"You fucking useless little shit!"

Ordell listens as his creator, Dr. Grub stomps around, yelling at him as he tries not to anger the doctor even more.

"Do you have any ideas how close she was gonna kill me!" Dr. Grub yells. "I promise her that this project would be her best choice she ever made and then comes you!"

"You not only let intruders in and let them escape which means other people nows has some ideas that we exist, people who we don't control, but you also killed our own men and destroyed most of the crystals that were in the storehouse!"

Ordell looks down at the ground.

"The only reason I'm not dead is because Madame Keres was in a good mood and the damage you caused wasn't big enough to cause us any damage," Dr. Grub said calming down.

"However, doesn't mean that you can go on without punishments," Dr. Grub as he went over to a machine. "It seems that you're not strong enough and it just so happen we have gotten the package that we need to make you stronger, Subject - 99."

The doctor then presses some buttons on the machine.

Ordell felt himself being shocked as he screams in pain. When the pain he felt himself being unable to move as a pair of mechanical arms grab and strap him onto an operating table.

Dr. Grub walks over to the operating table, put on some gloves, and was holding an operating knife.

Setting down a bloody knife, Keres raises her hand over a dead body.

"[Rise Dead: Zombie]."

Dark swirls covered the corpse, when the dark swirls were gone, the corpse that was just on the dead was standing.

The zombie's skin was pale, its eyes had no light to them, its throat was slit and the clothes that it wore was bloodied

"Go and wait with the other," Keres order.

The zombie turns around and walks out of the room.

Keres sat back on her chair and lean back. Her servants fill a glass with wine and hand it to her.

"Riverwood huh?" Keres said. "That's where Luther sent his assassins, right?"

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"That is correct, Madame Keres," One of her servants said.

"I see..." Keres said. "Sent some of our agents there, after all, that also happens to be other loose ends are."

"Yes, ma'am."

*In Riverwood*

"This crystal sure is strange..."

Peter observed the crystal as the adventurers and innkeeper stared at him. "I'll need to get an expert to look into this."

He then saw the others looking at him.

"What?" He asks.

"To think you would touch so dangerous..." Lupin said.

"What? You mean this?" Peter holds up the crystal to Lupin.

Lupin back away from Peter. "Hey, keep that away from me!" Lupin yells pointing at the crystal that Peter was holding.

Peter then held out the crystal to the other.

They back away from the crystal out of fear.

"Keep the fucking crystal away from us!" Lester said. "Not after what just happen." Basil nods in agreement.

"And to think you'll stay willing to touch that crystal after what happen," Drake said, hiding behind Basil.

*Flashback*

"...Oh, I have a crystal on me," Cyan said pulling out the blood crystal from his pocket.

"Really? That's good, give to me would ya?" Peter said. He then went to took a sip of his cup of coffee but found that it was empty.

Cyan threw the crystal at Peter.

Peter caught it and then fell to the floor. Everyone rushes to him.

"Peter, what the fuck happened? Did the coffee gave out on you?" Brick asks as he pulls Peter to a sitting position.

"I can't move my body..." Peter weakly said.

"Don't die on us!"

*Flashback End*

"Oh, come on, you can hold this crystal without anything happening to you if you just wear gloves," Peter said holding up his gloved hand.

"Still not risking my life, at all," Lester grumble.

"Agree," Drake said.

Peter shrugged and turned back to examine the crystal. From what he can gather is that the crystal seems to drain someone all of their energy making them too tired to move their body.

And if he put it up to his nose, Peter could smell a faint sense of blood, just like Lupin had said.

He then put the crystal in his pocket and got up. "Anyway, I'm leaving," Peter said putting on his jacket. "If something comes up, I'll tell you. Oh, and if something happens to you guys, contact me as soon as possible." And with that, he left the inn.

"...So, what's are we going to do now?" Cyan asks.

"Well, I don't know about these guys but, I'm just gonna laze around since we got enough money to not to quests for a while," Drake said pointing to his party members.

Basil was ordering an absurd amount of food with Lester stopping him from ordering more food.

"Hey, Hey, stop ordering this amount of food!" Lester said. "You're gonna eat yourself to debt and we saw what happens when you owe Brick money!" He added, looking Cyan.

Right after Cyan got his share, he then went to pay back his debt to Brick, however, Brick has upped the amount Cyan owed him from five gold coins and fifty silver coins to twenty gold coins.

Basil pauses. He then looks at Brick and then at the food he had ordered. Brick walks out of the kitchen carrying plates, he set the place and looks at Basil.

"What else you do want to order?" Brick asks.

"Nothing," Basil replied.

Brick shrug and seated himself next to Lupin, who barely acknowledge that Brick was there with a grunt as he focuses on making something.

Basil went back to eating although at a slower pace.

The six of them just laze around, not doing anything, and just focus on doing their own things.

It was quiet...

...Peaceful as well.