Lucien pondered for a bit on how to develop the situation.
"I don't have money on me right now, so I want a way to contact your family, in the future I would like to purchase some slaves from you."
"How do you categorize them and what is the price?"
"Categorizing them goes by Rank."
"We have up to Rank 2 slaves."
"For commoners, the price is 100 gold coins."
"For Rank 0 - 500 gold coins."
"For Rank 1 - 2 500 gold coins."
"For Rank 2 - 10 000 gold coins."
'So from commoners to Rank 1, if I devour them completely I still get more existence points, than just devouring the gold, as 100 gold coins should weight about a kilogram, so 100 existence points.'
'For Rank 2 it's not worth it, the price is inflated by the rarity, the points I could get for a 100 kg Rank 2, is still 10 000, so not worth the trouble of exchange."
"As your noble bloodline is enough of a guarantee, we can give you some contacts around the Scarlet Empire, so you can trade with us."
"Here is the token you have to show them, as it's a VIP token, you get 10% discount."
The man threw a silver oval shaped token, that had 2 crimson eyes on top of it towards Lucien, who didn't hesitate to catch it, on the tokens back there was a piece of paper attached with the locations of the contacts.
Elena was pretty shocked by the turn of events, this boy half her age, was a pure-blooded Vampire, that was already on par with her, and judging by his battle sense, he was even stronger.
She had not noticed the Darkness interruptions, during the fight, so she wrote that off to battle sense.
"I have to go now, nice meeting you Elena."
"Wait, don't leave yet."
"I will wait for you to grow up, us Vampires have different Vitality than Water and Earth Path practitioners, it's stronger on the lifespan side of it. We life longer, as to counterbalance that we walk on the hard to achieve in the current world, carnage and slaughter, to progress."
"7-8 years in nothing, as long as you are not bothered by it, I don't mind."
'She is really deep, but I could definitely use her to see the extend of her family power in the future.'
"I like you too, Big Sis Elena."
"But how do we keep in touch, when I leave now, we might not meet for a very long time, and my father won't let me wander around, I have to follow him for a while longer."
"That is not a problem."
Elena walked to Lucien and passed him an object, it was sphere shaped, and it had many holes in it.
"Young miss, don't. That thing is very expensive, even Rank 2s have hard time getting access to it."
"Shut up, I want him to have it."
The guard, just closed his mouth, he was not going to object further, considering her background.
Some of the guards even showed some envy and jealousy toward Lucien, but quickly hid it. Pure-bloods were things of legends, this is the first time many of them see one. Even the family leader was not a full pure-blood.
Lucien didn't show any emotion as he took over the object.
"What is this, how do I use it?"
"My little prince, this is a commutation tool, each one has a unique soul mark inside."
She talked as she brought another one out, she had two of these expensive tools, it was obvious to everyone that she was not of common background.
"I'll leave a trace of the soul mark of my communication tool, in one of the holes on your device, and you do the same."
"Later when we are separated, you just have to pour some Soul into the hole with my trace and you can send me messages."
'Hmm, this is convenient, I guess my father didn't give me one, so that I have to rely on myself for everything and I also wouldn't be able to contact him to ask for help.'
"Thanks, Big Sis Elena, I'll give you one back when we meet again."
"But I really have to go now, or my father would flip and turn the forest into a plain."
"Ok, go ahead, don't forget to send me messages."
She was pretty shocked by that last sentence and didn't want to keep holding Lucien, the pure-bloods of the legends could definitely achieve that.
'Phew, those guards were starting to give me the creeps, those greedy eyes, I guess this device is really expensive.'
Lucien just ran behind a bush and just in case, covered himself in Darkness and ran for a while, changing directions couple of times.
'I guess it's not a bad trade, instead of consuming the resources of the bandits I kill, I'll use them to buy loyal slaves, I could even keep them around as blood sources, for a prolonged use, after all I have only a year now, and I don't want to be back to 3 points per day one I'm back in that goddamned palace.'
Lucien suddenly stopped, when he thought about the 3 points.
"AHHHHH, how could I be so stupid?"
It was a completely out loud shout.
Calming down a bit, Lucien wanted to slap himself in the face.
'I was not using it much in the castle, since missing big objects are noticeable, but I'm here in this forest forgotten by the world, and I'm still not using the absorption ability, how could I forget?'
'Ahhh, that was 4 days of waster existence points.'
Feeling like crying, Lucien looked around for a bit and set his sight on the ground.
When he had just adult stats, he could absorb palm-sized object, that didn't weight more than what he could lift, which was about 20-25cm tall.
Now he was 10 times stronger in all stats, and 50 times stronger in Soul. He could easily absorb 3 square meters in diameter, the weight was a problem as only 1 square meter was already more than a ton, and if an adult can lift a 100 kg, Lucien at ten times strength can lift a ton.
'So I won't be able to make a tunnel and travel underground by just absorbing the soil around me.'
'I guess when I get stronger it would be doable nice tool to travel unnoticed, and accumulate points.'
'And even if I could, the maximum absorption would be too taxing for prolonged use.'
So for the current moment, Lucien just absorbed about 100 kilograms of soil to see the conversion rate.
-Low level soil placed lower than rocks, conversion rate is 100 kilograms for 1 existence point-
-All Existence advises host to convert 1000 kilograms into 100 kilograms of mid level soil worth 9 existence points, as 1 existence point is taken for conversion-
-1 000 kilograms of mid level soil can be converted to 100 kilograms of high level soil worth 90 existence points, as 10 existence points are taken for conversion-
-Higher level soils possible, it gives immense boost to Crimson world, if those soils are kept inside and not converted-
'This is interesting, what are the benefits?'