Cain thought that even if the token wasn't useful, he had already thought of bribing the gatekeeper rather than resorting to force.
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Fortunately, when he took out the silver token, the fat man imdiately stepped aside, allowing him through without hesitation.
As Cain ascended the stairs, he heard people shouting prices one by one as if they were bidding on sothing.
When Cain stepped onto the fifth floor, the scene before him ca into full view. Round tables were scattered across the room, each occupied by groups of people.
Their attention was fixed on a platform at the front. On the platform stood a beautiful woman, likely in her early twenties, alongside a cage about two ters big.
What surprised him was that when he saw the cage, he imdiately heard system notifications that he hadn't expected at all.
[Ding! You have received a Side Mission]
[Side Mission: Rescue the unfortunate little foxes]
[Ti Limit: 1 Day]
[Failure: - ]
[Reward: Two random rewards!]
Cain's gaze sharpened as he saw the contents inside the cage.
Inside the cage were a young boy and a little girl, their fox-like features imdiately catching his eye—two fox ears atop their heads and a single red tail each. They were clearly of the Fire Fox race.
The boy appeared to be around eleven years old, while the girl looked no older than seven. Their clothes were tattered, and their expressions betrayed fear and exhaustion.
Looking at these two unfortunate little foxes, Cain felt touched as he was sohow always reminded of his little brother from his past life whenever he saw children.
Cain then decided to help them out since this was happening right in front of his eyes.
Even if he didn't get the side mission, he would've still helped them, as helping them was nothing for the current him too.
While people were still bidding with a low price, Cain imdiately shouted. "1,000 Low Rank Dominator Crystals."
People were surprised that soone was willing to pay that much for these two lowly creatures in their opinion.
Their attention imdiately shifted to Cain, who was walking leisurely towards the stage.
After a few seconds of silence, the beautiful woman imdiately counted to three before announcing Cain won the bidding this ti around.
Cain then threw a spatial ring filled with 1,000 Low Rank Dominator Crystals at the auctioneer before approaching the cage with a kind smile.
After the cage was opened by the auctioneer, Cain made a beckoning gesture towards the boy and little girl to get out of the cage.
The boy then slowly led the little girl towards Cain as he looked at Cain with a wary expression while in a protective stance with the little girl following behind him while holding his clothes tightly.
When Cain spotted that there were bruises all over the boy's body and even there were so on the little girl's body, he imdiately grinned and frowned, making the boy step back as he was afraid when Cain saw him with an angry look.
As Cain noticed that the boy was seemingly wary of him, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I wouldn't hurt either of you."
Cain imdiately tilted his head to the audience and shouted, "Who here has the best healing pills for these two? Na your price, and I'll pay it imdiately."
One of the people who sat near the platform stood right away and said in a loud voice. "I have top-tier healing pills for those below Lord Rank, it's not even a problem for normal people to consu this."
"How much?." Cain asked in an impatient voice.
"Just one—I an 10. 10 Low Rank Dominator Crystals will do." The man hesitated before gathering his courage and naming an absurd amount of price as he only tested his luck.
"Take it." Cain threw a small bag containing 10 Low Rank Dominator Crystals as he didn't want to waste any more of his ti haggling over this little money.
The man caught the bag and was surprised when he checked the content inside the bag, which was the sa amount as he had stated before.
He started to regret that he didn't na a higher price since this was basically an easy money-making opportunity that wouldn't co twice.
He then threw two pills at Cain reluctantly, as he already got his money.
When Cain caught the pills, he ordered the system to check the pills to see if there was sothing wrong with it.
After confirming that the pills' effects were indeed the sa as the man had claid them to be, Cain imdiately tilted his head and looked at the boy and little girl with a warm smile.
"These will heal your injuries. Trust , they're safe." Cain opened his palm and extended his hand at the boy.
The boy hesitated for a few seconds before he took out the pills.
However, he didn't give one to the little girl yet as he wanted to try it for himself first in case it was poisoned or had a bad effect.
After eating the pill, the boy was stunned as he felt a stream of energy running through his body, healing the bruises on his body imdiately.
The boy then turned his body and opened his palm, ordering the little girl to take the pill too. "Eat it."
The little girl stared at the pill for a few seconds before making up her mind and shook her head cutely. "No, brother Eli saves it first."
The little girl continued. "Ayla is still going to be fine without eating it."
"Ayla, eat it!" The boy insisted as he said with a firm attitude.
"B-but, brother Eli needs it more than . What if brother Eli is getting hurt again in the future?" The little girl sobbed weakly as her thoughts instantly flashed with her mory of his brother, who was always protecting him and got hurt badly every ti he did so.
"Don't worry, I just beca stronger after eating this pill. There's even so energy left so that whenever I get hurt, I will be imdiately healed." The boy reassured the little girl as he made up so lies on the spot.
Cain shook his head helplessly as he could feel that they should've been through a lot even though they were still a little.
"Little girl, take the pill. You don't need to worry about anything anymore. As long as I'm here, no one will hurt you."
Cain stepped forward and squatted down, smiling at them.
The boy was surprised and imdiately stuffed the pill into the little girl's hand before turning around and bowing deeply. "Master, thank you for the pills, and I'm really sorry for my rudeness to you before. Please, don't implicate my sister in this."
The boy forgot to express his gratitude, as his first thoughts were imdiately filled with healing his little sister too when he realized that the pill had healed his entire body in an instant.
"Master, thank you for the pills, and please forgive us since this is our first offense." The little girl imdiately bowed deeply too and shivered as she was scared that they would get beaten after this incident.
"Hahaha, both of you don't need to be like that from now on." Cain helped both of them to stand up and continued.
"From now on, call big brother Cain, okay?" Cain said as he moved his hands, wanting to pat their heads softly.
However, when he was about to pat their heads, they imdiately closed their eyes tightly while clenching their fists and gritted their teeth as they unconsciously thought that Cain wanted to beat them.
Cain's hands stopped as he was surprised when he noticed it.
He then patted their heads before caressing their heads softly and said, "Little girl, eat the pill and don't worry too much about anything else."
The little girl was startled and ca back to her senses as she was enjoying the feeling of a big hand caressing her head because the last ti soone did that to her was her dead mom a few years ago.
"Mhmm-Mhmm." The little girl nodded, showing a happy expression on her face.
After she ate the pills, the bruises on her body imdiately disappeared in an instant.
"Let's go, we're going to eat first before going sowhere else later." Cain said as he picked up the little girl and walked out of the platform, letting the boy follow him silently behind him while looking at Cain with a mixed expression.
The boy was confused at the mont as he didn't believe what just happened, he prayed silently inside his heart as he hoped that this wasn't just a dream.
As they walked towards the stairs that were heading towards the sixth floor, people were staring at them with a weird expression as they were shocked and didn't believe the scene they had just finished.
Cain ignored the gaze of the people as he didn't care about what other people thought while petting the little girl on his arm since he felt happy when he saw that the little girl also seed to really enjoy it.
However, when he was about to go into the stairs, he was stopped again by a jacked man who had reached Low-level Dominator Rank Awakener.
"Stop!"
"You need to pay one Low Rank King Crystal per person if you want to proceed further." The jacked dude said as he looked at Cain with a weird expression since Cain was bringing two poor little foxes with him.
However, he thought that these two were his slaves so he didn't care that much as his job was only taking fees from everyone who wanted to proceed towards the sixth floor.
Cain imdiately tossed three Low Rank King Crystals before continuing to walk up towards the sixth floor.
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