Chapter 138 Expedition, General Ouki (1/2)

Amanda's competitiveness is once again ignited. After all, it's been quite a while since she had seen someone new who could go toe to toe with her, and she will only be satisfied and become the victor once she kills Michael first, drawing first blood between them!

After that, Marcus brought away Amanda and took her into their ancestral home where she would train in the ways of an assassin.

Unbeknownst to Michael, this change in Amanda's fate would cause him a lot of trouble in the future, because according to the original timeline, the student of Sage Laura should have been her instead of Michael.

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”I'm back here again” Michael said through the hood of his cloak, as he observed his current surroundings.

Michael once again came back to Stormwind Fortress, as the nearest hotspot for the Blood Orchid is near here.

Inside...the Forest of Despair.

A monster territory inside the forest called Blood Forest, not because the place is covered in blood but because the apex predator of the place are packs of wolves called Blood Wolves, where they safeguard a lot precious herbs, and one of the few is a Blood Orchid.

But because the monster territory is just at the lower end amongst the hundreds of monster territories inside the forest, the chances that the herb would be a Blood Orchid is just one percent, maybe even lower, so there's a good chance that Michael would be just wasting his time on this adventure if the herb that the Blood Wolves is safeguarding for their consumption is another herb, and not the Blood Orchid that he's looking for.

After all, the herb is simply precious as it is one of the main ingredients for monster evolution.

And the good thing is that he had just arrived in time for a punitive force quest inside Forest of Despair after a non stop three days of travelling on foot and on his mount, and the quest is something he had learned from his conversation with Tina a few in game days ago.

Three days ago.

Someone whispered to Michael, who had spent a day reading in Starlight Library and two days doing some small quest around the city.

[Mike, are you there? You busy?]

It was Tina the Huntress, who had already reached Level 20 and currently staying at Stormwind Fortress after she and Michael had parted ways in Calderock village, and had been going monster grinding here and there, either by herself or with a team.

[Yo! What is it? Are you in trouble again? Don't tell me no one wants to team up with you again?]

[Shut up, I already have permanent team with me. Anyway, where have you been? I sent you a whisper almost every day since we separated from Calderock Village, but it was always blocked.]

[Ohh..I was a bit busy as I'm currently doing an important quest]

It was because Michael had blocked whispering or private messaging because he was too occupied for a day in the library, and the rest of the days is that he had just forgotten to lift off the block.

[I see. Do you have time now? Where are you?]

Michael had just submitted a quest for harvesting some common herbs that could be found just a dew distance away from the city.