Dan understood that Elena wouldn't be sparing him from this expedition. If that's the case, he will get as much information as possible and increase his survival chances.
Seeing Dan's silence, Elena continued her offer. "Don't worry; you will be paid handsomely for your trouble. Udra coins, martial arts, and even transformation scripts; anything you want."
Hearing the word "scripts," Dan's ears perked. He asked, "How many transformation scripts are you going to reward?"
Elena knew she had piqued his interest, so she offered him a deal, "if you can make me food as delicious as the food you made today throughout the expedition, I will give you all the scripts up to the fifth transformation."
This is a very tempting offer. He can get all the scripts without selling the Arut fruit.
Dan asked Legacy, "What do you think? Should we take this job?"
Legacy suggests in Dan's mind, "You should take this offer. Not only will you gain all those scripts, but this expedition is going to be a good training session for you."
Dan sighed and started talking, "Fine. I will join this expedition on the condition that you provide me with all the information about it."
Elena shrugged and said, "Okay. It's not like it's a secret or anything."
Elena started explaining: "We are going south to the 7th settlement, where a very terrifying dread spawn appeared. We received information that an arachnöjur successfully became a 6th-stage dread spawn."
"As humans, we go through six transformations to go beyond our limits and achieve the level of "Evoker". And like us, dread spawns also go through six stages to go beyond their limits and become "Mutants."
"Dread spawns are stronger than humans on the same level. When a sweeping team of our noble house was killing 4th stage and above dread spawns in that area, they were attacked, and the entire team, consisting of two 6th transformation level warriors, died. One of them was able to send an emergency message to our house."
"A fifth-stage dread spawn can command other lower-level dread spawns. And when a Dreadspawn reaches the 6th stage, they can also use special powers unique to their race. The Arachnöjur we are going to face is a creature that can use a power called darkness string. It is a very rare ability among their race."
"We are going on the expedition for 12 days from now on. If you have any questions, ask away." Elena said looking at Dan.
Dan understands the overall situation, and it's time to negotiate. He is not going on a "journey to F"ck himself" without enough preparation.
"My lady, I have decided to join this expedition, but I have a request; can I get those martial arts and scripts now? I want to be at least strong enough not to die."
Elena thought a bit and said, "I can give you a martial arts technique, and script for the second transformation. You can only receive the rest after the expedition. Just tell me what kind of martial art you want."
"I want a martial arts technique for Dagger." Said Dan without hesitation.
Elena was a little surprised by his answer and said, "I thought you were going to ask for a sword or spear technique, but daggers are not a bad choice.. Either. Sir Alex."
Elena glanced at Sir Alex, and the Evoker nodded in response.
The Evoker took out a paper scroll with weird symbols and stuck it to a wall. Then he put his hand inside the paper and brought out a book and one yellow scroll.
Elena didn't miss this chance and said, "If you are wondering what that scroll is, then it is a Void scroll. Anything other than living beings or their corpses could be put in there. If you want one, I can give you a discount."
Dan thanked her for her offer but he didn't need one for now.
Alex gave the second transformation script and the martial arts technique to Dan. Dan held everything together and asked, "May I take my leave, my lady?"
Dan really wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible. All this time, Elena had that beautiful smirk on her face. And that damn smirk.. that Damn terrifying but not terrifying looking smirk, made him even more nervous.
"Sure, you can leave and also throw that rag on your way out." Elena said, pointing at the bloodied bag.
Shivers ran down Dan's spine as he nodded and said, "Then I will meet you at another time." With that said, Dan left the peacekeepers' headquarters. Nobody noticed that an invisible substance entered Dan's body without anyone knowing anything.
After the nanobots entered Dan's body, Dan left towards the dumpster pit. Everyone in their way is giving him a weird look. Dan didn't mind any of that because he and Legacy were having a serious talk.
"Although we got dragged into unnecessary trouble, we got a lot of important information from the peacekeepers." said Dan to Legacy.
"That's right. People of this planet developed a way to use Nav crystals. It is a bit crude method but, the purpose of Nav crystals are now clear. It won't be as easy to get their hands on them as we thought it would be."
"Not only that I have underestimated the outside world too much. What do you think about that Evoker?", Asked Dan.
" That Evoker was terrifying indeed. That sword was not the only thing with Nav crystal I was able to sense another crystal on him." Replied Legacy.
"That girl Elena is a real mystery. Not only she has a Evoker obeying all her orders, She even has access to all kinds of scripts and Martial arts." Said Dan.
"We should discuss this later. For now don't you think we should get some information from this poor guy." Said Legacy in a mysterious tone.
"Oh! That's right. This poor guy knew something about Tors Lotus, that's why those Peacekeepers disposed him. If we use Memory Absorption Ability we can gain that information." Replied Dan understanding the situation.
"Not only that, I can even extract information regarding transformation scripts from him." Added Legacy.
Arriving at the Dumpster pit Dan surveyed the surrounding first. Sensing nobody he opened the bag and took out the corpse.
"Time to extract some memories" said Both Dan and Legacy creepily.