Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Spoils

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

Spoils

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“Wow…” Dess exclaimed in an almost sarcastic tone. “Trouble does like following you around, huh, Will?”

She and the others were helping me carve out more spoils from the young chimera’s corpse after I promised to share the parts I didn’t need with them.

Luckily, Dess had brought my bag with her, and I now had all the equipment I needed for a proper field dressing. Although, for the life of me, I can’t imagine how I’d been so caught up in the patchwork wolf’s howl that I forgot to bring my stuff. It just wasn’t like me. Usually.

“This thing’s a mess… it’s like something with teeth tore chunks out of it already,” Scaredy Cat complained. “You didn’t do this, right, Will?”

“The beast was already injured by the time it found me… I just finished it off,” I lied.

“Your kill, your spoils,” Brunhilde chimed in.

“Exactly,” I agreed.

It wasn’t like I could tell them I made a truce with another monster that had been trying to kill them only a few days ago. Not that my team would have believed me. From what I knew of the Academy’s security, something like a patchwork wolf shouldn’t have been able to infiltrate our campus. It was a mystery that needed solving, which was why I was deadest on meeting the patchwork wolf again tomorrow night. Assuming it had understood me.

Anyways, thanks to my friends, I farmed more than the required spoils I needed to complete my first blacksmith’s quest. Including some very valuable vials of chimera blood and chimera venom. Ten vials each.

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