"What a death."
"Hahahahahaha. 』
"You are worthy of being from the Nine Hells. This joke is too hellish. Is there anything more hellish?"
Facing the three people who were just having fun, the Harvest Demon's originally calm expression suddenly became extremely tired. He knew that no matter who heard about this incident, their first reaction would be to ridicule!
"Ahem, I mean, is there something wrong with your brain? Why did you sign such a contract?"
Although he didn't know the inside story, Chen Zhou wondered, wasn't it obvious that Esconte was tricked by someone else?
"Many other devils said the same thing, but I just... felt that what the policyholder said when signing the contract was irrelevant, so I signed the contract without realizing it."
Esconte is now 1,000% sure, just like Chen sitting across from him, the other person must be a charming person who talks sweetly and is full of swords!
In any case, the past cannot be undone, and he can only avoid the greatest loss by trying his best to find the beneficiaries.
The beneficiary is a tainted scholar named Minna Lancaster. The last time she appeared in people's sight was while exploring the corpse of a god in the astral world.
Since then, no one has seen her again, and no one can interfere with her through various prophecies and spells.
It was as if the world had evaporated.
"You filthy scholar, it's not surprising that you disappeared from the world."
"The problem is the corpse of the god. I need someone to go in and explore it on my behalf."
As he spoke, Esconte provided information about the god’s corpse.
It was an asteroid that was transformed into an unknown god after his death. The Gith Chicken Keeper hollowed it out to use as his own fortress, and it seemed to be conducting some military training.
Before disappearing, the insurance beneficiary was commissioned to sneak into the place to find a magical item called "Lathander's Gold Cup", but there was no news after that.
Considering the xenophobia of the Gith Chicken Keeper, the other party may have encountered something unexpected, and the reason why he cannot use spells to intervene is probably due to interference from other spells and effects.
Chen Zhou roughly understood what happened and where the beneficiaries were, but he still had many questions: "Have you tried negotiating with the Jis chicken farmer?"
"No...no."
Esconte answered very reluctantly: "I can't go to too dangerous places now. If I accidentally die once, everything will be over!"
Before he can interfere with the outside world again, the insurance period will expire, causing him to donate 729,000 gold coins to the Church of Lathander.
Not to mention whether he could sell everything to raise money to get it out, after that... they didn't dare to ask the Lathander Church to collect taxes after the nine prisons?
And once he couldn't get the money together, his end would be quite miserable according to the insurance he signed at the time.
Damn it, Chen Zhou continued to ask: "Then do you think I look like you have a brain problem?"
Esconte fell silent. A lycanthrope doesn't look very smart anyway, right?
Seeing this, Chen Zhou's face darkened: "Can I ask you your first and last name? If I have the opportunity in the future, I might sign an insurance business with you such as traffic accident insurance."
"You obviously want to trick me out and kill me!"
Chen Zhou spread his hands. Anyway, if he doesn't accept the commission, whoever wants to accept it will.
Firstly, the devil must have concealed a lot of information and not disclosed it. Secondly, signing the insurance might itself be a set-up.
If the Lathander Church lost such a large amount of donations that could have been obtained because of him, wouldn't it be difficult to behave in front of other friendly pastors?
Lathander is not a magnanimous person...
After resolutely rejecting the commission and ridiculing it, he went back to the Adventurer's Guild to choose a mission that seemed more reliable:
"Conquering the Ancient Dragon to Collect Dragon Jade";
"Crowdfunding to write a book and recruiting people, hurry, hurry, hurry";
"Ghostwriting Homework";
"Soliciting for Vertical Drawings";
"Together build the Palu factory";
…
Through the various tasks in the guild, Chen Zhou re-experienced the diversity of adventurers in the astral world.
However, among a large number of mysterious missions that seemed difficult to tell whether they were true or false, he also found a rather reliable choice - "Newcomer Investigation Team Recruiting Teammates".
The team of new adventurers was ambushed by goblins in their first mission and was almost wiped out. The caster of the team died unexpectedly, and finally fled without armor through the temporary teleportation effect.
Having lost their property and spellcasters, they were unable to move in the outer world, so they had to return to Qiu Ming Restaurant to regroup.
Although the background of the team was unsettling, after noticing the plane they were going to next, Chen Zhou immediately became interested in the investigation team.
They were going to Asta.
"Strange, what's so worth investigating about a shabby place like Asta?"
This is what Chen Zhou is curious about.
Therefore, with the help of the guild, he applied to join the investigation team as "Newcomer Arcane Successor Chen"...
After just half a day, his application was processed and he was notified to go to the tavern to negotiate with the investigation team, which only had two people left.
The leader of the team is a lamp bearer named Tila. Although her profession contains the word "human", she is actually a Dorval Penguin, a fey creature with psychic talents that looks very much like a penguin. .
This species is an average of 3 feet tall, brightly colored, and has no penguin wings, replaced by arms and small hands.
In the minds of astral adventurers, their race is an extremely treacherous businessman, almost monopolizing underground transactions in many planes.
But in fact, they are actually relatively legal...as long as their own interests are not involved.
Chen Zhou didn't know which god created such a race of penguin merchants, but he always felt a strong sense of déjà vu.
Another member of the team looked very familiar to Chen Zhou. He was very pleased that he could still see dwarfs, residents of the main material plane, in the star realm - even though the latter were made of metal plates, mechanisms and gears. The automatic dwarf Xiaohei created.
A small machine that was originally supposed to be used for work, but malfunctioned and spawned itself.
According to the other party's self-introduction, this automatic dwarf is a Zen shooter.
The moment he saw the two small races, Chen Zhou understood why they were almost wiped out by the goblins.
Isn’t this a complete lack of combat effectiveness?
"Ahem, Mr. Chen, you want to join our investigation team, right?"
Tira, the penguin with blue and white feathers, rubbed his hands with joy: "However, our mission is of great importance. A little carelessness may cause the entire plane to fall into catastrophe. Not everyone can participate."
"You need to prove to us that you are trustworthy enough, like..."
Before he finished speaking, the automatic dwarf on the side reminded him in a clicking accent: "Tila, we have wasted half a month at Qiu Ming Restaurant. If we don't hurry up, we will miss the contract."
"Well, congratulations Mr. Chen, you are admitted. We will go to Asta immediately!"
(End of chapter)
