The trio managed to reach the shelter without any problems and only then did they manage to relax a bit since it was quite a long distance away from the place where they had found the corpses.
-Master should we gather the wood to burn the corpses?
Mia asked when they were back.
-No need to do that for now as my storage space will stop the eggs from hatching and also it takes them at least three days to incubate so we have a lot of time and firstly I want to take the things from them as they won't need them anymore but we can use them.
Paul stopped her as they were all tired from walking and also from the constant vigilance and looking behind them to see if the beast wasn't chasing them.
So for now they all had to rest and also Paul used a lot of his mana so he had to replenish it as soon as possible.
Not like it would matter if the monster managed to find them but it was better than nothing.
When he was cultivating the girls joined him as now they felt the urge to become as strong as possible as they had seen what happened with the mercenaries and especially since their master explained that these people were much stronger than he was.
They all cultivated til evening when they took a break for supper and both girls managed to increase one level.
Soon they would be at level 20 and then they could start using their mana to create a phenomena like fire or water.
Paul on the other hand managed to recover most of his mana and decided that after supper he would go increase his Qi cultivation as he had to recover as soon as possible since there was such a dangerous spirit beast in the area.
-Master, why didn't the mercenaries kill that beast since there were so many of them and they were even stronger than you?
Maya asked during the meal.
-The Dead breeder has a strong shell covering its body and it's not that easy to crack it.
You saw the broken weapons and arrows lying on the ground.It's not like the mercenaries were not trying to kill it, they simply weren't strong enough to do so and their weapons were too weak to withstand this kind of battle.
-Then if that spider came here…
-Then your only way of surviving is to jump into the river as it can't swim and wont chase you there.
Paul interrupted her.
-But I also can't swim.
Maya said, a bit frightened.
-I will teach you tomorrow as this is the only chance for us to escape if this thing ever finds its way here.
Paul said.
He was silently praying to whichever god sent him here to stop this monster from finding them as that would be the end for him.
The girls might have a chance but he would certainly die since he wasn't able to move fast enough to run away.
On the other hand the mercenaries gave their lives to allow the young people that they were most likely escorting to run away but they still all died.
Either way if it came to it then he would try to buy the girls some time to escape as there was no way that he could escape even if he tried.
After the meal both girls returned to cultivating mana while Paul went to the river to cultivate Qi.
He reached the next level quite fast as he had finished his previous cultivation session close to a breakthrough but the next level took him longer to reach as the Qi required for another breakthrough was doubled every time.
Even with his talents it would take him a full day of cultivation to rise one level soon.
However he knew that there were ways to increase his cultivation speed and he would use them once he reached level thirty.
This night he reached level 27 and was happy with it.
After the breakthrough he cleaned himself and went to sleep.
He was a bit shocked when he discovered that both girls were still cultivating and had reached level 22 in mana cultivation.
He had to remember to tell them that they should cultivate more Qi as they were a bit behind in that regard.
With this thought he went to sleep.
The next morning he woke up as usual with both girls in his arms and he discovered that they both reached level 24 in mana which was a great progress.
He got out of the shelter and while the girls were sleeping he took out the bodies one by one and took everything that was useful from them.
There was not much on the mercenaries since they had all of their things in their backpacks that were torn by the beast and many things got damaged or destroyed.
Paul managed to retrieve a few knives,four bows of which two needed new strings but they were easy to replace,one short sword and the three spears that he had collected from the battlefield.
Other than that he had found some bandages,fire starters and some tools like a hatchet that was made of metal and way better than his stone one and some rations but he wasn't sure about them since they were in the ripped sacks and were lying there for some time.
The rest was destroyed or damaged and he cursed as the pot that he found had a hole in it so it wasn't usable anymore.
He also managed to find some scrolls with cultivation techniques,battle techniques and some spells which would come in handy later.
Most of the scrolls were ripped but he could still read them and decided to keep them.
The three young people that were most likely the clients of the mercenaries had much more stuff that survived.
Mainly thanks to the fact that they keep their things in their spatial artifacts.
He managed to open them because their owners were dead and their link to the device was severed.
Paul knew how to establish a link to this kind of thing because he had one in his previous life.
He dropped some of his blood onto the divide and used his Qi on it to establish a connection and once it was established he could see what was inside.
These three must have belonged to some big families as they had quite a lot of things and most of them were useful.
Also all three devices had a lot of storage space inside so they aren't cheap.
Paul found many potions,pills,scrolls,and ingredients inside of the spatial devices but most importantly he had found a ton of food and the utensils to cook with not to mention a small fortune in gold silver and copper coins and three tents that were ready to be used at any time.
Other than that he had also found some clothes and he was wondering if the clothes from the two noble ladies would fit the sisters that were still asleep.
The mercenaries clothes were all ripped and stained with blood so they were unusable and the only male from the three young nobles was much better built then paul and a few centimeters higher so his clothes were to big for Paul but it was still better then the rags the had on himself right now.
Paul's clothes were sturdy as he purposefully wore the best clothes that he could for what he was about to do.
However, that was almost three weeks ago and now the clothes he had were not much better than rags.
He also found the weapons in the spatial devices and they were quite good.
All three of the nobles had bows and arrows but other than that they used different weapons.
The male had a sword in his spatial ring,the girl that wanted to escape into the river had a spear and the other girl had a staff since she was evidently a mage.
These weapons were most likely ordered specifically for them so someone could recognize them if Paul or the girls used them or even openly carried them in a city so he decided to use the bows he got from mercenaries as they were most likely just bought from a weapons shop and wouldn't bring any kind of attention to them.
Whatever the case was,Paul was happy as they had stumbled upon a treasure this time and it would make their lives easier.