New arm. New country. New plans

He was in no hurry to continue his journey so he decided to wait another month before making any move. To avoid further problems he used the emperor beetle to carry the space artifact and follow the waves of the river, camouflaging himself with his unique abilities that grew even stronger after the evolution.

The demon servant traveled slowly down the river in a transparent and invisible form to the eyes, carrying the space artifact secretly, Nicola shared the vision with the demon constantly and guided it through the waters, it was almost like a trip in a submarine. The beetle was still weak and hid when it encountered higher level water monsters, but Nicola decided to order it to kill some so that way it would move up a few levels.

A month's journey was enough for them to reach the border of the Avec Kingdom. With all this free time Nicola dedicated himself to improving his skills, first within his plans he should master the ability to fuse alchemy with the inscription of runes and make this technique even more effective. After nearly a hundred tests, he was able to produce a pill capable of returning Tyris's arm.

It wasn't actually her original arm that had grown back, the pill Nicola developed had as main ingredients slime moss, some magical plant cores, spiritual grass of light and some of the Celestial Ham fur that he kept stored. All of this using the new pill concoction method that used all seven elements and inscribed runes, creating formations on the pills worked a miracle.

Only high-level gold pills had the ability to regenerate lost limbs, but Nicola believed he had done better. The snake woman's new arm had a bright green color as if it didn't belong to its owner. Despite being perfectly functional, it wasn't identical to the other.

However, this new arm gave her some advantages. By using slime goo as the main item, even if it was blown up again, it would slowly grow and gather enough energy to produce its goo, in addition, Tyris gained one more elemental affinity. The wood cores turned the slime goo into the wood elemental type and through that arm she was able to use this element, growing some roots on the ground and even moving some plants around. With time and increasing strength it would grant her more powerful abilities.

"Sorry Tyris, this is the most I can do at the moment, to restore your original arm I would need to reach at least a high level in gold cultivation. It's still not possible for me now" Nicola said nodding his head. After all, even though she was a slave, he was responsible for her losing her arm defending his base and he felt guilty about it.

"Master, don't say that, I'm very grateful for the arm you gave me, actually it made me stronger and you gave me the opportunity to defend myself, I even entered the silver level recently. Thank you for your effort." She said in thanks, bending towards Nicola.

He had recently given her the opportunity to surpass the silver level and was currently at level 21, after all, she spent most of her time inside the space artifact while the siblings fought monsters and trained constantly. They had long since passed her and were now at level 23.

They disembarked from the space artifact beside the river. The geography of the Avec Kingdom was a lot different from the Melkor Empire. The terrain was a wide plain with few mountains rising in the distance, there were some small woods and hedges, but the only forest was behind them, the place they had come from.

"Rest my friend, it's time for you to go through the bottleneck and reach the silver level too." He told the beetle servant in his hand and sent him into the space artifact. Inside, the three AI had already prepared a place for the beetle to reach this level and even cultivation pills had been prepared for it.

Nicola didn't just treat his companions as a means to an end, he would really take care of them and provide the best possible treatment.

The group had grown, this time there were six people on the team. Nicola, Kin, Gin, Tuatha, Tyris and Fibula. None of them were exactly the most suitable people to be together. Kin and Gin had changed their disguise to not attract so much attention, now they looked like normal humans with black hair and eyes. Gin hadn't liked this at all, but had accepted it at the request of his master, Nicola.

The nearest town there was Karsus City according to the map provided by Rhicina. The beast communities lived mainly in clans and villages spread across the country, but there were cities where they gathered and traded among themselves, some travelers also used the cities to stay.

Many eyes crossed his group and were pointed out by several half-ass kids as well. Nicola was a half demon, Tuatha and Fibula were undead. Tyris, luckily, had covered her arm with bandages and hidden it from the view of the others, avoiding further unwanted glances.

Fibula was an attractive woman who behaved like a child, although Nicola controlled her closely, she constantly turned her head to the sides in search of discovering something new, her hunger had been satiated so she wouldn't try to attack anyone, for now.

Those months inside the space artifact alongside all of them made her learn to communicate efficiently and even the fight training was successful. She was loyal only to her creator Nicola, but she could think for herself and carry out activities on her own, that was exactly what he needed.

However, no one dared to approach them to get in trouble on the city streets. Nicola was avoiding more trouble and warned everyone to show their mercenary medals nailed to their clothes, Nicola's medal had not yet been updated so it still showed six silver stars, but with his current level he would get a seven star medal of silver, very close to the eighth.