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.