Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 385 - Mooks And Cannon Fodders Be Damned

Long Di simply put his hands behind him and calmly walked to one of the other entrances.

He then looked back at the stricken speechless Qin Ling and Xiannu Liang who had developed some level of immunity to this madness and said. “Liang’er be a dear and take QIn Ling with you to explore one of the other entranceways. Past evidence in the form of a tailed purple demon leaves me to believe that it will take too long for her brain to reboot.”

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As Long Di made his way to one of the more extravagant entranceways, he took in the expressions of the people around him.

‘If you ask me, I don’t know why everyone is so surprised at what just happened.’ He thought to himself. ‘We have people here who are perpetually on fire because of their cultivation technique, an ancient Chinese variation of resident evil walking the continent to get his steps in, and multi-armed demons tearing open the void to travel while simultaneously porking physics in the ass.’

[I don’t know what this physics is, but it sounds useless.]

“You’re not inaccurate. By the way, hello again Steely. Don’t you think you’re slacking off too much on your Dao path of ‘Going To The Store For Milk?’” Long Di was surprised to hear from the Destiny Scale so soon.

[That is not my Dao path,] the Destiny Scale stated. It didn’t particularly love the bum-like air the mere name of this Dao path gave off.

“If this is you not trying, just imagine if you even remotely did. You would experience twice the benefit with half the effort.”

[Are you unironically calling me a bum?]

“Not if you’re unironically using the word unironically.”

[What does that even mean!?]

“So what made you come out this time? Is it because I’m famous and you wanna take advantage of it? I should let you know… it’s a tale as old as time.”

[Your brain is a tale as old as time.]

“I’m gonna let that simmer for a while. It’s not really an insult but I can tell you worked really hard on it and boy if I ain’t a sucker for effort.”

[Keyholder!]

“I also go by daddy now. Whether that’s exclusive to my pseudo-harem or not I won’t say, but I will say you’re like a son to me… wink, wink.”

[I will ignore the entirety of the last half of our conversation.]

“Once again, I ask you, what made you come out this time? See how we come full circle?”

The Destiny Scale thought about the implications of doing anything else but answering Long Di’s question. It was pretty sure that it was led by the metaphorical nose down several rabbit holes that crossed paths at some point before it came back to the starting line.

[What that girl said…] It decided to spare itself its mental sanity and got right on answering. [... she’s not wrong.]

When it got on that particular subject, Long Di went silent.

[What.. no quips this time?]

“Is there a reason why I have to die?”

When the Destiny Scale heard this, it trembled. Whether this was through an emotion that it shouldn’t feel through virtue of its very nature or something else much deeper was unknown.

[Your potential exceeds this place.]

“When you said place–”

[I cannot comment on it for you are not yet ready for the karma certain words will invoke.]

“Ah yes, karma. When will I be ready then?”

[You will know.]

“Cryptic as hell but I should’ve expected that.”

[My apologies Keyholder. The time will come soon.]

“Yeah, yeah, yeah…” Long Di waved it off as he now stood before the entrance he chose to break through.

“Hey, who’s that?”

People finally took notice of Long Di’s existence after that fabulous display birthed by Pebbles, Mina and Jiancheng Shu ran after them.

“Does he think that he can break through that barrier alone?”

“Hehehe, another fool who overestimates himself!”

The people here were those who were qualified to stand here, yet not enough to break through the barriers.

Their true intentions lay in getting any scraps left behind by anyone strong enough to enter these locations.

They found that just the scraps here were far more valuable than the treasures in the lower rooms.

Nevertheless, one had to be strong enough to enter these rooms. How old was Long Di?

Based on his age, no one here thought that he was strong enough to break through any of the barriers much less one of the middle ones that he was going for.

The carvings that lined these entrances contained spatial energy, and another that had the flavour of the barriers.

From this, it was apparent that these barriers grew stronger the closer to the middle they got.

Long Di placed his hand on the barrier and closed his eyes momentarily.

One person got impatient and yelled. “Tch! Do something already!”

“Right! Stop trying to act mysterious! If you can’t do it, then just scram!”

Psssh!

Suddenly, the sound of glass breaking rang out, drawing everyone’s attention.

Everyone looked over to see one of the other middle barriers broken through.

A short pall of silence fell before someone yelled. “Go!”

Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu!

It was like a powder keg went off as countless figures charged towards the doorway!

Long Di watched as expert after expert entered the doorway without rest.

Bang!

Suddenly, one person smashed into the portal, followed by the one after him and all the others behind them!

“Damn it!”

“No!”

“It’s filled already!?”

Long Di saw it clearly, once a certain number of people entered the doorway, the barrier, though seemingly active, stopped letting in any more people.

“It seems Qin Ling and Xiannu Liang entered without any trouble. No one who entered should be a match for them, so I can rest easy. More than that, it seems there’s a limit on the number of people that can go in at any one time. I wonder what’s the criteria for limitation.”

Psssshh!

Without wasting any more time, Long Di used his Thunder Dragon Rhino Sabre to break the barrier before anyone could regain their wits.

“W-What!?”

“Another one!?”

“Go!”

Before Long Di could take the first step to enter the doorway, a horde of experts was already in front of him!

Some rushed to enter, while another group turned to stop him from getting any closer.

“Step back! We’ll be taking over thi–”

Krrssh!

A slash of lightning tore through the wall of experts who dared to block the doorway!

Not even the experts who wasted no time in entering the doorway were spared. They were all ripped asunder by the lightning-infused slash.

This one act put a stop to the frenzied and greed-ridden experts who wished to enter the doorway.

Long Di brooked no foolishness here, for one of his own was taken from him by something he remained ignorant of. He was sure that both the metaphorical and physical key to get where she was hidden in these doorways.

So he would have no mistake in getting them.

There were a few experts that were just outside the range of his sabre’s strike but fear gripped them at this moment.

It was the first time they faced someone who gave off zero killing intent but could still kill at the drop of the hat.

This toppled their understanding of how the world worked and it also made Long Di seem unpredictable and unstable.

Nevertheless, he neither cared for their opinions nor their thoughts. All he cared about was taking the prizes from this place and the golden keys within.

“Wait for me Shen Ling. I‘ll get to you soon enough. Mooks and cannon fodders be damned.”