While Shiro watched Lisandra eat with a smile, she browsed the web to see if there had been any signs of the Corrupted Relic, Executioner’s Requiem.
‘Hmm… seems like the backlash hasn’t hit yet.’ She thought after scanning through the forums. During her time in the quest, Vericia had been quite peaceful with no conflicts between factions.
“What are you looking at mum?” Lisandra asked while swallowing a mouthful of food.
“Nothing much. Just some news about what’s been happening.” Shiro smiled while resting her chin on her palm.
Looking at her two daughters eating happily, Shiro felt quite happy inside.
‘If I was never experimented on, would I have a family like this?’ Shiro wondered curiously.
“Are you not going to eat?” Lisandra asked.
“Me? The food is a little bland so I’m fine.” Shiro shook her head.
“Bland? I think it’s pretty tasty. Here give it a go.” Lisandra said while offering a spoonful of food.
Smiling wearily, Shiro nodded her head.
“Oh my.” Widening her eyes, she noticed that she could taste the food now. Feeling the different flavours in her mouth, Shiro closed her eyes and savoured the feeling.
“See? Good right.” Lisandra grinned.
“Yeah it is. Maybe I should get more food.” Shiro nodded.
Looking at Shiro and Lisandra interacting happily, Yin couldn’t help but puff up her cheeks in jealousy.
“What? Do You also want something to eat?” Shiro raised an eyebrow.
“No. You can eat with little Lis.” Yin turned her head away.
“Haha, little glutton, if you’re jealous just say so. Here.” Shiro laughed softly and gave her a C ranked mana crystal. While her stock was limited right now, more mana crystals were constantly being created in her room.
Walking up to the counter once more, Shiro ordered some food for herself.
As the three of them ate their food, they ignored the stares that they were receiving from the different disciples.
Once they finished, Shiro prepared to go to the auction house. She needed to sell everything she got from the quest after all.
“Shiro.” Natash called out from afar.
“Sup.” Shiro smiled and gave her a small wave.
However, when Natash saw Shiro face, she paused in surprise.
“Wow, you’ve really matured. I bet there’s going to be a huge line of suitors now haha.” She joked but when she looked down, she noticed a certain runway and couldn’t help but feel pity. ‘What a shame.’
“Doesn’t matter, it’s not like I’ll accept them.” Shiro shrugged. She decided to ignore the clear pity in Natash’s eyes.
“If you don’t mind, why don’t we hang out for a bit?” Natash smiled.
“Sure. But I need to go to the auction house first.”
“Oh? You want to buy something?”
“Nope. I got quite a few items from the quest so I want to sell them. No use for them rotting in my storage after all.” Shiro shrugged.
“Eh? You know that you can sell them to the faction right? We have our own faction store that people can use.” Natash reminded.
“We can?” Shiro raised an eyebrow.
“Well yeah. We don’t want to strengthen the other factions after all. Plus, you’ll be able to get some contribution points whenever you sell things to the faction. Follow me, I’ll take you to the transactions room.” Natash said while gesturing for Shiro to follow her.
“Welp you heard her. Come on you two.” Shiro called out to Lisandra and Yin.
“Coming~” They both replied in sync.
“Well aren’t they cute. It’s a shame that they aren’t babies otherwise they can become the faction’s mascots.” Natash said while looking at the duo.
“Of course, I’m not saying that they can’t be mascots now.” She shrugged.
“If Yin became a mascot I’ll be surprised. The little glutton would probably eat the pantry of a faction if she could.” Shiro smiled lightly.
“I can hear you mum.” Yin frowned.
“I know you can. I’m making you self-conscious so that you would stop being a glutton.” Shiro replied while giving Yin a side glance.
Taking a deep breath in anger, Yin’s face became flushed.
“Hahaha, chill out.” Shiro grinned while poking Yin’s nose and conjured up a handful of snow on her face.
“Gah!” Yin cried out in shock.
“Bully!”
Looking at the duo’s shenanigans, Lisandra smiled happily. She enjoyed this kind of atmosphere.
Arriving at the transactions room, Natash gestured for the three to sit down on the sofa.
“So can you show me what items you got?”
“Sure. We’ll start with the least important ones I suppose.” Shiro nodded.
Flicking her wrist, a table full of materials appeared with some even falling off the table.
“Heh~ That’s quite a haul you have there.” Natash smiled. Form the table full of materials, she noticed that most of them were dropped from demons. She knew that the quest received from the dungeon involved demon’s but she had never seen anyone return with so many materials.
Plus, a person can only do the quest once. This meant that Shiro had gathered everything in one go.
“What grade did you even get at the end of the quest?” Natash asked curiously.
“Higher than a D.” Shiro smiled.
“I expected as much. But I have to say, I’m quite surprised. A few people have tried to fight the army of demons but died every time. How did you do it? If the way to complete the quest is known, we’ll be able to get bountiful rewards.” Natash asked.
“Hmm… Honestly, I don’t think that they can do it. Even I’m surprised at how I managed to muddle my way through. Just stick with the bag rewards, there are better places to farm for materials.” Shiro replied. She was being half truthful since she did indeed muddle her way through a few situations.
If the same situation was given to random disciples, she estimated that they had a 95% chance of failing.
“I suppose so. We were fine without farming the quest anyways.” Natash shrugged. She had thrown the question out since it would be an added bonus for the faction.
After going through the materials, she wrote down the estimated worth on a tablet and sent a doc.u.ment to the finance team.
“Shall I bring out the weapon and armour now?” Shiro asked with a small smile.
“Of course, I’ll just put these aside for now.” Natash nodded and shifted the table across before pulling out a new table from her inventory.
*Clang clang clang clang!
A giant mound of armour and weapons appeared on the table as each of the armour pieces were on average level 50 equipment. From what she could see, Natash could tell that quite a few of the armour pieces were around level 70 as well.
‘Didn’t she class up after leaving the quest? How the hell did she kill level 70 C class monsters?!’ She thought in disbelief.
‘Once a monster reached C class, the difference between levels increase by a wide margin. For a level 50 to kill level a level 55 is counted as a genius. What do you call someone who killed something 20 levels above them?’
What she didn’t know was that compared to the average adventurer, Shiro has had a lifetime worth of experiences to back her up along with countless top tier weaponry stored in her mind. Pair that up with her passive skills, augments and titles, it made for one of the most if not THE most powerful level 50 of all time.
While Natash went through the armour that Shiro wanted to sell, she couldn’t help but ask if she was sure. To which Shiro always nodded her head since they were worthless to her. She already recycled the skills that she needed. She now needed to save up money so that she could prepare to buy more rebirth pills.
“Damn, what the hell happened in the quest? Did you kill their entire race or something?!” Natash asked after going through the last weapon.
“Mn, well close hahaha.” Shiro chuckled.
“Are you ready for the more important items now?” She asked with a grin.
“####! Aren’t these important enough already?!” Natash felt the corner of her mouth twist when she heard what Shiro had just said.
Each of the armour sets and weapons that Shiro wanted to sell could be classed as high class commodities. Unlike the mass produced weapons and armour that were somewhat subpar, every single armour was special in its own way and far superior than mass produced crap. If all of these items surfaced in the market, there was no doubt that she’ll break the value of certain items.
And yet, Shiro mentioned that she had better items to sell!
Sighing heavily, Natash leaned back for a moment before sitting up straight again.
“Ok, I’ve prepared myself. I’m ready for anything you throw at me.” Natash said confidently.
“No you’re not. I said the same thing when I train with mum and goodness was I mistaken.” Lisandra muttered quietly as her body couldn’t help but shiver a little from her memories.
Hearing what Natash had said, Shiro curved her lips into a smile.
Snapping her fingers, several plates appeared in front of her.
“Here you go.” Shiro said while handing her the all of the Humiliation items that she had collected so far. Of course, she kept one of each to serve as trophies.
“Oh my, look at the grade and the eff- … The f*ck?” Natash paused seeing the description.
Quickly grabbing another piece, she felt her eyelid twitch.
‘What the f*ck did you do to the monsters?! Also why did one of them enjoy it!!!’ Natash suppressed her urge to flip the table.
“Erm, Shiro.”
“Sup.”
“What did you do to the monsters for these items to drop?”
“Pierced their ass.” Shiro replied nonchalantly while checking her nail.
*Clang!
Dropping the item in shock, Natash stared at Shiro in disbelief.
Meanwhile, Yin and Lisandra looked away in shame.
“What? It’s a good weak point.” Shiro raised an eyebrow seeing everyone turn away.
“It’s a good weak point but it’s also a shameful weak point.” Natash replied.
“And? Between targeting the rectum to live or avoiding it and die, which one would you choose?” Shiro asked as she crossed her legs and stared at Natash intently.
“*cough* Anyways, I think that these items will benefit the faction greatly. And erm… is this all the humiliation type items that you have?” Natash asked with some difficulty. She had to admit that for such a good defensive type item, she didn’t mind targeting an ass or two. It was just a shame that she wouldn’t be able to use it since the description clearly barred Shiro from using them as she is the culprit.
However, there was also another problem with getting this kind of item. The monster would definitely become berserk so it was best that they get high levelled disciples. But at the same time, the high levelled disciples wouldn’t waste their time for something like this. Especially since they can’t use it themselves. They had better things to do.
“Of course I can get more.” Shiro grinned.
“That being said, how about we make a small deal. For every hmm let’s say 10 humiliation item I give to the faction, the resources I receive, including what my friends receive, gets an overall increase. How’s that?” Shiro asked with a smile.
“Hmm… I’ll have to ask.” Natash replied after a short moment since she knows about the deal that Shiro had with the faction. In exchange for being a guest elder, the faction would nurture her friends as best they could.
“Sure.” Shiro smiled and sat back. She had plenty of time to wait for Natash to ask for permission.
After waiting for a while, Natash received a message back accepting the terms.
“Ok, they said that’s no problem. For every 10 humiliation items you give us, we’ll increase your resources slightly. They said that they’re only raising it slightly since you seem to be able to get these items quite easily considering the fact that there are more than 40 here already.” Natash smiled apologetically.
“Hmm… How about 5 items instead? After all, each of these are high ranked defensive items.” Shiro smiled lightly.
Natash understood her underlying tone since she had the option to sell this to other factions as well.
Putting a new request in, Natash soon smiled and nodded at Shiro.
“They’ve agreed.”
“Great. Now since there is more than 40 here, I’ll just count it as 40 for now as discount.” Shiro smiled.
“So how much is that in total?” Shiro asked.
“Hmm… the items, armour and weapons combined is more than 20 billion USD. Ever heard of a currency known as Erin?” Natash asked.
“Yes I have. 1 billion USD is 1 bronze Erin right?”
“Yeah. It’s slightly awkward to work with USD for now so we’ll pay you in Erin. In total, that’ll be 24 bronze Erin coins.”
“Oh, but before that, I also have 3 billion on me right now so can I trade them in for 3 bronze Erins?” Shiro asked while they were on the topic of money.
“Of course.”
After transferring the money over to Natash. Shiro received a total of 27 Erins. In addition to this, her system interface had also upgraded to now show 27 Bronze Erins and 200.6Million USD.
Just as she was about to leave with Yin and Lisandra, Natash called out to her.
“Remember that in three days time, the recruit demonstration is being hosted. Make sure that your schedule is clear ok?”
“Of course, don’t worry.” Shiro smiled.
Leaving the room, Shiro started to plan her next three day’s out.
‘If I remember correctly, there is a training room in this place. I can probably test out my current capabilities. Maybe even spar against Lisandra to improve her combat prowess.’ She thought while glancing back at Lisandra.
Suddenly feeling a chill down her spine, Lisandra looked up and made eye contact with Shiro.
Seeing that kind of look in her eyes, she knew what was up already.
‘Oh sh*t.’
