Aaron turned to the side to look at Isabe. The woman made a serious face, then nodded slowly. She also agreed with the suggestion of the man named Robert. After all, they could certainly get temporary shelter until the day the Dark Pir Raid reopened.


    "Your name is Robert, right? Well, we''re interested in joining your group," Aaron said.


    He helped the two women to stand. Isabe stepped closer to them, reaching out her hand to summon a simple healing magic.


    [Magic Activated]


    [Low Magic: First Wound Recovery]


    [MP -50]


    A blue magic circle appeared before Isabe''s two palms, releasing tiny particles that touched the wound on the woman''s arm. The skin regeneration process went well,pletely covering the wound.


    The woman before Isabe smiled; her wound fully healed thanks to Isabe''s help. They could have cast that low-level magic, but they found it difficult due to fatigue.


    "Thank you," said the woman, Isabe cleared her throat with a smile.


    Isabe finished treating them and stepped closer to Aaron. Aaron nodded and asked Robert to take them to the base of the Star Pir group. Robert will dly take them away.


    Aaron reached out, waiting for Robert to give them the teleportation slip. But, Robert ignored him for a specific reason. That certainly surprised Aaron.


    "Where is he going? Is the ce close?" asked Aaron, confused.


    "Maybe, we should follow them," Isabe replied, Aaron cleared his throat in favor.


    The young man walked with Isabe seemingly following close behind. Thirty minutes they walked behind Robert, there was no sign from him that they would soon reach the base.


    Feeling that they had walked far enough and Robert was not using a teleportation slip, Aaron stepped forward and asked Robert.


    "Hey. Don''t you have a teleportation slip?" Aaron asked, making Robert''s steps halt for a moment.


    "Ah, about that. Small groups like us don''t have them; we don''t have group branches in big cities," Robert replied.


    "He''s right. Teleportation slips can be purchased in the big city at the Dark Pir Tower. The nearest city is 10th Floor City," Isabe continued, Aaron didn''t know about that at all.@@novelbin@@


    "Don''t worry. We''ve already cleared this path. It is confirmed that there will be no more monsters threatening us."


    Hearing that was quite a relief for Aaron. They continued walking until they found arge in with a cluster of small houses.


    The strange thing was that there weren''t many high-level monsters roaming around. If any, it was only low-level monsters.


    "That''s the captain. He has returned," exined a man, standing on the watchtower.


    "Open the gate. We have new guests," Robert replied.


    They did as Robert told them. The wooden gate opened for Aaron and Isabe to enter. There were ten small houses, all made of wood and solid.


    "Before you stay in our house, there is one thing I need to make sure of," Robert exined.


    Isabe sighed. The woman fully understood Robert''s meaning because she had lived there for a long time and knew the culture.


    "Show him your CP," Isabe whispered to Aaron. Aaron understood.


    Both showed their status abilities, bearing the numbers of their status and CP. Robert widened his eyes, not expecting that both of them had CP above 40000.


    Not only Robert but also the others had the same expression. They never expected the new person on the second floor to have the highest CP count in the group. Robert himself only had a CP count of 38000.


    ''Did they stay too long on the first floor to get this high CP?" asked Robert.


    "How?" asked Isabe, full of confidence.


    "Ah, of course, you are epted to be part of us. Wee to the Star Pir Group."


    Isabe and Aaron turned off their abilities'' status panels. Robert told one of his members to escort them to an empty house.


    The woman exined that the house was originally upied by another member, but he died inside the Dark Pir, so it was empty.


    "One house has four rooms in it. Please understand that if your room space is small, we will try to make it as efficient as possible," the member replied, realizing the shorings in their group.


    Aaron didn''t mind. It was more than enough as long as they had a safe shelter from monsters and the cold.


    The door to the house was open; there were indeed four room doors inside. However, it was certain that the living room and kitchen areas were quite spacious. Aaron thought the house was enough for them to live in.


    "Just let me know if you need anything. Do you mind adding me as your friend?" asked the female member, Isabe smiled and shook her head.


    Isabe pressed the friend''s menu and brought up the system panel before her, as did the woman ahead of her.


    [Friends Menu]


    [Search: ]


    [Add Friend: ]


    [Remove Friend: ]


    [Message]


    Isabe pressed the search menu and searched for the profile by name and the nearest signal detection.


    The detection signal range was 50 meters from Isabe''s position, so it was unlikely that the same name was within the range.


    [Name found]


    [ra Ramirez]


    [Level 26]


    [Add Friend]


    [Message]


    Isabe added a friend to ra Ramirez. ra confirmed Isabe''s friend request, clearly seeing that the woman''s level was already at level 33.


    [You have be friends with ra Ramirez (Lv.26)]


    She saw that ra''s profile had a green dot, indicating that the woman was still alive. If the dot turned ck, it meant that the person was dead.


    "Alright. I''ve gotten your profile. I''ll let you know if I need anything," Isabe exined.


    ra cleared her throat. She would dly help Isabe with anything. Not wanting to linger, ra said goodbye as she had something to do.


    Aaron closed the door and sat on one of the living room couches, sitting back while taking a deep breath to relieve the fatigue in his body.


    "Don''t they know we''re former members of the Night Liberators group?" asked Aaron. Isabe shook her head.


    "Apparently not."


    [One iing message]


    [Two iing messages]


    [Three iing messages]


    [You have three unread messages]


    A pop-up panel appeared in front of Isabe, surprising the woman, but she alreadypletely understood who the message was from. Aaron turned his head, looking at the small iing message panel on Isabe''s system.


    "Message?"


    "It must be from David."


    Half-heartedly, Isabe opened and read the message. Aaron became curious and read the message''s contents on the woman''s system.


    [Sender: David]


    [Where are you?]


    [Did you go to the second floor? Did you go with that damn kid? I thought you really loved me, but it turns out you''re just using me]


    [Hurry up and go back to the base, you fucking bitch! If not, I''ll send a message to my friend on the second floor to hunt you down and kill that boy]


    "He''spletely crazy about you," Aaron said, crossing his arms.


    "Don''t worry. They won''t be able to track us. There are many groups of adventurers here. Robert won''t tell them our identities either."


    "Of course. He needs us to conquer the Dark Pir on behalf of their group," Aaron replied.


    "We''d better talk to Robert and make a deal with him."