Chapter 121 Heartache

Chapter 121 Heartache

'Ughh, this shit again.'

Alex felt his consciousness come back to him and a feeling of Deja vu came over him, as he had experienced this exact situation too many times by this point.

'Well, the upside is that I'm still alive.'

However, although he was alive, he couldn't move a muscle.

Nor could he see, hear, touch etc...

His body was so severely damaged that all five of his main senses had been lost.

In fact, he was only aware that he even had a physical body left because he had activated his spatial perception to observe his surroundings for a moment, before it was forcibly cut off a moment later due to a lack of energy.

To give an explanation to what Alex had done to get himself in this situation, it was actually rather simple.

Just like every other time he activated his Phoenix fury technique and combined its use with his flame talent, he felt his body well up with flames and his strength increase etc.

But, all of those previous times he let the fire surrounding his body increase in ferocity and temperature all the way until it reached a point where his instincts told him it would be dangerous to continue any further.

And that was how his unique power up technique worked.

But on this occasion, he ignored those instincts telling him not to go any further and let the flames run rampant.

After all, the flames still weren't under his control — he was a long way from reaching that point.

And because of this, those same flames started to eat away at his own body as his body wasn't strong enough to bear the pressure this technique was putting on him.

How did Alex know this was going to work?

The simple answer was he didn't.

Well, he was certain there was a 50% chance on whether it worked, or he died.

This certainty came from the fact that his energy reserves were down to a meagre 30% of their original capacity. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Just as Alex felt his hearing come back to him, he heard a loud and commanding voice reverberate through the area and the clamour of what sounded like over fifty men rushing around.

'Shit, I should have known my actions here wouldn't have gone unnoticed. I'm lucky to be buried under all this ash otherwise they'd have found me already.'

Alex still needed another few minutes to fully recover, so he could only lie silently in wait and hope that nobody found him during this time.

"Boss, we found some beast cores just lying about in the ash! From what we counted, there were over 11 of them so far — there is a high probability that there are more buried underneath this ash!"

'Fuck! These fuckers are stealing my loot! All my precious money, noooo!'

Alex felt his emotions rile up as he heard the excitement and laughter of the mercenaries above ravaging through the spoils of Alex's efforts.

'They better pray they don't absorb any of them, or they're dead meat.'

Of course, Alex had no intention of letting them go scot free with what rightfully belonged to him.

He just had to recover to his full strength first...

"Oh shit! Boss, I think I found a body over here!"

'Oh great, they just had to go digging around for MY LOOT, and now they're going to find me before I fully recover.'

'Screw it!'

Alex wanted to be conservative with his Soul orbs, but if he wanted to recover even faster, faster than they could uncover his body, then he had no choice but to absorb more.

Opening his inventory again, he got a good look at what he gained this time and was delighted to find over 18 Soul orbs sitting there peacefully!

He had no time to inspect them closely and simply chose the smallest one of the bunch.

Even in this time crunch, his heart couldn't take it if he lost all of the energy of a D rank soul orb to simply heal his wounds...

After absorbing the Soul orb, Alex just waited.

And soon enough, light from some makeshift torches reached his eyes once again as the ash covering his body was removed.

"This guy's still alive!"