While Ash waited for the night to co and Grey Leash n to pick him up to go to the underground arena, Ash quickly told Verdant Litany’s n to help him make a sign.
A huge sign that took up 100% of the building’s width.
’How can I forget about putting up a sign...’ Every ti he rembered this, he couldn’t help but facepald and massaged his forehead.
’Maybe I do need so sleep after all...’
The Verdant Litany’s mbers had started to do their work.
Most of them, about half the mbers, were doing their usual work.
Which was to help Grey Leash manage this certain part of the slums to collect rent, finding places for people that wanted to move out, and also making sure the ’workers’ were doing fine for another day of work.
For the other half, they were happily doing the work that Ash had asked them to do.
A few went out to buy a sign, then the rest went around the streets, telling people about the new clinic Ash had opened.
But still, Ash told them to never bring soone by force or use any kind of intimidation to make people go to the clinic.
Which made it harder for any of the mbers to find people who trusted the gang mbers of this new, cheap ’clinic’ they were advertising.
As a result, even when the afternoon ca, there wasn’t a single person who entered his clinic yet.
Well, not exactly zero people, though.
The Grey Leash mbers still ca in batches to be blessed with more of Ash’s gifts.
The process was the sa as before.
The mbers ca, Ash gave them the other two diseases to complete the set of three, then his connections with them grew.
There weren’t any upsets or anything dangerous.
All of the Grey Leash mbers were able to conquer the diseases just fine despite their different awakened abilities.
The diseases were three basic diseases with only passive skills after all.
Even a null like Ash could survive the three diseases all at once for many minutes before, though barely.
How could tier 1 awakeners fail at surviving such simple diseases?
It was a happy occasion getting more and more family mbers, people that he could trust.
But it was still a downer for Ash that he didn’t get a single patient yet.
Trying out his ability to heal people was one thing.
Saving more people from the ascension force was another thing.
But the one thing Ash wanted more than the first two was to get more new diseases.
An actual disease.
Not a venom or a poison that was sohow counted as a disease by the plague codex.
A disease contracted by humans.
He wanted to see what kind of abilities they would give him.
It had been such a long ti since Ash had seen a new entry in his codex.
It started to feel like he was stagnating, even though the people around him kept getting stronger.
Ash felt left behind by his own people.
Fortunately, like so wise words he read sowhere in a book, saying, ’Ask, then you shall receive.’ Ash received what he wanted.
No. There were still no patients coming into his clinic.
The sign hadn’t even finished yet. The Verdant boys were still waiting for the sign maker to finish it.
However, there was one ’accidental’ patient.
The fourth group of Grey Leash mbers coming into his clinic for his gifts actually brought out a new person.
Soone who didn’t co to the ergency eting last night because he was bedridden.
Out of the 5 people coming, he was the only one that Ash didn’t have a prior connection with. There was none of his mana inside the man’s body.
He was the only person in here who had a body that was still vulnerable to ’common’ illnesses.
The 4 people chatted familiarly with Ash. Asking how his day was and even more questions about what his ability had done to them to make their bodies feel more energized and tireless.
That one mber looked at all his acquaintances with raised eyebrows.
In their line of work, they knew almost every single influential person in the slums.
It was a necessary survival skill. If you ss with the wrong person, then it could be the end of your life.
All of his acquaintances had called the man called Dust as Boss.
Sothing that he had been explained prior by the 4 of them.
But it didn’t make sense.
Even if soone did convince Eben to relinquish his control of Grey Leash, the people under him wouldn’t just accept it this easily.
Going out of their way to be friendly and accepting of the usurper who had taken over the gang that they had been a part of for years.
He planned to just stay quiet, give the basic respect to this new ’boss’, and be done with whatever he needed to do in here.
’I just need to receive so gifts, then get out...’ He talked to himself as he side eyed the other mbers.
He didn’t know this Dust person at all. There’s no need to be all chummy with him, despite him being the new boss, whether that was even true or not.
However, he realized sothing.
Despite Dust speaking with all the other mbers, Dust often looked at him every other second.
He thought he had done sothing wrong, and began to sweat as Dust had turned his head completely towards him and started walking towards him.
No matter how he couldn’t accept Dust as the new boss just like that, he was only a tier 1 awakened.
Despite not knowing how powerful this Dust person really was, he would be a fool to think that soone weaker than him could ever convince Eben to give him Grey Leash, no matter what happened in the background.
"B...Boss? Is there sothing wrong?"
Dust’s eyes kept staring at the man. Not leaving him for even a blink.
The sweat on his back began to drench his clothes. His feet trembled, wanting to retreat, but he was held strongly by his years of experience.
’If I looked too afraid, then I might offend him...’
Finally, Dust opened up his mouth,
"By any chance, are you sick?"
The man froze for a split second, and the trembling from his feet spread to his whole body.
"I’m sorry, boss! I didn’t an to do anything to offend you!"
His knees kissed the ground, his head hung down, and his hands clasped as if he were praying.
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