After thirty minutes of climbing and venting, Sky and the others finally reached the top of the mountain, it is much wider than they thought, which means that it will take a longer time for them to find all the items they are looking for.
"Since all of the required herbs and ingredients are quite rare and hard to identify, Jason and I will be responsible for that, you can join them with the searching of the magic flower and have fun." said Ben to Sky which leaves Sky a bit speechless as the magical flower is never his plan.
Despite of that, he still followed Ben's suggestion as he has nothing to do at this moment. However, there's a slightly unpleasant sight over the other side which makes Sky a bit reluctant to join in.
"Ah... How did that Magical Flower even look like? There are thousands of different types of flowers around here! How are we going to find it?" said Yuki, a bit annoyed.
"As if I will know. I told you that you should research a bit about that Magical Flower. But I guess we should just give up on that eternal happy love after all." said Seito in a teasing tone.
"Seito, you are a mean idiot! I will found it no matter what, just you wait!" said Yuki, a bit mad, Seito immediately comfort her as soon as he realized he had made his girl angry.
And at the other side.
"Ai, do you have any clue on how to Identify that rumored magical flower?" Itsuki asked in his usual gentle voice, Ai sheepishly shook her head.
"Hmm... Then we might have a hard time finding it... Ah! I mean, don't worry, I'm sure we will found it." said Itsuki as he noticed Ai is about to get upset about what he said earlier.
Back to Sky.
"Are these four actually couples?" Junior asked, as he felt slightly awkward with that lovey-dovey atmosphere.
"Well, Seito and Yuki are engaged, while the other two. Damn it! I don't even know when they started." said Sky, kind of jealous (?).
"Haha..." Junior doesn't know what to say but laughed awkwardly.
"Hmm? Junior, do you feel some really weak shaking?" Sky asked.
"Uhm... Not really." said Junior.
"Maybe just my imagination." said Sky who just brushed off his thought without further consideration.
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Secret base, Bob had finally awakened from the effect of the 'remedy testing' by the girl and found himself in the infirmary.
"Finally awake?" Hoshe asked as he about to jabs a long needle into Bob's forearm.
"Ah! Dr. Hoshe! What are you trying to do with that needle?" Bob shouted as he quickly gets out of the infirmary bed.
"Well. I was thinking this might help you regain consciousness faster, but you woke up before I even did so." said Hoshe.
Bob slowly stepped out of the infirmary to distance himself from that 'over-passionate doctor. Then he noticed something weird.
"Ah... Hmm? Where is everyone else?" Bob asked as he noticed the unusual silence in the Secret Base.
"They are out for mountain hiking." said Hoshe.
"Mountain hiking? Which mountain?" Bob asked, rather cautious.
"Flower God Mountain, what's wrong?" Hoshe asked as he noticed the expression changes of Bob.
"Flower God Mountain?! Oh no! There will be a small earthquake in that area today!" Bob shouted, rather hysterics.
"What? Damn it! They had probably reached the top by now!" said Hoshe equally shocked.
"What should we do?" Bob asked.
"Well... Actually, I think there is nothing to worry about, since, you know, they are not just any random people, so they should be alright." said Hoshe who calmed down after a short thought.
"Ah... Indeed."
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Flower God Mountain.
"Ah-ah, I had predicted all sort of mishaps and accidental events that might happen, but never thought of this, this is like a jackpot of bad luck." said Sky as he brushed off the dust and debris on his body.
He looks around and recalled what happened a few minutes ago...
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Just as he thought he was imagining the weak shaking, the whole area started to shake vigorously caused a big part of the ground to crack and fallen apart, except for Ben and Jason who was away from that area, the rest of them fall into the hollowed area under the cracks, fortunately, Sky put on barrier protection on everyone before falling off thus minimize any possible damages.
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"Ah... I guess I should put this in my possibility of misfortunes... Anyway, where are the others? Hmm... Is that a hand?" said Sky as he spotted a small delicate hand waving at him from a mess of boulders and debris, it looks like a lady's hand and her body is under all those boulders and debris.
Sky quickly ran towards that place and removed the big boulders in less than five seconds and found Ai under the boulders debris.
"Ai! Are you alright?" said Sky as he reached his hand to her.
Ai nodded as Sky gets her out of the debris.
"You are not injured right?" Sky asked, a bit concerned.
"Thanks to your barrier, I'm unharmed." said Ai while briefly cleaning and tidying her hair and attire.
"Don't worry, you look... alright." said Sky, a bit awkward.
"But this 'underground cave' is rather amazingly huge and... Amazing?" said Ai, can't find any suitable words to describe their surroundings.
Sky laughed out a bit but immediately stopped as he felt that it's a bit impolite.
"Maybe we should explore this place a bit while looking for Seito and the others." said Sky, trying to switch their main focus.
Ai nodded again.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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I'll release main chapters every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday, and some auxiliary chapters from time to time.
The next target is 150 library collections. If reached the target, I will update every 2 days.