Who made him a paladin?

Chapter 11: A Bountiful Harvest

After eight seconds of severe dizziness, Xia Nan felt as if half a century had passed before she recovered.

He secretly vowed that he would never use this combat skill unless absolutely necessary, even if it was an area-of-effect attack.

Xia Nan sat on the ground, tapped his head with his hand, and his blurry vision refocused.

But the two women not far away, one turned around, the other had her eyes covered, while Bruce kept kowtowing as if worshipping some deity.

Xia Nan was confused, but he was certain that his body felt lighter and his buttocks were painfully pricked by sand.

A gentle breeze swept by, bringing a cool, empty feeling from somewhere.

He looked down, and his lips twitched involuntarily.

No wonder the notes say it's not for women...

Although Xia Nan is used to being shameless as a comedic streamer, this nonchalant attitude is really unacceptable.

Suddenly, he caught sight of a succubus lying on the ground not far away, her clothes still relatively intact.

It seems that the human mage was undoubtedly transformed from her.

Succubuses are not unfamiliar to Xia Nan, who often plays "mini-games".

However, the succubus also noticed Xia Nan's gaze, which seemed to be appraising a precious treasure.

I'm currently injured by the sword energy and will probably need to rest before I can move freely again.

But she wasn't worried about dying at all.

She prided herself on being able to charm any creature, and Xia Nan's expression at this moment was sending a clear signal.

This guy will fall in love with himself soon.

But Xia Nan's next move shattered her confidence in an instant.

"Aren't you shy?" Xia Nan strode over and asked solemnly.

"Why...why do you ask that?"

The succubus hesitated, not expecting Xia Nan to ask such a question.

Even if he was captivated by his own charm, with so many people around, did this human really intend to ignore everyone else and explore the mysteries with him?

Thinking about this, the succubus secretly felt that this human was quite interesting.

"Answer me." Xia Nan's rebuke brought the succubus back to her senses.

"No... I'm not afraid."

Next, as expected, Xia Nan began to take off her leather pants.

The succubus seemed to enjoy it, offering no resistance whatsoever, and instead cooperating extremely well.

After the leather pants slipped down, she sat up straight and calmly waited for Xia Nan to remove the last remaining disguise.

To her surprise, Xia Nan put on the leather pants without a second thought.

"It's a bit small, but at least it can be used for emergency avoidance."

Xia Nan muttered to himself, quickly put on his pants, and patted his wrapped-up buttocks.

"Hehe, this is quite interesting."

The succubus's body went limp as if deflated, and she looked at Xia Nan with disbelief.

Is this even human?

Even Bruce, who was bursting with excitement and ready to watch the show, was stunned by Xia Nan's outrageous and baffling actions.

"Speak," Xia Nan said in a relatively calm tone, trying to cover up her embarrassment with a question, "Why did you kidnap the princess?"

The succubus opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end she just turned her head away in humiliation and remained silent.

Stubborn?

It's okay, there are plenty of ways to get you to talk.

Just as Xia Nan was preparing to put his interrogation skills to practice, a scent of musk wafted from behind him.

Immediately afterwards, he felt the cold touch of metal on his neck.

"I advise you not to move." A hoarse and cold female voice rang in my ear. "Otherwise, I can't guarantee that this little knife won't like the blood from your neck."

Xia Nan swallowed hard, and even fragments of Supreme Treasure and Zixia flashed through his mind.

But I don't recognize anyone behind me, so how can I fool them?

Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of three figures slowly emerging from the woods.

Leading the group was a paladin, whose silver-white plate armor gleamed in the sunlight, with the griffin emblem representing royalty engraved on his breastplate.

The figures on the left and right are a human male wearing a dark blue mage's robe and an elven ranger wearing black leather armor.

Xia Nan also noticed that the elf was holding a goblin bear head that was still dripping blood in his left hand.

This squad, in terms of both equipment and morale, is far superior to an intern like Xia Nan.

"Your Highness Sylvie." The leading paladin ignored Xia Nan and bowed directly to the princess with his hand on his chest. His voice was loud and magnetic. "Please forgive our lateness. The deacon of the Holy See made a small mistake, assigning the task of rescuing you to an unrelated person."

As he spoke, his gaze swept contemptuously over Xia Nan and the rather artistic leather pants she was wearing.

"If he hadn't taken the wrong assignment, this damned farce wouldn't have dragged on for so long. Rest assured, I will deal with him personally to uphold the discipline of the Holy See."

Xia Nan noticed that Sylvie's brows furrowed.

Although Xia Nan scolded her and made her crawl through a dog hole.

But Xia Nan was full of mystery and contradictions that she had never seen before. His unconventional and unpredictable nature was far more captivating to her than the hurt she had suffered.

"Deal with?" Sylvia's voice turned cold. The moment she turned around and saw Xia Nan, her pupils shrank, and the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

But to maintain her persona, she coughed lightly, suppressing her surprise, and coldly questioned:

"Linus, are you going to punish my savior?"

Linus looked slightly embarrassed, clearly not expecting the princess to react this way.

"But Your Highness..." he hurriedly explained, "If he hadn't mistakenly accepted the mission assignment, you and Princess Elena wouldn't have had to suffer like this."

Sylvie crossed her arms, raised her head, and looked at Linus with a disdainful gaze.

"Servant, if I repeat myself a second time, you know the consequences."

Her words, sharp as ice picks, pierced Linus's heart, turning his face pale and then red.

He was originally sent to secretly assassinate the princess so that the goblin could be blamed afterwards.

However, their plans were disrupted by an unknown newcomer.

To protect the princess, the king has now hired a skilled assassin from another country, so there's no chance for him to make a move.

Thinking of this, Linus glared at Xia Nan with extremely unfriendly eyes, wishing he could devour him alive.

"You won't release them, is that it?"

Sylvie's slight pressure caused Paladin Linus to quickly lower his head.

Seeing this, the dagger that was held to Xia Nan's neck was removed.

Xia Nan breathed a slight sigh of relief and turned to look at the person behind him.

Before me was a girl with a stubborn expression, but a delicate and lovely face, like the girl next door.

Interestingly, her lower body was actually the legs of a goat covered in white fur.

She wore a short black cape over her shoulders, with tight black leather armor underneath, and two pairs of curved goat horns growing from her snow-white high ponytail.

At this moment, Xia Nan also noticed that the female assassin's eyes were constantly moving on him, sometimes drifting to other places, and then naturally drifting back after a while.

Unsurprisingly, I was also shocked by this leather pants look.

What Xia Nan couldn't understand was how such a cute face could be associated with such a cold and sinister profession as an assassin.

"Her name is Lisa," Sylvia said as she approached. "She's the new bodyguard my father found for me."

"Clang."

Sylvie casually tossed the black metal ring that the mage had removed to the ground, then looked at the succubus, her azure eyes blazing with fury.

"You despicable creature, how dare you subject this princess to such a humiliating disgrace!"

As she finished speaking, a cluster of orange-red flames danced on Sylvie's fair fingertips.

"etc."

Xia Nan held the broken sword horizontally in front of the flames.

Seeing this, a faint glimmer of hope flashed in the succubus's despairing eyes.

Is this paladin going to plead for himself?

"Your Highness, don't you want to know the reason for your kidnapping?"

Xia Nan's style took a sharp turn for the worse.

"I have a thousand ways to torture her until she opens her mouth."

The succubus was disappointed once again.

This human being is indeed not something you can look at with normal thinking.

In contrast, Sylvie only paused for a moment before turning her head to look at Xia Nan with great interest.

She understands the racial characteristics of succubi, and she's afraid that Xia Nan might be bewitched while she's interrogating him.

Sylvie is now quite curious about what methods Xia Nan will use.

If someone's soul is stolen, they become no different from an ordinary person, and can even be cut off and kept by one's side as a servant.

Thinking of this, Sylvie nodded and put away the flames at her fingertips.

"If I can't find out the truth, I will punish him for the offense I committed today as well."

"I will definitely not let you down."

Xia Nan snapped his fingers and then began cleaning up the battlefield on his own.

He crouched down and reached out to touch the orbs of light scattered among the corpses.

This time the harvest was quite fruitful, with a total of 12 white orbs, 3 purple orbs, and 1 red orb.

Upon inventory, the white orbs were mostly copper and silver coins, with the best being a gold coin. In total, there were 1 gold coin, 3 silver coins, and 8 copper coins.

Xia Nan's gaze fell on the purple orb of light.

[Entry: Fighting Power, Level 3!]

Type: Invalid after three uses.

Quality: Purple (Rare)

Description: After use, Strength and Constitution attributes +25, lasting for 5 minutes.

[Entry: Ten-Turn Net-Cleansing Gu]

Type: One-time use.

Quality: Purple (Rare)

Description: This technique involves residing in the Tenth Heavenly Dao to purify the Gu worms, preventing any suggestive language or ambiguous actions from affecting the user for 30 minutes.

Xia Nan was somewhat surprised, and even began to suspect that this "Greed" might have been a human who had read some strange novels.

It was also discovered that these entries did not seem to specify that they were only valid for themselves.

If it could be used by others, it would be much more useful.

After dealing with the purple loot, Xia Nan, breathing slightly rapid, turned his attention to the red light.

Modgan

Quality: Red (Legendary)

Type: Gloves

Additional attribute: Strength +2

Additional skill: When you are within 1 meter of the target, you have a 100% chance to steal any item from them. Can only be used once per target within seven days.

Note: Secretly amaze everyone.

A twisted smile gradually appeared on Xia Nan's lips.

Putting aside the fact that +2 to strength can significantly improve a weak body.

If you combine this additional skill with [Jealousy], wouldn't you be able to get whatever you want?

Although it's not exactly honorable.

Xia Nan nodded with satisfaction, then waved to Bruce.

"Buddy, it's time for us to go into the cave."