Conquering The Game's World

When she saw the familiar faces of children, Mira gave her confirmation. "They are indeed the children from our town. I am well acquainted with them and their parents."

She seemed happy that some of the kidnapped children had been found, but because she didn't see the figure of her daughter Ashly among them, Mira felt a little lost in her heart.

'No, everything will be fine. Just how these children were rescued. My daughter will also be back to me soon.'

Mira comforted herself in her heart, then she observed the kids with a distressed expression when she saw the bruises on their bodies. "Um, Miss Alicia, why are all the kids asleep?" She couldn't help but feel a little weird.

Alicia pressed her lips, then sighed and opened her mouth to speak. "They are not sleeping. The kidnappers have drugged them unconscious."

"What?!" Mira was shocked. "What kind of drug?! Will they be alright?!" she asked, her voice carrying a hint of worry.

"Lily, explain it to her." Alicia just let Lily answer Mira's questions. Because she knew Lily could explain the hallucination herb and its effects in much detail.

{Okay, Sister Alicia.} Lily's voice sounded. {Miss Mira, it's like this…}

…

After Lily's explanation was over, Mira's face paled, and her legs went weak. She couldn't help but fall to her knees in despair. "N-no way… How could this be?" She was in a state of disbelief. "Mental disorders… schizophrenia… brain hemorrhage… forever unconscious."

Tears started bawling down her eyes as she glanced at the unconscious children. The fear of her daughter suffering from something so terrible made Mira's chest tighten. Her heart wasn't calm anymore. She was having trouble breathing when she thought of her daughter ending up in such a situation with no hope of recovery.

Alicia and the others could understand Mira's state of mind now. Diana sympathized with her when she saw Mira's miserable state, but she had no clue how to comfort her. In the end, she could only put her hope in her smart classmate Alicia beside her.

Olivia was about to say something but stopped when she saw Alicia take a step forward towards Mira. 'You have already surprised me many times, Alicia. Will you surprise me again?' She thought with a faint smile and anticipation in her heart.

"Miss Mira…" Alicia called out gently as she crouched beside her.

"… Miss Alicia… my Ashly… she…" Mira couldn't complete her sentence, but her lost and despairing eyes explained everything.

Alicia's eyelashes trembled as found the current state of Mira very familiar. 'I remember… she is reflecting my past self… when I lost… Mom.'

Even if, now that she had started to find happiness in her life, along with Luis. Alicia clearly remembers that despair and that year of longing when she hoped that her mother would return to her, and everything was nothing but a bad dream. Then, many months later, reality struck her, and after that, she only lived for the sole purpose of taking revenge on her mother's killers and bringing her to justice. Although Mira and her situation were different. They both shared the experience of despair of losing their most loved person.

'No, this is different!' Alicia immediately removed her previous thoughts from her mind. 'My situation was different. I couldn't save Mom, but Miss Mira hasn't lost her daughter.'

So, with a firm expression on her face, Alicia said, "Miss Mira, I'm sure we will find Ashly soon too. As for the effects of the drug. You don't have to worry about it. Luis said he had a way. After rescuing all the children, he will cure them."

Mira's dull eyes suddenly brightened a little when she heard Alicia's words. Her shivering hands grasped Alicia's arm with hope in her eyes. "Is what you said the truth, Miss Alicia? You are not lying to me, right?"

"No, I wouldn't joke about this kind of thing," Alicia said with a serious expression.

Luster returned to Mira's face and her eyes brightened with hope, but then she thought of something and asked unsurely. "But didn't Miss Lily say that there is no cure for it? Even the high-grade recovery potion can't save the children." Alicia nodded with an understanding expression when she heard Mira's worry. However, her voice was still confident and unwavering. "Yes, although no cure has been found for this condition, but if Luis said he has a way. Then there must be a way. You can rest assured that the children will be fine."

Not only Mira, but even Olivia and Diana were dumbfounded by Alicia's statement. ---

Olivia knew that there was a cure for people suffering from an overdose of hallucination herbs, but the cure had only been recently discovered by a professor from the Oracle Academy. This information hasn't been made public yet. She had known about this because the professor who developed this cure was a close friend of hers. When Hena explained the state of the kidnapped children to her. Olivia immediately consulted about it with her professor friend and got the assurance that the children would have no future problems.

That is why she wasn't worried about delegating this rescue mission to her students, otherwise, there is no way she would have done this.

'I had thought that after the rescue was complete. I would help them cure the children.'

'Now you are telling me Luis has a cure for them?!' Olivia couldn't fathom how her student got to know about a cure whose information hadn't been made public yet. 'Don't tell me the Suarez Family had the cure all along?!' Just as that thought crossed her mind, Olivia took a deep breath. 'No, there's no way. Although the Suarez family has indulged themselves in many industrial sectors. They shouldn't be so advanced in the field of medicine, right? Otherwise, they would have captured the market long before.'

Several thoughts crossed Olivia's mind, and, in the end, she couldn't come to any conclusion. So, she just shrugged and stopped thinking about it. 'Ah, whatever. There's no need for me to think about such complicated matters. I'm just a professor. My job is just to teach students so that they can become the future pillars of Alnaur.'

'Let those powerful families and the countries solve their problem themselves.'

'Though, I am still curious to know what kind of face she will make. When she gets to know that the discovery, she worked so hard on might have already been made by someone else long ago.' Olivia chuckled, thinking about it. 'She will most probably cry. Hehe, let's first wait and see if Luis truly has a cure or not.'

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Diana came near Alicia and whispered in a voice; she deemed as secretive. "Alicia, does Luis have a cure? Are you sure?"

Alicia could understand that they were having doubts, but her tone remained unwavering. "Don't worry. My fiancé doesn't promise something he isn't sure about."

She seemed very proud when she said that. Her expression remained confident as she glanced at Luis, who was working on the hologram with full concentration.

'Until now, you have never disappointed me. I'm sure this time it will be the same. I trust you, Luis.'

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A few minutes later, some guards, along with a medical team, arrived at the location. When Mira saw them, she immediately recognized them. "They are the patrol guards from the town and the staff from the hospital."

The medical team hurried to check the state of the children. After getting to know some ins and outs about the situation from Mira. They all understood the seriousness of the matter and started treating the bruises of the children. After they were done. Alicia said, "Please, take the children back to the town and be prepared for when we rescue the rest of the children."

Just as they nodded, Lily's voice sounded from her Mana bracelet. {Sister Alicia, I found more children.}

"!"

"Huh…!" Alicia was surprised, then hastily asked. "Where?!"

{Master asked me to search for container drums similar to the previous ones. I found such containers inside a warehouse in Gusto Town.}

With her explanation, Alicia understood and marveled at Luis' idea, but that wasn't important right now. "Tell me the location of the warehouse. Also, how many enemies are there?"

{There are 7 of them, but.}

"But, what?"

{This time there are no humans. They are Beast-Kin.}

As soon as Lily's voice sounded, not only Alicia, but even the beast-men were shocked. "What, how could that be?" a beast-men guard asked out loud in disbelief.

Before others could say anything, Alicia said with a cold expression. "Lily, display the image of that warehouse."

{Okay.} Lily immediately turned on the hologram of Alicia's mana bracelet and projected an image.

The projection displayed the image of a dim warehouse where several beast-men could be seen guarding several container drums kept in the warehouse.

{I have confirmed that those drums are made of the same anti-scan material. It's a 95% probability that there are children kept inside them.}

"So, not only humans. There are even beast-men among the kidnappers." Alicia uttered with a deep frown. ***

(Guys read the author's note of this chapter.)