April 5th, 0:00 AM.

Chun was routinely awakened by the alarm clock.

The first thing to do, of course, is to check the rankings on the main account. Nice, ranked 300,000, which is a few thousand positions worse than yesterday.

In a game with hundreds of millions of players, there are always those few thousand players who find opportunities to greatly improve their strength, whereas I'm just giving away gemstones, rings, and magic mirrors — if you don't advance, you fall behind.

Then in about two hours, the side account should also be in position, right?

I switch to the side account, still in pixelated blur!

Tsk!

——System Notification: Would you like to terminate the service?

Terminate it!

The two women laughed charmingly, "Boss, ready to serve you anytime~~"

——System Notification: Congratulations! You've received the Pleasure Blessing from Lost Paradise, your Physical Recovery speed has increased by 50%.

Chun was stunned, there's such good stuff? This isn't right, shouldn't this kind of thing make you gradually lose vitality? Isn't this a deliberate ploy to entice players into indulging daily?

Just a trick! I'd rather not have this blessing than to mess around for an hour or two.

A voice came from the sky of a Fallen Angel: "We've reached the periphery of the target area, discovered three Earth Flame Giants, everyone get prepared for battle!"

Chun immediately stood up to look but saw nothing? It really is a pre-warning companion!

Chun issued an instruction: "Don't fight yet, let me first take a look at the opponent!"

The Fallen Angel smirked, "Although you're the boss, please don't interfere with our battle. This is the rule of the mercenary industry."

No, killing too many might lower my friendliness with the Earth Flame faction!

Chun figured these five mercenaries on trial must have a significant background, probably with a major faction probing for info on me as the Master. So it's better to lay it all out; the documentation is prepared in advance.

Chun said, "Actually, I am a servant rescued by the great explorer Azazel Dios during his expedition. Mr. Dios died at this Earth Flame Tribe, and I was captured because I diligently collected Crystal Stone Flowers completing many tasks for the Earth Flame Tribe, ultimately being released. So theoretically, I should be friendly with them, at least not hostile, which is why I chose to come here for mining — because I might not need to fight."

The women soldiers paused in shock, "The great Azazel Dios?"

Then burst out laughing!

Chun was stunned too, "Why?"

The Fallen Angel said flatly, "Not to disrespect your former master, the Azazel Race is indeed one of the great families of the Seven Great Demon Monarchs, but Mr. Dios's reputation within the family is just average, and he's in debt everywhere, always wanting to do something to prove himself."

In debt? Chun suddenly felt a sense of unease!

The Enchanting Demon laughed, "Of course, he achieved it, after all, he established a great image in the heart of the boss. Being able to enter the Earth Flame Tribe shows how remarkable he was."

Holy shit, so I've found a "rich but worthless young master's script"? Actually, he didn't even enter, the place he died was also on the periphery.

The Fallen Angel chuckled, "Alright then, since the boss said so, let's let the boss meet them first."

Good, even in Hell, sincerity remains the ultimate lethal technique. Meanwhile, this indirectly reveals that this Earth Flame Tribe is immensely strong, to the point where even Demon City couldn't do anything to them — glad I embraced this support.

Finally, Chun saw from afar the three Earth Flame Giants by Magma Lake. Level is unknown, but they all have green names!

Sweet!

Chun delightfully exclaimed, "Don't approach them, I'll go greet them, any problem with that?"

The Fallen Angel said, "No problem, I'll combat resurrect you."

Good.

Chun quickly rushed forward, and the two giants also looked at Chun in unison without making any attack movements.

"It's me!"

The giant made a buzzing noise like stones colliding, but Chun could understand, "Welcome, buddy!"

Chun felt a bit embarrassed, "I've come to Lost Paradise to develop, I want to mine here, is that okay?"

The giant said, "Sure, you've won the praise of our leader, feel at home!"

Chun was thrilled, "Can I mine more advanced ores inside?"

The giant said, "Feel at home!"

Chun felt almost moved to tears, the giant's heart is as broad as the earth itself!

Chun pointed out the five mercenaries in the distance, "They're my hired guardians, can they come along?"

"Buddy, others can't!"

"We can protect you!"

Indeed, very principled! Can manage.

Chun had no choice but to go back to the five mercenaries, "It's settled, I can go mining, but you can't. So—"

The Fallen Angel's face darkened, "That doesn't comply with the rules of the Mercenary Guild. Allowing the employer to fall outside our protection scope is the biggest dereliction of duty. Besides, we've agreed to only stay on the periphery, not venture deep, otherwise the employer would have to pay breach of contract penalties."

So that's how it is. At the end of the day, their intelligence hasn't broken through the limits of rules yet. Unlike Sherry, who has already broken through rules and embezzled the operating funds.

Fine, next time I just won't hire them, I'll stealthily come alone to mine advanced ores, after all, I have a high load capacity.

Chun didn't argue, "Let's leave it at that, I'll just mine on the periphery, you don't start a fight either, I'm timid, afraid that fighting would scare me causing technical failures and miss out on mining."

The Fallen Angel thought for a moment, "Fine, but the prerequisite is that the opponents shouldn't enter our warning distance..."

Let's just do it this way.

Meanwhile, Chun also noticed that only three people spoke in the team, the Dark Elf and Vampire just accompanied with smiles without speaking. It was unclear whether this was their personality or if their races had a low status in Lost Paradise?

After preparation and setting up, Chun stealthily dived into the magma swamp, officially dual-wielding for mining.

——System Notification: You have team protection, automatic AFK enabled.

——System Notification: You've activated the Heart of Earth Flame barrier, you absorbed and are immune to magma damage, absorbed the magma's Fire Energy and Earth Series Energy, and are beginning to transform into Earth Flame Body.

——System Notification: Congratulations! Your Master-level Mining Technique successfully extracted Earth Flame Crystal Stone Ore, slightly increasing proficiency...

——System Notification: Your Dual Wielding Mining Pickaxe skill, Underwater Construction skill proficiency increased...

...

Chun felt deeply relieved, as expected, deep Hell is where Master-level mining can improve. But this kind of master is a fake master, equivalent to real expert level, so the growth potential is huge, it's fine to just keep mining like this, even if not making much money, it's acceptable as skill practice.

Then, I suppose, I've been sleeping on and off for five to six hours, recovery should be enough, better go manually control the main account.

Still a huge pile of failure messages, and there are three pickaxes with 0 durability dropped on the ground.

Failure was expected, mining failures usually happen in two cases: 1. There isn't any ore at all, this abandoned mine pit doesn't have any. 2. You wear a 100-weight ring and are sick, causing actions to be exceedingly unreasonable.

I seem to simultaneously meet both conditions.

However, when I was exiled to this island, I only had Basic Mining Technique level 1, level 1 likely can't detect ores. Imagine, even if this pit was used as a facade for Undersea Magic Gold, but truly having no ore at all couldn't mine out such a huge web scale.

As for unreasonable actions, that's really unreasonable, using up three pickaxes in two hours, this consumption is multiple times that of normal mining.

Let's switch the approach.

Dive deep into the pool to try, in deep water buoyancy might offset the weight impact, might make actions more standard, if it doesn't work, activate Four Sea Souls support a bit. Also, take a look if this former Slime Monster nest has any other substances... After all, I was dragged in and then sprayed out the day before yesterday, never had the chance to explore the water bottom carefully.

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