As soon as they reached the main deck, they could see all the people in Clovis' group.
Clovis smiled while pointing at Christina. "Guys. et our new mber, Christina."
Jay and Erwin nodded. Kanaria waved her hand. "Nice to et you."
"It's a pleasure to et you." lody glanced at her for a second before returning to her screen.
"Another guardian?" Luci tilted her head.
Ragna politely bowed. "Welco, and please help from ti to ti."
"Thank you. Nice to et you all. It will take ti, but I will adjust myself to the group." Christina nodded to them.
"Yep! This is our ninth mber." Clovis smiled.
"Ninth?" Christina raised her eyebrows. "Is Hana in your group as well? Isn't she too busy with her company?"
"? Of course, I'm not in this group. I just want to earn money."
"Then who is the eighth mber?" Christina asked. "Is that person not here?"
"Nope. He's here." Clovis took a deep breath before shouting, "Reolf! Co here. et our new mber."
All of a sudden, a huge shadow appeared from the hallway on the other side of the hall.
Christina suddenly raised her stance. "A beast? That's… a wolf… a dire wolf."
Reolf had expected such a reaction, so he just sat down and raised his paw. "Waaf!"
"Eh?" Christina dropped her jaw. It was as if the wolf had been completely tad. But no one had ever done this before.
"Hahaha. I had a similar reaction when I first t Reolf." Hana chuckled.
"Eh?" Christina's eyes went back and forth between Clovis, Hana, and Reolf. "Eh? What's going on? The eighth mber is a dire wolf?"
"Yep!" Clovis nodded. "He just beca a Tier 3 a few days ago. He had one beast soul. His na is Reolf. Talk to him like you're talking to a human. He can't speak human language, but he understands you completely."
"W-What?!" Christina was taken aback, but she soon rembered what happened on the island. "Wait a mont. The wolf kept howling during the night… Don't tell …"
"Yep! It was Reolf. Thanks to you, I thought about provoking the beasts. Reolf could understand them but couldn't lead them like other high tier beasts. Nevertheless, he could still challenge them, and that was what we did.
"Of course, we provoked the beasts near the border so that they would end up coming toward us."
Christina gasped. "So that's the reason I felt the beasts in my area were less than what I thought."
"Yep. Thanks to those items, Reolf is able to defeat a Tier 4 beast and fight a Tier 5 beast. Since I'm planning to give you so, I think you can defeat a Tier 6 human or beast pretty easily."
Christina looked around. She finally understood why Clovis wanted to hide all this information.
First of all, she had never heard anything about an item that could raise their physical ability. Then there was Reolf. If he was known, Clovis could beco pretty much a beast tar. His na would be so famous that no one could know what they would do to Clovis in order to get his secret.
Clovis raised two fingers. "Anyway, I'm planning to let you inside the art room. It's better for you to enter it first before I explain what it's used for. Anyway, that's all for now."
Christina was speechless. There were simply too many things she needed to take. "What… What is going on? How are you able to do all this?"
"His blood is special." Luci was the one to answer that question. She licked her lips as if she was eyeing Clovis' blood. "I'm one step closer to getting his blood and research on it."
"…" Clovis' eyebrows twitched.
Christina fell into deep thought. 'His blood, huh? So that's how it is. It's no wonder why even soone like Hana is trying to get everything from him.
'If his blood is able to create these abnormal items, that alone will make people crazy. Then, there is Reolf. If he can even control a beast with his blood, this will change everything.
'And there might be other secrets like this art room he is talking about. More importantly, he has a Blood Affinity if I'm not wrong, which is pretty much aligned to his secret.
'His unique ability is releasing all that bloodlust. If I just take all these things into account, his blood is indeed special.
'This must be the reason the Skylark Conglorate doesn't even care about the relationship between them.
'In other words, his blood is the most precious blood in this world. If soone knows about it, they will try to possess it. Hana is fortunately an ally, but what about his enemies or other neutral parties?
'They will try to kill him or capture him. They will extract his blood and lock him sowhere where they can continue getting his blood without him dying. It's a fate much worse than death itself.'
Christina closed her eyes. She finally knew why Clovis wanted to keep everything a secret.
"I see." Christina turned to Clovis. "Don't worry. I will keep this a secret, but you said earlier that it's not going to be a secret forever…"
"Yeah. In the end, it's impossible to hide all this, especially Reolf. It's unfair for him to be kept hidden. I don't want to restrict his movent, so I'm planning to gradually release the information bit by bit."
Christina nodded in understanding. "Alright. I now understand what you're trying to do."
"Since that's the case, I will take my leave. I have to do my work." Hana waved while walking away. "Also, Clovis, I will be sending the royalty in a week."
"Why in a week? You can't do it now?"
"Well, I don't mind doing it now, but give so incentives. Because of a certain guy asking to participate in that competition, I can't really do any work. I have to catch up right now…" Hana pointed at the ring on her finger, implying what she wanted.
"Fine. One week from now." Clovis sighed. He was disappointed he couldn't upgrade his Another World Mall sooner, but it was fine.
"Stingy." Hana pouted.
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