Chapter 174 Combo Kill, Contract, Mysterious Egg

"Roarr… Roarr!"

The Tiger looked at the blocked cave behind the tree and roared twice.

"If I let you have the thing inside that cave, you will agree to become my pet… am I right?" Arkhen asked to confirm. He couldn't understand the language obviously, but he could sense its intentions with how it looked at the cave and lightly roared.

*Grunt! Roar!*

The Tiger did a low grunt and roared before nodding its head.

[My lord. Agree with it. The bloodline of this tiger is fairy high ranking and the mysterious egg that is going to hatch in a couple of hours is also a tiger-like beast. I have a good idea to make the beast inside the mysterious egg get stronger. Also, once you awaken the Bloodline Lab, you can do a lot of things related to bloodlines and make your beasts stronger as well].

"Alright, deal!" Arkhen said with a grin as he looked at the Tiger and walked towards it.

But suddenly…

*Trrrrrrrrrrrrr!!*

A weird cry resounded in the sky before everyone looked up and saw a big flying beast like a goose but with an elephant trunk descending!

It was at the peak of 2nd grade!

*Roar!!*

The Tiger furiously roared as it sensed that the flying beast was coming for the treasure inside the cave as well.

Opening its mouth, the Tiger once again released its strong attack, the mysterious powerful frost beam from its mouth. The light blue beam was in a spiral form with dark blue motes surrounding it.

The beam hit the incoming flying beast. Even though it created an armor coating around it, the dark blue frost started appearing around its body, frostbiting and damaging it.

"Hahaha. Let's finish it off," Arkhen said with a laugh as he pointed his right hand at the beast and started releasing full-powered Wave Severams from his Dragon Blade!

*Swoosh…*

The crescents waves of thin stacked blades shot towards the descending beast. Unable to dodge because of Permafrost Royal Tiger's attack, the beast was cut into pieces by the Wave Severam as burnt pieces of its body fell to the ground.

The Tiger was terrified. It knew that if that attack of Arkhen hit it, it would also get shredded into pieces. Thankfully, its agility was high, and also had powerful skills, and decided to dodge instead of trying to block.

[29 reality motes gained]

*Roarr!*

The Tiger jumped towards the remains of the dead beast before cutting one of its parts, looking like the chest of the goose, and took out a Beast core before running towards Arkhen and putting the beast core at his feet before looking at Arkhen with smiling eyes.

A faint resonance appeared inside Arkhen as the Tiger used its soul energy and wanted to form a binding contract with Arkhen.

[Do you wish to form a binding contract with the Permafrost Royal Tiger? Doing so will bind your soul to its soul, and none of you will be able to harm, betray each other, or even produce harmful thoughts towards each other. Doing so would result in a punishment that will harm the one breaking the contract rules. The contract will only be nulled if either of you dies]

'Alright, nice! I agree to this contract,' Arkhen nodded.

A second later, an ethereal chain manifested that connected to the forehead of Arkhen and the forehead of the Tiger before disappearing.

*Roarr!*

The Tiger roared happily and circled Arkhen once before running towards the hidden cave behind the giant tree. After removing the snow accumulated there, the Tiger entered inside before sending its thought to Arkhen and telling him to come inside.

"Wow, brother Arkhen! You got such a cool beast pet," Meya said with an excited chuckle as she arrived beside Arkhen while riding on Ruan.

*Snort…. Awoo~*

Ruan snorted with disdain in its eyes.

Arkhen could understand Ruan's thoughts and laugh. Basically, Ruan was saying that It was still more majestic than the Tiger.

The shadow guards also appeared as one of the comments, "Generally, dire beasts with high ranking bloodlines value their heritage and pride more than life. They wouldn't submit unless the submitter met some requirements and caused them to believe that they would have a strong future with them.

"That Tiger obviously has a very high ranking bloodline…"

The shadow guards did not know much about Arkhen, but they were already impressed with the battle prowess he displayed, which was above average compared to his peers.

…

After everyone entered the cave, Arkhen blocked the cave with several layers of force fields and covered it with snow.

The cave was actually quite spacious, and in the middle of the cave was a big frost crystal and a rose-like flower with dark blue and icy blue patterns on top of the crystal.

On the ground, there were tendril patterns that all connected to the crystal in the end.

The Permafrost Royal Tiger lay beside the crystal with an eager expression. It was waiting for the flower to complete its maturation process.

"Do any of you know what kind of flower is that?" Meya asked curiously.

The shadow guards shook their heads as they did not have knowledge regarding plants.

"Although we don't know in detail, that flower is certainly very high grade, and that crystal is filled with some unique energy akin to some essence, though I wouldn't carelessly absorb it."

"Maybe the dire beasts know how to use such energies for their benefits."

*Roarr!*

The Tiger roared at them and nodded as if saying that it knew.

*Roar… Rawrr!*

Arkhen could understand its thought after the contract and smiled, "It's yours, don't worry."

[My lord. I am taking out the mysterious egg. Tell the Tiger to drop some of its blood essences with its bloodline power on the egg after it finishes absorbing that flower. That mystical flower will reach its maturation process within an hour, while the egg will hatch anytime within two to three hours].