298 Leaving The Base (2/2)
The only other thing that I received was the same strange colored wisp that went inside the brown crystal, allowing it to take the color as its own, which meant that this crystal was finally an activated key.
'It's time to leave then…'
Changing 'Lightning Cloud' back to its sword phase, and putting it away, I took the chance to change my whole suit of armor into something more mysterious as I also planned on changing…
”Hey Long, I need your help setting up an 'Illusion'.”
[Understood.]
Seeing that Long who just emerged from inside the ring was being polite as he has been for a while, I immediately described the new face I was changing to…
This was obviously part of my plan to avoid having to explain what happened to the trio, as I was simply going to lump all what happened to an explainable situation and have Lan disappear from the scene for a few days to make it easier for them to let it go…
'It shouldn't be hard since they should only have a hazy experience of what happened…'
Due to the effect of the 'Ancient Bewitching Marks', their memory should have been disordered quite a bit, which would only provide more help to my hidden ploy…
[This way?]
”Perfect! Thanks Long!”
[No problem, I will go back inside the ring, don't hesitate to call for me when you need my help.]
'hoho… His personality seems to be taking a turn for the better recently…'
As I mused about the favorable persona change of Long that seemed to have lasted a while, I headed back to the location that the trio were sleeping by the side of the pinned sprout human in a completely new look…
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”You are ba-”
”Wait! Who are you?!” The sprout human said in surprise and shock as soon as I arrived close to him…
”It's me, I just put on something different… Don't ask too much… Also, go wash and wear this,” I replied as I handed him a bucket of water and a simple outfit.
The sprout human had been mostly naked to this point, with most of his body being covered in the slimy purple waste, which didn't make him qualified to appear in the outer world, so it was obvious that he needed a complete change up...
”Eh… You can even do this? Are we…” Noticing the similar speaking pattern, the sprout human caught up fast as he wanted to follow up with a question…
”Yes, we are leaving,” I confirmed his suspicion as I readied the trio for leaving…
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[ Congratulations! You have managed to destroy one of the demon bases of the Nature Domain! ]