Chapter 46 - Paper, Stone, Scissors! (1/2)
The gates of hell this time had two demons, and one of them was even stronger than him, Krune's fate was very miserable, but he still survived, MC's don't die that easily after all.
After that tragic day, he noticed that Yusa and Shinja got very close with each other, for some reason it felt like it was because of his suffering that such thing happened, but when he thought that bringing suffering to a friend shouldn't make people get better along with each other, he decided that it was just a coincidence. Poor Krune had no idea how right he was!
The next day, Yusa video called both Krune and Ao Sulian, she wanted to discuss about Shinja's situation once more.
”I don't think she would give us problem anymore, so what about we go to Raskie Danger Zone as we planned before? I believe that if necessary, she would sign a blood contract to keep things secret, she probably has got bored of staying in the city all the time too, what you think?”
Krune simply followed logic, he didn't know Shinja as well as Yusa, so he just said.
”Well, if she does sign the blood contract, I have no problems with that, finding out that I'm a wisp in my main concern after all, if you can convince her, then be my guest.”
Ao also gave his piece.
”It's also good, since if things really go south, she could help us out too, or at the very least, she would help Krune.”
Yusa nodded and accepted the task, she was the one who would talk to Shinja.
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On the same day, Krune and the others gathered together again, Yusa had convinced Shinja to sign the blood contract after saying that she and Ao had also done it, with some misgivings, she read the terms once and she concluded that it would not put herself in risk, then she signed it. Yusa believes that Shinja wouldn't do anything wrong, but they had to be careful, after that Krune looked at everyone and said.
”Alright, it's still morning and I'm getting tired of not exercising, let's go the mission hall and take a mission, our objective this time is to beat down an 8th stage Foundation Establishment beast without me using my real form, I believe that we have more than enough power and coordination to do that, as for Shinja, she will stay away and only intervene if something wrong happens.”
Shinja eyes almost popped out of their sockets, 8th stage Foundation Establishment? As far as she can see, Krune is at the 4th stage while Yusa and Ao are at the 5th, it should be impossible for them to threaten an 8th stage demon beast.
'Could it be that they really just wanted to use me?'
She couldn't be blamed, she had never joined and team before, after hearing that they would confront such a much higher level demon beast, she thought that they were only doing that to force her hand, unfortunately, it was already too late, she had already signed the blood contract and can't change it, at least it was only valid until the Furiu Realm closed, except for the secrecy part.
”Does anyone have questions?”
Ao and Yusa didn't say anything.
”Okay, we leave tomorrow morning, take the rest of the day to prepare whatever you need.”
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The next day, Krune's group was again at the Solie Clan to use their teleportation formation, Zu Solie had already got numb to this, since he is bound by contract, then forget it, he will just wait for the day that they leave once for all, with their cultivation progress, it won't take that long anyway.
The City of Harta was the closest one to the Raskie Danger Zone, it was just a week alway with Krune's group cultivation, Raskie Danger Zone was a foggy forest, there was fog all year round, such environment gave birth to quite a few weird beast that had stronger Divine Senses, of course, it's only normal that the local life evolved like that due to the circumstances.
Krune's group was walking in the city until they arrived at the Formations Guild, this was where their employer was, after talking to the receptionist, they were guided inside until they arrived in an enormous room, from the outside the room didn't look like that at all, they understood that a space expanding formation was in place here, after entering, their employer, Jorei Klier, was already waiting for them, he is a Three Stars formation master, quite famous in the city.
”Hello, I'm Jorei, I believe you are the mercenary group that accepted the mission request, thanks for your help.”
Yusa came forward to make the talk, since they all know that Krune might just say some absurd things out of nowhere.
”That's correct, according to the mission information, you need us to capture an 8th stage fog leopard, is that right? Could you give us more information about that?”
Jorei nodded.
”That's correct, although the description is short, the mission will probably be quite hard, fog leopards have evolved into their forms after living in the Raskie Danger Zone for a very long time, their bodies can fuse together with the fog making them very hard to detect, I need one of those to help with my research of a new concealing formation.”
Yusa understood.
”Do you have the location so that we know where to go?”
Jorei then transferred the information to everyone communicators, they opened it and sure enough, it was very deep into the Danger Zone.
”This is everything you need to know about them, as to how to deal with it, it's up to you.”
Ao then asked.
”Do they have human form at that level? We need to know to be ready in case they transform in order to escape.”
Jorei shook his head.
”No need to worry, fog leopard are quite a strong race, they shouldn't be able to change into human form at the 8th stage, but be careful of the other leopards, their groups usually have a core formation overseeing it.”
Ao nodded, he looked at Krune who agreed that everything should be okay, and then he said.
”Okay, me and Ao are going to buy some supplies, Yusa and Shinja go buy some better concealing runestones, the ones sold in this city should work better in that fog forest, this time don't buy only cheap ones, remember that even Core Formation Beasts might scan the area we are in.”
Yusa said back.
”Of course I will buy good ones, I'm not crazy.”
This time, Krune, Ao and even Shinja, who already understood Yusa a bit, looked at her with doubtful eyes. Yusa immediately got upset.
”Why are you even looking at me? At least I always had concealing runestones, what about Ao? He doesn't even have one!”
In fact, the price didn't matter, all the expenses while they were in the mission would always be shared between the three, but Yusa still believed that the less she spent, the better.
Ao just replied.
”I didn't need one before, as a wind element user, if I got in a dangerous situation, I just ran. Don't compare me today to my old self.”
Yusa smiled and struck back.