Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 405 Arriving at the Port

Chapter 405: Chapter 405 Arriving at the Port

As the appointed time drew nearer, after sorting out Iyas rejoining the team, Yang Yu drove the Lotcar towards Gorshid Port.

During this time, Yang Yu acquired a general skill named "Climbing." As the name suggests, it was a skill specifically for climbing. As long as he had mana, he could attach himself to any surface and climb continuously upwards, even transforming into Spiderman to walk vertically on walls.

However, what Yang Yu valued was not hanging upside down on trees and showing off like Spiderman.

As a qualified player, Yang Yu certainly wanted to explore unusual uses of common skills.

This time, Yang Yu took a liking to the gripping power of the "Climbing" skill.

As long as he activated this skill, it became difficult to knock Yang Yu back.

In other words, this skill could be considered a weakened version of the Iron Wall skill and was conveniently available to be activated or deactivated anytime.

After learning this skill, Yang Yu was left with only two hundred skill points.

Yang Yu couldn’t help but sigh that skill points were slow to accumulate but quickly spent.

With the remaining two hundred skill points, Yang Yu planned to use them in the Wansheng Country, where there was a skill like "Sudden Killing Intent" that required a blood volume limit. Such a powerful skill would undoubtedly cost a lot of skill points.

On their way to the port these days, Yang Yu and his team encountered many assassins, easily dealing with them all.

For Yang Yu, he loved these high-speed, high attack power, yet fragile assassins; each one was practically delivering experience to them.

It was just a pity that Yang Yu’s level had hit a cap again, and he couldn’t gain experience together with his team, only to watch Bai Jin and Iyas distance themselves level-wise.

After dealing with batch after batch of assassins, Iyas’s level finally broke through the significant milestone of sixty.

While on the way to Gorshid Port, Iyas also figured out some tricks to use Holy Light for healing and taught herself "Basic Healing Technique."

It’s just...

Perhaps because Iyas had always used Holy Light as a weapon, her healing unconsciously turned aggressive.

Yang Yu made a small cut on the back of his hand and tested Iyas’s "Basic Healing Technique."

As soon as Iyas’s Holy Light touched it, Yang Yu immediately felt as if a two-and-a-half-pound lobster had pinched his wound, painfully unbearable.

Fortunately, Yang Yu did not use the knife on his forehead to test Iyas’s "Basic Healing Technique"; otherwise, he would genuinely feel like his brain was caught in a door.

Helping Iyas become a qualified Priest was a long and challenging journey.

Yang Yu didn’t want to die of pain before his wounds healed.

After intermittent stops and several days of travel, Yang Yu and his companions finally arrived at Gorshid Port.

The azure sky and the massive sea mirroring it met in the distance. Seagulls danced above the sea surface, riding the gentle sea breeze, and ships braving through the waves were never-ending.

Gorshid Port was one of many ports in Serti. Products from around the world gathered here, sent to various parts of Serti through different means of transportation.

People could also travel to different countries through this port via the wind and waves.

This included the Wansheng Country.

Traveling via the sea route to Wansheng Country was the most common way for ordinary people to reach it.

Although Serti and Wansheng Country were neighboring countries, a vast desert at the border acted as a natural barrier between them.

Therefore, conflicts over border issues were rare between the two countries, but this did not mean they got along well—on the contrary, their relationship was much tenser than imagined.

In Serti, the slave trade usually involved the selling of rare subhumans, and where so many subhumans came from was self-evident.

Wansheng Country had proposed more than once that Serti codify the banning of the slave trade into law, but Serti turned a deaf ear and even smuggled prisoners of war from the Luo Ze Empire to be slaves, expanding the market.

The highly profitable slave trade gradually gave rise to a series of black market operations, with frequent incidents of people sneaking into Wansheng Country to kidnap various races.

Due to the increasingly fierce wars between the Luo Ze Empire and Wansheng Country, the latter had no time to deal with slave hunters operating in remote areas.

As a result, in recent years, the number of attacks and missing persons in the remote areas of Wansheng Country had risen exponentially, gradually escalating the conflicts between the two nations.

Iyas was likely one of the victims.

According to the data from the All Things Library, it was not unusual for slave traders to be active in the areas of Wansheng Country where the Elf Clan resided, which were quite on the margins.

After settling down in Lotcar, Yang Yu, accompanied by Bai Jin and Iyas, headed for the rendezvous point.

Gorshid Port had many iconic buildings, and Yang Yu chose the statue of Lunca Asrod, located in the center of the city, as their meeting place.

It was said that the navigator named Lunca Asrod had set sail from Gorshid Port, reached Terran, and proved that the world was round, which allowed businesses to no longer be hindered by land geography, thereby creating the prosperous commercial empire of Serti.

Such a great figure naturally had a very conspicuous bronze statue commemorating him, and when Yang Yu and his group reached the hilltop, they saw that big-bearded bronze statue from afar.

Upon reaching the memorial park where the statue stood, Yang Yu didn’t take long to find Sekamens and his group.

Sekamens still had the appearance of a passionate young lord. Qi, Iron Wall, and Rococo were still in servant’s attire, having gathered intelligence and arrived in the city a few days earlier.

After greeting everyone, Yang Yu followed Sekamens to the inn they had booked.

Once he confirmed no one was eavesdropping, Sekamens solemnly informed them,

"Straight to the point, I’m sorry, but we couldn’t find the boy named Hake. We met many elf boys, but none matched your description.

Further, we investigated the whereabouts of numerous elf boys, but we found no one fitting the description who had been sold to any individual."

Yang Yu was not surprised by this outcome,

"What about the other matter I asked you to investigate?"

Sekamens pushed a map towards Yang Yu, "According to the intelligence I gathered, the Silver Orchid Commerce indeed had numerous interactions with the Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce, and Silver Orchid Commerce also received a lot of relief supplies from them.

This is Silver Orchid Commerce’s foothold; after such setbacks, they chose to start over in the pharmaceutical industry."

"So, it has indeed headed in the worst direction possible?"

Glancing at the map, Yang Yu tossed it into the system and thanked Sekamens:

"Thank you for your hard work during this time. We will take it from here. To avoid anyone discovering our contact with you, it’s best if you start your journey back to Terran right now."