["How many Sparrowman Bandits are there on this mountain in total?" You grabbed the Sparrowman and interrogated it.]
["Don't know!" The Sparrowman turned its face aside, looking as though you could kill or torture it however you liked.]
"Oh, pretty tough..." Mu You raised an eyebrow.
["You've caught me. You can take me back for the bounty now." Seeing that you still hadn't moved, the Sparrowman suddenly turned to "remind" you.]
["Who said I was going to turn you in for a bounty?" you said.]
["You... what are you planning?" Seeing the somewhat dangerous look in your eyes, the Sparrowman grew flustered. "I'm telling you, those Crowfolk won't pay you a bounty unless I'm alive!"]
Mu You was amused. The more it said things like that, the more it proved the Crowfolk and Sparrowmen were in cahoots.
Mu You reckoned plenty of Sparrowman Bandits must have been caught before, but after their captors handed them over and collected the bounty, the Crowfolk hadn't executed them. Instead, their fellow bandits had ransomed them for a high price, and they had gone right back to banditry.
That was why this fellow had been so fearless when first caught. It knew it wouldn't die even if it was captured, unless its captor didn't want the bounty. But that was almost impossible: killing a five-star creature yielded only around 100 Divinity, while handing it over yielded 1,000. Anyone could do that math.
Unfortunately, Mu You happened to be the one person who didn't want the bounty.
After all, the bounty was fixed at just 1,000. But if he knifed this Sparrowman Bandit and became one himself...
With that thought, Mu You took out the Blood Shrine, then rummaged through his ring for three bottles containing God's Blood.
He had saved these three drops of