After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Compared to the value of Mana Replenishing Grass, these grievances may not seem like much, but when one must hand over hard-earned gains, Kachuji feels even worse than if he had eaten shit.

"What are you looking at? Hand it over! Do you really want me to do it myself?"

Lia snorted coldly and slammed her greatsword on the ground next to her foot.

The ground where she struck instantly caved in, the massive force causing Kachuji's eyelids to twitch uncontrollably.

"Captain, just give it to them," commanded the leader of the Good Fortune adventure team, a golden-haired male elf with glasses, clutching his fists in humiliation.

"I... can't accept this! Over 200 Mana Replenishing Grasses; in my more than twenty years as an adventurer, I've never had such good luck!" Kachuji said through clenched teeth, his eyes blood red.

60,000 gold coins were a considerable sum for a Rock-level adventure team. The fortune they were about to grasp was suddenly snatched away by this gang...

Feeling like his freshly wedded bride had been taken away by a dark-skinned Viscount and returned only to have become 'secondhand'.

Kachuji's face turned from red to green, and then to pale green.

To the uninitiated, it may even seem that his wife was taken by Lin Da.

"—wait a minute.

"You are from White Dove City's adventure team?"

It was then that Kachuji noticed the badges on Lin Da and the others' chests.

Trailing behind them, the little tag-along Minnie made a face: "What about White Dove City? Who says we can't rob you? The Flame Adventure Team has been defeated too."

"Even Dennis...?"

Kachuji's eyes widened in shock.

"Count to three. If you haven't handed over the resources, then I won't be polite anymore," said Lia, stone-faced, her greatsword slapping in her palm like a teacher's ruler used for admonishment.

Perhaps in the eyes of Lin Da and his team, Lia's actions might appear somewhat cute and dumb, but to Kachuji, she was a fearsome devil!
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The red-haired girl's rounded legs peeked out from under her high-waisted shorts, wrapped in thick over-the-knee socks, with what sounded like reinforced steel in her boots clicking on the ground, exerting immense pressure on Kachuji.

"Here, take it then," under Lia's ferocity, Kachuji's hands trembled as he removed his Material Bracelet and poured out its contents.

A whole bunch of freshly picked blue Mana Replenishing Flowers, a chunk of Harl Ore, and a small mountain of Mondale Tree Fruits.

By the rules, Lin Da and his team, as invaders, were entitled to take seventy percent.

Claiming all of the Mana Replenishing Flowers, Lin Da left the rest for Kachuji.

In total, there were 203 Mana Replenishing Flowers valued at around 60,000 gold coins, costing 203 Material Points.

Lin Da had Minnie temporarily hold onto these, and they would divide the spoils using a 9:1 share after the fact.

This was as if Minnie and his companions had made an effortless 6,000 gold, and they started laughing cheerfully.

Lia was counting on her fingers how much gold she had earned, but soon ran out of fingers and felt dizzy with the math.

Oru laughed and said, "No wonder the adventurers from other cities come to rob White Dove City; the speed of making gold here is much faster than painstakingly gathering materials ourselves."

Lin Da, too, was feeling the addiction, and with a grand wave of his hand, he declared, "Let's go, on to the next team!"

...

Watching Lin Da and his team's fading figures, Kachuji was seething with anger deep inside. He pulled out the sensor ladybug to start a live broadcast, spreading the news of White Dove City's incursion all around.

Since the broadcast was sudden, not many people were watching.

The adventurers from Red Heart City would take some time to react.

And in this time, it was enough for Lin Da and his team to make a sweep through Red Heart City.

Lin Da's team had Lulu, the werewolf with excellent scouting abilities and acute senses, always able to find easy targets to crush.

For those Rock-level Squads, Lin Da didn't even need to lift a finger; having Lulu and the other two Star Rank members exude 'aura', they simply applied pressure to their foes. Lin Da would then chuckle villainously a few times, enough to terrify the other team into scrambling and willingly offering up their resources.

Haru Ore, Wind Stones, one after another Bronze and Silver Tree Fruits...

What others saw as a perilous public adventure area, to Lin Da and his companions, seemed like a land of gold everywhere.

With an endless stream of loot, everyone was smiling ear to ear.

In just three hours, Lin Da, Lia, and Minnie had filled their Material Bracelets to the brim, with the materials inside valued at nearly 830,000 Gold Coins.

Latter on, Lin Da came up with another idea, letting those they captured pay for their freedom.

This approach was remarkably effective. In the following hour, Lin Da and Lia's Savings Cards each swelled by an additional 200,000 Gold Coins.

For a time, in the vast public area of Red Heart City, only the desolate wind remained, along with the lonely light of the twilight and the stripped Mondale Trees.

Not a trace of the Rock-level Squads could be seen.

Fearing a second capture by Lin Da and the others, they all used Teleportation Stones to flee back to the city, complaining bitterly to the local adventurers.

It's worth mentioning that Teleportation Stones couldn't instantly return someone to the city; they needed to be used in a safe area, and the user couldn't be attacked during the process.

That afternoon, the folks over in White Dove City had a great time watching, but in Red Heart City, the reputations of the Phoenix Tail Flower and Snow Goose adventure teams plummeted dramatically, branded as 'robbers', 'invaders', and 'shrimp brains'.

All adventure teams captured by Lin Da and his group were treated the same, regardless of gender, all were required to leave their resources behind.

Adventurers from Red Heart City, robbed senseless, never considered how the adventurers from White Dove City felt when they were robbed.

They all directed their anger at Lin Da, denouncing him with both words and writing.

...

In the screening building of Red Heart City, Hall 11 was broadcasting the live strategy session of the Giant Hammer Adventure Team.

With over a thousand adventurers watching and not a single seat empty, it was evident that the Giant Hammer's adventure zone was very popular.

The screen showed a tiger-headed adventurer wearing a white tank top, his muscles bulging, with a pair of dark hammers crossed behind his back.

The tiger-headed man, Xiu, had a scar that spanned across his left eye, wore a black eye patch, and had a menacing look about him. He was chewing on a thumb-thick 'Dream Smoke', creating clouds of smoke.

[Xiu, Captain, our resource area has been terribly invaded by two Rock-level teams from White Dove City, if you find them, you must take revenge for all of us!]

[Good Fortune Adventure Team, Flame Adventure Team, Eagle Adventure Team... they've all been robbed by these people!]

[Damn it, Red Heart City has never suffered such humiliation, if we catch them, we mustn't just rob all their resources. We have to make those female team members show their bellies and apologize sincerely to Red Heart City!]

A group of people were making suggestions to the Giant Hammer Adventure Team.

Some were fans of the teams that had been robbed by Lin Da and his group, while others were local adventurers from Old Red Heart City, with a strong sense of local pride.

Stepping on Red Heart City felt like a slap in their faces, and their pride hurt fiercely.

The live broadcast in Hall 11 was set up by the Giant Hammer Adventure Team, a team entirely composed of Beastmen, and their fans were mostly of poor quality.

Used to bullying White Dove City, their trips there were performed with an air of entitlement. Now, these 'country bumpkins' from White Dove City were stepping on their faces, and the situation exploded, with these people cursing the Phoenix Tail Flower the most.

The tiger-headed Xiu glanced at the suggestions on the sensor ladybug, frowned, threw his Dream Smoke to the ground, and viciously stomped it out:

"Isn't Flame an Iron Level adventure team? How could they be robbed? That Dennis might not be impressive, but he's not someone Rock-level can handle!"

Xiu muttered, puzzled.

As a level 35, Xiu's Giant Hammer Adventure Team was a mainstay among the Iron Level. Naturally, they looked down on the recently advanced Flame Adventure Team.

But even so, Iron is Iron, and when Iron collides with Rock, only the latter would be crushed.

The vice-captain of the Giant Hammer Adventure Team, known as Brother Bear, was a black-bearded bear-headed man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Brother Bear, quenching his thirst with a straw in his honey lemon tea, chuckled upon hearing Xiu's words:

"Captain, that's why I say you need to read more newspapers, learn some culture. Your information is too outdated. If I'm not mistaken, those two Rock-level teams are probably Phoenix Tail Flower and Snow Goose."

"Huh? I've never heard of either. No matter who they are, once caught by our Giant Hammer Adventure Team, with you and me at Star Rank, couldn't we just crush them?" Xiu said, scratching his head, as steam snorted from his nostrils.

The six Beastmen team members all smiled in pride when they heard this.

Brother Bear nodded, "If they encounter us, of course, those two teams will be soundly defeated, but the Flame Adventure Team won't make it. Dennis is only level 33, and I've heard that Phoenix Tail Flower has a Werewolf who's quite powerful, even suppressed Nacho from the Specter Adventure Group in the Arena."