Chapter 440: Chapter 440

I asked, as we retreated from our hiding place and moved towards one of the labs Anise and Sallia had scouted out during their material gathering expedition.

I thought about what Felix had said, and then I grinned. must touch the bare skin of an enemy in order to work. He vaporized the drop of water, thus ending my extinguish before it hit… but that doesn’t mean we have no chance.>

As one, Felix, Sallia and I all looked at Anise.

Anise thought about it for a few seconds, before she nodded.

said Sallia. are forced to use one, I think Miria’s {Dream of Hunger} should be very effective at handling this guy as well. It would just mean that she wouldn’t have the item available next world, since it only restores itself upon death.>

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need in order to survive in the Market,> said Sallia. do also have the advantage of obviating most of our basic needs. We don’t need food, water, or sleep here. However, this section of the magic academy has a bunch of kitchens specifically equipped with ways to keep students fed and hydrated. Anise and I also ran into some toilets while we were here. Most of the Market isn’t equipped with toilets, because our bodies here don’t need to expel waste… but that is evidently not true for people who travel to the Market without getting a new body here. Most sources of food in the Market itself have been destroyed by monsters and the relentless march of time…>

I blinked in surprise.

I smiled. We had a way forward. After a great deal of thinking, we had finally found a way to potentially win - even against a numerically superior group led by a heroic-grade shooter. Even if our plan still had a lot of holes to fill in, and a lot of potential dangers… it was a real way forward. A hope for the future.

Then, I frowned, as I glanced back towards the ball room. The scavengers weren’t stopping in the ball room, the way I had hoped they would. For several minutes, it had appeared that they were hesitating in the ball room… but as a group, it now appeared that they were moving towards the exit to the ball room.

At first, I thought that they might be looking for us in the entrance hallway to the school - but then, I remembered a conversation we had overheard from the first round of scavengers we had eavesdropped on.

Back then, one of the Scavengers had argued that they had already gotten a pretty good haul from the mark - a splinter of wood from one of the innermost branches of the Universal Tree. Then, the same Scavenger had argued that they should leave the Market now.

We needed the splinter of wood - it might offer the one and only solution to our predicament of being unable to purchase more lives.

But the Scavengers had no obligation to stick around in the Market.

What if they just ran away?