Chapter 312: Healer
Another week slipped by, and Arwin spent his time nearly split straight down the middle. Half of it went toward researching how the strange metal that Twelve’s weapons were made out of worked, and the other half went toward preparing for Olive’s upcoming tournament.
The Menagerie had gathered a number of materials for him to work with between Olive and Rodrick’s dungeon runs, and he’d spent a fair amount of time sifting through everything to determine what the best pieces would be.
It got to the point where further preparation would only deliver middling improvements, and Arwin knew they didn’t have forever. Even though the Secret Eye had yet to swing by to tell them exactly what day the Proving Grounds would be held, he knew it was soon.
Rodrick had kept them all updated on just about every rumor that had been spreading around town — and there had been a lot of them. Arwin hadn’t realized quite how much attention was on the Secret Eye’s tournament until he’d been walking through town and overheard to elderly women gossiping over the participants.
This was the time to act. He didn’t want to have to rush through finishing everyone’s armor in the last few days. It was better to have something workable now and to spend any extra time simply polishing it up or making some bonus equipment.
But before Arwin could jump right into making armor, he wanted to see just how Olive, Elias, and Maeve actually fought. It would give him the best insight into what his armor could do for them. After all, there was no point making something that made someone as fast as a bounding cheetah if they could already move like the wind.
And that was how he found himself standing a dungeon for what felt like the first time in months, even though it had truly only been a few weeks since he and the rest of the Menagerie had gone through another dungeon together with Yonas.
But this time, the rest of the Menagerie wasn’t here. He stood in a spacious cave awash in light from rivers of flowing golden veins running through the walls. The only ones with him were Olive, Elias, and Maeve.
Well, them and all the monsters they were killing in the Adept Ranked dungeon.