Chapter 43 - When the gods forget about you. (1/2)
The three of them were walking on the street while Yusa commented.
”What are they even thinking about? Sending us to such a dangerous place, they might as well ask us to suicide.”
Ao also complemented
”There is also this thing about sending someone to protect us, I would say it's more likely that this person was sent to spy on us, we have been improving way too fast after all, and it has probably raised some alarms.”
Krune agreed with their point of view.
”They say that this is a great opportunity, I believe they are not lying about it, from what we heard from this 'Furiu' realm, there is great fortunes waiting for us. But, did they think we need that at moment? Our cultivation speed is already good enough, any items we need we can make some missions and buy it directly! Combat experience? We are going through our own fights every time we enter the Danger Zones to complete missions, we have plenty already.”
Krune might be in a hurry to improve his cultivation, but he isn't desperate to the point of throwing his life away just yet, not to mention, if the one who is in danger isn't him but his friends, does it mean that that 'protector' won't lift a single finger to help? Fuc* it!
Yusa nodded.
”But I'm still curious, who exactly would they send to join our team in the end? Since they said this person would be able to protect Krune from most of dangerous situations, it's bound to be someone very strong. But usually, someone like that already has a team, so why would they leave it to come to us? Other than spying, I can`t think about any other reason.”
They kept talking until they got to the restaurant.
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Back at the mercenary guild, Lu Ganan still had a blank face, his brain stopped working completely, and it wasn't until five minutes later that he came back to himself.
'They must be kidding! Do they even know how much effort the Head Quarters put to bring them together to the Furiu realm? How am I going to report this in the first place?'
The mercenary guild never forces its member in taking any mission, there is several other great powers in the Yule Continent after all, this measure is to prevent their own members from running to the other sides, but no mercenary team would ever think about refusing such opportunity, this is unbelievable!
Lu Ganan then called the Head Quarters and told them the news.
At the Guild Head's office, Bary and Kassius were looking at the roof, how could they ever expect Krune's team to refuse? That's illogical. Kassius looked at Bary and sighed
”So what now? We can't force them since it would just scary them away, the Alchemist Guild would love to hear that Krune left the guild and would definitely extend an olive branch for him.”
Bary smiled bitterly.
”What exactly can we do, did you see the reason they gave? They said that they are already improving fast enough and have no need for extra risks, as for combat experience, they are getting it from missions, but that isn't the main point, Shinja Avril is.”
Kassius looked at Bary puzzled. Why would Shinja Avril be a problem? Since there is no more Furiu Realm for Krune's team, then she is basically free to do whatever she wants, but he knew that Bary would explain, so he just waited. Bary then sighed as well and said
”Her blood contract is the main issue, it stated that she would have to stay by Krune's side and protect him until the Furiu Realm closed again, but there is nothing in that specifying what we would do if he refused. I believe you can understand already.”
Kassius jaw dropped.
”Doesn't that mean that she will have to protect him until the realm closes whether he enters it or not? I see, she will probably think that this was a trap we made to force her to join a team, usually we also don't know how long it takes for the Furiu Realm to close, but at least we know that it won't be more than six months, or at least, that was the longest time it stayed open according to the records.”
Bary then said
”That's not all, she herself wanted to enter that place as well, she wanted to find an opportunity to breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm, but if Krune doesn't enter, she won't be able to enter either, so I'm afraid that she will find problems for Krune's team which would also lead to scaring Krune away.”
Kassius then thought.
”Why don't you tell Krune's team about that then, they would at least understand it wasn't on purpose.”
Bary shook his head.
”I can't, one of the conditions on the contract was that we couldn't tell Krune's team about that, Shinja wanted to prevent a situation where Krune would court death by himself just because she is bound by the contract.”
Kassius heard that and smiled bitterly, in the end they can just pray for everything to end well.
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Krune's group was having their lunch back at the restaurant, after Krune learnt how to cook they got pretty used to have good food even when they are out on missions, when they are in the city, they would go to a restaurant now and then, and when they are out, Krune is responsible for their meals, of course, Yusa and Ao always helped with whatever they could.
It was then that someone appeared in the restaurant's entrance, she was a woman with blue hair and white skin, her face showing no emotion what so ever, who else could it be other than Shinja Avril? The people in there, specially the men, couldn't look away from her, it raised quite a few fights between the couples who were lunching there, Shinja cared little for all of that, she was already used to such scene anyway.