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Rin and Isabella returned after making some food, and the four of them snacked them while watching the battles.

Time passed, and after two hours of non-stop battles, everyone finally finished their fights with each other.

"Alright, good job everyone, but you all know the ten that are going to join the guild."

"Congratulations to the winner."

Erix smiled and approached the group of 24 people, with the 10 winners looking thrilled.

The remaining ones had disappointed expressions.

"As for those who didn't win, don't worry. This is just the first recruitment, and the guild has plenty more space for new members."

One of the girls in her late twenties immediately asked, "When is the next recruitment?"

Rin shook her head, "We can't say for sure because it depends on when we return from the cosmic faction's field mission. A couple of days for sure, but it will not take long."

…

Erix, Rin, Aria, and Isabella returned to the island with the 10 winners.

When they arrived there, all ten were surprised and even more excited to see the atmosphere and topography of the blessed island.

"I promised custom-made weapons, but you won't get them immediately for obvious reasons," Erix said. "I'll make three to five items every day, after returning from the field mission. Until then, do whatever you want and can to get stronger in your way."

"All of you are at Royal-order rank, so you've crossed a hurdle. This island has versatile elemental areas, so stay in the area that matches your element when you want to meditate for training."

"I sense a lot of people behind that mountain range…" asked the young man in his early twenties as he pointed at the mountain range. He was the youngest of the ten winners, alongside a girl with black hair around a similar age.

Rin's eyes gleaned and a cold yet wide smile appeared on her face, "They were members of the Dark Dagger Alliance in the past and….slaves in the present."

"Haha, don't worry about them," Erix said with a laugh, his expression sharp, "Make yourselves comfortable and do your things."

"But remember one thing," Erix smiled. "You are our first recruits, so consider yourselves lucky for this position. But if you don't work and get stronger on par with the benchmarks that'll be set regularly, we will demote you."

"Only the best will be core members of the guild, so don't fall behind."

Everyone nodded, young and old, their eyes showing resolve to stay in this elevated position they were feeling.

After saying that, Erix teleported with Rin, Aria, and Isabella behind the small mountain range of tiny mountains.

The slaves numbering roughly 3000 had built their houses in rows. The total number of houses was 1.8k, meaning that many were living together.

"Jeez, they need punishment," Rin snorted as she looked at the things happening.

More than half of the slaves were engaged in carnal activities and were high as fuck with various intoxications.

The rest were following instructions, and training in meditation to get stronger.

"Aria, can you send a wave of spiritual force into those busy ones like a powerful slap, painful and stingy to their mind?"

"I can," Aria nodded.

"Good. Do it, and then tell them to gather here," Erix coldly smiled.

Suddenly, Amu appeared before them wearing black specs and a hat, "What's up, guys?"

"Pff, what's up with you?" Rin chuckled.

Isabella also chuckled. "Aaron also recently speaks in new ways with me, it's adorable."

Kids that young would try and imitate things, but Isabella was just happy that Aaron was back to being happy and lively.

"Hehe, it's the style of kids," Amu grinned, but hearing his childish voice that wasn't distinguishable from a boy's or girl's voice just made it even more funny.

The black specs and hat vanished as they were made from its slime body and Amu returned to normal before turning to the houses.

"Are you going to put them to work?"

"Yep," Erix nodded and snapped his finger as his eyes faintly shone dark silvery.

"I've made a simple device recently called…slave collar. These mindless mob needs one to set them straight and become useful for us."

A dark silver slave neck collar with eccentric patterns appeared before Erix.

"What does it do?" Isabella asked after she failed to inspect for details.

The slaves also arrived as Aria finished sending a mass wave of stinging slaps to their minds and telling them to come here.

"It will control them with the famous combinations of fear," Erix grinned. "Pain and death."

The slaves, ranging from as young as late teens to as old as people in their sixties, arrived and fearfully stood before Erix and others.

"You all never learn, right?" Rin's cold voice reverberated while dark clouds suddenly manifested above them.

'Aria, mark some of the very nasty ones for me,' Rin said.

'Okie.'

Aria marked sixteen people who had committed the most atrocities so far in their lives. She could sense it from their consciousness and marked them.

A second later, everyone heard multiple lightning crackles as dark red lightning bolts with black sparks flashed and killed those sixteen people with perfect precision.

However, Erix smiled and revived them again since their souls couldn't leave the Blessed Island's closed system barrier.

This was one of the perks of the Blessed Island. Even if people died on the Island, their souls wouldn't immediately enter the cosmic cycle as long as the barrier was activated.

Erix healed their injuries the moment they died, so all sixteen people were revived once again.

"Arghh!"

"It hurts!"

"N-Nooo…Arghh!"

Although they revived, the condensed pain that gathered into them after dying rushed at once, causing them immense pain. Their broken screams and terrified voices made the rest of the slaves shudder involuntarily.

"You are not here to fuck each other and enjoy your life on this beautiful island," Erix's cold voice reverberated, but he contained it in space in this area so that other people on the island wouldn't hear anything.

"You are slaves, and here to suffer because of your actions! If you want to live without suffering, then work!"

Erix snapped his finger as a flux of Prana whirled around him before vanishing while his eyes gleaned dark silvery. Soon, every slave found a metallic collar around their neck.

It was thin and small, but it made their already cold heart even colder.

"Do you know what I can do with this collar?" Erix asked with a sunny smile. "With a single thought of mine, I'll kill you in a brutal death as well as revive you and let you enjoy your pain."

"But if you don't want to experience that, then hand over all those intoxication stuff from your inventory and live according to the rules."

"If you understand, then get on your knees and put your heads on the ground."

Without hesitation, every single one did as told as their fear level increased. They absolutely realized, even the dumb ones with fully rotten minds, that their situation here would be way worse than death if they didn't listen and obey.

"Aria, who has the lowest amount of atrocities to their name?" Erix asked. "I want ten people."

"Okie," Aria nodded, and her eyes flashed golden as she shortly marked ten people.

Erix waved his hand, causing the ten of them to teleport before them.

"Get up."

The ten people got up fearfully and looked at them. Four were in their twenties, three girls and one boy. The other six were older than forty years old, three men and three women.

"Do you know why the ten of you are here?" Erix asked with a smile.

All ten shook their heads, fear rising in their eyes as they didn't know why he teleported them here.

"You ten have a job to do. There's a new building at the center of this Sanctuary Area and you ten will work there with this."

Erix created ten metal slates with the same eccentric magic formation carved on each. There was a tiny slot in each of them, the perfect size of a U-card.

"The slate will activate when you put a U-card in it and infuse Mana…."

Erix explained about the U-card and the slate's function.

He created the slate by imitating the Abyss's Hunter card's formation to upgrade his U-card.
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For now, he only added one upgrade for the card, which was to increase the communication range of a U-card to 500 kilometers.

"Your job is to upgrade people's cards in exchange for 2 Prana stones or a Tier-5 material, be it a crafting material, potion ingredient, or anything else," Erix said.

"Due to the rough crafting, these slates will be destroyed after you upgrade 100 cards in each, so here…" Erix consumed more Prana and created 30 slates more.

The slaves grabbed the slates and nodded as they understood the job.

"I'm sending you to the building. I'll make a teleport formation there that connects to here, so you can return for some rest, but not everyone must at once."

"And," Rin narrowed her eyes, "Don't think about doing anything funny while outside."

Erix laughed and said, "These slave collars are not something anyone can break, and if you try to break, you'll die before it happens. These slave collars are made from the strongest metal in my arsnal. It's a Tier-6 metal of death and ice attributes."

"I understand."

"We will not try to escape…"

"I-I want to atone for my sins…" an old man with a black beard broke down as he started bawling and fell on his knees.

"Stop the drama," Erix rolled his eyes. "I am sending you now. Do a good job every day, and you'll live better."

After sending them away, Erix handed over a device to activate the slave collar to Isabella, Aria, and Amu.

"Use this if they try anything funny. Rin and I are going to Unbound Star cosmic faction for the field mission. If it's good, we'll participate. If it's not worth it, we'll return soon."