Colin and the others waited until the others arrived in the vehicles. The Bartus guild and the Colin's family members assigned to protect them. They quickly looked around the town, with the little goblins looking around curiously.
"Alright everyone, welcome to our new home. From now on, M town belongs to the Dunamis family. Now, I know all of you are exhausted, but we have work to do. We need to clean and fortify the base, as well as prepare dinner, or rather breakfast. Plus, we're going to need a few people to keep watch, just incase something tries to sneak up on us while we are busy. So, we will split into four teams to accomplish this task, and that includes the members of the Bartus guild." Colin said and looked over at Bartus who was standing off to the side.
"That's fine, my guild can keep watch, and I think it would be best if you also allowed us to handle butchering the meat as well. We can get it done a lot faster." Bartus said as he pointed towards the pile of corpses in the hotel's courtyard.
"I'll lead the fortifications of the hotel, I'm gonna need everyone with [Earth Affinity], as well as the leprechauns belonging to the house of weakness." Lily said and Alex nodded his head
"I guess I'll handle the cooking along with a few others. But we should probably find some seasoning and rice or something to put with the meat." Melissa said
"Oh, I might actually be able to help with that." Bartus said and a few of the other leprechauns came forward, before waving his hand. Bags of rice, flour, chips, sodas, seasonings and all kinds of stuff from convenience stores appeared on the ground. There were also tons of cleaning chemicals, way too much to come from only one store.
"We collected them when we arrived in City D and figured that most of them were good based on the smell. Some of them seems to be for cleaning as they are pretty good at removing dirt and blood off of surfaces. But I have no idea what these are for." Bartus said as he picked up a bag of flour and rice.
"That's also food, but they need to be cooked first before they can be eaten." Melissa said as she took the bags from him and inspected it.
"We can work with these. We'll also take some of the cleaning stuff to clean the kitchens, we'll be using. Call us when you are finished butchering." Melissa said and she along with a group of daimonis walked into the hotel. Lily's group also organized themselves, most of the group was made up of leprechauns with a few daimonis with [Earth Affinity].
"I guess we are on cleaning duty." Colin said and the others who were left behind, groaned. Colin instructed them to grab the cleaning supplies and head into the hotel to find a supplies closet or something to get some brooms and mops.
"Oh, and before I go, here." Colin said and waved his hand and the corpse of the Mind Crab appeared
"Just to be clear, the soul crystal is mine. Have fun." Colin said, before walking into the hotel.
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Five hours, it took everyone five hours to get everything done, well, mostly done. First off, Colin and the others found a supply closet on each floor of the hotel, fully stocked with cleaning supplies and equipments. The hotel was mostly covered in dust since it hasn't been occupied in a while, with a blood and corpses in the halls and a few of the rooms. Most of the blood and corpses were concentrated on the middle floors and rooms, and they smelled horrible. Every decided to start cleaning from the ground floor upwards, since it was easier, while also removing the corpses, which was left to Colin and the imps, since they could simply burn the corpses without causing too much damage to the floor.
On Lily's side, she led her group to the basement first. She decided that it would be best to first ensure that underground attacks were impossible by reinforcing the ground below the hotel. First, she used a cursed equipment called a runic etcher, which just looked like a silver pen with a red crystal on top. She then drew an array of runes along the ground in a circular pattern in the center of the basement.
"Alright, now step into the circle." Lily said, gesturing to the runes she just drew and everyone looked at each other before following her orders.
"Now channel your affinity into the runes beneath you, don't channel it too fast or you will be rendered unconscious." Lily said and all of them immediately became nervous before channelling their demonic energy into the circle beneath their feet. The runes soon started to glow red, then reddish brown, then a beautiful rainbow colour. They continued to glow for a few minutes, before the light spread throughout the entire basement and the courtyard.
'This should take a while, might as well get some sleep.' Lily thought before leaning against the wall and falling asleep
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'Looks like someone set up a defensive array.' Bartus thought when he saw the courtyard lighting up in a rainbow colour. He had already fished out the soul crystal of the Mind Crab and was currently inspecting it. He was using an appraisal tool that looked a lot like a golden microscope except that the body tube was replaced by a pink crystal. The Mind Crabs soul crystal was on the stage of the appraisal tool and was being illuminated by the illuminator below it. The pink crystal glowed and a screen appeared that looked similar to a status screen.
"Hmm, let's see. No name, title: the psychic of the sea, an abnormally high amount of LP and DP, and a large amount of skills. Let's look deeper." Bartus said and waved his hand through the status screen, which quickly displayed all the descriptions of the Mind Crabs skills and title.
"Huh, isn't Colin a lucky little demon, if he had met this creature here, we would have probably all been dead." Bartus said as he looked at the description of the Mind Crab's title.