Chapter 74: Zarian’s Six Options
Zarian watched as Naomi and Gilbert kept their mouths shut, which was wise of them. Bianca, of course, didn’t sense the tension in the air.
She bounced giddily and threw her hand up. “Surprise! It was my idea!”
Then Bianca furrowed her brow. “Wait, how did you know? You’ve been gone for three days! Naomi was about to take on the entire Hemlock Family.”
“I really was,” Naomi admitted.
“I was tracking a few gangs and underworld groups with spectral spiders. Then me and Hannah got tossed as a sacrifice into a Rare Level 40 Dungeon, but once we got back, I saw through my spiders that you’ve left the underworld filled with crushed or charred corpses.”
“You were in a Rare Level 40 Dungeon?” Naomi blurted out. “No fair!”
“Naomi, relax girl, relax. Let me speak before Bianca messes this up.” Gilbert sighed, his hand massaging the bridge of his nose. “This all started because Bianca was worried over some bad hombres aiming to hurt the beggars you’ve helped.”
Zarian wanted to scold them for doing something that would throw the entire alignment ecosystem out of whack. But he hesitated.
His evil alignment wanted him to correct them for thinking they could act without his say. That would’ve been too controlling, of course. Zarian hated the idea of being a micromanager just as much as he hated the NCOs who’d done that to him back in the Marines.