Clorinde Joins the Team, and an Unexpected Delight

"Just her alone... Hmm, it would be better to bring Clorinde too!" Wu Wanghai coughed awkwardly and mentioned someone who had left a deep impression on him.

It wasn't that he underestimated her. Her combat experience and abilities were surely better than his.

But even with her, the team would only have three people. That was too few.

"Clorinde..." Furina pondered for a moment before nodding. "That works. With Clorinde around, we'll be able to handle danger easily even if we run into it."

"Then where is she?" Wu Wanghai asked.

"I'm not sure about that..." Furina shook her head. Clorinde usually...

Furina's words and thoughts suddenly came to a halt, because she saw Wu Wanghai pull out something all too familiar.

A loudspeaker!

Furina cried out, "What are you doing~?"

Thankfully, Furina didn't go "ow."

"That's right, finding people is what I'm best at!" Wu Wanghai waved the loudspeaker in his hand.

"There's no need, because I've arrived as well." At that moment, a cool voice came from the doorway. Clorinde gave Neuvillette a slight look, which counted as a greeting.

"Ah! Clorinde, we were just talking about you, and then you showed up!" Furina was delighted.

Clorinde gave a brief explanation. "I was taking a walk earlier and happened to see the Melusine beside Lord Neuvillette leading Chevreuse into Palais Mermonia. I thought something troublesome might have happened."

"Good, good, good!" Wu Wanghai clapped his hands. This was fate. His luck was incredible.

After clapping, Wu Wanghai looked at Neuvillette, who looked back at him and indicated that he could do as he pleased.

"Ahem, so here's what happened." Wu Wanghai then gave them a simple account of the matter.

"What? There's water this dangerous?" Chevreuse looked incredulous. She looked toward Neuvillette and the Hydro Archon, only to find that neither said anything. Perhaps it really existed.

This was truly serious. And the mastermind behind the serial missing girls case they had been searching for all these years had appeared?

Clorinde's expression turned grave as well. "Then there's no time to lose. Before the suspect is on guard, take us there quickly!"

"Let's go, let's go!" Wu Wanghai stopped wasting words and prepared to set off with Clorinde and Chevreuse.

Then he suddenly paused and realized Furina had not followed.

He reached out and grabbed Furina's arm. "Don't just stand there either."

"Hey, hey! Stop pulling, stop pulling. Since you've found him, you can just go. I'll wait here for the results!" Furina truly did not want to get involved in anything related to fighting, especially after hearing that there would be a bunch of mechanical guards there.

"No, you have to come witness it with me!" Wu Wanghai firmly refused.

"Honestly! I'm a god! So stop pulling me already, I'll go with you on my own." Furina spoke as Wu Wanghai dragged her to the main doors.

Leading the three of them out of Palais Mermonia, Wu Wanghai saw the Statue of The Seven and suddenly slapped his hand.

He had panicked himself silly. He had actually been thinking of taking them there on foot.

He could just teleport them there, even if the place wasn't that far away.

"Get ready, because in the next instant, we'll be underwater." As he spoke, Wu Wanghai took Furina's hand and went first.

The next instant, Wu Wanghai and Furina appeared at the underwater teleport waypoint.

Wu Wanghai gave Furina a thumbs-up, then vanished.

A few seconds later, Wu Wanghai appeared beside Furina with the astonished Clorinde and Chevreuse.

A water bubble appeared before Chevreuse's face. Clearly, she still hadn't fully trusted Wu Wanghai and hadn't been prepared.

But in the next instant, Chevreuse adapted to the underwater environment.

Clorinde, on the other hand, remained perfectly composed.

Wu Wanghai raised a hand and pointed somewhere.

With three splashes, three graceful figures leaped from the water onto the shore.

Then Wu Wanghai poked his head out of the water and climbed ashore as well.

"Is this the place?" Chevreuse swiftly surveyed the surroundings.

"Yes." Wu Wanghai nodded, then looked at the three women whose clothes had been soaked by Hydro.

He clicked his tongue inwardly. This was why he disliked Fontaine's clothing sometimes. It was too thick and completely opaque.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Crackle! Crackle!

Overloaded! Overloaded! Knockback.

Electro-Charged, Electro-Charged, Vaporize.

Ahead, Clorinde and Chevreuse fought with blade and gun in hand, while Wu Wanghai and Furina stood in the distance clapping and shouting "666."

This is the joy that co-op brings me!

As he thought this, Wu Wanghai unleashed his skill on the battlefield again. The large Slime that had just died could fire water cannons again.

This is the joy of being a summoner.

It was simply amazing.

"You're still holding the Splendor of Tranquil Waters I gave you, so why aren't you going up there to fight too?" Furina, who was slacking off, grew a little angry as she watched Wu Wanghai slacking off beside her. This guy was holding her weapon and doing nothing.

"Come on, I'm staying close to protect Fufu~" Wu Wanghai grinned sheepishly at Furina.

"Hmph." Furina turned her head away, her cheeks slightly red. "Then you'd better protect me properly!"

Bang! As the last mechanical guard collapsed, the battle ended.

Then Chevreuse casually fired a normal shot at the mechanism in the center, and the platform where the four of them stood began to rise.

"But I really didn't expect Chevreuse to have a Vision too, and to be this powerful." Wu Wanghai looked at Chevreuse in the distance, her purple hair flowing. He had truly underestimated this girl.

"Of course! She's Fontaine's pride. How could someone from the Special Patrol not be impressive?" Furina became proud again.

There was just one regrettable thing. He had formed a party of four with Lyney and his siblings, then another party of four with Clorinde and Chevreuse.

Why hadn't he felt any team bonus? Was it because fighting monsters in reality had no party size limit, so there was no bonus...

They fought monsters all the way and had a great time. Whenever they passed through an area, the two experienced fighters at the front made short work of every battle.

And he didn't even need to activate mechanisms or solve puzzles himself.

His role was simply to use a skill whenever a Fontemer Aberrant Crab appeared, then help blow open the mechanisms.

Following them through twist after twist, they activated the mechanisms, went farther inside, and finally jumped into a deep chamber.

Before long, they entered an open area lined with bookshelves and piled high with treasure chests.

At that moment, a middle-aged man in brown clothes and glasses appeared in the distance.

The man looked over, and his pupils began to tremble. He had never expected three such important figures to appear here, including Chevreuse, captain of Fontaine's Special Patrol!

This place had been exposed!

Without another word, the middle-aged man turned and ran. His latest experiment had failed again, and that girl had turned into a puddle of water.

The man had been thinking about finding his next target when he never expected anyone to come here. He was utterly flustered.

If they searched this place, everything would be exposed!

Damn it!!! He was only one step away. Why? Why! Why!!!

Destroying the evidence was impossible.

He had to escape while they had not yet found the evidence, then find another opportunity...

"Stop! Don't run!!!" Chevreuse shouted and sprinted after the suspicious man.

This person had turned and run the moment he saw them. There was obviously something fishy going on!!!

Bang! Chevreuse decisively fired a warning shot by the man's feet.