[Day 96]

Today we decided to speak with the hunters that were caught in detail now that they woke up early, they were very grateful to us after all the wall of explanations we had to give them… And of course, we took away their collars. I ate one but got nothing, and saved the rest for someday, whenever we need to slave someone that deserves it.

Anyways, they were surprised about a talking ice dragon, a talking and flying fortress the size of a castle (if not bigger), and the strange beast girl Yuki.

There were five women and three men, all of the ice giants.

It resulted that they were just a big family of hunters and explorers that came out of the village a few kilometers from here, which is big enough to even have a sect that supports it, named Ice Moon Sect. They are not sect members but mere hunters who usually go out to hunt monsters and gather resources to sell for currency.

The currency of the town seems to be… Eh? Mana Cores? It is…

So the currency of this world is just mana cores from monsters… I guess they keep the mana cores they extracted and sell the rest of the body and the materials for more.

It seems that people use them as currency because they are the most valuable resource for cultivation. This also gives meaning to hunting monsters aside from food, as it means that you literally can get money by killing them by extracting the mana core inside of them.

But wouldn ’t this flood the market with mana cores if there are too many monsters being hunted? I guess so… In that case, things just get more expensive I would guess.

Anyways, mana cores were implemented as a currency mostly by sects, it seems, as they use them as a currency to exchange materials inside their residences, alongside grimoires and other useful things for cultivation. After that, the people around them adapted to it and began to sell their own stuff for the same currency.

Oh, wait, no. Mana Cores are used, yes, but the ”coin ” equivalent is… Mana Stones. These are little versions of mana cores that come out of special refinement formations. It seems that the sect controls the source of mana stones across the village, by pilling up mana cores into the formation, mana stones are created, which are the size of pebbles. They can also be used for cultivation, and are just as good, if not better than mana cores, as they come refined from all the impurities from mana cores.

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Anyways, the family is varied but they are mostly hunters, although some of the girls are adept at cooking, so we got some more help at attending the kids now.

They seemed grateful but they didn ’t seem inclined to stay with us, so for now they ’ll stay with us and repay us with their help in anything we need until we can get them back to the village.

Though… it would be dangerous to leave these people to go after everything they saw from me.

Wouldn ’t it be better to keep them with us?