Chapter 78: 78, The Disappearing Five-star Characters

The chance for Monica, a level 20 warrior class, to fail at changing her class was over 99%.

But she was lucky and successfully became a mage, it seemed Heaven thought her time had not yet come.

After that, Monica met Lulu, who helped her acquire this house located in Red Heart City.

"Smashing my bedroom... splitting the team's wealth?"

"Is there no one who feels sad about the captain's disappearance?"

Lin Da was stunned.

No matter what, he had led them to the higher levels of the World Tree.

He could understand the four-star characters he kicked out of the team holding grudges against him.

But what about the core team members who stayed? Why were they all ungrateful?

"There is someone," Monica thought for a moment, raised a snow-white index finger, and said, "Sister Tina took all the cucumbers from the captain's room and cried a lot last night."

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What did Tina want those for?

Before Lin Da's eyes, he pictured a nun with pink hair and a sickly smile, the five-star SSR 'Hell's Judgment' Tina, a melee mage, whose character's third act event was "Wishing to Turn the Captain into a Pretty Specimen".

"Aside from Tina, isn't there anyone else who is sad about the captain's disappearance?"

Lin Da shivered.

His intuition told him that he must hide the fact that he was the former leader of the Primitive Adventure Team.

In the game, Tina could at most threaten the player through the screen, but in reality, Lin Da feared he'd be drained dry and end up hanging on the wall of Tina's bedroom!

"Maybe there is, but Monica doesn't know," Monica said, puffing out her proud chest, hitting it with her little fist, which wobbled like jelly, "Monica has been waiting for the captain to come back all this time!"

"Monica really is a good child," Lin Da said, touching Monica's little head with emotion. Five-star characters were all ingrates, to advance in the World Tree Secret Realm, you had to rely on the loyal four-star characters.

The young girl squinted her eyes like a cat, a look of enjoyment on her face.

Lin Da thought to himself that Monica, even as a four-star, was actually quite weak. Now that she had changed to a mage, a back-row class, she had maximally reduced the side effects of the "Glass Cannon" passive skill.

Staying with him, a Healing Hero, he would protect Monica from the nasty magical creatures preying on her.

...

Half an hour later, after packing their luggage, the two walked out of the house.

Monica wore a bright yellow miniskirt that Lin Da had Kafni buy, her long legs wrapped in pure white stockings, her feet in round-toed leather shoes, she was no longer a poor girl without clothes to wear.

But the moment she stepped outside, Monica still cautiously put on her cardboard box and carried a bundle as disproportionately large as a dung beetle's ball of dung.

The bundle was wrapped in a very old-fashioned pattern of loud, vibrant colors, usually only worn by older generations of adventurers.

"This ordinary pattern won't attract attention!" Monica claimed, carrying the huge bundle on her back, in response to Lin Da's puzzled question.

"No... what I mean is, doesn't this actually make you stand out more?"

Lin Da said awkwardly.

Looking towards the main road, all the pedestrians were staring at Monica, who wore a cardboard box on her head, white stockings, and carried an oversized, old-fashioned bundle.

It was like when an adventurer from the south hesitantly entered a public bath in the north, striding in without any undergarments with complete confidence, no one would glance at you, not even if it was embarrassingly small. But if you wore underwear to cover up, no matter how big, it would attract the attention of everyone in the room.

Right now, Monica's approach was the latter.

Just the cardboard box on her head was eye-catching enough, but couple that with a bundle as big as a great water tank, and she resembled a dung beetle pushing a ball of dung, except she was a beautiful girl.

All the passersby stopped in their tracks, their faces a picture of surprise as they looked at her!

"T-team leader, Monica is so scared," whined Monica like a timid mouse, hiding behind Lin Da and trembling slightly as she clutched at the hem of his clothes.

For someone who had hidden away at home for three years, stepping out of the door and into the sunlight undoubtedly required a lot of courage.

"Take off the cardboard box, Monica. You are so pretty, and everyone would be happy to see you," Lin Da advised.

But Monica's little head shook like a rattle-drum, and through the peepholes of the cardboard box, her big eyes revealed a determined look as she stubbornly said, "Without the cardboard box, Monica can't survive!"

It seemed there was still a long way to go before she could overcome her social anxiety.

Lin Da sighed heavily from within.

He glanced at the large bundle Monica was carrying, wondering where this Big Lolita had acquired so much luggage.

Inside were various figurines resembling magic puppets, comic books, storybooks, and they must have weighed quite a bit.

He offered to help Monica with her luggage, but she solemnly declined— "Monica cannot trouble the team leader, definitely not adding to his burdens!"

Was it because he had locked her in the storage room and hadn't visited? Lin Da felt that Monica seemed uneasy, as if afraid that he would abandon her again.

'This time, whether it's Monica or Lulu, I will take them both to the top of the World Tree, to see that breathtakingly beautiful view.'

Lin Da thought to himself silently.

The trio reached the main road and hailed a carriage.

Lin Da planned to take Monica to complete her team registration first, lest this Big Lolita get cold feet halfway and no longer want to be an adventurer, which would be a real hassle.

Better to get her into the team and sign a hundred-year contract...

The penalty for breaching the contract should be one million Gold Coins to prevent Monica from backing out.

It wasn't that Lin Da was heartless; in Monica's personal storyline, there had been instances where she was too scared to venture into the Mystic Realm.

In the comparatively spacious carriage, the back seat was covered with a cool bamboo cushion. Monica sat in the corner on the left, her little hand tightly clutching Lin Da's clothes, resolutely preventing the stranger Kafni from sitting beside her.

Kafni swept a glance toward Monica and said quietly, "Did that child wash...?"

Lin Da immediately understood. Monica had recently been frightened to the point of wetting herself by a whipping sound, but as far as Lin Da knew, she seemed to have only wiped with some paper, and her water bill hadn't been paid for two months.

Even though Monica lived in a rather sloppy manner, her arms and legs that were exposed outside seemed quite clean.

"Team leader, Monica isn't dirty," she said faintly through the cardboard box and suddenly lifted the hem of her clothes to reveal her flat belly, spotless and without an ounce of excess fat. Monica said timidly,

"Team leader can check Monica."

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A question mark appeared above Lin Da's head.

Could it be that three years of isolation had stupefied Monica, leaving her without any hint of caution around an 'Old Mage'?

Even so, Lin Da's eyes uncontrollably drifted upwards, noticing Monica's round and cute belly button on her belly. Moving past her belly, further up, there was only a glimpse of something protruding,