Chapter Thirty-One: The Black Ancient Castle

  "She is said to be a very beautiful female adventurer."

  "Blonde hair, long legs?" Lin Li was taken aback at first, but quickly reacted and thought that in the entire Gallos City, he only knew of one beautiful female adventurer who fit this description, and that was probably Ina.

  "It seems like this, what's wrong, girlfriend?"

  "Kevin, you've been infected by Gwain, so gossipy... where is she now?"

  "I had someone arrange for her to wait in the reception room, but I don't know if she left or not..."

  "...Lin Li was very clear about the father and daughter's personalities, if they hadn't encountered something that couldn't be solved, they would never have come to find him. Thinking of this, Lin Li felt a bit anxious, hastily rushing out of the certification hall, while hurrying to the reception room, he complained: "Why didn't you notify me earlier..."

  "I was going to tell you..." Kevin rolled his eyes: "You just locked yourself in the room, and Master Long immediately issued an order that if anyone dares to disturb you, he'll twist their head off. Do you think I dare come?"

  "This old guy..." Lin Li muttered a complaint, but in his heart he was slightly moved. Gryan this old guy had thought it through, afraid that he would be disturbed at the critical moment of breaking through.

  The two of them soon arrived outside the living room. As Lin Ligang pushed open the door, he saw a pretty face crying with tears streaming down her cheeks.

  "Mr. Ferre...please..." The long-legged beauty's voice choked, her eyes already tearful: "Please save my dad..."

  "Ina, don't be agitated, tell me slowly what's going on." Hearing the long-legged beauty's sobbing, Lin Li was truly at a loss, and hastily comforted her by saying: "First, tell me, what happened to Mr. McGregory?"

  "Dad... he's going to die soon..." Ina cried, her beautiful eyes red and swollen. Under Lin Li's constant comfort, she barely held back her sorrow and began to tell the story of what happened.

  That day, after parting ways at the adventurer's guild entrance, McGreni father and daughter smoothly completed their task with the help of Lin Li's gift, the Lion's Tail Sting. According to their usual habit, they would usually rest for a while before taking on another task, but that day, for some reason, McGreni insisted on going to the task announcement area after completing the task.

  It's a bit of a coincidence, but just as the father and daughter arrived at the task announcement area, a new batch of task announcements came out.

  Among them was a task to find someone to search for an ancient castle in the Whispering Woods, and McGregni chose this task at a glance. The Whispering Woods were simply heaven and earth compared to the Sunset Mountains. The strongest demon there was only level 10, and there were very few of them. If you weren't extremely lucky, you wouldn't even encounter one after searching in the Whispering Woods for two or three years.

  The task content is also very simple, just need to find out the accurate location of the castle.

  A detailed map of the Whispering Woods, available for sale within the Adventurer's Guild for a mere ten gold coins. The castle's characteristics are also clearly described in the quest, a black castle that only appears after dusk. With these two clues, completing the quest is merely a matter of time, and the reward is a handsome one hundred gold coins, making it a far more worthwhile endeavor than hunting Lion Scorpions in the Sunset Mountains.

  So McGregory took the task very readily and didn't rest in Gallos City that day. After replenishing slightly, he went to the Whispering Woods with Ina.

  Just as MacGyver had anticipated, the mission went fairly smoothly.

  The father and daughter encountered no particular dangers on their journey and found the ancient castle mentioned in the task in just over a week.

  At that time MacGreni was very happy, after marking the location of the castle on the map, he planned to return to Galos City.

  Just then something unexpected happened.

  MacGrady, who had just put the map in his backpack, suddenly fell down without any warning signs.

  At that time, Ina was completely frightened...

  What's most frightening is that there aren't any wounds on McGregory's body, nor does it seem like he was attacked by a mental spell. Everything seems to be the same as before, the only difference being that McGregory has fallen asleep. According to Ina's description, McGregory's current state can only be described as having fallen asleep. Even after returning to Galos City, they could occasionally hear him let out light snores.

  But McGregory had slept too long this time.

  From the day they found the Black Castle until they returned to Gallos, McGreni had slept for seven days. During these seven days, he did not wake up once and did not eat anything, just like that, his body was getting weaker every day.

  According to Ina, when she came this morning, McGregory was already in a terrible state.

  Lin Li furrowed his brow and listened to Ina finish speaking, but he still couldn't think of any magic that could produce such an effect. After some thought, he decided to go take a look first before saying anything else.

  "Ina, take me to see Mr. Macpherson first, now I'm at a loss for the time being and can't think of any way."

  "En." Ina nodded obediently, her heart had been completely messed up since her father fell down, and at this time, under Lin Li's constant comfort, she had only slightly recovered some of her previous vitality.

  Lin Li's heart was a bit anxious, and he didn't even have time to greet Gwain. He just found Kevin and said: "Something happened to my friend, I need to go take a look at what's going on. Can you help me explain it to Gwain later?"

  "Damn it! I forgot to tell him about that......" Lin Li had already left the Emerald Tower, and Kevin suddenly remembered something important, but when he wanted to chase out the door, he found that the two had long since disappeared.

  The place where McGregory and his daughter settled was not far away. After leaving the Emerald Tower, they turned a few more streets and soon arrived in front of an old house.

  The house looked like it had been around for some years. When walking up to the second floor bedroom, Lin Li always felt that the wooden boards under his feet were slightly trembling.

  The room was tidy and clean, but the furniture looked a bit shabby. The blanket covering MacGregor even had several patches on it.

  McGreni once told himself that the reward for hunting a level 5 demonic beast, Lion Scorpion, in the Sunset Mountains was only a few dozen gold coins. Lin Li had some understanding of their situation as father and daughter.

  But Lin Li just kept this matter in his heart and didn't say much to Ina.