Due to the invasion of the Thousand Hands, the immortals realized that they need to strengthen the defense system of the Secret Base, since the whole building actually sustained an average level of damage during that fight between Chris and the Thousand Hands, although protected by a double barrier. The glass part of the sunroof sustained the most serious damage, the whole piece of glass scattered when Chris activated his ultimate form.
In order to find a stronger replacement for the broken sunroof's glass, Sky decided to go to a mine in a town that is fifty miles away from their Secret Base. Since Quill Town happens to be in between the two places, Maria followed Sky as he brought Dominic, Nathan, and Marco back to Quill Town, Junior who had fully recovered from his leg injuries joined them as well.
Aside from the reinforcement of the building defense, the Immortals also decided that they need strengthen up the overall power of every combat member in the Secret Base, particularly Itsuki who had just received an enormous amount of life force from the three Immortals. Thus, Ben has sent him, Seito, and Yuki to Alliance's sub-quarter in Kapis Dimension for a proper training, by right, it has nothing to do with Ai, but she is kind of lonely without those three, and so, she joined them as well.
With all these reasons, there are only five people left in the Secret Base...
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Secret base.
Chris is enjoying a cup of green tea in the lounge, still wearing the sunflower eye patch. Ben approached him with a cup of black coffee and sat down at his side.
"It's been a few times now, still not planning to tell them the truth?" Ben asked, sounds rather concerned.
Chris shook his head.
"Still not trusting them enough even after all these years?" Ben asked, before taking a sip of the black coffee
"No, it's not. It's just... No one deserves to find out or even witness that awful side of mine, including you. If Shiya didn't share that part of his memory with you, I am not planning to let you know either." said Chris, he actually sounds quite normal.
"So... Even after all these years, it doesn't get better at all?" Ben asked.
"To be more accurate, it got worse." said Chris, who sounds kind of down.
"I see... Anyway, I had been working on some research all these years, I believe I will be able to find a method to at least press it down for a bit." said Ben, trying to comfort Chris.
"Well, Shiya had tea lots of researches in the past as well, but... Anyway, I appreciate your hard work." said Chris before taking up the cup of green tea and drinking the tea...
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Meanwhile, Sky, Maria, and Junior are riding on Seiryu above a big prosperous town.
"Hmm... It's been a while since we went to this town, it seems like it is still as prosperous as always." said Maria, rather excited.
"Yeah... But somehow I felt a weird uneasiness about this town, I wondered if I have been followed by the God of Misfortune again." said Sky, a bit worried.
"Aww... Darling, don't worry, even your God of Misfortune did plan to do something, we will be able to overcome it as always. But seriously... Jun-chan! Why would you even want to join us in this troublesome stuff? Your leg injuries had just recovered." said Maria, with a reprimanding tone to Junior.
"Well... I feel that I need to take responsibility for this matter, after all, I am the one that brought Bob to your place, while he is one of the main reasons that lead to that incident." said Junior.
"Aww... Stop blaming yourself, it has nothing to do with you. Furthermore, Darling had already blasted his head off, so everything is cleared." said Maria, trying to comfort Junior.
"Uh-huh... Maria, that doesn't help at all." said Sky, rather awkwardly.
Yes, instead of comforting Junior, Maria makes the atmosphere really awkward.
"Ah... Haha..." Maria awkwardly laughed, along with the other two.
After finding a good spot for landing, the blue dragon descended from the sky onto a wide clear field.
As soon as they landed, they were greeted by the town mayor and some other men who had been waiting for their arrival.
"Greetings. Are you Mr. Vlansky, the VIP who booked the mining activities in our crystal mine cave for a million units of currency?" One of the mayor's followers asked, in a polite and formal tone.
"Yes, I am, here's the proof of the payment." said Sky as he flashed a digital receipt to the mayor's followers through a special device.
"Alright, please follow me and have a drink in our town centre." said the mayor's follower as he lead Sky and the other two into the town...
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Sky and the others reached the town centre in less than fifteen minutes, the mayor happily invited them to his personal office before asking his butler to prepare some tea for Sky and the other two.
"When I first heard that someone is booking for our mine, I was flabbergasted. Let me clarify a bit it's not about money. I mean it had been at least a few thousand years, after the one adventurous team who actually had that guts to explore that mine cave, no one even dare to get near of that place despite of all the precious minerals that can be found in it." said the mayor in an excited tone.
Listening to the words from the mayor who is actually quite young, Sky doesn't know whether or not he should let him know that he is the one that explored that cave before with Chris that time...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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