Chapter 223

Han smiled at her expression while cleaning out a cup with a rag. He has been practicing how to mix drinks and he figured out that this bartender thing wasn’t so bad. With how many drinks he has been mixing all this time he was surely nothing less than a professional now!

“Remember what I said about the upper floors, okay. You know, if you go up there and die, I’ll be pissed. You’re the only hope for this Temple so please try to be a careful”

Yuuma said this in a cold tone, and she looked up at Han from under her hair. She wanted Han to know just how important this was. He cannot just die up there! She expected Han to be serious too, but a silly smile broke across his face as he destroyed the atmosphere completely!!

“Wow, you’re getting soft on me. Don’t tell me you care about me now, Yuuma. I’ll start thinking you’re falling in love if you aren’t careful!”

Han leaned forward on the counter and looked Yuuma right in the eye and she narrowed her eyes at the cocky smirk he gave her. This man is a bully! She is trying to give him good advice and he is just making fun of her!? He is so annoying I could just... Just...

Han’s eyes widened in surprise as Yuuma suddenly leaned forward and her lips slammed into his own. She tasted like alcohol. Strong and concentrated alcohol!! But she was also soft and sweet. Han grabbed the back of her hair roughly and deepened the kiss before she could pull away. Once the two of them separated, Yuuma couldn’t look Han in the eyes! She just wished him good luck once more before disappearing up the stairs to sleep.

Han looked down at the counter. She forgot her drink?

“Sorry! Sorry!! I left this!!”

Han laughed as Yuuma rushed back down the stairs and threw the rest of her drink down her throat in one gulp before rushing back up again! She didn’t even look at him in the eyes once while she was moving! Did she think he would tease her or something? How cute!

Han had a lot of respect for Yuuma because of what she was doing for her people. She is doing her best to fight for her race, all by herself even with all the dangers outside there and she is even putting her trust in me. I won’t let her down that easily.

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The scientist heard the man hum and he wondered what was going on inside his mind.

The man at the head of the table could see that Han had good stats. For someone who just came to the Temple, stats like these were impressive! It was almost like this man was one of the strongest on the lower floors! He even reached floor fifty already! But I don’t think it will be good for him to keep going, with stats like these, he will die on those higher floors. Wouldn’t it be better to just give someone who will die to the scientist instead?

The scientist spoke up when he saw the man thinking deeply

“I think he will be a good addition to my experiments. He grows at a fast rate and he might help us to make better systems in the future”

The man nodded along. Yes, that is possible. For someone like Han to become this strong was very impressive. Especially since he is only human!

“Okay, I’ll tell the creator that you want to go to the Temple and retrieve this man. Will you be needing your real body or not?’

The scientist felt like laughing! Why the hell will he need his real body to handle Han!? Even if it was Han’s real stats they were looking at, it still wasn’t up to sixty percent of his power! Using his real body will be overkill! But wouldn’t it be better to be safe than sorry? I don’t know what sort of trick Han has up his sleeve. He could have a boost that temporarily increases his strength. Even if he can’t kill me, I still don’t want him getting away. I’ll just take my body and keep it to one side for now.

“Yes, I’ll need my real body. Maybe the creator can even help me remove the restraints on it. Since I will be on the higher floors, I don’t think anybody will get injured from my presence”

The real bodies of the Celestials were always kept separate from the ones they used to move around. The creator also put restraints on it whenever they go to the Temple with their real body to prevent their full power from destroying everything around them, but if it is the upper floors then it should be fine.

The man nodded once before he vanished into thin air.

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Han and Gregory were back on the fiftieth floor the next day. Han told Gregory that where they were going was extremely dangerous. It was a place where Gregory couldn’t afford to pull his punches. If you run into anything that even flinches in a hostile way, then either use that scythe of yours and sever their soul into hell immediately or run like hell is on your heels.

Gregory could feel the importance of the situation from how serious Han looked. Han usually had this carefree attitude around him that could always get on Gregory’s nerves. He was too calm in every situation and the fact that he could handle every situation easily just made it worse! But now that calm person was talking to him like they were about to enter hell. Was it going to be okay up there?

When they got up to the fiftieth floor, Gregory met up with Cersai again and told her what they were about to do. She was obviously against it, and she almost thought about telling him not to go. But she knew that he wouldn’t listen to her since Han was his father and he already made up his mind. She knew that she would be insulting him if she told him to choose between her and his father. So she just kissed him and wished him good luck.