After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Lulu was stunned briefly.

It was still the familiar rooftop, a tall man dressed in familiar black clothes, wearing a mask.

He had appeared again.

—["Dark Shadow"] Lin Da.

In the dream, time seemed to stretch indefinitely.

Lulu felt as if she had been trained by Lin Da for eight or nine hours, but the sky remained pitch dark, without a hint of light.

"This is it? Get up, continue attacking me."

Lin Da walked up to the exhausted Lulu, his black combat boots stepping on the werewolf girl's palm, a cold mocking laugh emanating from beneath the mask, as if toying with a weak ant.

The training had to be rigorous.

Only then, the "Experience Guidance Ticket" could take effect.

Lulu's face was covered in sweat, her short hair sticking together as she gasped for breath.

"If you want to become Star Rank, stand up."

"Defeat me... no, even if you injure me slightly, you win," Lin Da said calmly.

Lulu propped herself up from the ground, trembling as she climbed to her feet.

The fight erupted again.

As expected, Lin Da sent Lulu flying.

Then he would use the Healing Art, restore Lulu to health, and continue the bout.

In this life-or-death ordeal, Lulu's combat skills rapidly improved.

Once again, Lulu attacked.

Like a pale blue lightning bolt, she darted back and forth through the night sky.

Suddenly, Lin Da felt a chill behind him.

Without a thought, he threw a punch.

The punch hit Lulu in the abdomen.

In terms of dream damage, Lulu was "dead."

But just as he hit Lulu, her beast claw swung fiercely—Lin Da, of course, dodged it, but then realized that Lulu's target was not him. His pure white mask was sliced into several pieces and fell off.

"I won."

Lulu saw Lin Da's dazed expression and her lips curled up, "The mask is part of you too, you said that as long as I injured you, I win."

"Then I'll reward you—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Lulu suddenly collapsed toward him.

Lin Da caught Lulu, a streak of green light flashed, and her injuries were fully healed.

But Lulu did not get up; instead, she pushed Lin Da down, sitting on his waist, her tail gently swaying.

The werewolf girl's beast claws transformed back into delicate hands, boldly cupping Lin Da's face.

"Not enough," Lulu murmured softly, "I want to choose the reward myself. This is my dream, after all, why should I listen to you?"

Actually, it's my dream...

Lin Da thought to himself.

"The content of the contract to join the team isn't like this," he emphasized.

After a spirited battle, Lulu, all sweaty and enticingly fragrant, had a different kind of allure.

Sweat dripped from the girl's snowy chin, plinking onto Lin Da's chest.

The slight impact, the warmth of the sweat, an incomparable sense of reality.

Constantly challenging Lin Da's fragile nerves.

"I know, the most important part of the contract content is that the team member must obey the captain's orders, follow the captain's arrangements,"

Lulu's lips hooked up in a provocative smile, "But this is my dream, unrelated to reality, and now you are my defeated subordinate."

"Wait..."

Lin Da's voice abruptly stopped.

Blocked by a pair of soft lips.

Under the moonlight.

The werewolf transformed into a pure white lamb.

Lin Da was struck dumb.

The scene before him was indescribable.

Forget it.

It was just a dream, after all.

Lin Da sighed.

He grabbed Lulu's small hands.

They began to move.

…

…

With a boom,

Level-Up Radiance descended.

Lin Da's 300,000 Experience Guidance Tickets were all used on Lulu.

The werewolf girl threw her head back and let out a howl.

A powerful aura burst from the core source, forming a mini energy storm around the two.

Lin Da, who was pinned underneath, laughed.

300,000 Experience Guidance Tickets allowed Lulu to level up twice.

She became a 31st-level Star-ranked Adventurer!

Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team now officially had its own Star-ranked member.

Everything was quite good.

Except for Lulu's leveling-up posture, which was somewhat indecorous.

Other adventurers leveled up in training rooms, at the World Tree, or in the wilderness after conquering Magical Creatures... Alone Lulu, inexplicably, sat on him to level up.

Lin Da felt someone else's Level-Up Radiance for the first time.

It was warm.

And it got even hotter inside...

Stimulated by the Level-Up Radiance, Lin Da shuddered.

He wore a sage-like smile, free of desires and wants.

Dream guidance concluded, Lin Da slowly woke up.

The scenes from before still hovered before his eyes.

The werewolf girl's bashful expression, her handsome howl, her wild attacks... completely different from the usual cold Lulu, as if she had become a different person, which scared Lin Da stiff.

"But..."

"It was quite fun though."

Lin Da burst into laughter.

He got up to wash up.

Looking at his own trousers.

No way...

Lin Da was stunned.

It was all a dream, so why did his body in the real world also manifest anomalies?

He felt sticky all over, uncomfortable.

He had no choice but to take a bath and change into fresh underwear.

Then, Lin Da looked at his bed with some worry. If he let Tasya wash the sheets he'd taken off, his dignified image as team leader would surely be ruined. If he washed them himself, it would seem too deliberate and could easily lead people to speculate what might have happened on those sheets.

After some thought, Lin Da decided to let things take their course.

A healthy adult male occasionally getting his sheets dirty was normal. Even if he gave them to Tasya, she wouldn't overthink it.

As for Lulu...

Was she in the same situation?

Recalling the lovely scenes in the dream, Lin Da's cheeks grew hot.

Thinking from a realistic standpoint, he had to congratulate Lulu on breaking through to Star Rank—there was no way he couldn't have felt the energy fluctuations from her leveling up.

Lin Da slapped his head, pushing aside the memory of Lulu's bad dream persona, and opened the door to the corridor.

Dong dong.

"It's me,"

Lin Da knocked and called out softly.

The door opened quickly.

A distinct scent of bathing water and the warm fragrance of a girl just out of the bath enveloped him.

Lin Da's spirit revived, and his blood flow sped up.

The door before him swung wide open to reveal a girl in a bath towel, her pale blue short hair wet.

Her fluffy beast ears were also wet, drooping on her head and sometimes shaking instinctively, splashing droplets everywhere.

It was... sort of cute.

Seeing Lulu in a bath towel and watching him with a strange expression, Lin Da panicked for a moment, fearing that the dream had been revealed.

He scratched his head and said, "If it's not convenient for you, you can get dressed first; I'll come back later."

"It's okay," Lulu stepped aside and whispered, "I don't mind if it's you."

"Then I'm coming in."

Walking into a girl's room in the middle of the night for the first time, Lin Da felt uneasy and nervous.

Inside was a very plain girl's bedroom.

The bed had several chibi werewolf dolls, adding a touch of girlishness, but the other furniture was minimalist. The only doll was a gift from Monica to Lulu.

Lulu sat on the white bed while Lin Da sat in front of the desk.

The atmosphere was delicate.

Lulu hung her head low, one hand clutching the top of the bath towel, the other on her snow-white thighs, her face still slightly flushed.

It was somewhat like what had happened in the dream, now in reality.

Lin Da coughed, breaking the ambiguous atmosphere, and said, "Congratulations on reaching Star Rank."