Chapter 223: Chapter 223: The Transformation of Duo Zeya
Translator: 549690339
This grouping arrangement was designed by Han Dong with meticulous attention to detail.
In it… Dumps occupies a critical position.
Because when they first entered the Cursed Space, the eye spying on them from the granary door was not observing the squad, but relentlessly focused on Dumps.
Whether the other party was interested in Dumps’s appearance or his unique magic characteristics… as long as there was ‘interest’, it could be exploited.
Moreover, Dumps was a smart man, who could easily understand Han Dong’s intentions.
Whether he could succeed in the end depended on Dumps’s personal ability.
Thus, the entire squad, according to their groups, entered the main house area through different side doors.
Only Han Dong, leading Duo Zeya, stood quietly in front of the main building.
Gazing at this mansion, he seemed to be mulling over an important issue.
“Duo Zeya… what do you think, if there’s a deep-seated grudge between the Farmer-Lord and the Great Lord, can we leverage it?”
“Crow… crow! Caw!”
Due to their consciousness not being connected, Duo Zeya was unable to articulate his words.
“But then again, it would be troublesome to use it… after all, this family’s resentment and curse are intertwined. It’s basically impossible to have a peaceful conversation with them.
I shall have to find a point of entry.
Most of our leverage is on Dumps. I hope he can come through for us.
Duo Zeya, follow me.”
“Lead… lead! No, I….”
Duo Zeya seemingly sensed danger and stubbornly refused to enter the farmhouse courtyard… Previously he had mentioned ‘running to death’, but he was not embodying that at all.
“Cowardly crow! If you don’t want to go in, just stay outside by yourself… There are still many scarecrows in the cornfield that haven’t been dealt with. They will find you soon.”
At Han Dong’s words, this utterly craven crowman anxiously looked around, trembling, thoroughly losing face for creatures living outside the city.
Just then.
Caw caw caw~ While calling out, Duo Zeya touched the back of Han Dong’s hand with his beak, seemingly trying to convey some message.
As their consciousness connected.
“Leader! I… I’ve decided! Instead of running to death, I prefer to be [used] by the leader.”
“Oh? How will I use you?”
“I am a mature crowman, although I am far inferior to the leader… yet, merely allowing the leader to utilize me, I can still manage.
Leader, your right hand appears to be already quite powerful.
Give me your left hand.”
Curious, Han Dong quickly offered his other hand to stroke the crowman.
Who would have guessed that, just as his left hand touched the forehead of the crowman… a gloomy aura spilled out from the feathers of the crowman, wrapping itself around his left arm.
The form of Duo Zeya immediately distorted, as though it was being absorbed onto Han Dong’s arm.
“What is this!?”
In the blink of an eye.
Duo Zeya had completely turned into a ‘Raven Feather Glove’ covering the left arm.
The length of the glove was equal to the arm, fitting snugly with the shoulder, sleek and black.
Plus, with an overall luxurious, refined design carrying a hint of gothic charm, the glove seemed rather stylish on Han Dong’s arm.
The black leather perfectly conforming to his body could adapt to various changes in the arm.
At the tip of the glove, aside from the extremely comfortable leather finger covers, each finger also sported a sturdy black beak design… But these crow beaks were not for attacking, rather they could ‘channel energy’.
In addition, another standout feature was the retractable ‘feather wing’ on the outer side of the forearm of the glove. All of Duo Zeya’s feathers were concentrated here, and Han Dong could control them to spread or fold back the wing as he wished,
This was what Duo Zeya referred to as [use].
While the glove was worn by Han Dong, the two of them could communicate directly with their consciousness.
“It really works! That’s great… Leader! When you use me later, remember to supply me with energy… Otherwise, if I use up all the energy I carry, I can’t maintain this form.”
“Alright!”
On the surface, Han Dong remained calm, but there was a touch of excitement in his heart.
This glove gave him a completely different feeling from normal equipment when it melded with his arm… as if it were alive.
This living equipment, Han Dong didn’t know how it would be categorized in Holy City.
But one thing Han Dong was sure of.
At least among the Apprentice Knights of his same tier, no one could, like Han Dong, command or enslave a polluted wild monster to serve as their own equipment.
Han Dong would not take anything to the prison lab, not even risking the slightest danger.
Consequently, he couldn’t get detailed parameters of the glove.
“Duo Zeya, how do I use this glove?”
“Hehe, it isn’t particularly useful… I’m just a single-headed crowman, what I can provide to the leader is just flexibility… Leader, you may try channelling energy into the feather wing.”
“Alright, let me try.”
Swoosh~ the wing spread!
For a moment, Han Dong felt light as a feather, even feeling as if he could fly.
He didn’t need to flap his wings like birds, he simply needed to channel energy to make his body feel lighter.
Han Dong, a scholar by trade, instantly realized the potential of this living equipment.
“Gravity neutralisation? The more energy I channel, the better the effect of negating gravity? However, the energy spent to fly is too much, my current seed is not enough to support it.
Yet, once my Talent Tree forms and my energy changes qualitatively… I might even be able to use this thing for ‘individual flight’.”
Thoughts of this made Han Dong a little excited.
“Duo Zeya, crowmen like you should live together, right?”
“In the Gaine Forest, all of us crowmen are from the same tribe.”
“After this, if there is a chance, take me to your tribe once.”
“If the leader could personally visit our tribe, the chieftain would certainly be very happy.”
“Mm…” The corner of Han Dong’s mouth slightly curled up as if he had already designed an idea for his next piece of custom equipment.
“Alright, let’s go in… seems like a little girl already has her eyes on us.”
Saying so.
A blonde girl with a bow in her hair, wearing a pink ruffled crinoline skirt, white stockings and little leather shoes, ran from the front yard.
Hehehe… Teehee… a strange laughter echoed in the air.
The little girl stood at the door of the cottage on the left-hand side of the main house, waving at Han Dong in the entryway.
It seemed like she had something special to show Han Dong.
Han Dong didn’t refuse the invitation and directly went towards the wooden house where the little girl stood.
Inside the main house area.
Other squad members also had their respective encounters.
Abe and the berserker, Dawu, in the window-lined hallway on the first floor of the main house… ran into the farm owner Murphy, who was holding a giant wood-cutting axe.
The girls’ team braided by Mia and Winry also ran into Mrs. Belin in another corner of the first floor who was lovingly tending to the plants, her strange fingers making weird creaking sounds due to the arrival of outsiders.
As for the magician Dumps, who was assigned to act alone.
He was drawn to a bedroom on the second floor by a gentle, feminine voice, and encountered a blonde woman sitting in front of a dressing table…