Chapter 1959: The Italian Side Job -Part 4
"User, what are you doing?" The System said that Jin had returned to the Dungeon Maker Instance to have not only a change of clothes that did not seem to have the purpose of staying at home. They were clothes filled with defence inscription charms. He was also looking at the list of monster minions which were available to summon.
(Although he could summon anyone, he tried not to disturb those who had work.)
It was at that point, that the System felt that something was wrong and wanted to stop the User from doing anything rash. "It"s a side job, right? And since I am not being paid, I might as well do it right now." Jin said as he made sure Bam and Boo were in tip top condition.
"Are you really not going to wait for the other Demon Exorcist to keep track of the area? From the last we saw in the operations folder, the Colosseum is currently under heavy surveillance due to the nature of its location. If you go now, you will be disrupting the daily operations."
"I will get it done during the night, just as how we did it previously with Lian. Huh, maybe I should take Lian with me as well." Jin said and the System seems to disapprove of its User"s actions.
"What is the rush?" The System queried and Jin merely shrugged his shoulders. "I have nothing better to do right now. Might as well clear this, since this job is free of charge. Then those Demon Exorcists in Rome do not have to be so wary that things can go to s.h.i.+t. Do we always have to wait until trouble brews and then we start the fire fighting process?"
"User might be right, but this is a foreign country we are talking about. Doing things that are not within our jurisdiction would be a pain in the b.u.t.t and a ha.s.sle to go through. User might have a relations.h.i.+p with Demon Exorcist Italian Branch Head Sir Diego but that does not mean it is a free ticket to do whatever you want."
"Then it"s time we go even more incognito as to our usual "masking" behaviours." Jin chuckled and it was at that point, that the sinister lead supporter came in to fan the flames. "My dear boy. I like your thinking so much that I cannot help but wonder if you are truly going to do this without me!" Kraft said as he enjoyed the fact that Jin was "breaking" the rules.
"Get the Nine Foxes. Let"s do this quickly and we might be able to finish this faster than expected." Jin said and Kraft felt like he had heard the instruction he had been waiting for the longest time ever.
"One dead Void Being coming right up~!" Kraft said as he snapped his fingers and within a second interval, all of them appeared. Black Foxes Tsu and Kai, White Fox Itori, Pink Fox Evon, Orange Fox Ixel, Red Fox Ixa, Pink Fox Pei, Purple Fox Kiyu, and lastly Kraft"s brother in arms, Rex. All of them reported their presence regardless of the work they were holding.
The System was speechless as these foxes held key appointments in Demopolis and with the fusion of Demopolis, Seven Cities as well as Pandapolis, they had a lot of work in their hands and yet Kraft and Jin had shamelessly called them out.
"Let"s go for a mini excursion or you could say a quick break from work." Kraft clapped his hand once to show his excitement. Some of the foxes seemed resigned at the fact that they were being called not for an emergency but for the whims of their old master. And yet inside them, there was also a sense of relief that overwhelmed them.
It had been a long time since they had a quick getaway from their ever piling mess of doc.u.ments and folders.
They too wanted a break but never had the excuse to do so. Although it would have been better that they allocated and scheduled a time together to go out, they felt that it was impossible considering everyone"s schedule was all over the place. It did not take long to understand that it would never happen to get everyone to sit down and get a timing together.
That was why Kraft"s method, while effective in allowing them to have a breather, was not exactly the best way to handle the situation. Still, they were overall happy to have a meet together with not just the rest of the foxes as well as Jin.
It was at that point Rex realised that this might be the perfect opportunity to talk about the issues of the fusion of Pandapolis alongside other cities to make a Mega Pandapolis City just as the System had talked about ages ago on how there were various City Levels that they were able to become.
To that point, it seemed like all the other Foxes also had the very same idea as Rex since before they opened their mouth to talk, almost everyone sent a telepathic message through the System Channel to ask Rex (in their group) to see if it was advisable to discuss with Jin about moving forward for the state of Pandapolis.
Rex was pleasantly surprised by the thoughts of every single fox on site to think the same as him and it was also at that point where he felt this quick excursion might be the perfect opportunity to not only relax but also make sure that whatever issues they were facing can be explained to Jin in person when he had been absent from the Pandapolis scene for the longest time ever.
Kraft was also in that System chat group even though he had placed it on mute but the sudden surge of activity had piqued his interest to have a peek at it only to realise that everyone was not talking about how terrible this timing was or the irritating fact that they had to accompany Jin and Kraft to go for this free "side job".
Everyone was bustling in on what was the priority of items that needed to be said to Jin during the fight and Kraft almost burst into laughter upon seeing the chat group. That was when he a.s.sisted the Nine Foxes by opening his mouth and asking the suggestion of having a meeting during this fight.
"Meeting? What meeting are you talking about?" Jin asked as he was a little confused about Kraft"s intentions.
"You do know that you have been so busy with other stuff, you kind of miss out on Pandapolis, Demopolis and the Seven Cities that had your name as Lord in it, right?"
"Well, I did not exactly be the lord of the Seven Cities but yes I get your point. You want a meeting now rather than fighting the Void Being?" Jin asked as he was still a little perplexed by the situation.
"No, no. It is more like we go to fight the Void Being with you but at the same time, discuss the things that need to be done as well as an update. After all, the decision of combining all 9 cities into one major city region or Megalopolis is a rather big issue to undertake by ourselves." Rex commented.
"Megalopolis is rather an overstatement in my opinion." Pei interrupted and the others laughed as they knew that if they got into an argument now, nothing was going to move.
"I think I am fine with discussing the matters of the Pandapolis as it would not be an issue. I mean, we should technically make short work of the Void Being with all 9...erm all 11 of us combined together, right?"
"Then, let"s have a quick warm up session and get the meeting start up as soon as possible." Rex said and the others agreed to it readily. For the first time, the System also believed that Jin might be able to clear the Void Being and make it under its control quickly considering the amount of power he currently possessed in this current team which he wished to field.
Initially, the System thought that he would be wasting resources and time by using the lower "powered" minions to do the job of killing the Void being but now that the System saw Jin was not doing that and instead performing the opposite by deploying the strongest few in his repertoire of minions.
Not only that, but the User was also taking this opportunity to clear all the outstanding issues of the Dungeon World, the System believed that this free of charge trip might actually be worth more than it was supposed to be.
However, as optimistic as the System wished for the situation to stay this way, they have no information on Spartakus with the exception of what Farasha had warned. The only difference was that based on the a.n.a.lysis of Farasha"s warning, they might only have touched the surface of the problem and not the entirety of it.
The System could only hope that it would be a smooth journey without major hiccups.