Dual Cultivation: Beasts and Women!

Liam could see that training against Isa wouldn't be simple. She was much stronger than him, which meant that he would be in her hands. That might not be a problem depending on her personality, but she didn't seem like the person who was easy to get along with. He wasn't sure that she wouldn't decide, in the middle of the fight, that she should teach him a tough lesson.

Thinking about the range of negative possibilities in front of him, Liam couldn't help but consider the worst and try to put something in the way of this challenge.

"As long as you warm my bed after the fight, I'll train with you as often as you like."

Toby's eyes widened when he heard it, while Liam's other subordinates stopped walking, staring at Isa's pretty face as she expressed a surprise that was hard to usually see in her eyes.

Some of them knew of her fame. Others were in the dark, but even so, this was a cultivator a few levels stronger than Liam. Even so, he had provoked her in such a way...

All five of Liam's subordinates were worried about what Isa was going to do, preparing for something terrible in the middle of the General Records Hall.

Even Liam himself looked at Isa in anticipation of at least a slap in the face, aware that he had crossed several barriers that shouldn't be crossed so easily.

It was when a smile appeared again on Isa's lips that Liam realized perhaps he had made a mistake.

"Okay," she said, as the sound of saliva being swallowed reverberated from a few different throats. "As long as you can stand to honor your manhood, I'll give you anything you want."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Uh?" Liam was the one who expressed surprise now, opening his mouth and not knowing what to say.

"You agreed?" he asked after a moment, feeling as if the world around him was spinning.

"Given our difference in cultivation, I'll give you my heart if you're able to accompany me, Division Chief Porter. Warming your bed later will be the least I can do for such a man."

Her words only made Liam even more shocked, widening his eyes in such a way that his good looks almost diminished a little at that moment.

She didn't wait for him to say more and said as she turned to leave, "I'll give you a week. Then I'll look for you so we can train... It could be at your place. You want me to warm your bed, right?" She laughed as she waved one of her hands, then disappeared without giving Liam the chance to deny this meeting in a week.

Liam's world went black and white for a few seconds as he tried to understand how this agreement had come about so suddenly. Part of him couldn't believe it, while another was making him suspicious, sensing that there was something wrong.

Then a hand touched his right shoulder, and a man spoke to him, "Chief Porter, I don't know whether to praise you for your courage or sigh at your mistake," Toby said with a bitter smile on his face. "Tell me something. Did you already know that Commander Isa is known as the Merciless Valkyrie? You already knew about her fame, right?"

"Fame? Merciless Valkyrie?" Liam looked at the two First Officers looking at him with sorry expressions in the middle of that hallway of the General Records Hall.

"Looks like you took a shot in the dark," said the woman of the fourth realm of soul cultivation, closing her eyes and shaking her head pessimistically.

"Good luck, Chief. As long as you don't get crippled or lose your sanity, we can still do missions together again," said one of the two Officers who knew the stories about the Merciless Valkyrie, encouraging the increasingly ugly grimace on Liam's face.

Toby saw that Liam's doubt and curiosity were reaching their limit and he said after a sigh, "Commander Isa is... how can I put it? A maniac?

She's a cruel woman who doesn't kill, but destroys the confidence of her opponents. She accepted love challenges for a few months when she entered the inner area of the sect and gained a peculiar fame after beating more than a dozen guys who wanted to taste her beauty.

The stories say that she is still a virgin after all this, having remained undefeated after all the initial challenges. Everyone who knows her has avoided her ever since...

Occasionally, however, some fool courts her and ends up getting hurt.

Ah, I meant no offense, Chief Porter." Toby corrected himself, seeing that his leader wasn't perfect, after all.

'Chief Porter has the same weakness as many men...' The balding man thought to himself, while Liam's expression was a few degrees darker, as if he had aged a few decades in a matter of seconds.

"That... Why didn't you warn me?" Liam asked in a deep tone, not expecting to have to deal with a figure like Isa so suddenly.

"It's not right for subordinates to correct their leaders so suddenly, Chief... And you didn't give us any space," said the woman next to him, looking sympathetically at Liam. "But why did you make that request? Do you really want a woman like her?"

There was a touch of genuine curiosity in this First Officer's words.

Liam denied it vehemently. "That's not it! I didn't think she'd accept! I wanted her to refuse! Who would accept an absurd request like that?"

Even a dual cultivator like Liam didn't expect a girl to agree to go to bed with a man for just one training session together.

As much as he wanted to get involved with Commanders, Isa wasn't the right person. He preferred a female Commander who wasn't related to one of the Elders and who wasn't so strong either.

He had intended to investigate targets over the next few days, but Isa had now complicated everything for him, putting a big problem in his way.

"Looks like you shot completely in the dark then, chief." Toby laughed at the situation. "But you've got Elder Neill... Maybe she won't be so hard on you?"

"I very much doubt it." The woman in front of Toby disagreed with his hypothesis. "I heard that the Merciless Valkyrie acted against Elder Geve's disciple. Thomas supposedly tried to kill himself on a suicide mission right after that... He's bedridden to this day."

Liam watched the two First Officers exchange comments with wide eyes, not expecting things to turn out so badly.

"Now all that's left is for you to take over, Chief." Jane said with concern in her voice. "Maybe you should run away from this meeting? You're already a Runemaster capable of passing the Third Class exam. Use your influence and try to join one of the groups taking exams at the Twin Land Runemasters Association."

"That's a good suggestion, but it will only intensify Isa's interest in you." Toby agreed with Jane, although he pointed out a truth that was impossible to escape. "Unless she dies or Elder Cecily orders her to forget about it, Isa will be after you from now on."

"She can't be that bad," Liam commented reflexively.

The four individuals who knew of Isa's fame looked at him in silence, making him doubt his ignorant assertion.

"Well, if that's the case, all I can do is get ready." He sighed in defeat, no longer feeling so good about today's winnings. "Maybe those keys we got will help us with something."

Toby and the others remembered what had just happened, turning their minds back to the grand prize they had received. Besides the merit points they would eventually receive when Liam divided up the amounts Cecily sent him, the keys to the Treasure Hall could provide them all with valuable chances.

The Treasures Hall was a part of the Records Hall, such a valuable compartment of the sect that the disciples and members of the force considered it to be an individual part and more important than the Records Hall itself.

In the Treasures Hall were the sect's most valuable items, personally collected by Elders and stored for members deserving of positive chances of fate.

The Treasures Hall functioned simply. It was a space similar to a library, where a thousand special sealed boxes were distributed around the hall, containing a varying number of items. According to what the more experienced inner members knew, the secret boxes in the Treasure Hall could contain between 2 and 5 items, all of which had the potential to arm or strengthen even Spirit Kings.

Liam had 3 keys with him, which meant that he could take possession of 3 mysterious boxes and get several high-value items.

The two First Officers gave Liam hope when they heard about the Treasure Hall, showing that it was possible for him to escape depending on their luck with his prizes.

So they made their way to the most important place inside the General Records Hall, where they soon presented their keys to an Elder to gain access to the inside of the treasury of the sect.