Chapter 298 A Welcome Surprise

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A Lake Catfish and a Wind Hawk emerged from these nobodies' chest. I was slightly amused by their variety of spirits. I remember that a wide amount of kids had very disappointing spirits in the awakening ceremony, but these three had surprisingly interesting ones at that.

"Eleanora, take care of the catfish, I'll slay the hawk."

"Understood."

We moved swiftly, shrouding ourselves in shadows and immediately evading the elemental attacks thrown our way. A splash of highly pressured water and gusts of slicing winds, both coming from the spirits' mouth and wings respectively. The two combined attacks impacted the ground and a nearby tree strongly, making the tree easily crack in half.

So they were quite capable at the end, huh.

Well, their reflexes are terrible though. In a second after their attack, I moved behind the midget and immediately swung my Gluttony against his legs and arms, slicing them all with several consecutive attacks. His spirit might be strong but his body was incredibly weak.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"EEEH?!"

? Falling to the ground, he immediately attempted to attack me desperately using his Spirit, but a large black wolf emerged from my shadows behind me, jumping over the small hawk and biting its head, immediately making the spirit explode into green smoke.

"GRAWR!"

Fenrir was quite strong after he received the boost of the Skills I acquired from the Invoker Class, which passively increased the stats of all Summons. The small bird, although strong with wind magic, didn't stand a chance.

"M-My legs… my arms!" The midget cried, desperately agonizing.

"Calm down, its not so bad. At least I didn't killed you, right?"

I looked at Eleanora after saying such words. She had already sliced one of the man's legs, and also destroyed his catfish in a similar manner, but knacked him out by giving him a karate chop in the neck.

"And done… Huh, they had some tricks but they're nothing special at the end."

"Yeah, and we got some nice test subjects."

"Oh? Is that why you didn't wanted to kill them?"

"Indeed."

I quickly used the [Blood Patch] Spell on their wounds, which makes it so their own coagulated blood becomes a hardened patch that stops bleeding. All three of them had already fallen unconscious due to the shock and pain, which was for the best.

"So what do you plan to do with them? They might not be able to live so long with their limbs chopped off and having lost so much blood." She said.

"We'll bring them to our underground base and do some experiments on them. I am sure nobody is going to miss this trio of thugs." I said. "I was thinking on using your powers and see if we can convert humans into vampires…"

"Oh! That's indeed something I've been wondering for a while." Eleanora replied.

"Also, I want to see if we can put demon limbs on them, so I can see how it affects their body metabolism, and if its possible to readjust it and find a way to make it stable…" I added.

"Hm, are you planning on putting the demon's limbs on you as well?" Wondered Eleanora.

"The Demon General had very strong arms and legs. This human body is feeble, even as a child my age and all… And even with my physique, I need a greater boost. But replacing an eye and then entire limbs is a completely different subject altogether. So I need some guinea pigs to see what's the best procedure." I said. "We'll also see if they can become Vampires, if that's the case, they'll have enough endurance to be able to withstand the experiments."

"Amazing planning, my lord. But what about their spirits? They might go rampage even if they're tied up." Eleanora said.

"I can already use Tier 2 Seal Magic on them after acquiring my Magic Circle inside my Soul. It shouldn't be hard to create [Sealing Chains] and seal their Spirit Orbs… Well, let's do it now, each spell costs 60 MP, so its nothing too much. The chains will be fueled by their own Mana, this is why they cost so little." I nodded. I decided to conjure the spells, unleashing transparent-looking magical chains into their spirit orbs. This can only happen so easily because their spirits are defeated and their masters' unconscious, otherwise, it would be too hard to use in a battle.

"To think you can even seal the spirits that these people are so proud of…" Eleanora said.

"Not to the extent it can be used in battle. And I can probably only do this because their Spirits are still Rank 1 Initial Stage." I sighed. "Nonetheless, looks like the Horned Rabbits are back, alongiside Huginn…"

"CRAA!"

"Chuu!"

Right after we finished our conversation, the familiars came back. The three Horned Rabbits brought a large quantity of dark green grass in their mouths, while Huginn brought a whole walking mushroom with his legs. I also had some horned rabbit horns inside of my spatial bag, so this should be more than enough to complete all the quests.

"Good work you all, come back to the Grimoire for now." I quickly turned them back into Summon Cards, storing them inside the Grimoire.

We walked back to the adventurer guild with Eleanora, as I hid within her shadows using [Shadow Sneak] like before. Eleanora brought everything needed to complete the quests, surprising the receptionist.

"E-Eh? You only took… like an hour?! No… it hasn't even been fifty minutes!" The lady said.

"Yeah, it wasn't hard to find the creatures." Said Eleanora. "Is this amount of Bitter Weed enough?"

"I-It is more than enough! Do you wish to sell everything or just the necessary amount?" Wondered the lady.

"All of it."

"Very well… L-Let me calculate your prize. I'll also bring you your adventurer medal!"

The young lady ran across the second floor of the building and took thirty minutes to come back with everything else. It seems that the Adventurer Medal was made on the spot there with some sort of magical artifact.

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