Chapter 123 Caught

Chapter 123 Caught

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"H-hey, what are you doing!?"

The other mercenary who was accompanying the boy who Alex just knocked out asked, Alex's swift movements were clearly too fast for him to follow so he became nervous. His legs were shaking and he was stuttering.

"I'm sorry about this as well."

Alex just repeated his apologies to this guy as well, and he couldn't even react when Alex's hand came chopping down on his neck too, sending him into a deep sleep on the ground with the previous kid.

Alex's actions had been so quick that nobody had taken any notice of what had happened yet, as everyone was too preoccupied with digging up holes everywhere looking for Alex's loot.

He was fully healed by this point, but his energy was filling up slower than expected.

Alex only had a few seconds before someone would notice something was wrong, so he had to think fast.

'Fuck!'

Alex felt like punching himself in his stomach for this decision, but he took out a third Soul orb, this one being a little bit bigger than the last.

He checked what rank it was this time, and as expected it was an E rank soul orb.

A tear ran down Alex's cheek as he took it out of his inventory, and immediately started absorbing it.

But he was reminded instantly of the sudden nerf the system had given to him just for upgrading his soul core to E tier.

The process of absorbing beast cores and soul orbs had become far too slow to be effective.

He only had a few seconds to spare, not a few hours!

'Why does everything have to be so painful...'

In the end, Alex was forced to do something that would only bring him more pain.

He focused his entire willpower on the dim soul orb in his hand and immediately forced the energy into his body, ignoring any pain or warning signs his body was giving off, begging him to stop the process.

'I am sorry my precious body but it needs to be done!'

"What loot?" Mike asked from the side, looking just as confused as he was before all of this started.

Alex, on the other hand, just activated his spatial perception and a brilliant idea came to his mind.

He started to reach down to the ground, but his quick movements startled the mercenaries, especially Carter.

Realising this, he slowly reached into the ground, and dug deep inside.

"Oh, I'm sure most of you have realised it already. What else could you have been digging around for this whole time?"

It was from this sentence that Carter and the rest finally realised what Alex was talking about.

But this only made them laugh.

"You mean to tell me that ALL of these beast cores are yours? Puha! Come on, don't be so ridiculous. You were just lucky to have come across a group of beasts fighting and were lucky enough to survive their final explosive attack. Don't joke around with us!"

Mike seemed unconvinced by Alex's argument.

But when Alex released the full pressure of his aura, his mind was quickly changed.

'Mutant class!'

For the first time, it was Carter's turn to be surprised.

It wasn't public knowledge, but the only way to become a Mutant class in Evermoor city was to submit your loyalty to the Count and sign a soul contract.

Either that, or venture out to kill and collect enough Mutant class beast cores yourself.

But the second option was magnitudes harder.

And Carter knew for a fact that Alex wasn't working for the Count, as he himself was actually secretly working for the Count just like every other Mutant class in the city, and he knew the face and name of every one of them.

Which meant that Alex wasn't from Evermoor city!

'Wait, is he the guy the Count warned us about!?'