The topic about the protagonist ended after Paimon spoke up.
If they appeared in the same book, their relationship as male and female leads would be too ambiguous.
Besides, the young and beautiful Damselette Lumine, who has lived for who knows how many hundreds or thousands of years... cough... still had no thoughts of romance.
There was one thing though: Lumine considered herself not to be a yuri, but she still liked to be close with girls!
"Uh, so, what are you doing sitting here?" Lumine changed the subject, asking curiously.
"Me? I was just thinking about Primogems. Let me tell you, I earned over four thousand today selling lemonade!" Alex said excitedly.
"Hmm?" Lumine was puzzled.
Even Paimon beside her noticed something was off and asked, "That's not right. We sold the lemonade we made today for one Primogem a cup. I'm sure it wasn't even two thousand."
"Mmm, mmm, mmm." Lumine also nodded in agreement beside her.
"How did you earn the rest?" Paimon floated up and down, expressing her confusion.
"Ah, that's because I also have a shop in Fontaine, a big shop!" Alex put his hand to his mouth, as if telling a mysterious secret.
"Oh!" Paimon and Lumine understood at the same time, and the confusion in their hearts was resolved. That made perfect sense.
Speaking of which, Alex was a bit curious, looking at Lumine beside him: "How was your day? Didn't you leave with Noelle earlier?"
"Hmm, we followed Noelle out of the city and ultimately chose strength training. We fought many monsters and mined a lot of ore," Lumine generally recounted her day.
"Oh! I see, you chose to train your strength first!" Hearing Lumine say that, some long-lost memories surfaced.
"Yes, Noelle is really strong. As a maid of the Knights of Favonius, she has great strength and good combat skills," Lumine said. "Oh, by the way. You don't know this, but Noelle at that time..."
Paimon suddenly floated between the two and interrupted Lumine, continuing to speak while gesturing vividly with her hands: "She held a greatsword! With just one or two spins on the spot, the surrounding wooden stakes actually, truly, all broke!"
Alex also crossed his arms at this moment, one hand on his chin: "So that's how it was solved... Truly, it's too outrageous!!!"
"Haha!" Lumine laughed, clutching her stomach, as she heard Alex say that.
"So you know Ellin too! But she said: 'So that's how it was solved! Noelle is truly amazing!'" Towards the end, Paimon's tone changed, as if imitating Ellin.
Afterward, Alex said with some emotion, "Mining, what a coincidence. I also mined a lot today! Then I gave it to Wagner to forge, and it eventually became weapon experience."
He never expected that Lumine was also mining with Noelle today!
"Weapon experience! Level up!" Lumine suddenly stood up, then jumped and opened her Wind Glider, flying down.
"Where are you going!" Paimon quickly followed.
"Uh..." Alex scratched his head, seeming to know what Lumine was going to do.
She still had a pile of ore in stock!
He was too lazy to run another trip with Lumine, so he would just stay here, enjoy the breeze, and wait for Lumine to return.
If she didn't come back after a long wait, he would just go back to rest!
Fortunately, he didn't wait too long. Alex saw Lumine's figure appear on the rooftop of the Knights of Favonius headquarters.
Then Lumine climbed back over and sat on the right hand.
"Sorry to keep you waiting. I just went to the Blacksmith Shop," Lumine said to Alex apologetically.
"It's fine!" Alex waved his hand, unconcerned.
"Speaking of which. This Boreal Wolf's Cracked Tooth is...?" Lumine said, pulling out her Level 20 skyward ak.
Alex looked at it. This weapon required five Boreal Wolf's Cracked Teeth, twenty Hilichurl Masks, and thirty Sharp Arrowheads.
It actually needed this tooth material too!
But he couldn't gather five right now.
"Let's go, I'll take you to farm them!!!" Alex said, and taking Lumine, their figures disappeared from the hand of the Statue of The Seven.
"Starfell Sword! Descend!... Tremble!"
Inside the weapon domain, Lumine started with a smooth combo. All of it used the power of Geo.
After using her skills, a wave of water attached to Lumine. She immediately felt her body become sluggish, and when she tried to cast a third Starfell Sword, she couldn't.
"It's Slowing Water, a debuff. It extends skill cooldowns," Alex explained from the side.
"It's certainly annoying." Lumine nodded at Alex.
Afterward, she stood on the terrain formed by two Starfell Swords, wearing her tactical goggles, holding her skyward ak with both hands, hiding within her ultimate skill "Wake of Earth," and shooting from afar very cautiously!
"Da da da ~"
"Da da da!"
Geo bullets constantly crisscrossed, and the five-second blank period was perfectly covered by her skills and movement.
In short, with Lumine's addition, the fight was indeed a little faster, but it wasn't much different from when he fought alone!
Finally, Alex walked to the Ley Line Blossom in the domain and collected the rewards. Then he returned to the center, scanned the red key with his phone, and started a new round of combat!
Very quickly! Because Lumine's ore production was even more abundant than his! Other materials, Hilichurl Masks and Sharp Arrowheads, were also starting at thousands.
In the domain, Lumine only needed to farm ascend materials.
It's just... skyward ak: Level 50/50.
To ascend past Level 50, the character must first ascend past Level 50.
"Hmm???" Lumine looked at Alex with confusion: "What Level 50? Am I Level 50?"
"It's me," Alex pointed to himself.
"As for your level..." Alex said, then looked at Lumine's character panel.
Her panel still displayed: 1 ~ ?.
It was still so strange! Why was Lumine's combat power so unstable?
"Your level is 1 to a question mark," Alex shrugged, spreading his hands.
"How strange!" Lumine also made a strange expression: "Is it because my power is sealed?"
Alex didn't speak, just nodded.
Perhaps, the Traveler's combat power was always erratic.
Afterward, the two continued to fight a few more times, preparing for future weapon ascend materials. Although they couldn't ascend yet, they could still accumulate the materials first.
During this time, Alex shamelessly reached out and directly asked Lumine for many Mystic Enhancement Ores.
Then Alex also ascended his skyward harp to Level 50... After farming for who knows how long, the two finally looked at each other and nodded in satisfaction.
Where was Paimon during all this?
She was resting, sitting on a branch above the Ley Line Blossom, watching them fight from a safe distance!
Seeing that the two finally didn't want to fight monsters anymore, Paimon instantly perked up, flew down from the Ley Line Blossom, and came between the two, saying, "It's finally over!!! That's great! It should be dark outside now, let's go eat quickly!"
"Okay!" Lumine nodded with a smile, agreeing.
Alex also nodded along, taking them to the Good Hunter restaurant.
There was just one thing: he seemed to have become their bill-paying tool again.
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