1.99 Lucky Player

Mio stopped her attacks, she was unprotected, Haru provided cover while she activated the crystal, but nothing happened, the crystal did not change color or glow.

"Something went wrong!" Mio said while attacking the slimes again.

"What happened?"

"I have no idea, for some reason no new event happened."

"Can I activate my skill?"

"Activate it," Mio said, frustrated.

She sat down on the floor, once again she had forgotten to bring something to protect her butt from the dirty floor.

She became thoughtful, Haru took the opportunity to catch his breath, he was almost at his limit.

The giant monsters died quickly.

[Level UP!]

[Kanzaki Haru Level: 14]

[Attributes:

STR: 909

DEX: 886

COM: 893

DEF: 881

INT: 888

AGI: 904

LUK: 1.44]

"Could it be that one item prevents the other from working?"

"No," Mio replied.

"Why do you think that?"

"It doesn’t make sense, if that’s really the case, the two of them wouldn’t say they would activate on the day of the event, my father is going to activate another item, so they would have just wasted resources for nothing."

"That makes sense, but at the same time, you’re thinking that Masaru will activate the item before they start the sabotage. They could simply activate it before the event itself begins, and with that, there would be a huge chaos at the beginning," Hina said.

"Or, there is simply another way to activate the item," Haru said while looking at Hina’s legs.

"It could be that, there is no way for us to know now, for the time being, let’s stay here until the entire boss event is over, then we’ll ask my father and Kaede how to use this crystal. But it makes sense for there to be another way, since the crystals were lying on the floor."

The boss event lasted two hours, two hundred gold coins were spent.

"Let’s take it to Kaede and explain what happened."

Mio stored the last crystal in her inventory, then she stood up and Haru kept looking at her dirty butt, he wanted to run his hand over it and remove the dust from that sweaty and soft skin, he was controlling himself. Hina took his place, she gave it a few slaps, the movements of her butt made Haru’s cock become hard, he watched the movements with all the attention he didn’t even know he had.

"Now it’s clean," Hina said with a smile.

Mio replied with a smile, she glanced to the side and saw how Haru was trying to hide it, she knew what he wanted to do.

"Next time you can try to be faster," she said, teasing him.

"Sorry, I didn’t understand."

"You understood, you’re terrible at lying."

Kaede was excited, she had never seen so many crystals at once, all the items were separated, she was counting everything.

"I understand. This is really terrible, and confusing at the same time."

"Confusing?"

"Yes, what if all of this is just a plan to distract our attention from what is really going to happen, for example, they could know that I was following them. That’s why they pretended to drop the items, and with that, my attention was diverted, the two of them would disappear and others would take their place. That way the real sabotage would happen without us knowing."

"Impossible!" Kaede said. "I analyzed the items, they really are what I said they are, what could happen is that they programmed the crystals to obey an external command, and until the command is activated, the crystals are useless. Which is bad, very bad. Since the signal might not be received if the crystals aren’t inside the dungeon."

Masaru kept thinking, he wanted to have a plan, but he couldn’t think of anything, he felt cornered and defeated.

"What if we don’t participate in the tournament?"

"What?" Mio, Hina, Kaede, and Masaru asked at the same time.

"Simple, we don’t participate in the competition. We stay on another floor without anyone else knowing. Maybe the sixteenth floor, all the crystals will stay there, the signal will be received and we stay until the time runs out. In the end, we collect all fourteen crystals and try using them again if this works. Masaru already has more than enough money to fund the tournament, doesn’t he?"

Masaru kept thinking, he considered the pros. He didn’t consider any cons, at least he couldn’t think of any real problem.

"All right, we’ll do that, but you need to reach the sixteenth floor by tomorrow. Kaede will help the three of you with this task and you’ll split the reward with her. Is that okay?"

Kaede didn’t like it, but found it interesting. She hated exploring the dungeon and had only accepted the job on the condition that she would never go on any field missions. She hated having to get sweaty and having to fight, and worst of all, she hated Mage clothes, most of them always showed much more skin than she liked. But considering the amount of money Haru could get for her, this was something worth considering.

She carefully observed Hina, her Mage outfit was very small and went between her buttocks, part of her pussy was exposed.

’I need an outfit like that,’ Kaede thought.

She didn’t need it, but that wasn’t something Haru would refuse.

"Tomorrow we’ll go to the lower floors, we’ll reach the sixteenth floor in a short time, but we’ll defeat some monsters on the fifteenth and sixteenth floors. Is that okay?"

Nobody disagreed, they weren’t concerned about kills, at that moment they only wanted to reach the floor, but they understood Kaede, she wanted money, since she would be putting herself at risk.

Kaede went to the item hall, the place was empty, Amanda had left everything disorganized, Kaede hated that. Amanda received a much lower salary than her, and did a much worse job. But Masaru liked women with green hair, so Amanda was never fired.

Kaede chose a perfect piece of armor, a tiny bikini. She knew Haru wouldn’t complain. The fabric was so small that it only covered the essentials. On top, it hid only a fraction of the nipples and breasts, while below, only what was necessary. If the fabric got wet, the nipples would be visible, and that would be perfect for her to get something extra from Haru.

She still hated him and considered him the worst kind of person, but she was willing to change her mind if he cooperated by giving her a present.

Kaede continued looking at the other pieces of armor, but she didn’t change her mind, she would wear that bikini and make Haru share some of his money with her.