My bloodline is so eager to improve.

With three extraordinary professionals teaming up, those carnivorous vines can't do anything to you. You can also hunt some bagworms while you're at it, and make your spatial pocket sooner.

Maika thought that they couldn't possibly hide in the barracks forever.

As an adventurer, you can't be a coward in a time like this.

After Michael assigned the action plan, everyone quickly got to work.

For a moment, only Otto and Tessa remained in the huge barracks.

The two would wait for Goren and the others who had gone out to buy supplies to return before telling them about the plan.

However, after relaxing, Tessa felt a sudden surge of fatigue.

The willpower sustained by tension is difficult to muster quickly once it is relaxed.

She struggled to sit on the sofa, but couldn't stop sighing.

Seeing this, Otto immediately spoke up.

"Young Miss, would you like dinner?"

As Otto removed his armor, he spoke to Tessa in a lighthearted tone.

“I learned some cooking from the grandmothers in the village.”

Otto, having been through it all, knew that once a person gets caught up in a certain emotion, it's very difficult to extricate themselves from it without the help of others.

The same was true of Otto in the past.

During the years he was tormented by illness, the nurses would often tell jokes or do things to distract him when he was irritable, thus interrupting this negative emotional rhythm.

Thanks to his past life's accumulation, Otto often used the same method to relieve his companions' feelings of loss in the village.

Now, he plans to use the same method to help Tessa.

He could tell that Tessa was actually a little scared.

Come to think of it, Tessa must have come from a good background and spent a lot of time on theology in the past, so she probably rarely came into contact with malice.

However, upon arriving in Oak Village, she was immediately assassinated, which must have been a very difficult thing for Tessa to accept.

"Perhaps this is what the gods want you to see?"

Otto's words caught Tessa's attention.

After her low spirits were broken, she finally felt some strength returning to her body.

Tessa walked up to Otto and curiously observed the boy preparing dinner.

"I plan to make some vegetable soup and bake some sourdough bread while I'm at it."

Seeing that the girl had her attention drawn to him, Otto didn't say much, but simply introduced her to today's dinner.

Tessa was somewhat surprised to see Otto skillfully peeling the vegetables.

"I thought our dinner tonight would be dried meat."

Tessa gave a tired smile, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't bring herself to.

Otto, who was standing to the side, guessed what was going on, but said slowly.

"Perhaps God wants you to step out of the church and truly see the world?"

It's easy to talk about war on paper, but it's very difficult to actually carry out an oracles pilgrimage.

Now, haven't you seen things that weren't mentioned in the scriptures?

Otto wasn't a theologian; it was just that the old woman messengers who had stayed at the church in Lott village had told her that.

I was just reciting from the book.

But one would say that he truly deserves the instruction of a professional priest?

After Otto said those words, Tessa seemed to understand something, and her overall mental state improved a lot.

"Really, I didn't ask you that. I'm the priest, after all."

Tessa laughed and scolded Otto a few times, then rolled up her sleeves and prepared dinner with the boy.

Making vegetable soup is not complicated.

But while Tessa was serving the sourdough bread, Otto secretly added a lot of chili powder and pepper to the vegetable soup.

That's the good thing about pioneering areas: resources are plentiful, and spices and seasonings aren't expensive, so he can spend them as he pleases.

Just as Tessa was about to get up to get the cutlery, Otto had already finished committing the crime.

When the two sat down on the sofa to have dinner, Otto didn't start cooking right away, but just looked at Tessa with a smile.

At first, Tessa didn't understand why, until she picked up a spoon and tasted the freshly made vegetable soup.

At that moment, the spicy taste captured the girl's full attention.

She took a big bite of the sourdough bread next to her before she could barely speak.

"What, what did you do!"

Otto found it quite amusing to see Tessa's bright red ears.

"The nights in late autumn are cool, and eating some soup with chili powder and pepper can help warm you up."

After Otto finished speaking, he also began to eat his dinner.

But seeing Otto eat dinner without batting an eye, Tessa pouted in frustration and climbed down the sofa to the boy's side.

She picked up the sourdough bread in her hand and shoved it into Otto's mouth!

"Damn it, you're not allowed to tease the priests!"

But just as the two were bickering, there was a knock on the door.

"This is Joel. Is anyone there?"

When Tessa heard someone outside the door, she jumped back like a startled rabbit.

She quickly tidied her disheveled clothes, afraid that people might misunderstand her.

Black Sheep, however, couldn't help but curse at Joel.

Black Sheep felt that if he had the chance, he absolutely had to kill Joel; he had ruined their plans.

[Black Sheep expressed his regret, saying that you two were just a little short of sharing the oral flora in your mouths and exploring the origins of life on the sofa!]

[The Moonlit Hound apologizes to you. I was so focused on beating up the Magic Ape that I forgot about the mischievous Black Sheep.]

Otto was already used to watching his animal friends cause trouble.

He swallowed the sourdough bread in his mouth and simply called out towards the door.

"Come in."

Following Otto's words, Joel entered the barracks.

At this moment, Joel was not wearing adventurer's clothes, but instead had changed into a dark, thick coat.

It looks good on him, with his brown curly hair and dark eyes.

However, Otto was somewhat puzzled; Joel didn't seem like the kind of person who was about to embark on an adventure.

Sure enough, before Otto could even speak, Joel immediately placed some tools on the table and said with a smile.

"My arm is not yet healed, so the Flower Fairy Wings cannot take the risk for the time being."

Fortunately, my sister gave me some money, so I simply opened a tool shop. If you need anything, you can come to me.

Chapter Sixty-Six: Invitation

After opening his shop, Joel immediately started doing business in the camp by leveraging his connections.

Upon seeing the logo of the Dragon Slayer Blade, he hurried over to say hello and inquire about its well-being.

But the black cat noticed something was wrong.

The black cat noticed a bead of sweat trickling down Joel's forehead; he looked somewhat nervous.

Upon seeing this, Otto immediately asked curiously.

"What's wrong? Is there something you need from us?"

However, we can consider it if the compensation is sufficient.

However, commissions are limited to those within the Blackthorn Forest.

You know we don't want to miss this camp hunt.

Otto effortlessly glossed over their troubles.

They told him they were now only taking on commissions related to the Blackthorn Forest, so that Joel wouldn't notice anything amiss.

Seeing that Otto had already spoken, Joel could no longer hide his intentions and simply revealed his purpose.

“Mr. Otto, I would like to extend an invitation to you to form a group purchase so that the Flower Fairy Wings and the Dragon Shattering Blade can work together.”

Upon hearing this, Tessa, who was standing to the side, looked puzzled.

Group buying?

"But didn't you say the Flower Fairy Wings had stopped operating?"

Tessa immediately explained, seemingly considering that Otto hadn't participated much in group tours.

There are many types of group buying.

Mr. Golen and I joined the Rabbit Foot Squad on a temporary basis in our own names last time.

As for Mr. Joel's commission, it was a short-term collaboration between the teams.

In fact, this type of collaboration is more common in big cities.

There, there are even warbands composed of multiple adventurer squads that manage daily affairs such as logistics and supplies in a unified manner.

Warbands are guild-certified organizations, which makes it easier to complete certain large-scale commissions.

Tessa herself comes from a big city and has participated in group buying before, so she is quite familiar with this kind of thing.

But Tessa thought that they didn't have the luxury of rashly contacting other adventurers right now.

Thinking of this, Tessa immediately spoke up.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Joel, we cannot grant your request.”

Otto and I are both novice adventurers and have no right to interfere in the team's affairs.

Tessa thought that it was best for her, someone who had never met Joel, to refuse him.

She believed Otto shared the same thought.

After all, Dragon Blade is currently facing trouble and is unable to handle group-buying business.

Seeing this, Joel simply waved his hand and said.

"It's okay, I understand."

Actually, I didn't really want her to go on missions either.

Joel sighed helplessly as he finished speaking.

"Since Florian left, Sabrina seems to have become even more obsessed with adventure."

She had only just regained her strength and wanted to enter the Blackthorn Forest to return to the life of an adventurer.

But as you can see, I'm of no use to you, so I've come to you reliable peers like yourself.

Honestly, Joel didn't want Sabrina to take any risks.

Joel couldn't understand Sabrina's thinking; the gauze covering her body hadn't even been removed yet!

But as his only teammate, Joel wanted to fulfill his wishes as much as possible.

Seeing that the two had rejected him, Joel simply expressed his understanding and then walked out of the Dragonbreaker's barracks towards his own small shop.

Joel wanted to persuade Sabrina again that she shouldn't act rashly.

He moved forward, thinking about the lines he would use later.

But at that moment, Joel was distracted by a commotion.