Chapter 274: Chapter 274: One Month
One month’s time is still very short.
Regarding the matter of recruiting teammates for the Fate event.
Han Dong’s first thought was naturally his ‘old flame’ — Cass Martini.
But when Han Dong sent a message to Cass, he did not receive a response for a long time.
Therefore, Han Dong personally made a trip to the Martini Family Mansion to inquire about Cass’s whereabouts.
He learned from Cass’ father that after the end of the training assembly, Cass seemed to have been selected as a high talent by the academy and had gone to an unknown area for some unconventional special training.
The Cross Crusader is like the firmest shield of the Holy City.
When the Knight Regiment goes on an expedition, knights who major in the Crusaders are mostly team leaders in each small team, needing to confront the Polluted Life directly.
Therefore, the Crusader Department has many unique methods of fostering students.
The unconventional special training that Cass participated in seems to involve stimulating potential and enhancing pollution resistance, which will take at least three months.
Given that, Han Dong could only choose someone else.
Han Dong first contacted two people — Abe Rhein, the grandson of Captain Kaimon, and Dumps Martin, the little magician.
Abe accepted decisively.
But Dumps declined, for a simple reason: Han Dong’s presence would greatly lower the difficulty of the Fate event and dominate the exploration plan and methods for the Fate Space.
Dumps himself is also a person who likes to ‘lead’, teaming up with Han Dong is boring and unsatisfactory.
Also, during his conversation with Dumps, there were faint sounds of a woman shouting from the receiver… seemingly, he was giving a unique finger massage to an elder teacher again.
In the end.
Han Dong still chose Mia Seminovich, who pesters him daily, as the fourth teammate.
Her unique curse power may have surprising effects…
Time flies in an instant.
In the Old Sewers, while injecting a plague vaccine, Han Dong received a letter.
The letter was anonymous.
The content was also encrypted with a unique code.
The sender was the Swollen Doctor outside the city, who reports to Han Dong every two weeks on the rebuilding of the laboratory and the necessary related materials.
“Presumably when I survive this journey into the Fate Space, the brand-new laboratory will be completed…I’ve borrowed 800 copper coins from the teacher, I must hurry and establish an industry chain.”
The consumption of materials was greater than Han Dong had anticipated.
Unable to borrow money from Mr. Black White, he had to resort to finding the First Mentor; the Plague Woman – Pasha Buhart, who was always drunk.
However.
Since Mrs. Pasha returned from the last expedition of the Knights Regiment, she appeared to be drastically different.
It seemed she received a great blow and started to cultivate in seclusion.
She kept herself holed up in a secret plague room that even Han Dong could not enter, unknown what kind of cultivation she was undergoing.
She would come out approximately once every three days.
And every time Mrs. Pasha crawled out of the secret room, the smell from her body was terribly foul.
Her messy hair was covered in various poisonous mushrooms or large parasites… Sometimes, due to intense cultivation, she could barely crawl out of the secret room, needing Han Dong to help clean her body.
On a rare occasion, Han Dong managed to find out the reason behind all this.
The Knight Regiment that Pasha had accompanied on the mission succeeded, but suffered a fatal blow.
A good friend of hers died in front of her, and she almost lost her own life as well.
Pasha, who narrowly survived, underwent a major psychological change during her hospital stay… After returning to the Old Sewers, she tried to improve herself in a short time, preparing to enter a Knight Level Fate Space.
Today, it was the same.
Pasha was still cultivating in the secret room, Han Dong had to leave a note and leave the Old Sewers.
Tomorrow, he would be heading to the Bell Tower.
On the last day, Han Dong naturally had to gather his team members and prepare in advance.
Who would have known.
As soon as Han Dong stepped out of the Dark Moon Tower.
A crow landed on Han Dong’s shoulder, speaking human tongue from its beak:
“Gather the members of your team and come to the Stargazing Room.”
“Yes!!”
Han Dong was delighted.
Usually at such moments, if Mr. Black White sought him out, it was certainly for something good.
Han Dong sent a message to Abe, asking him to come over quickly.
As for Winry, she was already in the Mysterious Department.
Ever since Han Dong had forged the “Bone Feather Robe” in Furnace Castle last time and mentioned to Winry that she needed to intensify her combat practice in the remaining month.
The next day Winry sought out Han Dong.
She said that most of the people she knew were muscular men and physical combat practice didn’t much apply to the evil spirits in the Fate Space.
Han Dong, who needed to practice [Scroll Two – Eye Print] every day, did not have much time to accompany Winry. So, he sent her to the Dead Water Marsh and tried to ask Mia to practice with her.
Unexpectedly.
This arrangement caused quite a stir.
Winry and Mia had cooperated during the intensive training, and they soon became familiar with each other.
A person as pure and kind as Winry wouldn’t suspect Mia’s nature, and she got along very well with everyone… Mia, feeling lonely, quickly became friends with her.
Winry went to the Dead Water Marsh almost every other day.
As Winry had recently taken frequent leaves of absence, the old blacksmith personally went to the Mysterious Department to bring her back.
This caused a stir among the senior members of the Mysterious Department, including Mr. Black White. Even teachers at the professor level feared this old blacksmith.
Only after learning that Winry was practicing combat with a same-sex partner did the old blacksmith feel safe to leave.
However, he secretly assigned informants in the Mysterious Department to monitor Winry’s situation at all times.
[Dead Water Marsh – Witch Academy – Practice Room].
Through precise control of the human body’s nodes, Mia was able to attach and wrap her tough spider silk around Winry the blacksmith’s joints, completely restraining her.
Click!
Her four spider legs pressed down and instantly suppressed Winry.
Even if Winry was very strong, she couldn’t break free at the moment.
Mia stuck out a long and thin purplish-black tongue from her mouth and lightly licked Winry’s face.
“Little Winry, you’re so adorable… Watch out for this kind of situation, though! Don’t think that you can solve everything with brute force just because you are strong.”
“Understood… Big sister Mia.”
Just then, Han Dong walked in through the door.
He saw exactly the unusual sight of Mia, who had just drawn her spider legs back into her body, straddling Winry.
Due to the high temperatures in the fight, most of Mia’s clothes had burned away, revealing her slender figure.
As for Winry, she was ‘professionally tied’ to the ground, unable to move, looking completely submissive to Mia.
This scene… left Han Dong stunned for quite a while.
“emmm… I’ll wait for you guys outside.”
Not long after.
Han Dong, accompanied by the two young ladies, came to the bottom of the Dark Moon Tower from the marsh area.
After meeting up with Abe, they all went to the Stargazing Room together.
Winry was blushing throughout the journey because of the misunderstanding.
As for Mia, true to her nature, she took advantage of the situation the whole time, hugging Winry tightly and even making some ambiguous moves deliberately.
As for Abe, he was out of it the whole time. He held a beautifully crafted gift box in his hand. With the first formal meeting with Mr. Black White impending, soft white hair started popping out of his skin pores, making him look very nervous.
