Heaven, Earth, Me (GL)

Chapter 196. Andrea and... a strange crab?

Then, she chuckled and said, "Can you get out of the ore? I will let you live if you do that."

Andrea knew that beasts of the third rank and above had slight intelligence, so it tried to speak to it. Killing it wouldn't help her in any way, so it was better to talk with it. Moreover, after being together with Yasenia, Cecile, and now Kali. Andrea had a soft spot for intelligent beasts. She rather communicated with them than slaughter them indiscriminately.

The crab stopped struggling after it saw it was useless, and his black bead-like eyes stretched between Andrea's fingers to look at her.

After hearing her demand, the crab somewhat understood that this silver metallic creature wanted its house, so it got enraged and spat corrosive bubbles from its mouth. Nonetheless, Andrea managed to prevent these bubbles from damaging her armor or herself with her current metal element manipulation. Andrea sighed, "Don't be like this... I will give you another house."

Andrea waved her hand, and a Magic-ranked ore appeared beside her, the same size as the Steel Ore. The crab looked toward it, and Andrea swore she could see pure disdain oozing out from its black crab eyes. She was somewhat speechless, "Oy, I'm trying not to kill you here; how about you cooperate?"

The crab spat more bubbles in protest.

Andrea sighed and let some of her aura leak to let the crab know about its situation. For the crab, Andrea's presence became like a scorching sun and extremely strong in an instant, and it started shivering with fear.

Andrea saw that it took effect, so she released it. Then, she saw the crab getting out of the ore and crawling toward the magic-level ore she placed on the ground. However, she was again speechless as she saw those vertical black crab eyes seemingly tearing up. 'For a low-level rank-three beast, it has a lot of emotional intelligence.'

Andrea became curious about the thing and spoke with it, "Hey, do you have an ore searching ability?"

The crab looked at Andrea with wariness and feeling wronged. 'You come here, steal my house, give me a shitty house, and almost scared me to death! What more do you want from me!?'

Andrea patted its gelatinous body. "I'm sorry, okay? It's just that this thing can come in handy later. So, do you know how to search ores?"

The crab was still depressed, but before this creature that was many times stronger than itself, the crab reluctantly nodded. Andrea said, "Great! If you can find me ores as good as the [Purple Veined Steel Ore], I will let you have one of them. We can even go against beasts much stronger than you and rob theirs for us! What do you say, little crab?"

The crab's vertical eyes spun as it thought about the meaning of her words. It took Andrea to repeat it three times for the crab to understand, and Andrea saw amusedly how its black eyes shone, and it nodded again and again.

Andrea laughed and grabbed one of its claws, "We will be working together from now on."

The colors of the crab without the current ore it was carrying were similar to the [Purple Veined Steel Ore], grey with purple veins around. The ore Andrea gave it was also purple-colored, hoping for it to find it more comfortable if the color was similar.

Then, one crab and an armored woman continued walking around.

Suddenly, Andrea suddenly saw a black and purple rift open and a male human appearing below it in the distance. However, the method of appearing was like popping into existence, extremely abnormal.

Andrea blinked continuously, almost sure that her brain was playing tricks on her. 'Did we appear like that too? That's... quite funny, to be honest.'

She saw the man open his eyes, confused, and look around. Then, when he turned around and spotted Andrea, he froze there, not expecting to find another cultivator so soon. Andrea was smiling, looking at his actions, amused. 'Do I fight, or do I try working together with him...'