Chapter 248: Blue Coral city (1/2)
Although there were now more of them traveling, the journey to Blue Coral city was still very troublesome, since they were traveling in the Underground World. In fact, they were delayed by tens of times already due to ignorant people looking for a fight after getting attracted to Charlotte, Gretchen, and Princess Elaine's beauty, hence getting beaten up by Leo's group in no time.
To be honest, there were plenty of times that they really want to reveal themselves as members of the Mischievous Lion organization so as to easily avoid all these troubles, but Leo always reminded them not to because it would only attract some unnecessary attention to them, which would also most likely reveal their current whereabouts to the Black organization.
It was only a day later when they finally reached the Underground World of Blue Coral city, a place known for being the best at smuggling goods and pirates.
Walking in this place, although it was a bit similar to Lion Heart city's Underground World where it is built literally underground, they could still see that there were a lot of difference, such as the numerous sea-related stuff, not only with the items they were selling but so was how the place was built, specifically like an aquarium.
Their ceiling was a combination of the seafloor and some Magic glass to see above them. There were also a few tube-like things where it is used for launching people speedily up on the surface of the ocean using Magic, specifically where their boats would most likely be waiting for them, and there were also some cave-like parking places for the boats of much richer people.
Because it was located right by the sea, this place also became like an outpost or a docking area for people from other Kingdoms and Empires, either of Humans or Foreign races, that want to rest and gather more supplies before continuing their journey.
Moments later, Leo and the others finally arrived at the Mischievous Lion organization base.
Because of how secretly hidden was the Mischievous Lion organization, their base was only a house, not anything fancy, big, or something great, just a normal-looking house located at the very corner of the Blue Coral city's Underground World. Though this place actually has an underground facility, but it is still considered as small, which is actually still enough for them considering that the Mischievous Lion members-only returns to this place whenever they want to accept a mission, for a meeting, or to hand over the completed mission and hence receive the reward from the client.
”Welcome, your Excellency, Leo!” A woman in her 30s greeted Leo's group as soon as they entered the house.
”Margaret!” Gretchen called out while waving her hand.
”Oh, your Excellency, Gretchen, is actually also here!” Margaret immediately ignored Leo and went to approach Gretchen.
Seeing this, Leo didn't care about Margaret ignoring him because he was long aware that Gretchen and Margaret are best friends, and the latter is even one of the trusted subordinate of the former.
”What brings you here?” Margaret asked curiously.
”To visit you!” Gretchen replied before hugging Margaret.
After hugging each other, Margaret then suddenly said, ”As if that's the only reason,” She turned to look at Leo, ”Excellency, Leo, is even with you, and with the current war going on right now, it's very obvious that you are doing some secret mission.”
”Hehehehe,” Gretchen awkwardly laughed, ”Well, it isn't really something that requires us to hide what we are doing to our fellow Mischievous Lion members, and in fact, we would also be revealing it to this branch, later on, hence there is no problem telling you first.”
”Oh, so does this meant I'm also going to be included in this?” Margaret can't help asking.
Gretchen nodded her head and replied, ”Indeed, you will be included in this, just simply because you are one of my subordinates.”
”That's great!” Margaret clasped her hands in delight, ”Let's get inside first,”
”Okay!” Gretchen nodded her head before motioning for Leo and the others to follow after her.
The moment Charlotte and the others entered the house, they immediately became dumbfounded. What greeted them was something similar to every normal houses; it has a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom, and a bedroom upstairs. Absolutely nothing in this place could really lead to it being the base of the Mischievous Lion organization.
”So, what kind of operation is this? What is the reward, or rather how much is the reward?” Margaret asked while pouring Leo and Gretchen a cup of tea.