Chapter 281: Gate Prototype

"I wish they would reach it quickly then so we can use them as frontline soldiers.

Anyway, I came here to tell you to prepare. In a week, we will go there."

"A week? Isn't that too fast? What did you get from your trip?"

"I brought a backup, and I also got some ideas to create secret techniques for you guys. I am sure we are strong enough now."

"A backup? You brought another alien race?" Emily asked with a complicated gaze.

She then added before Alex could reply, "You know when you were gone, William reported to me he was taken by the association president and also had a clash with another species."

Alex didn't feel surprised since he knew it would come sooner or later, but to think it came this fast…

'Is that old fox having some spy in this place'? Alex thought.

Emily dropped her work, her eyes quickly filling with interest. "A human like you? Wait, is my sister-in-law here?"

She then stood up from her chair, her tiredness evaporating in an instant. "Where is she? I want to see her." Sёarᴄh the Nôvel(F)ire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Alex's lips twitched. "If you go like that, you'll just scare her. Let's just meet at dinner later. Don't you need to finish your work?"

But Emily didn't even listen to what Alex said. The next moment, a strong wind blew Alex's hair as Emily left the room with a bam.

Alex watched everything, stupefied. Somehow, he felt like he was transported back to when he was still in high school.

His lips curled into a smile. "What a handful sister I have."

But as he wanted to walk out, his eyes locked onto some of the papers on Emily's table. It was a list of people who passed Olivia's screening to join the guild.

Other than commoners being trained in the academy, they still needed to hire many new hunters quickly to work for them. And the one he saw was one of the candidates.

He took the paper and read all the information. His eyes turned sharp. "Why does this person really look like Alucard? Is it a coincidence?"

Reading it, he didn't find anything weird in the information and decided to leave it alone.

Walking outside, Olivia asked, "What happened with Emily? Why was she so excited?"

"Nothing, I will get her back quickly."

Olivia was confused but didn't ask further. Instead, she used the opportunity to ask, "Will you have some free time tonight?"

"Oh yeah, I just wanted to say that. Let's have dinner together. Tell Quartz, Alice, William, and Zold too." Explore new chapters at m_vl_em_p_yr

"Alright," Olivia replied with a helpless smile as she watched Alex disappear again.

Her golden eyes glinted, showing her complicated expression. But if someone looked carefully, they would realize something odd about it.

Like there was something else.

Alex quickly moved back to check on MingYue and Emily, but on the path, he bumped into Alice.

"You are back. Good, I have something to talk about."

"What is it? Could it not wait?"

"No, it could not. Your assistant Faerith gave me some ideas, but she said she needed to wait for your approval."

"What is that?"

"Let's not talk here. Too many ears."

Alice then pulled his hand toward Faerith's laboratory. In the middle, there was something that looked like a dungeon gate but was different.

"Don't tell me you are trying to make a portal to return to your place?" Alex asked.

"Yes, of course, there are some limitations, but you don't need to worry about it."

"How safe is it, Faerith?"

"Well, at worst, we will just make a small black hole."

Alex's lips twitched. "You say it so simply. How could you even make this anyway?"

Alice smirked, then raised her hand. A golden dust appeared, moving around like a wisp before it disappeared. Looking back at the portal, Alex realized there were many golden lines carving through the portal.

Faerith's eyes lit up. "This fairy dust is quite miraculous, Alex.

We can use it to enhance many reactions. I don't know how, but it just works best as a catalyst."

"And the best idea you have is to try to carve space? How do you even do it?

I know the theory says if you create an immense level of gravity, it will make space collapse and create a tunnel, but in that case, how do you choose where the tunnel is connected?"

"That is easy. I have a way to feel where my homeland is. It's very far away, but I can tell the direction."

Alex looked at the gate-like portal. He put his finger on his chin, then shook his head.

"No, this is too dangerous. What if the portal opens to another dimension instead?

Rather than that, Alice, do you already want to go home? You just left for a short time."

"It's not that. I just want to send some resources back. Do you forget what you did?" Alice reminded Alex that her world couldn't regenerate resources anymore.

"In that case, we could just send it directly through the dungeon. Didn't you read about it?"

"I know, but that is even more risky. If we enter through the dungeon, who knows what kind of being might put an eye on us."

Hearing Alice's reasoning, Alex found it weird.

"I don't get it. Last time, the others and I entered through it. Just what is the real reason you want another entrance to your world?"

"Forget it then." Alice changed the topic and left the place, further confusing Alex.

"Faerith, I need more explanation."

"I also don't know. It's just that when we discussed the theory of how dungeon gates work, she came up with the idea to make the gate."

'If she met with that creature's eyes, I bet she wouldn't dare to try this,' Alex thought.

This is the real reason he didn't want to test the gate system. He looked at it once more, then put it into his storage ring.