The snake was more than fifty meters long. It was so heavy that the wagon had to be pulled by two bulls at the ninth transformation.
She left, leaving him to count the number of casualties caused by the two beasts. Eight people had died. It was a big blow to his dojo.
This kind of loss wasn't something he could sustain if it happened every day. But there was nothing he could do about it. He could only hope that it didn't happen every day.
He didn't dare tell his students what had attracted the two beasts to the vicinity of the green forest. Most of them believed that it was just an unlucky day.
Some of them did know what had caused the beasts to attack some of them. Or at least, they suspected that they had been used as bait. But even if they knew, they didn't dare to mention it.
Telling people that they were used as bait was unlikely to bring them any benefits. It was more likely that it would attract trouble to them.
While they didn't think their dojo master was the one who used them as bait, the fact that one of the beneficiaries of the appearance of the beasts was his mother made him a likely suspect.
No one came up to him to ask him if he had a part to play in the appearance of the beast. They just kept their suspicions within them and made up their minds not to hunt for him anymore.
So not only did he lose eighteen hunters, but his reputation was also stained, and he lost some of his capable hunters.
He also had to use his money to take care of the injured ones. This made him feel very angry about what had happened.
He looked around to make sure that his mother was nowhere around him before muttering to himself, "And you wonder why he doesn't want you. You don't even spare your son from your schemes. If he dares let you close, he will be swallowed whole without any bones left."
He sighed and called it a day. Then he went to the beast hunting center.
He went there to turn the carcasses he has acquired today into hunting points.
It was an easy but somewhat tedious job. All he has to do is move the carcasses that are his into several wagons and lead them to Agate City.
It is something he can do alone, but it will take time. However, he didn't need to do it because he had his students.
His students helped him carry the carcasses to the wagon. Then they sat beside the driver of the wagons to follow him to the city. He didn't have to do anything except lead the way to where he wanted the carcasses to go.
When he got to the beast hunting center, they also helped him carry the carcasses in. The step took a lot of time because they couldn't help him.
Each carcass had to be inspected by the same person. This took his time, but he didn't mind it at all.
As usual, all of the carcasses were exchanged for hunting points. He didn't exchange them for money at all. This finally let him reach the fifth hunter's grade, and he gained access to extraordinary weapons.
He could finally get all the things he wanted from the beast hunting center. Now he had two choices to make about how to go about it.
The first was to make the exchange with money. The second option was to make the exchange with hunting points.
Since he doesn't have to do the hunting himself and he has people to do the hunting for him, he decided to go with the second option. It was almost a free option for him, so there was no way he would use his money to get what he wanted.
Over the next weeks and months, he got enough hunting points to exchange for the force diagram. What he exchanged for was the Dominating Fire Force Diagram.
Apart from hunting points, he had to promise not to share the force diagram with anyone. He swore an oath on the Ethera tree that he wouldn't teach anyone and he return the force diagram or destroy it after using it.
A golden leaf appeared in the air above his head after he made that oath. The golden leaf was then imprinted on his body and disappeared. If he breaks the oath, then he will die.
The golden leaf won't stop him from breaking the oath. But it will remind him when he is about to break it. If he goes ahead to break it even after the warning, all that awaits him is death.
As far as he knows, the oath is impossible to remove. But the oath can be taken advantage of. Anyone that is willing to die can disregard the oath and defy it.
He is not willing to die, so the oath will restrain him. If he were willing to die, he would share the force diagram with other people before dying.
It is a matter of what someone's life is worth. His life is worth more than sharing the force diagram, so he won't break the oath.
It was after he made that oath that he was given the force diagram. It was a better condition than what he would have had to go through if he wanted to get the force diagram from the Dyson family.
Not only would he have to perform meritorious deeds for the family, but he would also have to swear to protect the family's interests. The initial cost of the force diagram would be cheaper than what he had to pay to get it from the beast hunting center, but he would also lose his freedom.
His freedom is too valuable to him, and there are people to hunt for him, so he doesn't mind the expensive conditions of the beast hunting center at all. He was even happy and ecstatic when he received the force diagram.