Up until now, Bai Qiu had countless opportunities to resell resources for Dragonfangs, or to win people over and build his own team — but he neither did so nor wanted to.
He could fight for resources through his own strength; there was no need to “harvest leeks” or play the middleman skimming profits.
This was his confidence in both his own power and his character.
As for why he never formed a team, the answer was obvious.
First, he simply didn’t think much of this group of people — they were far too weak for his standards.
Second, he didn’t believe he had the ability to lead others to become stronger.
If he were the one giving the commands, would he be able to create such a well-organized battle line?
Sometimes, having a clear understanding of oneself is important.
Bai Qiu knew he wasn’t that kind of person.
Bai Qiu took out an Equipment Upgrade Card and raised the Flame Orb to Grade C.
Then he pulled out the Blazing Staff and began helping the Flame Orb accumulate energy…
Flame Orb (Grade C)
Description: Can store magic power and convert it into a large amount of fire attribute energy. Injecting a portion of magic power will activate it, allowing it to charge automatically at 5% per hour.
Skill 1: Mana Transmission — Can transmit fire-attribute mana to a chosen piece of equipment or item. Duration: unlimited. Cooldown: none.
Skill 2: Fire Mana Affinity — Slightly increases the wearer’s affinity with fire mana, shortens spell-casting time, and slightly increases spell potency.
Watching the people in front desperately “scraping damage,” he asked, “How long can the Safe Zone barrier hold?”
“One hour,” Onipur replied.
Counting the time that had already passed, the barrier could withstand the attacks of four lord-grade monsters for roughly seventy minutes total.
Bai Qiu frowned but said nothing.
He was calculating how he should go about defeating the Cavalry Monarchs.
From the observations so far, their physical resistance was extremely high — the arrows raining down on them couldn’t deal any real damage at all.
On the other hand, a spell from one of the Caster managed to halt a Cavalry Monarch’s movements, which meant their magic resistance was far lower than their physical resistance.
Therefore, Bai Qiu needed to gather as many magic-based offensive methods as possible.
During this time, he had already consumed every kind of recovery potion and enhancement food available.
Combined with the recovery buff provided by the Safe Zone, he would need around fifteen minutes to fully restore his stats.
….
Inside the potion shop, Guinelia was treating the injured man’s severed leg.
After wrapping the bandages, she said, “Alright! With this, the wound should heal by tomorrow. But with my current abilities, I can’t regenerate such a large missing limb. We’ll have to think of something later!”
“Th… thank you…” Li Shi rasped.
His voice was already hoarse, but he looked far better than before.
Guinelia had cleaned his wound and even wiped away the snot and tears covering his face.
“I need to go. My brother needs me!” Seeing that Li Shi had calmed down, Zhang Shiyao ran straight toward the outside of the Black Tower.
The thin man who had helped carry Li Shi inside also said, “Get some rest.”
With that, he turned and left.
No comforting words, no mockery — for Li Shi, silence itself was the greatest kindness.
Clearly, those two good-hearted people thought the same.
I never thought… I would be saved by a child… and even comforted.
Li Shi sighed inwardly.
He no longer thought about the future; for now, he was simply grateful to still be alive.
When Guinelia noticed everyone had left, she quietly pulled out a bottle of Sleeping Potion and said, “Drink this, and you’ll fall right asleep! When you wake up, it won’t hurt anymore! I’m going outside to check what’s happening — there might be more injured people!”
She placed the potion beside his pillow and hurried off.
Li Shi looked at the Sleeping Potion in his hand, hesitating over whether to drink it, when suddenly Guinelia rushed back in.
She was holding a blanket and grinned, “Hehe, I forgot to give you a blanket. You need to sleep well!”
Then she gently covered him with the blanket and left again.
This time, she really was gone.
Li Shi ran his hand over the blanket draped across his chest, feeling its warmth.
He murmured, “So… she’s not an NPC… How… how did I only realize that now?!”
Tears gathered once more at the corners of his eyes.
One hand gripped the Sleeping Potion tightly, the other clutched the blanket, and his breathing slowly steadied.
…..
Zhang Shiyao rushed out of the Sanctuary Black Tower and ran to the mage merchant, hoping to buy magical arrows.
However, she was met with rejection.
“Sorry, little girl. At this stage, I’m only selling potion-type items,” the mage merchant said.
His gaze repeatedly drifted toward Bai Qiu, who was resting in the distance, as if he was calculating something.
“How can you do this?!”
Zhang Shiyao argued with the mage merchant for a while, but it had no effect whatsoever.
She regretted it deeply — regretted not stocking up on magic arrows.
Ordinary Dragonfang Soldiers were easy to kill without them, so she hadn’t bothered.
And now, to be told they weren’t for sale… she had truly created trouble for herself.
Gritting her teeth, she ran toward Bai Qiu.
If worst came to worst, she would have to use her Noble Phantasm!
Bai Qiu was resting with his eyes closed.
Hearing movement, he turned and saw Zhang Shiyao running toward him.
She asked with concern:
“Brother, how are you feeling? Are you hurt?”
Bai Qiu shook his head. “I’m fine. My mana has recovered to about 70%. In a bit, I’ll be back to peak condition.”
“That’s good! I’ll go see if I can deal any damage to those monsters.”
With that, Zhang Shiyao turned and ran toward the nearest Cavalry Monarch.
She drew her mithril shortbow and took out the fire arrows from her bag.
She had no other options left — she could only try.
Fire arrows were nearly identical to normal arrows, except they had an additional burn effect.
The mithril shortbow could only unleash its true power with magic arrows.
But what if… the fire arrows produced a special effect when fired by the mithril shortbow?
“Hah!”
Zhang Shiyao shouted, releasing a fire arrow straight at the forehead of the six-meter-tall skeletal warhorse.
Pzzzt…
The fire arrow struck the warhorse’s forehead, bursting into a small flame — and… that was it.
The skeletal warhorse wasn’t injured, but the explosion caused it to stiffen slightly, as if stunned for a brief moment.
Zhang Shiyao’s eyes lit up, and she drew another fire arrow and fired again!
Her excitement wasn’t just from seeing an effect — she had felt a change within the mithril shortbow.
It was charging.
Each fire arrow she fired activated a bit more of the bow’s internal energy.
Once she reached full magical saturation, she was confident she could use her Noble Phantasm to directly slay one of the Cavalry Monarchs!
— The end of the Chapter–
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