Feicui Long walked together with Isabella, but his head was killing him, even so it was understandable he had used the power of a dragon in the body of a human and although his brain fused with the brain of his first body, the damage caused by the dragon-slaying poison weakened him quite a lot, in fact, this is another of the reasons why not all of his memories have returned, because this current body is not capable of supporting everything.
Then Gloria notices something strange in him and worried she says: "Aren't you going to deactivate your eyes?"
Feicui Long, a little worried, says: "Do I have them activated?"
Irina and Isabella answer saying: "Yes, actually, we thought you had them activated on purpose and we hadn't said anything."
Feicui Long worries a little and looks at Isabella before asking her: "My love, do you have that face-changing one?"
Isabella quickly nods and says: "Of course, of course, I always carry it with me.", Isabella searches in her spatial storage ring or well in her engagement ring and quickly takes it out.
But when Isabella is about to hand it to him she freezes, Feicui Long, a little confused, asks her: "What's wrong my life?"
Isabella, a little embarrassed, hands it to him and while hugging him affectionately says: "It's just that it's strange to see you refer to me as my life or my love… usually you aren't that affectionate."
Feicui Long then feels embarrassed as well, he blushes a little, but even so he returns Isabella's embrace, hugging her back and kissing her lovingly.
Then Gloria, a little uncomfortable, coughs CoughCough and says: "Are we going to look at the loot or are you going to stay flirting here?"
Feicui Long and Isabella separate, still a little red, but they hold hands as they continue walking, while Feicui Long puts on the mask allowing him to hide his eyes.
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When the four arrive at the main chamber they approach Evelyn and her maids who are doing a pre-inventory, Feicui Long asks Evelyn: "How has everything gone, how much do we have or how much did we gain?"
Evelyn then raises her gaze from her notebook saying: "It's quite a good profit, there is a lot of food, we could practically even give it away in the village and we could even send it to the city that is being built in Leechwald, in equipment we found many weapons made of common metals and some armors, but really the most valuable thing is the quantity of energy stones so large that we have here and energetic materials such as herbs and the like, although there are also some artifacts, but they are of low quality."
Feicui Long smiles saying: "More or less how many energy stones and how many materials?, as for the artifacts mark them for sale, the tools and weapons made of mortal metals leave them for smelting, I could recycle those metals and the food, send half to the city and leave the other half, it could be useful to attract immigration to the barony."
Evelyn nods and quickly writes things down and then responds: "We have 10 sacks or spatial storage bags completely full, 2 are of energy stones, 3 of medicinal herbs and materials for alchemy and 5 filled with corpses of energetic beasts, monsters, etc, although I think that is not all, after all there are still the other 14 hideouts that also had many things deposited in them."
Feicui Long opens his mouth in shock, Two spatial storage sacks!?, a single sack has a size more or less 4 to 5 times that of a typical storage bag, that alone would be a few thousand energy stones, but when he heard that the other hideouts were still missing his mouth formed a huge smile, this alone had been worth the risk.
After all, although the energy stone mine that he ordered to be built had already been constructed, he still has not even received the first shipment and these stones are practically free for him and equivalent to perhaps a few platinum coins saved.
Feicui Long then pats her shoulder and says: "That is very good, continue with the inventory and if you can make the one for the corpses very detailed, I want to know what materials we can use from each one or sell."
Feicui Long then heads to the beast chamber, but Irina is a little intrigued: "Why this time are you so interested in classifying by type of corpse?"
Feicui Long explains to her: "The reason why I am interested in classifying the corpses is very simple, although the superior races compared to the cultivators of the 14 mortal races all of their parts are rich in energy and laws and therefore all of their parts are useful for many things."
Irina nods, she knows that, after all it is common knowledge, but it does not really answer her question.
Feicui Long continues walking while explaining: "But there are certain things that do not have that much value, it is the same reason why none of the 14 mortal races are used to produce artifacts or medicines in a general way, no matter which one it is, from humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, greater beastmen, lesser beastmen, lesser giants, kijin, onis, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, kobolds."
Feicui Long inspects the cave as they reach the entrance of the second chamber: "Since none are born with cultivation in a normal way or under normal circumstances, their bodies tend to retain less energy once dead, with some exceptions such as external cultivators or internal cultivators of a high cultivation level or even some who enhance specific parts such as psychics."
Irina nods, she knows that as well although it had never been explained to her with so much detail.
Feicui Long then stops to turn around and says: "This means that unless you are a demonic cultivator or some evil necromancer and are willing to kill hundreds, thousands or millions of innocents, there is little of value in trying to kill or use their corpses."
Irina cannot help remembering what happened 6 and a half months ago in the Leechwald forest and cannot avoid trembling when thinking about someone who could kill so many innocent people.
Feicui Long enters the chamber while continuing to speak: "So the situation with these bodies is something similar, some parts such as the meat can be useful in value if sold, but not all meat sells or would interest someone to buy it, especially in the case of something so similar to a human like the lizardmen, personally I have no interest in that meat not even to give it to my citizens, perhaps at most for combat beasts, mounts or contracted creatures."
Feicui Long then finishes his explanation: "A different case is with their skins, scales, bones, monster cores and others that have decent value or I would even prefer to use the entire body to use my necromancy ability and have troops when I need them, so identifying how many corpses there are of each one will give me a better idea of what to do or how to proceed."
That is where Feicui Long and the others encounter Mila who is taking care of the captured beasts, when Mila realizes the presence of everyone especially that of her god she approaches running very agitated saying: "Venerable lord, I am glad that you came."
Feicui Long looks at her analyzing her, it is obvious that he can feel that his own breath is completely impregnated in Mila, he could never mistake how her aura feels nor her trace, but choosing to deliberately ignore that fact he says to her: "What have you been doing with these beasts?"
Mila, a little worried in case her venerable lord had noticed something, then calms herself and says while pointing at the medallions that had been found before and are now attached to the cave walls: "I was installing these medallions, I managed to keep them emanating their aura to calm them and keep them peaceful when we go to sleep venerable lord."
Feicui Long then looks at them and immediately feels the aura emanating from them saying: "Those medallions… they have the aura of a subdragon, but not just any one it is the aura of a Wyvern."
Mila, although she had already predicted that he would be able to identify the type of subdragon, tells him: "So it is the aura of a Wyvern, but isn't that strange?, I understand that they prefer to live in mountainous or frozen environments."
Feicui Long shakes his head: "It depends on the species, but some enjoy the swamp, the most important thing is the availability of prey, after all they are one of the subspecies that most enjoy living in packs."
Feicui Long then looks at the cave chamber a little bored, he sees species that although they have some use like the hound lizards and harasser lizards, which can serve to bother enemies not very good in close combat.
A few more interesting ones like the stalking serpents and shadow lizards specialized in surprise and lethal attacks, the poison-spitting turtles and the flying ember lizards as ranged attackers, lastly the armored lizards which although they are good tanks are not really that great.
But when he sets his eyes on the breeze lizards and the wind lizards his eyes open wide and he approaches very excited to see them saying: "I think that with this this trip definitely paid for itself."
Isabella, who runs after him, looks at them and says: "What is special about these lizards?"
Feicui Long says smiling: "Don't you see it my love?, do you remember that before I told you that we would soon have to make a trip to buy some better mounts than simple horses for our troops?"
Isabella nods and says: "But what is special about these ones specifically?"
Feicui Long touches his chin and says: "Well really, they are not that special, but they are good mounts at least for the level that the barony currently has they are incredible, certainly they are not as good as our Windy, our wild wind mare in terms of speed, for that they would have to be a vendaval lizard, they have the capacity to reach more or less the same realm."
Feicui Long then adds: "But in addition the lizards compensate for that weakness with greater physical defense thanks to their scales, greater attack and unlike wild wind horses whose natural habitats are plains, savannas and deserts, flat places without vegetation, these lizards are natives of forests, mountains, swamps and marshes, perfectly adapted to the environment in which we find ourselves."
Isabella's eyes then light up as well and she says: "That is wonderful!, although it is a shame that we cannot afford the luxury of having a specialized mounted unit…"
Feicui Long also sighs, his troops are still too few and he cannot increase them until the population size increases, but even so it is a great gain, because not only has he saved himself from buying the mounts and the entire trip, but in addition with this he can give mounts to his troops.
With this he can transmit messages much faster reducing the time to a level even lower than when he rode Windy and she was still in the elemental realm grade 9, with these lizards the time would be reduced to two days and eighteen hours without using a talisman to enhance speed, if they use it it can be shortened to only two days and a half.
And as for why they take more time despite being a bit slower than Windy it is because all of them are in the mystic realm and some even at grade 5, the difference in cultivation of Windy at that time is noticeable a bit, although being honest currently Windy can do it in two days and a half without talismans, but since she does not allow others to ride her… it is somewhat a waste.
Feicui Long then thinks, perhaps it would be best to buy more sound transmission stones or set up some kind of long-distance communication system with them and thus save all that time…
While he was thinking about that he clearly hears the cave door open and realizes that Mariane finally arrived, so he heads to see her….