Chapter 198 The Brave Man's Book of Courage
Adam didn't say anything. He raised his glass and gestured to the man to express his gratitude, then looked him over while drinking.

He had a pair of lake blue eyes, and his facial features were not as hard as those of the Noraz people. Instead, they were very soft, with a faint smile on his face. There was a gentleness in his eyes, and he looked very young, about twenty years old. He wore a gray robe and a long sword at his waist, and was signaling to the boss to bring another glass of wine.

After he took a big gulp of wine, he smiled at Adam and said, "Bai Xiu, Bai Xiu Karent, a third-level warrior."

"Sloan, Sloan Myers, what's going on?" Adam said a fake name casually, looking at Bo Xiu's slightly trembling hands holding the wine glass.

Bai Xiu put down the wine glass, looked Adam in the eyes, and lowered his head slightly: "Your Excellency should be very strong, right?"

"Probably!" Adam played with the wine glass, which was a little small compared to his body size and palm.

"Would you please join my team? I am planning to form a strong team. Lord Sloan should be alone, right?" Bai Xiu was a little excited, his watery eyes shining.

Adam shook his head. "No, I'm more used to being alone. Besides, you're being a little presumptuous." He stared at Bo Xiu's slightly trembling body. "Can you tell me why you made this invitation?"

"I feel that Lord Sloan is very strong, stronger than anyone I have ever met," said Bo Xiu.

'Intuition or breath perception?'

A thought flashed through Adam's mind, and he said to him, "What now?" Then he let out a breath.

In Bai Xiu's eyes, the aura of the man opposite him, which was originally like a deep pool, slowly became turbulent, and boundless blood energy enveloped the heavy armor. Behind that man, there was a huge black shadow looking at him quietly.

Bai Xiu suddenly woke up, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was breathing heavily.

"Are there any powerful monsters nearby?" Adam turned to the tavern owner and ejected a silver coin.

Old Quinby caught it skillfully, and the silver coin slid down his palm into the drawer of the bar. "If it's you, my friend, you should be able to deal with powerful monsters. Let me think about it... There is a wild lion one hundred miles northwest of here. It should be considered powerful. As for the others..."

Old Quinby shrugged. "After all, there are so many adventurers and imperial knights clearing out the area. There aren't any tough bones to chew nearby."

"Thank you." Adam nodded and drank the rest of the wine in one gulp. "The wine is really good. I will come again if I have the chance."

He stood up and looked at Bai Xiu: "Don't use your senses to sense others casually. Being too sensitive will put you under greater pressure, especially when facing a high-level transcendent."

Adam ignored Bai Xiu and walked out. When he opened the door, the moon had risen and there were a few black birds standing on the tung tree in front of the tavern.

"What a beautiful moon." He looked at the stars that looked like jade plates. This world also has the sun and the moon. According to legend, these two celestial bodies are symbols of the Lord of the Furnace.

Adam got rid of the smell of alcohol and prepared to take advantage of the moonlight to see if the lion was strong enough.

In the pub, Bai Xiu finished a glass of wine. The cold liquid swirled in his stomach and he felt much better.

He slapped the bar under old Quimby's disapproving gaze, ran to an empty table, and picked up his teammate from the ground.

"Wake up, wake up, Valen, I found my next teammate." Bo Xiu said, pulling his drunken half-dwarf companion.

Valen pushed Bai Xiu away and said, "Baisiu, you bastard, don't bother me while I'm drinking. Don't you know it's my blood? By the way, how did you learn the art of clones? Isn't this the specialty of wanderers?"

Bai Xiu looked at his companions helplessly. Although they were the union of a dwarf and a human who loved drinking, he shamefully did not inherit the dwarf's unparalleled alcohol tolerance. Not only that, he was also a guy who could not live without alcohol.

"Valen, your mining shovel is gone." Valen's dizzy eyes suddenly cleared up: "No, no, that's my baby." He reached out and touched it, and the small mining shovel was still hanging honestly around his waist.

"Bai Xiu you bastard!"

By the time Bai Xiu and the other man ran out, Adam was no longer there.

"It's all your fault, Valen. You are not allowed to drink for the next two weeks!" Bo Xiu said with a smile, which frightened the half-dwarf. "Sir Sloan may go to fight against the wild lion. We can try our luck there."

"Two weeks is too long. You are asking for my life. It should be at most two days, no, two hours." Valen muttered behind Bai Xiu, "We two level three warriors cannot feed the barbarian lion. Give up, Bai Xiu."

"No, I am determined to defeat the devil. How can I give up so easily?" Bai Xiu said as he walked out of the city.

The two of them left the city one after the other.

"The moonlight is so beautiful today!" Bai Xiu said while standing outside the city.

Valen also looked up: "Yeah, it looks like a round wine barrel. And why is there a person standing on the moon?"

Without hesitation, a green light emerged from Valen's body, and two door-sized shields appeared in his hands. He protected Bai Xiu, whose body shape he inherited from his human father, behind him, while Bai Xiu also drew his sword.

The figure on the moon gradually appeared. It was a guy wearing a uniform similar to that of a black butler. On his shoulder stood a crow with red pupils, floating in the air.

"Hello, I am Shediel, the middle-level demon under the command of the seventh seat of the Dark Lords, and I bring you sincere greetings, the unknown dwarf and... the brave lord." Shediel placed his hand on his chest and bowed.

"You...how do you know?" Bai Xiu couldn't keep smiling and looked serious.

Shediel stood up and said, "I'm sorry, but I'm not in the habit of explaining during a battle, especially when it comes to enemies, so could you please die, brave hero?"

As the words fell, Shediel appeared behind Bai Xiu and stabbed Bai Xiu with his right hand wearing a white glove.

Bai Xiu felt a sharp pain in his head and swung his sword violently. The sword net was impenetrable and covered his whole body.

But Shediel had returned to his original position, watching Bo Xiu swinging his sword like crazy. The next second, he was already close to Valen. His weak-looking palm pierced through Valen's armor on his chest, and was then blocked by the green light of Valen's body. The next second, he returned to his original position.

"There should be some kind of limitation on his short-distance displacement. He should land in the same position every time. Pay attention to the interval and cover me." Bai Xiu said.

There was only a muffled sound behind him, and Valen collapsed to the ground. Shedir stood next to Valen, and the figure in the sky slowly dissipated.

"Give up, brave man. I have used magic to weave this place into a cage. I can move infinitely. It is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. If you don't want to suffer, please hand over the Book of Courage."

As he spoke, Shediel transformed into hundreds of identical figures, saying in unison: "You can't escape!"

Bo Xiu looked at the hundreds of Shediers, his arms trembling, and stabbed one of them.

"That trick won't fool me."

Xie Dier moved to another position, but was found by Bo Xiu again. As the number of people on the field decreased, when Xie Dier appeared again, a long sword had been waiting for a long time. With a slight thrust, it pierced Xie Dier's chest.

(End of this chapter)