These Familiars Are Strange

It took a while for me to come back to my senses, but there was a faint smile that appeared on my lips as I looked at my hands.

It seemed that this power that I obtained was quite the powerful one if I was able to push down a tree this easily.

In the future, it should be easier for me to take down any enemies that I face.

Though I had to remember that this wasn't something that I could show to others that easily.

As for the rest of the Skill Orbs…

After thinking about it, I put most of the Skill Orbs away since I still had no idea if there was a limit to how many Skill Orbs I could use. Without knowing that first, I didn't want to fill up all of the possible slots that I could have with skills that weren't as strong.

But there were a few orbs that I gave to the Scavenger Rabbit and the Echo Bat.

These were Skill Orbs that worked too perfectly with the abilities of the Scavenger Rabbit and the Echo Bat, so I had to give these Skill Orbs to them.

The Scavenger Rabbit and Echo Bat were surprised by the new powers that they obtained, but they quickly adapted to it and were amazed by the new skills that they obtained.

There was no doubt that all of us had become stronger because of these Skill Orbs.

As for what remained of the corpses that had been looted…I just left them there to be decomposed by the dungeon. It was hard enough to look at them, so it was even harder for me to even approach them, let alone bury them.

I just reminded myself that they were bad people to begin with, which was why they deserved whatever they got.

When I came back, I found that Iris had woken up and was walking around the area.

When she saw me come back on the Fanged Wolf, she quickly came over and asked, "Did you find anything dangerous?"

There was a worried look on her face, but it didn't seem like she was that worried about what I had found. The way that she looked at me was as if she was worried about me.

It took me a moment to realize why she was looking at me like this.

If something happened to me, there was no telling what would happen to her.

I wasn't that foolish to believe that she would trust me that much since we had just met.

I shook my head before saying, "There's nothing in the surrounding area, so I took a look at some of the other areas before coming back. I found some interesting things, so I'll be heading in that direction. I'll have one of the Fanged Wolves bring you back to the entrance so you can leave the dungeon."

I didn't really want her following me since someone following me around and learning about my abilities was not something that I wanted.

So it was better to send her back on her own before heading deeper into this dungeon.

My goal was to take down the dungeon boss after all.

But to my surprise, Iris shook her head before saying, "I can't leave just yet. There's still something that I have to do in this dungeon."

Before I could say anything else, she suddenly looked at me with a determined look and said, "You're a strong person with strange abilities, but you're not a bad person. I want to hire you to help me."

I was certainly caught off guard since I didn't expect her to say something like this, but I quickly shook my head to reject her.

I really didn't want her to come with me after all.

Iris bit her lips at first when she saw this, but then she once again spoke before I could say anything, "I'll pay you."

I didn't reject her right away this time as I raised a brow to look at her.

The way that I looked at her was as if I was asking her what she was talking about.

Iris naturally understood this, so she took out a black card and said, "This is what I was going to pay Yu Xiang and his group. This card has five million in it. As long as you help me with what I want to do in this dungeon, I'll give this card to you."

My eyes opened wide when I heard this.

I had to admit that I was a bit tempted by this.

After all, what I had earned in the Slime Hole earlier was more than what my parents made, but it wasn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the amount that she was offering me.

I knew that I could get a lot of money if I sold the things that the Scavenger Rabbit got with its special ability, I also knew that I would attract a lot of attention if I were to do that.

The moment that I attracted this attention, there was no doubt that some powerful people would set their eyes on me.

There was a limit to how much I could handle and drawing too much attention too early was not good, especially since I didn't have a powerful backer. I needed time to develop my power, so I didn't want to attract any attention right now.

That made it hard to earn a lot of money.

That was why I was tempted when I saw this card.

After a moment of silence, I asked, "What are you requesting from me?"

Iris wasn't surprised to hear this. She just simply said, "I wanted to come into this dungeon to prove to my parents that I wasn't a weak little girl. I want to take down a few of the elite monsters of this dungeon and bring it back to show my parents."

Then after a pause, she added, "I'm not a fool, I know that I'm no match for the boss, so I won't ask for that."

I slowly gave a nod.

If it was just that, then I should be able to handle it with the Fanged Wolves.

In that case…

"Alright, I'll accept your proposal." I said in a slow voice.

Iris immediately revealed a smile and wanted to come forward to shake my hand, but I raised a hand to stop her before saying, "Of course, you'll listen to me while we're in the dungeon. I won't put myself in danger just to help you, I hope that you understand that."

Iris nodded without any hesitation since she knew that this was the basis of any cooperation in the dungeon, especially since they had only known each other for this short period of time.

With that, I reached my hand out to shake her hand and said, "To a happy cooperation."

She nodded once more before saying with a bright smile, "To a happy cooperation."

I couldn't help being a bit stunned when I saw that smile on her face.

If she had used this weapon in the first place…

Well, I wasn't that easy to sway anyway. It wasn't as if I was just doing this because I felt sympathy for her story.

She was able to pull out five million like it was nothing, there was no doubt that there was someone powerful behind her.

If I could latch onto her leg and find a backer…

That would be killing two birds with one stone.