Chapter 59 – You Weihou some, you lose some
Adam had laid his cards on the table, now Bai Bo-Xue just sat there, the wheels visibly turning in his mind.
“So, I get special abilities, special powers and all I have to do is not betray you? But if I do betray you I get killed.” Said Bai confused. He didn’t understand what Adam was getting out of the deal. Normally someone would just use a soul bond contract or somesuch, expensive but effective.
“Well, I guess it’s a bit more than that. Basically, I want you on my side, on my team. So that I can be assured everything will be ok if I need to go away for a time. Binyon will be my secret base of operations. So I will need you to help me come up with a cover story.” said Adam, realizing at this point the floor in the plan. Everybody else in the village was just as nosey as Bo-Xue.
Bai Bo-Xue had settled for his life as leader of the village, but he did not have the wealth and prestige of his brother or the power of his father. Being offered what sounded like potentially both, out of the blue, was a bit much to comprehend.
But Bai Bo-Xue was a gambling man, and he felt he could trust this Adam. So trust he did. So Bo-Xue prostrated himself saying “I entrust my village to you, master.”
Adam pulled him up, then they shook hands, sealing the deal. At this point, Trey-2, Brey took up house in Bo-Xue spiritual sea, plus a few, tens of thousands of GTAs.
Bai Bo-Xue looked quizically at Adam, he had expected something to happen and wasn’t sure what to do.
“Also, I would like to make a trip to Weihou town, if you could accompany me, tomorrow or at your earliest convenience.” Said Adam, not really like being a boss, it seemed remarkably different for some reason when it was a human.
“Hello, my name is Brey,” said Brey, making Bo-Xue jump out of his skin.
Bai Bo-Xue was not sure whom to reply to first, it was most disconcerting having someone talk inside your head.
“Yes, Adam, I will make it ready for the visit tomorrow. If you would like to tell me where you would like to go. I deeply apologize but your spirit beast is trying to converse with me.”, said Bo-Xue, hurriedly.
Adam, seeing poor Bo-Xue struggling. He replied “Fine Bo-Xue, What I’m after is your town archives. And possibly another trip around the shopping district. I’ll catch up with you bright and early.”
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“Hello, honorable, spirit beast.” Said Bo-Xue trying to be respectful to his honored guest. He stopped himself from kowtowing. Then added, “Do you have a special ability for me?”
Brey thought for a moment, it was a kind of grey area. It was within his purview to do anything that would protect Bai Bo-Xue or allow him to carry out any missions requested by Adam.
“In case of emergency, I can assist you in using offensive and defensive abilities.” Said Brey
Bai Bo-Xue was very disheartened upon hearing this and not a little annoyed, he felt he had been duped after all.
“Unless you were able to find an energy source that is. It is only that I have a finite reserve of energy. If you were able to find a supply of energy and you were carrying out duties in accordance with Adam’s wishes then I could give you access to abilities whenever you needed them.” Said Brey, helpfully.
Brey had already unbeknown to Bo-Xue, already set up a teleport and injected tens of thousands of GTAs into Bo-Xue physical body. This would allow him to protect Bai Bo-Xue from any physical damage. This was possible due to the amount of SP that Echo had also transferred allowing Brey to make half a million GTAs of his own. No expense had been spared.
Bai Bo-Xue perked up greatly at this information. A source of energy, what did the spirit beast mean exactly? If it was beast cores then Adam was supplying him with those on a regular basis.
“I have some beast cores. Ten to be exact.” Said Bo-Xue, expectantly.
“Please place the beast cores near you so I may inspect them.” Instructed Brey.
Bai Bo-Xue rushed off to find his private stash, where had squirreled them away.
The kids had all finished up their chores early and were all having a good wash and brushup ready for tomorrow. They had been told they would be allowed to go into town again and one of the sole purposes was shopping.
Shopping for clothes to help them blend in better but also to be more suitable for the coming winter. Also weapons.
The plan was for Libby to scope out everything she could this time around. The scoping out would be to copy designs for furniture for the house and PD house. Also, she wanted to get her mana field around, as many Elixirs, herbal medicines, and basically anything useful that she would be able to reproduce.
Adam felt he had made the right decision about Bo-Xue, the guy seemed to have a knack for lying. He had already come up with some ideas about keeping people away from the village.
The large area of ex-forest which was now a dark energy toxic wasteland, would be branded as a sight of contagion. And Bai Bo-Xue, now being fairly indestructible had signed up for playing the part of the hapless wanderer who got infected. Adam had planned to do it himself but of course, this would greatly restrict Libby’s movements in the town, making their plan pointless. So Bo-Xue it was.
Brey would dose him up with dark energy shortly before entering the town and make sure his appearance was suitably ghastly. Bo-Xue had offered to do some pretend injuries but of course that would fool no real physician.
They set off as the first rays of morning sunlight hit the village.