It was another uneventful day.
On this day, Alex was frantically completing Katheryne's bounty commissions.
It only took him one morning to finish all of them, making him the most efficient Adventurer in all of Teyvat.
When he asked Katheryne if there were any more commissions, to his surprise, Katheryne handed him a Domain bounty mission.
"?" Alex was puzzled.
Katheryne smiled and explained, "It's like this, your Adventurer's experience has initially reached the first standard, and you need to undergo an Adventurer Rank assessment. This is what we call an 'impressive' mission! Upon completion, you will receive further recognition from the Guild."
"Ah, so that's how it is," Alex nodded knowingly.
Afterward, his long-silent phone rang again.
Alex opened his phone with surprise, and then became even more astonished.
Another mission had appeared.
[World Level Up Mission]
Complete the Adventurer Rank assessment mission given to you by Katheryne.
Mission Reward: Upon completion, the World, Domains, Bosses, and wild monsters you encounter while present will all increase by one rank. At the same time, the experience dropped from all outputs and the quality of material drops will increase.
After ascending.
Domain outputs have a small chance to yield gold-tier items.
Boss outputs have a small chance to yield complete gold-tier gems.
Wild monster outputs also have a small chance to yield purple materials.
"Ah?" Alex was pleasantly surprised.
He had been worrying that the monster levels were mostly twenty to thirty, and the material drops were very few.
The most crucial thing was the artifacts; when would he get gold-tier ones?
He hadn't expected that he still needed to join the Adventurers' Guild and become an Adventurer like the Traveler to improve.
If he didn't join and just played casually, he could still have fun.
He could easily rampage through the World, but the artifacts wouldn't be good.
With excitement, Alex immediately went to complete the mission in the Domain specified by Katheryne.
All the monsters were easy to defeat, even though each of these enemies was Level 60, much higher than his current Level 46.
But Alex was already used to it and easily defeated them in seconds.
Oh, right, after defeating the final boss and getting the certificate, Alex suddenly remembered.
Oh no, why had he been slacking off these past two days? He should have been farming experience books every day.
But it was fine; this time, after leveling up, even the Ley Line Outcrops' output increased, and he even had a source for large experience books. It was worth it!
He would go farm immediately after completing the mission and quickly raise his level to 50. He wanted to see what the ascend materials were so he could prepare in advance.
So Alex arrived at the Teleport Waypoint at the northeast gate, but the two know-it-alls who usually stood there were nowhere to be seen.
Perhaps they were also Fatui, and were lying low for a few days to reduce their presence.
Alex chuckled to himself, and then... he was completely unprepared.
Alex immediately stopped smiling. He had thought he still had a long time.
He had been in a hurry the past two days, but not today, because Alex had many things to do today.
He had even planned to set up a stall in Mondstadt tomorrow to exploit the Primogems there.
But at this moment, Alex saw Amber standing not far from Katheryne.
Standing next to Amber was a blonde Traveler, with the white emergency food, Paimon, floating beside him.
Alex slowly approached. From a distance, Alex recognized at a glance that the blonde Traveler was the female lead, Lumine, whom Alex had been looking forward to!
Wow! His luck was really good!
The Abyss said: Damn it, it's off-pity again! When will this end! The probability of pulling Princess Lumine is harder than getting a gold-tier item, I seriously suspect the probability is 0.98%, and there's no pity system either!
As he got closer, Alex heard their conversation: "Oh, by the way, before we go to the Knights of Favonius Headquarters together, I have a gift for Lumine~ It's a thank you for helping me clear the Hilichurl camp just now~"
"Oh~ What kind of gift is it?" Lumine actually spoke up, asking Amber curiously.
Paimon, upon hearing about a gift, her eyes widened: "Me, me too! Why don't I get a gift!"
"Uh... because it's something little Paimon can't use," Amber said, spreading her hands helplessly.
Hearing this, Alex no longer paid attention. Instead, he quickly ran to Katheryne and urged, "Katheryne, hurry, hurry! No time! My mission is complete, quickly get this done for me."
"Hmm, please wait a moment, I will verify it now," Katheryne said, then took the certificate Alex handed over.
"Hmm, hmm... This certificate is indeed the one our Guild placed! Congratulations, your Adventurer Rank ascension mission is complete, I will process it for you now," Katheryne said, then began to take out the official seal and other items to complete the procedures for Alex.
"Hey, good morning, Alex~" After finishing his conversation with Lumine and Paimon, Amber immediately saw Alex standing by the Adventurers' Guild looking in their direction, and quickly greeted him.
"Good morning, Amber~... Uh, these two?" Alex pretended not to know them, waiting for their introduction.
"Oh, them? They are Travelers I met while on patrol today. Her name is Lumine, and this little companion is Paimon."
Paimon first spoke to Alex very politely: "Hello, my name is Paimon, it's nice to meet you~~"
At this time, Paimon's voice was soft and sweet, very pleasant to hear.
"Hello, I am Lumine," compared to Paimon, Lumine's tone was quite flat.
However, it was really good that Lumine wasn't mute here, and Alex was satisfied.
"Hello everyone, my name is Alex. I'm also very happy to meet you," Alex said with a smile.
"But... Lumine, how can your Paimon talk? It's so amazing~ Could it be that emergency food has gained sentience!" Alex said, then secretly chuckled.
Lumine immediately laughed, and before Paimon could speak, she said, "Haha, you see Paimon~ it's not just me who thinks that."
"How dare you!" Paimon was very angry, stomping her feet in the air, then putting her hands on her hips: "I am not emergency food! If you say that again, I'll give you an ugly nickname!"
"Hehe, don't be angry. I happen to have a puppet about your size, I'll lend it to you to play with first," Alex said, summoning the heavy armor bunny puppet.
And this time, as soon as the puppet appeared, it also said: "Power, standing, by. Baron Bunny, ready for deployment."
Paimon saw the puppet about her size and her face showed surprise, but its voice seemed to have a mechanical tone.
"Hello there~" Paimon happily and politely waved her hand, greeting it, wanting to get to know this new friend.
"..." The heavy armor bunny puppet was silent, then entered its idle animation, standing on its cannon, with one foot on the high handle and one hand on its hip, showing an invincible stance.
"Hmm?" Paimon was puzzled, why didn't this guy respond?
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