Chapter 135: Becoming a Qualified Rogue Again
The Southern Wilderness stretched endlessly with vast grasslands and barren lands, extending all the way to the distant swamplands.
Few people lived in the wilderness, but the kingdom sent troops every year to explore it, to prevent any high-level magical creatures from hiding there and causing trouble.
In order to maintain the continuation of human magical civilization, it is necessary to protect and preserve the diversity and quantity of magical creatures.
For example, this lush green grassland, where most of the monsters are between level one and eighteen. Occasionally, there are some higher-level ones, but they don't exceed level twenty-five. It's perfect for students to team up for hunting. And if anything goes wrong, there's a teacher of at least level twenty-seven or twenty-eight who can help.
The places ahead are not where they can go, especially the final swamp area.
Rin stepped confidently on the green grass, seeming to have forgotten what happened that night.
As they entered the Southern Wilderness, all the teams began to spread out. Rin confirmed the direction and pointed southeast, "Let's head this way next. The largest river in the Southern Wilderness is just ahead in this direction, and there must be many monsters nearby."
The silly elk was the first to applaud, agreeing with Little Rin.
Then, she stared seriously at Emilia's closed hand, shaking her ahoge hair, "I... I choose the positive side!"
Waste Hero opened her palm, revealing a lily flower on the silver coin, quickly matching hands, "Let's start over."
"Silly Emilia, you can't cheat!"
Suyu rolled her pretty eyes, whispering "childish," regretting her impulsive decision to join Rin's team.
After glancing at Rin's back, the Lord Demon King thought he needed to find a chance to comfort her junior's heart.
Unfortunately, for two days in a row, a certain fox didn't find an opportunity to strike.
The hero and princess unexpectedly showed remarkable perseverance. The hero would squat outside the tent every day, claiming to have resistance to drowsiness so he didn't need to sleep, yet he would doze off during the day and insist on piggybacking his junior brother.
The princess, on the other hand, seemed to like sleeping at night but would stick to her junior brother during the day, even when Suyu was tutoring Rin, she would sit on the side, eyes fixed on them without blinking.
Of course, the school's rule of one-person tents being too small and inconvenient was also a reason.
The fox with anxious red eyes finally made a decision on the third day, not caring about the Sword Saint who always followed behind. Today, she must tie up the hero to a tree and then go on a night raid on the junior brother. The princess would be tied up next, and if the Sword Saint intervened, he would be tied up too.
Suyu, feeling much better after making the decision, even the air seemed clearer.
"There are precious jewel melons on the tree, Waste Hero, hurry up!"
At that moment, Rin was standing under a tree, looking up at the orange-red fruits hanging on it, feeling delighted.
Emilia quickly climbed up the tree like a monkey, grabbed some fruits off the branches, and tossed them down lightly.
First, she aimed at Suyu's head with a fruit, but the Lord Demon King swiftly caught it and threw it into Rin's open bag.
The next fruit was heading straight for Elise's head, but a silly elk suddenly turned its head to talk to Rin, causing the fruit to bounce off her chest and into the bag.
Waste Hero squinted her eyes, feeling a bit annoyed, as she kept throwing fruits down. She didn't hit any girls but accidentally hit a tundere, who then scolded her for a full minute.
Miss Hero made a big miscalculation today and had to climb down obediently in the end.
Rin picked up the fallen fruits, had Suyu use water magic to clean them, and then handed out one fruit to each person to enjoy.
The school provisions were only bread, eggs, jerky, and water, which wasn't very exciting. They were only allowed to bring a cooking pot, so even hunting and gathering could only result in stewing or roasting, which was quite boring.
"After we eat, let's find a camping site. The grassland giant ant colony is quite close by, we should head further inside."
Rin led the group in the new direction as he spoke.
About half an hour later, Suyu suddenly said, "There are people ahead, in three groups."
Emilia tilted her head and asked, "Are we going to rob them?"
Rin gave her a playful punch and said, "Seems like you enjoy robbing, huh? Behave yourself outside."
Waste Hero held her head, and stared at Rin anxiously, "You said last time, if you don't feel like hunting, just go steal."
"I was just kidding! Okay?"
Rin rubbed his chin and said with a mischievous smile, "It's quite a coincidence to run into each other after being apart for a few days. Three groups... and with us, that makes four groups meeting together. Quite lucky, huh?"
Suyu's eyes sparkled with a hint of mischief as she glanced into the distance before returning her eyes to normal.
"Younger brother, indeed it's lucky. It looks like two groups are robbing the other, and the one being robbed seems to be from our school and in a bad situation."
Rin thought about the villainous tasks that had arisen before, smirked ironically, and said, "I know who those two groups are. Let's go check it out and see if my guess is right."
The silly elk affectionately rubbed Rin's face and said, "Little Rin is so silly, he cares about his classmates but why did he say that."
Rin pushed away her hand and retorted annoyed, "I don't have time to care about a group of lazy people, watching the excitement is just watching the excitement."
After saying that, Rin tugged Elise's ahoge hair and left first.
Near a pile of boulders, seven or eight people surrounded four people, one short-haired girl was already kicked to the ground, gritting her teeth and glaring at a few people.
Leading the two teams were a tall thin man with black hair and Rin with spiky blond hair.
The tall thin man with black hair retracted his foot, directly grabbed the girl's wrist, and forcefully pulled off the space bracelet she was wearing.
"Wow, looks like we hit the jackpot this time."
The small boy, being restrained by a burly man, angrily exclaimed, "You guys are all jerks! How dare you steal our loot, the academy won't let you get away with this!"
The black-haired man gulped nervously, "I'm so scared, isn't that right, isn't that right, the Royal Academy of Magic can't handle losing? Don't forget that the competition for loot is in accordance with the rules, whether we broke them, what can you do?"
On the side, Rin chuckled, "If it's just those rich kids' team, it's okay. I already found out that the highest-ranking family is just a knight, and the other three, one had their title taken away, and the other two are commoners. Even the teacher following you from afar wouldn't care about them, right?"
She watched helplessly as her hard-earned treasures, such as deer antlers and Magic Cores, were divided among two pairs of thieves. The short-haired girl bit her lip tightly, her eyes turning red with tears.
"Oh, don't make that face, it's just a game. Let's try harder, hunt more, and we'll come back again."
Just as the man with black hair finished speaking, he heard a voice nearby that sounded even more arrogant than his own.
"Look at what I see, a group of pigs fighting for food!"
