Absolute Beast Dominion-Chapter 347: Slaves Acquired - Last

Chapter 347: Slaves Acquired - Last

Their selection was quite fast.

A gold-trimmed, wiry collar with green, gleaming gems embedded in the front was chosen for all the Elves, as all had similar features. The only different collar was for Naelith; instead of gold, the wiry structure was black, and instead of a green gem, it held a beautiful red sapphire.

Is that a real sapphire? he wondered incredulously. There was a chance, since the new world might have them appearing commonly everywhere.

But later, the priest mentioned the cost. Selecting custom collars had an extra charge. And Munier once again became hopeful, thinking they would sell at least 1 elf to cover the collar costs.

Come on! I won’t be greedy! Just a single 1-star elf—

"15,000 AC per piece for green ones and 20,000 AC for that red one?" Leo mused, glancing at the invoice.

That was a total of 305,000 AC.

Yes!!! Munier rejoiced inwardly as he saw Leo deliberating. This simply meant it was money that was painful to part with. He knew they had received a lot of money as a competition prize, but he also knew money was like sand in the hands of prodigies like Leo and Lily. Just a single stat-boosting treasure might cost them their everything.

But the next moment, Lily simply tapped her phone against the invoice, and the payment was completed with a soft chime.

"Good! Now, let’s make Leo the master quickly and return to the territory. I feel very tired," she said, yawning lightly and covering her mouth with her hand.

Munier once again became sullen as he proceeded with the next process.

He told Leo to stand on a platform laid with intricate magic lines that connected to a pod-like object in the distance. After placing all the collars into the same pod, he clasped his hands together. The magic circle flared softly as Leo felt a faint ticklish sensation inside his body.

Then, as if invisible threads were tied to his fingers, he felt all the collars connect with him. Munier then proceeded to fasten the collars one by one around each elf’s neck. After clamping each collar, he used magic to finalise the binding.

But since his wish of wanting an elf wasn’t going to be fulfilled, he tried to at least get the feel of touching an elf’s skin. Under the guise of putting on the collar, his finger reached to brush the skin behind the neck. But suddenly—

His body shivered, and his neck snapped sharply towards Katherine, whose glare alone was enough to kill. Munier began to perspire profusely as he continued his work with shaky arms.

Klink!

Klink!

Klink!

The clamps kept locking firmly. And with each klink, Leo felt himself connect with the wearers, but in a way that suggested he had absolute control over the lives of the collar wearers. He could tell that with a single thought, he could induce brutal pain in their bodies and even outright kill them.

A puppeteer controlling his dolls through threads. That was the comparison Leo arrived at. Absolute control over what they could do and what they could not.

But it wasn’t only Leo who felt that sensation. The moment the collars clamped around the elves’ necks, they felt their entire existence fall into the mercy of Leo’s hands. It was almost as if defying his orders was equal to denying their right to live.

As both parties went through the strange sensation, Munier kept glancing towards Leo to see if he felt any difficulty.

Katherine had tolerated enough.

"Priest Munier, I have warned you multiple times." Her expression hardened as she stared straight into Munier’s eyes.

"Do you have a death wish?"

Munier felt his entire body go stiff.

"P-P-Professor!" He immediately threw himself at Katherine’s feet.

"I-I was just checking if his soul was strong enough to handle so many slaves!" he said, giving his reason for running a soul scan technique that Katherine had sensed and stopped.

Katherine stepped onto Munier’s joined palms with her short heels—crushing the bones and muscles beneath them.

"Why do you think the top fresher would have such a weak soul that it wouldn’t be capable of handling the enslavement of merely 20 individuals?"

Munier had still been desperate to get an elf, so he had attempted to check Leo’s soul to see if it had reached its limit for enslaving individuals. As a tiny part of the master’s soul is used to bind each slave, a person with a common soul can handle only a limited number of slaves. Only starting from Legendary soul can one bind an infinite number of slaves.

So, in case Leo happened to have a common soul, after reaching 15 slaves, he might feel the burden and dizziness. This was what Munier had been checking—the load. But Katherine caught the movement, and her patience snapped. She already hated lustful people like Munier, but he signed his sentence through repeated offence.

"I-I was just checking... I just didn’t want him to get hurt because he bound with many..." Munier said, already biting his lips to suppress his scream. Viens throbbed across his forehead, and his pupils quivered because of the intense pain.

"So you are suggesting I am so incapable that I would allow him to get hurt in my presence?"

"N-no..."

Katherine pressed her foot harder; even the floor beneath them cracked as the bones in his palms smashed and ground apart.

"Arghhh..." He released a suppressed groan as his teeth, biting into his lips, pierced the skin completely.

"Don’t show this pathetic attitude in front of me again, or else be ready to greet the world core," she said, finally lifting her foot, leaving a bloody and mangled mess plastered on the floor.

Thankfully, all the work was complete. Because it was unlikely Munier would be able to do anything anytime soon, with the 1 million AC limb regeneration magic due to be applied to both his hands. There was no way normal healing magic would work on those palms. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

While everyone watched the scene with varied expressions—Lily looked bored, Kaelion seemed amused, almost as if it was normal behaviour for Katherine, Miho looked slightly fearful, and the Elves had all sorts of expressions.

But Leo, while observing the scene with indifference, suddenly received a system notification that drew his attention.

Ding!

>Soul Bond ’Master-slave’ achieved with 20 individuals.

>Information regarding slaves is being read... ... ...

Ding!

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A/N: Thank you ’Jeffrey_Cornuelle’ for the super gift—Magic Castle!

Bonus Chapters will be published by the end of the week.