After receiving Bing Baek's earnest promise, Leo and the rest backed up and boarded the ship in preparation to set off. However, his consideration of the ice princess's future provoked another wave of thoughts in Leo's mind, the lonely silence of his ship room was especially helpful in that regard.
'I used to dislike this, but…'
As a Reader, Leo had gone through several phases, each having their likes and dislikes. At one point, he would desire to read interesting characters with smart interactions, at other tis, he would just want to read a straight power fantasy where characters could be as two-dinsional as possible. Still, in the end, he started to settle for novels with loner characters or ones where the protagonist is always the main focus.
In such cases, the quality of other characters remained irrelevant, so he could just enjoy everything with the troubleso parts that ca from deep interactions. However…
'It's not too bad.'
Leo's null experience with relationships was greatly enriched as the years passed by ever since he entered the world of 'Murim Supremacy'. Compared to his life on the Sword Continent where he chose to follow the loner path for the majority of his ti, starting up with so company was a life-changer for him.
Being an introvert wasn't sothing that soone could simply grow out of, but being incorporated into a new environnt worked wonders when one attempted to change. Having friends as quirky as Sohee and Yong, and being in a borderline relationship with the extre Yeon couldn't exactly be called normal, but it was actually what Leo needed to ease himself into that change…
'Perspective really ans everything.'
One of the reasons he hated reading about team making protagonists was because he felt like it was a waste, sa as many other readers. Why should the main character share his gains when he can just pile it up on himself and beco overpowered? It was only when he experienced a similar situation that he understood that his complaints ant nothing.
Possessing countless resources in the world of Murim didn't always translate to more strength, one also needed ti, comprehension, and many other aspects. Even if he was given all the resources that the other three consud, Leo had no confidence in taking down the Devouring Centaur on his own. On the other hand, they had a much bigger chance with their numbers even if they didn't enjoy all the resources spent on them!
Soone like Geochin who started with a large handicap might have needed everything, but Leo didn't. Even after being expanded, his Dantian had almost filled up again just by using one of the four cores in addition to his share from the mutant one! Keeping them for later wasn't viable either as the conversion ratio would terribly fall down after the first consumption!
Instead, sharing with everyone brought about a very different result. Whether it was the fearso Heavenly Demon Queen, the Tyrannical Demon Dragon, or even the less relevant Dancing Roc, just pushing one of these SSR companions into achieving Transcendence ahead of ti drastically changed the playing ground!
'We will need to brace ourselves for what is to co.'
Unfortunately, even with everything falling into place, Leo couldn't relax just yet. Geochin's Ascension materials were stolen by them, but would he really struggle to find a replacent? The scene of the Roc Parrot dropping the Sky Fruit on the protagonist out of nowhere was still vivid in Leo's mind. The lacking Legendary event rating and the number of the Reading Points he received also noted how his influence was still downplayed…
Most importantly, however, what he achieved didn't co without cost. Starting from the point where he tried convincing Cheon Jeong to back off and up to his 'chance' eting with Bing Baek, he risked giving up his identity by acting too out of place while throwing the bla at his 'instinct'.
"Baekho orabeoni, co join us for food!"
Brought out of his daydream by Cheon Sohee's call, Leo didn't know how to feel. He didn't think he did too badly, but no preparations would be enough in the face of the upcoming trouble.
'Wrong. Rest should be given when due!'
Being caught up in the mindset of a workaholic was a dangerous trap. If he didn't want to end up succumbing to sothing worse than the reading addiction that he dreaded, Leo couldn't afford to look at the future in distress.
'A reader's omniscience is supposed to make my life easier and not the other way around.'
"On my way! I want to participate in the process this ti!"
With his fear of another month of endless seafood, Leo didn't board the ship unprepared this ti! He couldn't bring in other ingredients that would go bad since using Internal Energy to preserve them was too much effort, but he could at least prepare things that he could add to make the food edible.
"I found this recipe during one of my night walks, let's see if it will actually be good."
With a very random disguise for his otherworldly knowledge, Leo took out the eggs and flour to make so frying batter. If seafood was the only option, then he would fry them crispy!
"Oh?"
Since they happened to catch so shrimp this ti, Leo proceeded to make fried shrimp, the dish he liked the most in the fishy world of seafood.
Yeon and the others only watched curiously as bright scarlet fire erged from Leo's hand. His very first use of True Internal Fire was ironically for heating up the frying oil. Throwing in the battered shrimp, a fragrant sll erged from the black ship.
"This is pretty good!"
It lacked so extra condints, but as one would expect back on Earth, anything tastes better with so batter!
After an action-packed trip fraught with bonding and great achievents, the Heavenly Strength Society's dispatch team sailed back towards their big ho as they enjoyed the Reader's unique fast food recipe, detoxing the stress they had gradually built up to this point…
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