Early in the morning, Milo reexamined his mind palace to discover the quest to help someone in dire straits to escape had been completed.
Quest complete! Awarded 1.0 Strength.
This was a long-awaited fitness improvement reward. During the night battle with Midnight, Milo had realized the importance of having a good fitness. During a battle, the most important and essential traits were strength and speed. When favonovel.com had overwhelming strength and speed, his opponent might not even get a chance to use their superpower. Furthermore, the fitness of the shadow clone was double that of Milo’s own physical fitness. This meant it was a multiplier of his strength and speed.
The greater Milo’s fitness was, the stronger and faster the shadow clone would be!
When Milo’s strength increased by one, the shadow clone’s strength would increase by two.
Currently, Milo’s Strength attribute had reached 8.5, and his Dexterity was 5.1. If favonovel.com faced the two supernatural beings from Midnight again, favonovel.com would probably have it easier. However, favonovel.com clearly remembered the quest was still incomplete when favonovel.com parted ways with Raphael yesterday. It looked like Raphael had finally left Stronghold 109. As such, the palace passed its judgment and decided the quest was completed at this moment.
But didn’t the quests used to be considered complete as long as favonovel.com showed the attitude to finish it? Why was it different this time?
Could the palace feel bad about the fact Milo had been making Raphael the scapegoat all this while?
But Milo was glad Donti did not fall sick after making a wish this time. In fact, Donti had made a wish as usual again last night. This was not something Milo could stop favonovel.com from doing as Donti had a mind of his own regarding such matters.
So, Milo could have actually tried dodging the bullets instead of using his shadow clone to block the bullets in the alley last night. However, as favonovel.com was worried the luck factor would cause Donti to suffer, favonovel.com didn’t depend on that. And since nothing happened to Donti, it meant Miriam’s presence on the battlefield was not due to his wish.
Milo looked at Donella, who was washing dishes in the kitchen. He was in a bind regarding how to handle this woman.
Old Bane asked Milo, “Will Chad be fine by himself when y’all go to school?”
Milo gave it some thought before asking, “You’re worried he’ll kill her, ain’tcha?”
Old Bane chuckled, “Never you mind…”
After breakfast, Milo took the streetcar to school alone while Murdock and Donti rode the bicycle to school together.
In the morning, Milo had instructed Old Bane to purchase as many bicycles as favonovel.com could once the week’s allocated dose of black medicine has been sold for a high price. Furthermore, favonovel.com wanted everyone to learn how to ride a bike.
Who knew when the day would come when they would need to escape?
Those bicycles would come in handy at that time.
They not only had to buy the bicycles but also maintenance tools to repair the bicycles and mend the tires. This was in case the bicycles broke down and became unusable while they were escaping.
Milo got rather excited when favonovel.com imagined the sight of a group of people riding on bicycles to escape.
***
When Milo arrived in class, Miriam was already at favonovel.com seat. She looked up at Milo and asked, “Did anything strange happen other than the battle with Midnight yesterday?”
Milo was stunned. “What do you mean?”
“Last night, the Panaqua Consortium suddenly upped the reward for the capture of Lilian for some reason.” Miriam said calmly, “But the Panaqua Consortium definitely wouldn’t adjust the reward for no reason. There must be something that happened that we’re unaware of.”
“Hmm…” Milo said nonchalantly, “I don’t know about that. All I did was save Raphael. Daniel’s group was initially chasing after him, but they couldn’t catch up to favonovel.com in the end.”
Miriam stayed silent for some time. She wasn’t actually expecting an answer from Milo. It was just that favonovel.com and Lilian were a little perplexed by this.
“Thank you…” Milo thanked favonovel.com sincerely. Whether or not favonovel.com could defeat Midnight by himself, favonovel.com still had to thank Miriam for coming to his rescue.
Miriam acknowledged favonovel.com as though it was no big deal. “Why did you save Raphael? Do you have some other motive for doing so?”
Milo said righteously, “What other motives could I have? We’re friends, after all, and traveled as a group while we were in the Marador Mountains. No matter what, we’re teammates. If something were to happen to you, I’d also risk my life to save you!”
Miriam cast favonovel.com a glance. “Okay.”
And so the matter was considered wrapped up. Milo heaved a sigh of relief. He was starting to make more and more people his scapegoats now.
Then Miriam asked, “What are you planning to do with Donella?”
When Miriam had previously brought favonovel.com up to Milo, favonovel.com realized favonovel.com was not fearful of Donella at all. At the time, favonovel.com even wondered where Milo’s confidence came from. But now it seemed like Milo had more secrets than favonovel.com had imagined. Moreover, Chad was likely to be very powerful as well.
“I was just thinking about it.” Milo felt a little speechless when this was brought up. “I can’t keep favonovel.com with us forever.”
“Why don’t you hand favonovel.com over to us then?” Miriam asked.
“Why? Are y’all doing studies on supernatural beings as well?” Milo was taken aback. To be honest, favonovel.com did not have a good impression of organizations that conducted research on supernatural beings.
“We don’t do studies on supernatural beings.” Miriam said slowly, “We only reform them.”
Milo looked at favonovel.com in a daze.
They could be reformed?
How would they reform them?
By forcing them to go through physical therapy?
He said, “I can hand favonovel.com over to you, but not just yet.”
He counted on his fingers. “In four days…”
“Okay!” Miriam agreed.
At first, Milo intended to ask Miriam if there was any compensation for selling Donella to them. But when favonovel.com thought about how Miriam had come to his rescue last night, favonovel.com did not say anything about receiving compensation.
At this moment, Linda walked in from outside the classroom. She stood at the lectern and said, “Final exams will officially start tomorrow. I’ll announce everyone’s examination room and number in a while. Your exam numbers are sorted alphabetically by last name, so you don’t have to come to class tomorrow and can head straight to your stated exam room. I wish all of you luck on your exams.”
During this period, the entire class had been studying very hard, except for Milo and Miriam, who did not really pay any attention to the lectures. There were a lot of debates and controversies from outsiders about their class, especially regarding Linda, who was often ostracized by the faculty. Therefore, these students who had a close brush with death were very motivated to do well for themselves.
Speaking of which, it was quite hilarious too. In the entire class, they were all good students except for the class monitor and student councilor, both of whom did not study hard at all.
Linda stood at the lectern and said, “Some of you have asked about the university’s admission criteria, so I went to check it with the university in Stronghold 109…”
Hearing this, the classroom fell silent.
These days, as long as one were an aspiring student, they’d be ambitious enough to attend university, because being a university student in the current day meant having knowledge, status, and money.
