First spiritual animal!

Two weeks passed, Aron's mansion was completed and Sinas clan moved inside. Ian completed the necessary tools for glassmaking. Everything was ready to start production of glassware.

'It's great. None in Clay Village or Amber Village know anything about bandits.' It wasn't easy to find those bandits, and none dared to follow them after their visit. 

Gluttonous demon physique wasn't easy to obtain, boy was consuming high number of calories every day and proficiency didn't raise by large margin. It was irritating as food was bland because of lack of spices.

'Strength required sacrifices.' In his case, it was mostly time and bland food for every meal. 

[Congratulations. Pig(Brenda) activated her hidden potential.]

Aron was surprised. Feeding his animals with fire spark herb finally worked. 

[Brenda]

[Species: Pig(Evolution in progress.)]

'Evolution in progress? What the hell?' He focused on pig and it was in state of deep sleep. Her body temperature was very high and there were visible swelling on different parts of her body.

'Interesting!' Aron decided to watch the entire processes, evolution before his own eyes. His scientific mind couldn't resist being at least witness of this phenomenon. 

The entire processes took two days and Aron made some notes about risks of this approach. The evolution could actually kill the subject, and Brenda was lucky that he was around to help her.

[Brenda]

[Hard Toothed Great Pig]

'It's her evolution. Nothing great though…Her size is bigger than the cattle, and it seems her toots could maw metal.' Pigs are omnivore, so there are many cases when they start chewing something inedible. 

[Hard Toothed Great Pig]

[Desc: Spiritual animal of the lowest stage. Descendant of Diamond Toothed Great Boar.]

'Spiritual creature?' His thoughts focused on a difference between the normal animal and spiritual animal. Brenda became bigger and stronger, ordinary animal couldn't even hurt her skin. The opportunity of breeding such animals was heaven sent. 

[The ranch detected the first spiritual animal.]

[Ranch level up.]

[Ranch lv.3]

[Functions unlocked. Accelerated growth, Accelerated Pregnancy]

[Acceleration: 10 times]

'10 times faster. Does it mean chickens will grow up in days?' It was something beyond comprehension as normal human pregnancy was 9 months. If use systems functions on humans, it would take only 27 days. Chicken's egg needed around 21 days to hatch into healthy chick, ranch allowed to shorten this time to 2 days.

Paper mill produced paper everyday, still amount was too small to cover all projects of Aron. He made decision to build more paper mills to increase production of paper.

'I didn't think about it before…but I am short handed.' The number of people in two villages was limited and not everyone wanted to cooperate with him. It was time to visit remaining two villages and search for trails of bandits.

Rirak became new hunter in village, so people started to slowly accept him. Roger was sceptic about his existence as more experienced people could recognize killer from far. Casper was avoiding contact with him with petty excuses.

'I don't really care about those things. They will be all my servants in future. I can always force them to work together…' The people didn't need to like each other to work in team, it wasn't necessary and even sometimes boosted efficiency. 

Ian was teaching Joe blacksmithing, his attitude changed and he stopped hanging out with thugs. They were shocked by his change and didn't know what to do. Their entire purpose was to mess around with their boss.

"Master. I have small request." Joe came with worried face. Matter was important to him and Aron decided to listen.

"What?"

"I want you to allow my followers join you! Show them the way! They are lost without me! Could you please take them in?" He cared about fate of his followers, and they couldn't find place in society after all those events. Some people might even want to take revenge on them because of their action under his orders.

"Are you aware of their value? They are scum of society without any skill…" Aron didn't want to accept them straight away as Joe takes it as granted. He needed to force his slave to learn how to deal with hard situations.

"They are not useless! Most of them can work on farms. Harry was trained to be a hunter! It's my fault…They could be good people. I made them mess around with my identity…Please master! I will take your punishment! Just let them join you!" Aron smiled after hearing Joe's words, his slave wasn't so stupid as he thought. Knowing value of your henchmen is very important skill, so Aron will give some task related to recruitment to Joe in future. 

'If he can be taught. He can be useful in some ways!' Joe wasted big part of his life fooling around, however, there are still long life ahead of him. Motivation and right education could improve his skills and mind to another level. 

'I cannot let him be trash forever! He is my first slave! It would be shameful to have such slave!' Aron decided to teach Joe in free time. 

"Ok. I will think of some kind punishment for you. I will take them under my wing!" It caused Joe to become happy, and those fools were his people. He was taught by his mother to care about his people, even if they were monsters. They were your monsters.

The white-haired boy recruited all of the thugs and gave all of them tasks suitable to their skillset. One of them was taught by Rirak and few others were working around the village.

'It's time to go to Ian's hometown. Copperhead Village.' Ian couldn't follow him as he was too busy. The only choice was taking Joe with him.

'It's only way…' The solution wasn't the best as his slave had terrible reputation in all villages. Villagers didn't show their hatred because of his relations with blacksmith's family. In other case, someone would kill him long time ago. 

"Joe. We are going to visit Copperhead Village!" Aron wasn't enthusiastic about this idea, however he had no choice. Joe was familiar with road to Copperhead village and he knew people there too.

"Yes, master! We are going to visit my mother!" Joe's mother was living in Copperhead Village, and she was only daughter of village chief.