Chapter 89: Recruitment, Scarlet Knight!

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After Lucy finished speaking, both sides were silent for a moment, until Yun Mu was the first to ask curiously:

"Ether, what exactly is it?"

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Lucy seemed to be thinking, and after a good while, she spoke under Yun Mu's curious gaze:

"Ether is a type of particle that constitutes all things in the world; it is an energy capable of manifesting any concept."

"Stop, stop, stop, don't say any more." Yun Mu interrupted with a bit of a headache.

Damn it, what is the meaning of this textbook-like, formulaic recitation? Was the question she asked that strange?

"Let's continue moving forward."

Sighing imperceptibly, she rubbed her forehead and said.

"Mm."

Lucy nodded, though she didn't continue to say anything else, just quietly following behind her.

The two moved along the road, with Dabai silently following behind them; along the way, only Chester kept making "clack-clack" sounds.

Soon, the familiar collapse struck, the entire Dungeon world crumbled in an instant, and boundless Darkness enveloped Yun Mu.

After a fleeting sense of loss, she stood once again on solid floor.

"Phew, back."

Feeling the air, which was completely different from that in the Dungeon, Yun Mu came to the window of her room and looked at the street outside the front Gate of the cafe.

The people from the furniture store hadn't arrived yet; sure enough, no matter how much time she spent in the game Dungeon, only a few seconds would pass in reality.

Opening the Game Panel, the first thing that caught her eye was a string of system notifications.

【Congratulations on clearing the Dungeon 【Scarlet Monastery lv15 (Elite)】】

【Your understanding of Scarlet has deepened. 【Scarlet Path Points +15】】

"Scarlet points increased?" Yun Mu was a bit puzzled.

Why weren't Path Points added when she cleared the Dungeon last time? Could it be because the difficulty of the last Dungeon was too low?

Or is it that beginner Dungeons don't add Path Points?

"Forget it, whatever."

She closed the notifications, opened her personal panel, and scrolled directly to the bottom.

【Player login detected, updating player panel!】

【Omitted】

【Dungeon Exploration】 (Cooling down)

The Dungeon Exploration was indeed on cooldown, the cooldown time...

If nothing unexpected happened, it should be the same as last time.

Which is one week.

However, that wasn't what she wanted to look at.

Yun Mu focused her gaze on the few pixel icons at the very bottom of the panel.

【Leader: Bloodline Living Corpse lv20 (Elite)】

【Current Status: Resting 【Switch (Deploy)】】

【Contract: Old Treasure Chest Monster lv13 (Elite)】

【Current Status: Resting 【Switch (Deploy)】】

【Partner: Alchemist Lucy lv10 (Apprentice)】

【Current Status: Resting 【Switch (Deploy)】】

Hmm, Dabai, Chester, and Lucy could all be summoned.

Besides these three icons, there was also a figure covered from head to toe in Scarlet plate armor.

【Leader: Scarlet Knight lv22 (Elite)】

【Recruitment Price: 1200 Gold Coin】

"So cheap!"

Yun Mu looked at her Gold Coin balance—4178 coins.

What was there to hesitate about? Recruit immediately!

"Bang!"

Accompanied by a heavy, muffled sound, the Scarlet Knight wearing a full set of Heavy plate armor appeared in her room.

As soon as the other party appeared, they took the long sword from their waist and pointed the tip of the sword downward.

"Stop, stop, stop, don't poke my room's floor with your sword!" Seeing that the Knight was about to strike the pose they used in the Dungeon, Yun Mu hurriedly stopped them.

The sword in the Knight's hand paused.

After a long while, they finally lifted the long sword back up and hung it at their waist.

"Can you speak?" After the Knight put the long sword away, Yun Mu looked at them curiously and asked.

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The Knight stood there quietly, like a sculpture.

Just when Yun Mu was about to give up, they slowly nodded, and a low voice came from under the armor.

"Mm."

"Uh..."

Hesitating for a moment, Yun Mu tentatively asked: "Then, can you take off your helmet?"

"Mm."

The Knight nodded again, but did not take off his helmet.

Perhaps the meaning was that he could take off his helmet, but he didn't want to?

"If you don't want to, then forget it," Yun Mu said upon seeing this.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something more, but a knock suddenly came from outside the door.

"Miss Yun, are you in your room?"

Edward's voice came from outside the door, which surprised Yun Mu a little.

Could it be that he heard the muffled sound made when the Scarlet Knight appeared?

Thinking this, she retracted the Scarlet Knight back into the Game Panel.

Before opening the door, she suddenly thought of something, took the Scarlet Cross Sword she had obtained from the Dungeon down from her back, and hid it under the quilt she slept with.

"Uncle Edward, is something the matter?" She pulled open the door and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Edward first scanned the environment in the room, then looked at Yun Mu and said, "Nothing, I just heard a strange noise earlier, so I came to check."

He paused, then added, "It's good that you're alright."

"The people from the furniture store seem to have arrived," he suddenly said, as if he had heard some sound.

"They're here?"

Yun Mu was slightly stunned. She turned and walked toward the window, and sure enough, in front of the cafe's entrance, she saw workers in grey-brown uniforms unloading huge cargo boxes from a steam truck.

And what she didn't know was that just as she turned around, Edward had checked all the corners in the room where someone might be hiding with great speed.

"Strange, I shouldn't have heard wrong..." Edward, having found nothing, rubbed the beard on his chin with a look of disbelief.

But after Yun Mu turned back, he withdrew the expression from his face.

"Then, Uncle Edward, I'm going downstairs?" Yun Mu withdrew her gaze from outside the window and looked at Edward.

"Go on, go on." Edward waved his hand casually.

"Hide that longsword, don't let the furniture store people see it," the other party suddenly said just as Yun Mu intended to go downstairs and walk past Edward.

Hearing Edward's words, Yun Mu's figure stopped.

She turned around somewhat awkwardly and took the Scarlet Cross Sword out from under the quilt.

It turned out that because she had hidden it too hastily, and because this cross longsword was very large, a small part of the sword tip had not been covered and was exposed from the quilt.

After Edward mentioned it, she immediately realized.

Those people from the furniture store were going to move furniture into her room; it would be troublesome if they saw the Scarlet Cross Sword.

After hesitating for a moment, she summoned Chester out from the Game Panel right in front of Edward.

The other party had clearly heard the sound of the Scarlet Knight appearing earlier.

Since that was the case, rather than letting him guess, it was better for her to proactively release some misleading information.

At the same time, this was also a way to increase trust.

PS: My head is so dizzy, I feel like my temples are throbbing.

There might only be one chapter today, sorry.

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This is my problem; I've been staying up too late recently.

I've been sleeping at four and waking up at eleven for half a month straight.

Ah, painful~

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It just so happens that I'm updating one chapter today; from now on, I'll update two chapters every day, and the latest chapter number will be a two-digit number.

It was always an odd number before, which felt quite uncomfortable to look at.

What, why not update three chapters to make it an even number?

Aba aba aba, I'm just a jellyfish, I don't understand what you're saying~

(End of chapter)