Chapter 147 - Into The Swamps (2)

Now there shouldn't be any problem for you." Nathan sent his address to Arnold along with a copy of the digitally signed doc.u.ment which permitted Arnold to enter West America, "Alright then, we'll see you in a bit."

"See you in a bit." Arnold smiled and disconnected the call, the dimly lit room got bright immediately.

Arnold walked out of the room to see Amanda and Allen, waiting for him outside, eager to know what their Section Chief and the General of the Armies, had been talking about. Well, truth be told Amanda was eager, and Allen didn't give a shit, because he knew if Arnold thought there was a need to tell him something, he will.

"What did you guys talk about?" Amanda asked Arnold as soon as he walked out of the room.

'I knew you'd be interested in it.' Arnold thought, 'I may not be a mind reader, but I do know how to read someone's face.'

Obviously, Arnold didn't want to tell her about anything, because he still didn't trust her much so he told her what he had already prepared for her, "Oh, nothing much. He just wanted to officially invite me to the conference and after that, we talked about some stupid old things that we did before all this happened. As it was all so embarrassing, that's why he asked both of you to leave. You know, he needs to take care of his public image right?"

"Oh yes, it's very important. Especially during these times." Amanda waved her hand in the air, "So what are you planning to do?"

"I'm thinking I'll go to sleep-"

"I think she meant, what are you planning to do with those women I brought here?" Allen interjected, clearly still upset about Arnold's decision to not kill that pregnant woman right then and there.

"Hm... just give them some space to sleep and some food, get them checked for diseases, oh I almost forgot, keep that pregnant girl in solitary confinement until we know what inside her. Clear?"

"Crystal." Both of them simultaneously replied.

"Alright then, I'm off to bed. Goodnight and don't overwork yourselves." Arnold said and left for his room inside the workshop.

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In his dark bedroom, he silently laid on his bed, curiously looking at the bland ceiling. The sun had already gone to sleep, and the moon had conquered the sky, along with an army of a billion stars. It was a perfect night to go for a walk but Arnold had to patiently wait for something inside his room.

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Void Travel is in cooldown.

You can use this skill again in: 39:27 minutes.

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He had to wait for the cooldown to hit 0 so that he could leave for West America.

'What should I do to pass the time? Eh, let's just go inside my domain, nothings happening here, either way, also time flows faster there so that's a plus point and I also want to check up on how things are inside...'

"Alright, it's decided then!" Arnold jumped off his bed and went inside his domain, but what he saw there, took him by surprise!

The building was alright, it hadn't been destroyed or damaged from any angle. Maybe everyone was already inside as no one was to be seen apart from the pile of corpses that had once again been grouped together to form a mountain, only this time it was thrown at the far end of his domain. Even Asterios and dread were missing, maybe they somehow managed to get inside the building?

But this wasn't the thing that surprised him, it was the presence of electricity inside the building which took him by surprise.

"How the hell is there power inside here?" Arnold asked the undead warrior who was standing next to the door, but he didn't reply, "Oh right, you guys can't speak. My bad. Mind telling me where Talos, Alice and others are?"

The undead warrior immediately pointed up, so Arnold went further inside the building, to go to the upper floors using the stairs. The building itself was huge, Arnold felt like the building had grown a bit since the last time he saw it and was even bigger than before. However, It was just his imagination, but he felt like that because the building was a lot less crowded than before.

Anyways, Arnold went upstairs, his summons was scattered everywhere around the building and greeted him when the saw him, with their help, it wasn't much difficult to find someone to answer his questions.

"Mind telling me what's going on here?" Arnold's voice echoed through the almost empty corridor, where Talos, Bad-Breath and Alice were chatting among themselves, "And where are Dread and Asterios?"

"Allow me to explain!" Alice chirped around them before anyone else could've said anything, "With Talos' help, we were able to convert Xenoic energy generated from beast crystals into electrical energy. It was a tiring process, but we did it and now we have electricity, Awesome right?"

"You guys used the beast crystals without my permission?" Corners of Arnold's mouth twitched as he heard Alice utter those words.

"Don't worry, Master." Talos stepped in on the conversation and reassured Arnold, "I didn't use a single rare beast crystal. In fact, the only beast crystals I used were the white and green ones, which we got after slaying low-rank beasts last night, the rare crystals are still safe and sound within the 'armoury' that this building had. We also stored all of our necessary pieces of equipment there as well so that we could be battle-ready at all times."

"You guys are a bit too much," Arnold smiled, "But do tell me more about the crystals and energy?"

(Author's note: I know some of you will get confused about the ranking based on the colours of Beast Crystals so I'm including a table here for your convenience:-

Type of Monster ------> Colour of beast crystal

E ranked monster ------> White

D ranked monster ------> Green

C ranked monster ------> Blue

B ranked monster ------> Yellow

A ranked monster ------> Red

S ranked monster ------> Purple

SS ranked monster ------> Black

Please note that it doesn't necessarily mean that an SS rank monster will always give Black Beast crystal, they might also give any of the other lower-ranking crystals as well. The table only shows that the probability of getting Black beast crystal is highest in SS ranked beast. This is similar for the other ranks as well as an S ranked monster can give a Red beast crystal as well, and won't always give a Purple one.

Also, this table is only valid for normal monsters and not cosmic beings. So please don't get confused about it, I hope this was helpful.)