Mission in another world with my transformed best friend

Donna's tentative sneak attack was met with a counterattack. She had considered the situation and controlled her strength before making the move, but she was absolutely confident that she could take down a level 20 novice adventurer who was about to "retire".

However, it's impossible to see the opponent's punch-disarming motion at all, let alone how that punch aimed straight at the face came about...

Donna could only close her eyes and wait for the strong wind to hit her face. When she adjusted her center of gravity and took a step back, she felt a sudden loosening of her head. Her long, smooth hair, which had been held up with a hairpin, instantly fell down. With her hair blocking her vision, she had no idea what had happened in that split second.

"Ah, mine..."

When Donna brushed aside the long hair that was blocking her view, she saw a hand holding a hairpin, followed by Wang Kai's voice.

"I was startled. I always thought Donna was just a receptionist. I didn't expect her to use a 'sneak attack' tactic. If I hadn't noticed the change in your professional expression beforehand, I wouldn't have been able to react at all... Also, I should add that you look better with your hair down."

Staring at the hairpin in Wang Kai's hand, Donna realized something, straightened her appearance slightly, tossed her loose hair behind her back, and replied expressionlessly.

"The Adventurers' Guild only stipulates that receptionists must tie their hair up while on duty; it does not prohibit them from sparring with adventurers..."

"Yes, if I hadn't taken precautions..."

While observing the exquisite patterns on the hairpin in his hand, Wang Kai casually made sarcastic remarks.

Is the receptionist's unprovoked attack on an adventurer (novice) permitted by the Adventurers' Guild?

"Of course, because they stole my hairpin with the family mark, so... I..."

This timeline is wrong; you clearly started it...

Wang Kai was taken aback. He glanced at her and saw that Donna's face no longer held any of the professional receptionist expression she had shown before. Instead, she seemed to be avoiding eye contact, turning her face away and fiddling with the ends of her long, drooping hair. She appeared slightly uneasy, and her gaze, which had been fixed on him, was now avoiding his…

Forget it, when women start acting unreasonably, it's best not to try to argue with them, otherwise it will only create more trouble. It's more important to deal with the important matters.

Wang Kai sighed and said.

"Let's leave the jokes at that. Nothing happened just now. It seems this hairpin is quite important to you. I didn't mean to... I was just worried that if you dodged backward, your head might hit the wall behind you, and if the point of contact was this hairpin, you might get hurt, so..."

Donna was startled, her mouth opening and closing slightly.

"What? You only snatched the hairpin because you were afraid I'd get hurt if I dodged it... and just took it as a casual gesture?"

"Yeah, you even said the pattern on it is your family's... family seal. I wouldn't dare treat something so valuable as 'trophy,' so..."

After saying that, Wang Kai gently tossed the hairpin forward. Donna caught it with a surprised look, but she quickly calmed down, turned around, and her voice changed slightly.

"Okay, Mr. Kyle, you go ahead first. I'll fix my hair and come right away..."

"Okay, I just hope the Adventurers' Guild doesn't dock your pay. See you later..."

"Strange, this seems to be the first time Miss Donna has addressed me as 'Mr. Kyle.' Did I overdo it with my earlier show of bravado? I hope not..."

Donna tidied her hair while glancing at Wang Kai's back, a blush gradually appearing on her face.

……

Soon after completing all 20 "retirement" events in Merck Town, Wang Kai checked his attributes as usual.

With 20 professions, I got over 600 attribute points for free. Since each profession has its own main attribute, about 50% of the attribute points should be allocated to the profession's representative attribute.

Since Wang Kai is currently a novice without a job, he doesn't have any so-called main attributes. Therefore, his strength, agility, and intelligence are all evenly distributed, with each of them approaching 300 points.

By the standards of an ordinary adventurer, he is currently only level 10, but his attributes have already reached the level of a normal adventurer level 50 or above. If he continues at this pace, combined with the extra 30% bonus from "Divine Favor," and continues to level up to level 80, then his "three main attributes" will definitely exceed 1000...

（王凯的“游戏秘籍”知识点：冒险者升级获得的属性点随着等级增加而增长，1-30级每级获得10个属性点，31-60每级20个属性点，61-80每级30个属性点。

When an adventurer reaches level 80, they can gain nearly 1500 attribute points.

Then, based on the attributes corresponding to their profession, 50% of the attribute points can be allocated to the primary attributes, so a certain profession's exclusive attribute points can be as high as 700-800...

Of course, there is no information about what happens after level 80.

It's very simple. No adventurer can possibly kill level 1 slimes every day and reach the maximum level of 99. Generally, if your level is more than 10 levels higher than the monster's, you will not be able to gain experience.

After the demon king's army, represented by a high-level monster mass, was destroyed by the hero, most of the remaining demon king's remnants were level 70 or so monsters with no intelligence, while the other "non-monster" monsters were far below level 70.

Simply put, without engaging in large-scale battles against the Demon King's army, relying solely on grinding "normal monsters" will only get you to a little over level 80 at most...

As Wang Kai, still basking in the joy of his "minor success," hurried back to his rented apartment, he found only Masha home when he opened the door...

"Ah, Kyle, you're back! Have you eaten?"

Seeing the dark circles under Masha's big eyes, Wang Kai realized once again that she had stayed up all night with Zhang Lan, who seemed to be researching something all day long. After all, you could hear Zhang Lan's snoring clearly from a distance in the living room.

To be honest, during the two months that Wang Kai was "crazy for points," he would come back to stay overnight most of the time, but the only person he actually talked to was Masha. And no matter how late it was, Masha would always leave a plate of hot food for him and watch him eat it with a smile.

But Zhang Lan is different. This guy either gets up early or comes home late every day, or he sleeps all day long. The few times we occasionally brush past each other and our eyes meet, we only exchange greetings like "Good morning," "Good night," "Asleep?" "Get some rest..." There's never a conversation that goes beyond ten words, let alone knowing what she's been up to lately...

After all, I'm going on a long trip tomorrow to earn 120+ attribute points for the remaining four professions, which will take at least a month. It would be a shame not to say goodbye properly.

So Wang Kai took a deep breath and looked at Martha calmly.

"Well... I'm going on a long trip tomorrow, and I don't know when I'll be back. I'll leave that guy in your care during this time. If there's any danger, I've already made arrangements with Uncle Doolittle, so just go find him then, understand?"

Martha paused for a moment, then tears welled up in her eyes, and she sobbed softly.

"Huh? Brother Kyle, you're going on an adventure alone, without us and Sister Lan? Or do you think we'll hold you back and cause trouble? Didn't we say we'd stay together no matter what?"

Wang Kai was shocked. For the past few months, he had been leveling up like a machine, and his thinking had become somewhat mechanical. He had almost treated Martha like an NPC who didn't need to be coaxed or interacted with. He never imagined that these farewell words would have such a profound impact on her.

At this moment, Wang Kai really wanted to slap himself twice, but he couldn't take back what he had said. He could only force a natural smile and shake his head.

“How could you say that? For the past few months, no matter how late I came home, you always prepared dinner for me, Martha. Even if I couldn’t come home because of something, you always took care of me. I’m so sorry for leaving without permission.”

"It's...it's okay."

Although Martha quietly accepted the apology, a few tears were about to spill out beneath her sobs.

There was no other way, so Wang Kai made the most direct expression of his feelings for the first time in his life, opening his arms and hugging Masha.

Touching her soft brown hair, Wang Kai noticed that the child had grown a lot taller recently, so he brought his mouth close to her ear and whispered.

"This isn't a farewell, nor is it abandoning you. I just need to go to a big city for some business. I promise I'll be back soon after I'm done... From now on, whether it's life together or adventures together, we'll stick together through thick and thin, okay?"