king doll, who didn't even turn around?!
"Gentlemen, it seems I woke up at a rather inopportune time?"
Pai Liu, who is socially awkward and clumsy with words, is now even less emotionally intelligent than before, especially without her hood.
Upon hearing this, the guard and Yu Ling stopped talking and turned to look at Pai Liu. One of them thought the other was not in danger, and the other was multitasking. They had already done everything they could to help, but neither of them expected that Pai Liu would still care about this (no one cared about her when she woke up).
However, Pai Liu had his own exquisitely handsome young appearance, so neither Yu Ling nor the guards minded his tone.
"Ah, Wizard, you woke up so quickly! Compared to other wizards, you're practically like you didn't sign a contract at all!"
Before arriving, the guard was calling Pailiu by her full name, but now that the contract was signed, he immediately changed his address, saying...
"Then I will go and report back to the King. You should rest well."
“Okay, please go ahead,” Pailu said.
Hurry up and go, lest the mermaid king you've been talking about runs away with the buff necklace, and some ordinary guard tries to steal my man?
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