Chapter 969 Thirty-six. Margaret

   Pain is the heaviest teacher.

   The gatekeeper who announced the end left, and the lost Kiruat got up and went to the dungeon.

  She wants to know what happened to Margaret.

  Lu Li followed the rest of the Holy Light team and descended under the lower academy, the dark interlayer above the swamp, and got into the caves crisscrossed like anthills, and came to the entrance of the dungeon where they were almost lost.

  The rocks covering the narrow gaps were moved away, and the empty medicine bottle that Margaret had discarded was stuck in the gaps.

  Naxi picked up the medicine bottle and smelled it, and smelled the source from the almost volatilized residual smell: the silent forest.

  Margarita is a dungeon you enter after taking the potion.

  Whoa——

  The rubble fell, and Kiruat approached the narrow gap between the rocks that he had to pass sideways, peeping like a gaze cast from the outside of the house into the house.

   This dungeon is relatively special.

  It is like a fallen leaf, losing the connection with the tree and branches, independent of the closed cave.

   A puddle without a source will eventually dry up - after the lucky Holy Light team found it, they investigated it.

  The monstrosities inhabit this dungeon cave, building human-like villages, strangely peaceful and numb, but violently tearing it apart when invaders show up.

  The only thing that survived was the mindless, clay-like alchemy golem whose existence was ignored by the weird villagers.

   Therefore, the Holy Light Team did not choose to sell the information of this dungeon, but took advantage of this dungeon... and paid a heavy price for it.

  Through the narrow gap, Lu Li saw the twisted, irregular and disgusting ugly village dormant in the dark.

  Houses curved and sharp like wizard huts, and the odious flesh plants swayed and wriggled in the irregular farmland.

  The strangeness of a villager passes by in the cave village.

  Lu Li saw Margaret.

   Soon Kiruat, Jaeger, and Naxi also saw her.

   "She's not dead yet..." Kiruat clenched the rock tightly, and opened his fingernails bloody.

   Margaret was as numb as a wax figure, dressed in the commoner's casual clothes when she went out yesterday, and wandered stiffly and numbly among the houses and farmland with the strange villagers around.

   She became indistinguishable from them.

   "We have to bring her out..." Kiruat murmured.

   "She's dead...now it's just an empty husk manipulated by a monster." Jaeger looked away sadly, preparing to stop Kiruat, who might rush into the dungeon.

   But people in the dark ages are more receptive to the truth—however cruel it may be.

  The sad Kiruat resisted the urge and piled the scattered rocks around his feet into the gap.

  The gap is refilled, and the rubble whose color is integrated into the rock wall is like a simple tombstone standing up.

   Naxi sprinkled potions to cover up the traces of their arrival and returned to the lift.

   Maybe when the Light Team is strong enough, they will come again, destroy the dungeon, and retrieve the remains of their former companions.

  The news of Margaret's death made the lounge quiet.

  The team members no longer disguise the disguise they maintained due to the addition of Lu Li, revealing the real emotions under the surface.

  Margaret's name disappeared from Giant Tree Academy and Light Team. The only symbols of her existence are the memory of the Giant Tree Academy and her bed and relics kept in the lounge.

   "Her family died in the wilderness because she was selected by the Giant Tree Academy for her alchemy talent when she was an apprentice. Once Margaret's dream was to live, she later told me that she hoped to create the top 100 potions in the sequence..."

   In front of the burning fireplace, Kiruat bowed his head, whispering the story of Margaret in the shadows.

   Gradually, the sound became faint until it disappeared.

   "She fell asleep."

   Jaeger said softly: "I'm going to the restaurant to eat something, are you going?"

   "Let's go together, how about you, Lu Li?"

   They looked at Lu Li in front of the fireplace.

"Um."

  Lu Li left his seat, and as he passed Kiruat, he heard a sad whisper like a dream.

   "Margaret..."

   Kiruat's body gradually curled up.

   Lu Li draped the blanket on the armrest over Kiruat and followed Yeager and Naxi out of the lounge.

   "She and Margaret built the Light Squad together...they're best friends."

   Going to the promenade of the restaurant, Jaeger said with a complicated expression.

  He joined the Light Team with Naxi. At least Kiruat and Margaret had known each other at that time.

   "Captain still needs time to recover his emotions. It just so happens that you can get familiar with this place these days."

   Entered the dim and quiet restaurant. At this time, only a few dozen students were scattered around the restaurant to pick and dine.

  A silhouette stood in their way, and he touched Lu Li's chest and luggage: "Mr. Lu Li, we heard about your promotion and hope to invite you to join our team."

  The eyes in the restaurant gradually converged, and there was a whisper about Lu Li.

   "I already have a team." Lu Li said.

   A gloomy man in a silky robe like a veil fell to Jaeger and Nave: "A 'unnamed' squad?"

   "Light Team." Jaeger said coldly.

   "Who cares? Can't see it on the leaderboard at all, and could disband or disappear at any time."

   Jaeger's face suddenly turned gloomy: "If you haven't learned etiquette, I can teach you."

  The blocker had no intention of entanglement with Jaeger, and returned to Lu Li with a cold and clammy smile like a snake: "Please think about it again, Mr. Lu Li. We will make you great again in Giant Tree Academy."

   He didn't stop for a long time, and after he finished speaking, he quietly left like a snake.

   "He does have the capital to say such things. The vice-captain of the third team in the ranking. Did you smell the strange smell mixed with him? Those are some mango ghosts he kept." Naxi said with a complicated expression.

   Feeling the gazes from the students in the cafeteria, he turned his neck uncomfortably.

The    interlude made them not want to stay in the restaurant to continue enjoying the food. Taking some food, including Kiruat's, they returned to the lounge.

   Approaching the door, they saw a letter tucked under the door, written by Your Excellency Lu Li.

  【We look forward to your arrival. Tomorrow night at 12:00, the bloodline team lounge. 】

  【——friends from the library】

   Scanning the information on the letter, Lu Li looked around at both ends of the uninhabited corridor and returned to the lounge.

   Kiruat was awake, leaning absently on the sofa in front of the wood-fired fireplace. Lu Li came in and let her gradually regain focus.

   "I have something to announce." She said, looking at Lu Li: "I decided to give you the position of the deputy captain of the Holy Light team."

   Jaeger and Naf in front of the round table paused slightly, looked at each other, and continued to place food.

   "I've only been promoted to middle school for two days."

   "Time is not the only criterion for judging ability." Kiruat, who was much weaker because of his sadness, said seriously: "And we need your help..."

  Lu Li nodded lightly and accepted the position of vice-captain.

   (end of this chapter)