Chapter 98 - Borrowing Soone
Even as August and I conversed, the corps mbers below didn’t stop yakking about the special unit’s upcoming expedition. Ah, what sinful popularity. I clicked my tongue softly.
“The special unit’s going to take another regular mber, they say, so what are the chances of them failing a raid?”
“Regular mber? Who?”
“I still haven’t heard anything on that, but… Wouldn’t you think it’d be Squad Leader Axion? He’s pretty close with that woman.”
“Then they really wouldn’t end up dying.”
“If Squad Leader Axion goes with them, then what about the Red Wolves under him? Will they take a break from raids?”
“Bet the Red Wolves are gonna cry. They must’ve been overjoyed to be led by a fla mage, only for their leader to end up being mobilized as a backup for another team.”
“They get a main dealer on top of a main priest. A special unit getting special treatnt, wouldn’t you say?”
All of them seed convinced that Axion would be helping us out. Even if their nonsense proved to be wrong later, they’d pretend like nothing was said. I was all too familiar with their ways. The only thing that mattered to these people was to form a public opinion.
Dungeon expeditions and assignnts were a delicate issue. You could only level up in dungeons. Expedition corps competed to gain rights over dungeons, and such competition was intense even within the sa group. As the saying went, the richer the greedier. The Dark Knights were no exception to this, even with all the dungeons they could afford to obtain. The existing corps mbers could have hardly welcod the establishnt of a special unit with dungeon priority. I was certain that there had been little opposition from them about the special unit’s formation because we were low in level. We wouldn’t threaten their interests: the middle and high-level dungeons.
But seeing how they were acting up already, the 2nd Corps squads would start a riot if we leveled up fast enough to challenge middle-level dungeons. Not that it bothered much. The worst they could do was to mutter behind our backs like this, after all. All my efforts in leveling up and raising the special unit were to defeat the demon lord. Them, on the other hand? I doubted even a quarter of them had the will to truly fight against the ultimate evil. They were expressing displeasure at being hindered in leveling up, which to them was rely a ans of increasing their self-worth. This was why none of these dissenters spoke up to Mayer about our unreasonable privilege. Their deception would only be exposed pretending to be indignant over this unfair situation.
“I’m starting to get tired of it now. Shall we go?” Deciding I had heard enough, I raised myself from the railing I was leaning over. I felt a burning desire to give them what they deserved.
August followed after and asked, “Co to think of it, you have yet to talk about the regular mber that would join your raid. You would not really be taking Brother Axion, would you?”
I laughed ambiguously. “No way. I said I wanted a seasoned lee attacker, didn’t I?”
The priest frowned suspiciously but didn’t ask further.
* * *
A few days later, I went looking for Axion.
“Jun!” Had he heard of the gossiping? He welcod with an unusually bright face. “Have you co to take after all? I welco it! Trust in and I’ll make you level 50 in no ti!”
It was truly regretful that I had to break his expectations in his bare face, but I had no choice. “I’m here because I want to borrow soone from the Red Wolves,” I said firmly.
“One of ours? Oh, just take , will you? Or is it because of the rumors? They’re all aningless.”
“That’s not why I’m not choosing you. I just don’t need you.”
“Oof… Don’t need ? There can’t be a team that doesn’t need !” Axion exclaid.
“Your position overlaps with Sevi’s.”
“Sevi will have to work in sync with eventually, anyway. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to do it early, don’t you think?”
“Are you telling that you want to practice chain casting with a level 5?” I snorted. “Axion, you’re too strong. You joining our unit will only result in destroying the balance. If I were only focusing on level-up speed, I would’ve asked the captain.”
He frowned. “You can’t bring the captain into this! I’ll have nothing to say!”
“That’s my intent.”
Axion grumbled. It was already famous among our elite mbers that Mayer had given a free ticket to use him whenever I needed. “Then who do you want?”
“Vegan.”
“Spearman Vegan?” Axion grew wide-eyed. “I do hesitate to say this about one of mine, but… Why him of all people? He’s a decent fellow who can pull his weight, but there’s nothing special about him for you to choose.”
“I had a harder ti looking for soone decent among the seasoned regular mbers.”
More people were against than I thought. Not being hostile didn’t an they were favorable toward . It turned out that were only a handful of people I could trust to go into a dungeon with.
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