Fortune Of Lifetimes

"Ok let's go Damon" yawned Renato

"Do you think we'll get anything other than snakes and squirrels this time brother?" said Damon dejectedly, they had been hunting for three weeks now and hadn't seen a boar since their first trip out which left him disappointed.

"We'll go deeper this time and have a look hopefully our luck will change" he replied

Nearing two miles into the forest the pair of brothers heard the sound of something thudding, after approaching the noise as quite as they could the duo found two spirit deer fighting over a spirit herb. Thinking about the potential gains if one of the deer did die a hint of excitement could be scene on their faces watching this brutal battle between the two beasts.

Just 20 minutes later the two deer were dripping with blood and on their last legs, after being in a stalemate for another couple minutes one of the deer got the upper hand and pierced the other through its heart with his antler. Grabbing the spirit herb in its mouth the winner of the fight started to eat it walking away to go digest the herb and become stronger.

After waiting 5 minutes to make sure there was no more predators waiting for a free meal the two went over to the spirit beast, grabbing his knife Renato though about trying to cut the deer but thought better about it, knowing that the knife would probably become blunt withing a couple minutes and knowing that they would have to take the meat all the way back to the city he decided to make a cart so they could drag it back saving them a lot of problems of carrying it.

after cutting down a lot of bamboo Renato told Damon to start a fire so he could bend the bamboo into a set of wheels to make it easier to pull along, with the fire going Renato accessed the memories from when he was a carpenter to find out the best way to bend the bamboo finding out that he needed to do he got to making the four wheels although it wasn't as secure as he wanted they should be able to get the meat back to the city after putting together the rest of the cart he started to attach the wheels and put the deer onto it.

When they walked back about two miles the duo felt relief that the blood didn't attract any predators, knowing that they couldn't carry the meat through the town the way it was now the two spend another 45 minutes trying it up in a tree so they could go buy a better knife to cut the meat into easier to carry cuts.

Walking through the town Ren and Damon went to different blacksmiths only to find out that all the good knives and daggers costing anywhere from 10 silver to 5 gold after three weeks of hunting the duo only saved about 240 coppers one piece of silver was equivalent to 50 coppers and 1 gold was worth 20 silver. Ren, thinking of what to do, had his thoughts interrupted by Damon.

"Ren why don't you go to that old man's shop he always seems to have so much stuff, maybe he has a knife that he might let us borrow?" nodding Ren and Damon headed towards the old man's shop.

"Hey old man how are you?" said Ren casually, the two people had got to know each other over the past few weeks.

"Oh little brat what have you got for me today" replied the old man just as casually.

"That all depends on you geezer, I need a knife that can cut through spirit beast meat what do you say want to lend me one?"

with a smile on his face the old man said "sure kid you got some gold?"

"Come on senior, you know how much I have saved let me say this though if you let me borrow it ill bring you back enough money later tonight" addressing the old man respectfully for the first time since they met Ren tried to butter him up for a favour.

Making up his mind the old man walked into the back of his shop after a couple of minutes he walked out with two daggers in his hand, unsheathing them and putting them on the table one was extremely flamboyant and anyone who didn't have any knowledge about weapons would instantly gravitate towards such a blade. However, seeing the other blade Renato's eyes couldn't help but widen. Grabbing it he tried to remain calm and ask the old man how much it was, replying the old man said that it would cost 2 gold because it's not as nice as the other one Renato decided to tell the old man that he would pay him back later today whilst leaving the store.

After walking out of the shop Ren couldn't help but be happy he had just found a spirit dagger, although in his past lives he had used legendary God blades a spirit dagger could be a life-saving grace when facing cultivators at copper tier and silver tier, it would also be effective against the higher tiers if he could inject enough qi into the weapon.

When he got home he tested the dagger on a massive bolder and it cut an inch deep into it, although a spirit beast defence would be stronger than a rock a dead one could activate its qi to strengthen its body so its greatest trump card wouldn't effect Ren when cutting it up.

Once the duo returned to the deer with bigger baskets and jars the duo started to prepare to butcher the deer by tying it up on its hind legs after doing this Ren cut its throat and drained the blood into the jars after collecting the blood, using the memories of when he was a hunter he skinned the deer then gutted it, using the memories of when he was a chef for the heavenly emperor he started to cut the deer into all the different cuts of meat keeping some of the worst parts for himself and also keeping a steak and the antlers for him and Damon the rest was going to be sold to the old man.

Returning to the shop and showing the old man the pelt, meat and organs that he wanted to sell the old man had a smile on his face "Oi brat how did you kills this? if I'm not wrong this is a spirit deer, there is no way you can kill spirit beasts"

To avoid any misunderstanding Ren told the old man how they saw the two deer fighting and waited for it to end only to be rewarded with a bunch of free meat, 20 minutes later after and intense amount of bartering the two finally agreed on a price of 22 gold and the dagger.

Once home Ren cooked the meat and dried it out so he could snack on it in the future instead of letting it spoil, he didn't cook it to preserve the spirit qi because his body couldn't handle it at this moment in time. Giving the organs to the owner of the orphanage to use as food shock couldn't help but fill her face she didn't understand how the two where getting all this meat, after making up and excuse that they where working for a butcher cleaning and he gave them all the left over food as payment the two left the dinning hall. After getting back he started marinating the steak in a pepper, salt, onion and garlic he left it for the night so soak into the meat.

Meanwhile, at the old man's shop two people seemed to be in a conversation, "Old master why would you give that youngster your spirit dagger?" said a hooded man

"Hehe, he just peaks my interest that's all don't worry I still have my saint sword, giving away such an item is insignificant"