Chapter 36: Super-Class Danger Beasts
Kazuma Yumesaki looked at Esdeath who was lying there helplessly, gave her a little kick, and used a healing spell on her at the same time.
Healing Esdeath.
"Why should I kill you? If I wanted to kill you, I would have finished you off last time."
"You, leave."
Yumesaki stated that he had no interest in Esdeath.
Esdeath felt rather surprised, because after all, she had just launched a surprise attack on Yumesaki. Even if she were beaten to death on the spot by the other party, she wouldn't complain, but she didn't expect Yumesaki to actually let her go.
Could it be that the other party was a kind-hearted person and a good guy?
But in the next second, Esdeath immediately dismissed this thought.
Rather than saying the other party was a good guy, it was more accurate to say that the other party didn't care about her at all.
In his eyes, her attack just now was like a little kitten hissing, completely not worth mentioning.
This was most likely the reason the other party was willing to let her go.
A person who posed absolutely no threat to him—he could naturally afford to act a bit generous.
Esdeath was like that too. When the mood struck her, she would also let a few weaklings go.
After crawling up from the ground, Esdeath didn't turn around and leave, but instead spoke straightforwardly and firmly.
"Since I lost, then I am your spoils of war. You can do whatever you want to me, it's fine."
Good grief, Yumesaki couldn't help but take a deep breath.
He had never seen anyone rush to volunteer themselves as spoils of war like this. What exactly was inside this person's mind?
Was she just that willing to accept a loss after a bet, or did she have some other conspiracy?
Yumesaki cast a glance at Esdeath, and couldn't help but roll his eyes and say, "Fine, since you're not willing to leave, then stay here to be a maid for me."
No matter what conspiracy the other party had, in Yumesaki's eyes, it was all not worth mentioning.
Because the other party's strength was just too poor—no, it should be that he himself was too strong. Even if Esdeath had any clever schemes or conspiracies, she wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
Esdeath glanced at the few maids beside Yumesaki, then said calmly, "Being a maid is fine, but I must be the head maid."
As the loser, she naturally didn't have the qualification to bargain with the winner.
But even if she became a maid, she had to be the head maid—this was her final bottom line.
Even though she couldn't defeat Yumesaki, beating up these few women still wouldn't be a problem.
"Alright, then you stay here and be a head maid."
Yumesaki agreed to it and used Archive magic to transfer meat-grilling techniques into Esdeath's mind.
Being his maid, how could she not know how to grill meat?
This was Yumesaki's bottom line.
Esdeath felt the newly added knowledge inside her brain, then glanced at Yumesaki again. What kind of situation was this, to actually be able to make her master a completely new field of knowledge in an instant?
Could this really be magic?
Unfortunately, Yumesaki didn't give any answer to this.
Instead, he threw a Danger Beast to Esdeath, letting her go do the grilling.
In this manner, Esdeath became the head maid under Yumesaki's command, and followed Yumesaki outside every day to hunt.
It could be said that for Esdeath, who came from the hunting tribe of the Partas Clan, hunting was just like going for an outing in the suburbs.
Every time they went out, they always got a bountiful harvest.
But these peaceful days didn't last too long.
Under Esdeath's command, there were three Imperial Arms users who possessed pretty good strength, called the Three Beasts.
They were the three individuals: Liver, Daidara, and Nyau.
These three could be said to be totally loyal and obedient to Esdeath. After hearing that Esdeath was staying at Yumesaki's residence to be a maid, they rushed over to persuade her.
After all, in their eyes, Esdeath was born to be a general, a legendary figure who was supposed to spur her horse on the battlefield. To become a maid and that sort of thing was truly too ridiculous.
Therefore, those three all wanted Esdeath to give up this idea.
But unfortunately, a decision made by Esdeath was never to be regretted. After the two sides met once, Esdeath directly drove all of the Three Beasts out.
This left the Three Beasts rather helpless.
They completely didn't understand what General Esdeath was actually thinking. While in perfectly good condition, why did she suddenly become a maid?
Could it be that that man used some strange ability to control General Esdeath?
After going through analysis and deliberation, the Three Beasts decided to rescue General Esdeath from the depths of her misery.
As for how to rescue her?
It was actually very simple. As long as they killed the person who made General Esdeath a maid, they could save the general.
Thus, the three of them sneaked into Yumesaki's residence that very night, wanting to finish Yumesaki off.
To be honest, when Yumesaki found out about this matter, he himself almost laughed out of anger.
He didn't understand what these few people were thinking. Even Esdeath couldn't defeat him, yet relying on a few rotten fish and crippled shrimp like the Three Beasts, they still thought they could assassinate him?
What exactly was going on with these three?
In the original storyline, they didn't seem to be the type of brainless people?
Why did it seem like their intelligence suddenly dropped when they encountered him?
Especially Liver out of those three fools—this man was Bulat's former superior, a former imperial general who possessed both intelligence and courage. Because he wasn't willing to offer bribes, he was framed and arrested, later rescued by Esdeath, and had been loyal to her ever since.
An imperial general who possessed both intelligence and courage, how could he possibly do something this stupid.
Could it be that he himself possessed some sort of intelligence-lowering aura? Capable of making his enemies become dim-witted?
Yumesaki completely couldn't understand this after thinking it over repeatedly.
But no matter how misunderstood it was, these few people had indeed sneaked into Yumesaki's residence in the middle of the silent night.
However, the thing worth mentioning was that after this group of people sneaked into his residence, before they even met him, they were already caught and pinned down by the Black Dragon.
The strength of these three was actually not weak; each possessed an Imperial Arms.
Liver's Imperial Arms was a ring-shaped Imperial Arms named Black Marlin.
Created using the water-controlling organ of a dangerous aquatic creature, the user equipped with it was capable of freely controlling liquids in objects they touched. Its secret technique was Abyss Shot, which used one's own fresh blood as a weapon.
In the original storyline, he relied precisely on this move during his duel with Bulat to introduce poison into the blood, dying together with Bulat.
Daidara's Imperial Arms was the double-bladed axe Belvaac. Only someone with arm strength exceeding ordinary people could swing it, but the corresponding attack power was also extremely strong. It could also be separated from the center into two axe blades; once thrown out, as long as the user still had strength, it could track the enemy.
As for the last one, Nyau, he held a flute-shaped Imperial Arms called Scream.
Capable of freely controlling the emotions of the listeners, although on the battlefield it was known to be used to raise morale, the emotions it could control actually reached dozens of types. However, if heard repeatedly, one would form an immunity to the song.
The Imperial Arms of these three individuals were indeed very strong. No matter what kind of Imperial Arms user they met, they all had the ability to fight.
But the problem was that the Black Dragon was truly too overpowered.
He was just like Yumesaki, basically unmatched in this world.
Even if all forty-eight Imperial Arms users combined together, they couldn't possibly be his opponent.
Don't look at how he was frozen by Esdeath's ultimate move earlier.
That was Esdeath launching a surprise attack, catching the Black Dragon before he could prepare. And besides, even though the Black Dragon was frozen, Esdeath couldn't possibly kill the Black Dragon either.
Because Esdeath had absolutely no way to break through the Black Dragon's defense.
And as long as the Black Dragon was given a few minutes, he could already break this ultimate move.
What kind of final fate would the Three Beasts have upon encountering an overpowered existence like the Black Dragon?
It could be imagined.
Even their brains would be beaten out for you.
By the time Yumesaki discovered there were people breaking into his residence, Nyau among the Three Beasts had already been beaten to death on the spot by the Black Dragon.
Although Daidara didn't die, he had lost both legs and one arm, becoming a useless cripple.
The only person intact without damage that night was Liver alone.
Yumesaki looked at the situation, feeling speechless, and threw the two survivors along with Nyau's corpse to Esdeath.
Letting her handle it.
Although Esdeath was a sadist, she was actually very good to her subordinates.
Even though she looked down on the three people's ignorance of their own abilities, she didn't make things difficult for them either. Instead, she took their Imperial Arms as punishment, then sent them back to the military.
And she gave them a large amount of money, letting Liver find someone to treat the unlucky Daidara.
This moved the two individuals to tears, weeping as they left Yumesaki's residence.
Yumesaki: ...
As for the Imperial Arms they left behind, they were all handed over by Esdeath to Yumesaki.
"What is this given to me for? I don't need this stuff either."
Yumesaki said with a face full of disgust. An Imperial Arms might be a great item to others, but to Yumesaki it was completely not considered anything.
The good items in his hands were far more numerous than the Imperial Arms.
A low-quality item like the Imperial Arms—Yumesaki truly didn't want it.
Esdeath was very shocked to hear this. Even the Imperial Arms wasn't looked upon—what exactly was this man's situation?
But she didn't say anything, packing and storing those Imperial Arms away silently.
The next day, everyone continued to go outside to hunt.
This time, Yumesaki set his target on Super-Class Danger Beasts.
Danger Beasts in this world were divided into class three, class two, class one, special class, and super class.
As for Super-Class Danger Beasts, they were monsters standing at the peak of this world.
For example, Esdeath's Imperial Arms, Demon's Extract—this thing itself was taken from the blood of a Super-Class Danger Beast in the northernmost place.
Another example was the male protagonist Tatsumi's Incursio, which was precisely made with the material of Tyrant, a ferocious dragon-shaped Danger Beast.
And Tyrant was also a Super-Class Danger Beast.
The reason why Yumesaki wanted to hunt Super-Class Danger Beasts himself was because the Golden Gate inside his brain, after passing through this period of settling down, had searched and found a completely new world again.
Therefore, Yumesaki didn't need to continue staying in this strange world anymore.
He could go and take a walk in the new world.
But before leaving, Yumesaki planned to hunt a few more Danger Beasts, saving them to be used as food.
Especially Super-Class Danger Beasts—they should be extremely delicious.
It was just that Super-Class Danger Beasts were truly too dangerous. Even a monster like Esdeath, when facing a Super-Class Danger Beast, would fall into a disadvantageous state.
Therefore, in the end, it was still Yumesaki himself who stepped forward, killed it, made it into food, and then stored it away.
After returning home, Yumesaki personally stepped forward to process a portion of the meat quality, making it into plates of delicious dishes. He ate until his brows danced and his eyes lit up, his mouth full of grease, and his heart felt satisfied.
This stuff—this was truly far more delicious than imagined by a huge, huge margin.
And plus, the body size of a Super-Class Danger Beast was enormous. Hunting just one was enough to feed Yumesaki for several months.
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