Chapter 125 Lay low

Chapter 125 Lay low

A few hours later, Alex finally made it out of the forest after that tiring night he spent in there.

The conclusion to the events with the mercenaries had been quite uneventful in the end.

Everyone but Carter and that veteran turned out to be smart and obedient little puppies and surrendered themselves to Alex.

Such a scene might be funny to any passer-by's, if there were any, as the scene of 50 powerful, awakened men all submitting themselves to one lone teenager with looks of fear on their faces would make for quite the funny scene.

Though of course, if they looked a little closer and saw the blood splattered randomly around, and the dead body on the ground, things would become much less funny.

In the end, every mercenary gave Alex his beast cores back, but they had to give up one of their fingers in exchange for being so greedy in the first place.

At least Alex gave them the courtesy of choosing which finger they'd lose.

As for Carter, for his act of trying to kill him, Alex lopped off his left hand entirely. This left the man with a right hand but no thumb, and no left hand at all.

'Serves you right, idiot.'

Just thinking of the looks on the guard's faces when they see 50 mercenaries returning back to the city with one missing finger each almost made Alex want to witness it personally.

But he had to act in moderation at this point.

The Count clearly already knew of Alex's presence in the area, so security around the city would be ramped up quite a lot.

'I can lie low for a few days before I try anything. I can just disguise myself and bribe a merchant to let me in with them during the hustle and bustle of the morning period.'

Right now, Alex had much more pressing things to attend to, which required his immediate attention.

He knew already that the Count was a powerful Mutant D+ rank awakened, and he was probably like Alex — able to fight above his rank, so he maybe had C- rank combat strength.

Meanwhile, Alex was a Mutant E rank, with around D rank combat power, slightly pushing D+ rank if he pulled off another suicidal move like the flaming shockwave that rendered a 1 kilometre radius of the forest charcoal.

So the solution was simple — Alex had to rank himself up to match the Count's combat power.

And, Alex just happened to have everything he needed for that.

***

'One E+ rank soul core done. Time to check the progress.'

Alex sat on a damp rock near a waterfall he had found, in deep thought and meditation.

He had been holding a Soul orb in his left hand until just a moment ago.

'Let's see here, I was on roughly 20% progress towards E+ rank the last time I checked.'

[Details]

Name: [Alex]

Age: [17]

Talents: [Soulforge(Soul+)], [Flame(C-)], [Inferior teleportation(E-)]

Trait: [Warrior]

Trait description: [After learning about the truth of the world, you've started venturing upon this path yourself. You can now be considered a fletchling elite. You still have a long way to go, but you are already considered a part of the top 5%.]

Trait effect: [Healing speed increased by 5%]

Soul core: [E - 49%]

Soul Classification: [Mutant - 0%]

Alex brought up his details and had no reaction to what he saw.

His soul classification had finally come back out of the negatives, but that was a given since he had absorbed so many Mutant soul orbs already.

However his progress in his Soul core had gone up by 29%, 7 of this came from his partially absorbed soul orb which had sadly dissipated into thin air when he couldn't keep up the absorption any longer, making him lose out on that 40% remaining energy inside of it.

'So I've gained 22% from that E+ rank soul orb... Hmm I guess this might be good enough to take me to D- rank then!'