Chapter 151: Checking the Spoils

Walking into his room, Adryan was drying his wet hair with a towel.

He was now wearing a simple brown shirt with gray pants.

'Fucking shower, using a hose to bathe would be so much better!' The redhead thought annoyed as he spread the towel on the chair to dry.

The shower pressure had been the lowest these past days and it had taken him a long time to get a good bath.

Clicking his tongue, Adryan sat on the edge of his bed.

"Flora you can now remove the idea from Opera's mind."

"I don't know why you bother to withdraw the idea after what we went through but I'm not interested." Flora said exasperated.

The soft sound of cloth being cut reached Adryan's ears, this made his mind blurry for a few seconds but he quickly recovered.

"Wow... That was..." Adryan put a hand on his forehead and massaged his temple.

"Did you hope that getting the idea out of someone's head wouldn't hurt? Well, normally but my state again doesn't help." Flora answered still annoyed, there was a trace of tiredness in her voice.

Adryan's eyes softened a little at this.

'She has done a lot today, it is obvious that she is exhausted. In addition to the scare that I gave her, tonight has undoubtedly been very heavy for her.'

It wouldn't be fair if Flora didn't receive a worthy praise.

"You did a great job today Flora, without you all of this would have been much more difficult. Thank you" he said gratefully, his gaze had softened more and his scarlet eyes shone with warmth.

"Of course, you should be grateful! The great Flora put her mighty hand in your operation making it possible!" She said proud and pleased, you could tell she was a little embarrassed by her voice.

"So praise me more!"

Adryan chuckled amused at this.

' Now you're acting like a puppy that got a treat! You're adorable!'

He didn't say this because Flora deserved a moment to enjoy, he could still notice the tiredness in her voice even though she tried to hide it.

So smiling, he nodded and continued.

"You were the best today."

"Ho ho ho! Of course, I was! I am a Jacob after all!" Flora laughed with joy.

...

After petting the puppy Flora for a while, she reluctantly had to go to sleep to recover from all the energy she spent today.

Adryan also lay on his bed and went to sleep, although, in reality, he had gone to the City of Calamities to count the winnings before resting.

...

Sitting on the yellow ground of the city, Adryan had in front of him the wads of bills arranged in rows.

"300...400...500...and 800" the redhead said finishing counting the last bill.

A huge grin that showed all his teeth was plastered on his face.

"8,800 pounds! The jewelry and property have yet to be sold, which should add up to a total of 13-14,000 pounds!"

"I'm rich! I'm fucking rich!" the redhead was almost crying with joy.

"I no longer have to worry about not having enough money to buy the Sphinx's brain!"

"Haha...hahaha...hahaha" the redhead laughed with pure happiness.

Now he could even try to get the Conspirator formula from the Pirate Auction and the Hermits of Fate!

Still laughing the redhead grabbed the goatskin parchment at his side and opened it.

Main Ingredients

*Murloc's Bladder.

*10 Murloc scales.

Supplementary ingredients.

* 100 milliliters of seawater.

* One Clownfish Intestins.

* 10 milliliters of rum.

* 15 grams of beach sand.

Main ingredients

*1 Pure Gold Dew.

*1 Leviathan Scepter Crystal.

Supplementary Ingredients

*100 milliliters of beer.

*3 drops of Night Watcher's Herb.

*10 grams of Emerald Powder.

*3 seeds of the Will o' Wisp fruit.

Main ingredients

*A pair of Terror Demon Worm's eyes.

*Silver War Bear's right palm.

Supplementary ingredients

*80 milliliters of white wine.

*20 milliliters of oak water.

* 10 grams of lead.

* The stem of Justicia spicigera

Main ingredients

*The horn of a Flash-patterned Black Snake.

*Dust of a Lake Spirit.

Supplementary ingredients

*70 milliliters of Loen Beer.

*6 gold bullets.

*12 grams of silver powder

* 5 milliliters of the poison of the Black Snake.

"I honestly didn't expect to get these formulas but they are certainly welcome!" the redhead said amused as he made the parchment fly towards his things.

He then moved his gaze to where he kept the Beyonders' characteristics.

He didn't plan on handing these over to Isengard in exchange for contribution points.

The Interrogator characteristic contained a Sherrif and Arbiter characteristic.

He could resell this or use it on a future member of his team if necessary.

The same was with the characteristics of Sailor and Hunter.

"The problem will be finding a way to separate the characteristics... I'll need an artifact equal to Unshadowed to be able to achieve that but I have no way to get one right now..."

Sighing, Adryan looked away and looked up at the City sky.

"For now that will have to wait, the important thing is that now I have the formulas..."

Adryan closed his eyes and concentrated on feeling the Pyromaniac's progress.

After a few moments, he opened them.

"Less than 30 percent to fully digest it..." he murmured to the sky...

Sighing again, Adryan began to draw the sphere of light in his mind to leave the Sefirot.

...

Opening her eyes, Opera was slightly confused to see that she was in an unfamiliar room.

Her head hurt a little, taking a hand to her forehead she caressed her temple to try to soften it.

Slowly, memories of the night before came back and it made her stomach turn.

Trembling slightly, she put a hand to her mouth to keep from screaming.

'Why did I act like that?! That was the first time I saw Jam- that man and I treated him like he was my childhood friend!'

If she is not wrong that must have been the famous James Holmes!

'I was controlled! That's why I did all those weird things!'

She gagged and had to swallow the vomit to keep it from coming out.

'Why would he do that?! Did I do something to him?!'

Rising slowly from the bed, she made her way on unsteady legs to the door.

Just as she touched the doorknob she stopped.

Her blood-red eyes glowed with realization.

"I am free..." she muttered in a daze.

Slowly removing her hand from the door handle, she lowered her head and looked at the ground.

A shaky smile formed on her face...

"Now I can do whatever I want... I don't have to work for him anymore..."

Tears were falling from her eyes.

"But where can I go now? I have nothing..." her expression broke into despair...

'This will be your new home'

The words spoken by James returned to her head and she widened her eyes in surprise.

After a few seconds, she let out a small, soft, teary laugh.

She could still remember how the man had said it, as if it were fact.

'But that's how it is now...' Opera looked around.

'I won't make that decision for you.'

The smile on her face turned soft.

"Now I have this room in this church... He didn't force me to be here but he let me choose..."

That was a lot more than anyone had let her do for as long as she could remember.

Neither her mother nor her father let her do that.

"In the end, it was a stranger who let me make the final decision..."

The memory of how the man had treated her returned.

How he looked away to let her get dressed without looking at her naked body, how he had held her hand when she was afraid of the height, how he carried her on his back and carried her at full speed through the East Borough, how he had made her laugh much more than anyone had done in her entire life...

He had shown her something she had never been shown in her entire life...

She put a hand to her head and began to caress it gently, in the same way that the man had done.

The shaky smile returned, but this time it was filled with happiness.

"No...James...He...He's..." she choked on her words in tears.

"He's a warm friend!" she cried hard falling to her knees. Thick tears fell down her cheeks.

The memory of how the man had hugged her had returned making the tears fall harder.

Adjusting her brown clerical robes, Opera looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes still a little red from crying.

"Come on Opera you can do this…" she gave herself encouraging words as she looked at herself in the mirror.

She slightly slapped her cheeks twice, a determined look in her eyes.

She went to her bedroom door and opened it...

Walking down the corridor into the Church Hall, she saw the huge Father Utravsky praying in the front row next to a woman.

This woman looked no older than 24 years old, she had brown hair and freckles on her face. She was wearing a modest dress.

She watched as these two people prayed, not sure what to do now.

Some footsteps sounded next to her and she looked in amazement as a giant woman came down from the altar area with a cloth in her hands, she was wearing the same clothes as her.

This giant woman had beautiful yellow-orange hair and green eyes, despite wearing clerical clothing she could see the muscles under it.

"You must be Opera, right? Father Utravsky told me that we would be working together from now on" this huge woman said with a smile from ear to ear as she extended her hand.

"It's a pleasure, my name is Sasha and I hope we can get along"

Opera looked at the woman's scarred hand in surprise, but after a few moments, she took the hand with some mistrust.

"My pleasure Miss Sasha..."

Sasha chuckled lightly and shook her head.

"Just call me Sasha"

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An old character made a cameo, do you know who it is?

And this won't be the last~

Also what do you think of the formulas?

Also there will be a special in the weekend.

4 chapters on Saturday and 4 chapters on Sunday!

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