Even goblins are dangerous in this other world!

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Luo Xiu did not refuse again:

"I'll carry you; it'll be faster."

The woman's beautiful eyes curved:

"I was just about to say that you don't lift a girl by the collar, you have to do a princess carry—uh—uh—vomit—"

Before the woman could finish speaking, her neck was choked by her collar, making it hard for her to breathe. Her face turned red from the pressure, and she struggled desperately with both hands in the air.

……

This "garden" was even larger than it appeared from the outside. Luo Xiu carried the woman through it for nearly half an hour, and at his current speed, he still hadn't reached the boundary line.

"This way, this way—"

"There, there—"

"Look over there—thump!"

The woman initially kept giving orders from Luo Xiu, but after being flicked on the head, she quieted down, a large bump rising on her forehead. She muttered angrily under her breath:

"You wretched brat, you're so awful! If I'd known you were a kid, I would have spanked you a hundred times over!"

Suddenly, Luo Xiu stopped.

He turned around and looked in a certain direction.

There was a familiar smell there, a rotten, fishy stench that made me want to vomit.

He lightly touched the ground with his feet and walked in that direction.

Soon, as they drew closer, a huge black shadow emerged from the gray mist, vaguely resembling an incredibly tall domed building, about the size of the Gold Rush Casino, soaring into the sky.

"Snoring—snoring—"

The gray mist not only blocked the view but also blocked the sound. Luo Xiu only heard a sound as loud as thunder after he got closer; he hadn't heard it at all before.

The woman stopped her muttering and stared wide-eyed at the "domed house" that appeared before her, exclaiming in surprise:

"We're here, we're here, the thing we're looking for is right here."

Luo Xiu set the woman down, and a gust of wind rose from his palm, dispersing the surrounding gray mist and revealing half of the "domed house":

It was an enormous mushroom, even taller than some of the skyscrapers in my previous life. The dark brown stem was covered with thick mycelia as thick as trees, and between the mycelia, you could see countless tiny mushrooms, growing in clusters. If someone had trypophobia, just one look at it would probably give them goosebumps.

At the very top of the fungus stem is a huge cap, like the top of the sky. Every now and then, the cap will suddenly shrink and then open up again, spraying out thousands of spore-like substances.

Luo Xiu reached out and caught a spore.

He was very familiar with the shape of these spores; he had seen them before. The slender stalks tried desperately to burrow under his skin the moment they touched his palm, but he pressed them down with his hand and slammed them to the ground, whereupon they stopped moving.

"You brat, do you know what this is?"

The woman pointed to the enormous mushroom, a smug look on her face.

Having suffered repeated defeats at Luo Xiu's hands, she had finally entered her territory, so naturally she wanted to show off a bit.

She made up her mind that if Luo Xiu asked her for a favor and called her "sister," she would reluctantly tell him.

Unexpectedly, Luo Xiu walked right past her and looked up at the enormous, sky-covering dome.

Then, turning his head, he slowly spoke to her, amidst her utterly shocked gaze:

"This is the fifth-tier mushroom monster that was suppressed by the old earl of Earl Shek's family many years ago, right?"

Chapter 187 The Story of Kanriel 1 (Kanriel's Final Revelation Chapter 1)

The woman was stunned for a good five or six seconds.

She hadn't expected that Luo Xiu actually knew the details of the mushroom monster in front of her.

This is simply illogical, because the enormous object before them is a product of an era from long ago, belonging to the city's greatest taboo.

Even her senior brother Tata would never tell Luo Xiu this secret.

Because a legendary figure from the kingdom once set up a magic circle, and made a promise with those who knew this secret that no one was allowed to reveal it, otherwise they would suffer from the magic circle's interference.

Even she and her senior brother only got to know each other by chance.

But now Luo Xiu has said it out loud.

"How did you know?"

The woman couldn't help but ask.

"Guess."

Luo Xiu sized up the mushroom monster before him, which resembled a skyscraper, and slowly spoke:

“I looked through Kanriel’s old files. After the old count, mushroom monsters disappeared from Kanriel, but since then, mushrooms have gradually become the dominant color in Kanriel…”

"Decades after that battle, the Forest of Illusions appeared, isolating it from most of the interference from the Demon Bats."

"About a hundred or two hundred years later, Kanriel began to cultivate mushrooms, and from then on it prospered, ranking among the top in the kingdom."

"Two or three hundred years later, the plants on the land of Kanriel gradually decreased, and there were no more flowers and green leaves."

“Until more than four hundred years ago, the Gold Rush Casino appeared in the inner city.”

"Not long after, another so-called manor owner appeared."

"..."

The woman was silent.

The events that Luo Xiu mentioned seemed closely related, but they were actually scattered throughout the long history of Kanriel. Unexpectedly, Luo Xiu managed to uncover them and find the key to them.

Being able to name the money-making casino and the manor owner shows that Luo Xiu has completely seen through the true nature of this city.

No wonder he was in such a hurry to search in this "Kiyoga Garden"; he must have been trying to verify what he was thinking.

“The family of Earl Shek is truly full of geniuses. Perhaps it is because the old earl has good genes that younger generations keep emerging to innovate.”

Luo Xiu squinted and murmured:

"The strongest Tier 5 mushroom monster in that battle was recorded in the Kanriel Archives as being hundreds of meters tall, but there is no record of its corpse."

"Actually, my initial guess was that the mushroom monster's body would dissipate after it died, but that couldn't explain the origin of so many strange phenomena in the city of Kanriel. It wasn't until I saw it here that I finally confirmed the answer."

"Unexpectedly, the old count's suppression of a fifth-tier mushroom monster back then led to the prosperity of an entire city."

"Use the corpses of mushroom monsters from the battle to forge the Tier 5 item [Fairyland of Illusions], use the spores of Tier 5 mushroom monsters to improve mushroom cultivation, and then modify the newly cultivated mushroom monsters to use their power as tools for manor owners or money-making casinos."

Luo Xiu looked at the woman beside him, who was already shocked time and time again, and asked sincerely:

"Is there something wrong with what I said?"

The woman slowly shook her head:

"No, you're absolutely right. That's the origin of this city's prosperity."

"If we really want to correct this, then it's that this mushroom monster wasn't suppressed by the old count back then, but rather someone else set up a magic array to put the mushroom monster into a half-dead state and then seal it away."

Luo Xiu's heart stirred:

"Who?"

"[Introducer]"

This was also an amazing secret, but the woman did not hesitate.

Luo Xiu is Tata's apprentice and the person White chose; he will find out about this sooner or later.

She chose to say this at this time simply to show her approval of Luo Xiu as an elder of the previous generation.

"Our Dorant is but a small corner of the Grand Continent. Kingdoms of this size are countless on this continent."

"But we are one of the oldest kingdoms. Most kingdoms have lasted for three or four hundred years, which is considered a long time."

"And all of this seems to be due to the continuous emergence of unparalleled geniuses in the kingdom, leading the kingdom to resist the invasion of monsters time and time again. But in fact, behind these geniuses, there is a kind of person."

"[Introducer]?"

Luo Xiu spoke up, and what the woman said was indeed a secret he had never heard before. He couldn't help but be surprised, never expecting that Dorrant had such a hidden secret.

The woman nodded:

"The leaders, no one knows when they originated or where they came from, but each generation has a common mission: to cultivate the kingdom's most talented people."

"At that time, Kanriel was constantly attacked by demon bats, and as a newly emerging type of monster, the mushroom monsters would surely become a breeding ground for monsters if they were allowed to grow."

"Therefore, the old count led the people of Kanriel in a fierce battle against the mushroom monsters and the demon bats, fighting to the death."

"The odds of winning this battle were actually very slim, but the leader of that generation brought his students over after hearing about the battle, and finally, through the joint efforts of both sides, they won."

"After defeating the fifth-tier mushroom monster in front of them, the old count took the initiative to make an extremely dangerous suggestion: to seal the mushroom monster and try to study it in order to crack the monster's magic."

"In that era, this must have been very innovative, but also very extreme."

Taking advantage of the woman's pause, Luo Xiu spoke at the opportune moment.

"Yes, perhaps the madness of this city stemmed from this insane proposal, and that generation of [Introducers] was also very interested in it."

The woman nodded:

“He had similar ideas all along, but no one was willing to help. At that time, many people couldn’t even fight back against monsters. Fear was the dominant theme of that era.”

"So when the old count made the proposal, that generation of the [Guide] agreed, which is the result you are seeing now."

Women are very good at telling stories. After she finished telling her story, a far more difficult era than the present one appeared before Luo Xiu's eyes.

That era was darker, more desperate, and more powerless than it is now, but the people of that era still struggled to resist, trying to find a way out of the dark times.

Seeing Luo Xiu fall silent, the woman suddenly smiled brightly:

"However, none of this is recorded. I only heard it from others. Just listen to it and don't take it seriously."

Upon hearing this, Luo Xiu looked up and glanced at the woman.

It wasn't hard to guess who the "other person" the woman was referring to; he had once overheard her murmuring that her teacher was her senior from school.

Combined with the "teacher" mentioned by old White, and the moss-covered stone statue at the entrance of Kanrier, with White and Tata's names engraved at the bottom of the statue.

Tata, White, and the woman in front of them must all be students of the previous generation of [The Guide].

"I also have a story."