As he was treating her injury, Leroy said to her, "We prepared this for injuries that we encounter when fighting for resources. But we are already using them even though we haven't gained anything, and it hasn't even been five minutes into the harvesting."
She nodded in agreement and said, "You're right. We are wasting precious time and resources. I blame Thor. And that, Arthur. He should be blamed too."
Leroy said to her, "I was blaming you."
While this was going on, Thor and Arthur had gone hunting. As experienced hunters, they knew what to do to gain the maximum benefits. They also knew how to harvest effectively and how to do it quickly.
Arthur rode Roar, while Thor rode his metal horse. They used the energy intensity sensor to find powerful creatures. Arthur killed the relatively weak ones, while Thor killed the powerful ones.
Next they harvest the corpse of powerful beasts or the precious plant that the beasts were protecting. Then they split the reward 50/50 between each other.
This was the routine that had been refined over the years. The only changes to their mode of action are when Roar senses something valuable nearby that the energy intensity sensor doesn't perceive because the valuable object doesn't contain a lot of energy.
They would take a detour to see what Roar sensed. Most times, it is a precious plant, as animals always have a high energy level that correlates directly with their strength, while precious plants can be weak yet highly valuable.
Throughout their journey, they rarely killed other disciples. They have learned that a more efficient use of their time is to spend it harvesting rather than fighting others, so they didn't want to fight anyone no matter which sect they were from.
That didn't mean they didn't have conflicts with people, though. They didn't shy away from fighting if there was something to be gained.
So if they met a group fighting a guardian beast and trying to take away the precious plant it was protecting, they would kill the beast and take the precious plant for themselves. Then they would also take half of everything that everyone owned.
It was extortion. But as long as people gave them half of what they owned, they would be left alone.
If anyone refused to give them what they wanted, they would fight for it and take everything instead of half. They would also take the corpse of the person and use it for research or food for Roar.
They didn't want to fight, but that didn't mean that they wouldn't fight. And sane people would rather give up half of what they owned than fight them and lose everything, including their lives.
This extortion method was used instead of going to block an entrance of the secret realm because Arthur and Thor realized that they couldn't extort everyone by doing that.
At most they would only be able to extort the disciples of a sect. The rest would slip away from their grasp if they waited until the harvest was about to end before they went to block the path to an entrance.
Rather than do that, they decided to extort everyone they met along the way of harvesting themselves. This has reduced the time they spend fighting people by 90% but helped them maintain their harvest output even though they only took half.
It might look simple for them, but it wasn't. Many people from the Blood Skull sect have tried to copy them, but they failed and died because they were surrounded in the secret realm and killed.
The traditional means of extorting people by blocking their path to the entrance worked because the disciples of the Blood Skull sect were working together in large numbers and because the time of the extortion was close to the end of the inter-sect competition.This version is sourced from MV3L3MPYR.
These situations provided the conditions to extort someone without giving them a chance to fight back. If anyone is to copy their own extortion method, they have to be strong enough to bear the retaliation of everyone they extorted who went to gather more people for revenge using the large amount of time they have to prepare.
He and Thor were too strong for their peers, so they could afford to offend many people and let those people go to gather themselves for revenge.
In fact, they liked to fight the large groups who came for revenge because they liked that they didn't have to spread the fight over a long period of time. They consider it a good thing that everyone has gathered together and can be taken down at once.
In short, they were bullies. Not even disciples from the Blood Skull sect were spared. They didn't take half from their fellow disciples, but they took something valuable like the ten corpses of peak second mortal coil creatures or a precious rank 3 plant.
But one thing they noticed was that disciples of their sect didn't fight them when they were extorted. The disciples of the Blood Skull sect would curse at them and promise retribution, but they usually never thought of resisting after confirming their identity.
Confirming their identity is the important part because many people have taken up impersonating them in order to fleece people. These impersonators took advantage of their reputation to extort people.
So it is important that they confirm their identity to disciples of the Blood Skull sect. If they don't do this, a fight will surely occur. But as long as they confirm their identity, their fellow disciples would pay their tax promptly.
He and Thor did this for 20 hours. By then, the secret realm had calmed down and had very little to harvest. So the two of them went to the center of the secret realm to see the ruins.
The ruins were a very large building built with large flat and yellow stones. Its roof was also built with stones.
The entire colossal building didn't have a single window. There was only one large open door that served as its entrance.