Inside the mansion, in a seperate room, Eric , Cross and Vince gathered. They looked at each other then a smile crept up their faces! Cross then bear hugged the Two of them!

" This fat pig is as touchy as ever!" Eric said with a smile, even though they were always arguing, there was no doubt about how much they loved each other!

"hahaha! I see you bought slaves you sly bastard! did you bang the females?" Asked Cross as he laughed.

" What the fuck is wrong with you? I certainly did not!" Eric rollod his eyes

" That's all you guys talk about, but oh well, The Barzotti family madame wants to cuckold her husband with me! So i guess I win!" Said Vince with an indifferent face

The other two's jaw fell. Since Vince said it it must be true, they did not even consider the possibility of a joke! he rarely did that but they knew when it was the case.

"WTF! " Eric

" hahahah! my man! Good brother so did you tap that?" CRoss asked

"Not yet!" Responded Vince

" So you're actually planing to!" Hollered Eric

" Hey guys, what about a bet? " Cross asked with a smirk

" what is it" asked Eric

" The one who loses his virginity first in this world first can make the other two obey one command from him!" Cross explained

" But we can always go to the brothel dad mentioned" Eric

" No! It has to be by chance! or someone you fell in love with! and we can easily know when someone cheated!"

"Deal!" Said Vince, he definitely had something in mind!

" OK then! by the way we need a name for the mercenaries " added Eric

" I had a name in mind" said Vince

" oh! do tell!" Said Cross

" Since we are forsaken by the gods! we shall rise no matter what even by going against them! and since we plan to stay in secrecy! I suggest Vanishing Rise mercenaries!"

" Not bad! I think It works , it's just a name after all!" Eric commented

" Yeah! So how do we deal with the snake king?" asked Cross

" The magical cores shall go to Cross since he is planning on upgrading the family heirloom! Eric and I shall get another Star essence share.! as For the snake, we'll eat the heads, keep the rest for Amelia,Aria and the twins! The core members in the team we plan to develop for now!" Vince proposed

" Yeah, I'll upgrade the axe with starlight essence, star meteoric Iron and 2 magical cores and Metallic lotuses! It'll definitely end up as something alright! I'll be damned!" Cross said smiling

" Well , when I take the katana from Fiona, I shall then Make some modifications i kept hidden from her and add the starlight essence as well the metallic lotus ! Eric I suggest you keep the starlight essence and when you build a bow, use twice as much! an earth magical core is not suitable to a bow! As for me, I have something else in mind in regards to forging!"

Transcendent beast usually had an affinity to one or two elements! Just like when a transcendent human gains an affinity when breaking through to this realm and his inner force changes as consequence! So the magical cores had earth element embeded into them! They were rather suitable for the axe.

" We can't sell the beast eggs! and we don't have much use for them as well! huh!"

" No I belive we can sell them! My reputation now with the managers is rather repsected! They do not know my face but they trust my deals! They can keep secrecy!"

"Ok then you sell them! now let's dig in!"

They started eating the snake, after digging out the magical cores, they were yellowish orbs about a fist's size but had a lot of energy! They ate the snake's heads raw, they wondered why they never felt nauseous! but that did not matter! They felt their bodies go hot and they started resisting the heat! but they could not and fainted like they once had when eating the Tattooed tiger!

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This time something strange happened, They had signs of breakthrough before which was feeling the inner force in their body pulsating! But they suppressed it but now something which could not be seen by normal eyes happened! Energy left Vince's body and went into Eric while Eric went into Cross's and Cross's went into vince. It kept on rotating Each time the owner's energy returned to his body it was much more pure and dense. This went on for the whole night! and Just at the end, the energy from all three of them gathered into the centre and mixed into an vortex which spiraled for a while and kept on becoming bigger and bigger after which it seperated into three and returned into their bodies!

When they woke up! they felt much more powerful than they had ever been! they had broken throught to 3 star warrior, swordsman and archer!

" Damn , I feel like a beast! I could slap that snake flying now!" Cross said

" Dream On!!" Eric replied

" What did you get ?"

" Poison, I can now mix poison with Metallic burst! This poison can petrify the blood on the wound" Eric said with glee

" Armor, well more like skin strengthening! If there is earth nearby I can use inner force and Harden my skin!" Cross replied rather pleased.

" Well mine is rather useless i guess ! my feet can act as a magnet towards earth! which means i can walk on walls and ceilings now!" Vince did not like it much , but he'll understand its worth later on!

" Shit it's already morning, I guess we need to go !" Cross said

" yeah we'll group once again in 4 days and we'll go prepare our weapons , Eric be sure to sell those for a good price!"

They immediatly left afterwards! Eric walked out and found Aria waiting for him with some food!

"OH! preparing breakfast! If others see this they might indeed think we are newly weds" teased Eric

" This is the least I can do since you are gonna give me starlight essence!" Aria rolled her eyes and answered.

" Well if you promise me to keep making it! I'll even add a metallic lotus!"

"Are you serious?"

"Yes!"

"Ok deal!"

Eric sat down and tried the food, he instantly regretted opening his big fat mouth! Aria could not see his expression through the mask!

"How is it? it's my first time trying!"

" it's emm .. ah .. how can i say this ! it's ok for a first time!" Usually stealth helped him cover his senses and aura! now he tried to use it and shut those damn senses off! but in vain, this suffering was unavoidable and when he saw the earnest look on her face he couldn't bring himself to tell the truth! He quickly finished the plate , Food was meant to be enjoyed slowly but he wanted to get rid of that plate as fast as he could!

"Oh you already finished it ? want another?" asked Aria

Eric cried! he then hurriedly said: "NO NEED! You can also forget about the promise, I don't want to tire you! I thank you for your intentions! I'll even give you 2 metallic lotuses so just please for the sake of food just stop!" and he ran away to the auction house!

" Oh" She thought that since he finished his plate really fast he must have liked it, there was much food there! and he even added another metallic lotus! She did not hear the last of the sentence!

She went and tried what she had cooked and immediately threw up!

" He actually ate all of that! why did he not say it was this bad!" She was somewhat affected and found it funny since he ran away! But she apperciated the fact that he did not tell her and even ate it all! It moved her quite a bit!

" Seems like I need to learn how to cook!" She started wondering about how to do that! she had promised herself not to fall in love till she gets her revenge? but is that really her choice? can she do it?