He pointed out to a wide place, away from the monsters, which were grouped together, leaning on each other, from fatigue and injuries. Just as Arthur went to inspect the monsters, he was surprised to find the blood dripping from them had already formed a small pool, a pool of their mixed blood was much better in writing runes than single monster blood.

When he filled the cup with the blood, he returned to find Ron, Tarry, and Edwar ready for the process. Arthur then put the cup on the side, then he pointed to the others while instructing:

“Bring three monsters, each stand against one of them.”

The others nodded, as it was easy to push the monsters to move. The monsters were already surrendered to them, so they didn’t exert any resistance while moving to their designated positions. It was meant for Arthur to use the blood of these monsters, but he had a better choice here.

Arthur took the cup and the tree branch he prepared, and started writing in human tongue the word essential for any contract: Bind.

He thought of using the language created in his world, but he hesitated, as he wasn’t sure if this language was still applicable here, or it might worsen the current process of coupling.

Taking no further risks, with the fact he already changed a lot of things here, he started drawing a circle around each monster and one of his friends. Once he finished, he wrote on the ground the name of the horned monster, in reference to the highest form of monsters he knew of this species, and the name of master for his friends.

Once finished, he scattered five rocks each, forming angles of star, located between the monster and his friend. Once finished, he looked to each one of them as he instructed:

“Sit on the ground, close your eyes, clear your thoughts and then everything will be fine.”

They looked at him with excited anxious looks, before they did exactly as he instructed. Once they closed their eyes, the blood on the ground glared, causing some whispering among the others standing around this place, watching what was happening in astonishment and excitation.

They were excited, so excited like street kids seeing a magical trick for the first time. Arthur just shook his head, then he returned to inspect everything happening to his three friends, as he wanted to see if there was anything abnormal or unusual happening here.

Once the blood on the ground glared, the monsters shut their eyes, obediently, like being controlled by higher force. Arthur nodded in satisfaction when the blood written words on the rocks glared as well. Things then started to move according to his previous world rules, as a bubble made of the monster’s blood formed like a protective shield, covering everything inside from the eyes of any outsider.

“Good, everything is perfect,” Arthur exclaimed in more content as he inspected the shields formed by the monster’s blood. The quality of this shield was something satisfying even to him, which made him marvel the enhancements he did here.

“Are they going to be ok?” Madly came slowly as she whispered to him.

“Yes, things are going according to the plan,” Arthur replied in an audible tone, “now it’s your turn for absorbing the organs, who wants to go first?” he asked.

Everyone literally forgot their worries about their friends, as they thrashed to request to be the next for the process. Arthur just laughed, like a father laughing amusingly at his naughty kids.

“Good, I want each one of you to help me kill each monster, and then ready a weapon he always used for a long time, and be ready for the process,” Arthur said with a chuckle, as he was already in a good mood.

Obediently, they moved to stand at the edge of the bloody pool formed by the monsters. Arthur moved, intentionally, slowly, as he was teasing them. once reached there, they glared at him, as they were impatient, very impatient.

The next thing he did was very ordinary for him, as he used his sword, and inserted it deep into the first monster in front of him. the monster roared its final sound before it died. Arthur plugged his hand inside its body, as he began to sense the different organs, and when he brought out the spleen, he felt speechless.

He thought he would take out the liver, but this time he was wrong. He just shook his head, as he went towards the first in line, who was, without any suspense, Madly. She gave him her sword, as he used it to cut her hand, then he put the blooded hand with the spleen, making her lose consciousness, fall powerless on the ground, but Arthur was there for her, as he caught her body and carried her to sit on the ground, meters away from the place of the other three friends.

He then repeated the process with each one, until there was only one monster left, which was meant to be for him to absorb its organ. Arthur, standing watching the sleeping angels on the ground, with Ouly in his side, smiled wryly, as he thought being a father wasn’t that bad after all.

“Let’s go and ready the monsters for the cooking,” Arthur said as he went towards the place they stashed the herbs he gathered. There were different kinds of herbs there, and he tasted almost all of them. He found many flavors, like the acid and the sour, the bitter, the sweet, but he couldn’t get the salty flavor.

He sighed, but just as he was moving to grab the herbs, he recalled the rocks he just brought. They were inside a water stream, and if he recalled it right, there was some salt in the water he tasted when he jumped over the rocks.

He went to grab a rock, and strangely he tasted it. Ouly felt strangeness in this move, but Arthur’s face showed an excited smile, as he finally found the missing, most essential, ingredient in any food, salt.

“Why are you happy about this rock?” Ouly finally asked, when he witnessed Arthur smashing the rock into powder, in a very careful manner, like he was afraid for a treasure to be accidentally lost.

“It has a salty flavor,” Arthur simply replied.

“If you needed salt, then Lily already had one in her own belongings,” Ouly strangely replied, as if what Arthur was doing was madness and waste of effort and time. Arthur just sighed, as he wasn’t ready yet to explain the concept of cooking an energy rich food.

No normal seasoning could be used, or else it might ruin things. That small, missing detail explained why people in this world didn’t feel any different at all when eating monster meat.

It was due to their wrong way of cooking, which ruined the energy inside the meat of monsters. Arthur ignored the useless remarks of Ouly, as he grabbed one monster’s body, heavily trying to pull it. Ouly moved to help at once, and the two exerted their utmost power just to move the body just a meter away.

Arthur then decided to cut the monsters in their pool of blood first, to smaller pieces, then carry them towards the preparation place.