That means the beast inside the cage is definitely a heavenly beast, a very rare commodity. No wonder they are planning to sell it for as high a price as they can, because humans will definitely fight tooth and nail to get their hands on a heavenly beast to tame for themselves.
A heavenly beast will definitely reach immortality because of its bloodline talent, so it is the same as getting an immortal powerhouse for an organization. Of course, she is priceless, as they say.
There are two ways to tame a beast.
The first is master-slave bonding, and the other is equals bonding.
Yes, as the name suggests, in master-slave bonding, the beast has to follow all the orders of its master, and it can even give its life if ordered to do so. A master can have as many slaves as they can, but a slave has only one master.
But bonding as equals has no such harsh conditions, as beasts don't have to follow orders if they don't want to. In this bonding, beasts can bond with more than one person, and if the beast wants to terminate the bond, it can do so easily.
These two bondings only happen when both parties have given their voluntary consent. Yes, no one can force you to say yes to a bond. That's why the word taming is used in master-slave bonding; in this, the beasts are beaten or tortured until they say yes or die without saying yes.
Those noisy farts were still talking, but all useless stuff like getting whores to enjoy after getting money was making Eve annoyed, so Lucy just nodded to her to begin their assault.
There is a reason why the concealment law is one of the dreaded laws in this world, because if you don't have proper battle sense, you will never be able to find the danger to your life that has used concealment.
So, Lucy and Eve just moved closer to the level 5 ones and drew their swords and...
Shickkkkk!
"Thudddd...."
Two heads rolled on the ground, and two swords were dangling in the air in the place where the corpses were. Their swords were still visible because they were not inside the hoods. There wasn't a single drop of blood on them, as they were very fast. Also, the first time killing wasn't that bad for him.
"Wha...what just happened...who are you? Come out, you bastards!" Although this bandit was screaming, his whole body was trembling.
"As you wish," Lucy said and stopped providing his spiritual energy to his hooded robe. Since someone asked so politely, he had to give them some face, right?
But Eve didn't care for that and directly rushed to them in her invisible form, and her sword was even coated with chaos law...fuck. It looked like she really was pissed by them.
Since all three were walking together, they tried to stop her attack together...well, rest in hell.
There was no suspense about what happened, as they all got bisected, trying to block a chaos law-imbued heavenly sword...haah, poor souls.
Lucy moved toward the cage and removed its veil, and he was totally stunned.
"What is it?" Even though Eve asked him, he was too stunned to speak, so she just came by herself,"No...no way, that mark...is that what I think it is?"
This time, Lucifer recovered from his stunned phase and answered as calmly as he could.
"Yes, it is...how did these bastards get their hands on her? Even if they had the luck of the heavens, it would still be impossible, right?"
"What should we do, brother?"
That's a big question sis; it literally is because the being inside can bring disaster of unimaginable scale.
Inside the cage, what they found was not some heavenly beast but a fucking mythical beast. And not just a half-blooded one, a pure-blooded one.
How could the heavenly fox clan be so careless?
The being inside the cage was one of the mythical beasts known as a Ten-tailed fox.
The value of a heavenly beast, although priceless, can still be decided with astronomical numbers, but the value of a mythical creature...don't even think about it. And the cherry on top, she is a female of the heavenly fox clan, and once she reaches immortal level...huh, forget about the human or Demon kingdom, whole races of the world lust for her.
Lucy stared at the fox, which was glaring back at them while cowering in the farthest corner of the cage. He had no doubt her parents would be searching for her. After all, it is very hard for mythical creatures to conceive children; it is a restriction from the cosmos itself.
Mythical creatures can only conceive a child when they become immortal themselves because giving birth to a new mythical creature requires a lot of energy, which is only possible for level 5 immortal law mythical beasts or above.
So, basically, her parents are even stronger than their mom and aunt.
"I don't know what to do either, sis. With her size, she looks like 5 years old to me...huh, it will be hard to communicate with her, and I really don't want to use any kind of force on her."
"What do you mean force? How can you even think about that? Look how cute she is."
"Yea~yea~ a fucking cute world-destroying disaster." On second thought, she really was cute.
Lucy moved closer to the cage and opened its lock and gates. After doing that, he moved away to let her ease her fear. She is 5 years old, and although they can't communicate with her, she is old enough to understand their intentions, as mythical beasts are as intelligent as humans.
They start absorbing their law at 5 years of age, so they are better than humans in this aspect.
Once they moved away, he used a voice laced with spirituality to make his intentions clear to her. Yes, this is one of the ways of communication between two unknown groups.
"Look, we have no intention to harm you. If you want to leave, you can leave, but I should still warn you, as it will be dangerous for you before your parents find you," Lucy stated his intentions as clearly as he could.
Once she understood his intentions, she really eased her fear and moved to the entrance of the cage. For her, the situation was already bad; what worse could happen to her?
She looked to the side where the bodies of her assailants were present, her teeth bared in hatred.
"Huh, I really feel bad for you, but believe me, if we had the ability to send you to your home, we wouldn't have hesitated even a second, but we don't have that ability. But in the future, we can definitely help you, and that is only if you can trust us right now," Lucy said again as sincerely as he could, and he was saying the truth.
She looked around the area furtively.
Well, trusting humans is hard, even for humans themselves, much less for a beast, and they understood that, so they let her decide for herself.
After thinking for two minutes, she finally gave in to her fate.
"Kuuu...."
Her voice was really sweet. "Oh, so you can use spiritual speech? That's good."
"Don't worry, we will definitely find a way for you to go back to your family. Seriously, what were you doing getting caught like this? You do know how dangerous it is for you and for others also, right?" Lucy scolded her a little. After all, she truly is a walking catastrophe.
"Kyuuu..." Ah, she was feeling embarrassed.
"Get aside, you dumb brother of mine~... don't listen to this idiot. Come to big sis's arms, as we still have a long way to go," Eve pushed him aside and relayed her intentions to her.
She was startled for a second but still jumped into her arms...damn, girls really do form bonds quickly...huh, looks like he was the bad guy now, whatever.
They had to hide her identity by hiding her head mark, or they would have to teleport to their domain immediately. Since they could take two persons each, they could also take her, but they just got out and didn't want to go back immediately.
Well, the hooded robes could change their shape according to the wearer, so they were not as hopeless as they thought they were.
If they hid her mark on her head, which was a bright red rhombus, she would look like a normal but beautiful fox because of her shiny white fur, which was a sign of a very good bloodline. But that wouldn't trouble them too much, as carrying a pet and tamed beast is a normal occurrence.