It's been 3 days since Adam and the team left City B.
According to Gil, the journey to reach Pandora Base will take at least 7 days following their pace and if there are no accidents on the road.
In this 3 days, Adam and others didn't met any zombie tides. There are only few zombies on the road and they easily dispatched all of it without any sweat.
In the journey, Adam didn't even let out the silver skeletons anymore. He only summoned a few ancient devil bugs to act as scouts and see if there are any danger in the road in advance.
Fortunately, they are very lucky to not have met any of it.
The convoy is running on a rural road and the place are field with huge trees and dense vegetation. The area even look darker than usual due to the canopy of trees covering the road.
" Master, it's almost dark. Do we need to settle in the forest to camp tonight? You need to rest your body." the demon maid Jaya asked with her innocent face full of concern.
As a maid, Jaya must always take care of the daily needs of the [ lord ]. As a qualified maid, the rest of the [ lord ] must always be on time and be peaceful.
This is the sworn duty of those eligible to become a member of the 12 great demon maids of the Palace of Etheron.
The welfare of their master must always be at the top of their priority. If things dare to mess with it, they are expected to eliminate any source of disturbance at the fastest speed.
And now serving her [ lord ], Adam, she must also observe this kind of practice.
Adam on the other hand seeing how adamant the little maid's face about his rest can only smile shyly.
No girls had ever shown him such concern. So he is a little touched right now.
* cough *
" I'll ask those guys if there is any town or any place we can settle tonight. If there's none, then we can only camp on the road. "
" Yes, my [ lord ]. "
Adam then gave a signal to the driver, Jackson to stop for the moment. The coast is clear and no zombies are around therefore stopping on the road will not pose any problem.
Even if there are some, Adam doubt if it can even make any wave at all.
Seeing how the delivery truck stopped on the roadside, Gil and others who are in the van also stopped their car.
The team them went out and went to Adam awaiting any instructions.
Adam jump from the roof and steadily landed on the ground. Even if he is a summoner, his physique is still as powerful as a tier 4 evolutionary and such simple movement pose no problem.
So, jumping such small distance is nothing to him.
" Gil, is there any town where we can stay tonight or we can only camp on the road? " Adam asked directly.
" The next town on this road will take another 5 hours of travel and that would be too late already. Boss, I suggest that we camp on the clearing just ahead of us. There are no huge trees there and we can easily spot any danger that will come. "
" Hmm.. Alright. Let's head there and prepare for dinner. At 5 AM tomorrow, we return to the road. "
Adam directly jump back to the roof and settle again.
This is his first camping so he is a little excited. Immediately, the convoy drove again and they reached the clearing where they plan to stay.
The guys immediately made a bonfire and some camping tools are even prepared for this kind of special occasion.
The women are also preparing a simple dinner mainly composed of instant noodles boiling it with water.
Adam who never experienced having a camp around a bonfire have bright eyes at the moment.
Thankfully no one is paying attention to him because everyone is busy and he alone is the only one who is idle.
Even Jaya and Arthus are busy setting up a tent for him.
' I think we can also roast marshmallows. I have lots of those! ' Adam can't help but think about it.
Can you still call it camping out if there are no marshmallow? Of course not!
So, to make everything complete he can only take out some marshmallow which he copied from the mall for everyone.
After the people had set up everything, they immediately gather some woods and prepared to make some dinner.
Arthus who returned to his [ lord ] just saw that his master have a couple of bags on the side.
" My [ lord ].... what are those? "
Gil who saw Arthus looking at his marshmallows smiled happily and said " Oh. These are called marshmallow. We can roast this and treat it as snack as we camp. "
Arthus can only scratch his head because as a demon knight, he don't need to eat and is not interested on foods.
But since the [ lord ] likes to eat food, he must show that he can still be useful in the aspect.
" Then... what can Arthus..do... for my [ lord ]? " Arthus said enthusiastically.
' Is this also the first time for Arthus to try camping? I never expect that both our lives are that pitiful. Don't worry big guy, this will be fun for the both of us. ' Adam can't help but think as he interpreted the action of the armored giant in front as someone who is excited camping for the first time like him too.
So Adam made Arthus conjure some sticks that they can use to roast the marshmallow and the two immediately made a bonfire and started roasting.
The others returned and was taken aback seeing that Adam and Arthus are actually roasting marshmallows.
' The boss really is different. Even in the apocalypse, they can still roast marshmallow. '
Adam seeing that everyone had return invited them to sit and made their own roasted marshmallows.
In the three days, Adam's relationship with the team had improved and he no longer needed to perform as much as before.
Just a casual conversation some times is enough which made the team become acquainted and no longer needed to be as stiff.
" So boss, when we return to the base, are you going to join our team? " Gil asked.
Adam had been thinking of joining the team way earlier actually.
He knew that Gil and others are trustworthy with their high loyalty level. Therefore, he should not be afraid of suddenly being stabbed on the back.
And being a part of the base, it is common knowledge that you must do something in return. Mostly, the stronger ones become survivor teams and perform missions from time to time and even hunted some high level zombies for the base to conduct research.
Another information Gil told him is that high level zombies actually had some nucleus that awakened and evolutionary can use to become stronger. Gil even gave the nucleus of the variant zombie dog that the skeletons killed at the warehouse to Adam.
Adam of course doesn't need it at all.
His advancement is all related to killing zombies and those nasty nucleus are not necessary for him.
But he still kept the nucleus. Who knows, maybe it can be used for something on the future.
So instead of starting from scratch, why not join Gil and the team?
" I'll just join you guys. There's no problem right? " Adam said to Gil.
Gil on the other hand is very happy. Their team will finally rise!
With Adam, what zombies? It can be trampled to death and no scum will be left.
" Of course boss! No problem at all. So the captain will be you from now on. " Gil readily gave up his position as the leader and there's not even any trace of hesitation.
" Well, that's good. Then I'll just take care of you guys. "
In this aspect, Adam is still confident enough. Aside from his personal strength, he had an army to command. If there are any danger, he can provide everyone with a bodyguard.
And Adam also knew that his tier 3 summons are actually pretty strong in this country already.
You can even say that tier 3 can already become the backbone of a base. And as for Arthus and Jaya, they can already be considered as powerhouses.
Even though his level up become slow, he is already at the safer side with his current strength.
Other original members of the team are also very happy with Adam joining them.
They have seen the perks of following a powerful boss. Is there any place for hesitation?
None at all!
" So boss, what will our team be called then? "
one of the female member asked which Adam had known earlier as Anna. The other woman of the team is actually called Samantha and the two were actually best friends even before the apocalypse.
" What do you call your team back then? You never mentioned it. "
Yes. They have never mentioned what their team is called. If they did it should be easier to remember.
" Only teams with tier 2 evolutionary or awakened is eligible to be registered with a team name. As for ours, we are only cannon fodder teams so we don't have one. " Gil explained while feeling embarrassed.
The team is pretty weak that they can only be cannon fodders.
Most team with only ordinary people will die when going out so the base didn't bother to register them at all.
Adam doesn't have any confidence that he can come up with anything awesome for a name and is pretty distressed.
He can only look for professionals!
He then glanced at Jaya.
" Jaya, do you have any suggestions? "
Jaya still as innocent as ever with her bulging cheeks while eating marshmallow said.
" How about ' Team Adam'?
You're hopeless.
He can only look at Arthus for help.
Okay Arthus, you are a warrior that is pretty scary at fist sight. Say something awesome.
" Arthus? "
" How..about... ' Team Lord Adam '?"
Is there any difference?!
You two...
You failed my expectations.
As for the others hearing the suggestions from Adam's attendants also started voicing their suggestions.
" Skeleton Lord is also nice."
" How about team darkness?"
" Skeleton King?"
" Boss also have bugs."
You guys are hopeless too.
Adam could only sigh and rely on his brain to come up with something good.
Hmmm...
Hmmm..
After 5 minutes of intense brainstorming, Adam's eye finally lit up.
Hahaha! So brilliant!
If others hear this team name, they would surely be ashamed of how incapable they are.
I'm that good, sorry.
" Let's call our team Abyss."
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