"No way..."
Viola, seeing how the fight ended in a single move, couldn’t help but doubt her eyes. After all, the elites she brought with her were the best among the best in their dinsion.
At the very least, they should have been able to fight on equal terms, toe-to-toe with the witches!
However, this result completely denied that expectation.
A landslide victory!
"Your people are strong," Wisteria spoke after seeing the look in Viola’s eyes. "However, as you can see, even Rosaria, who is this strong, was forced to retreat. You can guess how powerful the Four Heavenly Kings are now, right?"
Viola had claid to have "chased off" soone just below the Four Heavenly Kings.
However, that opponent was not truly "on par" with them by a long shot. The gap between the one they chased off and a real one was as vast as the distance between the earth and the sky.
Viola pursed her lips, frowning deeply.
Although she truly ca to provide support to Witcheria, it was also true that she had co to assert dominance. But now, she was the one being shown her place instead.
The long silence ended when Viola raised her arms in surrender.
"Alright, Wise-chan, my Queen, I understand. We’ll give up on the Four Heavenly Kings for now," she said. "But still, let us help you out. Your Second Princess is still missing, right~? Let us help search for her!"
"You..."
Wisteria was surprised that she knew this.
However, with the entire city aware of the situation, it wouldn’t be strange if Viola had heard about it along the way. With a heavy sigh, Wisteria leaned back on her throne and shook her head.
"With your Shamans, I’m sure you’d be a great help."
The witches alone weren’t enough. Even after two full days, they had yet to find a single clue regarding Axel and Nina’s whereabouts.
But with the Shamans’ assistance, that might finally change.
"Great~!" Viola clapped, seemingly genuinely pleased. "Then send us to one of the frontline fortresses so we can begin ASAP~!"
"I get it..." Wisteria grumbled. "Soone, lead them to the repaired Great Fortress. But before that..."
She glanced at the pair still frozen like statues in the center of the room.
"Rosaria, release those two from your curse."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Even with new helping hands, Wisteria couldn’t help but worry.
"Nina... I pray that you’re safe..."
...
As for the person in question—
"Ugh... finally, I can see the sun..."
Axel climbed out of the underground safehouse Navi had made.
In the two days they spent down there, he had lost about five kilograms—just showing how "fierce" the female wolf had been.
He literally had to accompany her for forty-eight hours straight, nonstop!
If not for the short water and al breaks, he would have died from getting sucked dry!
"Sir Axel... we should contact Mother soon," Nina followed behind him and muttered. "We’ve been away for almost three days now. I’m sure they’re worried."
Axel understood her concern. However—
"Unfortunately, the Interdinsional Shop’s chat function is a bit fucked up at the mont..." he lanted.
At present, that was the only easy way to contact Queen Wisteria.
Yet for so reason, it was completely bugged. Not only could he not send ssages, but he couldn’t receive them either!
Even when he asked the sulking Navi—
[Who knows? Try figuring it out yourself.]
The penguin brushed it off just like that.
Of course, the reason Navi was sulking was because he had been left in "Private Mode" for the entire forty-eight hours Axel was busy. Axel himself forgot about it and only rembered after Fenrir had finally "cald down."
As for the wolf in question—
"Uhm... Miss Fenrir?" Axel scratched his cheek, troubled. "When will you let go?"
"Never..."
Fenrir answered flatly.
She stood behind Axel, hugging him from the back, her nose pressed against his neck as she sniffed nonstop.
An act she’d been doing for so long that Axel had already grown used to it.
"Master saved not once, but twice from death. I owe you two lifetis. Thus, I’ll be your wife from now on, and you’ll be my Alpha~!"
—or so she claid.
Although Axel was troubled by how clingy she’d beco, almost as if her personality had changed.
’Weirdly, I don’t feel burdened even when she’s weighing down from behind.’
Despite her frail-looking figure, Fenrir was quite heavy. Normally, he should have been walking like he was carrying a sack of rice on his back! Yet right now, he barely felt her weight at all.
"This is..."
Of course, he knew the reason.
It was his new passive skill, unlocked after he was "assaulted" in his sleep by the witches—the Harem Settlent System’s true value. It increased his stats by 5% of his partner’s total stats!
Normally, it would add one to five points per stat. However, his partner was Fenrir, a legendary monster. Even partially sealed, her stats easily exceeded a thousand.
In short, Axel’s current stats were—
[
Na: Axel Walker
Job: Trader, Scamr, Kept Man (?), Legend’s Alpha (?)
Age: 25
Affection Level: Absolute (100 / 100)
Loyalty: S
Count: 0
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]
[
Axel’s Basic Stats:
Strength: 122 (A-)
Vitality: 200 (A )
Agility: 179 (A)
Dexterity: 203 (A )
Luck: 175 (A)
Intelligence: 147 (A-)
Wisdom: 128 (A-)
Health: 600
Mana: 10,514
]
...Now filled with A-ranks.
With his current strength, he could probably fight toe-to-toe with a minotaur even without support from the witches! However, one thing bothered him.
"Although we did it almost a hundred tis in those forty-eight hours, it only got added once? No—twice?" Axel muttered, confused.
But after a bit of thinking, the reason soon beca clear.
The first stat increase likely happened during the three-way with Fenrir and Nina during her revival. The second occurred during the seemingly endless one-on-one that lasted until a few hours ago.
In short—
’For each partner, the stat bonus only applies once per unique action type?’
Once solo, once 3P, once 4P, and so on. Realizing this, a chill ran down Axel’s spine.
If used properly—
’Wouldn’t I eventually reach Fenrir’s real stats myself?!’
Still, rembering how often the System disappointed him, he knew there had to be a catch—sothing left unexplained.
"Well..."
Axel sighed, looking up at the cloudy sky, the shy sun barely peeking through.
"First of all, we should get out of this god-forsaken place," he declared.
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