Chapter 346 Prize



[Raw chapter so it might not be smooth to read. I'll try to edit it when I'm back home. Thanks for reading],

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[Third Person POV], 

After getting his hands a little dirty, Ace still did not think his actions were enough so he went ahead and brought a thick rope from the store to tie the elf's body.

The rope was abnormally tight and even Ace would require a few seconds of struggle to even pull it apart which was good given that he used a few dozen gold coins to purchase the rope after all.

According to the information given by the primordial chronicle about the rope, its material seems to have been made from a monster instead.

It was none of Ace's concern as long as it worked.

Ace did not buy the rope because he wanted it to hold the elf in place without him having to do anything.

The elf was an intelligent lifeform after all so it was possible she had ways to come out of her entanglement so Ace just brought the rope to further restrict her together with the injuries he had inflicted on her.

Her injuries were quite serious to the extent that Ace should have been assured that they were enough to stop her from moving but he still decided to buy the rope to be more assured.

She was similar to his price now in a way.

After tying up the elf with the rope, Ace rubbed his hands on the soil of the forest for a few seconds to clean his hands from the blood that had been on them from his past actions as they were making him feel uncomfortable.

Not mentally or emotionally unstable but physically unstable since the sensation of blood on one's hand wasn't exactly pleasant.

After doing this, he then proceeded to carry the body of the elf like a sack and made his way out of the forest without needing to open the map section in the primordial chronicle with his impressive memory to where he had hid his tamed beast.

Since blue was honestly currently nothing more than a burden to Ace in the true world especially during battle, Ace did not want to take the risk and bring along all his battles where anything could happen considering that the forest he was heading out of was also unexplored by him so he did not know much of this place.

Although he was carrying an extra load on his body, Ace wasn't affected as he continued to run through the forest to get to blue's location faster and thankfully when he got to the cave he had dropped his tamed beast and turned around to search around a little, he was fortunate enough to still see his tamed alive as the latter immediately started acting like it had been betrayed by its master for leaving it for long.

Ace did not have enough emotional intelligence though to really understand beast feelings through their actions when he couldn't even understand humans fully but thankfully after giving the little gryphon a pet on his body for a few seconds, the gryphon stopped its actions.

"Seems like beast and animals alike like this thing called petting", Ace muttered and after getting his own share from feeling the gryphon feathers, both master and beast made their way to where the former had dropped the elf's body to look for his beast while the latter was curious as to who was the broken figure Its master had brought.

In actuality, the only humans the gryphon had laid its eyes upon apart from its master was Andrew Dawn and his men. 

The gryphon hadn't even seen its master teammates nor did it know they existed so when it saw another creature that seemed to be oddly shaped in the chest area and had a different physique from its master, the little gryphon was very interested.

Unfortunately for it, Ace had no plans to feed his pet curiosity as he placed the body of the elf back on his body like a sack and made his way out of the cave with his companion.

Although there appeared to be nothing in sight around the area he was in, Ace continued to look at the top of trees that were in the area whenever he passed them.

He did this because of his experience with the dark elf.

For some reason, she had been able to sneak up on him and steal his kills and although this did not affect Ace in whatever way till now as he was beginning to understand the extent at which it would take before he could even acquire enough primordial records to level up, he was cautious about the elf ability to sneak up on him unaware.

He did not know if this was possible because of an ability the elf had or because of her skill or perhaps it could even be a talent that all dark elves possess and races were the one thing Ace was not willing to encounter in his current situation.

The ones he had encountered and had heard about only came down to one thing that these races meant bad news of one was to remove the dwarves that Emma and Chris encountered.

Those ones seem to be neutral but one could never be so sure.

For one, even Ace knew that if he was to come across the race that the elf on his shoulder came from, he was in for a serious battle and Ace certainly did not believe he had the power to fight a whole race so he made sure to carefully observe his surroundings as he continued to navigate through the woods.

The day was still young so even if he had an elf to question, Ace left that for later as he wanted to use this day to the fullest to see how strong he truly was.

He had checked his physical prowess, now it was time to see how his mana and elements got strengthened from evolving.

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