Did those people outside...come to see him??
Lucien immediately closed the front door with a bang and hid behind his bedroom's door.
Sh*t. Sh*t.
How could he come out if there were so many people outside??
Wait until night—
No! What if there wasn't enough time until midnight?
Eh...if he's not at home at midnight, maybe he wouldn't be teleported over?
He's such a genius!
The system immediately debunked the hypothesis.
DING. [Landlord, you are bound to your house.]
In other words, he would still be teleported away??
And maybe even worse...he wouldn't be inside the house by then.
Shudder.
Lucien quickly threw away his genius plan and used his 360° vision to find a weak point—
There!
Lucien immediately went to the backyard and...climbed the backyard's wall behind the pool.
"Heheh. There shouldn't be a lot of people at the alley~ "
He just had to be careful...
Lucien's body was hanging on the wall, about to land slowly when a hoarse, masculine voice suddenly boomed all over the alley.
"SIR AWAKENERR!! Sarangheyo! Wo ai ni! Suki des!! I love you!!"
"The fck!"
Lucien's body swayed and fell to the ground with a bang.
Losing prestige, his purple aura flickered and dimmed, becoming almost non-existent.
Ahhh! What was that??
Lucien hurriedly scrambled to stand up and saw a bald, muscular man next door tearing his shirt open.
"Sir awakener!! It's my honour to be your neighbour!!"
The man hit his chest like a king-kong and then turned around to flex his back, revealing...
A pink heart tattoo.
Lucien had a pink heart sign PTSD and he almost retched on the spot.
"Lunatic!!"
This man's voice will definitely attract people!!
Lucien hurriedly ran out of the alley while hugging the sluggish Mumu, but it was too late.
Young citizens holding drones, reporters, ordinary curious citizens—
Everyone swarmed into the narrow alley with blazing eyes.
"He's there! Quick! Catch him!"
"Ahhh! Sir awakener! I love you!"
"Kyaaaa! So handsome!!"
Lucien had an illusion of seeing a horde of monsters and even worse— they all weren't afraid of his Landlord's aura!
In the eyes of fanatics, the more powerful Lucien looked, the crazier they became!
Lucien was about to take a U-turn when another group of people poured in from the other side of the alley, their cameras flashing wildly.
...he's trapped.
Lucien broke into a cold sweat as he looked at the house's walls.
...there's no other choice! Please, let it work!
Lucien kicked over the alley's wall and jumped onto the other house's walls, nimbly running on the wall while his fans ran below!
Huh? My body feels so light and nimble...
So this is the effect of a permanent +10 agility buff!
Awesome! There's no way those crazy fans can catch up now!
Indeed, Lucien shot out like a bullet, but whenever he passed by a house, the house owner would immediately react excessively.
"Sir awakener stepped foot into my house! I'm rich!"
"Kyaaa! Bless my child with your aura!"
"Sir awakener!! Please marry your house to my house!!"
Lucien almost fell off the wall.
Ahhh! Can't you guys be normal??
'If I have money— I'll move out of this city! I have to!!'
After running with all of his might in just a few minutes, Lucien successfully exited the alley, heading towards a public bus.
But on the road...
People turned their heads around and they would immediately join the rank of the pursuers!
"Look! That blue slime! Isn't that— "
"Over there!"
Floating snowboards whizzed through the air, carrying reports and their huge a*s camera trying to block Lucien's path.
Various drones flew over, circling around Lucien and broadcasting him live to the internet.
Lucien even passed by a 3D holographic billboard, the one showing the twintail girl from Miracle Guild back then...
And then saw himself subduing the slimes.
"Go back to your dungeon!"
"Pfff!!!"
Lucien almost sprained his ankle and stabbed his eyes.
WHAT?! What the hell! What kind of cringe— Who the hell recorded that scene and put it on the billboard??
Not only that, wherever Lucien's eyes landed, he only saw...himself.
The cafe had a floating banner of his picture.
The pet shop immediately sold low-level farm-breed slimes and slapped them with the label "Civil City's heroic awakener's beloved pet".
He even saw...his face plastered on the sky train!
"Mad! This entire city is mad!!"
Lucien knew that it was absolutely impossible to take the land bus or the sky bus to Grindhall City now.
Taking an online transport like Grubber was also near impossible—
What to do??
Ahhh! If only he could change his face, become invisible or blend in with the crowd—
But does a dungeon landlord have that kind of camouflage ability?
The system, reacting to Lucien's thoughts and strong desire, immediately popped up.
DING! [Dungeon Landlord's possible derivative skills: ]
[Camouflage skill: The landlord can hide when they don't want to see annoying tenants.]
[Reminder. This is just a potential derivative skill. To acquire it, the landlord has to learn it.]
A derivative skill from his innate skills?
Although he had to learn it manually, unlike the innate skills—
Lucien immediately hid behind a tree and covered Mumu's eye-catching body as he imagined the skill's effect.
The landlord is not here...the landlord hides inside his house and shoo away annoying tenants.
An image of a small house appeared in Lucien's mind and that house quickly covered the miniature image of himself.
The moment the house covered the tiny Lucien, Lucien felt a familiar energy from his house slowly covering his body from head to toe— including Mumu, who was sleeping in his arms.
The system guide immediately reacted.
DING! [You have learnt and acquired a derivative skill!]
[The Landlord Is Not Here (Uncommon)]
[Estimated skill usage recovery: 1 hour]
[Estimated skill effect duration: 30 minutes]
[Reminder: The skill can't fool those with ranks higher than the landlord even when the Landlord's aura is active.]
Uh, fine. Those "zombies" outside are mostly ordinary people, anyway.
Lucien slowly crept out of the tree he was hiding and when the frenzied fans ran past his body without noticing him at all, he immediately hijacked a sky bus heading to Grindhall City— without paying.
Okay! Let's go!
Swoosh!
The sky bus left behind a white trail in the sky as it headed outside of the city.
In just a few minutes, a huge barrier glowing in a faint blue light appeared in front of Lucien's eyes.
This is the Civil City's city-level barrier.
The bus passed through the barrier without a sound and in just ten minutes, it covered the one-hour land distance.
Screechhh...
The sky bus floated still, stopping right in front of a golden barrier with no end in sight.
A row of majestic words flew in the sky around the barrier, forming a faint image of a golden dragon.
Behind the iconic golden barrier was the largest market city in Frontier District, a land of gold and opportunities—
Welcome to Grindhall City.