Chapter 23: Chapter 23 - Kyle to the rescue
As the items from the dead ogre and spider queen formed. Suddenly a series of flashes started to appear in both of the piles. There were now less and less of the items, but they didn't look like body parts anymore. They looked like something you would buy at the auction house.
This, of course, meant that the quality would be better, also Kyle knew that what system made was of the best possible quality, so there was no reason to feel bad about this crafting.
As everything finished, Kyle noticed that there were 2 enormous crystals. One was of spider queen's that was purple and black in colour, of the size of his head. The second one was of orange colour also of enormous size.
He really wanted to check what items he got from them as well as to check how did his powers increase, but he had to get to the safe area first. Also, the cave that was once home of spiders was now empty. That meant that the treasures were up for grabs!
'I am going to check what is inside the cave and then later sort through everything in someplace safe.' Kyle collected all of the items into his storage space and ran back into the cave.
Kyle went deeper inside, looking for anything that he can use to escape. In fact, the cave was massive, after walking for at least 5 minutes he couldn't see it's end, then suddenly a massive cobweb appeared, that had a countless number of cocoons in it. Behind was finally the wall that marked the end of the cave.
Nearly all of the cocoons were full, and Kyle would off left them here if not for the fact that he saw a familiar weapon tied to one of the cocoons.
It was a large axe that Kyle saw back in the tavern. The reason he remembered it was because it was of the human that spoke to him instead of the guild leader and because this was one of the only weapons he saw with the mana crystals.
So far Kyle's mind was only worried about surviving and escaping as first it was the ogre chasing him, he didn't think about what happened to the guild and where was the main party that set out into the forest. Now, after seeing the number of moving cocoons as well as the weapons that were lying either in the webs or on the floor. This allowed Kyle to connect the dots, 'These cocoons have the White Wolf guildmates inside?!' Kyle didn't want people to die right in front of him, and so he came up to the cocoon of that human man and slashed it open with a wolf fang, surprisingly it easily sliced through the silk.
He carried on opening all of the cocoons and putting the bodies of unconscious humans on the floor. Nearly 30 people were lying on the floor when the human woke up.
"Oy! What happened here?! What did you do?!" The man started shouting at Kyle that was in the process of dragging another body to the line.
"Me? I saved your ass from being suffocated and killed!" Kyle didn't want to explain himself and carried on freeing more people.
The man suddenly remembered where he was and what happened to him before and straight away started frantically freeing people from the closest cocoons. In the end, they have freed around 150 people, and the last cocoon was left. It was off the white-black colour and was very hight up on one of the cobwebs. Kyle didn't really know how to get it as it was that far away.
"That is our guild leader. I will bring her down," The human as if he climbed the cobwebs every day carefully lowered the cocoon to the ground.
With that, he tried cutting through it with his own sword to rip the silk, but the white-black silk was much sturdy than the normal silk. The strike caused his sword to break in half. "God damn! This is harder than a rock!"
Kyle saw that the black cocoon wasn't moving so he didn't have much time. He came close and sliced at it with the wolf fang. The feeling that Kyle got when he touched the material was as if he is cutting through steel armour. The sparks flew everywhere. As he sliced through it, he just started to understand how much more powerful he has gotten, 'The power that I just showed was incredible… I can't wait to experiment more.'
With the cocoon broken, a body fell out of it. It was a tender elf that had leather tight clothing, with steel pieces protecting her vitals. She was full in some type of goo that was also leaking from the cocoon. She was tightly gripping 2 daggers before she was put inside, as now they were lying next to her.
The human gasped and put some type of leather around her body, he started to look through his bag and pulled out a glass bottle that had black-green liquid inside. He looked angrily at Kyle and poured the insides of the bottle inside her mouth.
"I hope this will be enough said human.." He looked at Kyle and said, "Don't get second thoughts. This is only life potion we have. Don't tell anyone that I used it." He was still on his knees, patiently waiting for the elf to show any signs. After a full minute passed, the elf started coughing, and the same viscous goo started coming out of her mouth. It was disgusting.
After the elf stopped coughing, she stood up and was ready to talk, but then dropped to the ground with no power to move, "Ghh, Arnold, what happened," the elf barely spoke and passed out.
"Well, I have the same question to you, Arnold," Kyle asked. That seemed to be the name of the human.
"I will tell you. You rescued all of us, but first, we need to get to the camp. The main reason we are in bad shape is because of the spider queen... how did you get inside?" Arnold looked around and couldn't see any spiders. This was the deepest parts of the nest, after all.
"It got driven away by some huge ogre, I used this chance to go inside," no way would Kyle tell them the truth that he absorbed their energy by himself.
"Gods had mercy on us and sent you to save us. You will be rewarded, don't worry. Thank you!" Arnold bowed to Kyle. "Can we move outside? Did they go far away? I know that it is very selfish of me asking you for a favour after you saved our lives, but could you help us get to the camp?"
Kyle thought of what to say, "Yes, it would be relatively safe to walk, but we somehow need to carry those 100 people? We should wait for them to wake up." Kyle didn't like the idea of going back and forth to the camp, carrying someone. Plus he chose to help them to improve his karma. He had to consolidate his power anyways.
Chapter 24: Chapter 24 - Allying with the White Wolf guild
While waiting for all of the guild members to wake up, Kyle was thinking of how to get an advantage from the spider queens death. He didn't want to be stationed in this forest and be responsible for clearing a new trading path between the 2 kingdoms, but this opportunity was too big to miss.
At this exact moment, Kyle saw that the last person to wake up was ready to move out. Kyle was contemplating on how to persuade the leader of the guild. She clearly didn't like him before. 'Getting a good deal out of the bad relationship is going to be hard. Even though I saved them, I am not certain that they will appreciate it fully.' Kyle's impression of this kingdom's people was very limited, and he was scared to be dealing with criminals.
Kyle was walking behind the group to made sure that no one attacked them from behind. The elf guild leader was still unconscious, and Arnold was carrying her in her hands.
While walking, there was dead silence and constant moans of pain due to the whole guild being injured.
Once they got to the camp, everyone went to their own tents. Arnold stopped next to Kyle and said, "Could you please wait until Thaola wakes up? She has been the one closest to the spider and got injured the most… She will surely want to speak to you after you have saved all of us."
Kyle also was interested in negotiating, "Yes, I can wait." He sat in the meditative position and started on resolving his cultivation to check how high he has improved since the absorption period.
There were many changes inside of his body. The biggest change was in his dantian, which has grown considerably, even changing its shape. It was much more well structured and round than before. The dantian that he initially had was more of an irregular oval that was bent to fit between his insides. Now the dantian was the main focus that was the power source of the whole body.
Also, Kyle noticed that the translucent material that the dantian was made out of was now azure in colour. That could only mean that it was stronger and more durable now. This caused a great surprise to Kyle. Even if a sword strike of a weak enemy pierces into the body and aims straight at the dantian, the sword won't necessarily pierce it and might bounce off.
The dantian overall was both the most fragile and the most important organ a cultivator had. Having better protection for it was the most important part of surviving for longer.
Kyle had noticed that when he just levelled up, his dantian now could hold qi without any banks or limitations. At the bottom of the dantian, the qi swirling around with lightning was just as savage as always. It was at around 75% of the distance from the bottom to the pearl. 'I am guessing that in order to break through to the Foundation establishment stage and level 2, I will have to make my qi fill up to the pearl.
The most amazing part was that Kyle now was able to control qi fully. He tried moving it with his consciousness, and even though he could only do a small part, it did allow him to freely let it flow through the meridians, as it went past the meridians and into all of the small parts of the body, all of the qi started rotating in a circle. Kyle, without knowing, achieved an amazing level of qi control where it would circulate inside his meridians and get rid of all of the impurities that his body and vessels had.
As qi moved around, Kyle's body was as if being hammered. Many uneven and unperfected meridians that he had, now were fixed and put into place. His whole body was hurting, and black liquid started pouring outside of his pores. If anyone saw him right now, they would think that he was in the process of cultivating some type of devil art.
Kyle was about to continue but decided first to find a safe spot somewhere to carry out his practice and dive deeper into the book.
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In around two hours, Kyle was called into the tent that was not very much different from others. The exception was that in the middle stayed a table with 8 chairs around it. On it was the map of the spider forest as well as a red dagger that was stabbed into the table and the map at the point where the cave was.
At this moment, the elf was still wearing the same clothes, and she was extremely pale. She greeted Kyle and wanted to stand up, but her still powerless and numb legs only caused her to drop on the floor. Kyle quickly came up to her and supported her up to the bed.
"Thank you… Sorry. In reality, there are many things that I have to say sorry for." She looked to the side with a gaze, "I was born in the kingdom far away. When I was a child, I was captured on the outskirts of the elven forest. Ever since then, a man of your race has been humiliating me every day. I have not met a single decent representative of your race, and that is why I assumed that you would be the same." She bit her lip in frustration, "Not only did you risk your life checking if any of us were still alive, but you also freed us from sure death. White Wolf Fang and me, Thaola Norjeon, own you our lives."
She continued after a brief cough, "Arnold has told me that you have saw the spider being driven away by an ogre? What level was the ogre, also level 3?'
Kyle nodded his head.
"This is difficult. If they are both level 3, then it could off went either way. What was ogre doing in the spider forest anyways… If he crossed the grassland, that means war." she was contemplating something. "Either way, now that the spider left her forest, it will be much easier to capture the forest as being defenders is always easier."
Kyle looked at her with the best fake surprise he could manage, "You are still going to explore the forest again? Was nearly dying not enough for you?"
She put a smile of relaxation on her face, "You have now changed everything. Going into the forest, we had information that was 3 months old that the spider was only a level 2 creature. It must have gotten some fortunate encounter and consumed some high-level beast. Most likely, it will be injured, and as there weren't any more spiders in the forest, it is either dead or on the brick of dying. We should have no problem this time." Her eyes showed determination as she clutched the bed covers tightly with her hands. "We had everything prepared before. I even had the scorpion poison that is the deadliest poison to the spiders. The problem was that it ambushed us right as I moved into the forest. We didn't even stay in formation… It was totally my fault. If you didn't arrive, I would have killed my entire guild. Again. Sorry, and thank you!" She bowed as low as she could while sitting.
"Actually, I was-" before Kyle could finish, Thaola started speaking again.
"Your efforts will not be underestimated. In my eyes, the spider forest that separates the Kingdom of Rivendale and the Kingdom of Yourkshine is in our control now. This, again, could only be achieved because of you." She stopped and shouted, "Arnold!"
Straight away, the human walked into the tent from the outside. "Yes, guild leader."
"Prepare a contract with Sir Kyle that White Wolf Guild will be splitting all the income and ownership that we will get from this area 50-50, with Sir Kyle having the final say in any decision that we make." Arnold's eyes went wide with shock at first, but after glancing once again at Kyle, he bowed and nodded his head and went out of the tent.
Kyle thought about it, and this was already much better than he hoped. All of the work would be done by the White Wolf guild, and he would only get the benefits. This was a very profitable deal for him, considering that he was in the process of saving his life anyways. This was a very nice bonus.
"Okay, I agree." Kyle stretched out his hand as this was a common way to solidify the deal back on earth, and it meant surely the same thing in this world.
Thaola blushed and put her slender hand out just in front of Kyle's. It wasn't that she wanted to shake the hand, but for Kyle to kiss it, 'What the hell, I only saw women in movies do this at the dinner parties.' Kyle bent down and kissed the hand, like a real gentleman. With this, the deal was now fully in motion.
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The Yourksine Kingdom, are you ready?!
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