(Chapter 17)

Yang Manli reached the shelter and made some commotion for the crowds after seeing the right-hand woman of the strongest woman in the shelter was holding hands with an unknown person.

Since Shyrveen was changing his appearance randomly for disguise, people are having a hard time recognizing him.

And they became the talk of the shelter.

Which was good in the hearing of Yang Manli and she can't stop feeling happy about it.

But only to see the poker face of her love, that put another question in her mind but didn't voice it out.

'... What the hell happened to him to be like this?...'

They both reached the office room of Qin Xuan and Yang Manli knocks on the door.

"Come in."

Yang Manli went inside while still pulling the dead person behind her and locked the door and said.

"This is the person who is currently closed with your hated person, Shyr."

"Sheer?"

But only to be corrected by Shyrveen.

"... S.h.y.r., short term for Shyrveen."

Qin Xuan scrutinize the man before her and stated.

"... What a weird name."

And counter by him again.

"Unique if I say so."

That made Qin Xuan's eyebrows to raise and Yang Manly to sigh.

"... You have a strong will to face me like this... Are you not scared of being killed outside so suddenly?..."

Qin Xuan said normally but in a threatening manner and disappears to reappear at Shyrveen's left side with a purple butterfly dagger on her hand but only to be shocked that she was blocked or accurately...

A bluish-black ominous bear appeared and towering her or any person in the room with half of their height, pinching her dagger with its claws and looking down at her.

Then she turns to look at the man who is pointing his bow with the appearance of Azure-Tailed Eagle and its blue feather that has been modified to be the arrow at her face now.

But she is confused that it is different from what she knows for the eagle's Beast Soul and there's a whitish aura around that solid bow.

Even Yang Manli was shocked to see the bear and summoned her Beast Soul Whip but didn't attack and stunned to see the bow in up close too.

And the two women heard him saying.

"Should I?"

Shyrveen said while staring at Qin Xuan with dead eyes.

Qin Xuan tried to pull the dagger but realized that the danger that she is feeling is not from the arrow, but from the bear itself. Sweats appeared on her forehead and thought.

'Wh-What is this creature!?... Beast Soul Pet!? And a Mutant or a Sacred-Blood grade!?... I won't sense this danger if this is a Primitive one!...'

And add for the confusion that she can't find any signs of the poisoned status on the bear creature.

'It's good that Sung Jin-Woo leveled up his shadows by one grade after that Jeju Island raid...'

Shyrveen thought while still in his position that pulling the string with an arrow readied to be fired any moment.

Silence permeates in the room and Yang Manli decided to intervene and step in between them.

"Alright. Stop this thing, you don't have any grudges at each other so don't make a reason to have one now..."

"... She's the one who made the first move."

Shyrveen shrugged and let Tank disappear back to his shadow. He doesn't care if these two women saw it, and started to calculate again while staring at Qin Xuan as he let the melded bow to disappear.

'She's one of the Head in this shelter's gangs... It will be fine to have ties with her to use as my current 'shield' against unreasonable people... But she's having Han Sen a hard time in this shelter with his single mistake... I should talk with Han Sen later but I need to have some information from them... Maybe it's possible...'

"..."

Qin Xuan is still not fully recovered that there's a person who can fight her in terms of strength even though it's his pet that will give her a hard time. Then she stared at Shyrveen with curiosity and decided to change her attitude.

"Don't even think about it, Xuan Xuan. He is mine."

Yang Manli smiled at her with a different meaning.

Qin Xuan can only sigh and shrugs to let this go since her friend is very interested in this man.

"But, are you sure about this? Uncle and Aunt will give you a hard time again, or the worst, if they got a sound of this..."

"No worries, you and I are only in this shelter knows them, include the Son of Heaven too but I think, he less care about it since he is only interested in you. And add that so many people in the alliance, two people is a grain of sand in the middle of the desert to know about it."

Qin Xuan stared at her with worries, because she was like that too.

"Alright... So... Shyrveen... Can I call you Shyr too? It's hard for me to pronounce your full name."

"Sure."

"And so I was saying, cut your ties with Han Sen and join our Bullseye team since seeing you wield a bow, I can guess that you're proficient at it right?"

"No and no and yes..."

Shyrveen repeatedly said what he told Yang Manli and Qin Xuan gave up after a dozen of way to make Shyrveen change his mind, but unsuccessful.

"... Just go here anytime and asked for Manli to take you with her to me if you changed your mind."

"Okay. Can I go now?"

"Sure... And Manli?"

Shyrveen asked and Qin Xuan nodded but only to call Yang Manli after seeing her following Shyrveen out of the room.

"Yes?"

Yang Manli looked back and somehow irritated seeing Shyrveen didn't even wait for her and for her friend to cut her bonding time with her love.

"... Go back to work?"

"That's what I'm doing now though?"

"... Your observation mission towards him is already done. And now what I'm talking about is the paper works..."

"... Pshh."

"Don't be sad, after you finish them, you can spend your free time to your heart's content. I don't care but just be careful always, since you don't know him that much."

"Fine... I know, I know... And thanks for hiding this thing for my parents."

"No worries about me, but about the other people that can whisper here and there that might reach Uncle's ears."

Yang Manli nodded and went back to her original work but once again stopped by him.

"... What do you think of that bear?"

"That's my first time to see such a creature, a bear with blue with black appearance... And hides within his shadow... I don't really remember such a creature around this shelter or in other shelters too."

"Just as I thought too... We need to make him join us before those two pressures him to join them or either kill him if not, after they saw his worth... Do you know how he battles?"

Qin Xuan is thinking about how to pull Shyrveen into their Steel Armor Gang as she asked Yang Manli.

Yang Manli was thinking the same and thought for how he feels about her love if it's about fighting.

"... Well, I can say for sure that he has experience around the forest and how to hunt creatures, and I can say so for other kinds of areas other than the forest too... If you're curious about it, why invite him to battle with you in a combat room."

"... So what planet he is staying?..."

"..."

"... You know that's your thing since you're interested in him personally, and the problem here is I can't invite him since we don't know where he is, right?"

"But-"

"Too many eyes if we battle in this sanctuary, too many eyes, and Son of Heaven might be misunderstood it and isolate Shyr too like Han Sen."

"... You're right."

While the two women can only sigh for the things about Shyr. The man in question is walking back to the room of Han Sen.

And only to notice the note on the table about telling him the thing earlier.

'He even draw the pictures of the movements? Damn... Don't tell me he only did this in a short time... It isn't past one hour yet before he ran away from the creek...'

He shook his head and read seriously the Hyper Geno Arts, and started practicing it for two days straight without stepping out from the room.

Since there's a lot of Primitive corpses in his inventory. He saved a lot of time going out and inside the shelter to hunt for the meat to eat.

Shyrveen Yñiguez: Not evolved

Status: None

Life span: 200 Years

Required for evolution: 100 Geno Points

Geno points gained: 72 Ordinary Geno Points, 19 Primitive Geno Points.

Beast souls gained: Ordinary Black Beetle, Ordinary Illusionist Snake, Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle

The moment he was checking his status, Han Sen appeared in the room and greet him.

"Good morning, brother Shyr."

"Morning, brother Sen."

Shyrveen said simply while leaning on the wall while staring at Han Sen that became confused seeing him like that.

"What's wrong?"

"You asked me? Why didn't you add to the note the heck of the after effect? My body had become cooler, the body temperature was around 35 degrees Fahrenheit lower than normal. I don't feel any discomfort but rather it's a refreshing feeling."

"That you felt fitter, as if his body cells were full of energy?"

"Yeah. But the thing is, my body is transforming to become one for a beauty... The fuck is this?..."

"Hahaha! Can't you see it's the same with me?"

Han Sen smirked at Shyrveen who is massaging his temple.

"So... What will you do now, brother Shyr?"

"Since I got 11 Primitive Geno Points for these three days, totaling to 19 points... I planning to hunt the eagle and the piranha first to max my Ordinary Geno Points. before focusing on the Primitives. You?"

"I'm checking out for the caged beast if it's done evolving, but it seems it's not yet. I can't hunt for now because some personal things outside came recently and I'll be going out now. Bye, brother Shyr."

"Alright, bye, brother Sen."

After saying goodbye again to each other. Shyrveen went to swamp again and started hunting the eagles and piranhas.

He summoned Tank to go in the swamp and told him to scoop up those fishes on the air while Shyrveen is using the metal sickles to sever the heads before their bodies fell to the ground.

'Ordinary creature Silver-Scale Piranha was killed. No Beast Soul gained. Eat the flesh of Ordinary Silver-Scale Piranha to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'

He even realized that there's a cheat in his broken status all along. His MP, that is recovering instantly. He concluded that Tank was registered as his from the eyes of God's Sanctuary but the kill is not his since it knows that Tank isn't really his.

'Contradictions... Pshh... It will ache my head so much if I'll try to seek the answer for that thing... And...'

Shyrveen looked at Tank that is smiling at him smugly. Shyrveen can feel the irritation of Tank that his king is not here and there's another person except for his king that he needs to follow.

So, sometimes, Tank is tactically killing some creatures as he tries to anger Shyrveen to summon the others instead of him.

Sung Jin-Woo and Shyrveen got a deal that Sung Jin-Woo will lend Tank, One of the Tusk's High Orc Guard, three High Orc mobs. Totaling to five units and that's the reason too for why he only got four health potions from him.

But before Shyrveen got back for Earth's one week journey, he shall have to bring twenty Ordinary creatures corpses with four pieces of each kind of the creatures and ten Primitive creatures of five pieces each, totaling of seven kinds of creatures before they can start to make an official contract as a business partner.

So, Shyrveen is kind of thinking for Tank to act cute like that.

'Tantrums, eh? And I thought he will cause destruction to the surroundings to express his dissatisfaction... Well, I think it's better that after becoming Jin-Woo's shadow, their irrational personalities, died down a lot compared when they're still alive... And I really don't mind if he wants to hunt of his own... But better be careful of other's eyes though...'

Then he released his arrow from the bow and killed the fifth eagle.

'Ordinary creature Azure-Tailed Eagle was killed. No Beast Soul gained. Eat the flesh of Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'