Chapter 114: Not Dinner But A Feast

Ben watched from the side as Goldtooth ironed out the details with the lady.

It was decided that after Goldtooth finished collecting all the samples he needed from the Night Eagle, he would sell it back to white widow for a little below the auction price.

After the deal was settled, Ben assured Goldtooth that he could come see him after he sold the Night Eagle back to the lady, and he would be happy to fix his balding head for a small price.

"How did you manage to make that happen?"

The lady asked Ben, who was now walking back towards her after Goldtooth had taken his leave, with plans set in place to communicate through carrier pigeons.

Ben smiled as he responded to her question with a question of his own....

"Now I get to ask you for whatever I want, right ?"

The lady’s rosy lips parted into a happy, beautiful smile as she said to Ben, scooting backwards into her carriage....

"Come in here and tell me what you want..."

"I’ll make it happen to the best of my ability."

Ben wasted no time, passing by the lady’s guards as he joined her inside the comfy carriage, taking a seat on the opposite side so he sat face to face with the lady who was staring at Ben with a mix of curiosity, appreciation, and something else.

Ben could tell that her gloomy mood had disappeared into a brighter, happier one. Just the type of atmosphere that’s perfect.

"Anything I say, you’ll do ?" Ben asked her with a cheeky smile, and the lady nodded.

"Anything at all, you’ll do ?" He repeated, causing the lady to get a little tense, thinking what sort of huge ask this person would ask her.....

But she still nodded as she was in the mood to grant whatever this young man wished for.

Not many people know that the white widow was a tamer mahji, blessed with the gift of influencing beasts and bringing them under her control; only those who fought with her as well as those closest to her knew this.

For a tamer mahji, it was only possible to tame beasts weaker in realm than one is. But in the future, the beast that has a fast growth speed in ascending realms could end up even surpassing the realm of their master but still remain tamed.

That’s why beast tamer mahjis are just as rare as healer mahjis, maybe even more so since they’re more combat-oriented.

She already had other beasts for different scenarios; only one left was an appropriate avian beast that resonates with her essense, as the type of beast has to resonate with the beast tamer’s essense in order to successfully tame them or carry them along.

The Night Eagle was decided to be best suited to her, so she’s been in search of a Night Eagle that’s at or below the master realm for years. However, because the race of powerful avian species was so rare and hard to find, she’s been unable to secure one in years.

Luckily, she received the draft for the goods for auction at the Dawn auction house, and she had made the journey in haste, carrying with her all the wealth she had on her at the moment, not even wasting time to return to her family for preparation.

That haste had nearly cost her the beast, as the sum she had on her wasn’t enough to win the bid for the beast. She had tried every means to persuade the underworld mogul, Goldtooth, but it was to no avail, as the man had insisted that he had a more important use for the beast.

She had resolved in her mind to employ her own connections to somehow get the beast from Goldtooth, which she knew would be practically impossible after she had been turned down so brutally, even though he knew who she was.

Never would she have imagined that the young man whom she had never really taken seriously would be able to pull off what even she had found impossible. Now she wasn’t just very appreciative; she was also very curious about this person, more inclined to acquiesce to any of his requests.

And it was rather refreshing to see someone like this young man who looked at her this way, seemingly knowing nothing of her infamy.

"Yes, Mr Hardwood, I already promised, didn’t I?" she said to Ben with a beautiful, encouraging smile, wondering what big ask he was about to make of her. But the young man’s request was very surprising indeed....

"Then I would ask my lady to have dinner with me tonight."

"You want to have dinner with me?....that’s your wish ?"

The white widow said to Ben with surprise written all over her beautiful face, while Ben simply nodded, telling her he only wished to spend some quality time alone with her, so they could get to know each other better.

"I guess you really don’t know who I am; if you did, you wouldn’t have made such a simple wish of me, when you could have asked for anything,"

The lady said to Ben in a calm tone, as she tried hard to suppress how fond she was becoming of this person, looking deeply into those shiny hazel eyes of his and realizing just how incredibly charming he was.

"How is wanting to spend time with my lady something simple ?" Ben muttered slowly, sensually, holding the lady’s gaze as the unspoken tension rose in the carriage.

Smiling, with a little redness to her cheeks, the lady reclined back into her seat, and with a little tap of her hand to the side of the carriage, they began to move. The lady said nothing to Ben, and they simply stared out at the city through the windows, occasionally sending cursory glances at one another.

The ride didn’t last very long, and before much time had passed, they had come to a stop in front of a fancy manor, a little ways from the heart of the city.

"This is were i’ll be staying for the next couple of days."

The lady announced, exiting the carriage, as Ben followed along, taking in the beautiful view. The cost to rent such a place would be astronomical indeed, quite telling of just how wealthy this lady must be.

She turned to Ben saying...

"Come along now.... "

"We won’t be having dinner, but a feast for just us two."