Before she went to the market Cynthia desperately wanted to figure out how her warehouse worked but no matter what she tried she couldn't access it. Of course the system was of no help. "That damn system only ever helps when it isn't needed…" thought Cynthia in the middle of attempting to access her warehouse. "Tip: The system is meant to further your growth as that is your deepest desire. It would stunt your growth to give you an answer to every question or to help in critical situations where you can learn the solution on your own." said a new blue window. "Oh so you have a reason for being completely fucking useless when I actually need help!" said Cynthia in an absolutely rancid mood because of her inability to use a reward from the world itself.
Cynthia realized that her actions and facial expressions recently were actually very much in line with her current appearance and wondered why she was experiencing emotions like a child would even though she was a rather successful and shrewd businesswoman in her previous life. As she thought about her previous life she was nearly brought to tears because she remembered pulling off an enormous deal just before she died. It was a deal that would have allowed her to literally buy out her competitors. It was in the news and everything. One of the only examples of a small company fulfilling an order for one of the top companies in the world.
"Tip: you may be experiencing the impulse and emotional control of your body's physical age because this body's brain is not fully developed. This is a very common phenomenon for reincarnants.". Cynthia reading this new window brought her brain back to the present. She then remembered the last time the system brought up reincarnants as if they were common in this world. "How could I have possibly had a fable made about me in the 21st century? Those are stories that transcend the ages aren't they? Not to mention what kind of fable about a human woman turns someone into a tiger cub?". "Not all fables are entirely made of facts or spread in the way you are familiar with. Not only that but there are some fables that are created by persons outside of the universe the reincarnant started in!" said another blue window. "So what are you saying right now? That my story was told by someone from another universe?" said Cynthia skeptically "how would they even know of me in the first place?". The system was silent once more. "Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me… Again?!" screamed Cynthia kicking her makeshift throne "You give just enough information to answer one goddamn question at best and leave me with dozens more!!! Every fucking time!". Cynthia was now having a very childlike meltdown for an admittedly valid reason. The only thing that made it clear she was not a human child in a cosplay being that she was heavily damaging everything she made contact with.
"My lady!" interrupted the zombie while walking in "I think buying something may soothe your anger! Why don't we pack up and leave for the market!". The old advisor was actually the one in charge of teaching the young spiders back during his actual life so he was very adept at working with children. "You know I can tell exactly what you are thinking right?" said Cynthia now distracted from her brutal beatdown of the metal chair and its surroundings "I'd like to remind you that I was a grown woman in my previous life. Even without my connection with you I can tell when I'm being looked down on and placated. I have the emotions and impulse control of a child now but not the intellect or experience of one.". "I would never look down on you, my lady!" said the zombie nervously. "I know and that's why your arm is still attached." said the young tiger with a murderous glint in her eyes. "Are you saying you don't want to go to the market?" said the zombie even more nervously. "I didn't say that. Get packed. Tell Yue she's coming with us since she's my royal guard." said Cynthia "and the next time you try that shit again with the idea in your mind that you are calming down a brat I'll change your name to wishful babysitter. Don't test me.". "Understood my lady." said the possible wishful babysitter. He thought of saying your highness to hopefully gain favor but scrapped that idea given the previous warning. "Look at that, he's learning already." Thought Cynthia while reshaping her mangled throne back to its previous form.
"Hera requests an audience!" said Hera outside of the throne room area. "This is getting old." said Cynthia "From now on advisors and their spouses are allowed entry to the throne room without permission.". "Yes my lady" said Hera "I've come with a report on our spoils and current stockpiles.". "We were able to retrieve 50 low rank, 15 medium rank and 3 high rank beast pearls from the stockpiles of the xingxings." Hera continued "We also received 20 low rank, 45 medium rank, and a whopping 10 high rank as well as 1 lord rank beast pearl from the dead xingxings.". "It seems most xingxings have enough energy in their bodies to almost achieve mid rank once they attain sentience," said Cynthia. Hera nodded then continued. "With those two sums and what we already had, that totals to 80 low rank, 65 medium rank, 13 high rank, and 1 lord rank.". "Keep the low ranking ones and start consuming them. Take only what you can handle. Only those with beast pearls in their bodies are allowed to attempt to refine them. I will take 20 medium rank, the high rank ones and the lord rank one to the market with me. Bring them here as soon as possible. They don't need to be in any sort of container.".
Hera brought the beast pearls by quickly hoping not to anger Cynthia. "You don't have to walk on eggshells," said Cynthia, before Hera left "the reason I was angry earlier was because the system likes to test my patience a lot and that bumbling buffoon tried to treat me like a child. You treat me with the respect I am due and have never looked down on me or treated me like my appearance is the end all be all. Keep doing what you've been doing and you will always be in my good graces.". Hera walked away with pride at those words. Cynthia decompressed her armor a little and split off the excess and formed a sack out of it. She then put all of the beast pearls into it. The previously mentioned bumbling buffoon soon arrived with Yue in tow and the three departed for the market.
The xingxing zombie led them through the xingxing's old territory first. "I thought the xingxings targeted what used to be your territory because it was closer to the beast market," said Cynthia. "The xingxings are actually banned from the gathering sect market. They picked fights with weaker people as if it was the beast market and got banned because of it.". "And you lost to them?" Cynthia said amused. "They had good tactics and we were unprepared for an invasion." said the zombie "I'd like to remind you that not everyone is from a divine bloodline.". "Sebas could've beat the lord if he tried hard enough!" retorted Cynthia arguing like a petulant child very much so still angry about the interaction before. "You do not understand how much of a blessing someone like him being born to any race is!" said the former ancestor of the spiders. "Wow, you think he's more talented than me!" Cynthia said, not all that surprised. She also thought he was more talented than her but this was a statement that no matter how he answered she'd have justification to punish him later. "You weren't kidding about having the intellect and experience of an adult while having the impulses and emotions of a child! That is very dangerous!" said the former soul, shocking Cynthia. The shock was clearly portrayed on her face. "Please, I'm experienced enough to see a trap laid at my feet!" said the soul "honestly I might not have even noticed it without the reprimand you gave me earlier!". Cynthia's rationality finally took over and she was content with this result. "At least he isn't going to treat me like a child again," she thought.
They had been walking for quite a while. The two bipeds and spider walking leisurely through all sorts of terrains saw all sorts of weather patterns. The biomes on this massive mountain were greatly varied. They passed through a desert with gray sand and the sun nearly burning the zombie's skin and the spider's carapace. The sun felt nice on Cynthia's skin. They passed by a lakeshore with towering trees like redwoods all around except for some reason the tree's trunk was lime green and the leaves were a mesmerizing shade of blue. The zombie warned the little spider not to look at the leaves but everyone knew that Cynthia's mind was too strong to be affected by such a low grade beguiling technique. The third major biome they passed through was just like a rainforest. In fact it was so similar to earth that Cynthia needed to do a double take when she saw it. "We have officially entered the region under the control of the empire of gold El Dorado" said the zombie. And it clicked why this place was so similar to earth. El Dorado is a legend from Earth from Middle America. A Spaniard misunderstood what some of the locals of middle America were saying and started looking for a city of gold. It was all fiction from the beginning but it became reality here.
"Now that we are close I think we should plan how we will go about our introductions from now on." said the zombie "given your looks my lady I don't think anyone would believe that you are an adult so whether you like it or not you will be treated like a child.". "I understand that much." Cynthia said while sighing. "I think I should introduce you as the daughter of a beast lord here on a shopping trip. I will introduce myself as your guardian and the little one as your guard." suggested the zombie. "That will work but anybody at lord level will be able to sense that I am powerful," said Cynthia. "If we interact with anyone like that we can explain our true identities without much worry," said the former soul. "Alright lets do that then," said Cynthia.