Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Tree House
While most of the participating apprentice knights returned to their dormitories or homes for rest due to exhaustion,
[Dead Water Marsh]
Inside the treehouse.
Han Dong was still focused on the training session, unable to sleep a bit.
The task he handed over to Mia was to prolong the mother entity’s special dormant period as much as possible.
According to information provided by Swollen Doctor on the mother entity,
There are a total of six time slots each day where the mother entity enters a superficial sleep period lasting for about fifteen minutes.
Han Dong must take advantage of the mother entity’s sleep period to transport the Great Lord from the ‘Main Hall’ through a transport tube to the ‘Fake Main Hall’.
The plan would utterly fail if the mother entity awakens during this process.
Mia, with hands on her hips, arrogantly described how she dealt with the mother entity.
“Do you really think superficial sleep is enough?
The Great Lord and the mother entity are in a love relationship; an enormous ghoul sliding inside the flesh tube and hitting twists and turns due to its huge power will surely wake the mother entity up.
I had to pull out my ‘trump card’ and quietly injected into the mother entity’s brain area a nerve toxin that originated from the Spider Curse.
This interfered with and deepened her sleep.
Be aware that if I am discovered by the mother entity, my death is certain. …Nicholas, you must stay with me tonight, just thinking about the terrifying look of the mother entity gives me nightmares.”
“Thanks, Mia.”
Han Dong naturally knew that superficial sleep was not enough for the plan to succeed, so he chose to let Mia, the Second Five Man who turned halfway, handle this task.
At this time, Mia leaned closer, gently resting her head on Han Dong’s shoulder:
“You haven’t answered my question yet? Stay with me… otherwise, I shall have to speculate about the purpose of your actions. Tomorrow during the interrogation, I might accidentally let something slip.”
“I can stay, but I’m hungry, could you please make me something tasty?”
Hearing that Han Dong was willing to stay,
Excited, Mia sprouted numerous spider legs and was jumping up and down in the house.
“Top-notch witch soup needs fresh ingredients, everything in the house has spoiled because I’ve been away for so long. I need to go catch some fresh food in the marshes.
You wait for me in the treehouse, no wandering around, okay!”
“Go quickly.”
Han Dong was finally alone as Mia left.
He laid himself on the hammock in the treehouse, closed his eyes to regain strength, and seriously reconsidered the training process.
The reason it resulted in such a disastrous outcome was that
in the [Ghoul Factory], Han Dong who was taken to the Sacrifice Hall by Swollen Doctor, accidentally summoned the Yellow-Roebd man.
This made Han Dong understand the definition of “Land Deed”, and was given [Swollen Doctor] this capable assistant, thus deciding and starting to formulate the brain-burning “Land Deed Theft Plan”.
Otherwise,
if it had proceeded normally,
the training would have ended with Blood Knight Lucius and his team killing the Great Lord.
The points that Han Dong’s team could acquire should just about be enough to obtain a ‘Good’ evaluation.
It’s necessary to sort out the structure of the theft plan as well as the important roles of the pieces Han Dong holds.
1. First and foremost is the most important piece – Mia. It has been explained above that she was needed to handle the mother entity.
2. Due to the cordial relationship between Dumps and Deputy Head Heidler, Dumps needs to attract Heidler’s attention as much as possible, so this deputy head won’t notice Han Dong’s plan and various movements.
3. The [Swollen Doctor] piece is particularly critical.
First, Han Dong assigned the Swollen Doctor to the underground area, where a “Fake Main Hall” was built with a 99% simulation rating that needed a large transmission meat tube to connect to the area.
After that, the Swollen Doctor himself needed to come to the Fake Main Hall to complete the subsequent plan and deceive the message of the entrance to the treasury.
4. Pawn – Johnny’s Team.
Since a fake main hall was set up, a ‘fake team’ was naturally set up as well.
Han Dong asked Winry to create equipment identical to Johnny’s team to confuse the Great Lord, making him think he was facing the same team all along.
5. Core Pawn – Winry.
Winry’s divine power and exquisite blacksmithing skills are the key to open the door to the treasury.
Han Dong has only one chance to go deep into the treasury. Taking Winry will greatly increase the probability and speed of opening the treasury.
In the end, not only did Winry’s performance not disappoint Han Dong, but it was surprising… She was willing to fall into weakness to help Han Dong open the door to the treasury.
If this young lady needs help in the future, Han Dong will naturally return the favor.
Moreover, such a pure and kind character is Han Dong’s first choice for making friends.
After throwing out all the pawns, Han Dong needed to serve as the main body to connect the set pawns one by one.
Though the Blood Knight- Lucius interfered along the way.
But with the information from the “Ghost Experiment”, Han Dong successfully delayed this elite team and arrived at the “Main Hall” on time.
Working with Miss Winry’s armor-breaking abilities, the two detainees successfully restrained the Great Lord with their combined efforts.
The plan linked up perfectly, everything went smoothly.
Unfortunately… Han Dong did not consider the worst possible outcome.
That is, the Great Lord learns about the theft of the land deed first and doesn’t hesitate to abandon hundreds of years of cultivation, not caring about stepping into the rank of “Demon” with one more step.
To receive a response from the “Old King” through self-sacrifice.
“Sigh…still not careful enough.”
Looking back at everything, Han Dong summarizes the failure experiences and improves himself.
Mia made a big pot of delicious Witch Soup with frogs, lizards, bats, and other swamp dwelling creatures when he noticed an extra group of people in his tree house.
Togu and Miss Chen Li appeared respectively. They hadn’t eaten for a long time and were quite hungry…especially Togu, who seemed very interested in this dark cuisine.
The Witch Soup, including the soup base, was entirely consumed by Togu.
Belch…
Togu let out a satisfied burp and fell asleep directly on the only hammock.
As for Miss Chen Li, she seemed to have no intention of returning to the prison and maintained a dark-haired face, sticking by Han Dong’s side all the time.
Mia felt she couldn’t find an opportunity to exploit and felt that keeping Han Dong was a mistake.
The next day.
Knock knock knock, a knock on the door woke the two up.
Chen Li and Togu immediately returned to the prison after sensing the arrival of outsiders.
Before Mia could give permission, the door to the tree house was pushed open.
The one who arrived here was the swamp owner – “Witch Kaylonia”.
Upon entering the room and seeing the messy scene, as well as the two disheveled youths who had just woken up from sleep, the witch immediately imagined what had happened last night.
“Young people are just like that… At first you both hesitated when I tried to match you, but now after experiencing death together, you ‘face each other frankly’. It’s better to enjoy life sooner, because once you die, you won’t have the opportunity to have fun.
Hurry up and get ready, the Council Inspector has arrived at the “Dark Moon Tower”, get ready for questioning.”
