Chapter 5 Skill Copy and More Trading

Reappearing in my throne room, I had to shake my head a little and get my head out of the so-called 'gutter'. After clearing my head I decided to head to the farm, this time not by teleporting but just walking through the long icey halls of my castle. After a few minutes of winding staircases and hidden passageways that the System had pointed out, I finally made it to the farm.

Walking into the building I noted that my castle had provided a few silos made of ice to keep the milk cold. Walking by the Steel Plated Cow Women I passed the Azure Flamed Bee Women who weren't doing much besides sleeping or getting milked by one of the Frozen Tundra Wolves. I should probably find some flowers so they can make a proper hive. As I passed the Midnight Shark women I paused, there was no real reason for them to be up here as they were only really good for treasure hunting or leather. At least that is what the System said. Using my Immortal Eye, I glanced at one of the Wolf women passing by.

|Name: Alice White|

|Race: Frozen Tundra Wolf|

|Job: Farmhand|

|Level 23|

I didn't look past her basic information as there was no need.

"Alice," I called out as she was walking away.

"Please go and find a Siren and have them put the Midnight Sharks to work finding treasures for the Kingdom, or whatever else they may need help with." She looked a bit surprised that I knew her name when I called out to her but nodded all the same.

"Yes, Your Majesty." She said, placing her left hand over her heart and bowing, before exiting the barn.

I just nodded before checking up on the Phoenix women who were laying eggs in some baskets below them. Nodding in satisfaction I activated my Immortal Eye again and started looking for what I came here to do as I focused on one of the Phoenix women.

'System, show me all the skills that the Phoenix Woman possesses as well as what her eggs have.'

|Notice: Listing Phoenix Woman, Ash's racial skills: Rebirth, Phoenix Flame, Fire Regeneration, Immolation, Phoenix's Blessing. Now listing Life Skills: Glassblowing S-rank, Blacksmith SS-rank. Now listing skills: Cleanse A-rank, Meteor Strike SSS-rank.|

|Notice: listi...|

'Hold on System, how the hell does a Phoenix Woman that has probably never ventured out on her own, or by herself have an SSS skill?!'

|Notice: Some Phoenix Women are just born with these skills. This Phoenix Woman most likely isn't even aware of the skill she possesses as she would have no reason to use it as long as you do not try to free her or kill her without her master's consent.|

'Huuuuuh, it is going to take a long time for me to get used to this world. Ok, just keep listing the Phoenix egg skills.' I thought with a dejected sigh.

|Notice: Listing Phoenix Egg racial skills: Phoenix Flame Aura and Fire Shield.|

'Well, I wasn't really expecting much from an egg anyway.' Looking back at the Phoenix Woman I focused on the skills I wanted to copy.

|Notice: Congratulations! You have gained the racial skill Phoenix Rebirth…Error…Error…Error. As you are not a Phoenix but do have a higher-ranked flame affinity the skill has been changed to Eternal Flame Sparks: As long as you leave a sliver of your flame somewhere you will not be able to be killed. Even if you are killed by a god and it erases your soul your flame will resurrect you wherever you placed it. Note: you can place up to 10 Eternal Flame Sparks. It is almost impossible to quench an Eternal Flame Spark.|

My eye just twitched for a few seconds as I reread the new skill I had been given. Deciding to have a meltdown later I focused on the other skill I wanted.

|Notice: You have gained the SSS-ranked skill: Meteor Strike: Which calls down five massive meteors to deal extensive damage to an area.|

'Sweet,' I thought with a grin as I headed back to look at the rest of my livestock and see what skills I could get from them.

(1 hour later)

I was sitting on my throne going over the skills I had copied from my livestock. I don't think anything could stop the grin on my face.

|Notice: You have gained the A-ranked skill, Hive Mind: The Hive Mind skill has adapted to allow you to contact and share thoughts with your coven.|

|Notice: You have gained the B-ranked skill, Breast Morph: Cow Women have the ability to change their breast sizes depending on how much milk they need to produce. As you are not a cow woman the skill has adapted so that you can choose to produce milk if you want to or not.|

|Notice: You have gained the S-ranked skill, Treasure Hunter: Treasure Hunter allows you to find treasures in any terrain. You will be notified by the System if there is a treasure you do not currently possess that is within 200 yards of your position.|

|Notice: You have gained the Life Skill, Enchanter: The Enchanter skill can only be used if you know a rune language, as you know the Ancient Rune language, the life skill, Enchanter has been upgraded to Master Enchanter.|

There were quite a few more I could have chosen from but these were the ones I wanted the most right now, plus, being able to change my bust size at will was really fun. 

(30 Minutes Later)

After having fun with my boobs, changing them from truly gigantic sizes to larger than my head sizes, I went back to work; I could always play with 'myself' later.

In my previous world, I was always cautious, so I decided to draw an ancient rune meaning 'hide' with my blood in a square pocket that I carved out on the back of my throne. After the little square drawer was hidden I summoned a silver and gold flame and placed it inside.

|Notice: You have placed one out of ten of your Eternal Flame Sparks in a hidden compartment in your throne. Because you used an Ancient Rune carved and painted with your blood it would take at least a Primordial God to even notice the hidden compartment in your throne.|

'Good, now I am more than safe from anything that might want to destroy me.' I thought to myself with a smirk and a devious grin. 

Sitting back down on my throne I opened up the trading menu again, there were quite a few trading opportunities, and I wasn't gonna let any more go to waste. Plus I really needed to get rid of my lumberjack-building blueprint. Once again a white translucent screen popped up in front of me, and just like last time there were still hundreds of thousands of people screaming for help or not totally believing what was happening. 

"Hey System, is there a way to filter the forum so I only see people who want to trade?" Without answering, the screen in front of me shimmered from white to gold with black lettering.

[@ Blood Swamp: Does anyone have any timber or metal to sell? I have some stone and food.]

[@ Boob Lover: I really thought I was lucky, the race I received was Dragon Beast Women, but their intelligence is crap and the system said they are livestock in this world. How fucking fucked up is that!! If I try to free them the system said they might flee or even kill me. The only use they apparently have is that they shed a lot so I have quite a bit of dragon scales, but I need food, these women are dragons so they eat a lot and are like 15 feet tall! I'll trade you some of my subjects and 100,000 dragon scales if someone can trade some food.]

[@ Red Skull: EMERGENCY!!! My subjects can only survive off of fucking SS-ranked food or they will die, does anyone have food! I have a lot of timber as well as some gems.]

[@ Metal God: I need wood!! I have a lot of metal if anyone wants to trade.]

There were thousands of other posts like this but these were the top ones that stuck out to me. I immediately opened up a dialogue with them separately so that no one else could snatch up their goods.

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Boob Lover, I have plenty of food and I'm willing to trade with you if you give me 20 of your subjects and 200,000 dragon scales. In return, I will give you 150 SS-Ranked Frostfin Tuna and 20 gallons of A-Ranked Steel Plated Cow's Milk. Deal?]

[@ Boob Lover: @ Frozen Rose, Deal!! Total deal.]

|Notice: Boob Lover has sent you 20 Dragon Women and 200,000 dragon scales. The 20 Dragon women have been sent to the farm and the dragon scales have been transferred to the warehouse.|

|Notice: 150 Frostfin Tuna and 20 gallons of Steel Plated Cows Milk have been transferred over to Boob Lover.|

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Boob Lover, this has been very profitable. If you ever need any more food give me a shout, as long as you have something else to trade as well.]

I closed Boob Lovers trading window after sending that last text. I get where they are coming from, they needed to get rid of some mouths to feed. But now they can't trade any more scales with me cause I already have a replenishable source. Oh well, back to more trading.

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Red Skull, I have plenty of SS-ranked food to trade. How much timber and gems do you have?]

[@ Red Skull: @ Frozen Rose, I have over 500,000 timber and roughly 300,000 different kinds of gems ranging from Frost Emeralds to Infernal Opal to Dragonfire Rubies.]

'Damn, their treasure chests must have been dope. Or they landed in a really nice area.' I thought to myself while rubbing my stomach, still feeling some phantom pain of the lava rock piercing my body.

'Hey System, how much SS-ranked food do I have left?' I thought out loud.

|Notice: You have over 3 tons of SS-ranked seafood.|

"HOLY MOTHERFUCKING FUCK!!!" I screamed out into the empty throne room. Thanking any god I could, that no one else was there with me to see my freakout. 

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Red Skull, tell me what your subjects are and I'll see if I have enough SS-ranked food to spare.]

'It's always good to know what races I'll be facing in the upcoming battles.'

[@ Red Skull: @ Frozen Rose, my subjects are Sphinxes.]

'Damn, that's rough. From what I remember from Greek mythology. That's a beautiful torso and face of a woman with the body of a lion.' 

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Red Skull, well I have enough to spare for that race. I always was a cat lover :-) I'll give you 2 tons of SS-ranked food, and in return, I want 250,000 timber and 100,000 various gems. Deal?]

[@ Red Skull: @ Frozen Rose, are you serious! I agree to 100,000 gems but I can only do 200,000 timber. Deal?]

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Red Skull, fine I'll take 200,000 timber, but I want the gems to be increased to 150,000. Deal?]

[@ Red Skull: @ Frozen Rose, fine…deal.]

|Notice: Red Skull has sent you 150,000 various gems and 200,000 timber. The gems and timber have been transferred to the warehouse.|

|Notice: 2 tons of SS-ranked seafood has been transferred over to Red Skull.|

|Notice: Red Skull has left the conversation.|

I sighed as I looked at the other two windows that needed my attention. The first two trades I made were quite profitable, but these two will probably just be equivalent exchanges.

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Metal God, I'll give you 20,000 timber for 20,000 metal. Deal?]

[@ Metal God: @ Frozen Rose, world for me. Thanks. :-)]

|Notice: Metal God has sent you 20,000 metal. The metal has been placed in your warehouse.|

|Notice: 20,000 timber has been transferred over to Metal God.|

[@ Metal God: @ Frozen Rose, pleasure doing business with ya Rose.]

|Notice: Metal God has left the conversation.|

'Yeah…pleasure doing business with you as well.' I thought as I glanced at the last golden window.

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Blood Swamp, how much stone do you have?]

[@ Blood Swamp: @ Frozen Rose, I have a little over 30,000.]

'Jesus, how is it that everyone else got so many resources and I only received like 10,000 of each?!'

[@ Frozen Rose: Blood Swamp, would you be willing to trade 20,000 timber for 20,000 stone?]

[@ Blood Swamp: @ Frozen Rose, no, but I could do 15,000 for 15,000. Deal?]

[@ Frozen Rose: @ Blood Swamp, that works for me. Have a good one :-)]

|Notice: Blood Swamp has sent you 15,000 stone. The stone has been placed in your warehouse.|

|Notice: 15,000 timber has been transferred over to Blood Swamp.|

Closing the golden window floating before me, I decided to see what my new…livestock looked like, as well as take a dip in the hot spring.