Monster Integration

Soon, it was time to leave. There is no fixed time in which one could come and go to the mine, but everyone followed the time, because of the many dangers.

In the night, the monsters became active. Those who stay there at night are those who are truly desperate.

I put everything in my storage and walked away. I have gotten a huge haul today, and the purification is also going great. In a few hours, I will have a purified P1 daros crystal.

Hun!

A few minutes passed, and a frown appeared on my face when I saw three people waiting. These were uncollared. They were employees and had artifacts that protect them from the toxins.

"Stop, slave," said the one in the middle.

He is a cat Beastman; when I had seen them yesterday, I nearly screamed Grimm. They are not Grimms, there is a vast difference between them and the Grimms.

First is their height, they are tall as normal humans, not Giant like the Grimms. On top of that, they look much different from their animal features and, most importantly, there is not an aura of wrongness in them.

"What do you want?" I asked the cat Beastman with grey fur. He is a Primary-III with an invigorating aura, without a hint of weakness that all collared have.

"What we want is tax? Since you are new here, you will have to pay tax," said the Beastman.

"Take out all the doras crystals, you had mined humans?" said the cat Beastman on the left.

"Fuck off," I said directly and took a step forward. "It seemed like this little slave will not understand his place taking no beating," said the leader Beastman and punched me.

I stopped and watched the punch coming toward me. When it was just a few inches away from me, my hands moved, and I stopped its punch squarely. It tried to pull his hand, but my iron grip won't release.

Bam!

"You really shouldn't have attacked me," I said with a smile and acted. I did it so fast, he only heard the sound, when his whole body crashed against the wall.

"You!" said the two Beastmen, and I looked at them. "What? Do you want to come at me?" I asked slowly, and they hastily took a step back.

"You slave, if you do anything to me. You will be punished." Said the one on the left. I only looked at him before turning to one who was struggling to get up and took its clawed hand in hand.

"Consider this a small price. The next time, you try to block my way and you will, you haven't done that," I said to him.

He nodded before his eyes flashed in alarm and then anger at seeing what I had done. "Bastard, you will soon regret what you have done," he shouted from behind.

I took a few things from his storage. I did not touch his daros crystal, but took things like a healing balm and bandages.

There were not many things in his storage. Even employee couldn't bring it inside, still what I have got will help me in emergencies.

"You shouldn't have done that," said Ranya. They had appeared a second after I had crashed him against the wall. "It is fine," I said to which Rim shook his head.

"These bastards are part of the stronger gang. In a day or two, their leader will come for you," he said, faintly shuddering. "I will deal with them, as I had dealt with him," I said and both of them just sighed.

"You might be able to deal with him, but what about in a few months or a year later? When your body became weak," he asked.

"Will think about it when that happens," I said, and we resumed walking, while they just shook their head.

"Have you guys been able to mine your quota?" I asked. "Barely," said Rim, while Ranya just nodded. Soon, a few minutes later, we saw Karta and Gack coming toward us. Seeing us, they stopped.

"How much do you need?" asked Ranya to Gack, without saying anything.

He did not even need to say it. It is clear on his face that he was not able to mind his quota. "Karta helped me with 4%, but I still need 12%," he said, and Ranya's expression turned grave.

"I could only give you five 6%," said Ranya, and moved her hand and crystals moved from her storage to his.

"It will help, but I will still need to take the punishment," said Gack with a sigh. "You will not," I said, and daros crystals from my storage moved into his, surprising all of them.

"It is hard for rookies to mine their quota on the first day, much less have a surplus," said Rim.

"I still remember how I had been punished for the first four days for not finishing up my quota," said Karta.

"I had been just lucky," I said, and they just smiled. Soon, we reached near the formation, where there is a small line. We had also lined up and, after a few minutes, reached the stone-skin man.

"100%. Move," said the man Ranya in front of me and she stepped into the formation, while I appeared in front of the stone skin man.

Without him saying anything, I touched my stone ring on his table and numbers appeared. "132%. Good rookie keeps it up like this, and you will earn your freedom before you know it." Said the stone-skin man.

The points appeared in front of me as he deposited them. Those who mine above the quota get points, as I had done.

I have to say, the one who designed the system is a genius. He had kept punishment and reward in balance. So, the slaves here will work hard till they die, without causing any huge revolt.

Buzz!

The formation lighted up, and we appeared and appeared above a reporting station before walking out.

"Michael, do you want to check out the point store before we go to our rooms?" asked Karta. "Sure," I said. I wanted to check it out since I had heard about it yesterday and it is as good a time as any.

A few minutes later, we reach the point store. It is a huge building in a slave compound, bigger than even a cafeteria. I could not see it due to all these houses in front of it.

"It had nearly everything, from practice resources to healing potions that heal you in minutes," informed Gack.

It is big and has quite a lot of stuff. It took me less than a minute to see. There are some resources here that could be used for purification. I could absolutely not take them unless I could use them for other valid things.

I think I know, but currently, I will not buy them. I don't have enough points to buy them all.

"Let's go," I said a few minutes later. "You don't want to buy anything?" asked Rim. "There are few things that I want to buy, but those are too expensive," I said, and Rim nodded as if knowing what I am thinking.

"The practice resources are really too expensive," he said. I nodded with a smile as we walked out of the store.