The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix's Novels Also Desires Happiness Chapter 307: I Can’t Understand

"Take my — Heavenly Fire Greatsword!"

In the forest, fallen leaves drifted down.

A crimson-gold greatsword swept in splendid arcs; fla surged like a dragon; flecks of blood scattered from the heart of that firelight, blooming into strange, bewitching red lotuses.

Then, amid the dying wail of the magical beast, the exquisite fireworks faded, leaving only the girl standing with her sword planted in the ground, panting beneath the already sowhat dazzling sunlight.

"Finally... won!"

Ariel’s face was sared with blood, yet it could not conceal the excitent in her eyes. After battling for several hours, she had finally defeated this magical beast that was even stronger than she had expected!

Though her body was full of exhaustion, her spirit felt particularly replete; her whole being felt elevated.

Sure enough, only this kind of life-and-death, evenly matched slaughter could satisfy her!

"Congratulations."

Her Master’s delighted voice sounded by her ear:

"Being able to defeat this overlord-class magical beast already speaks to your strength—at the very least, you’ve left your peers far behind. At your age, possessing such power was exceedingly rare even in my era."

"Hmph, my goal isn’t just my peers!" Ariel curled her lip, speaking with disdain.

"Having such ambition is best."

Master smiled:

"Go claim the spoils that belong to you."

At the words “spoils,” Ariel’s eyes suddenly lit up. Looking at the corpse of the magical beast on the ground, she felt her little heart thump wildly of its own accord.

So strange—she hadn’t even been this nervous when she was fighting the beast to the death.

She subconsciously swallowed, walked over slowly, crouched, and pulled out the small knife she carried.

Then, under Master’s guidance, she little by little opened up the beast’s body, piece by piece extracting the precious materials from it.

"Hide and fur—at least fifty thousand Aemier."

"Claws—thirty thousand Aemier."

"Teeth—one hundred thousand Aemier."

Listening to Master na each price in her ear, Ariel found her hands trembling uncontrollably, yet she still forced down her excitent, took a deep breath, and from within the beast dug out the most important thing—the core.

A magical beast’s core was the essence of its powerful body, with wide-ranging uses. The stronger and purer the core, the more priceless it beca.

Therefore, the value of this core was...

"At least one million!" Master’s voice was firm and decisive!

One million...

One million.

One million!

Ariel felt as if she were standing in a secluded valley, the three words with special magic echoing by her ears on and on.

One-million-one-million-one-million...

This was one million!

A chest that big wouldn’t even hold all of one million!

So happy!

"How strange, Master."

Ariel took a deep breath, rubbing the bridge of her nose that had gone a little sore, and said:

"Obviously, before the black market was shut down, I could also earn a million, so why am I only this happy now?"

"This, perhaps, is the return on effort."

Master laughed:

"I told you before, you could not be trapped by poverty forever, because you could never lack ways to make money. It would be better to say that your previous situation was the real accident."

"Right, exactly—before, that was just an accident!"

Clutching the core tightly, Ariel felt all the gloom and vexation of this period disperse completely.

She wouldn’t need to eat black bread every day anymore.

Nor would she need to pinch and scrape and rack # Nоvеlight # her brains calculating the use of every coin.

And she wouldn’t need to spend Liya’s money, making herself look like so pretty boy living off a woman!

This was only a beginning—a very good beginning. From now on, she, Ariel Bugaard, would never again be troubled by money!

One day, whether in strength or in wealth, she would far surpass that damned Muen Campbell!

"Right—Liya, I have to hurry and tell Liya this good news!"

Ariel was so excited she nearly jumped up. She subconsciously glanced at the sky:

"Ah, it’s already this late. My sneaking out has probably been exposed."

"But it’s fine. Liya won’t bla , and if you want to know why—because I earned a million. A million!"

Any scolding or coquettish anger Liya might show upon discovering she’d snuck out in the middle of the night was tossed clean out of Ariel’s mind.

She had already started to think about how she should allocate this large sum once she reached Aelierze.

Mm, first, she had to repay Liya. Though Liya kept saying there was no need, she still must repay it, because Article Nine of the Old Siji Strategy Manual: before feelings are confird, you must place both sides on equal footing.

Then, maintenance for her beloved greatsword, and purchasing all sorts of materials she and Liya needed—especially the materials for making magic scrolls. As long as those were bought in full, she could definitely rake in another big profit.

You had to know, a place like Aelierze definitely had a black market!

After that, after that, ca the main event.

She’d heard their group would be staying in Aelierze for around three days. With ti so ample, plus money so ample in her hands, she could...

Go on a date!

That’s right—invite Liya on a date!

Though it couldn’t be called that for now, inviting her out to stroll the streets alone, to have a little world for two, to keep doing this and that to draw closer—what difference would that have from a date?

This was a great opportunity to deepen their feelings!

"Haha, my lovely Liya, here I co! Beautiful date, I’m coming too!"

Thus, after sketching out all these wonderful things, Ariel set off back the way she ca with excited steps.

...

"Eh?"

"Eh-eh-eh?"

"Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh?"

The excitent had not yet faded from Ariel’s face, but at the sight before her eyes, she went blank.

As if a hurricane had swept through, the trees not far away had been uniformly pressed down, snapped, uprooted—leaving a huge clearing and a crater like a teor strike.

What had originally been dense forest into which sunlight could hardly penetrate had at this mont beco as open as a grassland. Lifting her eyes, she could see in the distance that deep, ominous Forest of Dead Calamity.

"M-Master? Did I go the wrong way? Or did I fall into an illusion?" Ariel’s delicate face went pale as she stamred.

"You didn’t go the wrong way, and you’re not under an illusion."

Master’s tone carried a trace of gravity as he said in a low voice:

"There are traces of battle here—battle between top-tier experts. Two... no, at least three Crowned! And the aura of powerful magic. This place was sealed before, which is why I didn’t sense it."

"C-Crowned...?"

Ariel felt her brain practically crash.

What happened?

Why was it that she only went out to hunt a magical beast and ca back rely two hours late, and things had developed to this?

And a full three Crowned-level experts?

Where did they co from?

Why?

Were you top experts just bored, so you fought here for fun?

I can’t understand!

And the most important question is...

Everyone... and Liya—where did they go?

Could it be...

Staring at the scene of utter devastation before her, the most unacceptable possibility rose in her mind. With a sudden thump, Ariel collapsed weakly to her knees, and involuntarily raised her head to loose a long, mournful cry:

"No—Liya—"