As the alchemy potion entered her stomach, Eira immediately felt a strange power spreading within her.

This power did not cause any damage to her internal organs, but it quickly corroded the battle aura within her.

In just a few breaths, half of the battle aura in her had been corroded away.

A few more breaths later, her body was completely empty, with no trace of battle aura, and every time battle aura was just about to form in the vital acupoint, it was immediately eroded away.

This meant that she had now temporarily become an ordinary person. The undead creatures in front of her, along with the merfolk and goblins, could kill her as easily as crushing an ant.

Feeling the battle energy within Eira disappear, Noel beckoned to her: "Alright, come up."

Eira knew there was no way to reverse the situation now, so she obediently went with the others to meet this Lord Fang Ka.

She just didn't know if they would kill her and Aiman, or if the two had a glimmer of hope for survival.

After Eira climbed onto the back of the Nightmare Beast, Noel said nothing more and directly controlled the Nightmare Beast to soar into the sky.

Watching the Nightmare Beast's departing back, Iron Black Pot curiously asked, "What did that female boss just drink? Why did her battle energy disappear not long after drinking it?"

Sea Flip opened his mouth and said, "Could it be something like Forbidden Magic? Like those games we usually play, where a Forbidden Magic debuff stops all skills from being used."

"Just that this game makes it more realistic by creating a drinking action?"

The Caged Parrot nodded lightly: "What Tumble said makes sense, just don't know if you can buy it from Mage Fang Ka in the future. If you can, we could buy some."

Wangzai Little Buns glanced in the direction the Nightmare Beast had gone: "By the way, how do you think this faction NPC rescue was triggered?"

After thinking for a while, Iron Black Pot guessed, "I think maybe Noel was doing something for Mage Fang Ka and happened to pass by. Because of our high approval rating with Mage Fang Ka, Noel chose to help us at the first opportunity."

"This should be the most reasonable guess, right?"

After listening to Iron Black Pot's analysis, Sea Flip gently nodded: "Yeah, I think that's quite reasonable."

Wangzai Little Buns pondered for a moment: "Yeah, it's indeed quite reasonable. Seeing me subdue the two bosses and then deciding to take them to Lord Fang Ka is quite reasonable and humanized."

"We've definitely earned this credit. Even if the reward is docked a bit due to the faction NPC rescue, it should still be considerable."

"What do you all think, should we continue exploring or return for the reward?"

Iron Black Pot scanned the east: "Continue exploring? Going back now would make us seem like cowards."

"And even if we went back, we'd just end up taking another exploration task, we can't just go back to mining, right?"

Sea Flip raised his large cleaver: "Exactly, let's continue exploring. Once we find more valuable things, explore further, then it's not too late to hand in the task."

Wangzai Little Buns nodded: "Yeah, I also think so. But we have to be cautious, you all saw how difficult those two wild bosses were."

"If not for the timely faction NPC rescue, we'd likely have capsized here."

Hearing this from Wangzai Little Buns, the other players nodded in agreement.

After a little preparation, the players set out again, moving forward towards the east.

...

Underground City.

Tina sat upright in a chair, watching a long line of slaves stretching to the corner of the street in the distance.

After getting the biphasic potion from Noel, she immediately arranged for the merfolk she brought to spread the news.

"Mage Fang Ka will test demon source and vital acupoint for free. If you have either, you can get special training to serve Mage Fang Ka, unleash greater potential, and gain great power."

This announcement was undoubtedly highly enticing to the slaves.

After hearing it, they couldn't think of anything else and hurried to line up in front of the Royal Palace for the tests.

Several merfolk were testing the queued slaves with the biphasic potion.

However, Tina was somewhat disappointed; twenty-some people had been tested, yet none had either a demon source or a vital acupoint.

She personally believed that selecting a considerable number of individuals with demon sources or vital acupoints from these slaves was very possible.

If she could achieve this, Lord Fang Ka would certainly commend her heavily, which would secure her managerial role in the Underground City further.

The longer she stayed in this position, the less she wanted to return to her original island.

She couldn't help but let out a small sigh.

Just at that moment, a loud exclamation came from a merfolk in charge of testing in the distance: "Demon Source?"

Hearing this, Tina froze and quickly got up from her chair, walking briskly towards the noise.

If the first discovery had been someone with a vital acupoint, she wouldn't be this excited.

After all, knights with vital acupoints are not nearly as rare as mages with demon sources.

But now the first discovery was a mage with a demon source, which undoubtedly set a good precedent.

Soon, Tina reached the merfolk testing the demon source and vital acupoint.

Seeing who had the demon source, she was momentarily stunned.

This was a skinny elf girl, her delicate little face full of excitement.

She was the elf girl who had been saved by players from the goblin overseer's whip some time ago.

Tina had found her particularly pitiful and given her considerable care, learning that her deceased father had given her a name.

She was called 'Ruo Ruo'.

Names with repeated characters were unique to slaves in this world, termed 'nicknames' by slave masters, signifying that slaves didn't deserve real names.

After becoming slaves, regardless of their former names, they had to abandon them and use their 'nicknames' for life.

After liberation, almost all slaves immediately abandoned their 'nicknames' and either reverted to their pre-slavery names or invented new ones.

But Ruo Ruo was quite special.

Tina wanted to give her a formal name but was directly refused. Ruo Ruo said it was the name her father had given her and the only thing he had left her.

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