As dusk approached, Ximu stopped his cultivation.
Conis and Laki had already prepared a sumptuous dinner for him, many of the dishes made with ingredients unique to the Sky Island, offering very novel flavors.
While serving Ximu, Conis asked in a voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz, “God, who will serve tonight?” As soon as she spoke, her pretty face flushed crimson, her eyes almost brimming with tears.
Laki had been by the god’s side for four days, while she had been for three.
They took turns serving the god, one person per day, and currently, each had served for two days.
Ximu swallowed the fish in his mouth and casually said, “Together.”
“Ah?”
Conis’s cherry lips parted slightly, and then she understood Ximu’s meaning, her cheeks instantly turning red.
Laki, who was next to them, also couldn’t help but blush upon hearing this.
“I didn’t expect coming to the Sky Island would trigger a system mission,” Ximu thought to himself while eating.
When Laki was first sent by the Shandia chief, he had planned to refuse. After all, he didn’t intend to stay here long-term, so why would he need handmaidens?
But then the system had suddenly given him a third-party quest.
[Third Party: Laki and Wiper are childhood sweethearts who are in love with each other. Please, as the third party, capture Laki’s heart.]
The reward for this quest was a flight device (sailboat component).
[Flight Device (Sailboat Component): Can be installed on any sailboat to enable the ship to fly.]
It was because of this mission that Ximu had stayed on the Sky Island. Otherwise, he would have stayed for only two or three days at most before returning to Water 7.
After all, there was also Khalifa waiting for him to conquer there.
After dinner, the two girls followed Ximu away.
Seeing this scene, Wiper suddenly felt a little irritated inside for some unknown reason.
Having never experienced such a feeling before, he completely didn’t understand why.
Perhaps it was because he didn’t want to submit to this Fire God Ximu.
That was what Wiper was thinking in his heart.
…
Ximu continued to stay on Angel Island, surrounded by delicious food and beautiful scenery, and half a month quickly passed.
But back in Water 7, Khalifa felt like each day dragged on forever.
When Ximu had first left, she had actually been very happy, thinking that she could take this opportunity to get rid of him.
And at first, things had gone smoothly. In the first few days after Ximu left, Khalifa had found that he appeared in her mind less and less often.
Perhaps she would soon be able to forget Ximu completely, which excited her!
But as time passed, she found that she was missing Ximu more and more, hoping every day that he would return.
This made Khalifa feel somewhat scared; why was she turning out like this?!
Her heart was incredibly conflicted.
She had almost completely forgotten about her mission.
Sara watched Khalifa, who was distracted every day, and snickered secretly in her heart.
Her incomparably powerful chairman seemed to be a bad guy, too.
She had seen almost everything that had happened between Khalifa and Ximu from beginning to end.
From the beginning when the chairman had specially instructed her not to let Khalifa know about the Nico Robin investigation, Sara had suspected that Khalifa’s identity was problematic.
Then the chairman had made her cooperate in a charade, tricking Khalifa with the Pluton blueprint.
Then, not long after, Khalifa was with the chairman.
With Sara’s intelligence, it wasn’t difficult to figure out the logic behind this.
Clearly, Khalifa had stayed by the chairman’s side for the sake of the Pluton blueprint.
And the chairman had used that to lure Khalifa in.
That was why she said the chairman was a bad guy.
But it was better if he was a little bad; otherwise, she wouldn’t have any chance at all.
Sara licked her lips with a seductive look.
…
It was the twenty-eighth day since Ximu had arrived on Angel Island.
The system suddenly issued a notification.
[Ding! Task Defection, Defection 3 has been completed, obtain Skill Advancement Card (C), Skill Advancement Card (A).]
“Khalifa has been successfully conquered by me?~” Ximu was stunned.
After leaving Khalifa, he hadn’t done anything, so how could the quest be completed?
In the end, Ximu could only come to one conclusion: Distance creates beauty. []
Ximu chuckled softly; the feeling of completing two quests at once was really good.
He opened the system interface and used the two advancement cards on his Stone Throw and Swimming skills respectively.
Stone Throw was upgraded to a C-level skill, and Swimming was upgraded to an A-level skill!
Then, Ximu started grinding Stone Throw (C). He didn’t plan on grinding Swimming (A) here on the Sky Island.
After all, he didn’t have any confidants here.
Although he could stay in the water for five consecutive hours and the feeling of weakness had been weakened once again after he had maxed out his Swimming (B) skill, he was still in a state of having no combat power.
If someone had malicious intent, he would be completely powerless to resist.
So, every time he ground his Swimming skill after becoming a devil fruit user, he would have Kuina by his side.
After staying on Angel Island for another ten days, Ximu was ready to leave.
Although the third-party quest hadn’t been completed yet, based on his experience with Khalifa, Ximu felt that temporarily separating from Laki and letting her cool down might have a better effect.
When Conis learned that Ximu was preparing to leave, she felt very reluctant.
Actually, at the beginning, she hadn’t wanted to come and serve Ximu, but for the sake of all the Sky People, she knew she had to come.
But she was also a very traditional woman. After spending this time with Ximu, he had already taken an important place in her heart.
Even Laki, who was still in love with Wiper in her heart, couldn’t help but show a complex expression when she heard that Ximu was leaving.
Clearly, she liked Wiper in her heart, but now that Ximu was leaving, she didn’t feel happy either.
“Don’t worry, I’ll come back when I have time,” Ximu said with a smile.
If this place didn’t have any emotional ties for him, he might really not come back for a long time, probably only when the gold was used up would he come back to get some more.
But now that he had the two girls, and there was still a quest related to Laki that hadn’t been completed, he definitely needed to make time to come back.
Before leaving, Ximu summoned Gan Fall and the Shandia chief.
He knew that the Shandia people had always wanted to ring the golden bell in order to fulfill the promise made four hundred years ago between Calgara and Montblanc Noland.
But once the bell was rung, the people of the Blue Sea below would surely hear it. At that time, it wouldn’t be difficult for those with ulterior motives to guess that the legendary Golden City had been blasted into the sky!
That would definitely bring trouble to Angel Island.
If Ximu were here all the time, then naturally it wouldn’t matter, but the key was that he wouldn’t be here.
If a powerful person were attracted, the people here would be no match at all.
In the future, the Spring-Spring Fruit user Bellamy wouldn’t have gone to the Sky Island if he hadn’t heard the sound of the golden bell and even robbed a lot of gold.
Even the sound of this bell might even attract the World Government!
Who wouldn’t covet this enormous amount of gold?!
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PS: Asking for flowers, monthly tickets.
