"Ah ah ah ah ah ah—"
As soon as Firefly controlled Sam to fly into the sky, she heard the screams coming from beside her.
After a slight pause, Sam hovered in the air. She looked at Elis, who was screaming beside her, and asked,
"Didn't you say you weren't afraid of heights?"
Why does it sound so miserable?
"I... I'm really not afraid of heights..."
"But... my arm seems to have been dislocated..."
Elis's eyes were filled with tears from the pain, and her voice trembled as she spoke to Sam, occasionally hissing from the pain... she forgot about that.
After hearing Elis's words, Firefly turned her head to look at the hand she was holding. Sure enough, due to the sudden takeoff, the hand was already dislocated.
She could only say it was a good thing she was worried Elis might not adapt immediately to being in the sky, so she deliberately reduced the initial ascent speed.
If she had flown up at her usual speed, the arm would probably not have just been dislocated.
It was just a pity Cipher wasn't here now; otherwise, she could have treated her.
"This counts as a work-related injury. Medical expenses will be reimbursed when we get back."
"Good! What's an injury! It's not like I haven't been injured before!"
Upon hearing the words "medical expenses reimbursed," Elis immediately perked up again, though the tremor in her voice remained.
Seeing Elis regain her spirits, Firefly stopped looking at her and began flying towards their destination.
However, because she was still holding someone, she slowed down considerably.
Although the speed was much slower, it was only relative to Sam's original speed, so in just a short while, Firefly saw her mission objective.
A relatively large horde of Mutated Beasts.
"We've arrived."
Firefly hovered in mid-air and said to Elis beside her.
"Okay! Let me see what Mister Sam's target is..."
After hearing Sam say they had reached their destination, Elis immediately began looking down, wanting to find out what kind of Mutated Beast horde was the target of Sam's current commission.
But when she looked down, her entire body froze in mid-air.
"No, this isn't right, is it? Why is this a mixed beast horde, and why are there several A-rank and A-minus-rank Mutated Beasts in it? Mister, just how high-level is this commission of yours?!"
"S-rank."
"Um... so, how about I still pay you back 1,800 credit points? I don't even need the medical expenses. I racked my brain and never imagined this was an S-rank commission! I thought it would be A-minus rank at most!"
Elis cried out, almost in tears. If it were A-minus rank, she felt she could probably help, but for S-rank, besides being used as a snack by those Mutated Beasts, she really didn't know what other use she had.
"I already told you I don't need you to do this commission for me."
"You just need to help me see which of these Mutated Beasts are of high value."
Hearing this, Elis suddenly understood.
"So that's it. But why not use a terminal to take pictures and identify them? Wouldn't that be faster?"
...She couldn't possibly say she hadn't even thought of that, could she?
"I don't want to. Are you going to look or not?"
"I'll look!"
With that, Elis turned her head to look at the horde of Mutated Beasts on the ground and began to identify them diligently.
"That's an A-rank giant Mutated Snake. Its core can sell for 1.5 million, and its skin..."
Elis had just pointed at a giant Mutated Snake and started speaking, but before she could finish, she was interrupted by Firefly.
"Just give the total price. Don't mention anything below one million, unless it's something special."
"Oh, okay."
"This Mutated Snake is worth two million credit points. This A-minus-rank Mutated Jackal is 1.5 million... This B-minus-rank Mutated Tortoise's shell is very valuable, totaling 1.2 million credit points. And this Mutated Chicken, it's quite special. Although it's only C-minus-rank, because its mutation direction is very strange and rare, it somehow can sing really good, it's meat was selling at B+ price, and it's egg are one of the best fertility medicine, so around 1million credit points."
After rattling off a string of Mutated Beasts like a restaurant menu, Elis finally stopped talking, then took a breath and continued:
"These are probably all the valuable and special Mutated Beasts down there."
Firefly's mouth twitched. The others were fine and within her judgment, but this last one was... is she even fertile as a clone? did system fix it...
After taking a breath to calm herself from rather wild thoughts, Firefly flew down and placed Elis on the ground several kilometers away from the beast horde.
"You wait here for now. I'll go complete the commission."
With that, a sonic boom sounded, and Sam instantly vanished from her original spot.
Standing still, Elis watched Sam's retreating figure. She rubbed her dislocated arm with a wince of pain and murmured,
"What kind of person have I encountered... Able to complete an S-rank commission alone, he must be an S-rank powerhouse..."
...
Returning to the sky above the Mutated Beast horde, Firefly instantly locked onto all the Mutated Beasts Elis had reported earlier.
Two A-rank, three A-minus-rank, a total of seven from B-minus to B-plus rank, and one C-minus rank.
"Alright, finally time to warm up."
After saying that, flames instantly burst forth from behind Sam, and in the next moment, she appeared in front of the giant snake.
Before the giant snake could react, Sam threw a punch, and the snake's head instantly exploded into a mist of blood.
Although the punch was extremely powerful, under her precise control, aside from the snake's head exploding into a blood mist, other parts, such as its body and the core within its skull, were completely unharmed.
After collecting the corpse and the core into her system inventory, her gaze turned to the other Mutated Beasts.
Not long after, the other Mutated Beasts identified by Elis were also dealt with one by one in the same manner she had just used.
Except for the C-minus-rank Mutated Chicken, which she simply grabbed and threw towards Elis.
After dealing with all the identified Mutated Beasts, Firefly looked at the horde below, which had barely diminished, and murmured,
"The high-value ones are done. Now all that's left are these low-value Mutated Beasts."
With that, intense flames began to emanate from Sam's body. At this time, which was already close to sunset, this fiery glow was as dazzling as another sun.
Just as she was about to strike, a sudden shout interrupted her movements.
"What are you doing! This is a forest! You're releasing such a huge flame in a forest! Do you want to suffer the wrath of the forest?!"