“Did you find anything useful?”
Marla asked her teammates the next day when they t up. She wasn’t expecting any result from her last recon either. But surprisingly Eren ca forward before reporting:
“Master Marla, I might have found sothing. I had discovered a presence last night with Agatha’s help so I followed it up as per your instructions. The chase lasted for about two hours before my cover was blown.
I tried chasing that person but he just disappeared out of the blue. I can give you the details of my pursuit and show you the place on the map where I lost track of him.”
Marla raised her eyebrows before nodding at Eren. She pulled a map scroll from her storage and laid it in front of him. The latter didn’t waste ti and gave her the “exact” details of his chase.
Marla imdiately contacted a few personnel and arranged another squad of E-Rankers with the city administration’s help. She was made to believe that Eren was in the proximity of the cultist hideout. Hence the preparations.
Eren knew that the place was going to get found out sooner or later. The city’s hotshot captain Arizihana Agnoth was playing on the enemy’s side. She would find out sothing was wrong with her contact in a few days. So there was no rit in keeping the cri scene a secret.
By becoming the information provider, Eren would have a valid reason for traces of his presence near the cri scene. And anything unexplainable would get chalked under the anomaly created by Reen with her mana collusion.
Eren also wanted so form of reward from the city administration for his hard work, even when it wasn’t done for his employer. He would never say no to free money and resources.
Plus, the butcher had again struck rich with the hideout’s treasury!
And he also had a lot of study material, scrolls, books, and research papers regarding therianthropy and other miscellaneous information about the lost paths of magic. That alone would get sold for a fortune in the black market.
But Eren hadn’t robbed these study materials to make bucks off of them. He genuinely wanted to study and learn this path and see if he could make better use of it using his demon beast.
Marla left the inn right after she told the teammates to disperse. She was going to lead the team of E-Rankers. She would eventually find out the cri scene Eren had left for her to find. And then they’d return to LA.
It was going to take another day for that to happen. During this day, Lensa ca to et the team mbers again. She wanted to talk with Eren more. But the butcher made so excuse and left the inn faster than he left his cri scene.
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“Ken, what did your family decide about Lensa?”
Alra asked Ken while they were making their way back to LA. They had completed their mission and found the cultists’ burned-to-cinders hideout.
Ken sighed before replying:
“My family only sees profit in the ss I didn’t even create willingly. They are more than happy for to tie the knots with Lensa. Soone from my family will et with the Carrens and co to a formal arrangent.
For now, Lensa and I have both told our families that we’ll be focusing on our studies. But if all goes well according to our families’ plans, then an engagent will take place within a year.
We are both helpless. For now, we’ve decided to beco friends. And deal with the issue of the engagent a year after that.”
Ken replied with stoic expressions. His face looked perfect when the energising rays of the dawn kissed his skin. It was as if a prince was riding to unknown lands with a cause greater than him and everyone he cared about.
“Isn’t it great, Ken? I an you got an elf for a fiance now. Well, almost a fiance. But she is pretty and seems cool to hang out with too. You have the luck of a protagonist my friend. Makes envious. Hehe!”
Eren said while guiding his colt. Agatha was right behind him whereas Ken and Alra were on either side. This ti, Marla was leading them from the front.
Ken seed to be touched by his friend’s words. He gave his signature smile to the one who had brought that ss on him before replying:
“You are right as always, Eren. And Lensa intends to make friends with you too, you know. She told that you were all praises for that day when she asked you about .
Thanks, man. I now know that you have my back. Oh yeah, Lensa told that she’d co to et us in LA soti. We can find a nice girl for you too by then and go on double dates. That’d be fun. Haha!”
Ken offered to be Eren’s wingman magnanimously. Eren could only smile mirthlessly at that. He didn’t know what to say to the guy who he had cucked. Without the intention to do so in the beginning.
“Hehe! I hope you guys haven’t bought those strange elven ales in stock. Otherwise, things might go wilder than they did last ti.”
Alra’s taunt landed right on Ken who imdiately had a sullen face hearing that. It seed that he would not even go within a mile’s range of soone drinking the debuff potion of an ale.
Eren and Marla laughed heartily at Alra’s tily punch.
But soon the atmosphere beca serious when Alra asked the D-Ranker about their mission’s details.
“Adept Marla, what happened to the cultist hideout? And what did you find there?”
Marla furrowed her eyebrows after hearing the question directed at her. Then she took a deep breath before slowing down the speed of her colt.
Marla had told her teammates that they’ll talk about the mission’s results after they left the city of Silvermoon. And it was now ti to fulfil that promise:
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AN: Thanks aidan_chambers and TrafalgarLaws for your gifts. Also, VEH will have two bonus chapters today for scoring 286 GTs in such a small ti. Hoping we would et the coin target as well and have another bonus chapter release. ??
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