“Kane is more than meets the eye.” Bontu looked at Helia for support. “We must find him no matter what.”
“Fret not,” Helia replied in an assuring tone. “Kane can’t leave these grounds so easily.”
At the same moment, about ninety miles away to the west from where Edgar was.
A mysterious man was flying away on a bat at extreme speeds. The upper half of his face was covered by his unmoving hair. He was smiling as he looked at Kane. “Are you still mad that I wasted your arm? Don’t worry. When we get back, I’ll help you grow it back soon enough.”
“I said I didn’t need help. Why did you come, Boru?” Kane was sitting cross-legged, looking a bit frustrated. “Did ‘he’
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WHIT 125 - WITHIN THE WINTER
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WHIT 126 - THE MAN IN THE GRAY MASK
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WHIT 127 - SUCCESS
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WHIT 128 - THE COIN I
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WHIT 129 - THE COIN II
“I’m sorry. I can’t see you, so I’m not really sure of your identity,” the daughter replied. “But if you know me, then you should know how good I am. Please tell my father that I’m not a thief!”“Spouting scripted lines again, this little…” Bontu controlled himself as he didn’t want to fail, in which case a hundred evergreat coins would go to waste. (She must be the one who stole the coin. I’m sure.)He then looked at the last one, the innocent-looking boy. “You… What happened to your mouth? Did you not wash your teeth or what?” he purposely teased.The boy shook his head.“Did you steal the coin?”
WHIT 130 - LERO MOUNTAIN
Three days later.Edgar and Fabby had been busy doing missions left and right.For simple missions like ‘Delivering hydra eggs to a master,’ or ‘Supplying lunch to the officers at the mines,’ both the siblings didn’t work. Only one of them worked for the mission, while the other one was busy practicing and honing their skills in the shade of trees near the mission hall itself. But for tough missions like gathering the herbs or feathers or those that demanded physical labor, they worked together.In the past three days itself, they took thirty four missions and finished them all successfully.Now, they were doing five-star sigma-grade missions, so they earned five evergreat coins for every mission, but then either the difficulty or the time i
WHIT 131 - PAY TO SEE
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WHIT 132 - ARROWS VS BLADES
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