She slept for only three hours before waking up in the middle of the night to start cultivating her soul. She accessed the underworld trading platform for help and instructions in what to do.
There were a variety of classes, videos, shops, pictures from other realms; it was like star net but for the underworld.
The first video she clicked was titled, "Are you a first time soul cultivator?"
"Yes," she answered and clicked on it.
A male reaper appeared like a teacher in a classroom and he started talking, "If you have clicked on this video then you must be a first time cultivator. You have not yet chosen which path to follow as a reaper, whether to be a guardian or a warrior.
The good thing is that you do not have to worry about that for a while because you need to be at level three to make that choice. You on the other hand are just starting out and what you need to do is collect and absorb energy from as many soul crystals as you can to move up a level.
Moving up a level will require hundreds of crystals so you should prepare to spend many nights hunting for runaway souls. The more dangerous a soul you capture, the higher the quality of crystals you get. This doesn't mean you should go around recklessly looking for dangerous souls because if you are weak, they will feed on your soul power and leave you drained like a corpse.
This is why all grim reapers keep a pet by their side and store part of their soul power within these pets. If you are drained, as long as you can get to your pet in time, you have a strong chance of surviving. Don't let all this scare you however; being a grim reaper is awesome. You will be strong, wealthy, good looking and you live forever so what's not to love?
Onto the business which has brought you here, the beginning stage of soul cultivation is infancy, your soul is basically an infant that needs to be fed and nourished. You should not only depend on soul crystals, things like purifying water, marrow cleansing pills and soul solidifying grass are very important to you. These items can be brought from different shops or traded for with other reapers."
Scarlet was soaking all this knowledge in like a student about to sit for their final examinations which decide their fate.
"Now, take your soul crystal in hand and follow my lead."
She took one crystal in hand, absorbed its power like the instructor was saying and started cultivating. As her soul absorbed the power, in her body she felt as if there was a vortex circulating a warm comfortable feeling all through.
She diverted some of the power to her mind, and suddenly she felt like a dry wilted leaf receiving a few drops of rain after a century long drought.
For four hours, she sat with her legs crossed in the same position as if she was meditating. She only stopped when the warm feeling begun to fade. The crystal had been completely used up. She would absorb the second one tomorrow because the instructor had said beginner reapers could only cultivate one crystal at a time.
She had successfully broken through the beginning infancy stage, she was at level one. She would have to work harder to solidify it before moving on to the infancy stage two.
She opened her eyes, yawned and fell asleep with a smile on her beautiful face.
The sound of a duck being pursued or what sounded like a duck being pursued bothered her so much that she was forced to open her eyes and rise. To her shock, there was a little body in her bed; the little body had a pair of unruly feet which were almost landing in her mouth.
She tapped the small body and her son Justin giggled.
"There is a little bear in my bed, should I eat it for dinner?" she asked herself loudly but playfully.
"Hihihi." Justin giggled. "I am not a bear." He replied and sat up.
"Come here." She held her hands wide open and waited for him to launch himself into her body.
As soon as he did, she hugged him and ruffled his hair. "How did you get in here?"
"The door was open, Uncle Adler told me to wake you up for breakfast before everyone goes to work."
She assumed that the breakfast was probably those nasty ass low quality tasting shakes. No thank you!!!
"Did you bathe and brush your teeth?" she asked him. Inspecting his little body like every proper mother does for her child. She even opened his mouth and checked his teeth for cavities.
Justin was well kempt and very clean. Adler was a doing job in taking care of Justin. These maids who had been hired to take care of him did nothing. She was quite firm in her decision to fire them now.
"Go and tell your uncle that mummy is going to have a quick bath and come prepare breakfast."
"Okay." He quickly hurried off after hearing that there was food to be eaten.
After taking a shower, she took some eggs, bacon and milk from her storage space and placed them in a basket before leaving the bedroom.
As she walked through the hallway, she bumped into her siblings who were either dressed for work in old fixed up mecha suits or dressed in the most common outfit in the empire.
Silver suit pants which were made out of material that looked and felt like leather but much tougher with a matching long sleeved shirt that had a collar.
This outfit was so popular that it had a variety of colors like white, black, red, yellow, green and blue. Scarlet thought only the black outfit was worth it.
Of course other clothes like dresses existed; most of them were light because the weather in the Sun star was mostly hot and sunny. In Scarlet's opinion, it was perfect farming weather.
The one thing most of the outfits in the empire had in common was metallic bits here and there. You mostly had metallic breast plates and metallic arms or legs. To some it was fashion and to others it was for protection.
She personally thought it was ridiculous.
Anyway, aside from her judgmental thoughts about their outfits, she was happy to see them greeting her so warmly.
She went to the kitchen and quickly prepared a breakfast of fried eggs, bacon and milk tea. Since the family was large, Fey offered to help and they worked together on preparing the breakfast.
"Good morning dad, good morning mum." She cheerfully greeted her parents.
"Good morning Scarlet," her father responded first. "You look lovely this morning."
"Thank you." She responded.
"Come and sit next to me." Her mother called her over eagerly.
Scarlet noticed that the general attitude of everyone had changed. Even Carolyn was warmer to her which made her happier. She could get them on board assist her in the developing of this planet easily now.
Maybe she could start with domesticating that duck like creature which woke her up against her wish and selling its eggs.