269 The Glaring Truth (2/2)

It was quite hectic, and yet, it made him improve himself so much and see new things that he couldn't see.

After reuniting with his mother, and saying farewell once again, he realized that people aren't just resources to move around like chess pieces.

They are people.

He somewhat forgot that along the way after experiencing the worldly affairs the world has to offer. The beautiful lies and the accompanied sorrows.

He thought that as long as he kept them safe, fed, and happy everything would be fine.

But he finally understood. As people, it's not enough to give them what they need. You still need to communicate with them.

People are such a troublesome being to please.

The Tree of Life remained stagnant at ten energy fruits and one life fruit per day. Also, after the Tree of Life was planted at the small island at the end of the marina, they never experienced high tides anymore. Even the low tides were getting so low, they had to get a longer boarding wood to climb their boats.

Helena was still taking charge of the Tree of Life and has several people training under her with energy control.

There was nothing much the marina people could request and Jun thought of a good gift for them.

Improved housing!

He could use Blueprint to copy a bungalow or some cottage houses and build it at the higher part of the marina. He didn't tell Gilbert about his plan and only kept it in the back of his mind.

They sailed using abandoned boats retrieved at the Public Marketplace's docks. They were for civilian uses and were easy to drive around, so the marina people already adjusted to them.

Gilbert reported to Jun what they found out yesterday after investigating the fish ponds at Cardona.

”We're still not sure where the exact spot is, but it seems like this dungeon was huge. If I only guess, it should be a vast part of the lake. Since this is a wild dungeon, the dungeon zones might even have combined with each other and expanded. We got the general direction of the dungeon and they mostly spawn at the eastern part of the uptown district of the town.”

”You already caught some of them? How are they? Are they edible or are they mutated?” Jun asked.

Gilbert looked around the boat and stalled his reply. There were many people here and what he's going to say might disgust people who had weak stomachs.

There were two passenger boats with thirty seater capacity. One boat had the veteran fishermen while this had the people from Black Haven; Jun, his bodyguards which is Nik's group, and the Elite unit.

”There's a variety of fishes in the fish pond but the most common were the milkfish. They were the ruling species and has the strongest group. Although they don't have sharp teeth, they had great suction and could nibble at your skin and flesh in seconds. While investigating, we happened to chance upon a regular carrier walking underwater get dismantled by a school of milkfish. Thankfully, we were fast swimmers and got up the boats in time before they noticed us.”

Everyone's imagination was vivid. A regular carrier unfortunately drops into the water, walks around aimlessly, then gets swooped back and forth by the school of fishes, nibbling at every part of its body.

It was horrifying and disgusting.

Jun said. ”Let's hunt every fish in the area first and feed them to corrupted pet animals. I heard the corrupted dogs have big appetites, sell them at a cheap price. If no one wants the fishes, hand them over to Felipe, so he could convert them to energy.”