13 Twelve

The great forest was vast. Too big to ever remember in its entirety.

Deal had found some useful information from his newly recruited ri..righteous comrade. Deal knew he would need to find more recruits that satisfy his needs since even he wasn't expecting the lands to be this large.

"You think this is large? Just large!?" Minu almost popped a spiritual vein.

"What's the big deal? It just means we got more ground to cover...sigh but at least it's more worth it now." Deal replied with a slight frown.

"You dare frown this was too big and you wanted a smaller god damn world!? Where the hell are you from!?" Even Minu was having doubts.

Kull also raised his ears out of curiosity.

" Uhm... I'm from Earth?" Deal answered awkwardly since the cliche was you tell no one.

' Didn't think the cliché decision came... whatever, I shouldn't focus on this. ' Deal came to terms with it as his present was more intriguing.

"You...you just came from the Earth?" Minu asked with a raised eyebrow.

" Not the earth. Earth!" Deal barked as it was its own world.

"Right...?" Minu was confused again.

" Okay crazy book pulled me somewhere. I went from Earth to this place's Earth. Anyways whats this world called?" Deal asked since the beans have been spilled.

He honestly didn't care, rather he wanted to make Minu and Kull follow him so that he can go be a spread of Terror on Butter.

Villains to be exact.

" So you got here and then stumble on my people's knowledge to forcing me along while claiming you want to be a bandit!?" Minu recapped with dead eyes.

"OBVIOUSLY NOT MINU!" Deal retorted shocked at Minu for his questioning of events.

Minu felt like he just ate a salty stick. He was kidnapped by a bandit... an inter-world bandit.

"We are going to be the very definition of Terrorism! How can you be so un-ambitious."

"We're bandits?" Kull asked at possibly the worst time.

Deal's eyes narrowed at the physically talking Kull and immediately shot out unto Kull's snout and smacked a few "spirit slaps" that Deal had invented himself.

Hardening the spiritual energy that has been externalized to perform physical acts like with an arm was finally possible once Deal gave it some angry attention.

The body Deal got was thoroughly a monstes if one was to be honest. Weak as it may be but from the materials used to Deal's appearance in it was what led to such a complex yet efficient body that can easily use magic through his skin.

"Terrorists!" Kull corrected to appease the angry ball.

"No! We shall be prouder. You all seem to be upset at our title so how about this. I am the Leader. Minu the vice leader and Kull is leader of... of logistics! That's right, and... we shall be... The Association... Of Misfortune!!" Deal smoothly ended his speech and couldn't have been prouder of his naming skills.

His spiritual voice was majestic yet in a certain way was also contradictory.

It was the type that you understood then questioned yet still aren't sure.

"Fine. You promised me a body! Anyways how old are you?" Minu asked finally, as he needed to know this just out of curiosity.

"You can't tell my age !?" Deal was actually surprised from that question considering Minu's experience.

"No, aren't you intentionally hiding it?" Minu asked frowning oddly.

An oddly familiar but tiny little symbol flashed near the core of Deal's body as Minu scanned him again.

"Oh hahaha, not at all. Guess your just bad at detecting peoples magic. How sad Minu. You need to get stronger if you want to stay vice leader!"

"Shut up! How the hell am I supposed to detect a freaky little possessed slime's age!?" Minu retorted before leaving back into his people's spirit domain.

Deal continued while laughing it off on Kull's back as they were speeding away through countless hills and trees.

"Kull where is the nearest settlement that would allow us entry? Including Minus spirit body not being some ghost scare!" Deal asked as he got to the main point.

The world needed to know of them and to start Deal needed to get some money and materials.

Kull answered after pondering a while.

"The only city I know of that fits your requirements is the City of Mirage. How.."

" Great! I'm glad this is good. Onwards Kull the Bull!"

"Uhh... but.."

"No buts! ONWARDS!"

The unfortunate truth was that Kull didn't know where thos city was. The information itself came from a few humans talking about a city that had everyone and everything. The humans sadly passed as Kull turned from hunted to prey.

Deal wasn't having any doubts. He needed to get to thos city. it would be the starting point of their glorious journey.

'Braving wonders, accepting missions, getting gold... What the sleezy duck am I thinking. Hell, we take over a local gang amd grow from there. Instant capital, instant network. Ah, I surprise myself.' A grin was plastered on him from his devilish thoughts.

Minu asked out of curiosity as the hours went by.

"How sre you able to understand such level of technique with nothing but body and spirit? You have no cultivation as far as I see"

Deal was immediately curious when cultivation was mentioned but decided to answer first.

" I started dedicating sections of my processing network to kind of understand it. Its considerably slower but its constantly active which makes up for it."

Minu was surprised but before he could continue Deal interrupted.

"What kind of cultivation exists?"

This was a pleasant surprise considering how there was already magic. Having refined methods seemed quite existing to the blob especially methods related to building a body.

If only Deal didn't hate Theodore so much, he would of realized the man was one of the leading experts of the human race on aritificial body creation.

Today was a day full of loopholes and misinformation.