(Chapter 18)

With this routine of doing hunting Ordinary creatures to max his Geno Points, forced date with Yang Manli in the shelter and other places outside that seems romantic, and lastly practicing Jadeskin secretly or when he was alone in Han Sen's room.

Another twelve days passed instantly and he achieved the max Geno Points for Ordinary.

With, of course, buying other meats of other Ordinary and Primitive creatures since its been so long that the piranhas and eagles are giving him a single point, and he was stacking meats of Primitives that consist of ten kinds of creatures now.

Trading his meats to other people while in disguise because somehow, the real appearance of him, the natural charming face, add the fair and smooth skin from the aftereffect of Jadeskin Hyper Geno Art was now widely known to the whole shelter.

Yang Manli and Qin Xuan once got a doubt that Shyrveen was practicing such Geno Art, but was answered with his acts that he didn't know a single thing about it or this Geno Arts in the first place.

But because Yang Manli saw his bare chest on the creek. He was forced to sew an acceptable half-true and half-lie story why his skin was like that and why he was disguising in the first place that has been proven by Yang Manli, herself, when she was observing him.

And so, he dodges the doubts for it but he only uses his real appearance once Yang Manli will force him to date her for a day, he even said to them and convinced them that he will still disguise randomly and it will be the case, once if he is alone or with Han Sen.

He will still use the disguise technique he developed everyday like what he is doing from the past five years after that accident that made him realized about women is not a creature to be looked down upon.

By using Han Sen's room as his personal room, Han Sen was practicing the Jadeskin in his own room in his home on planet Roca.

And today was different because Shyrveen saw that the caged beast of Han Sen finally finished its evolving and it's another second day for Han Sen to reappear.

Soon, with two men inside the room staring at the poor beast, but only to realize that they're the poor men in that room, because neither one of them can kill the beast with Han Sen's Primitive Dagger or with Shyrveen's weapons.

Shyrveen even resorted using the blue feathered arrow with melded bow in point-blank range, aimed at the beast's eyes.

But the moment he fired and the arrow made contact with the eye, the arrowhead shattered to its very end of feather, and shrapnel from it flew everywhere.

With their helpless situation, Han Sen decided to let his friend see his transformation into the Sacred-Blood Bloody Slayer and snaps the neck of the beast and recalled the Beast Soul then looked at Shyrveen but only to receive, a very normal response.

"... What?"

Han Sen sighed and worried for nothing, he scratches his head in embarrassment as he complains.

"... Can you give or show me sometimes of wild reactions or something? I'm the 'Dollar' that they're talking about you know..."

"... Let me ask you, did you become this 'Dollar' for what?"

"... To hide my real identity, of course."

"Then you got my answer and I'll repeat it again which is elaborated... What's wrong?..."

"... Hahaha! Fine, I got it! And I'll answer that. Eherm!... Nothing..."

Han Sen laughed for why his friend is like this, then he coughed and put a normal face to answer Shyrveen's question.

"Good. So, did you get its Beast Soul?"

Shyrveen nodded and smiled for him, even though Han Sen already knows that every change in Shyrveen's face are all acts.

Han Sen doesn't know what to feel about his friend after hearing his tragic and outrageous story, but who was he when it happened and Shyrveen and him are both in different universes...

"Nah, unfortunately not. My luck is really trash compared to you."

"But I can't kill a mutant yet as you saw. I need at least a Primitive Beast Soul Arrow-Type to have a higher chance of hurting them..."

'It's not that the bows that melded into one and temporarily upgraded the grade into Primitive has the problem, but the arrow itself. No matter how high the quality of the eagle's feathers if the eagle itself is still Ordinary, it is useless before Mutant unless... I can get materials made of Primitive or Mutant from that same eagle...'

Shyrveen thought after seeing how his arrows made of magnesium alloy and feathers were easily destroyed.

Even though he knows that magnesium alloy isn't the strongest metal in his world but tungsten, but it is the strongest while being the lightest compound metal that compliments the arrow, for its purpose.

"By the way, can I request to evolve the Azure-Tailed Eagle to Mutant creature next? All I need was the Beast Soul for the bow and the feathers for my arrows but the whole meats is all yours."

"Sure, there's no problem with it, but instead we take half-half for the meat if there's a Beast Soul or not."

But Shyrveen shakes his head and decline him.

"No, I won't accept. The stone was yours and I'm here leeching you with your luck for using that stone already once you accepted my request, you know."

"... Then what about 60-40? I'll take 60."

"90-10, 10 is mine if there's a Beast Soul but if not, 80-20 is good..."

"... Fine."

Han Sen accepted it and didn't push for less, he knows that there's still a wall between them to be best friends with each other but, this current friendship is fine for them for now.

After Han Sen agreed to his request. Shyrveen pulled out the caged eagle from under the bed that stunned Han Sen.

"... Why you have two caged creatures?"

"Well, I decided to bring them back to Earth if they were allowed, will be still alive, or maybe will be dead after teleporting to another world in a different universe, which is Earth..."

"... That's... Wicked... Are you building Zoo on Earth?... If it's possible to bring a living person, bring me too. Hahaha!"

"Well, there's no problem with me though. But we need to make sure that what you will teleport with me, or else... You know..."

"Yeah, I know what you mean... And that will be really bad if that's happen..."

Soon, both of them took different paths.

Han Sen's objective is the Barathrum Cave, where Primitive creatures, Quartz Scorpions, lived.

And Shyrveen's objective is either the Primitive version of the Sacred-Blood Six-Winged Wasp creature that Han Sen told him about, the Primitive Duskwings Bees, around the forest west of the shelter, Galtham Woods. If that's if he wants an Arrow-Type Beast Soul even if it's only a one-off Beast Soul.

Or the creature that Han Sen told him that is a fortune creature but can cause unfortunate to the people at the same time, it's Beast Soul is a permanent Arrow-Type but the creature is living under the lake at ten kilometers away if he followed the creek's downstream and the said creature is Mutant to tail (boot).

"But people don't dare to hunt those things since, in that lake, those Mutant creatures are either shoaling or schooling, 24/7. In short, they're not swimming alone. So you can say that even the current strongest Non-Evolver here went there, have a lot of Sacred-Blood Beast Soul, he will just turn into a fish food soon."

"Eh? But what about you? You have Sacred-Blood Armor..."

"... Brother, are you cursing me? If it's one to ten fishes only, I can handle them. But if it's a school of fish and all Mutants... Bye, brother Shyr."

Han Sen shook his head and went outside didn't dare to think that his beloved armor will be reduced to nothing.

Since Beast Souls can be killed.

Shyrveen blinks and calculating for fifteen minutes and decided to risk it, and went to the Steel Armor Gang to fetch Qin Xuan to help him because Han Sen can't be found in the shelter anymore.

'Is he rushing or something?...'

He reached the Steel Armor Gang place and found Yang Manli that said that Qin Xuan is out and went to Barathrum Cave too.

"... Why are you asking for her and not me, darling?..."

"... Then are you free? I want some help but I thought you're still busy with paperwork because it is still morning and looked for Qin Xuan... Aren't you always busy around this time usually?"

"Nope, I can push this paperwork to other people so it won't stack here later, but once I get back, I'll check them first, of course..."

Yang Manli called two people.

"Sorry, brothers. This girl might throw tantrums again."

"It's fine, brother Shyr! Have fun!"

Shyrveen smiled at them and both of them went outside of the shelter.

For these twelve days, Shyrveen built up reputations with his real appearance inside the Steel Armor Gang. But he still didn't join the gang. Qin Xuan, Yang Manli, and other higher rank officials in the gang knew this, except for the lower members and people outside of the gang.

That he is included in the team of Bullseye for the public eyes, but not really. Even Han Sen already knows this because Shyrveen said the plan at him first and Han Sen understands it too.

But Qin Xuan needs him to join some of the gang's operation for the sake of proving that he is under the Steel Armor Gang, so Son of Heaven and Fist Guy can't touch him.

So, everyone knows that Yang Manli is already the girl of the mysterious charming man in the Steel Armor Shelter.

That Shyrveen let it be.

'There's no harm in it and there's the social connections too that can be useful in the future problems with people...'

"So, where we will go, darling?"

Yang Manli asked the weirdest man that she loves, while hugging his arm.

"Ethereal Loch."

"!!! No! Do you want to die!?"

Shyrveen was confused about why she asked it like that, and forgot that the lake was Mutant creature's territory, then facepalmed.

"Huh?... Ah, don't get me wrong. I'll try something in my mind if it's applicable. If it is, then we're lucky but if not, then you can say that this will be my invitation to you as a date."

"... Date... He invites me to date!?"

That made Yang Manli lost to her fantasy again.

'You deleted the other things that I said and only focus on me that I invited you to date?... Woman is a woman to boot if it's all about love, eh?...'

After one hour of traveling, that could be done in half of an hour, but Yang Manli 'force' this journey to be a real date again.

They reached the wide lake surrounded by a mountain ranges from afar and trees to the sides.

"A perfect place for the perfect picnic date!"

"Err... We didn't even bring a picnic set..."

"Who would expect that you will come here? This is a death zone for most Non-Evolvers... Pshh."

"..."

Shyrveen scratches his head and summoned Tank and other High Orcs. He doesn't care if Yang Manli saw this and asked the shadows then pointed at the lake at their backs.

"Which one of you can swim?"

The five shadows took a glance and turned their heads again to Shyrveen and the five of them shakes their head.

"... I understand that if the orcs can't swim, but... Tank? You? Can't swim? You were once a leader of the ice bears. Don't tell me you can't break the ice lake around that place and swim to fetch fishes?..."

"Rawr..."

Tank looks away and scratch his chin with his claw.

"... Wait, wait, wait, darling! You're saying that they can understand human speech!? And why did you bring me here if you have five of them!?"

Yang Manli took another shock related to this bluish-black creatures and hold her forehead as she asked Shyrveen.

"Yes they can, and I bring you here as a person of the Steel Armor Gang's right-hand woman of the head, Qin Xuan. To have collaboration with me, that's it, if my idea is possible."

"But why in the first place? With five of them, you can kill one... Wait, one... It's not worth it right?"

She's so confused why she seeks Qin Xuan or her to be brought here since he has the ability to hunt by himself already.

"No. If they killed the creature, it won't be mine. I don't know why that's why I have them as my bodyguards. Now, for why though. Because they will bring one by one of those fish to the surface for you to kill. And that's where the collaboration starts."

But Shyrveen didn't prove her thoughts to be true and shakes her head for unbelievable things.

"... I can't take this in my mind... I'll focus for now on this collaboration that you're talking about. And I can see why you called it like that... You're using my service to kill them that will involve the gang since you don't have any means to kill the Mutants? But those five creatures you have can kill but you can't take the Beast Soul, right?..."

"Yeah, hit on the right spot."

"... But they won't die? They're Beast Soul Pets right?"

Yang Manli was concerned since Shyrveen already said that they are his bodyguards, a means to protect him once she's not around.

"No, and no. And it's my secret."

Shyrveen stunned her again by unacceptable thing.

'A Beast Souls that can't die!?... What the fuck is this!?... Wait, did he said 'no' about them being Beast Souls?...'

Yang Manli stared at the poker-face man beside her and her feelings increases again.

"... I swear that I'll know your whole story and these secrets, Shyrveen Yñiguez... You're mine... And mine alone..."