170 Dekan’s Classic Fishing Operation
“Very well, Marquis.”
Countess Lislinna bowed to Morion like a professional maid, then went to the lord’s bedroom to wake up the unconscious lord and gave him a series of instructions.
Then she quickly led the retainers to the first floor.
Soon, the lord, like a servant, respectfully led Dekan and the other two to a suite no less luxurious than the lord’s bedroom.
After the three entered the room, they all collapsed in their respective spots.
Dekan and Cornelia, as usual, leaned against the sofa, while Morion sat at the desk.
“Not bad, still a qualified hotel manager.”
Dekan whispered in admiration.
However, at this moment, Teacher Cat emerged from Dekan’s shadow after confirming they were in a safe area.
It quickly ran to the desk where Morion was sitting, pulled out a piece of paper, and used magic to control the pen, scribbling on the paper.
After finishing, it showed the content on the paper to the other three.
It read:
“Are you all crazy! Are you really going to take advantage of this Countess? What if she finds out and things go south, what then?!”
Morion, sitting at the desk, took the pen from Teacher Cat and wrote on the paper:
“Not fully utilizing her remaining value before using her up would be too wasteful, wouldn’t it?”
After all, it was still troublesome to find and capture the remaining challengers.
If only this Countess could contribute more value before she’s taken out.
During the daytime, once the Countess and her retainers step out of the building and are exposed to sunlight, their combat effectiveness would decrease to one-tenth of what it normally is.
It could be said that they wouldn’t be able to escape even if they wanted to, leaving them at the mercy of Dekan and his group.
Teacher Cat gradually came to terms with the plan.
After all, they had already spent a night of terror in the Mansion while being kept in the dark by Dekan, so there was nothing to fear now.
“But can we really capture the resurrection cultists tonight?”
Teacher Cat wrote on the paper.
Morion didn’t explain much but instead took the paper and pen and stood up, walking over to hand them to Dekan, who was sprawled out on the sofa.
Dekan took the paper and pen with obvious satisfaction.
Clearly, Morion knew exactly what he wanted to do.
Dekan then proceeded to write on the paper:
“Mission Objective 2: Defeat Countess Lislinna. If this mission fails, after the mission deadline, Countess Lislinna will be teleported to a random coordinate in the challenger’s original world.”
However, nothing happened after he finished writing.
Soon, Dekan began writing again.
“Mission Objective 2: Find and defeat Countess Lislinna…”
Still using the enumeration method.
The general mission objective was already clear, and the only difference was the wording.
Once the true name of the Countess was known, the mission content was easy to guess.
As for why Mission Objective 2 didn’t show up earlier when Dekan’s group encountered Lislinna,
The reason was simple.
They lacked a rigorous investigative process and reasoning steps; the Shadow World couldn’t judge whether they had truly confirmed the identity of the final strong enemy.
If the Shadow World refreshed the information directly, it would be equivalent to helping the challengers confirm and verify the identity of the final strong enemy.
This was the consequence of skipping too many steps.
Even the Shadow World couldn’t determine whether it should display the hidden mission.
However, with knowledge of the sentence structure for Mission Objective 3, Dekan didn’t take long to successfully try out the correct answer:
[Mission Objective 2: Investigate the bloodline’s conspiracy and find Countess Lislinna hiding in the city and defeat her. If this mission fails, after the mission deadline, Countess Lislinna will be teleported to a random coordinate in the challenger’s original world.]
Meanwhile, the other challengers also received this prompt.
“Ho ho ho…”
Dekan couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
Surely at this moment, the operation of fishing enforcement by Countess Lislinna had also begun.
The greedy resurrection cultists, seeing the Shadow World’s refreshed prompt, would certainly think that at this very night, someone had succeeded in making significant progress on Mission Objective 2!
They might even think they were about to complete the mission.
When they just saw the Shadow World’s prompt indicating that the ultimate strong enemy was “Countess.”
They also discovered that there was a group of knights patrolling the city, chasing an injured and weakened female vampire.
What would they think?
Without a doubt, the opportunity to earn credit by finishing off stragglers had come.
This was a chance right before their eyes to increase the rewards after the settlement of the Shadow World.
They wouldn’t doubt it was a trap.
Colluding between humans and vampires was possible, but setting up a scheme.
It was impossible for either the humans or the vampires to collude with the Shadow World!
After all, the Shadow World’s prompt must be objectively reliable.
The knights chasing the vampire were from a legitimate militia of the city-state.
The resurrection cultists who noticed this wouldn’t pass up such an opportunity, they would inevitably rush up to provide support.
Attempting to capture the vampire.
Then they would be disappointed to find that this was not the Countess they were looking for, but only one of her retainers.
However, very quickly, the knights would tell them again, saying there was an urgent matter with substantial rewards that the lord wanted them to discuss, along with intelligence related to the Countess.
Next, they would be taken to the lord’s residence and ambushed.
There would no escape.
“Thank you, Shadow World. Your public announcement is really useful.”
Dekan wrote another sentence beside the correct answer.
Although he wasn’t sure if the Shadow World could see it.
But he had already begun to look forward to his evaluation during the settlement.
Seeing that Dekan had finished, Morion took back the paper and pen.
Then Morion wrote on the paper:
“Alright, it’s time to rest. Teacher Cat and I will take the first watch, you two will take the second.”
He showed this to Dekan and Cornelia sprawled out on the sofa.
Dekan was a bit puzzled.
(Shouldn’t Morion and I be one group, and Cornelia and Teacher Cat be another?)
Dekan wanted to say something, but Morion had no intention of giving him the pen and paper.
And Teacher Cat jumped onto Morion’s head as if determined to be grouped with him.
(When did you develop such a good relationship with this old fox…)
Dekan wanted to complain.
But it seemed that their pet cat had its own ideas.
He could only feel powerless.
Dekan and Cornelia exchanged a glance.
They didn’t dwell on it too much.
And they both slept on either sides of a wide bed.
Then they both fell asleep quickly.
After confirming the two were asleep,
Morion and Teacher Cat began to confer.
Morion sat at the desk, and Teacher Cat lay on the desk, scribbling.
It began one-on-one tutoring, recapping the plot that Morion missed.
These were all stories that it had asked Cornelia while being with her.
“The first chapter begins with the encounter between a young man and a young woman. At that time, they were two individuals, wrong, back then Cornelia was still human, but Dekan was hardly human anymore…”
