novelhk Chapter 223 Spring has come, but not for me personally.
Chapter 223 Spring has come, but not for me personally.
Chapter 223 Spring has come, but not for me personally.
Spring arrived more than a month early in the Axel region.
As the ice and snow melt, the plains come alive again.
Adventurers also became more active after the winter's sluggish state.
"My spring has finally arrived!"
Huihui was very excited early in the morning and put on her full set of Great Magician's clothes.
"Why is this guy so excited?"
Aqua, biting into her cheese bread, asked Yuuyu beside her.
"Megumin has joined an adventurer's party, and today she'll be teaming up with them to do some quests. If the party recognizes Megumin's abilities, then she'll have a proper job."
In response to Aqua's question, Yuyu placed the grilled bacon on a slice of bread spread with butter, added lettuce, a fried egg, squeezed on some ketchup, and then covered it with another slice of bread. She then handed the finished hamburger to Broly next to her and poured him a glass of milk.
"So, this guy's leaving this house soon?"
Aqua paused, and surprisingly felt a little reluctant to part with it.
"That's right, once I officially join the adventurer's party, I'll never have to be bossed around by a lazy guy like you again!"
While munching on her DIY burger, Huihui pointed at Aqua and shouted.
In order not to become a parasite, she voluntarily became a housewife in this family.
They exchange their labor for the right to live here and for daily meals.
From that time on, Aqua stopped calling Megumin a parasite, but she would still act as the mistress of the house, bossing the Scarlet Devil girl around, ordering her around and finding fault with her.
Huihui had had enough of Aqua's harassment, and the thought of getting rid of this bastard woman soon made her excited.
"Ha, with your skills and temper, you'd better not get kicked out."
In response, Aqua made a sarcastic remark.
"Do you want me to come with you?"
After finishing his sandwich and drinking the milk in front of him, Broly asked...
"No need, I'm not a child, I can solve problems myself."
Huihui, 14, directly rejected the boy's offer, believing that her previous job failures were due to a mismatch between her major and her job.
Now, Huihui believes that being an adventurer, a profession that often requires fighting dangerous monsters, is a very suitable and professionally relevant career for her.
"I will make a name for myself here, and ensure that the name of the Great Mage Megumin stands at the pinnacle of the adventurer's profession in Axel!"
"Master Aqua, please add some blessings to Megumin."
When Megumin prepared to leave alone, Broly didn't force her. He simply turned to Aqua beside him and said something.
"Broly, you're still the most considerate. It's a pity some people don't understand your kindness."
Aqua praised her disciple and then beckoned to Megumin with her finger.
"Hey, you red-eyed maid over there, come here and give me some blessings."
"Ha, I don't need your blessing."
Huihui refused.
"Who would want to bless you? If I weren't afraid you'd die out there before you settled the accounts of all the free food and drinks you took before you started working at home, I wouldn't be giving you any blessings."
Aqua spoke rudely, but she still went over and gave the girl a bunch of buffs.
Aqua's blessing is incredibly powerful, capable of boosting ordinary people to the level of professionals.
When applied to Huihui, it's equivalent to giving her a temporary stat boost with low entry barriers across all professions.
"You've given me so many blessings! I've never received this many when I ask you for blessings before."
Darkness started complaining.
"As expected, Miss Aqua really likes Megumin."
Wiz also said with a smile.
"Ha, I like this flat-chested brat? Damn it, I just don't want our servants to overestimate themselves and come back with missing limbs after going out to be adventurers."
Aqua retorted loudly.
"Who are you calling flat-chested, you bastard? I'll definitely come back safe and sound, and with a stable job as an adventurer, I won't be bossed around by you anymore, you with your sagging breasts!"
That day, Huihui stormed out the door, but when she returned, she was leaning on her staff.
When Youyou asked her how the team was doing in completing the assigned task, Huihui confidently gave a thumbs-up to indicate that there were no problems.
"My Explosion Magic was incredibly powerful today. My teammates all praised my Explosion Magic. The team leader told me to rest for two days and said that he would give me a reply after two days to confirm that I have been accepted into the team."
But when Huihui went back two days later, she found that the team that was short of a mage had already found a lower-level mage to take her place.
"Sorry, your explosive magic is too powerful and doesn't quite match our team's needs for accepting hunting commissions, so..."
Huihui was eliminated; her Explosion Magic blasted the target monster to smithereens, significantly reducing the benefits for the team she joined.
After calculating the expenses, and even realizing that they were operating at a loss, the adventurer team leader naturally declined Huihui's offer.
However, they still settled the commission payment with Huihui for the last mission, but there was nothing they could do about the losses.
"I actually lost to a low-level mage?!"
For the next two days, Huihui fell into self-doubt.
However, she quickly rallied and continued searching for other teams within the Adventurers' Guild.
however……
"I'm sorry, but a powerful Crimson Demon Archmage like yourself is too much for our rookie team to handle. Please find another team to join."
While clearing the orchard of weeds that had become sentient in the spring, Huihui accidentally destroyed half of the orchard with an explosive spell. The money she earned from Eris was not enough to compensate for the damage to the orchard, and Huihui was fired again.
"Unfortunately, rather than a powerful archmage who can only deliver a single blow and requires us to expend energy protecting him afterward, our team would prefer a more versatile support spellcaster."
This is the reply given to Megumin by the team that tackled the difficult quest.
Of course, the team that often takes on difficult tasks also said that if Huihui is willing to learn some practical low-to-mid-level magic, they are willing to help her overcome the difficulties of leveling up in the early stages and become her companions in the adventure.
However, Megumin rejected this suggestion, saying that a person's energy is limited, and if she were to learn other magic, her energy would inevitably be scattered.
This was something that Megumin, who dreamed of reaching the pinnacle of Explosion Magic, simply couldn't accept.
Therefore, the situation has become like this: Huihui still cannot find a stable job that suits her.
The quests that mid- to low-level adventurers usually accept don't require her explosive magic at all.
For adventurers tackling high-difficulty quests, Megumin's Explosion Magic is a good countermeasure card. However, adventurers capable of tackling high-difficulty quests are already at a high level, so a mid-level support character would be more beneficial than Explosion Magic.
It can be said that, apart from certain extreme subjugation missions where Megumin is useful, her versatility is too low in other situations.
After a long period of being rejected when trying to find a team to team up with, and eventually, when adventurer teams in Axel's guild, which lacked mages, would subconsciously avoid Megumin when they saw her, the girl finally realized something.
"In life, we can't always be strong; sometimes we need to learn to rely on others."
(End of this chapter)