We returned to the workshop at night.

After He Yi and Murong Mingyue returned and learned that Moonlight Stone and most of our high-level mages were seduced from the guild, He Yi fumed for five whole minutes until Beiming Xue and I promised to treat her to supper. We agreed to delay the follow-up quest of Land of Soul Suppression temporarily because one, we needed to steady everyone’s morale and two, we needed to remake our mage party.

……

After we ate supper, I logged into the game.

Swhoosh!

After I appeared in the Soul Suppressing Tower, I used a return scroll and I teleported back to the city right away. The Tiger Soul Essences in my bag had transformed into quest items, so they no longer imposed any sort of restriction penalty like before. I could delay the quest until I was done with this business.

After I appeared in Sky City, the first thing I did was to repair my equipment as usual. Next, I traveled to Air Force One and unloaded all the random but definitely top-tier items I had accumulated since my previous journey to the counter. Some of these items had been dropped by dread-rank mobs, and some, by enemy players. Regardless, they were all excellent goods that would fetch me 500+ RMB a piece. I wouldn’t have picked them up if they weren’t...