Listening to the low howling of the wolves, we were close to the first checkpoint. Slowing down turning towards the woman they were glancing around nervously.

"Slow down and pay attention to the bushes around us and do not use those guns. On anything without my approval or the consequences are yours to deal with."

It didn't take long for a soft snapping of branches and the rustling of leaves for a small animal to come waddling out to our feet happily sniffing and prancing about at our feet. Kneeling I pick up the small animal. It has dark red skin that tightly hugs its body. With a few small black spines that trialled from the tip of its tail leading up to the bass of its head revealing the head of a young wolf with two setts of nostrils and a lack of eyes and ears. It happily wiggled about in my arms.

Moving over to one of the women I handed her the small Demon hound. Noticing the fear in her eyes as she stared at the small animal in her arms. I couldn't help but sigh. "Just hold onto the little guy, He won't bite." Moving around the area it didn't take long for us to find four more of these pups. Making sure everyone had a pup in their arms we moved deeper into the forest closer to the sounds of the howling. A low growling sounded out all around us as A large demon hound moved out of the bushes towards us. Moving forward I put the pup on the ground in front of it before backing up. Lowering its head it sniffed the pup before licking it a few times and ushering it into the bushes behind it. Turning towards the women "Your turn."

One by one the women offered the pups one of the pups didn't get sniffed but the women carrying the pup got checked. She was the partial beast woman that I choose to bring along. The Demon hound let out a low howl cause two demon hounds to leave their hiding spots and start leading the way deeper into the forest as the rest left. "Follow along."

Moving towards the beast women. "So your ancestors a wolf beast?"

Giving me a quick quizzical look."I am a model 38 Wolf beast woman."

"You were made."

"No, a group of heroes made my ancestors in fascination with animal ears and tails on humans."

"It would be pointless then unless you had qualities of the beast your based off. Otherwise, they would only be cosmetic."

She noticeably drooped at my comment."I am a failure. I show traits of the wolf so I can't be a servant but I don't show enough potential to be a battle slave, making me a failed product."

"Now why would that make you a failed product. Wouldn't you want your servants to have some strength. You know if you get raided, someone tries to assassinate you. They could put up a fight or even stop the intruders. What's the point in having weak servants."

"Stronger servants are more expensive so only the wealthiest will have an entire servant body of battle-ready servants."

Why the hell would you purchase servants. You cant guarantee the loyalty of the servants. So why would you trust a servant that wasn't trained by people to be loyal to you. It just doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if there is an entire information network connected through these purchased servants. Shaking my head at their stupidity. I turned to the beast women.

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"Well, it seems you might get a lot of attention while we are staying here. You are enough of a wolf for them it seems." Glancing towards the demon wolf leading us.

The wolf led us to a clearing in the forest with demon wolves constantly patrolling the area along with a handful of other animals roaming in the middle of the clearing, Predators and Prey alike. Once we were in the clearing the wolves stared at us for a little before heading back into the forest.

"Follow me and remember don't attack Anything in this clearing, no matter how close it comes to you how freaky it seems to you and if anything attacks you run to a demon wolf and Don't fight back I can't stress that enough."

Moving to a corner of the clearing there was a small pile of cloaks and sacks I've brought here for them over the weak in preparation.

"You can switch out to one of these cloaks. They are better than those. Also after you switch cloaks I want you to teach me how these guns work."

Glancing around us the beasts were giving us a wide birth as they glanced at us from a distance. Checking on the woman they doubled up on the cloaks instead of switching them out and were digging through the bags checking what is in them. Waiting for them to finish the woman with the brown hair came over holding two guns of a smaller handheld design. Before sitting down in front of me.

"There are two types of Guns you should know about." Pointing at the two guns she put on the grounds I sat down to get a closer look. She also seems to be taking this very seriously

"You have the Gunpowder or black powder weapons and Mana weapons. your black powder weapons are going to be easier to use and cheaper to buy they also excel in dealing with fleshy targets. And the bullets you use in these guns can be enchanted but that increases the cost exponentially and become something only the rich can afford. Also in the long run gunpowder weapons will cost more in the long run."

Pointing over to the other weapon she picked it up and pressed the side of the handle releasing something from within the handle.

"Next you have mana Weapons that instead of using bullets use a mana battery to fire They cost a lot to purchase upfront but you won't have to buy ammo for them and depending on the mana charged into the battery the bullets can have different effects. Like if you have Fire mana charged into the battery it will shoot balls of fire or if the trigger is held it will spray a jet of flame."

"So you're saying that with the mana Weapons you can have an army of mages that haven't put the time into learning their spells but just point the gun at something and pull the trigger."

Pausing for a bit she pondered a bit before continuing. "That's not entirely correct Mana weapons can Fire weak versions of any bolt type spells but a similar bolt spell cast by a mage will be a lot stronger. There are also a few exceptions to this For example being the Shotgun wizard of the Capital or the Deadly rose Witch coven."

She continued for a while Naming Organizations and Artifacts that allowed for the use of more powerful spells. It got me wondering why she knew so much about this for if she was truly from the slave clans from what I know then why does she know so much. But then again the Wolf beast woman mentioned her being a failed battle slave maybe this is some of the basic knowledge for the battle slaves. Looking at her happily Ranting on About different types of guns. I could just ask her instead of guessing and get a direct answer or Glancing over to the beast women she could also possibly answer for me.

"And How do you know all this."

Freezing mid-sentence she stared up at me. "My Previous master's had me clean their library and I liked to read when no one was around."

"Then let me guess they caught you and sold you off."

"No, I Struck the young master and my punishment is as you see." She lowered her head in shame or fear. I could not tell. But that's not the entirety of the story. She had to have done something more. she seemed to be a prized slave.

"Ok, you can continue."

The night slowly passed by as the women took turns answering my questions as three would sleep as the other stays awake to explain things to me.