Chapter 15 – How to Rob Immortal 101
The Fox had her treasures in front of her, but she kept her frown on her face. 'To suppress the poison inside her I will need either 4th Grade Antidote, but preferably 5th Grade to not leave any residues for her future Cultivation, or completely awaken her Bloodline. Considering her state and how well she was able to hide... it will cost me, but having a follower with such a powerful bloodline would mean that I would be able to passively suppress all assassins that might get sent after me.'
She thought into the future since she intended to rob all the rich, but stupid families. Most of them don't know what kind of riches they have on their hands yet they dare to stash it away from the naked eye...
She prepared the necessary herbs for her so that she could pull out the arrow. The wound was already infected and it would take quite a lot of time to heal even with those herbs. She then prepared Qi Armours, weapons, etc. and laid them on her rough Array circle. This Array would allow the extraction of Energy from objects at the expense of greatly reduced efficiency. For example, if you had Qi Sword imbued with 100 Qi during forging, then this Array would extract that Qi, but only around 1/10 would be usable for the Cultivators, as such this Array is mostly unused... unless you are rich.
'I'm quite wealthy.' She nodded. 'But since I won't be able to use most of them, since I'm an Energy Cultivator, it would be better to put them to use.' She nodded at herself happily. 'By awakening her bloodline she will live and serve this Queen well and since I can't use the Energy from these swords, rather it's so negligible that eating these armours would be more efficient...' She shook her head and returned to her little Servant Beast.
"This will hurt... but it doesn't seem like you can move." She snickered.
She held her body down with her paws and used Divine Sense on the Arrow, effortlessly pulling it.
*Whine*
Aiko whined in her 'sleep', startling Queen, but she resumed her work and slapped herb salve on Aiko's would with a few crushed pills.
'You will need a Blood Replenishing Pill and... a Blood Replenishing Pill...' She sighed, crushing quite a few of them and then slapped another layer of herb salve on Aiko's wounds. The wounds started to sizzle and all the infection was slowly turning into bubbles.
'I was banned from using this 'Technique' even though it's very effective!' She snorted. It was true that her Technique was effective, but it also robbed the target of their Energy...
[Beast Core: 220 -> 215 -> 210 -> 205 -> 200 -> 195]
She swiftly activated the Array and the equipment slowly crumbled into dust.
[Beast Core: 195 -> 196 -> 191 -> 192 -> 187 -> 188...]
A tug of War was demonstrated as she was healing her.
'... HOW MUCH DO YOU INTEND TO CONSUME?!' She was speechless as another whirlpool was created above Aiko as she sucked another round of Energy into her body. "NO! DON'T YOU DARE CONSUME THAT SHARD, I'M WARNING Y-"
The whirlpool doubled as her Bloodline found a source of energy and eagerly sucked anything and everything within the radius.
Queen had a bitter expression on her face as she placed a few Spirit Stones on the Array. "You..." She shook her head. She couldn't believe this little thing would rob her blind even when she was unconscious. "You better serve me well or I will send you to the underworld!" She cussed at the whirlpool.
[Duality of Cultivation]
*ROAR*
A deafening roar crashed into her body. Her senses warned her to be careful. It felt like something Ancient was looking at her, something so old it was already forgotten, yet at this moment awakened. The formless Beast looked around, making the Queen choke on air. He then turned to Aiko, observing her with those huge formless red eyes.
*ROAR*
He roared again and yet again, another terrifying wave of pressure descended upon the forest. Imprinting that Energy on Aiko as a celebration of her complete Awakening!
The whirlpool of Energy slowly lessened and she cursed in her mind for helping her.
'At least I still have...' She looked around blankly, she remembered she placed her ring outside the range of the Array just in case the Array ran amok and wanted to consume anything with Qi, but...
"W-where is my ring?" Her voice quivered as she robbed and slaughtered 200 Humans just to stockpile that ring.
She looked around noticing something shiny in the corner of her eyes.
She breathed a sigh of relief. "You scared me so much my little sweetheart, you can't make this Queen worr-"
She stopped, it was certainly her Storage Ring and it certainly had her signature... but why was there only half of the ring???
Her mind stopped working completely, a week of hard work thrown out of the window just because she helped this little bastard!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" She howled in the night and cried until morning...
...
Aiko woke up in the morning, feeling quite fresh. She still had a hard time moving her body, but it was not that bad anymore.
She peeked at her status only to get stunned.