Slaughtering Insights

Marsil led Charles closer, removing his tools as he introduced, "With a magical beast like this one, how do you think it should be handled?"

Charles looked at the magical beast and said, "Shouldn't we wash off its mud shell first?"

Marsil nodded and continued, "Then why aren't you washing it? Are you waiting for me to do it?"

Hearing this, Charles could only change his clothes, pick up the tools and bucket, and begin washing the mud shell off the magical beast.

And not only that—all the menial work involved in processing the magical beast fell to Charles.

Washing off the mud shell, cutting away the bristles, even dividing up the thick hide, scales, and tusks after the magical beast had been killed.

The drudgery of cutting open the flesh, removing the organs, and separating the bones all fell to Charles as well.

It could be said that Marsil was using Charles like a donkey, making him do every last bit of grunt work while teaching him none of the real skills.

Charles, who had originally thought he would be able to learn something, was now rather dumbfounded.

The other two were no different from Charles.

For several days in a row, they had been covered in a rank, bloody stench, yet had learned barely any skills.

But for the sake of Magic Stones, they could only toil without complaint.

The apprentices here earned ten Magic Stones a month, while full workers earned fifteen. If they saved up for a few months, they could exchange them for a witchcraft spell or find a First-Rank Apprentice to attend lessons under.

Half a month passed like this, and the hardworking Charles finally got his chance.

The supervisor passed by where they were working. Seeing Charles hard at work, he came over to Marsil and asked, "How is Charles doing? Get him started on slaughtering magical beasts as soon as possible!"

Marsil looked troubled, but he still said, "Charles is doing all right. I arranged for him to slaughter this magical beast."

The supervisor nodded and waited nearby.

Charles was delighted. After half a month of drudgery, it was finally his turn to get his hands on the real work.

Sure enough, once the miscellaneous cleaning work was done this time, Marsil did not step in himself. Instead, he simply stood nearby and guided Charles.

"First, use magic power to stimulate the magical beast and gather its magic power."

"Make the cut!"

"Drain the blood!"

"Remove the essence!"

Marsil merely gave brief prompts from the side, leaving Charles to do the work.

He had originally thought Charles would botch it. That way, he could keep Charles doing menial work under him for a while longer.

But during the past half month, Charles had already learned nearly all of Marsil's work procedures.

Though he was not as relaxed and practiced as Marsil, he had no trouble going through the full process.

When the knife slit open the magical beast's throat and drained its blood, killing it.

The long-silent Wu Duo Duo Mall finally flickered at the Soul Coin display.

+0.6 Soul Coins

Charles was delighted. The half-month wait had not been in vain—magical beasts could indeed provide Soul Coins!

However, compared with Mermen, the souls of these low-level magical beasts seemed to be of poorer quality.

The supervisor walked over with Marsil to inspect Charles's work.

The supervisor praised, "Not bad, not bad!"

Behind the supervisor, Marsil's expression was as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly.

Charles sneered inwardly. Stupid, aren't you? You wanted me to be your pack mule? Go eat shit!

After inspecting the magical beast Charles had processed, the supervisor nodded and said, "We're short-handed right now. From now on, Charles, you'll process magical beasts independently."

"Start with three a day. Once you become more proficient, you can handle more."

"Any problems with that?"

The supervisor asked Charles and Marsil.

Marsil hurriedly said, "I think Charles is still lacking a little. Why not let him practice with me for a few more days?"

The supervisor looked at Charles. Charles bowed and said, "Sir, I believe I can already complete this work independently. If I don't handle them properly, you may punish me then!"

After hearing this, the supervisor smiled. "Good. I like employees with confidence like yours!"

"Starting today, you'll work at Station Seven. Work hard. If you don't process the magical beasts properly, I'll deduct your Magic Stones!"

"Please rest assured, sir!" Charles felt completely at ease.

After the supervisor left, Marsil sneered from the side. "You did a few days of menial work with me, and now you think you're capable?"

"Just wait until all your Magic Stones get deducted. Let's see if you can still smile then!"

Charles ignored Marsil outright, treating him as nothing more than a defeated dog barking madly.

Charles truly did not have much experience slaughtering magical beasts, but he had a cheat.

Opening the Wu Duo Duo Mall, he found Marsil's name prominently displayed on the merchant page.

Isata Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice: Marsil

Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice cultivation insights: 20 Soul Coins

Zero-Ring witchcraft: Shadow-Stealing Spell cultivation insights: 10 Soul Coins

...

Low-level magical beast slaughtering and processing insights: 3 Soul Coins

Compared to others, Marsil's cultivation insights were much cheaper.

No wonder he was already in his thirties and still only a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice.

Even if Marsil gave Charles his cultivation insights for free, Charles would not want to read them.

But the insights on slaughtering magical beasts were worth getting.

Charles was assigned three magical beasts to process each day. He had split one with Marsil today, and after Charles finished processing it, the other three magical beasts were delivered one after another.

After a busy day, Charles was physically exhausted, but he was immensely happy.

Being able to start accumulating Soul Coins again filled him with anticipation for the work ahead.

After the next day's work was done, the supervisor came to inspect Charles's work. Rather than praising him, he simply criticized him.

"Although your rate of improvement is already fast, it still isn't enough. You can't afford such heavy losses when processing magical beasts!"

Charles hurriedly promised, "Sir, please rest assured. I will study how to process them properly!"

After seeing off the supervisor, Marsil wiped his sweat some distance away and mocked, "You think slaughtering magical beasts is such an easy thing!?"

"I'm waiting for the day all your Magic Stones get deducted!"

"How many kinds of magical beasts have you even seen me slaughter? If they send over one you don't understand, let's see what you'll do then!"

"Hmph!"

Marsil had pointed out a real problem, but Charles was unafraid.

Because today, he had finally saved enough Soul Coins to purchase the slaughtering insights.

Faced with Marsil's mockery, Charles chose to ignore him. An old hand like this would not be able to prance around before him for many more days.

After returning home, he opened the Wu Duo Duo Mall.

He selected Marsil's shop.

He purchased the low-level magical beast slaughtering and processing insights.

As the Soul Coins were deducted, countless methods for slaughtering magical beasts—how to more easily use magic power to stimulate the gathering of a magical beast's magic power, how to handle a magical beast's essence and flesh, and how to divide it up—were poured straight into Charles's mind.

Once he had digested this knowledge, Charles's eyes lit up.

At this point, he had methods for handling the vast majority of magical beasts. All he needed was to integrate what he had learned, and he would become a veteran master with a wealth of experience.