Chapter 441 - Moth To A Flame

Reaching the city, it was very early in the morning and most people were sleeping.

Time had been a blur and since there were no signs of night and day within the secret base, they would merely go off estimations and their resting pattern had become very different to that of normal people.

However, cultivators wouldn't need as much sleep and rest as normal people, and Adam was wide awake and wanted to begin his adventure around the world.

He had experienced and seen many amazing things in both the Physical and Soul Dungeon, but he was yet to spread his wings much in reality and it was his time to do so.

His body was still quite strained after the transformations, but Adam had learnt a lot and also strengthened his body through them.

Adam's stats had experienced small increases as a positive side-effect of the transformations and the more he used them, the more his body would become stronger, since handling such power and transformations required a powerful body.

His friends felt indebted to him for everything they had done for him, but most of what he provided them were from his master, and he couldn't help but think about him and his aunt.

Entering a store on the edge of the city, Adam seemed like an ordinary individual and the Body Transformation Unique Skill also allowed him to alter his appearance as he pleased.

Although he hadn't learnt to control it completely, from transforming into all those beasts, his body learnt to change and adapt according to Adam's will.

With that, he made his eyes brown so that they were less eye-catching, but he didn't change anything else.

However, if he needed to, he could completely change his appearance and also use the Body Transformation ability to disguise himself as others or hide his identity.

Adam had a seemingly infinite reserve of funds after his faction took over the city, but he didn't spend much and bought a few snacks and drinks.

Although there was no benefit to his body from eating them when compared to the meat he would eat in the secret base, it tasted much better.

Along with that, it also reminded him of his master, and made him feel normal.

With his snacks and drink, Adam walked around the city and looked for a place to eat breakfast.

Adam hadn't had the pleasure of relaxing for so long that he had forgotten how it felt and that was one thing that he definitely envied normal people for.

Finding a nice small cafe that was open at 5 am, Adam bought a large meal and tipped the old lady that ran the small cafe generously as he ate.

8 eggs, 5 toast, 3 fruit salads and 2 coffees were enough to feed a small group of people, and yet Adam ate it alone.

For a cultivator that stored immense energy within their body, that was a small amount of food and Adam was mostly eating it for the satisfaction and taste rather than the need for it.

It was too early for Adam to begin his journey and he also wanted to relax while he could, so was planning to spend that morning chilled out.

While eating, Adam began reading through the information that Elizabeth had gathered on the device that she had specially made for Adam.

It was the master key for everything within the faction, had access to all the faction's funds and information and also could be charged itself using the energy in the atmosphere, so was the perfect device for Adam.

He no longer needed it to contact his friends as he had formed a contact link between them all, but it was still very useful and also important, so Adam kept it in the inventory whenever he wasn't using it.

While doing so he suddenly sensed a familiar presence enter the range of Adam's spiritual sense.

He wasn't actively using his spiritual sense to look for anything and also wasn't spreading it as far as it could go, but his sharp senses would still alert him of any dangerous or familiar presence.

Recognising who the presence belonged to, Adam smiled.

He was surprised, slightly annoyed and amused all at the same time, but he was also starting to get bored, so he didn't mind some entertainment coming right to him.

A few kilometres away, Angela Valdez, the detective that had been after Adam ever since he became a cultivator, was driving as fast as she could towards where she knew he was.

The roads were quite empty, so she would reach Adam in a short while and Adam had no intention of running.

Despite being told not to even think about Adam by her captain after even the NYPD Head told the entire department to be wary of and respect him, she still obsessively searched for him.

It was impressive considering that Adam had only been in the city for less than two hours, but she was very resourceful and used a newly introduced facial recognition system that the NYPD was using.

They were not using it to find cultivars like Adam, but it was introduced to stay away from them and provided to the NYPD Head by Elizabeth.

She informed him to use it to know when to send officers or not, and all those who had their faces registered with the faction would be exempt.

Obviously, most things and most the members of the faction were concealed, but for those that would be patrolling or fulfilling their duties, it would be much more convenient for them not to be interrupted.

However, Angela instead used it to search for Adam's face after managing to hack into the program and couldn't stay away from him.

Angela Valdez couldn't help but be drawn to the man who went from being an ordinary high school student, to being homeless, to then standing above the law.

She was like a moth to a flame and luckily for her, the flame was a patient one that had no intention of burning her.