As we know, the Gigana Continent has several kingdoms in it. One of them is the Tryton Kingdom, a kingdom with a trade and service center there. Many from other kingdoms migrated there because the chances of success in the Tryton Kingdom were greater than other kingdoms. Even the Senova Empire made treaties with them frequently.
The language spoken there is the unified language of the Gigana Continent. Therefore, there are different meanings of some words. An example is circle. In the unified language, 'circle' is referred to as the heart of mana. Because if the circle itself, it can be interpreted as a picture of magic. The Kingdom of Marithus still uses the word 'circle' as the heart of magic.
That's why Cindy was confused at first, before finally realizing what was meant. She got up from her position—which was resting her head on Leon's thigh—on the mat and asked the healer once more. "Wh-what? I-I didn't hear that, Ma'am."
The healer looked at Dean first before explaining again. "Ah, you're not from the Tryton Kingdom, huh? Hmm... some kind of container that exists inside your body as a mana collector, previously it was only level 3 and now you've advanced to level 4. However, it's just the initial level, it's still like just opening a door. So you have to practice a lot to stay stable or go to a higher level."
Cindy felt her arms trembling, she was shocked by the news. She immediately jumped up to hug Leon in excitement. "Oh my! I'll get stronger if I keep getting more mana capacity!"
Leon who was hugged, his face turned red. He returned Cindy's hug with excitement as well. The two of them stood up and even jumped up and down, forgetting that the girl had coughed up blood earlier. They both enjoyed jumping while holding hands. The healer even shook his head to see the two of them.
Dean sighed again seeing that. Of course it couldn't escape the attention of Count Rubel who was beside him. "How did you manage to get such exaggerated subordinates when you yourself rarely react?"
Count Rubel did not realize that he himself had insinuated Dean directly. He had been careful beforehand. That was because he usually could only comment impulsively and happened to see Cindy and Leon's excessive behavior.
The healer politely said goodbye to Dean and left. Count Rubel still wanted to continue his conversation with Dean about establishing a guild branch in the Marithus Kingdom under him to be safe and began to slightly lower his trust in Crown Prince Xavier Gladias. Before he could continue, Arthur, who had been standing quietly across from Leon and Cindy, walked over to Dean and Count Rubel.
Arthur's face looked very serious. He seemed to have an emergency on his mind. Arthur asked Dean. "Dean, do you think it would be safe to leave Adhitte with Helena?"
Dean, who folded his arms across his chest, showed a slight change of expression before returning to his flat face. "Helena won't harm her. Although he might become an experimental material, at least he will live."
"Experimental material you say?" Arthur was surprised to hear that.
In the novel "World of Level Up", when Adhitte, who introduced herself as Yoon Dalmi, was working with Crown Prince Xavier, she had been asked to bring thousands of dead monsters for the Marithus Kingdom Magic Tower's experimental materials. Crown Prince Xavier reasoned that he was asked to experiment with a ritual to send her to the proper world line later after he rose in rank.
Therefore, Adhitte did not hunt monsters because it was a waste of time. So, he explored guilds across the kingdoms of the Gigana Continent and discovered that there were several guilds with the most monster suppliers in the Tryton Kingdom. With the identity of a civil servant from the Kingdom of Marithus given to her by Crown Prince Xavier, Adhitte easily threatened those guilds to tell her who their biggest suppliers were. Being threatened, they revealed that there was a female vampire living in the interior of the border forest.
Adhitte looked for her and found Helena hunting. At first, Adhitte offered Helena to be her partner. However, at that time Helena playfully answered Adhitte. Adhitte, who was too serious and could not be joked with, easily killed Helena at that time. Helena became a side character in Woo Jihyuk's game because she had a complicated relationship with Dean, even though in the novel, Helena only played an extra.
Arthur became a little worried about the changes he had made. They shouldn't have gone there and kept Helena from meeting Adhitte so soon. Moreover, he just heard from Dean that Helena made some experiments.
He asked, "What exactly was your relationship with Helena before?"
Arthur was really curious because Woo Jihyuk had said that their relationship would be revealed when the third volume was released. However, Arthur, who used to be Kang Seongje, was busy with College Scholastic Ability Test and handed over the manuscript to Woo Jihyuk, not once checking on the development of the novel that became a game. He only knew the outline from Woo Jihyuk who told him.
Dean didn't answer Arthur's question. He looked sensitive. Then, Count Rubel asked Arthur, "Do you know the demon race that His Highness invited?"
Arthur answered quickly. "No."
"In that case, are you interested with—"
"Is the Marithus Kingdom lacking in mages? Because it's a kingdom where knights dominate. If you want, I'll open a job for people who have a circle to develop their magic talent and open a guild for mage services." Dean cut off Count Rubel's words abruptly.
Count Rubel immediately replied enthusiastically, forgetting what he had talked about earlier with Arthur. "In that case, how about I become your sponsor inside? I can quickly get permission since I'm under His Highness' authority."
Dean nodded in response. He stopped Leon who was still having fun with Cindy by calling him over. Of course the timid man immediately stopped his activities and faced Dean.
"Get the necessary papers for permission to open a branch in the Marithus Kingdom. Make sure to write down opening a service station and secretly take in novice mages to teach." Dean said looking directly at Leon.
Leon who was stunned for a moment then nodded and went straight upstairs to get the papers. They were on the first floor which had plenty of space to help the injured C team. Therefore, Cindy could lie down on the mattress.
Actually, Arthur wanted to ask Count Rubel for help with something else. However, even Dean couldn't, let alone Count Rubel. So, Arthur just hoped that Adhitte would be fine together with Helena.
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Adhitte was still silent to digest what she saw at that moment. Several monsters were inside a large tube filled with liquid. Not to mention there were several animal hearts beating outside. Several bottles of blue and green colored liquid went in and out from one tube to another.
"You did all this?" Adhitte asked curiously. But she didn't show it.
"Yes, I conducted experiments on monsters. As you can see, the monsters are actually no different from other animals. However, because the aggressiveness and characteristics of animals disappear completely, they are considered monsters." Helena tried to touch the tubes.
She murmured, "There are even worse ones. Hedgehogs, which should be small, can quickly grow to the size of a house in just a few days. They can eat humans and animals smaller than their size."
Adhitte listened carefully to Helena's story. She didn't know that the monsters there, were more or less similar in appearance to the monsters she had encountered among the earths she had traveled through. They all had animal-like forms.
"I once found a unique monster. It couldn't be called a monster either because its animal instincts were greater than its monster instincts. It was a beautiful white wolf, but it looked half-blooded with dogs, so even looking at it, it looked like the result of a breeding between a dog monster and a normal wolf." Helena continued to tell the story.
"I wanted to help it, but fate had other plans. I got into trouble and the wolf helped me, I wanted to take off the monster blood, but my actions killed it. Even the animal's owner hated me."
Helena winked her eyes coquettishly like she wasn't telling a sad story at all. "Well, it's a sad old story. However, I also hated its slanderous owner. So it's all right."
Adhitte listened to that expressionlessly. She looked at some of the monsters in the tube. There was a monster with a cat-like head, but its body had a spiked body instead of fluffy fur. The cat's eyes were open one side, making Adhitte feel something strange.
Then, that woman turned to look at Helena who was playing with her hand fan. Before finally opening her mouth.
"I want you to be my partner now. I'm willing to help you figure out the mana and energy I brought from my world."