"Just accept your fate...although you are innocent, and I really don't know what will happen to you later or what kind of master you will find, life is cruel, you know. It doesn't go the way you want anyway," Eve said in spiritual speech.
"And you would have also killed us without any remorse if we had been the weaker ones. The odds are just in our favor, so accept your fate and stop struggling. Who knows, you might get a good master."
"Grrrrrrwahhhhh..." It looked like it really was accepting its situation, huh.
"Very well, sign this contract." It was a slave contract that only the master could break once they wanted.
It still hesitated a little but signed it eventually.
"Good, here, drink this." Eve gave it life water, and its wounds healed quickly.
She brought out her communication stone and contacted that lecherous and bastard brother of hers.
"It's done, brother," but no matter how much of a bastard he was, she still loved him...'haah, I really want to eat him...damn it, when will he reach 15 years of age?'
"Excellent, sis."
"Finally, I can have spatial stones to reach level 2 easily." They had almost cleared out this area of the forest, and since they were too deep, they hadn't encountered any mercenaries in this month.
They had killed about 250 beasts, with about 150 level 3s with a mix of elemental and heavenly laws and 100 beasts of level 4, all elemental law users.
Those beasts could net them about 60000 credits, so that would be 120000 credits in a month. Lucy doubted any mercenary team is even capable of doing that...they really got too wild while killing them.
And when he said that dark panther would fetch them about 60000 credits, it was just a general guess because heavenly laws had different values according to their properties, and darkness law was one of the famous ones, and they really weren't going to exchange it for credits.
They were going to auction it, and having Pearl of Secrets as their backdoor, it was quite easy to do that.
The real currency of the law practitioners' world was spiritual stones. Their classification was similar to talents:
Normal spiritual stones (low and high concentrations) {high concentration would have double the value of low concentration}
Heavenly spiritual stones (low and high concentrations)
Supreme spiritual stones (low and high concentrations)
Mortal law users generally used normal spiritual stones for transactions, while immortals used heavenly spiritual stones; that's just a way of saying what the real scale was.
Supreme spiritual stones were very rare and were used in heaven-defying formations, so their value was very high.
The general exchange rate of normal spiritual stones for low concentration was 1:1 with mercenary guild credits, and they also had about 20000 normal spiritual stones inside their rings, but since they were a source of their money, Lucy hadn't exchanged them for credits. But now that they had a chance to earn them, he could exchange the earned amount.
Their mom hadn't given them heavenly spiritual stones because those were not things they should possess at their levels; it would only put them in danger.
Their domain had two mines where spiritual stones up to supreme level, chaos stones, and life stones up to supreme levels were produced, albeit it takes lot of time for them to get produced, so they were quite wealthy in this world.
Absorbing chaos law from meat was a normal procedure, so eating it as a resource didn't affect your foundations, but absorbing chaos law particles from spiritual stones was not, so they never absorbed them as resources to level up.
"Should we return, sis?" Lucy asked Eve if she wanted to return to the city for the time being because they had been living in the forest for a whole month now.
"Why? Let's just keep going till we get enough for 600 spatial stones," Eve replied immediately.
"Fine...if you say so," Lucy replied while moving toward the location where she was.
When you formed a contract with your beast, you could store them in taming bags, which were made for beasts. Inside taming bags, beasts were bound in a spatial lock where there was enough air for them to live easily; you could say it was a cage for them.
But they didn't need those lame bags as they had a special compartment in their spatial ring with a forest inside it. Beasts could easily move there freely.
When Lucy reached the location of Eve, she was alone; she had already stored the beast. He nodded to her, and they moved even deeper where even level 5 beasts would appear, but killing them wouldn't be too much of a problem for them.
Their little friend had already become like a family member to them, and she had mutual feelings too. Although she was just 5 years old, her mentality was definitely that of an adult, and he had no doubt her parents had given her all the required knowledge for her basic survival, and she definitely would know about bonds.
And she also knew that they also had adult mentalities with all knowledge, and she always stared at them whenever they make out, feeling a little embarrassed.
Also, when he bought spatial stones, she wanted to say something but still held back. He was curious, but since she didn't bring up the topic, he let it go.
Well, he had no doubt she also wanted to bond with them, but her parents must have warned her about these things...anyway, time could do wonders, so let's see what happened in the future.
******(5 months later)
Finally...haaah, he killed the level 5 normal beast, and with this, they would have about 600000 credits in total. In these 5 months, they really killed a lot of beasts, and since this area had more level 4 beasts and some level 5 beasts, their resources were mainly level 4 and level 5 beasts.
It had already been 6 months since they left the city. Fiona and Flora were also doing great in their new team, and their team also appreciated them.
Since they completed their task, it was time to return.
For next 2 years, their main focus would be to reach level 4 and to collect enough credits.
After long travels, they finally reached the city, and since it was still noon, they directly entered the guild to exchange all the resources they had.
"Hello there, it's been a while since I saw you guys at the guild."
"Yes, we just returned after 6 months."
"I see...so what can I do for you guys?"
"Well, we are here again to exchange for beast resources. By the way, the number is nearing 1000 this time."
"Whhhaaat? Are you for real?"
Lucy nodded at his question.
"Follow me, hehe...looks like Matt will have real work to do right now."
They again entered the butcher's area, and when they told him the amount they were submitting, he really got shocked and wanted to curse them, but in the end, he controlled himself.
"Haah...bring them out 100 by 100."
Lucy followed his words and took out beasts 100 by 100 until they were done.
"That will be a total of 560000 credits."
"Ok."
"By the way, that spatial ring of yours has quite a lot of space," the receptionist asked them after he gave them their credits.
"Maybe."
"Acting mysterious, are we? But how were you guys able to kill level 5 beasts? Don't get me wrong; after all, your card shows that you are only level 3."
"Sorry, I can't tell you that; it's a trade secret."
"Whatever, I shouldn't put my nose where I shouldn't, right? So, you need something with that amount of credits?"
"Yes, 598 spatial stones, please." Lucy already had 18000 credits and 20000 normal spiritual stones with low concentration, so that was the number he could get.
And 598 were enough for him to reach level 3, as he had already absorbed spatial laws worth 2 stones from the world itself.
"Damn...what are you guys up to, making a teleportation formation to leave the human kingdom or something?" Although clerk said that, he still went out to fetch the stones once he handed him the 20000 spiritual stones.
After receiving the stones, they left for their inn. Even though it had been 6 months, that room still belonged to them. They could have it booked for their whole life if they wanted, but they wouldn't be able to enjoy other privileges of Pearl of Secrets, since one card could get only one privilege at a time.