51 Assassination Mission
Duncan followed the systems arrow towards Phoenix's location, and Levana got back from the surface and had a sea shell in her hand…
[Ding! Host is approximately 200 miles away from the palace, and host has activated one new mission from the alliance's command module…]
[Would Host like to hear mission prompt?]
"Ugh… What kind of mission could HQ have sent?" Duncan watched Levana dance with the sea shell in pain after trying to eat it, and… he saw a shadowy haze in the distant horizon…
[Ding! The mission is to examine the Hora Garvin Sea Tribe, and… host appears to be entering into the proximity of an old ruins…]
[Scanning… Host is recommended to avoid going into the shadowy dunes, or warn Levana to stay away from the ritual stone in those ruins to avoid activating another inheritance grounds…]
"Okay… She seems perfectly fine system…" Duncan watched her spit out sea shells, and Wormy had finally mastered three words, dad, death, and food in the last two hours…
The second word reminded him to warn Levana about the dunes, and… they made it past the structure before he finally asked about the mission again…
"So system… the mission prompt…"
[Ding!]
[Loading Mission… Loaded!]
[The Hora Garvin Sea Tribe is a mysterious unaligned group, and they have been known to defect against the ruling branches of the netherworlds… Please kill the Hora Garvin Sea Tribe ruler, and one item will be required for mission…]
[Ding! Host has received a fake stinger's milvine blade (uncommon), and host must assassinate the Garvin Tribe ruler with this blade…. Host can extrapolate details from this mission prompt, and… do you accept the mission?]
"Uhm, wait… so, by Milvine blade are you referring to the milvine assassins?" Duncan dragged Levana away from the rune, and Wormy found another rock…
He seemed to think he'd find another catalyst stone, and… Duncan dodged a few scythe blows from Levana's blade because she liked the how ruins looked…
[Ding! Correct… Milvine is the prime assassination group of the principle ruling sect according to the system's data base, and… host still hasn't said if he accepts the mission…]
"Yes…" Duncan nodded his head, and he was aware that the Milvine assassination group killed humans and demons because he once interrogated a Milvine assassin…
First, he cut of his finger, and… people underestimated how easily people told the truth…
As for dealing with assassins, they perhaps lasted a few more fingers, but… they were only allowed to know information relevant for their missions…
Hence, Duncan, like every other interrogation expert, wasn't surprised to hear that they had missions in the netherworlds, too…
They had dark, black eyes, and Wormy appeared to have found a glowing object…
Duncan put it in his pocket, and Levana kept attacking him with a smile on her face…
"Heh… you're too good at dodging, imp…" Levana spun her scythe as they kept walking and walking and walking…
Duncan talked to her and dodged her attacks for a while, and Wormy kept finding various glowing objects on their way towards the palace…
He seemed to think his luck of finding the catalyst stone would repeat itself, and… Wormy kept learning more and more interesting sentences under Levana's vigorous influence…
She wouldn't be good with kids, and she kept attacking him as he stared at the passing sand…
Nyla would've been good with kids, he remembered talking about it with her, and Duncan saw her face in the pools of moving underwater black sand…
Back when she was still alive, they never wanted kids until after the war had ended and their child could live a happy, and unblemished life... Having to take care of a kid during wartime and going on missions seemed unfair to the child, and… he couldn't imagine Wormy being anyone's child but Levana taught him some interesting sentences!
"Ugly Master!" Wormy laughed and Levana taught him the word master with sincerity, and then more and more bad words came out of Wormy's mouth…
"Ugly Master looks like DIRT!" Wormy thought these were good words and Duncan laughed as this continued for the entire journey…
"Master is a piece of ugly water!" Wormy ran back to her again over the two hours, and then finally they saw the palace, and… Levana came up to apologize as she held back her laughter…
"Sorry… he's too gullible… and... they're only young for a while, right?!" Levana pat Duncan on the back after consoling him, and Wormy came over with tears in his eyes…
"Master… sorry… your too ugly…" Wormy felt like he rectified himself and Duncan sighed before he finally noticed a bright, glowing palace floating in the distant reef…
[Ding! Host has arrived at the Water Demon Imps Lotus Palace, and… time remaining until 2000 humans die has been adjusted to 1 hour…]
