"Stormterror is an S-rank monster! Illustrious! When did you defeat it?" Xiangling knew Illustrious had the strength to be an S-rank adventurer. After all, she was a holder of a gnosis! But when did she come to Mondstadt to defeat Stormterror?
"Half a month ago, I suppose! My wife said I had to complete three trials before she would have sex with me. The first task was to defeat Stormterror and obtain the claw of the north wind from its body." Illustrious said nonchalantly, as if defeating Stormterror was as easy as killing a chicken, something she could finish with ease.
"Then after you completed the three trials, did your wife have sex with you?" Ganyu asked.
"Yes! Why else would I have worked so hard!" Illustrious said, sounding a bit angry at this point. "Come to think of it, you don't know this, but when I completed the three trials, my wife still didn't want to have sex with me! So, in a fit of rage, I forced myself on her, and in the end, I made it a done deal with my wife."
"Then how many times have you had sex with your wife?" Xiangling asked, squinting her eyes, feeling a bit gossipy.
Illustrious lied without blushing or skipping a beat, "Maybe four thousand five hundred times in half a month! The first time, my wife was reluctant, but after tasting it the first time, she got addicted and begged to do it with me."
"Then, on the contrary, I wouldn't agree because I was angry. I was angry that she didn't keep her word. I had clearly completed the three trials, yet she wouldn't have sex with me. Seeing that I wouldn't, she begged me in a low voice, and in the end, she even knelt down to beg me. She said she was willing to be the submissive one and stay on the bottom, just begging me to do it with her."
"And then! Continue!" Xiangling said excitedly.
"Seeing that she was so sincere, and plus she's my wife, I reluctantly agreed. For the next half month, we did it every day, a total of 4,500 times. The whole house was filled with the scent of our loving relationship." Illustrious became more and more outrageous, "On the last day, my wife was scared when she saw me, saying my energy was too strong. That day, she ran out of the room fully dressed with a look of terror, and I burst into laughter in the room."
"You're too strong! It's right for your wife to be afraid of you. If anyone did it 4,500 times in half a month, anyone would be terrified." Xiangling couldn't help but exclaim.
"Excuse me, do you still want to accept the S-rank commission for the Cryo Regisvine?" Katheryne, who had been forced to listen to Illustrious's glorious history, asked anxiously.
Every branch of the Adventurers' Guild has an annual performance review. The more S-rank commissions a branch completes, the more annual funding the branch receives.
The branch benefits, and the receptionist also benefits. If the receptionist distributes an S-rank commission to an adventurer and the adventurer completes it, the receptionist can receive 0.1% of the annual funding. Don't underestimate that 0.1%; it's at least 20,000 mora.
Katheryne really craved that 20,000 mora. It wasn't that she was greedy for money, but her younger brother was seriously ill, and she urgently needed money.
"Accept it! Why wouldn't you?" Illustrious said loudly.
"Alright then. Please sign your name on these two mission forms. That will count as accepting the mission. Once you kill the Cryo Regisvine and obtain its Frigid Core, you will have completed the mission." Katherine took out two mission forms and placed them in front of Illustrious, continuing, "The rewards for completing the mission are extremely generous. It's 100,000 mora!"
"Why so troublesome!" Only 100,000 mora? That's really low. With 3 million mora in hand, Illustrious was quite disdainful. However, seeing Xiangling staring at her from the side, she finally signed her name. "There, I've signed it."
"Signed? Excellent! Then please keep this mission form. It can protect your interests if any disputes arise later." Katherine took one mission form and stored it in the mission archives, directly handing the other to Illustrious.
Receiving the mission form, Illustrious looked at it carefully. She had signed in a hurry earlier and hadn't seen clearly what was written on the form.
This time, looking carefully at the mission form, she found that it contained information and the location of the mission target, the Cryo Regisvine. Below it was a small map with an icon marking the target's location. The time limit for killing the target after accepting the mission was 15 days.
"Are there any more procedures for accepting the mission? If not, we'll be leaving." Seeing Katherine's happy face, Illustrious felt a bit strange. I'm the one accepting the mission, why are you so happy, smiling so widely?
"No more. However, I personally have a matter I'd like to ask for your help with!" Katherine suddenly said seriously.
"What is it!" Seeing Katherine suddenly turn serious, Illustrious furrowed her delicate brows. "You're not going to say this matter is difficult to handle, are you?"
"No! For you, it would be a trivial matter. It's like this: if you see another team trying to kill the Cryo Regisvine in danger tomorrow, I hope you can step in and save them."
"Alright! But are there other teams taking this mission?" Illustrious inquired.
"After you sign the mission form, the Adventurers' Guild receptionist signs and stamps it. Only after completing these procedures will you receive the reward for killing the Cryo Regisvine and obtaining the Frigid Core." Katherine continued, "Because you have accepted this mission, we will not assign it to other adventurers. In other words, once you accept it, this mission belongs to you."
"It's just that three days ago, there was a team of four. They said they wanted to kill the Cryo Regisvine and asked me for its information and location. Since they didn't have adventurer certificates and couldn't accept the mission, I didn't give them a mission form."
Illustrious said, puzzled, "Without a mission form, how do you know if they can even find the Cryo Regisvine?"
"That's because they kept begging me. I softened for a moment and finally gave them the mission form. But afterward, I deeply regretted it. I shouldn't have given them the form. So, if you find them in danger, I hope you can step in to save them, provided it doesn't endanger your own safety. Please." Katherine bowed as she spoke.
"You are truly a kind and upright person! Alright! I promise you. If I see them tomorrow and find them in danger, I will help them." Illustrious turned to the two beside her and said, "Ganyu, Xiangling, it's very late today. I'll stay at an inn in Mondstadt for the night. We'll set off tomorrow morning to kill the Cryo Regisvine!"
"Hero who saved Mondstadt City, I am not a kind and upright person. The one willing to help is you. You are a good person. May Barbatos protect you." Katherine clutched a money pouch and murmured softly.
This money pouch was given to Katherine by that team without adventurer certificates. It contained ten thousand mora. The price was for Katherine to give them the mission form. Because her younger brother was seriously ill, Katherine ultimately couldn't resist the temptation and accepted the pouch.
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