"Mark, where are our other members? Why is everyone leaving somewhere?"
Eric asked in a frustrated tone.
There are only five members in the camp. One is Mark, who's currently with them and the other four are sitting in another corner with their own campfire.
"Calm down Eric, don't yell near me. We noticed a few monsters away from the camp, so they went to clean it up. This is our camping spot, and they lured them outside to avoid ruining this place."
"They will come back in a few minutes."
Mark replied calmly.
While Eric and Mark were discussing, Nova's mind was occupied with the same word.
'Watson Aristocracy! Watson Aristocracy!'
'Did the minor noble families group together and form an alliance with the Watson Family?'
'Or the Watson Family forming a faction against other major noble families? Or even against the royal…'
'Don't overthink, why would he reveal that if that was the case?'
Just thinking anymore made Nova scared. His thoughts and imagination went very wild, that he even thought about treason.
Nova shook his head and erased everything he thought about so far. He didn't want to get involved with the Noble families unless they were beneficial to him.
As Nova was organizing his thoughts, he heard uniform steps.
"Eric, you are finally back. I'm almost worried about you."
A man who's similar to Eric appeared with a smile.
"There is no need to worry about me, brother. " Eric replied flatly, without his usual carefree smile and pointed his fingers towards Nova "This is Nova, a very talented person. It's his first time inside the labyrinth, so ask Lana to make a potion for him."
With that, Eric handed a bag to Nova and went inside a tent.
'So what just happened? A fight among cousins?'
While Nova was wondering, Eric's cousin came and introduced himself warmly, "Welcome to our team Nova, I'm Dave Watson, Eric's cousin."
"Thank you, sir." Nova greeted him back, but he was surprised by Dave's action.
Unlike Eric and Mark, who greeted and introduced themselves just for the sake of it, Dave took the lead himself genuinely.
"Lana, come here, you have a job." After taking Eric's place near the campfire, Dave called the potion maker.
A petite young lady with silvery light armor came without much expression on her face and asked. "What is it, Dave?"
"Lana, you must have heard what happened here, so I'll skip the introduction. Can you make a potion right now?"
"No, I don't think I can make it successfully."
Hearing Lana's answer Nova's heart skipped a beat, but the continuation made him sigh in relief.
"I need an hour to recover my spirituality, so come to me after exactly an hour." Lana looked at him and said seriously.
Nova nodded without saying anything. He didn't mind waiting an hour, his real intention was to delay time as much as possible and find out their true intention.
Ever since the other members arrived at the camp, they never approached Nova. Only Dave approached Nova on his own and Lana because Dave called him.
Everyone kept their distance from him and nobody even cared about his existence. They did their own job, and some of them went straight into the tent without even seeing him.
'What a unique team! It seems there is no coordination between them.'
"Sir, I'll go check other members of the team." Nova said and moved towards the group of four members.
They also didn't participate in any of the team activities, but Nova could guess their identity.
'They should other four newly added veteran teammates.'
As soon as Nova neared them, they gave a fierce stare at him for a moment and looked away.
'What a fierce aura!' Nova exclaimed in surprise.
Nova hadn't reached them close, but from their stare, he felt like being stared at by a fierce monster.
'Is this also a benefit of taking potion? A matching momentum according to the monster core.'
"Are you the new guy?"
A rough-looking man who seems to be in his thirties asked.
"Yes sir, I'm Nova and was invited by sir Eric Watson." Nova replied politely.
The man didn't say anything and inspected Nova up and down. After a moment, he sighed and shook his head.
"What a moron…"