Grinding EXP From Fireball Skill-Chapter 89: The Curse of Poverty

Li Wei stood in an alley outside the Professional Association.

A figure emerged from the Professional Association, glanced left and right, and slipped into the alley.

"Here."

Lilia handed the money pouch to Li Wei, her eyes fixed on it, clearly reluctant to let it go.

The Shadow Attendant emerged from behind Lilia.

Li Wei took the pouch and glanced inside. The eight Gold Coins and the Demon Core were all there.

He took out a Gold Coin and handed it to Lilia.

"Your payment."

Lilia looked surprised. "This much?"

She said, a little embarrassed, "It’s too much. I’ve only ever earned a few Silver Coins for delivering things for people before."

Li Wei was surprised. "You’re an Official Assassin, but you take commissions to deliver things for people?"

Lilia nodded repeatedly. "Yeah. I can’t fight, so all I can do is run errands and deliver things."

Li Wei: "..."

Now he understood why Lilia’s memories contained no combat experience.

It was because she had never actually fought before!

For a Tier One Peak Assassin to only run errands for every mission... it was a disgrace to the Assassin profession.

No, that wasn’t right. In the dreamscape, she had killed the Nightmare Beastman with swift techniques and vicious moves. She didn’t seem like someone who had never fought.

Li Wei gave Lilia a deep look. ’She has too many secrets,’ he thought.

"Take it. Buy yourself some more food and get out of Maple City quickly."

Li Wei pressed the Gold Coin into Lilia’s hand and turned to leave.

He wasn’t worried about Lilia exposing him.

First, Lilia didn’t even know who he was.

And second, no one would be able to catch Lilia.

Watching Li Wei’s retreating back, Lilia was deeply moved. ’What a good person!’

Half a day later, Lilia was hiding in a dilapidated house.

The sound of footsteps was everywhere outside.

She didn’t understand. Why were so many people suddenly trying to catch her?

As soon as the footsteps outside faded, Lilia quickly slipped away.

"Have you found that Assassin named Lilia yet? The Rock Demon Beast’s Demon Core is in her hands! You have to find her for me!"

Martin used his connections, sending people everywhere to search for any trace of Lilia.

It wasn’t just Allen. Martin also wanted to use the Rock Demon Beast’s Demon Core to concoct an Awakening Magic Potion and break through to Tier Four.

With the hope of breaking through to Tier Four right in front of him, he naturally wasn’t going to let it slip by.

Allen was very surprised to learn that the Demon Core had appeared in the hands of a Tier One Assassin.

He had thought the Fire Element Mage had been killed.

But after thinking about it, he figured that the person was probably unwilling to reveal their identity and had found someone else to collect the mission reward for them.

Allen was also searching for Lilia.

He wanted to contact that mysterious Fire Element Mage through Lilia to buy the Demon Core.

For a time, Lilia felt like she couldn’t take a single step without being watched.

There were people looking for her everywhere.

Lilia muttered, "Why did things turn out like this?"

"Where did it all go wrong?"

She scratched her cat ears until they were almost raw, but she still couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong to cause the entire city to be hunting her.

’The city is too scary. I want to go back to the camp,’ she thought.

But at that thought, she hesitated.

’But... there’s no food back at the camp...’

She was torn.

The camp was safer, but she would go hungry.

The city was dangerous, but she could find food everywhere.

Most importantly, she had received the largest sum of money in her entire life. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

A whole Gold Coin!

Thinking of this, she subconsciously felt her pocket and froze on the spot.

"The Gold Coin? Where’s my Gold Coin?"

Lilia searched all her pockets, only to find the Gold Coin was gone.

"Waaaaah..."

...

Li Wei stood by the window, observing the commotion in the city outside.

’This seems to have blown up a bit. Is it really necessary? It’s just one Tier Two Demon Core,’ he thought.

The commotion immediately made Li Wei dismiss the idea of selling the Demon Core.

He decided it was better to wait until things died down before finding a way to sell it.

Li Wei went to the third floor of the Mage Tower and exchanged for a bottle of Basic Level Magic Potion in the Treasure Vault.

He then went to the library and spent twenty Contribution points to learn the Tier Zero Magic, Mage’s Hand.

After doing all this, Li Wei had basically spent all his money.

He was left with only one Gold Coin and six Silver Coins.

He was broke.

[Mage’s Hand (Tier Zero Entry Level)] 0/1000

Thanks to his Basic Level Mana Control Extraordinary Trait, it was already impossible for Li Wei to fail when casting Tier Zero Magic.

Unless the Magic Model itself was flawed.

Even though it was his first time casting Mage’s Hand, Li Wei completed the casting with ease.

A pale blue, translucent hand appeared before his eyes.

Through the connection between his Spiritual Power and the Mage’s Hand, Li Wei felt as if he had grown an extra arm.

A thought stirred in his mind.

’If I could create a thousand Mage’s Hands at once, wouldn’t that make me like a Thousand-armed Guanyin?’

He controlled the Mage’s Hand to move.

An Entry Level Mage’s Hand had a maximum range of five meters and could lift a maximum weight of ten kilograms.

Li Wei’s Spiritual Power could already extend up to thirteen meters.

Under his control, the maximum range of his Entry Level Mage’s Hand reached a full thirteen meters.

Influenced by his Basic Level Mana Control Extraordinary Trait, the Mage’s Hand’s maximum lifting Power also increased to fifteen kilograms.

’The movement speed is so slow. No wonder no one uses it for combat,’ he thought.

Li Wei watched the Mage’s Hand slowly move while gripping a fifteen-kilogram object.

He had accelerated it to its limit, but the Mage’s Hand’s speed was still sluggish, a mere 0.5 meters per second.

Even when empty-handed, the Mage’s Hand’s speed was only 1 meter per second.

At such a slow speed, even an ordinary person could easily dodge it.

’I’ll grind it for a night and see,’ he thought.

Li Wei spent the afternoon consuming a Magic Potion to cultivate his Mana, and that night, he intensely ground his Mage’s Hand skill in the dreamscape.

A night passed.

[Mage’s Hand (Tier Zero Mastery)] 111/2000

A Master Level Mage’s Hand had a maximum range of twenty meters and a maximum lifting Power of thirty kilograms.

The movement speed had increased slightly. Its empty-handed speed reached 2 meters per second, while its speed at maximum load reached 0.8 meters per second.

Excluding the effects from Li Wei himself, a standard Master Level Mage’s Hand only had a maximum range of ten meters and a maximum lifting Power of twenty kilograms.

The movement speed wasn’t greatly affected, as it was primarily limited by the circuitry of the Magic Model.

Li Wei shook his head, still feeling unsatisfied.

He could already see the limits of Mage’s Hand.

Even if he cultivated Mage’s Hand to the Perfection Level, it would be difficult to put to any significant use.

Mage’s Hand wasn’t invented for combat in the first place; it was purely for the convenience of Mages retrieving objects.

For the next few days, Li Wei holed up in the Mage Tower and focused on his Cultivation.

On the third day, his Mage’s Hand reached the Small Success Level.

Its maximum range reached thirty meters, and its maximum lifting Power reached sixty kilograms.

Its top speed was 3 meters per second, and its speed at maximum load was 1 meter per second.

In the early morning, Li Wei was in his room experiencing the effects of his Small Success Level Mage’s Hand.

Gu Ze came to his door.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.

Li Wei called out, "Who is it?"

"It’s me," Gu Ze said.

Hearing his voice, Li Wei controlled the Mage’s Hand to open the door.

"Teacher Gu Ze, what can I do for you?"

Li Wei asked as he walked out of the study.