"Have they agreed already?" Eve asked.
Dark nodded. "Bring the contract and a pen, and meet at my club. If you have any other requests, such as adding some popular cards to the deck, you can discuss them with them as well."
"Okay, no problem." Eve immediately perked up.
Right afterward, she followed Dark alone to the Magical Creature Club.
As the intermediary, Dark introduced Eve to Victor and Robert, then stopped involving himself in the matter.
Taking advantage of the lunch break, he soothed the little Gu Huo Bird for a while before entering the "reading room" again to talk with Teddiursa.
Though Shirley Augustine was merely a "caged bird" who had spent years confined within a tower, she was, after all, someone from that era, with firsthand understanding and impressions of it.
Dark did not ask about the details of her life in the Dungeon. Instead, he tried to extract useful information from her memories.
In truth, he was far more interested in that period of history than in Shirley herself.
How had a kingdom that was by no means weak fallen into ruin?
What stirring tales had taken place during its resistance against the Demon Race invasion?
Or perhaps, what unknown secrets did the Northern Kingdom's royal family possess?
Dark had deliberately brought fruit, pastries, and tea in the hopes of prying some juicy gossip out of Shirley.
In fact, the awakening intelligence of Dungeon monsters did not yet qualify as a crisis.
Unless it was confirmed that one of them truly involved a god, the Academy had countless ways to suppress them.
Yet beneath this apparent crisis lay enormous treasures.
Every monster whose memories had awakened was a walking treasure chest.
The memories in their minds were the greatest treasure of all!
Dark had realized