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Chapter 295 - 226: Joining the Association Assessment_3

Chapter 295: Chapter 226: Joining the Association Assessment_3

"Wait, there’s one more question!" The woman quickly spoke up as Mu You seemed ready to bid them farewell.

"Ask."

"Who exactly is Sadako?"

"..."

Caught off guard by her question, Mu You remained silent for a few seconds before answering: "I’ll bring Sadako to you next week."

"Good, it’s a deal."

The woman nodded, appearing contented. Mu You immediately kicked her out of the meeting and lifted the mute mode.

The others, having seen Aries and Taurus in a private conversation, realized that Aries had initiated the private chat mode. They were all waiting for the two to finish their chat and explain the situation. However, to their surprise, Taurus was kicked out.

Once they noticed the mute was lifted, they all looked over with puzzled expressions.

"Aries Boss, what just happened? Who was that? Why was she kicked out?" Lion, speaking on behalf of everyone, asked.

"Nothing much. The circumstances of this meeting are special, and she’s not a player. Until we can confirm her identity, we can’t allow her to join the conversation." Mu You explained.

Upon hearing this, everyone quickly understood what he meant. The special circumstances of the meeting suggested that they were likely to strike the Arcane Tower shortly, and Aries was planning the tower assault!

Just as they expected, Mu You revealed the time of the tower’s assault next.

"Tomorrow night at half-past eleven, we will launch an attack on the Arcane Tower."

"That soon?"

Everyone was taken aback. The decision had been made just two to three hours ago, and there wasn’t enough time to relay the message. Hearing the announcement now made them feel that the operation was happening much sooner than expected.

But that was precisely the reaction Mu You aimed for. If even their own people were surprised, the wizards from the Otherworld would certainly be caught off guard.

Mu You took out six ’Reaper’s Pacts’, passing one each to Cancer, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Aquarius, who were the only sorcerers in the room without a Reaper’s Pact.

As for Gemini and Lin Xue, Mu You, in a show of thoroughness, gave them one each, so that all twelve people in the room now had a Reaper’s Pact card.

"At the time of the operation tomorrow night, I need you all to find a safe place in the game and use the Pact to channel your power to me. Based on our current predictions, the reward after the tower is breached will be calculated based on the amount of output contributed. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about your power being wasted. I’ll launch a direct attack on the Arcane Tower. The power you contribute will directly contribute to your final reward."

After explaining, Mu You added, "Of course, invoking the Reaper’s Pact will inevitably consume your lifespan. So participation in this operation is entirely voluntary. If you find better conditions for output or if your lifespan is insufficient to offset, feel free to cease your support at any time and act according to your own desires."

No one expressed any objections to Mu You’s statements. His speculation was reasonable and, indeed, the most probable scenario was that the rewards would be distributed proportional to the extent of contribution. While they were able to enter the Imperial Capital with the ghost ship, they would still be controlling their characters with their phones during the operation.

The efficiency of output from game characters could certainly not compare to that of a real person on site. Providing energy to Aries for him to use was a way for them to utilize their abilities most effectively and also prevent their identities from being exposed through indiscriminate usage of black magic. It was a win-win situation.

As for the lifespan consumption, the rewards from such a vital server-wide mission would certainly be exceptional. As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. Even sacrificing a hundred or so years of their lifespans would be absolutely worth it.

Once the operational details were settled, they proceeded to the card exchange session of the day.

The cards Mu You displayed this time were similar to the ones from the previous week, with Life Barrier and Wooden Clone still being the most sought after.

Clone, having gotten a new Magic Card ’Lightning Ball Technique’, handed it over to Capricorn, fulfilling last week’s deal.

After everyone had displayed and exchanged their cards, Mu You ended up with two new Magic Cards: Snowball Curse and Repair as Original.

Snowball Curse was a black magic version of the ordinary Snowball Curse transformed by Virgo. Mu You had already experienced its effects in a previous battle against the black-robed people. The black magic version of the snowball had significantly enhanced control abilities. When it exploded, it could freeze the target at any distance and even summon a snowman with substantial damage output.

’Repair as Original’, on the other hand, was a piece of black magic transformed from the low-level light magic spell ’Quick Fix’ that Libra had acquired two weeks earlier.

The original Repair curse could only repair small-sized objects or specific damaged parts of large objects.

But when converted into black magic, it removed the size restriction for repairable items. Any non-magical item, regardless of size, could be repaired immediately, although the larger and more complex the object, the more magic required for repair.

In other words, as long as there was enough natural magic power, even the ruins left by a significant earthquake could be restored using this spell.

Both new Magic Cards would come in handy.

Regrettably, there were still no Life Magic spell scrolls available for him to exchange this week. Mu You eagerly waited for an entire round, only to eventually give up.

At one in the morning, the meeting ended, and Mu You and his clone returned to the pet shop as scheduled.

With the server-wide mission looming, he didn’t have time to rest.

He spent the following day and a half crafting cards and brewing evolution potions. Finally, just before the operation, he delivered another forty bottles of evolution potions to Jiu You. He would leave it to the authorities to decide how to distribute them.

Meanwhile, in the game, the goblin Mu You had trapped inside the storage bottle woke up once. However, Mu You had already anticipated this and was waiting inside the bottle.

He had planned to negotiate with the goblin, but the goblin might have been too frightened to discuss anything. As soon as it woke up, it started to self-destruct. After it had exploded a dozen times and realized that it remained inside the bottle, it comprehended its hopeless situation and fainted on the spot from despair.

With no other choice, Mu You had to feed it another Sleeping Potion.

At five in the afternoon on the eighth, Mu You closed the shop early and headed for the basement.

By then, Lin Xue and Little Ya had already been waiting. Lin Xue, fully equipped, was ready for a long journey. It was time for them to enter the door for the week.

After making sure all the necessary items were prepared, Mu You brought out the ’door’ and approached to push open the house door.

The frigid wind howled in, and the familiar icy scene of the snow plains lay outside the door. Yet, unlike previous times when they entered during snowy nights, it was currently sunset.

Mu You glanced at his watch, it was precisely 5:10 PM.

The tower assault was scheduled for half-past eleven in the evening. The reason he entered so early was that his experience bar was already nearing the twelfth level, and he planned to level up by hunting some monsters before nightfall.