The Four Tailed Fox

Artha took Sky directly to the palace of the territory lord. She opened it's doors and rushed in. Her behaviour was more like she was visiting her family, rather than their territory lord.

Sky only understood her behaviour, when Artha went to the territory Lord's room and knocked gently, "sister, there is someone who wants to meet you." She said gently.

It seemed like Artha was the little sister of the current Territory lord.

"Let him in." A melodious voice sounded from the other side of the door.

Artha opened the door and gestured Sky to enter with a smile. He nodded and took a step in.

The fragrance of the room felt refreshing, he closed his eyes and took a breath in and exhaled peacefully.

There was a bed at the end of the room, a lovely four tailed fox was currently resting on the bed.

Sky's eyes squinted at her. What he saw was a pure four tailed fox. She was small enough to be carried in his arms. There were no signs that showed that she had human characteristics.

The four tailed fox had her eyes closed but she could still notice Sky's presence. "Thanks a lot, benefactor. For protecting my sister and my subjects."

Sky did not reply. He was still amazed at how different she looked. Her own sister was three tailed fox lady, but she was a four tailed pure fox. His head was starting to hurt.

Maybe noticing Sky's dilemma, the four tailed fox explained the reason for her current form, "I was poisoned recently, so I am purifying the poison in me using my race's secret art. The 'tail transformation art'. This art will revert me into a pure fox and use the pure internal energy stored in my tails to purify me."

Sky finally understood. He immediately adapted to this new situation. After all he was here to make a deal.

"Can you fight in your current state." He asked, he did not care about her answer, since he was here, he will make her win.

"I will try my level best. Other things, I will leave them to fate and my Little Sister" The four tailed fox did not open her mouth but the words could be heard by Sky.

'Little sister?' Sky did not know why Artha came here, but he chose to put it away and continue. "Then how about we make a deal. I will make you win this battle, but you will give me something in return." Sky brought up the reason for his visit.

"Tell me what you want first, then we will talk." The four tailed fox did not promise anything.

"Well my request is very simple, I will let you know it once we win the battle. If you don't like my request, you can just reject it." Sky had a plan to gain lots of blood essences. There was no use telling the four tailed fox about it now.

"And I would like to borrow a weapon which could penetrate a level four Minotaur, I will use use this medallion to exchange for this weapon." Sky removed the medallion from his left hand and placed it before the fox.

The fox finally opened her ember coloured eyes and stared the medallion. She then waved her paw and retrieved a small knife from the bed.

[ Where did she place that knife until now?]

Sky was dumbfounded at the way she retrieved her weapon and stared at her.

This time, the four tailed fox did not explain the way she took out the weapon. She took the medallion and waved her paw cutely once again.

The medallion disappeared in front of Sky. And the knife she had in her paws floated towards Sky.

[ Is this the power you gain from becoming a level four monster?]

Sky did not understand how she retrieved the weapon or how she took the medallion. For a second, he suspected that this was the power of a level four monster.

But he shook his head afterwards. These methods are too profound to be able to learn at just level four.

According to him, they must at least be of level nine to be able to do, what the four tailed fox just did. Unless she had a cheat which was similar to his left hand, which defied common sense.

[ Seems like she is also hiding a lot.]

Sky smiled and turned around to leave.

"How will you enter the battle ground? You are not related to either of the races, right?" He heard the fox asking as he turned .

He turned back and looked into the fox's eyes. His face turned serious as he said, "Why don't we marry then? This way I will be a part of your territory."

The four tailed fox squinted her eyes at him. Sky just shrugged his shoulders. "Don't worry, I have a way to enter it." He left leaving these words.

The four tailed fox stared at the door for quite some time before sighing and going back to meditation.

.....

In the Minotaur territory,

The Level four Minotaur, the lord of the territory was currently drinking wine with another Minotaur accompanying him.

"Brother, I finally got that bitch to accept my challenge. Once she loses, I will take her right in the middle of battle ground." The Minotaur Lord was showing his true emotions in the face of wine.

"He hee! Don't forget to let your brother have a taste of her. I also wanted to ravage that bitch for a long time." The one who was addressed as the brother spoke with a evil laugh.

"Ha haa! Then we will do her at once in the battle ground. I will take the back, you take the front." The Minotaur Lord said.

"Ha haa! You love the back after all." His brother encouraged him.

"Now matter how hard that bitch prepares, she won't be able to handle two level four Minotaurs." The Minotaur Lord laughed as he poured a jug of wine inside his mouth.

"That's true! No body would have expected me to fake my guarding duty. We are truly prepared to face that bitch this time. It won't end up like the last time." His brother laughed along with him.

"Don't mention the past, we were still young and just reached level four. It was obvious that she could beat us. But this time it will be different. We will finally get to ravage that thousand year old bitch." The Minotaur Lord slapped his brother's back and poured a jug of wine down his throat.

"Yeah! This time for sure. We even paid a lot of energy stones to the Limans[1] to let someone else take on my job as a guardian." His brother also agreed that their plan was flawless.{ Limans are the monsters with a lion head, human waist and horse legs.}

They finished their drinking and made their way to the bedrooms. They slept like logs, waiting for the day of battle.

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