NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 125: Paid-Off Debt
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Two days later.
The guest house of the 14th Sky Sword base.
With his condition fully recovered, Arthur could do other things, such as training, relaxing, or walking.
Currently, he was relaxing while enjoying the serenity of the place, accompanied by a cup of hot tea on the wooden table in the front yard.
Unlike the Blue Wheat Group's guest house, Sky Sword 14th's guest house had a large front yard, filled with green grass.
Karen normally used the front yard for her training sessions. At this moment, Arthur casually noticed Karen swinging her flaming sword, showing off certain moves.
WOSH!
With a forward lunge, the flames, along with a strong wind, shook the ground and blew away the leaves on the trees. The leaves fell, and cuts were made on the tree's trunk.
The woman seemed to take a deep breath, then exhaled slowly. She sheathed her flaming sword and took out a white handkerchief to wipe the sweat from the top of her head.
"What do you think?" asked Karen, smiling at Arthur lounging around.
"Your moves are getting more skillful, your magic aura is getting stronger. That's a good sign, Karen," Arthur explained.
Karen smiled, feeling pleased that Arthur had complimented her so well. Karen stepped towards the man, smiling as she sat on one of the wooden chairs around the table.
"I'm looking forward to the raid," Karen said.
"With your skills, I think you can significantly damage those monsters."
The woman with the fire sword at her waist smiled, agreeing with what Arthur had said. Karen felt quite confident that she could significantly impact Squad 13 during the raid.
In the distance, Karen and Arthur saw Silva coming from the building's corridor. Arthur narrowed his eyes as he gulped down the drink in his glass; Silva should have come to pay her debt.
Arthur smiled. He got up from his seat and stepped closer to Silva. The woman seemed to be walking towards the house without carrying anything. Arthur realized that she had the item in her inventory.
"How?" asked Arthur.
"I got it, though it's not an MP Crystal level 5," Silva said.
The woman stretched her hand forward, displaying her palm filled with five pieces of MP Crystal level 4. Arthur squinted, taking one of the five items.
"How is it?" asked Silva, curious.
Arthur gave Silva a strong look while looking at the identification of the item in his hand. A system panel appeared and explained the item's details to Arthur.
[Item Details:]
[Item: MP Crystal]
[Grade: 4]
[Description: Able to increase one's MP capacity by 20000 MP per item].
By having five MP Crystal items, Arthur could ensure that he got an additional 100,000 MP capacity. That was more than enough and allowed him to have more than 300,000 MP at the moment.
"Does it have to be MP Crystal level 5?" asked Silva, worried that the item would not meet Arthur's expectations.
The man sighed, then cleared his throat while shaking his head. His hand reached forward and took the five items, placing them on Arthur's palm.
"This is enough!"
CRUSH!
With a hand gesture of crushing the MP Crystals, a stream of magic energy flowed from the five crushed MP Crystals into Arthur's body through his forehead. Arthur closed his eyes, feeling comfortable when magic energy entered his body.
[MP Capacity +100,000]
[Name: Aaron Lewis]
[MP: 257000/357000] [MP Capacity +100000]
A system panel appeared before Arthur, showing his total MP capacity of 357,000. With that amount of MP capacity, Arthur had nothing to fear from using the ultimate sub-talent of his main talent.
Silva and Karen glanced over briefly, then gasped with their mouths agape when they noticed that Arthur had a total MP capacity of over 300,000.
It didn't make sense to Silva that a mage who had only reached the 14th floor already had such a large amount of MP capacity.
"W-Why do you have such a large MP capacity, Arthur?" Karen asked.
"That's not what you need to think about, Karen."
Silva shook her head, not really caring about Arthur's MP capacity. All she needed to do was make sure that Arthur's needs were met so that he would no longer owe her money.
"Yes. It's more than enough," Arthur replied.
With nothing more to say, Silva said goodbye and wished the 13th Squad the best. Silva also told them Nathan had prepared equipment to help the 13th Squad with the raid.
"Send my thanks to him, Ms. Silva," Arthur said, and Silva cleared her throat in agreement.
"For your information, the raid announcement will appear this afternoon. You'd better be prepared because the raid will open tomorrow morning," Silva replied.
'How does she know this for sure?" Arthur asked.
Silva added that the 14th Sky Sword raid team would join the raid. Their main task was to clean up and improve the other squads' abilities, not challenge the floor boss.
"If you want to cooperate, we can help you get rid of the monsters along the route to the floor boss," replied Silva, offering cooperation.
"That's great, we can—"
Arthur cut Karen off by taking her hand. Karen's attention was drawn to the side, staring at Arthur, who had a stern and serious expression.
"What's wrong?" Karen asked.
"Thank you for your offer. However, the 13th Squad will be on their own this time. As for the monsters, we're confident we can defeat them," Arthur replied to Silva.
Silva looked strongly at Arthur. There was another reason for the man to interrupt Karen's speech and say that he and the 13th squad would try to defeat the maze monsters alone. Still, Silva didn't know what it was.
In the end, the woman did not impose her will on Arthur. Instead, they would still help the 13th squad by adding to their equipment. Arthur appreciated it even more.
Arthur and Karen watched Silva leave from the front yard of the guest house. When Silva was out of sight, Karen asked Arthur what he meant by interrupting her.
"We'd rather try to defeat the maze monster than have them do that," Arthur replied.
"Why? Couldn't we save our MP with their help?"
"You don't understand what I mean."
The man explained that killing the maze monster was better than killing the floor boss —unless she got the last hit.
Karen could get a last hit if she defeated a maze monster, earning her more EXP and TP than killing a floor boss.
Also, don't forget about the experience. The 13th squad was not Arthur's eternal squad. After the 25th floor, Arthur will split up with them.
That makes Sara and the others have to get stronger because of their abilities, not because of Arthur's power reliance. Explore more at My Virtual Library Empire
The quick way was for them to kill many maze or wild monsters. However, since the abilities of wild monsters are sometimes unstable —stronger or weaker. So, the maze monsters could be their focus.
Karen listened to Arthur's explanation, then nodded in understanding while clenching her right palm. Now, she fully knew why Arthur had refused Silva's help.
[ANNOUNCEMENT!]
[Monster Raid in Dark Pillar Tower will open soon]
[All adventurers are requested to prepare]
[Countdown until Monster Raid Gate opens]
[00:11:59:43]
The blue panel of the monster raid notification appeared before Arthur. Arthur smiled. What Silva said was true.
"The Dark Pillar Gate will open at five in the morning. We must gather and prepare ourselves," Arthur said, Karen agreed.
Just before stepping inside, Karen's steps halted when she wondered about Miki's participation. Arthur said that Miki would be joining.
"She can't be separated from Thalenia. She will come with us."