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With your wound healed, time to indulge in a bit more of cultivation - especially, foundation.
First thing first, re-read Gar Ruk book, extract the lessons, apply them to your style.
Let's just say you find several ways that doesn't work, preventing you to accumulate as much energy as you think you should had.
Even with your limited success at meditation, you feel your body-tempering is most effective - the addition of Fire energies in the mix is pulling its fair share. Most importantly, the result of LienWen YanEr's Tea Party is just simply and plainly amazing.
In the span of the two weeks, your Ear Aperture jumped from one tenth full to one fifth : the Structured Threads are somehow letting a new thread fill up more the aperture. This lead you to ponder, and voice out a question at the Wolf Mistress during your duties : are fortuitous treasure best used immediately after breaking through?
"<span class="mu-s">For first stage, undoubtedly so. For later stage? It is on a case-to-case basis.</span>
- I have a second question... About Body tempering and Meditation... I feel that several options would be better, wouldn't they?
- <span class="mu-s">Indeed. It can circumvent bottlenecks for start, and help turn you into an even more fully fledged cultivator.</span>"
The rest of your time is spent at the Snake Pits.
Kyo Ko helps a little bit at the beginning of the week, and the situation soonly gets manageable. Slackers work correctly again, the scale mold is contained, afflicted Snakes are healing, and new Python eggs are layed, while vipers are hatching their eggs inside - securing a supply for new recruits.
But something else happens at the pits.
You're transfering a few healed snakes out of quarantine when you <span class="mu-i">feel</span> something wrong.
Behind you, seven older kids. The worst offenders among slackers. The ones you never bothered to know - you're unable to even give their names.
"What's this?
- <span class="mu-i">Me and the boys feels you have lot of nerve.</span>
- <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-r">Thinking you're better than us?</span></span>
- <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-b">Ordering us around? We'll teach you your place.</span></span>"
Troublesome.
You will...
>Attempt to talk this out [write-in your arguments]
>They want it? Bring it on [Triggers a fight]
>Best you can do is grit your teeth and take the beating
>Abscond [use your movement options to flee
>Write-in.]
