The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Lu Shi was taken to the basement of another shop in the city. This place was the location that was created by the Divine Scale Pavillion for their secret maneuvering. No one else knew about the true secret about this place except for the high ranking members of the Divine Scale Pavillion.

Seeing that the secret of this place was revealed to her, Lu Shi's heart sank. It could only mean she would not be given a chance to escape. As now she knew about this place, the Divine Scale Pavillion was definitely not going to leave her alone. She was already sure that only the people from the Divine Scale Pavillion on whom she was keeping an eye on were capable of doing something like this.

After going down to the basement, Lu Shi was taken to a luxurious room. This was very surprising for her as she had not expected the basement area to have this type of well built rooms. Inside the room there were several sofas on which three people were sitting. Another lady wearing the same style of dress as the lady who escorted Lu Shi here was standing behind the sofa like a servant.

Among the people who were sitting on the sofa, there was a cute looking boy and two other cute girls. From how everyone looked, it was kind of obvious that the boy sitting in the middle was most probably the young master she needed to meet.

Lu Shi knew about these people from the reports of her informants but she had never seen them with her own eyes. She knew that going to observe them on her own would be quite risky and that was the reason why she avoided them. But now the fate had bought her to these same people.

Seeing Lu Shi entering the room, Rein gave him a sweet smile and asked her to sit on one of the sofas. There were tea and desserts on the table and Lu Shi was invited to taste them. Lu Shi did not take that offer though and just looked at Rein with a questioning expression.

Seeing that reaction Rein again gave her a reassuring smile and spoke up for the first time -

"Miss do not worry. I do not have any particular hate for you. I'm just a little bit curious about your motive for going to this length in order to destroy this city. I'm actually very impressed by your intellect and that is also one of the reason why I wanted to meet with you."

Hearing that did not give Lu Shi any relief and instead she became even more vigilant. There was no reason for a high class person like Rein to take interest in her worthless self. That was why Lu Shi became even more worried.

Rein had expected that, as according to what he had seen about this girl, she was extremely cautious and had very little trust for anyone. So it would be impossible for her to believe in Rein so quickly. Rein did not push her any farther and instead started to ask her some questions.

The questions he asked were very simple in nature. First he asked about why Lu Shi had this much hatred for this city and then after not getting a proper answer Rein started to ask her about simple harmless topics. He also told Lu Shi many interesting stories. Colinde and Lan also participated in the conversation and soon all three of the girls became decent friends.

After an hour or two, Lu Shi had let her guard down a little bit. She was still extremely cautious of Rein and his group but at least she was not scared of them anymore and was engaging with them in a normal way. After talking a bit more with her Rein asked Mei to take her to a room in this secret base.

It was already getting late into the night and Rein told her that they would continue the discussion later the next day.

...

Lu Shi was obviously unwilling to let her guard down and sleep in a place like this which was almost like the main enemy base for her. But the bed which she was given to sleep was so good and comfy that even before she had realised it, Lu Shi had already fallen asleep and it was a very very deep sleep.

After waking up from her sleep the next day Lu Shi was both very embarrassed and very helpless. She did not want to sleep but the bed she was given to use was just so good. She was feeling that if she got the chance to sleep on the same bed again tonight, she would still not be able to resist the allure of the bed.

Lu Shi still brought her tired body away from the bed with a bit of unwillingness and opened the curtains to see what time it was and how long she had been sleeping for. As soon as the curtains were lifted bright rays of sunlight hit her eyes.  The sun was almost at the middle of the so that meant it was already noon. Lu Shi had slept for over 12 hours in that comfy bed last night.

Again this was something almost impossible for the ever vigilant Lu Shi to do.

...

After she came out of her room, she was soon greeted by Mei who took her to the same room again where she was sitting with Rein and the other girls last night. But at this time there was no one else here. Lu Shi was given a plate full of food and milk as her breakfast.

Seeing the uncertain expression on her face, Mei kindly told her that Rein and the other girls were currently cultivating and they would come out to talk to her again after about an hour. So for the time being Lu Shi was free to take her time in eating her breakfast.

Hearing that Lu Shi brought a little bit of the given food in her mouth. Last night she had not eaten anything so she was extremely hungry at the current moment. She was still a bit worried about poison. But Rein's group was just way too strong. If they wanted, they would have no trouble killing her off in no time. So there was no need for them to poison her at this point.

This was the reason why she was able to eat the food that was given to her. This once again was a very tasty meal which Lu Shi had never eaten before. Specially the sweet treat was just mind-blowing.

Just as Lu Shi was done with her breakfast Rein, Lan and Colinde came to the room. Rein greeted her good morning with a teasing look on his face and then acted surprised and exclaimed that it was already noon. Hearing this teasing Lu Shi's face turned a little red in embarrassed as she was not really used to waking up late and getting teased for that.

Then all six of them talked quite a lot and Rein gifted Lu Shi a cultivation technique that would be very useful for her and for her skill. Lu Shi obviously tried to refuse but Rein insisted for her to take it. Just like this Lu Shi almost felt that she was not alone in this world anymore and tears started to fall from her eyes without she realising it.

Everyone started to comfort her to calm her down and after she stopped crying, Lu Shi started to tell everyone about her history and why she wanted to destroy this city.