Reaper of the Martial World

Book 6: Chapter 421: BPA (1)

Dyon gave the newcomers a glance before pressed his card against the ticket.

A small flash of light sounded as the violet, blue and pink card dimmed slightly. An instant later, the ticket disappeared into motes of light, replaced by low level spatial ring.

Usually, spatial rings had an inability to house living things. This, of course, included various spiritual plants. However, this issue could be overcome with special vessels used for storing and preserving such items.

It was actually quite extravagant to use such a thing every time a person purchased something, but the tower could afford it as long as the bill was above a certain price. Dyon just managed to reach the threshold for the lowest level. historical

Dyon allowed the spatial ring to fall into his palm. “Thank you for the help Amy. Next time I come I’ll be sure to look for you.”

Before she could react, Dyon lightly pressed the very same card against her employee badge, signifying that their transaction was over. He did her one last favor by drawing a clear line between them so she wouldn’t have to be involved in what was to come.

“Ah… Thank you!” Amy quickly bowed.

Dyon smiled and nodded, bidding her farewell before turning toward the exit. Unfortunately, it seemed that these newcomers were hell-bent on blocking his path.

From what Dyon could see, there were four. One was the tall lady that left with Brea, Brea herself, a young man wearing white robes, and an older middle-aged woman wearing black robes.

However, the robes of the latter two were very different from what Dyon was used to seeing. Usually, rank was decided by the color and number of bands on your sleeves, while the color denoted which secondary profession you had mastery of.

The fact that the middle-aged woman was wearing black robes meant that she was a Beast Master. What was more intriguing though was the fact the white robes of the young man meant that he had reached at least a Master level of proficiency in not one, but at least two professions!

Still, that wasn’t the most poignant point. The both of them had not a single band on their sleeves… Instead, there was an illusory sheen that hovered just a few centimeters above their robes… It painted a scene of shooting star crossing the night sky.

It was a beautiful scene that could entrance anyone seeing it for the first time. However, the most important part was that this was a scene that could only be seen when meeting a comet grade expert!

The middle-aged woman looked toward Dyon with a frown clear on her features. She wasn’t entirely sure how to handle this situation. Normally, rules set by their Beast Protection Association, or BPA for short, could only be enforced on the weak. However, that was the description furthest from the reality of this young man. She felt uncomfortable just meeting his eyes. As though she was meeting an Emperor with worries far exceeding her…

Truth be told, the BPA was formed to appease warring beast states. Although one might tend to neglect Earth and Heaven Grade beasts, the truth was that they too could gain intelligence to match humans.

The troubling part was that even Earth Grade beasts were comparable to third grade humans. Following this trend, one can imagine how powerful a race of Heaven Grade beasts were being of the second grade.

Of course, there were some exceptions to this. For example, Kitsune who were classified as supreme beasts could even sometimes be weaker than some Earth grade beasts depending on their tail count. Dragons were the same, however this was dependent on their Dragon Soul.

Simply put, transcendent and supreme beast grades represented a ceiling of ability, not an absolute ability. This was an equivalent exchange made for them being more human-like and having the human path available to them.

However, Earth Grade and Heaven Grade beasts represented this absolute level of ability, making them highly dangerous, especially in large quantities.

So, the question remained, how could such powerful species agree to be partners with humans so readily?

The truth was that they didn’t. Not easily, anyway.

There were many laws restricting the partnership of humans and beasts, and these laws were enforced by the BPA.

If Dyon did what he was accused of, it wouldn’t be a surprise for the beasts to ask for blood. For a relationship that was already teetering on the edge, this was something that couldn’t be afforded. Especially if this Dyon was just strutting around without a care for who saw his cruel acts.

The truth was that Madeleine’s Golden Flame Quadrant was in the severe minority. Usually, a quadrant would have two or three main powers with numerous “unconquered” lands.

For example, Dyon’s home quadrant supposedly had 21 ‘unclaimed’ universes. In Saru’s home quadrant, her clan and the kitsune controlled about 60 quadrants between them with 40 being ‘unclaimed’. This same pattern was repeated in the Grand Templar Quadrant, and again the Kong Quadrant, and again… and again…

A secret hidden in plain sight was exactly what this was. These universes weren’t ‘unclaimed’ at all, nor were they held by weaker clans that just so happened to be lucky enough to survive, not most of the time, anyway. No… These were collectively known as the ‘Savage Lands’.

These were the places that the Beasts roamed free… These were places that even the greatest clans had to hesitate before provoking…