"What? What do you mean no mana?"

The mercenary clearly did not understand our words, so I had to explain helplessly.

"It means I have no mana left. Unless you give me five minutes, I won't be able to continue using magic."

The mana consumption of the "Sanction" series of martial arts was just too much. Let's not even talk about the Cross Sword. The bow and arrow in the other "Sanction" martial art cost 100 mana per shot, it's simply robbery.

"What!? Five minutes?"

The mercenary looked at his fallen companion on the ground and said with difficulty.

"Run! It seems that these enemies are no longer something we can defeat!"

Meanwhile, the three well-equipped mercenaries on the other side also walked over.

"Are you planning to run together or separately? If you run together, count us in."

"What? Why?"

I looked at them dissatisfied.

"Your equipment looks impressive. Why do you want to follow us?"

"Aren't you an A-rank mercenary? It would be safer to follow you, right?"

"Your audacity is too thick. To actually say something like that so directly."

"Hmph! Aren't you envious of our equipment? If you lead us to safety, we will let you join our guild. It's such a waste for an A-rank mercenary like you not to join a mercenary group!"

"I don't understand your logic anymore. I may be an A-rank mercenary, but I never said I wanted to join any mercenary group. Don't get the logic all mixed up. Well, enough nonsense. Goodbye, everyone."

The spider flowers on the other side had already devoured the bodies on the ground and turned their gaze towards us.

As they turned to look at the spider flowers, I teleported to the location where Bai Yueguang and I had agreed to meet.

When the spider flower killed that mercenary just now, I had asked Bai Yueguang to take everyone away and wait for me on the path we came from, so I could teleport directly there.

I didn't care about those mercenaries. Whether they lived or died had nothing to do with me. I had originally planned to spend a little more time with them, but they didn't seem to match my personality, so I let them decide their own fate.

The five-minute recovery I mentioned earlier was actually a lie to deceive them, because I had immediately drunk a mana recovery potion. However, to save on usage, I used a regular magic potion instead of an instant recovery one. This reduced my recovery time to one minute.

"Hey, everyone."

Looking at the people waiting beside me, I greeted them with a smile.

"You finally made it. Judging by your expression, those mercenaries seemed to have annoyed you."

"Yeah, those bastards have no idea of their own strength. If I wasn't in a good mood, I might have killed them myself."

"I see, it seems that the opponents really are very annoying."

Bai Yueguang nodded and then looked at Hei Luoli.

"How is it? Is your wound healing?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect it to be so effective. But, it seems that the scale armor is not suitable for me. Although it can increase my attack power, its weight is too heavy and greatly affects my mobility."

While saying this, Hei Luoli took off the scale armor. Underneath, I noticed that she was still wearing underwear and a vest.

"Hmph~"

It seemed that the other party noticed my gaze, so I quickly looked in Bai Yueguang's direction, only to find him looking at me awkwardly.

Okay, so I looked up at the sky, right?

"Brother, the merchant's carriage is getting farther away from us, we can hardly hear it now."

It was then that I noticed Oyado had been hiding on a tree, watching from a distance.

"Alright, let's hurry and get going, time is running out."

I turned around to look at Hei Luoli, who had already changed into her black lace-trimmed leather armor. Whose idea was it to design her outfit like this? It was like wearing a black leather armor over a lace dress. If she made this herself, I would recommend she study tailoring, as these designs have great potential.

But it seemed she still had bandages wrapped around her right arm, probably from the injury she had earlier. She must have been too lazy to take them off.

"By the way, Fir, why don't you just use that so-called 'Demon Mage Swordsman' as your occupation? That way, you can use your magic while masking your identity."

"Well, that's a good point. It's also a good opportunity to change clothes."

If it's magic gear, I do have quite a few options.

I opened the item bar and looked through it for a while. I chose a set of black magical robes. Although I didn't know what material they were made of, they felt softer and more convenient to wear compared to regular cloth armor. What's even more amazing was that after putting them on, my maximum mana increased by 100 points and my magical defense increased by 300 points. The equipment of rich people really is something else.

This time, I equipped the Blood Moon Bai Yueguang gave me, and of course, the magic weapon I got from Lanya, the magic tome.

I inscribed the fixed spells onto the pages and installed corresponding elemental magic stones on the spine of the book. This allows non-mages to use magic as a magic item, but for most users, it should be considered a weapon.

"It looks pretty good. Next time, I'll buy a more imposing set of armor."

"Too bad the bosses in this world don't seem to drop equipment very often."

"It would be strange if they did..."

"Well..."

"Brother, the monster is chasing after the convoy."

"Okay, let's go!"

Upon hearing Oyado's words, I immediately activated the speed boost.

"Failing a mission means no experience!"