Chapter 331 Remove the artifact
?The human girl and two elves stared at Kyle in shock. They had been fighting the frogs for hours, but Kyle had effortlessly defeated so many in just a minute. They gasped and looked at him with awe.
Sinon opened one of his eyes as he felt the temperature dropping with each passing second. He glanced at Kyle and clicked his tongue.
"Show off."
Kyle's ears twitched when he heard Sinon's remarks. He dusted his shirt softly and raised a brow with an expression that seemed to say, 'So what?'
Sinon laughed but was too tired to continue talking. He decided to rest on a branch for a while.
With a hum, Kyle looked at the ice, which transformed into bright particles and floated in the air, further astonishing the trio.
As the ice vanished, two round orbs dropped to the ground.
-'Oh... skill cores.'
Bia's voice was flat because being with Kyle had made her a bit numb to these types of things.
Kyle examined the cores. One was larger, almost the size of his palm, while the other was relatively small.
At first, he ignored them, thinking about the frogs' ugly appearance. But suddenly, an old memory flashed in his mind.
In that memory, he and Nine found a small core after defeating a tiny goblin. At that moment, his thoughts were, It's a Goblin core, what skill can such a small goblin, not even (F)-Rank, possess?
That's why he tossed the core to Nine, only to later discover that the small goblin core actually had a very useful skill.
That's why Kyle immediately changed his mind and grabbed the cores.
Sinon, who was just about to jump towards the cores, thinking that Kyle didn't need them, stopped in his tracks. He sighed with regret and leaned back against the tree branch.
'I need to increase my speed.'
Bia was surprised. She gazed at the two cores in Kyle's hand as he peeked inside.
Kyle's face lit up, and he threw the bigger core at Sinon, who caught it with surprise.
"Why are you giving me the bigger one? I thought the bigger the core, the stronger the skill. Or is my knowledge wrong?"
Haylee felt like crying. He just got beaten up by Ris because he stopped the latter, who was hell-bent on breaking one of Kyle's legs.
'He's not even thankful! I should have just let Ris smack him once or twice!'
Haylee glared at Kyle but almost coughed out blood when he saw a faint, barely visible smile at the corner of his lips.
The boar's eyes narrowed dangerously as he raised his paw to wipe that smile off, but before he could, Bia appeared and asked him the same question.
-'What happened to you?'
The boar's eyelid twitched because, just like Kyle, the corner of Bia's eyes trickled upward with mirth.
He retracted his paw, unwilling to speak further with the infuriating duo.
"Just tell me what you want to ask. I have more things to do."
'Or more specifically, I have to go check on the lizard that I tossed inside a pit.'
Kyle's expression hardened when he heard the boar's words. The previous mischievousness evaporated from his eyes. His feet touched the ground, and he grabbed his chest.
Haylee was surprised when the human stared at him with a deadly serious expression.
"Can you... sense something dangerous inside my body?"
"Huh?"
Haylee blinked, but when the meaning behind Kyle's words dawned on him, he knitted his brows.
"Something dangerous?"
Kyle nodded and waited for his answer, but after a few seconds, Haylee gazed at him with a speechless expression.
"First, remove the presence concealing artifact you're wearing. I can't sense anything because of it."
Kyle's eyes narrowed.
'Bia, are you sure he can help? He can't even go past the artifact...'
Bia rolled her eyes.
-'Just remove the artifact. It's not a big deal.'
'Jeez, alright.'