Davis looked at Iesha with a complicated expression.
Unlike Schleya, who didn't show any kind of weakness to him until he faked as though he was going to rob her of her innocence, this female spirit in front of him appeared completely docile and yielding with just a bit of intimidation, making him not willing to treat her bad despite the consequences of him acting out of the kindness in his heart.
In truth, he was not worried that much about his life.
At most, he would lose his avatar while his soul essence had already recovered to ninety-eight percent that he could spam this technique every month without a problem. As for the spatial ring that he was currently using, he emptied that out before coming here, although he did carry empty containers that would be useful to carry something he found along the way.
After all, he went exploring with an idea or a mindset of possibly encountering an unknown thing that could kill him in an instant.
What he was worried about was this location's specialty being found out.
If he could hide that, he wouldn't even bother returning but run around as if he had no choice to die and self-destruct to put on a show that he died and remake a new Solitary Soul Avatar back home.
That's why he needed to keep these icy female spirits silent, and there were only two ways to do it. Either enslave them or kill them, which he was unwilling to do the latter as he totally understood that he was invading another person's home and threatening to kill them if they tried to report to the police.
"…!"
'What the…' Davis became flabbergasted as he suddenly noticed the energy below, 'This pool looks so pure and potent that it could make my Natalya reach the Law Rune Stage, and perhaps even improve her body and temper her soul…'
He looked behind and saw that this so-called Frigid Yin Spirit Pool radiated pure yin energy that he had never seen before. It was so pure that it didn't even feel frigid to him even though it evidently had the property of ice. It was quite similar to the Bone-Chilling Ganoderma Tree Sap that he got from Kara Moonridge that helped Natalya change her meridians to yin nature, further extending her talent in Yin Laws and Ice Laws in that regard.
The same way, this clear yin water pool, he instantly appraised that it was extremely potent and compatible with Natalya's Yin Laws and Ice Laws and planned to plunder it no matter what!
His plan instantly changed from escaping to plundering and escaping.
'Fuck… I'm so evil…'
Davis insulted himself before he decisively waved his hand.
Eight strands of dark energy flew out from him. He simultaneously cast eight Obscure Ghastly Bind Slave Seals like it was nothing as they entered the foreheads of the eight female spirits.
They all shook, but the fainted ones didn't wake up as the slave seal assimilated into their souls, making Davis aware of their vitals and everything that he needed to know that they stayed loyal to him because if they tried or thought anything that would be harmful to him, he would instantly come to know and could even kill them from a long distance as long as the connection existed.
On the other hand…
"Why…?"
Iesha cried, tears falling down her eyes, "I even told you that I'm willing to cooperate…"
Davis bent his body and reached her level as he patted her shoulder.
"Don't worry. I promise I won't lay a hand on them if you all keep silent about my presence."
"…?"
Iesha didn't understand. What was this human trying to achieve in their Frigid World Spirit Empire?
Nevertheless, knowing that she and her fellow spirits were enslaved, she couldn't help but feel scared for all of their future but also determined to see this through so that all of them could survive.
"Now tell me as you said you would cooperate. How can we get out from here?"
"It- It's impossible. Outside, people are awaiting my presence. They would see you…"
"Huh… you are…?"
Iesha's lips quivered as she bit her lips, "Iesha Frostrain, the fourteenth and the youngest princess of the Frigid World Spirit Empire."
Her melodious voice echoed, causing Davis's brows to twitch and lament how unlucky he was to meet a princess-level character out of nowhere. But then, he suddenly realized.
"That means you're all Frigid World Spirits and have entered this location as a form trial or something…?"
Iesha slowly nodded.
"I am to break through to the Spirit Ancestor Stage in this Frigid Yin Spirit Pool that is open to the strongest female youths of my empire once every hundred years…"
"And today is supposed to be that day?"
Davis couldn't believe this kind of coincidence, perceiving it to be bullshit.
"I'm- I'm already here for a week…"
Iesha shivered as she saw his face produce a grimace.
"What's the time limit…?"
"There's only half a day left…"
"Half a day? Within that time, you all have to exit?"
Iesha nodded, causing Davis to blink. If he didn't have all eight of these Frigid World Spirit safe and alive, perhaps the entire Frigid World Spirit Empire would realize that something was wrong. Moreover, he was early by half a day?
If he came here half a day later, he wouldn't have to be in this mess!
Such information made him want to yell at his ill-fortune.
Davis inwardly thought of some way to break out of this predicament. Surely, if he took the yin water in this pool and escaped, the people outside would come to know.
"Can you breakthrough now?"
Iesha sadly shook her head while Davis sighed.
"Some talented princess you are…"
"I… I was about to, but your presence broke my concentration, and I'm now unable to do so…"
Iesha protested with a slightly embarrassed expression as if she didn't like her pride to be trampled, while Davis was astonished to see her express her feelings so clearly through expression.
Right now, he was looking at this spirit no lesser than he would at a human or a magical beast.
"How old are you…?" Suddenly, Davis couldn't help doubt.
"I- I am… sixteen years old…"
"….."
Davis's sapphire eyes became listless.
Should he feel sorry for enslaving a sixteen-year-old?
Iesha instantly became a teenager in his eyes, yet her bosoms were huge enough to surpass Isabella, hanging slightly below Evelynn! He felt that she shouldn't be playing with his mind like this as he had his soft spot for innocents who weren't even adults yet!
However, he read that spirits were different in their growth.
At the mere age of sixteen, this woman was already at the very peak of Peak-Level Spirit Supreme Stage, the Eighth Stage in their cultivation system, just a thin line away from becoming a Spirit Ancestor.
Should he even consider her as a teenager when she possessed such power and could make decisions for herself?
Even a while ago, when he surfaced, Iesha and everyone here attacked him with the intent to kill, but that was totally understandable, considering that they might've perceived him to be a perverted Frigid World Spirit before realizing that he was a human.
Nevertheless, he rubbed his face with his palms, contemplating what to do.
'Fine, I'll just steal this yin pool and leave some, making it look as though you used them but failed to break through…'
Davis rolled his eyes and began collecting the water from the yin pool that seemed to have already been quite used up as the water level seemed to have been ten meters above before in this underground cave.
The pool alone was ten meters wide in diameter and a hundred meters in depth, making it so that it possessed a huge amount of yin water for him to use up.
Probably, most of them would've been used up when Iesha began her breakthrough to the Ninth Stage, but now he felt fortunate for inevitably stopping it so that his Natalya could gain more.
Iesha saw Davis plunder the Frigid Yin Spirit Pool, feeling that he was a robber, but she didn't say anything, considering that he didn't lay a hand on her or them anymore. In her eyes, resources were resources. They couldn't compare to the lives of her fellow Frigid World Spirits.
After plundering more than half of the Frigid Yin Spirit Pool, Davis possessed a blatant smile as he turned to look at Iesha.
"You used this much frigid yin water to try and breakthrough but failed, right?"
"Uhm… I don't recall-"
"You used this much frigid yin water to try and breakthrough but failed, right…!?"
Davis's eyes were wide in coercion while Iesha nodded as if she was a pecking bird as she understood, causing him to smile with satisfaction.
"Good."
Davis turned around and woke the seven icy female spirits as he invoked his slave seal. Their bodies shook before their eyes suddenly opened up.
'Now then, should I intimidate them as well or…. alter their memories?'
