Sky, Sal and Athena are seated around a small table, Sal is giving some briefing for Sky regarding the current condition of Black Cross, Xenoo is standing at Sal's side and have no courage to look at Sky as he has found out about Sky's secret identity.
"Lord Vlansky, do you still remember that incident that involved the whole family of Lady Muron?" Sal asked.
"Yes, that is not something I can forget easily. What is it?" Sky asked.
"Well, it's about Lady Muron's son, after Terrence took over, he went to the Afterworld with Xenoo to explain the whole thing to Lord Enma. Lord Enma forgave Xenoo and told Terrence that he will let Hangan to get everything back to order. However, here comes the problem, in order to balance out the life force in Null Dimension, Lord Hangan forcibly filled in life force from other sources into Null Dimension to replace the perished life force caused by Lady Muron's son. Since the original bodies or containers for those perished life force are destroyed, the refilled life force is fused into Lady Muron's son since he is the main cause of those premature death. As an ordinary human, his body is unable to sustain that additional life force, thus, his body undergone some sort of mutation in order to adapt to the drastical change in life force." said Sal.
"Ah... It's the overflow mortal mutation huh? I thought I would not see that again after Lord Enma took over the Afterworld. So, what happened to him after that?" Sky asked.
"Well, apparently, he gone missing before we were able to get him in captive. After that, we received several reports regarding some unusual sightings which is most probably to be him. But everytime we went to the reported spot, we are unable to find him, until one time, one of our squad members got assaulted and got killed, we realised that the whole matter is worse than we thought." said Sal.
"There were already people sacrificed because of this? Tsk! Seriously, why don't anyone informed us regarding this?" said Sky, who sounds a bit mad.
"I am terribly sorry about that, it was Terrence's command not to inform you and His Majesty about this matter." said Sal.
"Hah... I see. By the way, where is Rei?" Sky asked.
"Oh, Her Highness is having her lock in meditation session?" said Sal.
"Hmm? It's time for that again? That's fast." said Sky.
"Well, she did experienced some drastic emotional swift this few days, so her magic force kind of got unstable, thus leading to her lock in meditation." said Sal.
"I see. Send the details regarding the Muron's incident along with the distribution map where the sightings of target are reported. I would want to study it in detail." said Sky.
"Yes, My Lord. Xenoo, go get a copy of the distribution map for Master Vlansky. And Athena, please provide a full report regarding this issue to Master Vlansky and send a copy to His Majesty." said Sal.
"Okie!" said Athena in a cheerful yet serious tone...
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Meanwhile, Kapis Dimension. Chris and Ben are once again stepped onto their journey to find out the truth behind that pair of black daggers that was supposedly left by Dracula, since it could be quite a tedious task, Dark Prince and Junior followed them in the journey as well, and with no surprise, Chris brought Ruby along as well.
"Hmm... I wondered how did Jason manage to gather all these data in such a short frame? The list we are having here included almost every single person that dead merchant had been meeting with in the last ten years." said Chris as he studied through a long list provided by Jason.
"Well, he was a kitchen deity after all. Anyway, he said it that we should be looking for this Mr. Anderson first. Do you want to follow his suggestion?" Ben asked.
"Yes, why not?" said Chris with a shrug.
Dark Prince looked at both of them and slightly confused, as they were still in a cold war a moment ago in the secret base.
"I guess despite that you have been knowing them for a long time, you don't understand them at all, don't you?" said Junior, who sounds slightly salty and dissing.
Yes, Junior had been informed by either Chris or Ben regarding what Dark Prince did in Null Dimension, and is kind of detest him a bit...
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At the same time, Secret Base, Jason and Byako (human form) are staring at Gan and Bu who looks slightly oblivious and innocent.
"I thought I heard Master Chris said that he brought us some assistance and manpower, isn't he?" said Jason.
"Mhmm... You didn't heard it wrong. And I believe he means these two." said Byako.
"Ha-ha... I doubt if these two can be any sort of manpower." said Jason with a bitter smile.
"Mmm... I think so as well." said Byako.
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In case anyone forgot and confused about the current situation in the Secret Base, they are currently experiencing serious shortage in manpower. After Hoshe got chased out by Ben, Bob got blasted into pulp by Sky, they have lose two free slav... working force, and now with the core members (Sky, Chris, Maria, Ben and Ai) away, the shortage in workforce got worse. Despite that Dominic sent some of his Shadow Punishers to assist them, but...
"Mr. Jason, should I chop the onion or dice it?"
"Dice it."
"Mr. Jason! The flower vase is dried out!"
"Refill the water."
"Mr. Jason, how should I wash these plates?"
"Ah... Never mind, I think it will be better if you guys just do some patrolling out there, I will be doing the chores on my own."
Mhmm... These sort of situations...
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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 cause the writer to stop writing."
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