1059. The Young Lady's Companion Storyline Is Updating
While Salifu Shadowblade was "saying goodbye" to his two disciples, another meeting was taking place near the Maginot Line, thirty kilometers from the battlefield. Compared with the grand spectacle on Shadowblade's side, this meeting was much more low-key.
In the shadow of a natural ravine in the Andmar Hills, north of Smugglers' Woods, Happy Stick sat on a rock, polishing his mechanical flail. The Bone-Biter King's greatshield rested close at hand, positioned so Stick Bro could grab it the moment a fight broke out.
But this player bro, always ready for a fight, wasn't the main character tonight. To be precise, Stick Bro was here in the capacity of a "family member."
The real main characters were Melia and Winnie, standing beside Happy Stick.
They were the last members of the Kolando family, and the "honorary leaders" of the Bloodbane Tribe's dwindling Grayclaw faction.
Although the Grayclaw faction's assault on Scarlet Keep had been wiped out by the combined forces of the Blood Eagle Clan and the Thorn Clan long ago, and its leader, Kolando, had died at Andre's hands, the faction had not been completely exterminated.
After spending six to eight months as gladiators in the Blood Rat Gang's arena, more than sixty Grayclaw members were gradually released. They were granted Transian citizenship, but most were disheartened. Some joined the Blood Eagle Clan and muddled through, while those unwilling to join followed Winnie Kolando.
They were now stationed near Baphomet's Great Dungeon, helping Winnie monitor the increasingly active Baphomet cultists inside.
As for Melia Kolando, the blind young woman nicknamed "White Wolf," she had it much easier.
She was Happy Stick's nominal blood descendant and the only blood descendant among the players at present, so she received plenty of special treatment.