Divine Emperor of Death

Katherine didn't hesitate to answer Davis's question.

"The ones my dead father offended."

"Why?"

"To force us to pay back the debt we owed them."

Katherine diligently answered as she possessed a calm expression while speaking, causing Davis to continue.

"So your mother sold you to pay back those debts?"

Davis raised his brows, causing Katherine Hilltail to become dejected.

"Yes… she… she's not a bad mother."

"Wha-"Davis was flabbergasted that he couldn't help crack an amused smile, "Are you naive or kind?"

"Eh…?"

However, looking at her confused expression, he became taken aback, understanding that she said what she truly felt and not sarcasm.

"Perhaps, your mother sold you to protect you and all other siblings from those debtors while she herself chose a new life to allow you to stay clear of trouble, choosing the life of enslavement for you all over your deaths. Is that what you're trying to say?"

Davis guessed as he asked, causing Katherine Hilltail's eyes to go wide. Has this person been watching her family? How was he able to tell!?

Nevertheless, she nodded her head.

"If mother remarried, her new husband's clan wouldn't accept us. In that case, we will be targeted and thrown away, most likely killed. If she doesn't remarry and gain protection for all of us, we will all be enslaved or killed instead by the debt collectors. I think that's why she sold us to the Azure Radiance Slave Traders, who excel at selling slaves to their patrons as they care both about their slaves and patrons. I may complain over being enslaved, but their treatment towards us was way better than most slave houses I've seen."

Davis couldn't help produce a wry smile. It seemed that Katherine's clan also owned slaves.

"Do you want to know the true reason why your mother sold you all?"

"No." Katherine Hilltail immediately shook her head, "I'll follow master."

"Are you afraid that I'll berate you for it?"

"Whatever mother chose for us, I believe in her decision. If she felt that we had better chances at life by causing her children to become slaves, then I will abide by it."

Davis became speechless, thinking that it was a matter of choosing between the lesser evil and the greater evil. If that was the case, he could understand why her mother would sell them off. Her mother chose the lesser evil as that was the only path to survival for all.

However, his expression couldn't help but churn as his voice rose.

"Guess your mother was wrong. Strip yourself."

"…!"

Katherine Hilltail shuddered. Was it time already?

Her muscles stiffened, but she forcefully moved her hands, trembling all the way to her belt. However, Davis captured her wrist and shook his head, causing her to become dumbfounded.

"Start to moan..."

"What…?"

He whispered as he held a finger against his lips, causing Katherine to become stupefied. Just what was he asking for?

However, with Davis egging her to moan, she gulped and opened her luscious mouth.

"Aahn~ aaaahn~?"

Davis quickly smiled and nodded, gesturing for her to continue doing it. Initially, Katherine was confused, but because she saw her master shake his head as though dancing to her tune, she became bolder and bolder.

"Aaaaah! No… Aaah~ Hnaa~ Hsss~ Master!~"

"Fuck, you're too good! Katherine~"

Davis kept nodding and swung his index fingers in the air like a maestro. Each time his hand raised, Katherine released a high pitch moan, while as his hand went low, her voice became raspy and needy. However, two minutes into the act, her magical beast instincts flared, causing her to feel extreme danger.

Instantly, Davis covered her nose and mouth with his palm, causing her copper eyes to tremble.

He had his index finger on his mouth, telling her to be silent.

"Ahaha! Idiots. One should never underestimate an assassin, much less a poison master. A single whiff of my colorless and odorless poison could kill a Level Three Immortal in an instant, but you, a mortal, dared to enslave me? However, with a slave woman by your side, I can understand wanting to vent out the sinful yang, but-"

The Skull Breaking Poison Assassin audaciously walked into the cave as his gloating voice resounded. One of his arms was missing, his shoulder connected with that missing arm dripping blood, but he suddenly froze, looking at his enslaver and fellow slave perfectly dressed. Not only was blood that should've been coughed out to death nowhere to be seen, but they looked perfectly fine as well.

"You really took the bait." Davis couldn't help but scratch his head, "I still can't understand how you're an assassin..."

"How!?-" was what the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin asked, but he quickly turned around to flee.

Just as he traveled a hundred meters to the skies in an instant, intense pain surged in his soul, causing him to tumble down as he fell into the dense forest below. However, just as he hit the ground, Davis was already beside him, a foot landing on his head.

'How fast…! And heavy like a mountain…!'

This time, the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin felt intense fear emerge within his soul despite the immense pain no longer activated on him. He struggled underneath but was unable to display a hint of his power, causing him to quickly understand that this master who had bought him was a heavenly genius!

"How do you want to die?"

He felt his skull being crushed, causing his eyes to bulge out of his sockets.

"No!!! Wai-"

*Splat!~*

Davis's foot completely crushed the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin. In his final moments, he could only wonder why his master bothered to ask a question if he was going to give him a taste of his own medicine. After all, it was unknown how many skulls he had broken using his fists and soles, but now, he met the same fate of being crushed by a foot.

As Davis looked at the missing arm, he guessed that the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin sacrificed his entire arm, refining it into energy to unleash such a deadly poison that lasted for a few seconds or so, all because his cultivation was sealed.

Otherwise, the poison he unleashed could've laid corrosion to an entire mountain forest.

However, his body, tempered by chaos, was practically immune to poison of his level. For poison to work on him, he would have to be truly vulnerable or run out of chaotic energy in the first place.

Still, although Davis refused to acknowledge this person was an assassin, he had to admit that he was a ruthless poison master, willing to lose an enormous amount of blood essence to kill him, his enslaver. This wouldn't have been a problem if he had enslaved the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin with a slave contract, as Yufor said, but isn't this exactly why he told no to it?

Davis wanted to kill and plunder this assassin, not wanting to let him live after what he got. Originally, he had been planning to keep him until getting into the assassin organization, but since the bait was taken and murderous intentions were fully revealed, he ended the poison master's life.

Nonetheless, with a lazy clench of his fist, he plundered the karmic sin and soul essence before his smile became one of satisfaction while turning to look at the other figure who landed before him, maintaining a slight distance as her expression remained aghast.

She couldn't believe that she was a slave to a mortal who could flatten an immortal's head. Did a heavenly genius just enslave her!?

"Katherine, I didn't expect you to cooperate this well. I look forward to cooperating with you once more."

"That…" Katherine Hilltail's lips twitched, not knowing what to say to the praise as she replied, "That's how my mother screamed when she was with father in bed..."

"She called him master in bed?" Davis became taken aback.

"Yes." Katherine Hilltail nodded, but then she blinked, suddenly realizing something, "Wait a minute..."

"Your mother was once a slave, it seems." Davis also realized, "She probably had an experience of being bought as a slave by your father but in truth was saved, unexpectedly having a better life, so she chose that route for you all over leaving your lives vulnerable to the ruthless debt collectors who killed your father."

"No wonder…" Katherine Hilltail's eyes slightly became wet. However, she sniffled and bowed her head.

"Thank you, master. You're a wise human."

"Hmm. Come with me."

Davis stored the Skull Breaking Poison Assassin's corpse in his spatial ring before returning to the cave.

The campfire was still burning while the poisonous air seemed to have already receded. However, being alone with Davis, Katherine started to shudder ever so lightly.

Perhaps this time, she really was going to be stripped? How could she resist a heavenly genius? It was impossible.

"Do you want to become strong like me?"

Davis's amused voice echoed out, causing Katherine to blink. She shook her head twice but then nodded the third time. Her figure also slumped slightly, thinking that she was being presumptuous towards her master.

"In that case, I'll give you two choices." Davis raised his hand, lifting two fingers.

"One, you become my subject for an experiment that will either cause the course of your life to change for better or worse. If it succeeds, I will allow you to become free in a decade. As for the other choice, leave now to become a free being."

Davis gestured to the exit of the cave as he continued, "Four hundred immortal crystals are nothing to me. Just consider it some charity work, so there's no need to return it either, but obviously, I would like it if you took the first choice, as that was why I got you out from there in the first place."

"However, it's your life and future, so I hope that you will choose wisely."

*Snap~*

Davis snapped his fingers, and Katherine Hilltail was further shocked to find out that the slave seal in her soul sea had dissolved.