Chapter 9 The Fruit of the Spirit

  This morning, after eating breakfast and returning to the house, Huayun was reading a book called "The General History of the Continent". Before long, there came a knock at the door.

  "Come on in!" Huayun put down her book and stretched out a lazy waist.

  Luna walked in from the door, her face filled with excitement: "Hua Yun big brother, because Catherine is about to break through to become a 3rd rank mage, so the captain plans to take us to buy divine fruit, let me ask you if you're going or not?"

  "Divine Fruit?" Hua Yun was slightly startled, immediately closed the book in her hand and exclaimed: "Go, of course go!"

  Seeing Hua Yun's anxious look, Luna couldn't help but giggle: "Hua Yun big brother, you're not in a hurry yet, it'll be a while!"

  "Haha!" Hua Yun could only give an embarrassed smile at her own rash behavior.

  These days, Hua Yun has been reading books in his own house. Since this is just a mercenary town, the books that can be bought are not many, only some basic books like "The Continental History". In these books, apart from describing things related to continental history, races, countries, occupations and so on, there is another thing that occupies a very large part of the content, that is, the Divine Fruits!

  The continent of Ailen has two combat occupation systems, namely the mage and warrior. This world advocates for strength being supreme, but all living things on the continent of Ailen have a special feature: in order to enhance their strength, they must obtain the divine fruit.

  A third-tier magician wants to become a fourth-tier magician, in addition to mastering the power of magic to reach the fourth tier, he must also eat the four-tier divine gift magic fruit with the same attribute as himself, otherwise, no matter how strong his magical powers are, he will not be able to reach the strength of the fourth tier and cannot use fourth-tier magic.

  Similarly, a third-tier Black Iron Warrior who wants to become a fourth-tier Bronze Warrior must also consume a fourth-tier Divine Gift Fruit.

  Not only has human strength increased so much, but even growing magical beasts need the divine fruit to advance.

  Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons...

  As long as it's a living thing, if you want to upgrade your rank, the Divine Fruit is indispensable.

  It is said that this is a divine rule set by the gods to prevent the infinite expansion of the strength of surface creatures.

  Therefore, the planters who can cultivate the divine fruit have become a hot profession on the Allen continent. An ordinary person, no matter how poor their talent is, can become a warrior through hard work, but mages are different. On average, only one in a thousand people has the talent to become a mage, and those with planter talents are even rarer. Among every hundred mages, there will be only one planter who possesses weak life magic vitality. And to become a true planter, the conditions are even more stringent.

  Planters without combat power usually have many powerful warriors and mages following them. Even if it's just a first-class planter apprentice or a second-class planter intern, in some small countries, getting a title is also an easy thing to do.

  In Hua Yun's understanding, the Plant Masters in this world are similar to botanists on Earth. This makes Hua Yun, a genius botanist on Earth, extremely excited, and his professional instincts also make him extremely interested in this divine fruit that can enhance human strength.

  He had long wanted to see for himself the so-called divine fruit, and upon hearing this news, how could he not be excited.

  Hua Yun and the others made some simple preparations, and after a while, under Luo En's lead, they headed towards the only Plant Master shop in the small town where they could buy Divine Fruits.

  The Plant Master's shop was on the other side of town, and along the way, everyone chatted and laughed, except for Hua Yun, who didn't feel like much time had passed before they arrived at the Plant Master's shop.

  Seeing the slightly luxurious storefront in front of her, Huayun couldn't help but smile faintly. Indeed, as recorded in the book, in this small town full of mercenaries, apart from the Mercenary Guild's hall, there was no other building that could compare to the store in front of her at this moment.

  "I am the owner of this store, Baroque. What would you like to buy?" Seeing that there were customers coming in, a lavishly dressed fat man immediately came forward, apparently the owner of this place.

  "Oh, we want to buy a third-order magical fruit of divine gift, can you introduce us?" Ron's attitude was extremely respectful. In this small town, there was only one plant shop that sold divine gift fruits, which were not something that could be seen everywhere. Behind any plant shop that could sell divine gift fruits, there would be a considerable force, and such a force was not something that Ron, a mercenary, could afford to offend.

  Baroque smiled all over his face and nodded: "Three-level magic power granted by the fruit of God's gift, what attribute do you want?"

  "It's on fire!"

  "Alright, you all wait a moment!" After instructing the young servant beside him to receive the guests, Baroque walked into the back room.

  Hua Yun carefully sized up the store from the moment she stepped in, it wasn't big but was extremely luxurious. In many places throughout the store were placed lush green plants, making people feel refreshed and also broadening their horizons.

  However, Hua Yun didn't have any particular feeling about these. After sizing up the entire store, Hua Yun couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Here, he hadn't seen anything that could excite this genius botanist. The plants here were just some ordinary ornamental plants, although they weren't bad, if Hua Yun were to do it, he would have done at least five times better.

  "Hey, aren't you a few of the Liriblade Mercenaries? What's this, come to buy some Divine Fruits?" Just as everyone was looking around, a voice suddenly rang out from the entrance of the Plant Master's shop, accompanied by mocking laughter and the sound of footsteps.

  Hua Yun turned his head to look, and saw four mercenary-like men walking in from the door. The leader was a warrior with scars on his face, looking ferocious and sinister. The other three were a middle-aged magician and two warriors.

  These four are the leaders of the Mercenary Group Crazy Wolf, First-in-command is the 5th rank White Silver Warrior Crazy Wolf Kierman, Second-in-command is the 4th rank Wind System Magician Evil Wolf Borsa, Third-in-command is the 5th rank White Silver Warrior Battle Wolf Todde, Fourth-in-command is the 4th rank Bronze Warrior Lucky Wolf Kalite.

  It's called a mercenary corps, but the Crazy Wolf Mercenary Corps is just a small mercenary corps with about 50 people. However, in Kodo Town, it is indeed the number one mercenary organization.

  "Ah, isn't this little sister Luna? Come, let brother give you a hug!" Ji Wan looked at Luna beside him with a disgusting smile on his face and slowly walked towards the standing Luna in the back.

  "Hmm!" Huayun happened to be standing at the back of the crowd with Lüna, and seeing this situation, she didn't say a word and blocked the person's way.

  In fact, with Luna's fourth-stage water system magic strength, it was not necessarily necessary for Hua Yun to stand out, but at this time, as a man, Hua Yun simply had no choice.

  He never thought of really touching Luna, he knew that Luna was a fourth-level magician. Now seeing someone blocking his way, he withdrew his foot and looked at Hua Yun with a cold smile: "You are the new member of Lishen Mercenary Group? Do you know who I am? Dare to block my way, get out!" After that, he stretched out his big hand and pushed Hua Yun's shoulder. In his heart, he was already prepared to find some dignity on this weak-looking guy.

  Feeling the big man's movement, Hua Yun's body hair stood on end, his shoulders slightly sank to avoid the opponent's action, and his muscles contracted tightly in an instant, his body suddenly launched.

  Hua Yun suddenly closed in, his right foot flashing into the opponent's **, pressing against the inside of their knee and slightly shaking, disrupting their balance. At the same time, his body fiercely leaned forward, his shoulder swiftly striking the opponent's chest armor.

  With a crisp crackling sound, the big man was lifted off the ground and flew out, thrown out by Hua Yun with great force.

  It all sounds like a long story, but it was just the blink of an eye. No one expected this weak-looking guy to suddenly go on the attack.

  "Big brother!" Seeing his big brother fall out, the other two warriors rushed forward to catch him, which saved Kiwan from a humiliating defeat.

  Ji Wan stood firmly with his feet shoulder-width apart, his face flushed red, and with a swift motion, he drew out the massive sword that was slung over his back. His eyes blazed with fury as he glared at Hua Yun.

  Everyone in the store suddenly drew out their blades, and the three mages on both sides pointed their wands at each other, muttering incantations under their breath, ready to clash at any moment.