Chapter 19: The beast

*The 24hr mission elapsed, mission failed*

*Builder mission objectives to have been completed*

-1hr in mind realm to study blueprints: Passed

-Kill 200 Molens collect blood: Failed to collect the blood of molens

-Gain 50 forge points: Passed

Penalty

*-70 forge points debt*

*The following will be LOCKED, Bloodline Skills: [Ice Ki (F)], [ Draconic white eyes(F)], [Frightful presence(F)] [White dragon flame (E)] till debt has been cleared*

Health Points (HP): 10/30

Origin Energy (OE): 14/29

Spirit energy(SE): 10/29

Stamina: 18/34

*Stats*

Intelligence: 11

Agility: 9

Endurance: 17

Vitality: 11

Charisma: 5

Strength: 31

Wisdom: 4

Total forge points: -70

"Ah! So I failed, I had a feeling I had it coming since I had no tool to collect molen blood for myself after I killed them," I thought shaking my head at my locked skills as this is going to be troublesome, then paid my attention back at Slith.

After dismissing the death of his so-called beloved pet, Slith looked at me and grinned coldly, "Bring in the beast," said Slith waving his hands to the black-robed hooded servants.

"Wait! What!? Another beast!?" I said with wide eyes.

Striding towards the dungeon door Slith looked back at me and smiled, "Of course a beast, you can't forge without a heat source, and you are an Ice user after all, but no worries when you get a suitable beast core in the future you can create your own 'Residence Treasure' you can find one that belongs to the flame element and create a Blacksmithing tower suitable for your work," said Slith indifferently with his chin tilted arrogantly.

"Residence Treasure? What is that?"I Said.

Slith gave a pondering look tapping his chin, then gazed at me with a smile, "Hehehe..perhaps you can do it?"

"Do what!?"

"Boy do you know what is more important for the growth of a cultivator?" he said

I then shook my head

"All cultivators know that to grow they need Pills, weapon treasures, rare martial arts skills, inheritances, good beast meat, and Spirit stones. But one thing most important to all of Afreya, that is also hard to create is the "Power Residences,"

"Huh? Did you just say 'Power residence'?" I said with a raised brow.

"After the war with you demons a lot has changed, Infrastructure was destroyed and Cultivation resources were lost during the all-out fighting, but after the war ended there was abundant chaotic residual energy left in the atmosphere that could not be used,

The reason for this state of the environment in Afreya was because of your ancestors, the Dwarfs destructive weapons that were made by them that caused irreversible harm to the environment and the chaotic residual energy was very harmful to most living beings, but some beasts and some vegetation have adapted and survived as you saw Cerebral was extremely poisonous, but when most people try to absorb the chaotic energy they would die, which caused all Dwarfs to be hated. so a solution was made,"

"Yes more importantly it is more like a treasure the research facility in Afreya discovered which is similar to creating a domain,"

"By creating your own territory in the form of a shelter or residence that has your suitable needs will it not aid in safe growth? That is the basic use of 'Power residence treasures' From shrines, tombs for inheritances, dungeons, or sects with disciples that use,

Training rooms, Pill rooms for pill masters even blacksmiths need 'Power residences', they can all be connected to one individual who is the master of these places and command immense power to be filtered and used by them and a good example is right in front of you," Said Slith with a youthful grin that looked like a kid about to show off his toy.

The dungeon began to tremble as Slith sat cross-legged and took out a yellow beast core and began concentrating his power that created a yellow flaming funnel towards the roof , "Let me tell you this, the reason why us tower masters are numbered from 1st to 4th it is because of these beast cores themselves, that we convert and store power to help us make the energy in our residence suit us as long as it is the right element and the rank of the beast is high enough." He said, concentrating even more.

"The 1st tower is Scholar grade of the first old man which helps in rejuvenating his magma power that is why he is not dead from the injuries of the humanoid molen that attacked us last time, and the towers from 2 to 4 are Ascension grade and have the same use," Said Slith.

"But I just thought of an idea. What if you can upgrade my tower...Y-Yes…Hahaha if you can do that then I will easily beat the crap out of those who oppose me, but not all can become a great architect, to master being a builder you must be well versed in three things, The first is to be a master designer of blueprint scrolls, become a master blacksmith of basic single component treasures like swords shields, spears, and Armour

And finally, Strength. Be able to compete for resources and to hunt down beasts to take their cores that can convert the chaotic energy into pure Origin energy," said Slith but then,

Grrrr!

A huge tiger strode into the dungeon growling deeply, its limbs were large, veiny, muscular, the size of a grown cow's thighs and the claws glinted with a sharp fiery feel as if it could burn the ground itself simply by stepping on it and eyes that were golden in color reflecting the light from the luminous rock crystals in the dungeon.

"Oh Almost forgot about you, we found this guy in the fourth tunnel as he walked out, we don't know his origins but he took us a long time to capture," said Slith looking at the orange tiger with black stripes with fear written on his face,

Roarer!

It unexpectedly released a roar upon seeing Slith as if it wanted to Gnaw the flesh off his bones, and struggled furiously on the chains it was brought in, causing some of the servants to fall and one was unfortunate to get his head cleaved clean off with its sharp claws, painting the tiger's face rosy red with blood, as it got strapped to the chain holding my neck collar.

Slith turned, and smiled at me, "It's your job to tame it so that it can give you flames, and since you are so skilled in smithing perhaps it will accept you as its master, kekeke, And we will talk more on what we just discussed min future when you proved to be powerful enough to be a great architect the toughest job in this world" said Slith tapping his thighs while laughing.

The tiger's ears twitched irritably hearing his laugh causing it to smile coldly and turn around, pointing its butt crack in Slith's direction.

Psswoosh!

Splat!

"Oh wow, Slith how do you 'crack' yourself up this good?" I said grinning as he wiped the brown smelly bullet released from the tiger's rear.

The Tiger then looked closely at me squinting its golden eyes, causing my heart to sink as I moved back against the bar, "G-G-Good kitty, you wouldn't shoot a fellow inmate right?" I said in a pleading tone, causing the tiger to lose interest and turn around to sleep by the corner of the dungeon.

" Phew! Well, then Master Slith, can I have its body?" I said, wiping away my sweat while pointing towards Cerebral.

Slith looked at me murderously, and nodded slowly "Sure no harm in that since you resisted its poison you should be able to do as you wish with the body," he said looking at the tiger clenching his fists till his knuckles made crackling sounds.

"The fire breathing tiger, you will use it to forge instead of the snake, it's a very good beast flame user I found, so use it wisely," said Slith

"Bastard! so you let me use the venom on purpose when you had a fire-breathing tiger at the back, I send my regards to 15 generations of your family," I shouted inwardly.

I watched the orange-furred tiger sleeping soundly while strapped with chains, connected to my neck collar, "Damn it I haven't had time to invent a way to get rid of these collars but now with so much time in my hands I can probably make it now." I mumbled.

Also, find a way to escape this place.

After giving me more material to work with, Slith started walking away and stopped. "By the way, there is another brat who caused me trouble because she wanted to see you," he said, walking out the door, then the snake's body was hauled into my bone cage by another robed servant.

A familiar scent entered my nostrils causing them to flare up, and immediately thought of someone, "Hey!? how?" I said pointing at the servant taking off her black hood.

"I performed dominatrix to most of Slith's subordinates, to get me in here when he got tired of all the farce he let me get in," she said with a smile revealing sharp vampire like-teeth, her red eyes glinting beautifully red like the martian star.

I looked at her attentively, "Why!? Do you always follow me around, and take my orders? We barely know each other that much" I said, rubbing my chin that now had a beard growing lushly thanks to my previous leveling up and waste purification.

She looked at me, fidgeting her fingers together looking extremely cute. "Even though I don't know it's very weird, I don't normally just follow weaklings around, but I somehow feel like you are special," she said, turning her head away.

I shook my head and sighed, even when she acts cute her words stab hard "Never mind then," I said looking around the dungeon and activated my dragon white eyes and saw no energy of anyone except me, her, and the tiger.

The galaxy thread was super dense as it spun inside the orange tiger, "The energy density in you Kitty is stronger than Slith, so why are you chained?" I thought, which had me confused for a moment, but I ignored it and turned back my attention to S10 wearing the robe.

"I need your help S10," I said seriously.

Right now I had collected enough info about my situation, and I knew who to take down and avoid to be able to escape this slave life.

She looked at me lowering her head, "Then what can I do to help out," she said in a low tone.

"Escape," I said

"What!?" she said with a frown.

I patted her shoulder and began to explain my plan to escape the dungeon, by teleporting out of Terra kingdom, to the land 'above us'.

"That is crazy and I like it, "she said licking her tiny red lips

"Good! to do that, we will have to usurp power from the tower masters and then activate the Omega treasure teleportation device," I said

"But we aren't a match for the masters they are too powerful for us," she said

"Haha don't worry do you trust me," I said with a smile patting her head

She looked at me and held her small chest, "I S10 might not be smart but I can dominate fools, and as a future leader of the succubus clan I will ensure to help my members escape with me, as long as they can come I can go along with your plan," she said seriously.

"Good then prepare to fight soon, I will be forging here and when the time's right we will strike and escape this place," I said

Then S10 left, leaving me to think of how Slith's attack was able to be blocked by my shield made from trash, "If I can make a weapon to beat these losers I can be confident to escape this place," I said

Looking at the corpse I studied it and apprised it with my system.

*Corpse of Snake beast cerebral*

*Beast core located*

I took out a small green orb from its stomach after digging my hands in the snake's belly.

Poison resistance activated [F]: -5 stamina

Heat resistance activated [F]: -5 stamina

The small pebble-like orb was very unstable and released a lot of pure origin energy, "So powerful, it feels like I'm holding a star on the palm of my hand," I exclaimed in my heart.

I skinned the snake, and looked at the flesh, then cut a chunk out, and threw it to the trigger, "Here buddy eat this and be my friend." I said with a smile.

It looked at the meat beside it and looked at me lazily, "Dumb-ass do you think I'm like the low-level beast you dealt with," it said

I froze stunned, "Wait you can talk!?" I said with wide eyes looking at the orange-colored tiger and its golden gaze, making me feel as though I'm an ant.