The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress-Chapter 345: Are you taking me as a hunting dog?

Mrs. sadistic wondered which part of their conversation Sigrid had failed to understand. Did she miss the part where any of these mighty and bad mages could crush her with weapons that they got from the bank?

She had some power, yes but these people had years of experience and they were not afraid to obliterate everyone she loved to get what they desired.

"Did you not hear me the first time? You get to save yourself, the people you love and Eldoria."

Sigrid leaned back in the chair with a stubborn look on her face. She tapped her fingers together, smiling a shark that had sniffed some blood.

"I am not foolish, Mrs. sadistic immortal." She said slowly, taking her sweet time to drag her words out. "Emmah Fairfax had the lucky halo for close to a year and it did not attract attention. It could have been passed to me without all the fuss that was created. I have a feeling that you deliberately arranged for it to take the long way round before it fell into my hands.

You wanted its power to be felt so that you could draw out all these mages that defaulted on their deals. You probably planned this long before I even started dealing with Emmah."

"We must exhaust all your potential. It is justifiable given how much we invest into plucking someone from one world and sending them to another. You negotiated a lot of business deals when you were on earth so I am sure that you understand this concept. Now do you want the job or not?"

Sigrid’s shoulders moved up. "It depends on the benefits. Put aside saving my life or that of my loved ones and blah blah blah. As the bank, what reward do you give me for collecting your overdue rent?

You are business men too so I know you understand what I mean. Nobody works for free. Unless, you are trying to take me as a hunting dog.

In that case, I would rather take my chances with these bad mages. Anyway, the halo is already back with you so they won’t find it no matter how hard they look."

"How about a lucky halo of your own?" Mrs. Sadistic asked.

Sigrid sat up once again, suddenly very interested in where the conversation was leading.

"In addition to that, we will grant you the ability to reverse time for one minute. But, it cannot be used randomly. We will also provide weapons for you to fight these defaulters in case you encounter difficulties and cannot fight them on your own."

"Damn, you are going all out." Sigrid whistled.

"Oh...before I forget." Mrs. sadistic flipped a page in the red book open. "We need Anita...the serpent girl. We need her eyes and her blood and bones. I am afraid that your brother Elowin will have to be disappointed."

"Is she a defaulter too?" Sigrid asked curiously.

"No,"

The red book was turned to face Sigrid and she saw an image of the biggest and blackest snakes she had ever seen. Between its eyes was the image of a green flower.

Mrs. sadistic continued, "Anita is not a customer of this bank but the snake was. He stumbled onto us as a small creature and we gave him wisdom. Eyes that could control human minds, blood that could nourish, venom that could kill anything and bones which were harder than concrete."

"But concrete breaks." Sigrid muttered.

Mrs. sadistic nodded. "With the right weapon, concrete breaks and our little fork tongued friend was hit with all the right weapons. He died before his contract was up and Anita digested as much of him as she could. The things that don’t belong to her should be returned to their owner."

Sigrid raised her hand. "Can I ask a question?"

Mrs. sadistic sighed impatiently. "What is it now?"

"What’s with you people and eyes over here?" She asked curiously, "Do you have an eye storage bank where you deposit special eyes for clients?"

"What we have or don’t have is none of your business unless you would like to make it your business by acquiring your very own special eyes." Mrs. sadistic leaned forward. "Would you like to?"

"Nope." Sigrid turned her down immediately. The price for taking things from this bank was a little too high and the penalty for defaulting was death."

"Are you sure?" Mrs. sadistic asked in a rather tempting voice. "We have eyes that can show you visions of the future, those that can bend reality, eyes that create illusions, those that control the minds of others, eyes that stop time with a single blink, those that shoot fire.

Not just eyes by the way, we also have other limbs like arms that can split into ten. Imagine having ten arms that are all wielding swords and capable of independently stabbing enemies. Or arms that can regenerate no matter how times they are cut off.

We can give you legs that crush mountains or tread on seas like it is the land itself. Toes that are sharp and can slice just like swords.

Ears that hear the secrets of the entire world. With such ears, you can be a god among men. There is so much we can give you. Are you sure that you really want to say no?"

As tempting as most of what she said was, Sigrid was determined not to give in. "I am sure. I will not a sign a contract but I will take that halo and all the other benefits which come along with this hunting task. Oh...and the system, I will be keeping it until I die. Is that acceptable?"

"It is acceptable, you have a deal. But we still have to sign a contract to make sure that you do not fail in your new responsibilities." She snapped her fingers once and the contract appeared.

Sigrid touched it, "Oh goodie! I love contracts." She laid back in the chair and asked for a pen. She would read every word carefully and make sure that there were no loop holes whatsoever.

And maybe...just maybe, she could get some more benefits for herself. Like the frostbite melons, starweaver honey and firecloud wine. These were three things that Cosmos swore were the tastiest in the universe.

None were in her world. But that did not mean the bank could not find a way to provide them to her. Also, she wanted the ability to teleport. Being crown princess involved a lot of movement and teleportation spells drained energy.

She racked her brain, wondering what else she could ask for.

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