Chapter 276 Signing the Contract
Compared with retainers, demons are more like personal assistants. Because of the irreversible nature of slavery contracts, outsiders invited to the demon night banquet also need a certain credibility guarantee, and the so-called recommender is probably one of them.
Never underestimate the perversion of human beings. Not everyone will treasure retainers as treasures. For example, those who do not lack "slaves" in reality are full of confidence and it is not surprising for them to do anything to retainers.
Human hearts are unpredictable. The demon group will provide demons with a certain degree of rights protection, so that they will not completely become slaves of the contractors at least on the spiritual level.
And demons like Helen who recommend the banquet attendees, like guarantors, guarantee the character and temperament of the contractors to a large extent.
The seemingly rough and casual demon night banquet actually sets many thresholds in a subtle way, and the loyalty and dependence of retainers also prevent the contractors who are qualified to attend the banquet from being too entangled in the ditches and bumps.
Before signing the contract, Mu Hua and his sister each signed an agreement with Barbara and her sister.
What about two days off a week, no persecution-related work, no excessive interference in private life, etc. . . .
Compared with the slavery contract that followed, this agreement can be seen as a gentleman's agreement, or as the helpless struggle and final stubbornness of the demons.
In this regard, even Mu Hua could not help but feel a little pity for Tina, and felt an unspeakable strange discomfort in his heart.
The slavery contract that should have been signed after hunting the exiles, the Barbara sisters handed themselves over after Mu Hua and Tai Besha agreed to the agreement.
From then on, their lives were bound to Mu Hua and Tai Besha, and they became the dependents of others.
While gaining dependents, Mu Hua and Tai Besha also ushered in the "harvest season".
The mountain villa, which is the demon's lair, also stores the wealth accumulated by Barbara and Tina, and these accumulations will become the property of the contractors together with them.
If Mu Hua and Taibesha do not settle down and become naturalized in Alan, when they leave with Mu Hua and the others, including this mountain villa, will also be recycled and distributed to some new generation of demons as nests.
"Look, these are all our collections. Now we really have nothing." Pointing to the rows of shelves in the storage room, Barbara joked.
They have been constantly building up their psychology since they were sensible. Their outlook on life and values are very different from the secular world. Compared with the complex emotions of Mu Hua and Taibesha, Barbara and Tina are much more free and easy.
Weapons, armor, medicinal materials, metal ores, the things in the storage room are not many. Speaking of it, Barbara and her sister are not really rich.
Or, the higher attributes of the sisters among their peers are not for nothing.
As Barbara said, since she learned to refine the essence of monsters, most of their money has been used to purchase monster corpses and magic energy.
Barbara is a graduate of a formal "professional school". It is inevitable that there will be losses and failures in refining monster essence and blood. Because Tina has not yet awakened, in order to enhance Tina's combat power, those essence and blood have been thrown on Tina.
As a young demon who has not awakened, while mastering the necessary knowledge and combat skills of a waiter, Tina can have a physique of 500+, and the effectiveness of monster essence and blood is indispensable. In Barbara's words, she is completely helping Mu Hua to feed the child.
In the absence of enough slaves to carry the burden, money and personal strength must always be chosen.
After a while, more outgoing and less ingoing, the financial situation of the two sisters can be imagined.
And as the attributes improve, the sisters' requirements for the quality of monster essence and blood are getting higher and higher.
If it is not difficult to purchase high-quality monsters at a suitable price, I am afraid that the remaining things in this storage room will also be sold by Barbara.
"Corn sword, true red sword, black rhino armor, no staffs or robes?" Mu Hua asked Tina after checking the weapons and equipment in the storage room.
"Except for the Court of Exile, the entrances to several courtyards in Alan are all at the bottom of the deep sea, which is inconvenient to enter and exit, and we rarely go there."
"Because of the physical growth advantage of demons, young demons usually study martial arts and combat skills. In order to cooperate with demons, more humans in Alan will choose to study magic. There is a big market for spellcasting equipment in Alan." Tina said.
"All sold?" Mu Hua understood without Tina saying more.
"Well, sometimes Barbara will dismantle some staffs when she is short of magic cores." Tina added. Barbara looked up at the roof, humming a tune, as if studying the pattern of the roof.
"Oh, it's exquisite. Sometimes I do this too." Mu Hua smiled and shook his head. Obviously, Barbara is not a person who is careful with money.
"Is this a dragon's tooth? It's incomplete. Why do you keep it?" Mu Hua looked through the equipment and saw a large broken tooth on a shelf.
"I picked it up in the courtyard. It's quite rare. I keep it as a lucky charm." Barbara said.
A complete dragon tooth is a top-quality material, but an incomplete dragon tooth will become a harder tooth after a long time.
"Is there a dragon in Alan's courtyard?"
"There should be, but few people encounter it. People usually go to the Deep Sea Courtyard to capture monsters or collect monster cubs, and then put them into the Court of Exile."
"Raise the exiles?" Mu Hua frowned.
"Maintain the ecosystem, and prevent the exiles from going crazy due to hunger." Barbara said.
"Your attitude towards the exiles is really contradictory." Taibesha sighed.
"Oh, there is no way. No one knows whether their descendants and relatives will be possessed by demons. In order to avoid civil strife, exile is also a helpless choice." Barbara smiled bitterly, and Tina was a little depressed.
"Wow~, you really have something good. Is this Chimera alloy?" Mu Hua's surprised cry interrupted the slightly dull atmosphere.
I saw Mu Hua take a piece of ugly ore the size of an egg from the shelf. The dark-colored ore was mixed together, making this ore look like a highly toxic radioactive source.
Although it looks like ore, this thing is the companion substance of Chimera. Because it can promote the fusion of some high-density metals and magic substances, it is called alloy.
Chimera is a kind of alienated magic beast with a certain demon bloodline. They have no reproduction ability and there is almost no law to follow in their birth. Therefore, Chimera is also a rare magic beast, and the companion substances on them are even more rare.
"I exchanged this for more than a dozen monster essences. How about it? Are you satisfied with our "dowry"?" Barbara smiled proudly.
"Hehe, dowry." After weighing the Chimera alloy in his hand, Mu Hua glanced at other items on the shelf, but did not refute Barbara's statement.
The contract has been signed, and this is also considered one of his own. No matter whether it is out of pity or other reasons, Mu Hua tries not to develop the habit of attacking and tossing his own people.
In addition to the Chimera alloy, there is also a fist-sized Diluman metal, an Elkan metal, and a cross-boundary stone suitable for generating courtyard keys on the shelf. The other things are relatively ordinary.
As a magic metal, unlike Diluman metal, Elkan metal does not have much effect on neutralizing magic. It mainly increases the toughness and durability of equipment.
"Your fighting style is inclined to direct attack melee attacks?" Looking at the things in the house, Mu Hua asked Tina while thinking.
"At this stage, we have been studying combat skills. Barbara has mastered blood mimicry and is trying to get in touch with high-level combat skills. I haven't mastered blood mimicry yet." Tina replied.
"High-level combat skills? Can your physique withstand blood mimicry?" Mu Hua questioned.
Blood mimicry can make a qualitative change in the combat mode of a warrior, and it is also a necessary threshold for high-level combat skills. Not to mention the difficulty of its practice, even if it is a demon, it is rumored that at least a physique of 800+ must be possessed to practice it safely.
"The physique of demons is quite special, similar to self-regulation. Although the power will be a little weaker, as long as you control your emotions, blood mimicry will not cause damage to the body." Tina explained.
"Well, no wonder you all choose combat skills as training options. Can these be given to me?" Mu Hua said, putting a few pieces of metal and a true red sword together and asked Taibesha.
Taibesha naturally had no objection, but seeing that Mu Hua took away the more valuable items in the collection, Barbara was somewhat reluctant.
"You don't want to take this bottle of vampire blood? You should be a potion master." Although she didn't mean to disobey Taibesha, Barbara pointed to a bottle of blood and said to Mu Hua in a rage.
"I don't lack this thing. I have a group of vampire students. I'll try to make a handy weapon for Tina with these." Putting away the selected items, Mu Hua smiled.
"You can forge? When did those vampires become so easy to talk to? Tsk, it's so unlucky to be your student." Barbara's eyes flashed with strangeness, and she stuffed the bottle of blood to Taibesha without hesitation.
"Our assets are all here, you can divide them up. The room has been arranged, stay tonight to rest?" Seeing that Taibesha and Mu Hua get along harmoniously, Barbara's face showed some relief.
After all, she and Tina belonged to Mu Hua and Taibesha respectively. If the two had many conflicts, she and Tina would not be too comfortable.
"Well, rest, Tina, come back to the room with me." After looking at Taibesha and confirming that there was nothing else, Mu Hua turned his face and said to Tina.
As Mu Hua spoke, Tina's body obviously stiffened, Taibesha and Barbara hesitated to speak, and the two women looked at Tina at the same time.
"Today... tonight... it's going to be?" Tina's face flashed a brief embarrassment, but she returned to her coldness in an instant.
"What are you thinking about? I have something to tell you. Let's go." Mu Hua raised his eyebrows, facing the strange eyes of Taibesha and Barbara, and said with a curled mouth.
"Yes, Master." Tina's face was expressionless, and the pronunciation of the word "Master" was quite heavy.
"Tsk~ Men! Master, let's go back to the room too?" Looking at Tina who left behind Mu Hua, Barbara's expression was a bit complicated, and she turned to look at Taibesha with a weird smile on her face.
"You... Barbara, don't pull, you... what do you want to do?!" Being pulled by Barbara, because of the relationship between the family, Taibesha felt some weird emotions from Barbara.
"Ha, what are you thinking about? I have something to tell you. Let's go, Master." Barbara imitated Mu Hua's tone and dragged Taibetha into the bedroom while she struggled. . . (End of this chapter)