I Can Contract Beauties

Irritation filled Edith’s eyes as she looked at the tunnel where the commotion came from in annoyance.

They were about to do the third dual cultivation session of the day when they were interrupted by the commotion.

Who would not get annoyed by such a coincidence?

Miguel sensed with the newly promoted [Divine Sense] and immediately realized who they were.

A knowing look surfaced on his face as he motioned for Edith to get dressed for them to welcome the intruders.

Miguel was not idle and turned to look at the demonized beast’s corpses around them after he wore his pants. His gaze landed on one particular beast as his figure disappeared and reappeared in front of that corpse a moment later.

It was the corpse of a lizard of moderate size but considerable strength. It was one of the many Silver Grade beasts that they were unable to kill during the battle earlier. It was the smallest of all the Silver Grade demonized beasts and was very agile.

Using brute force, Miguel tore the head of the lizard’s corpse off with ease.

The skull and the body separated from each other without feeling any resistance as Miguel dropped the body down before he tore the dried-up skin that was stuck on the lizard’s skull to clean it off.

After he was done, only a clean white skull remained on his hand.

Without much thought, Miguel wore it on his face, and it fitted him perfectly, as the jaw of the lizard also perfectly covered the area around his chin as well.

After it was cleaned of dirt and unwanted properties, the lizard skull that had been made into Miguel’s mask now looked more like a miniature dragon’s skull.

The two hollow holes reflected the vastness of his deep, raven black eyes, which provided contrast to the clean white lizard skull.

His black eyes were emphasized and highlighted by the white skull, making Edith feel as if she were staring right into the abyss.

There was a fanatical expression on her face as she used [Flash Step] and arrived in front of Miguel.

She immediately hugged his bare and chiseled body, which had once again become more refined by the cleansing he performed earlier.

A hint of red was on her cheeks as she looked up at him with a longing gaze mixed with a hint of lust.

However, this longing gaze mixed with lust quickly disappeared when she heard multiple footsteps from the distance.

Her previous demeanor, the demeanor of a valiant and confident warrior of the battlefield, returned almost in an instant as she stared at the source of the multiple footsteps along with Miguel.

Soon after, familiar faces entered Miguel’s sight; a smile surfaced on his face as he looked at them with an ’expected’ look.

...

A few hours earlier.

The mammoth kept on headbutting the cave wall until blood leaked out of its forehead.

It’s eyes were red, and it had a crazed expression as it smashed its head against the wall. Its two tusks were now broken off as the cave’s wall began to form a massive crack from its actions.

The whole cave trembled at every hit of its head, and the people inside the cave looked at it with an incredulous face.

As the cave kept on trembling, all of them—the bandits and captives alike—were worried that the whole cave would collapse on them.

They looked at the bandit leader with a pleading look in their eyes, as if telling him to stop the mammoth’s crazy actions.

However, even the bandit leader did not know what he must do at this moment.

It was because he realized that he could no longer control this beast.

The Summoning Crystal that bound it also turned into dust. He did not tell the others about this, though, afraid that their respect for him would diminish the moment they knew that the mammoth was no longer under his control.

He secretly gulped a mouthful of saliva in nervousness as he realized that the mammoth had already become demonized.

In fact, he had already slowly retreated away from this demonized mammoth since earlier.

This mammoth was already a Silver Grade Beast. After it got demonized, he knew that no one would be able to contend with it from this group of people inside the cave.

He did not know why it had not attacked them yet, but he knew that this was the right opportunity for him to escape.

At every smash of its head, he would always take one step back away from it.

This was not only for him to avoid shifting the mammoth’s attention towards him with his sudden movement; this was also so that the other people in this cave would not realize what he was planning.

He already planned to sacrifice all of them to buy himself some time when he managed to move away from the mammoth’s perception later.

Fuck this operation that he was leading. In his opinion, his safety and life were more important. Anyway, the mammoth and the Summoning Crystal were no longer under his control, so even if the operation was successful, he knew that he would still not get the end of his bargain as he no longer had the necessary strength to protect his interests.

It was better to escape and protect his life.

This thought echoed inside his mind over and over again as he slowly retreated away from the mammoth.

"Raharahaha, where are you going?"

Just then, a crazed laugh resounded in the cave, making everyone shiver in fright, including the leader.

Everyone turned to look at Gasper, who was still lying in a small puddle of blood with a dumbfounded gaze.

Even the leader cursed inwardly after he realized that Gasper was looking at him with a mocking expression.

Knowing that he was about to be caught red-handed, he was already prepared to dash out of the cave when they heard a crumbling sound.

Everyone turned to look and realized that a huge hole had already appeared on the cave wall that the mammoth had been headbutting since earlier.

"A secret chamber?"

Everyone’s eyes instantly lit up as their minds began to imagine a lot of things.

The mammoth did not stop and instantly rushed inside the entrance of this secret chamber it had discovered.

Seeing that, a boisterous laugh resounded inside the cave as the bandit leader made a huge step forward.

"Hahaha. I actually ordered my mammoth to create this entrance for us to go through. I discovered this secret chamber earlier and told it to create an entrance for us."

"You guys, bring along the captives, and let’s explore this secret chamber together. There might be a valuable treasure hidden deep inside of it, hahaha! "

As the leader’s boisterous and shameless laugh echoed throughout the cave, every bandit around immediately moved out and gathered their things.

Those who kept watch of the captives also began to mobilize them.

Regarding the treasure hidden within the newly discovered secret chamber, each of them had their eyes on it.

None of the bandits were willing to get left behind here and watch the captives. Each of them wanted a share of the treasure and getting left behind here to watch over the captives would be the most idiotic thing to do in their situation.

A bandit group was where all the greedy and nasty folks would gather. Each of them knew of this fact very well and knew that there was no such thing as honesty in their line of work.

After the bandits packed, they immediately moved forward, following behind the mammoth’s trail which was no longer in sight.

As for the reason why the leader wanted them to come along, it was still because he wanted to make them the sacrifice if the mammoth suddenly attacked them.

The group moved at a moderate pace due to the captives. Each bandit held a lamp on their hand to light their way forward.

None of them were anxious at all and as all of them thought that since they were the first one to discover the secret chamber, then the treasures should not have been taken away by the others yet.

A few minutes later though, only the dead body of the mammoth greeted their sight.

Everyone has a look of horror in their face as they looked at the bandit leader in confusion.

"It might have triggered some traps along the way. Don’t worry though, all the traps must have already been triggered by it so it should be safe now."

While saying so, he gestured for Randy to come forward and lead the way. There was a threatening look on his face, it was apparent that he did not want Randy to decline.

Regarding that, Randy could only comply in frustration.

Fortunately, he did not trigger any traps moving forward.

And a few hours later, they finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel.

Each of their eyes lit up one after the other as they immediately ran forward, fearing that the others would beat them on getting the treasure.

However, the moment they arrived at the end of the tunnel, what greeted them was not the treasure in their minds.

Instead, it was a horrifying place full of corpse, and in the middle of it stood a man in a draconic skull wearing nothing but pants, and a figure of a woman wearing a half-mask, hugging each other intimately amidst the corpses, a very contrasting scene that made the bandits shiver in fright and trepidation.