As she looked around at the one-meter odd tall spikes all around her, she was left in awe and disbelief. Was it really her who did that? So many thoughts ran in her mind, but the ends of her mouth ever so subtly rose by themselves.
Edgar, on the other hand, was calculating things in his mind. He had to go through hell of a physical training to unlock Drive, but he didn’t want Fabby to experience such tireless practice. So he bet on her absorbing the core would be a better thing to do. As for unlocking the drive, she could slowly get closer to that. Though his Master told him that physical training wasn’t necessary to unlock one’s Drive and that it could also be achieved through severe mental training, Edgar knew where that path would lead. He just didn’t want his sister to put through the mental burden again. The trauma she had gone through all these years was already too much. If the drive didn’t unlock with that, then it only meant that such a way was just not worth risking.
After all, if simple mental trauma unlocked one’s drive, then most slaves in the world would be capable of obtaining it sooner or later. So, Edgar had come to the conclusion that a strong body and a healthy mind would make it much easier to unlock drive than an average body and a broken mind.
He came over to her and took out a gray-colored core, startling her.
“Is that…”
“Yeah, it belongs to the ram that I killed yesterday,” said Edgar, tossing the core in his palm, causing the monkeys’ heads to move up and down. “This won’t give you an ability, but it will enhance your physical strength.”
“You should take it.”
“No. You need it more. Since the earth’s core is showing reactions, your body is now able to withstand simple stones like these,” Edgar said, and the eyes of the monkeys were still on the core, and they were drooling. “With this you’ll find it easier to move around in these woods.”
“But what about you? It’s not easy to find beasts with cores, right?” she couldn’t help but ask.
“Yes, but we are in no hurry,” he assured.
“Mm,” she nodded and took the core.
“Besides, without taking more cores, you can’t catch up with me.”
“Say what?” she waved her arm as though she was about to toss the core to the monkeys.
Edgar skipped on his toes. “Nothing. I said nothing!” he touched his ears and apologized. “I’m sorry.”
Fabby grinned in return. “That’s more like the little brother I know.” Though she had said that, she was feeling very glad in her heart because he was always like that, competing with her when they were young. However, he stopped competing after he had become a cripple. Now, he seemed to be expressing himself freely, so she felt really glad for him, though it didn’t quite reflect in her words.
Soon, Edgar and Fabby were on the move again, with the seven monkeys following them from a distance. After all, afternoon was the best time to move in the woods. When they found a suitable spot for staying, they settled there for a few days.
Edgar couldn’t leave his sister alone, so he took her along for hunts. When the target was weak, like with the deers and rabbits, she also joined in. The monkeys helped in catching the prey’s attention, and then the siblings waited for the right opportunity to strike and kill the prey as quickly as possible. Having said that, Fabby never made the killing strike. Sometimes, she even let the targets escape when she felt bad from hearing their cries. Though the monkeys got mad at her, they couldn’t vent their anger on her, afraid of Edgar breaking their teeth.
Together, the nine beings faced no real threat all this while. It was thanks to Edgar, the monkeys could even taunt bigger prey like the gorillas and deer and then get to taste their rich meat after Edgar had taken care of them. After all, the stronger the beast, the more strength their meat would give the eater. So, they had their reasons to follow Edgar, even though it was actually him who initially subdued them and forced them to work for him. If not for the benefits, those monkeys would have long escaped, and knowing that, Edgar gave them a big share for many good reasons. It was his way of ‘tempting’ them to stick around.
Also, it was the monkeys that helped him avoid troublesome prey like the pythons, panthers, and tigers. As much as Edgar wanted to fight them, he just didn’t want to take risks with his sister around. So he took things slow, and though there were a few times when things got tricky, like when the wilds dogs attacked them, the difference between their strength and Edgar was too much to bridge even with their numbers, so nothing bad happened from that encounter.
Throughout these days, Edgar was honing all the skills he had learned, and he was in a much better shape than when he had come out of the valley. The only negative thing that happened during his time in the woods was that his blades got more tiny chips, which slowly but surely grew into cracks every time he covered them with Drive.
Fabby, on the other hand, was always challenging the leader of the troop. Though she lost every time, she was catching up slowly, and their fights grew longer. Whoever lost would pick the lice and other bugs hiding in the winner’s hair. So she always ended up picking dozens if not hundreds of lice from Lice’s body. Over time, they had become both friends and rivals at the same time. And yes, she named the leader, Lice, given how many times it made her pick the lice.
The monkeys were afraid of playing with Edgar because when they went too far with their monkeyness, he rapped their heads with his mighty knuckles, so they became better friends with his sister.
All in all, the days in the woods went by rather smoothly from Edgar’s end. Even though Fabby felt sour most of these days, the positive change in her life after coming out of the Shushui mountain range hugely overshadowed every troublesome thing this new journey threw at her.

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274 - FLAMES OF THE SOUL
Alice, a member of the Ayss family which was one of the twelve supreme families, was quite surprised that Edgar has managed to escape from her attack.“Interesting. He’s worthy enough to become a slave. Should I keep him from the impending disaster? Or should I just kill him?“No, part of his body has already been frozen by my ice, so it’s unlikely that he might survive. But if he does survive, then I’ll think about whether I should kill him or keep him as my slave.“I’m sure I’ll meet him soon enough if he does manage to survive.”She put on her clothes and was walking away.A beast that looked like an ogre was coming to the river, but upon seeing Alice, it drooled and ran on all fours toward her.“You damn beast,” Alice blew air through her mouth, and the giant ogre-like being was completely frozen. “Even if you were a hundred times stronger, you won’t be able to eat me.”She flicked her finger, sending needle-like ice shards which broke the frozen ogre into hundreds of pieces.“Whe
273 - CRAZY BEAUTIFUL GIRL
After bathing in the mud pool created by Elder Gavin, Edgar came down the mountain to bathe in the river, as per his sister’s orders.“My Fuzzy Step has gotten much lighter,” Edgar found himself smiling. “I don’t feel any soreness in the muscles. The pain in the toes and shin is also completely gone.”He felt so refreshed, he jumped off tall, thin boulders that were hundreds of feet apart.And he jumped in the river with full energy.He swam underwater like a fish and shot himself out of the water like a fish and landed on the shore.To his surprise, there was a girl who just covered herself with clothes. Her hair and body was still wet. Her thighs and below were still uncovered.Her skin was so white. He had never seen someone so white before. And her blue eyes were striking.“I-I’m sorry,” Edgar turned the other way. “I didn’t know you were in the river.”“This has never happened to me before,” she uttered in a cold voice.“What never happened?”“Someone disturbing my peaceful bathin
272 - CLOSED BOOK
Edgar woke up, only to find himself in a pool of mud. He could feel that he was being healed by fish that were swimming in the mud and were nibbling at his skin.At first sight, it might look like they were eating him, but they were actually taking away the negative energy from his body, though he was not able to feel that.Edgar tried to grab one of those fishes, but they turned into pure mud, pleasantly surprising him.He looked at Fabby who was sitting in the distance, by the cliff. “What are these fishes, sis?”“Elder Gavin made them with his drive. He said they can suck away impurities from your body and make you stronger,” Fabby explained. “He said even your drive will get smoother and faster afterward. Also, the negative effect the beast cores have on our bodies can also be reversed, or so he said.”“Such a thing is possible with drive?” Edgar was both surprised and doubtful. “These fish are biting me, but I don’t feel any pain.”“Yeah. Just stay there until all those fish are
271 - DAY BY DAY
The eagle brought the siblings to a mountain range and dropped them next to Gavin who was weaving gloves with drive.He wasn’t surprised to see the position the siblings were in.“Here,” Gavin handed the gloves to the eagle, and it put the gloves on its feet and then screeched in happiness.“Haha, you like them, huh,” Gavin smiled. “They are durable as I knit them with my drive. So, don’t lose them.”Scree~!The eagle replied in a confident voice and then began to walk around happily in its new footwear.“They look like gloves, but they should be called socks, I guess?” Gavin wondered. “Ah, well, whatever…”Gavin then looked at the siblings, out of whom only Fabby was still conscious. She was trying to sit up, and it was taking her a while.“You don’t seem to have any external injuries. You are probably tired from using too much energy,” Gavin said. He sent a bullet of energy into her forehead, which didn’t hurt her but went straight into her brain and melted into it. This suddenly ga
270 - A DIFFERENCE TOO BIG
“Surfing Strike!’ Edgar’s foot viciously struck Ryu’s face and sent him flying high like a rotating paper fan. Any normal person would have had their head separated from their shoulders from that kick, but Ryu’s neck was flexible as well as sturdy as rubber.Ryu grabbed his head and stopped it from spinning before somersaulting and landing in the distance.“Huh?” Fabby was quite shocked by it. “Why is he not dead? Is he even human?”“His body is a bit special, you see,” Anarga smirked and then looked at Ryu. “But, hey, how could you get hit by that brat like that? You should be glad that there isn’t anyone else around, or it would have brought such shame.”Blood leaked from Ryu’s ruptured upper lip. He licked it and faintly smiled. “It’s been a while since I tasted my own blood.” His eyes turned red.“Oh, crap…” Anarga skipped backward. “You guys brought a disaster on yourself. When he goes into that frenzy mode, he’s unstoppable. Even I wouldn’t dare stand next to him because he can
269 - KNIGHT OF NIGHT
Anarga squeezed Edgar’s chest down, but when Edgar saw Ryu step toward his sister, he uttered, “Thunder Knight…”The ground beneath them cracked, and the air around them crackled. The very cliff itself vibrated in resonance with Edgar’s heartbeat.Anarga lost her balance just for a second. A double-edged lightning spear appeared in Edgar’s hand, and he thrust it right through her abdomen.She thought it would leave a hole in her, but it didn’t. However, it then electrocuted her to the point her clothes were half-burnt, and she looked like a semi-roasted grizzly bear.Ryu immediately clawed through the middle section of the spear and then took Anarga and jumped a few feet away. “How could you be so careless?”Anarga fell on one of her knees. Blood leaked from both corners of her mouth, even though she tried not to leak any blood.“Does it hurt that much?” Ryu asked.She gave him a glare.“I see…” Ryu then looked at Edgar, who was rising off the ground without the use of his hands, as th
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