anwhile, a lot of things were also happening in Lotus Town, and plenty of those were good news. Leez’s shop had beco town-famous, and queues were already forming even before it opened!
By now, they already knew of the store that sold delicious sauces, condints, and recipes called ’Wanderer’s Shop’!
It was dripping in gold every day, and the people from the rchant guild got even more smug!
Oddly, even the adventurer guild acted smug at the success of the store! Why tho!?
Another news was that Victor and Reesa finally conceived!
Humans were well-known for their fertility, but it did not an they could get pregnant whenever they felt like it. In fact, the stronger the person, the more difficult it was to conceive!
For a fortified-level fighter like Victor, it was no surprise that they took years before succeeding.
What’s more, they estimated that the baby was made in the Inn! No, it was definitely made in the inn! Reesa, a healer, confird it.
Apparently, the regeneration buffs of the rooms could reinforce other functions as well!
This story spread out among the adventurers, so of whom had been to the inn before, and they definitely believed it.
Just like this, another title was added to the Inn: The Fertile Burrow
...
Speaking of...conception, there was another pair who conceived in the Inn.
It was none other than...Remus and Marie, the two people who took the third phase exam with Finn back then.
Since the exam, they had ford an acquaintance of sort. After joining an adventurer team, they were both newbies, and they only knew each other. It was natural to grow a bit closer.
Perhaps there was sothing more forming, but their personalities caused this progress to be stagnant, without either of them even noticing.
Remus was a bit of an optimist, while Marie had a one-track mind.
It shifted to a romantic one during the latest visit to the Wanderer’s Refuge. Finn had opened up a few vats of his alcohol, putting them up for sale, and their captain was in a celebratory mood and treated everyone.
They were newbies and poor, so they could only afford a tent, and sohow, while drunk, they ended up in the sa tent.
One thing led to another, and it lasted the night. The tent didn’t have insulation, so when morning ca, and they realized what happened, there was no escape: Everyone knew already.
Things got awkward, and then, they found out a few days prior, that Marie even got pregnant!
Another title was added thanks to them: Inn where Love is Found
Finn: "..."
Is my Inn gonna be a love hotel or sothing?!
...
Not everything was good news, however, and the data the Adventurer Team’s elders received made their faces darken.
They received letters from allies from the other town, and they said that Frago—or the family behind him, to be precise—were making moves again.
The Bhissit Family was much more powerful now, especially since they had an elder at the Apex level. However, lately, it seed like they were showing power well beyond their actual ranks. Like, a typical toughened level guard could handle a fortified-level guard, for so reason! And it wasn’t just two or three people.
So spies had perished already, sadly. The other side just didn’t know which force sent them. Yet.
Right now, though, instead of anxiety, they were feeling extre anger. "I thought that brat had lost a hand."
"Just a finger." Elder Waeron corrected, with a disappointed tone of voice.
It seed like the family doctors saved most of Frago, and he’s gotten even more proficient with his power.
"Well. I hope he’s in pain."
The bastard that got so many of his people killed!
What they had found out so far, through joint efforts with so other territories, was disturbing. It seed like the various abnormalities in all dungeons were sohow connected to this group.
For example, they found out that there was a correlation whenever soone from the Bhissit side headed to a dungeon, so people would fall. And then soone from that family would show a burst of power.
Though a lot of it was temporary, the damage was very real, and so of their spies had been killed directly.
There were also flying monsters, so were familiar to what that side had used before.
It seed like the family was heading out again, this ti once again targeting their Kaelmorr dungeon.
Other than this, there were also an increased number of odd sightings, wherein fortified level monsters would venture to level 1!
There was even a group of rchants and a few rcenaries who had been massacred.
"It’s ti for us to take a visit to these places."
There were not many people at the peak of the fortified level and above. Every year, they hold the top-tier missions to check on the dungeon areas. But with the current trends of things not following the usual, so elders decided they should check it out themselves.
...
The Adventurer Guild’s elders weren’t the only ones heading in the direction of the inn.
There was an interesting pair: A human and a Beastkin, with the forr being a playful Cleric and the latter having a wild and dangerous image.
They were both adventurers from Silang Town, which was in the Southeast of this area. They were here for a personal mission.
dicine for their poor, sickly five-year-old son.
The woman, the Cleric, was called Winona and she was in her late 30s though she looked quite young for her age. She was wearing the classic cleric garb, holding a spiked mace in her hand.
The Beastkin, Selan, was around the sa age, but he gave off that dangerous wolfish vibe, as if he could bite at any ti. It was just the two of them in their party, but it was usually enough as both of them were at the peak of toughened level, with combat ability exceeding those of the sa rank.
Even Winona, the cleric, could defend herself well with her mace.
However, there was sothing different today. So deep into Level 1, they encountered a fortified level monster! If they were together, it wouldn’t be able to kill them.
It was just that it caught them off guard, especially since they had just handled a dozen monsters, many of which were toughened, before encountering this one so they were very tired.
A feeling of dread made their bodies feel heavy.
Would they be able to go back ho to their son?
...
"We’re still a distance away from Level 2. What is this?" Winona asked as she blessed her husband with a speed and strength buff. "Make it count," she told him. After all, the cooldown for these blessings was an hour.
Selan jumped up, using the monster’s arm as a bolster. He jumped high above its head, the extra speed buff allowing him to move without worrying about getting caught.
It also allowed him to have bigger montum in his attacks.
SLASH!
ROAAARR!
The monster was angry, crazily waving its arms. While Selan managed to hurt it and slow it down, it also hit him back. Fortunately, he managed to get into a defensive position at the right ti, though he was thrown to the nearest tree.
"SELAN!" Winona yelled, going to him and using a healing spell.
Selan patted her hand and stood up, spitting out a bit of blood. "It shouldn’t take long," he said.
"We have to finish it off," he said, and then looked at the incoming awakened monsters that would be collateral damage, but still troubleso.
"This is going to be a bit challenging."
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