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  Paul and Chris looked at the donation in disbelief.

  Not only that, but their newly created el had already reached five hundred subscribers!

  They had only just made a stream that sted fifteen minutes, yet they got this much attention out of nowhere.

  “M-Maybe you weren’t pletely wrong, I guess?” Paul stuttered a bit, mostly because he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “It’s incredible; it worked... People liked what I did."

  “Of course they did, silly!” Chris ughed. “You were awesome back then; I have to admit it, bro. That trait you got is so overpowered, it’s ihe developers should definitely nerf it.”

  “I mean, it already ran off, and it only works for ten minutes every day; it’s not that crazy.” Paul shrugged. “Anyways, I think we should get bae; we have a lot of things we o assess.”

  “Yeah, I guess so. Let’s go~” Chris nodded, patting Paul’s shoulders.

  The duo was thankfully nnized out of nowhere ireets of Elderbridge, and although they were being spied on by some thugs, in the end, nobody came to pursue them or assault them, as Vd had feared.

  They safely made their way back to Vd’s home, where they moved to his bedroom. Little Camil was fast asleep and seemed to not be waking up, no matter how muoise they made. Vampires had a very heavy sleep.

  However, wouldn’t it be dangerous to be caught off guard while sleeping?

  Paul thought that maybe they would wake up if their lives were actually threatened, but right now, Camil wasn’t being threatened or something, so she tinued sleeping.

  “We made a lot of gains.” Chris said. “So, how do we distribute everything? Ahh, right, first of all, take all the stuff I picked up for you.”

  Chris transferred all the items to Paul; after all, he had hunted every single monster himself; Chris didn’t kill anything, so he didn’t feel entitled to get anything from the drops or the monster bodies themselves.

  In Fantasy Story Online, not all monster bodies would disappear once sin; usually, only specter, spirit, or ethereal-type monsters would disappear, if anything.

  However, any other monster would always leave behind their entire body and everything they carried with themselves.

  Their flesh, blood, leather, bones, internal ans—everything could be taken, butchered, and sold separately or used for a variety of other things.

  Due to the realistic aspect of hunting, not many people could easily stomach butchering a monster entirely, so they were often sold plete, body and everything, to the many store owners spread throughout the towns.

  Paul had even read about specialized Guilds Pyers could join, usually called Adventurer Guild, Expluild, or Hunter Guild. They specialized in different aspects, but all of them would always buy any monster carcass from pyers at varying prices and sell exclusive items to those that registered in their guilds.

  From what he could recall, the only guild here, however, was the Hunters Guild, and it was rather far away from the town square, so it wasn’t within Paul’s pns to go there for the time being.

  More than anything, what mattered right nolitting the earnings.

  "So, how much did we earn?” Paul wondered.

  “Roughly… A bit 267!” said Chris.

  “T-That’s a lot!” Paul muttered. “To earn such a sum out of absolutely nowhere is really lucky.”

  “Haha, yeah, I guess. As I said before, I am not desperate for money, so I’ll only take a small part of it. sider it my payment for streaming and hosting the ehing,” said Chris.

  “Sure, how much do you want?” Paul wondered.

  “I’ll be taking twenty pert,” said Chris. “So around 26 dolrs.”

  “What? At least take a hundred, or I’ll feel bad about it,” sighed Paul.

  “Hmm… fine,” Chris shrugged. “I might use it to buy something ter. I’ll quickly send you the rest. You then send it directly to your bank at like that.”

  “I see. Thanks a lot, Chris.” Paul nodded.

  Ding!

  [Pyer]: [Alitheus Lilithie] has sent you a deposit of 167.]

  [Accept?]

  [Yes] [No]

  He pressed yes and received the money right away.

  167 has been successfully received and has been deposited inside of your Wallet.]

  [At any time, you may choose to tra to any Bank At or Paidpal At.]

  [However, each transfer will have a 1% Tax.]

  “I guess it makes sehere’s some Tax for transfers, though it’s pretty low, only one pert?” I wondered. “These game developers are quite generous…”

  “Ah, I guess so,” Chris nodded. “It is one of the reasons why streaming in this game is progressively being even more profitable than Yourstube, Twitchy, or Toktok.”

  “It sure is; they take a rger sum of the money, I believe, right? Iing…” Paul seemed to have found a business opportunity in the game, something he had never sidered before.

  “Maybe with this, I could perhaps help my family a bit more,” he smiled a bit, making Chris smile iurn.

  “Gd I could help, dude!” he smiled. “Anyways! Now to the more juicy part: the loot! Did you get any good stuff? What exactly did we get? I just transferred everything, so I couldn’t really tell.”

  “Ah, right…” Paul looked at his iory.

  Taking into sideration all the monsters he hunted, he had over a hundred low-grade Beast Cores, a few dozen mid-grade ones, and then a single high-grade Beast Core from the Obsidiaon Lord.

  “A lot of Beast Cores...” Vd was already imagining what he could make with it. “As long as I have a lot of these, I make all kinds of Ara-iems and accessories! This golden wand I have here was made using a lot of Beast Cores as the main ingredient; they help imbue Ara into things.”

  “Ooh, so that’s how it is, huh? You’ve got quite the knack for crafting, dude,” Chris smiled. “Despite the terrible fw you had, you were able to overe it a bit with that wand that lets you float around.”

  “It's still a bit annoying; it only has a limited supply of Ara, but I pn to ge that.” Paul said. “I’ll try to expand the Ara pool it has. Also, I might make some bracelets, rings, and other items that help me have more Ara to use ihing. The debuff doesn’t affect bonus stats from equipmeher. So if I equip myself well enough, I could definitely fight better.”

  "Well, that’s pretty sweet, I guess,” Chris said. “What else do you have?”

  “Hmm, more of those dog corpses, the wolf... Then there are the skeletons, right? Their bones are really hard ao be made of a material simir to metal. I could use them to make all kinds of stuff, but I’ll still be selling the majority; there are too many. Also, they e with rusty pieces of armor, ons, and so on; they could be useful as materials or to sell them, I’ll see.”

  “Alright, I remember we went to the bat cave too; there were a bunch of those crimson-colored bats and the big bat,” said Chris. “Did they drop something?”

  “Nope, nothing, unfortunately. Despite going to the Infernal difficulty on all three dungeons, we didn’t get a sireasure chest, just so you see how low the ces actually are. We got extremely lucky the first time,” Paul ughed.

  “Wait, not a sireasure chest?! What a scam…” Chris looked annoyed, making a rather unsightly face.

  “Well, that’s it for now, and don’t worry, if we don’t get more equipment, I always make us some more.” Paul smiled. He was gaining more and more fidence as he pyed the game. “Do you want to issioo make something for you for free?”

  “Wait, for free? Why?” Chris tilted his head, looking at Vd’s red eyes.

  “I know I said you had to pay for everything, but this is my payment to you for helpi and... Well, give me the whole streaming idea. Also, you could take it as payment to help me out in future streams too,” Paul said.

  “Ooh? You’re so nice! Okay, fine!” Chris smiled, patting Vd’s head. “What are you makihen?”

  “I don’t know, whatever you have in mind.” Paul asked. “What do you need?”

  “Hmm, the trident is kind of shitty,” said Chris. “Armor... nah, that would slow me down. Also, Incubus even wear armor? Maybe a on to attack from afar. Perhaps bow and arrows?”

  “That’s smart; flying and bows and arrows make a deadly bination,” Paul nodded. “Alright, I’ll try to get something like that done; I have no idea how to make bows, though. I’ll o buy blueprints iore.”

  Thanks to the Level 5 Alchemy Skill and his two other skills, Level 2 Runigravement and Crafting, Paul had grown rather fident in his crafting and creation skills.

  Despite progressing rather slowly and having such drawbacks, he was looking forward to the prospect of crafting his own equipment and using it to overe the many obstacles of this character’s background life.

  He was feeling the same excitement and thrill that old games gave him when he was much younger.

  “I wasn’t able to secure any Life Energy myself~” Chris sighed, as he was browsing his iory. “Did you get any?”

  “A bit of Blood Energy, yeah,” Vd said, looking at his status.

  [Blood Core]: [Blood Refi Realm (Tier 2: Rank 2)] (Blood Energy: 1.700/2.000)

  He was already a few points away from reag rank 3 in Tier 2!

  If he could absorb the corpses of some of the monsters he has ter, he could probably further extraore Blood Energy ao Rank 3 of Tier 2.

  However, that wasn’t all, as he would also be able to acquire new Skills.

  “Not enough to Level Up, unfortunately, but we’re getting there,” Paul said. “For now, I think I’ll Devour some of the carcasses I have. I told you that I could do that and gain skills or bonus stats, right?”

  “You did say something about stealing blood energy, bloodlines, aing skills, yeah?” Chris nodded. “ I see how it works?”

  “Sure, let’s go to another pce, though; I don’t want to disturb Camil’s sleep more,” Paul tried to be sidered.

  “Aww, aren’t you a siderate brother~?” Chris teased him, poking his face with his finger.

  “Well, I don’t wao get upset at me.”

  Ohey made their way downstairs, in the “living room," which was dark and full of dust and spiderwebs, Paul got to work.

  Calg that Gluttony would get a full stomach if he ate too much, he chose one monster from each creature type they hunted.

  One Wild Dog, the Bck Wolf, the Blood Bat, the Blood Bat King, an Obsidiaon, and the Obsidiaon Lord.

  His stomach was weirdly rumbling as he looked at the insipid corpses; his mentality had ged slightly after he had embraced the insatiable powers of Gluttony.

  Was it more of a curse than a blessing? He couldn’t truly tell, but the exhiratiion of dev living beings and abs their powers was really good.

  He had eaten vampires and other beings before, and now he was moving on to monsters, at long st.

  [Do you wish to Absorb the Selected Corpses?]

  [Yes] [No]

  He pressed yes.

  FLASH!

  A moment ter, a dark power immediately engulfed all the corpses; such a dark power was interected to his very hand.

  It opened tless jaws and started biting through everything, leaving absolutely nothing behind and making all the monster carcasses disappear entirely.

  [You have absorbed the corpses of the [Wild Dog (Tier 1: Rank 5)] [Bck Wolf (Tier 1: Rank 10)] [Blood Bat (Tier 1: Rank 7)] [Blood Bat Queen (Tier 2: Rank 1)] [Obsidiaon (Tier 2: Rank 5)] [Obsidiaon Lord (Tier 3: Rank 1)]!]

  [You gained +250 Blood Energy.]

  [You have stolen the [Lesser Shadow Wolf Bloodline Fragment] and [Lesser Sangui Bloodline Fragment]!]

  [Your Bloodline is patible with the Fragments; they have been automatically absorbed.]

  [Your own Bloodline: [Strong-Blooded Dhampir Bloodliier 1: Rank 3)] has absorbed all fragments and Ranked Up to Tier 1: Rank 5!]

  [You gained +200 Blood Power]

  [You gained +100 Ara.]

  [You have unlocked the Racial Skill: [Obsidian Bones (D): Lv1]

  [You have unlocked the Subcss Skill: [Echolocation (D): Lv1]

  [You have unlocked the Css Skill: [Shadow Spear (C): Lv1]

  [The Demonic Seed of Gluttony seems satisfied and is slowly digesting its meal.]

  [You ot absorb any more corpses for the 15 Hours.]

  “Three new skills just like that… Obsidian Bones, Echolocation, and Shadow Spear?” Vd looked at them with a lot of i. “It’s pretty much what they had with them, right?”

  “You got the Shadow Spear that annoying wolf had? That’s amazing!” said Chris. “With it, you see most things from afar... Man, I want that too! Why ’t I get cool stuff…”

  “Hah, well, you do have plenty of that yourself,” Paul said. “Chris, you have to learn how to jure Spirit Magid also make a tract with a Spirit, it is in your trait. You’ll be wasting it if you don’t use its powers.”

  “Ah… I fot about that. Chris muttered. “Right, I'm supposed to be half-fairy, lol.”

  “It’s hirious, I know, you, a fairy? No way,” ughed Paul.

  “Eh?! Where was that ing from, huh?” Chris muttered. “You’ve gottey bold out of nowhere, loner.” He gave Paul a side-eye.

  “C-Calm down, I was joking.” Paul muttered. “Ahem, anyways, I’ll researething for you because I know you’re zy. I hope you it to it once I show it to you.”

  “Yeah, sure~” Chris shrugged. “Something else?”

  “You chose the random character, right?” Paul wondered.

  As the two sat dowhe marance, admiring the moon above, Paul asked Chris this question.

  And Chris froze.

  “Wait, I did.”

  “Then… Where’s your pensation ticket?”

  “Ah…”

  “Don’t tell me.”

  “I-I fot…”

  Paul facepalmed as Chris giggled nervously.

  He had really been missing out on the opportunity to get something really good this eime!

  “Use the damn ticket a something good then! You’re wasting your time if you don’t, Chris!” Paul reprimahe cheeky brat.

  “Hey, who are you reprimanding?!” Chris got slightly irritated. “Fine, fine! I’ll use the damicket, whatever! Stop throwing yamer rage at me, dude. Yoing to scare the hoes like that.”

  “A-Ah, sorry…” Paul realized he was getting weird and promptly apologized.

  At the same time, Chris took out the golden ticket from his iory.

  “Alright, here goes nothing.”

  As the ticket was used, a giant golden roulette appeared in front of the two.

  Paul saw with nervousness and tension as the arrow moved through the roulette.

  "Please, something strong...” he raying.

  Chris was looking at the roulette with a dull expression.

  Until it nded on something.

  “Huh? Wait, what?”

  “No way…”

  And it was...

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  Pach