In the underground facility, the training room is mostly a flat area that undead crow members use to spar in or watch people sparring. Elvia Cornevis usually watches the fights but also heals them after at the cost of getting licked.
Why does she lick people? Maybe it is related to her ability. Who knows?
Now that, Ronx and Alex had entered this training room, they easily found Elvia sitting on one of the benches. "Miss Elvia, could you please heal us?" Alex asked very respectfully, which was new to Ronx.
"Of course" She replied with a sly smile.
She extended her hand towards Ronx and started to do small movements, which caused the muscles to return to their original form, as if they weren't hurt in the first place.
She then looked at the missing arm and did a pull gesture, which caused an arm to form instantly. "There you go" She said as she stood up.
She then licked his hand and then focused on healing Alex, which was quite easy as he only had a few minor injuries and was simply exhausted. She then licked Alex's chin.
They both then thanked her and left, making their way to Mr. Crow's office.
As they entered the room, Mr. Crow looked at both of them with a slight surprised look as if he didn't expect them to live.
"Have a seat, you two" Mr. Crow said with slight anger for some reason.
They both took a seat.
"How did you two manage to defeat the headless man?" Mr. Crow asked with his hands folded together.
"Ronx awakened his power, which is blood manipulation. Using his and my power, we managed to defeat the headless man, just barely" Alex said while keeping his scared act.
"Hm...?" Mr. Crow said, still not completely convinced but continued anyway. "Blood manipulation? Quite a powerful power, If I must say."
Mr. Crow then laid back on his seat and asked, "First of all, I shall be promoting Ronx to grade 2. Secondly, I will give Alex the white feather. That's all. Great job on defeating the headless man. You can leave now."
"thank you very much" both of them said at the same time and left.
As soon as they left, both of them started jumping and swinging their fists in excitement. Eventually, after a few minutes they stopped.
"What is the white feather anyway?" Ronx asked, breathing heavily.
"As you already know, all of the undead crow members have black feathers. Which is a badge that proves you are one of us. If you have the white feather, you can do high-paying missions which earn you a lot of money and everyone has you address you by Mr." Alex explained.
"I am not going to address you by Mr." Ronx said since saying it would hurt his ego.
"You are not going to have the chance to" Alex replied seriously.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Ronx asked, slightly confused.
"My job is to only recruit new members, I only accompanied you because Mr. Crow asked me to" Alex said coldly, "this is where we part ways."
"Oh...I understand" Ronx said, not particularly upset but he felt unsafe without anyone he knew helping him.
With that, Alex left, leaving Ronx alone in the underground facility.
After Alex left, Ronx decided to take the day off as he was quite tired. He decided that he would do the missions tomorrow and earn some money.
But before he could leave, a red-haired man approached him.
"Hello, there, are you the person who defeated the headless man?"
"Um...I had some help but you could say that" Ronx said, a bit surprised and impressed at how fast the news spread; they had just came from the office a couple of minutes ago.
"Oh! Nice to meet you, my name is Blake" Blake said, who was clearly happy to see the person who defeated the headless man.
"Ronx", he answered. "What do you want?"
"I will show you. Follow me!" Blake answered.
Ronx hesitated but followed, not expecting anything serious. And after a couple of minutes of endless walking, they reached a small room that had nothing but a few seats and lockers.
In the room were sitting two men.
The two men had average features with light brown hair.
"Oh? Is this the man?" one of the men asked as if looking at a bug. "How pathetic. Is this really him?"
Ronx got slightly angry but managed to remain calm. "Do you people need anything from me?"
The other man gave a wide smirk, "Oh yes, we definitely do"
The man then approached Ronx and grabbed his collar, pinning him to the wall but Ronx didn't flinch or even move, instead he coldly asked, "What are you trying to do?"
"Huh? Don't you get it already? We are going to make you our little pet" the man answered with a evil grin.
Blake then closed the door behind them and locked it.
"Let's see what this pretty little thing can do" Blake with a evil smile, his tone and behavior completely changed from before.