At the secret laboratory established by the military
"Huh...where am I?...AHHHHHHHH, WHERE IS THIS PLACE? WHY AM I TIED UP ON A TABLE?" Venti shouted.
"Shhh...you're too low, you will break the concentration I need to experiment on you." Prof. Ueda said and stepped out from the dark.
"Experiment...ALBEDO??? This is not funny! RELEASE ME!"
"Albedo...who's that? I'm not the Albedo you talk about." Prof. Ueda a scalpel from the tray beside the table.
"I'm sorry but I won't use anesthetic on you. Who know? It may ruin the experiment." Prof. Ueda said as he brought the scalpel nearer to Venti. "So please bear the pain!" the mad scientist said as he prepared to hurt Venti with that scalpel.
...However, what the scalpel touched was not Venti's skin but the hard table.
"WHAT!?"
"I see that you are a person who, by immoral experiments, steal away others' freedom...huh, where are the winds?"
"There won't be any wind! This is an underground laboratory, so it's very hard to use wind power!" Prof. Ueda turned around and looked at the wind spirit.
"Oh, ok, bye!" the wind spirit Barbatos said and dashed towards the iron doors.
"Not so fast!" Prof. Ueda said and put his hand inside his pocket, the doors immediately closed.
However, contrary to what the scientist had expected, Venti managed to escape through the crack between the two doors, like air.
"SOLDIERS! Help me catch a creature this small creature...or a boy with blue hair wearing green attire." Prof. Ueda said as he ran out of the room.
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About 5 minutes later, in the military base, many soldiers were seen trying to find a creature whom they did not even know the size, shape or color.
"It has to be somewhere around here, I'm sure of it!" Prof. Ueda shouted.
"This guy probably went crazy from crazy experiments and the lack of fresh air and sunlight." one soldier whispered to another.
The other soldier did not reply because he didn't want to be overheard but nodded, indicating his agreement.
"Ehehe...time for takeoff!"
And suddenly, a huge stormeye appeared and sucked in all the soldiers.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING AAHHHHHHHHHH?"
"I thought that I couldn't use my Anemo power because this place is underground, but turned out there are airducts from which I could draw Anemo power, it's just that the winds reacted much slower. Ehehe!" Venti jumped down from the airduct and said.
"You should not say your advantage to your enemy like that, my beloved test subject."
Venti was surprised to see Prof. Ueda stood firm in the midst of his burst, where many soldiers were like clothes in a washing machine. Inside the scientist's hand was a shield of some kind.
"Where did you get that shield? Wait...that shield...Mitachurl's Geo shield! How did you get your hand on it? And how did you get it out in the blink of an eye?" Venti was surprised.
"Mitachurl's Geo shield? I don't know what that is. I created this shield after researching the big monster's body appeared in the city not that long ago...Wait, why did I answer to you?"
"Uh, bye again!" Venti said and turned back to his wisp-like form and dashed into the airduct again.
"Stop right there!" Prof. Ueda shouted, he tried to catch Venti but failed. And then he realized that the airduct was too high for he to reach.
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The moment Chongyun stepped in the middle-aged man's house, the evil spirit (or a bunch of evil spirits) immediately ran away. The owner of the house and his family could not contain their happiness.
"Thank you! Thank you! I can't describe my happiness that from now on, we don't have to live in fear anymore. Is there anything I can pay you? I have money, but not much..."
"Please, no! There's no need! I don't practice thaumaturgy and exorcism for money." Chongyun replied.
Suddenly, there was strong banging on the door outside the front yard, accompanied by impatient house bell rings.
"Darling!" the mistress of the house said, her worry could be seen clearly.
"What is it?" Chongyun asked.
"It's the secret police, someone must have seen Mr. Exorcist entering our house and reported it to the anti-religion government. You have to hide, Mr. Exorcist!"
"But where? Our house doesn't have hidden rooms like the houses of the underground Church." the wife said.
"..."
"...Mr. Exorcist, please take off your clothes!" the son of the house said.
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The three secret policemen walked like they owned the house through the hallway. They opened every doors to check, looked under the bed and behind every furniture, to search for the reported exorcist.
As they opened one of the doors on the second floors, what greeted them was the scene of two boys eating ice cream as they were playing games.
"Hello, Mr. Policeman!" one of the boy, who looked like a copy of the owner of the house greeted him politely.
"Isn't it passed bed time, kids? Tomorrow is a normal weekday if I'm not wrong. To become a good citizen as you grow up, you have to..."
"Ah, I'm sorry, sir! We're going to sleep right now, good night!" the boy said as he closed the door while the other boy, who had weird light blue hair, took out pillows and mattress, which made him look like the other boy's friend who came here for sleepover.
"..." the situation was just too awkward for the policeman to enter the room and search for the exorcist.
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However, Alexy did not read the notice as he was sleeping soundly, drooling on his pillow. He had forgotten to wait for Chongyun.
Meanwhile, inside the system's dimension, Paimon was looking at the two artifacts that Alexy obtained.
(Oh no! Oh no! Oh no no no no no! This means artifact farming will be waiting for us when Alexy reach higher AR!)
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In some secret base
In the base, there was a table which looked like a dining table more than a table for strategic planning. On the two sides of the table were 11 chairs, 6 on the right and 5 on the left. 10 were vacant, while 2 were occupied by Asmodia and Beelzebub, the Harbingers of the mysterious organization.
On the wall at the head of the table was a big screen on which showed the scene where Alexy introduced himself as the Head of the Fatui. On top of the screen was a big symbol of a serpent coiling around the Earth as if it wanted to devour it.
"You mean it was this guy and his co. who have been interfering in our business lately, dear Great Leader?" Asmodia asked.
The eye of the serpent became redder as a voice was heard.
"Correct!"
"Then let me destroy them, Great Leader!" Asmodia said.
"No, let me, Great Leader!" Beelzebub hurriedly swallowed the piece of meat inside his mouth and said as he stood up.
"No, let the Fatui and country Z's government destroy each other!" said the Great Leader. "You two need to work together to make these two sides to hurt each other. Then country Z will become one of our main bases in the world conquest of our organization, the glorious Luminiferous Aether."
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AR: 9 (95/8000 EXP)
Primogem: 69 (free part only)
Mora: 18, 975 (free part only)