Liu Feng and Akiko were tense. He had no idea what happened between them earlier, but Liu Feng’s general expression changed when he heard Zen.
“There you are!” the Seer smiled gently and took a real look at Zen before reaching out to pat Zen’s head softly.
“You’re a lot shorter than I thought you were now that I can see.”
His statement made Zen freeze. “What do you mean?”
Akiko tilted her head to one side. Didn’t Zen tell Liu Feng to make his area boss drop into an accessory because he knew what it could do?
Liu Feng paused. His smile faltered. Many questions hovered in everyone’s minds. Misunderstanding deepened, and this time, there was no way for them to con
“Nobody can be certain of the truth from a watered-down source,” Zen told them. “I have reasons to believe that while the claims of the Gorski’s family’s children experimentation and torture are true, there is more than meets the eye.”Liu Feng and Akiko held their breaths as Zen explained his perspective. From analysis, the scientists from the Gorski family fit the criteria as curiosity-driven individuals with a desire to solve many of civilian’s problems. They were one of the Godfather’s most loyal supporters of wanting to do good as guardians of their territory. However, not many people believed them after the truth of their results were leaked.Even so, Zen’s theory was only a theory. Without concrete evidence to clean the Gorsi family’s crimes, knowing the truth was useless.
Putting aside Damian Gorski’s matter, for now, the trio finally cleared up all the bad air between them since morning.“You can have the one with higher efficiency,” Liu Feng tossed the advanced healing salve to Akiko. “I’ll be happy with the one my little brother made.”Zen blushed at how Liu Feng phrased things. Sometimes, he wondered if this long-haired older brother was conscious of what he was doing. If he was a lady, he would have fallen for Liu Feng.Akiko did not bother arguing. She might not need this now, but it was better than arguing with the Seer when he was feeling possessive. Zen was grabbed by the waist, and Liu Feng jumped down from the tree with the small gamer tucked neatly under one arm like an attempted kidnapping right before her eyes.
Unsurprisingly, Zen finished Father Clarence’s quest first. However, Remi and Charlie were still far from reaching their quota. Akiko and Liu Feng did not mind helping Zen to gather a few more slimes when the teen said he wanted to collect a few more green goo for salve crafting practice.More was better than less, and Remi decided he couldn’t go on anymore. For every five slimes he killed, there would only be one or two that dropped goo. Something was strange. Zen killed way lesser slimes than they did, leaving most of the slime horde to them, but he finished his quota first.As Remi and Charlie rested, the tactician observed Zen, who requested smaller groups of slime to be sent his way so that he could conserve his stamina. Swinging a short sword also took a lot of energy, even if his movements with the sword were getting better. He did not see hi
Tired but not defeated, the trio turned in their quests to Father Clarence as the clergyman entertained two newcomers asking to assist with his chores. Zen witnessed how the NPC requested more cloth to make bandages, sending Akiko and Liu Feng away to complete the quest.From the conversation, Liu Feng managed to make the clergyman like him a little more as they bonded over a discussion about pressure points to massage to relieve fatigue. The Seer even offered to give the priest a shoulder rub, and Zen had to admit his sworn brother was a charmer of women, men, animals and NPCs.The smug smirk on the long-haired man’s face told Zen that he got what he came for even though he would still complete the quest he accepted to learn a first aid skill that Zen encouraged them to learn.Akiko did not have much luck ear
“How are you feeling?”Zen groaned. Honestly, he felt like this was the worst sleep he had so far. Father Clarence was looking at him with eyes of concern, wondering what the boy did to return to the church this soon. Didn’t he mass craft the healing salves?Suffocation and drowning were probably some of the more terrifying ways to die. Honestly, Zen preferred to die from fall damage or get beaten up until his HP dwindled away. It would not be as brutal as smelling slime butts. Even getting shot to death might be slightly better. It was less embarrassing if Zen ignored how he died semi-naked.“Terrible,” Zen groaned as light stabbed his eyes. Reviving in the chapel was a rather odd experience. There was way too much light coming in from the stained glass window beside him, and Father Cl
Once Zen had resistance towards sleep, the purge of blue slimes in the woods became easier. Compared to hyperactive green slimes and hostile orange slimes, these blue slimes were sluggish and did not fight much.Remi and Charlie held their own against the slime and the Gambler discovered by pure luck that the blue blobs were allergic to coffee.Fashioning a water shooting weapon, the trio dominated the woods, killing blue slimes left and right.“Where did you learn how to make a blowgun?” Zen asked the Gambler curiously.Charlie chuckled. Any mafia heir with good education knew the basics. Thankfully, the wood had resources that they could use to transform dried reeds into high-pressure water guns.Zen spat as the
When Zen woke up in the chapel and groaned. The feeling of dying from a fall was certainly more pleasant than smelling blue slime butts. Thankfully, he never needed to do that again. “Welcome back,” Father Clarence smiled serenely and helped Zen sit up. The young chef blushed furiously, embarrassed to be a chapel regular. However, he wasn’t the only one in the chapel’s revival station. Remi was also there, but he still hadn’t regained consciousness. Charlie was nowhere to be found in the chapel, and Zen thought that the Gambler must have gotten away from the spider. He was about to leave Charlie a message to meet them back in town when there was a flash of light and a new coffin in the revival station. Zen chuckled. So Charlie didn’t manage to get away from the
Easy.Zen never thought there would be an easy enemy in this dungeon until he met the yellow slimes. Ignoring how poisonous they were, the yellow slimes were small enough to fit on Zen’s palm, and they only found out about the slimes when Remi accidentally squished on bouncing in their path under his foot.They might be poisonous, but they were by far the cutest monsters Zen saw in the dungeon. There was supremacy in size, and the trio took their anger out on the yellow slimes, stomping and smashing with a large stick while taking care not to come into contact.They had no idea how deadly these little yellow slimes were until some yellow slime goo accidentally splattered on Charlie when Remi got a little too enthusiastic.Nothing happened initially, and the boys la