Chapter 639 - Opportunity (8)

"Are you kidding me?" Ethan stared at the newly grown herbs.

The mediator had mentioned a new set of herbs would be replaced once they were picked after two hours. Once we finished our usual round, I brought them back to the first section. Since these herbs were supposedly precious, we were lacking workers to help us. Although the pace of collecting the herbs increased, everyone was starting to get overworked. Meanwhile, I checked up on them every now and then between synthesizing the items together.

"I'll give you a few herbs to take with you," I tried to reward him.

"We need more workers!" Ethan complained.

"Do you think I can recruit more people like the smoothies? You're the one who said these worthless pieces of grass were legendary!" I pointed out.

"Oliver knows about the disposable potions. He should know the collection method for the worthless grass!" Ethan suggested a candidate.

At this point, no one disagreed the legendary herbs appeared like common grass. The rare and precious elixirs resembled disposable potions, more useless than the drinks we created for the club. The truly precious items were the ones I managed to successfully merge together, the mediator allowing me to keep the final results for myself. I was surprised some of them were mainly for beauty and others for health.

However, I have failed all my attempts even with Micah's guidance. The difficulty level increased more than double, replacing the hunts. I started to feel guilty when Micah wondered if his teaching skills were the problem. He dejectedly returned to the fairy world, going through his connections for more help. When another fairy joined to teach me the process, she ended up going on a journey to find her new identity. Apparently, she was a teacher at a prestigious academy in another dimension.

"He should be busy hosting his own event," Alex refused.

"You don't know this since you've never experienced this before. We need more workers," Ethan argued.

"You've done this before?" Alex was surprised.

"Almost everyone inside the club building was slaved to work for her before," Ethan exaggerated.

"I have a better slave with me. He shouldn't be busy as Oili," I sighed.

I began to call Charles, someone who owed me a favour for getting rid of Kristie. Unexpectedly, he immediately picked up the call inside Ethan's mansion as one of its sub-hosts. Fortunately, none of us were attending social week anymore, including Ethan. Flora had enough support with most of the sub-hosts coming from Haruka's cancelled events. Luke had already notified my friends I was alive, resolving the misunderstanding.

"Can you come here right now? This is for that favour a few weeks ago," I gave him the location.

"I'm going to come right now, let me tell the others first," Charles was eager to get it over with.

I ended the call, Ethan satisfied with the new worker I was bringing. Although Luke seemed a bit taken aback, Alex knew we were close since we wanted to overthrow Haruka. Alex pressured his connections to cancel their business deals with Haruka's family. He surprised Charles, being more merciless than anyone inside the group chat. When a hover car drifted down near the garden a few minutes later, I waved to Charles to come to join us.

"What am I supposed to be doing this time?" Charles stared at our messy hands.

"Do you know the collection method for these supposedly legendary herbs? We need to collect them," I briefly summarized.

"Why is this in your garden?" He turned to Alex.

"You may want to change, we don't have enough hands right now," Ethan instantly ȧssigned himself as his superior.

"We don't have time, you can ask questions later," I agreed with Ethan.

"I get it," Charles was used to the way I worked.

Within a few minutes, Charles blended in with the rest of them. His suit was gone and replaced with his normal set of semi formal clothes. To make sure he was working properly, I stayed to supervise the team. I shouted at him to motivate him, "you need to increase your pace. You'll take forever at his rate!"

"Recruit more people!" Charles resembled Ethan.

"Why do you have these worthless pieces of grass in your garden?" He grumbled.

"Rika is right, you need to work harder," Ethan ordered him.

"Call Oliver, he's easy to convince," Charles suggested.

"You really need to recruit more people. Rika forces people to work even when they're unable to move," he turned to Alex and Luke.

"You worked with Rika before?" Luke discovered.

"Almost everyone in our circle worked under her before," Charles recalled the secret storage room.

"Don't be surprised when you won't be able to sleep for several nights," he stared at the herbs.

"Oili is too nice for his own good. He doesn't deserve to suffer with us," I watched them.

"He'll just consider it as another one of our club activities," Ethan tried to persuade me.

"If you manage to meet these thresholds, I will consider it," I set the goals.

"I have clearly warned you," Ethan blamed Luke and Alex.

"Do you think we could just bring anyone here?" Alex defended himself.

"Who wants these worthless pieces of grass anyways? You're going to regret it later," Ethan mumbled.

"I already let everyone else know I won't be attending social week anymore," Charles agreed.