After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Isa's body trembled, and she bit her teeth, wondering why Lin Da had caught up.

"While the fireworks festival isn't over yet, you should go find Lulu. And Lia, Monica, they're waiting for you too."

"What about Isa?" Lin Da asked.

"I... I will go back to the Ice Flower villa."

"But didn't Fannis and the others go to South Rock City? It's the rare Winter Festival; do you want to spend it alone in the empty mansion?"

"Otherwise, what else?" Isa's composure started to crack, her voice wailed, "It can only be this way."

She had been rejected by Lin Da and couldn't bring herself to do what Lia did, acting shamelessly, kicking Lin Da and still clinging to his side.

A gloomy exit was the best outcome.

"Remember that bet?"

Lin Da said, "If the Phoenix Tail Flower adventure team's strategy ranks catch up to Ice Flower's within three years, you'll join my team, and vice versa."

Isa nodded.

In less than three months, Lin Da's Phoenix Tail Flower Adventure Team had already reached the 10th floor.

Catching up to the 13th floor where Ice Flower was, was merely a matter of time.

Isa had never thought she would lose.

The Ice Flower Adventure Team she had trained with her own hands, every member was a dear friend with deep emotional ties.

Leaving these people to join Lin Da's team was something she couldn't do.

Yet she also couldn't go against the bet she had personally agreed to.

Just as Isa was at a loss, Lin Da spoke up.

"Thinking about it now, that bet was a mistake."

"A mistake...?"

"Yes," Lin Da said.

Lin Da steadied Isa's shoulders.

He looked sincerely at the silver-haired girl with swollen eyes, "Because you are an excellent captain, rather than forcing you to join Phoenix Tail Flower, I'd prefer to see Ice Flower and Phoenix Tail Flower, side by side, fighting together at the 20th, 30th floor, or even the top floor in the future."

"So, I want to change the agreement."

"Change it?"

"Yes. As captains of our respective teams, let's advance towards the World Tree together until we're unable to wield our swords any longer, until the day we retire," Lin Da proposed.

After saying all this, Isa was completely dumbfounded.

When she had made that bet with Lin Da, she had impure intentions.

She was offering a little favor to make Lin Da grateful, absolutely determined to win him over to her team.

Now, the Ice Flower Adventure Team was closely followed by Phoenix Tail Flower, which could surpass them at any time.

Isa had noticed that Lulu had advanced to Star Rank. Lin Da and Monica's potential were also extraordinarily remarkable. Within at most half a year, Phoenix Tail Flower was very likely to overtake the Ice Flower Adventure Team.

If Lin Da brought up the bet by then and forced Isa to join...

Asking herself honestly, with her character, even if she couldn't bear to leave Ice Flower, she would disband the team and enter Lin Da's adventure team.

But this crisis was easily resolved.

Lin Da voluntarily suggested giving up.

Thus allowing Isa to keep the Ice Flower Adventure Team.

In that moment, Lin Da seemed to radiate a warm Holy Light, shining on Isa's face.

Warm.

So warm.

With strength, talent, good looks, and empathy...

Isa rubbed the corners of her eyes vigorously.

More tiny pearls spilled out in a stream.

"How can I refuse you when you look like this," Isa murmured.

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Too cunning.

Lin Da thought seriously for a moment.

"After I convince my team members, I can respond to you once more," he said.

Lin Da's own household was not even in order; attracting trouble from the outside, he might end up with his head gnawed off by a werewolf girl in the middle of the night.

"I understand," Isa said softly.

She did not feel that Lin Da's actions were inappropriate.

An excellent adventurer is meant to be competed for.

Having multiple potential Oath-bound of the opposite sex is nothing new.

Isa had not understood this before.

Not giving up on Lin Da would result in pain, but giving him up meant she would spend her entire life in agony.

Moreover, Lin Da made her heart flutter the most.

Maybe one day, she could become Lin Da's sole Oath-bound.

Isa wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, her cheeks blushing as she said, "Then, could you call me by my nickname? Sasha."

"Uh..."

Lin Da was embarrassed and felt that if Lulu heard this, she might explode.

Isa: "Sorry, I might be a bit greedy."

"On the day we make the Oath, I will call you that," Lin Da promised.

With their relationship improved, they noticed the strange looks from the crowd around them.

"Isn't that Captain Isa and Lin Da? Why are they together watching the fireworks? Where are their team members?"

"Sss, could it be a secret rendezvous?"

"I remember Captain Lin Da's favorite was the Holy Mage, could the White Dove Morning News be deceiving us?"

Lin Da sighed.

Tomorrow there would probably be gossip about him throwing silver parties again.

But when you're covered in lice, you don't itch.

Let those people talk.

As Lin Da held Isa's hand, looking for a quiet place to watch the fireworks... they ran into Lulu and the others who were searching for them.

The fireworks soared into the sky; with a loud bang, they burst open, casting splendid light onto every face.

Amidst the noisy crowd, Lin Da felt a silence as profound as death.

Sweat beads rolled down his forehead uncontrollably, his clothes seemed soaked through.

"Let's go somewhere less crowded to explain, there are too many people here," Lin Da sighed.

The amusement park at the foot of the mountain was deserted; everyone had gone to the mountaintop to watch the fireworks.

Lin Da sat wearily on a bench, with Isa beside him.

Three girls glared at them fiercely, encircling them as if they were conducting a strident interrogation following a scandal.

Isa hung her head in embarrassment, shivering slightly from intense shame, unable to raise her head under Lulu's icy stare.

Monica hid timidly behind Lulu: "Lord Captain, this is awkward!"

Lulu cast a sidelong glance at Isa, and then frowned at Lin Da, her face remaining calm.