"If one party gives up the challenge, that company's pet should be given to the other party. In other words, if you give up, they want Wyba. They have an ugly rat which is very aggressive, that would be what you will win if they give up..."

Yale face turned cold as he understood that the real objective of those bastards was Wyba since the start. The other party never thought that the Frost Wolf Company would accept the deal. They wanted to obtain the primary source of the popularity of the Frost Wolf Company.

The association only saw that pets were the compensation for giving up, so it seemed fair at first glance. However, anyone who knew both beasts would understand that the conditions were unfair.

"Tell me about the challenge, giving up is impossible. Wyba has a life-bound contract with me, and I will never let her be enslaved. If I die, she dies, and as long I am alive, she will never become a slave."

Julie and Oscro had never seen Yale angered; he was usually calm and rational.

Yale had killed people in the past and had the determination to do it again. He disliked trouble, but if others looked for problems, he would be merciless.

"The challenge rules are also unfair to both of you. They have asked for a death match between one representative of the company. Only those who were official members before the challenge was issued can participate. You can't recruit anyone else, and the other party has a 9-star mortal rank slave specialized in battles."

Usually, those who move companies weren't good at battling even if they also practiced. That was because people who had specialized in business lacked experience in battle.

A cold smile appeared on Yale's face as he heard that the other party was only at the 9-star mortal rank, that wasn't an impossible battle. If the opponent were someone unbeatable, Yale would simply run off the city using Shape Shift and disappear.

However, that would doom Oscro, who couldn't run due to having his family inside Trade City. Thus, he would do it only as a last resort.

"Then, I will battle with him."

Yale knew that Oscro didn't have any chance to win, and they were still the only two official members of the company, so there weren't any other options.

"You are only at the 6-star, even if you advance to the 7-star before the match you are a healer, you can't win."

Julie thought that Yale was trying to kill himself since that will avoid a life of slavery. After all, Yale had never shown any battle prowess in his time in Trade City.

"Oscro, did you remember what I told you after we met? I said that healing isn't my specialty, but I never told you in what I am specialized."

Oscro nodded. He could remember that Yale said that before becoming known as the Silent Healer, but he thought that he was just humble.

Julie had difficulties to believe it, Yale was younger than her, and he was already a genius elemental healer. If he really wasn't specialized in that, Yale could be considered a monster.

Yale took out the Space-time Judgment Sword and wielded it. He had decided that the opponent would be killed by that sword.

"My specialty is the sword. I reached the expert stage when I was ten. I have confidence in winning even if the opponent is at the 9-star mortal rank."

Julie and Oscro didn't notice any lie in Yale's words, so they decided to believe him. After all, there wasn't any other solution than battle since Yale wouldn't give Wyba to the other party, nor the other party seemed to have intentions to retreat.

"How much time we have until the challenge?"

That was an important factor that Julie had yet to say.

"Not too much, only one week."

Yale sighed, too little time to make a big improvement. The other party didn't want to give them any chance to train.

If the merchant association's rules didn't force the minimum time to start a challenge to be a week, the other party would have set the challenge for the same day.

"Oscro, I won't heal anyone until the challenge ended. The same happens for Wyba, her hugging seasons will be finished for now. We will make public the challenge conditions as the reasons for ceasing the services."

Oscro was shocked because if Wyba and Yale stopped working for a week, their benefits would almost disappear.

"Wait! I understand that you need to practice, but why also cease Wyba's services?"

Yale looked at Oscro coldly. He couldn't believe that Oscro still thinking in the business in that situation.

"In a week, if I lose the battle, I will be dead and Wyba with me. The people must know about that. They mustn't expect that Wyba will be there in the other company to be hugged by them after my death. I am sure those bastards have started to make promises about what they will do after obtaining Wyba. Maybe they will even try to kidnap her before the challenge."

Oscro didn't know how to reply to Yale, so he didn't speak anything else as there was indeed possible that the other party try something against Wyba.

"Even if I lose the battle, I will ensure that they will become the most hated company this city had seen in its history."

Yale's voice was the coldest they had heard. Yale was emanating a dense killing intent.

Julie could understand Yale's strategy. Making the other party an object of hatred for everyone would lower their morale, and in the worst of the cases, the other party would still suffer after winning the match.

Yale and Wyba disappeared from everyone's sight for that week. The customers were enraged by the situation, but the anger wasn't directed to the Frost Wolf Company, they hated the other party for being that ruthless.

The other company had severe losses while the trades in the Frost Wolf Company increased non-stop.

Furthermore, Yale guesses were right, and the other company started to announce Wyba's future services. When the fact she was the Silent Healer's life-bound beast and that the Silent Healer would be the one battling in the deathmatch, any promises regarding Wyba turned into lies because they would never be able to fulfill them.

However, the other party didn't give up on the challenge. They felt that the Frost Wolf Company only acted that way to force them to give up to save their reputation, but that they didn't have the guts to accept the challenge. Of course, they didn't believe anything about Wyba being a life-bound beast either.

Yale went all out in training that week. He used all his money to buy natural treasures to increase his stats as quickly as possible.

Yale knew that he would need to rely upon Bloodline Force to battle such an opponent, but the increase was limited to the 6-star, so his attack and agility could only reach 120 points, which were the double of the peak 6-star. Even if Yale increased his stats, the bloodline's level would still limit the enhancement of the stats to that number.

Ninety points were the peak of the 9-star mortal rank, and a hundred points were the peak of the starless Novice Rank. With 120 points, Yale should have enough advantage in strength and agility, but if the other party also knew some boost methods, even if they were less effective, the difference wouldn't that big.

Moreover, what Yale feared the most was that the other party gave an Apprentice Pill to that slave, forcing his way into the Novice Rank. Since he was a slave, they probably didn't mind crippling him even if they knew the truth behind the pill.

Thus, Yale wanted to improve his bloodline's level, and he found a suitable method with a database search, which was another reason he wanted to be with Wyba that week.

The method was deduced by the system fusing different pieces of knowledge Yale acquired in his life and the information about the Origin Path, so Yale wasn't sure if it would work, but he will try it.

Once Yale advanced to the 7-star, Wyba also advanced. She was being restrained due to Yale's level, so at the moment he made his breakthrough Wyba also did it.

Wyba and Yale were connected, and the system said that relying on that link and the fact both already have the same active bloodline, Yale should be able to synchronize their bloodline levels using the Origin Qi.

Yale had failed a lot of times, but he had managed to do it successfully just three hours before the challenge, synchronizing bloodline was a difficult method that only worked due to their circumstances.

To any other human and beast, it would be impossible to use the same method because it was a custom method. The system created for Yale and Wyba.

That synchronization made both of them like real siblings, they had exactly the same bloodline, including the inactive parts, so if Yale someday managed to awaken the Zhan Clan's bloodline, Wyba would also obtain it.

Moreover, every time Wyba advanced, Yale's bloodline would also increase; giving the fact that Wyba's advances in her level were only restricted by Yale's level and not by her bloodline, the combination they obtained was fearsome.