At the bottom of the ocean, a monster was lying lazily. It had been quite depressed for a whole year because of a woman who appeared suddenly to order him and soon after that she reappeared again to cancel that order.

Although the monster was happy for not having to do a bothersome task, it was still hurt in his pride for the battle it lost against a dragon before his mission was canceled.

Of course, it didn't dare to ask for troubles with that dragon because it knew very well that had no chances to win. Moreover, even though that woman ordered it to attack a group of people that were living there, she made it clear that it couldn't kill any of them, so there was no way it could think about doing something, or it could have a painful death.

"I found you."

A deep voice sounded in the head of the monster due to an unknown Spiritual Sense message.

"Who are you?"

The monster managed to reply, but it didn't dare to show disrespect for the other as it would be foolish for someone weaker than the monster to near it.

"I saw that woman contacting you from far one year ago, but my main body wasn't here, so I needed to wait a bit."

A man appeared in front of the monster, and the aura emanating from his body wasn't weaker than the aura of the woman that the monster saw previously. However, the monster was unable to see clearly the details of his body due to the lack of light at the bottom of the ocean, but his red eyes were enough to inspire fear.

"Scared? I like that. I want you to eradicate this guy at any price; you can get as much help as you want if you feel like you can't do it alone. As for the rest who are with him, I don't mind what happens to them; you can just kill them or toy with them to make that bastard suffer."

The image that appeared in the monster's mind was a member of the group he had targeted before for the other woman's orders, but the sea monster could understand that the man in front of him and the woman from before weren't allies.

That woman was scary, but she didn't seem to be unreasonable, but the man in front of it at that moment seemed the type who would kill others for fun.

"Stop thinking so much. You just need to follow my orders, and you will live. Displease me in the slightest and don't expect me to spare your life nor the life of any member of your race in this world."

The monster agreed quickly, but he couldn't avoid asking a question.

"With your power, it should be easy to kill all of them. I noticed that you hate that guy, why don't you want to take his life with your own hands?"

The monster understood that the previous woman relied on him since she didn't want to kill the targets, so the monster guessed that she wanted to make them suffer some setback, and since it guessed that the group knew about her, it wouldn't have been effective if she did it herself.

However, if the objective was eradicating the other party, the monster couldn't understand the reasons for asking for help given that man's power.

"Do you dare to question me? Well, I guess that I can reply to this question as the payment for your work. There are some circumstances why I can't interact with that guy directly, or I will have problems."

The monster wanted to cry after hearing that because that unwanted payment didn't tell it anything new. It wanted to know the reasons. It was evident that there was some strange circumstance, but the monster wanted to know exactly in what kind of mess was it entering. However, the monster didn't dare to ask anything else and instantly teleported to look for help.

"If I attack, I will die, but if I don't attack, I will also die. I need to prepare something big enough for my presence not being too important."

The monster thought of that when remembering that dragon and the powerful woman. It could believe if the man from before would deal with the woman in case she appeared, but it couldn't believe that he alone would be able to suffer all the consequences of offending someone with such backing.

In the blink of an eye, another year passed since the monster started looking for help, but the life was still peacefully for Yale and the others despite the rumors they heard that someone was planning to start a war soon.

A war wasn't too strange in the western continent, but usually, it was between weak factions and didn't affect those who had Law Masters as a backing.

They had only learned about the war because a scout group found a group of men digging ores in their territory and they told them that there had been a sudden increase in the demand for weapons and armors, so they wanted to obtain some benefits and decided to go digging up some materials.

Such situation was the typical one when a war was about to start, so the scout group reported it, but as long as their only problem was that some people went to their area to dig some ores, they didn't mind.

After all their area was too huge, so as long as no one went near the place where the tribe was situated, they wouldn't turn aggressive against others.

Yale and Ronragruk didn't even bother with the news about an incoming war because both of them had reached a critical point on their tasks at that moment.

Some months ago, both of them decided to make a bet about which task would finish first, the upgrade of Shirk's bloodline or the infusion of laws to the Storage Space, and of course, each one bet for their own task.

Yale had almost finishing improving Shirk's bloodline, so Ronragruk, who didn't want to lose, shut himself in the Storage Space without rest trying to increase his speed.

After all, he already demonstrated that by spending more time his speed would be increased a lot, and he didn't need to wait to see the progress like with Shirk's case. At that moment, Ronragruk was working in the Thunder Law which was the last of his three mastered Laws.

Although it was true that Yale sometimes needed to wait a bit to check Shirk's progress, that was only when the process seemed to go well because he could detect the errors easily with his divine eyes.

The process of the upgrade was quite slow since Yale didn't want to take risks by adding too many variables, but he hoped to turn it into something far easier after creating a standard method.

"I won."

Yale wanted to fall to the ground after he confirmed that the divine eyes considered that Shirk's bloodline had been upgraded successfully.

"I am finally free."

At the same time that Yale thought about his victory, Shirk couldn't avoid speaking because two years of experimentation had been quite tough for him even though it was also what helped him to get a girlfriend.

"Go to see Driwna. She would be happy. If her father tries to make the things hard for you, tell him that it was my order, he wouldn't dare to disobey."

Shirk nodded and left the room flying with the wings he obtained thanks to his bloodline upgrade. The upgrade of bloodline and all the resources used on his body let him turn quite strong in those two years, but he was a still an 8-star Elder making flying impossible for him without wings.

At that moment, Yale entered the Storage Space to notify Ronragruk of his victory, and just when he was about to speak, Ronragruk laughed loud.

"I won!"

Yale could sense that the infusion process had just finished.

"I am sorry, but I finished a bit before you."

Ronragruk hadn't noticed Yale's presence until that moment, but after hearing him, he could only laugh in embarrassment. Both of them could be considered friends after having worked together for so long, so the bet was more of a way to have motivation than anything else.

"Then, I am leaving now. I guess you will want to remain here for a while."

Yale nodded and sent Ronragruk outside of the Storage Space. When Yale was outside, he left a gate opened near him in case Ronragruk wanted to leave, but when he was inside, he closed the gate, so he was the only one who could send someone to the outside world by the correct means.

Of course, it was also possible to force the exit from the space, but that would make the Storage Space unstable, and Yale didn't want that.

Yale just turned around and teleported to Aiwai's house, where Aiwai and Wyba were living. Wyba had started to live there since Yale started to visit Aiwai periodically for taking naps on the soft fur of her beast form.

After finishing his tiring job, Yale was also expecting to relax for a bit before deciding what to do after that.

At another point in the continent not too far away from the tribe, a group of people was having a meeting.

"Since we all agree, let's destroy those hateful members of the Dragon Race."