Luck is a Charm

"This lowly servant is wrong to target Zen as I believed that he would want to get revenge against Daemon Kaiso," Stuart said with sweat dripping down on his forehead.

It was true that he wanted to mess with Zen a little bit since he was jealous of him when Evie kept paying attention to him. However, he has no intention of allowing Zen to be killed under any circumstances because he can imagine his fate to be worse than Edmund if Evie ever found out about it.

Evie merely glanced at Stuart before turning around and said, "I know you were just a little petty without any other malicious intent on Zen. But that does not permit you to be free since you have done something that I do not like."

And she continued, "Therefore, you must go and capture other males in other kingdoms that have terrible conduct in their life for the experiment. Remember, I do not wish for another incident like this again, do you understand me?"

"Stuart understands and shall do his best to complete your experiment," Stuart said respectfully and heaved a sigh of relief that he avoided Evie's rage.

Stuart swore in his mind that he would never do something evil toward Zen because it is clear as day that Evie's concern toward Zen is higher than anything else.

Although he wasn't sure why Evie was obsessed with Zen, he was sure there are some connections between them and he does not wish to pry any further otherwise, losing his life would be the least worrying factor.

"You will go do your punishment after this is over. It won't be long anyway since this has been going on forever that I've gotten bored of it already." Evie said softly and Stuart left the scene afterward.

Stuart needed to increase the difficulty of this challenge and spawned more magical beasts for the participant to gather enough points and at the same time, capture more suitable candidates for the experiment.

The main point of this farce was to get enough people for their testing in their new experiment where they would implant a demon core into their body, hoping it would create a new type of power that has never been seen before.

After all, when Evie saw Zen and sensed he had two cores, she knew it was possible to have two cores in a person's body and have them work together, creating a new profound power.

"As expected of you to be able to create a new technique despite reincarnating into another world. In the end, you still came back, and stronger than before." Evie mumbled softly as she admired Zen on the projection screen.

Sometime later, Angela, Morgan Pelora, and Daphne Camellia woke up and stared at Evie for an explanation for putting them to sleep.

"You don't have to stare at me like that as I wanted to exercise a bit more so I decided to fight them all alone." Evie shrugged her shoulders, unwilling to give them any hints of what happened previously.

Angela was still suspicious since there wasn't a reason for putting them to sleep if she wanted to fight alone. They could have simply watched from the side and helped her out if there were any mishaps.

"Is that so huh? Then what is our next plan." Morgan Pelora spoke since she knew that Evie does not want to talk about what happened.

Instead of pressuring her to reveal something that she's unwilling, she would rather linger on the current important task: to gather 1000 points and leave this forest.

"We will meet up with a certain group and work together with them," Evie said softly and continued on.

"You know that person really well so you don't have to act nervously since he is a reliable ally despite his shameless and scoundrel display."

When Evie finished her word with 'shameless scoundrel', Angela and Daphne Camellia already guessed who they're meeting.

"Zen," Both Daphne Camellia and Angela shouted aloud at the same time.

Meanwhile, Morgan Pelora raised her eyebrow slightly in surprise as she remembered a particular scene previously.

Morgan Pelora glanced at Daphne Camellia and smiled as she exclaimed, "Didn't you and Zen have an agreement to have an alchemist face-off? I'm interested to see who would win this alchemy battle."

Daphne Camellia tilted her head slightly on Morgan Pelora's word before recalling the scene where Zen deliberately messed with her whenever she wanted to buy an item in the auction house so she had enough of him and asked for a duel.

"Hmph, he's going to lick my shoe because I never lost in alchemy before." Daphne Camellia sneered as she does not believe a scoundrel like Zen could possibly have knowledge regarding alchemy.

"I remember someone always losing to me in alchemy and regarded me as a rival." Morgan Pelora said when she saw Daphne Camellia returning to her ego and prideful expression.

Daphne Camellia twitched her mouth slightly at the teasing she did. Clenching her fist tightly, she exclaimed inwardly, 'Just you wait Morgan Pelora! When I defeat you in alchemy, I will make you lose face and humiliate you.'

"Alright, enough of you two since the result would only be out when you two compete against each other." Evie intervened as she had a headache from dealing with these two women.

Evie stared at the sky briefly before sighing as she rather tortures people than do this kind of tedious work again. 

'Babysitting was not fun.' Evie sighed inwardly as she proceeded to walk toward a tree. Afterward, she injected some of her mana into it and a magic circle appeared in the ground.

The women were dumbfounded by the sudden teleportation array from a tree and they had many questions in their mind but didn't dare to say them aloud. Evie was full of mystery and she had never liked it when someone pried into her secret.

Thus, they simply looked at each other before walking to the center of the array with Evie and vanished from the spot.