Chapter 126 Count Desmond

Chapter 126 Count Desmond

"So close!"

Alex exclaimed with nervousness.

He had just finished absorbing the 14th Soul orb, one of the two D rank soul orbs.

It had been 3 days since the whole ordeal with the mercenaries had ended, and other than eating and sleeping, Alex had spent that whole time focusing on absorbing all of his newly gained Soul orbs. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Right now, he was sitting at 77% progress through E+ rank, and with only 1 Soul orb remaining, he was cutting it quite close.

'I hope this one does the trick...'

Unfortunately, when he reached E+ rank, the progress he gained towards the next level lessened with each Soul orb absorbed, which led him to this point.

He looked at the last remaining D rank soul orb with his nerves feeling a little tense.

If this didn't give him that last 23%, then he'd be stuck at E+ rank and whether he was able to fight on par with the Count would be entirely down to luck.

'My estimate of this lot of Soul orbs only pushing me to D- rank was completely wrong — I might not even make it there in the end...'

Of course, to anyone paying attention to Alex's situation over the past few days, they would be right to point out the fact that he still had over 20 Mutant class beast cores sitting in his storage space.

However, Alex knew the difference between using beast cores and Soul orbs to push himself through the ranks, and it wasn't small by any means.

He had already made the mistake of absorbing beast cores in the past instead of Soul orbs, and it had cost him dearly in terms of potential strength.

If Alex had been absorbing Soul orbs, and only soul orbs from the very beginning, then he'd probably be able to fight the Count while he was still at E+ rank.

But he didn't, so he'd have to make up for it in the long run.

Bertram was one of these Barons, and he was stupid enough to believe that the count would ever give him the chance of becoming a Variant too.

No, that right was reserved only for himself and his son, the Viscount.

"Mike, get over here."

Nearby, Mike stopped talking to one of the guards immediately and rushed over to the Count.

"Tell me the details of this town. I want to know its population, how many awakened there are, and the names of the strongest people who live here."

Count Desmond didn't waste any time in giving orders to get what he wanted.

He had spent the last 4 years waiting for this moment, and he wasn't keen on waiting any longer.

The longer he waited, the more likely that something could pop up and completely spoil his years of effort.

Something like a certain brat named Alex for example.

It wouldn't take Alex long to have figured out that the Count had tricked him into doing his own clean-up work while the Count himself had already set off for Monty town to officially start his plan.

"Uh- Ahem, there's around 30,000 people living here, give or take a few hundred. As for the awakened, there are 551 of them in total, with 95% of them being F- rank awakened, who've been stuck at that rank for various reasons. The strongest person in this village is Martha, the butcher. She currently sits at D+ rank, but she's only an Ordinary class. Bertram would have been the next strongest after her if he wasn't dead. As for the rest, they're mostly weak F+ or E- ranks and can be ignored."

Mike cleared his throat and spilled everything he knew about Monty town, feeding the Count all of the information he wanted to know.

If Alex were there, he would be shocked to find out that Martha was actually a D+ rank, as when he first met her and dealt with her, he only got a general feeling that she was F+ rank the whole time.

Count Desmond also thought this too, as the reports Bertram and Kilian fed to him had all stated that she was at most an E- rank retired adventurer.

'It seems there's something deeper going on in this town... But it won't matter, as they'll all be dead in a day anyway.'

Clearly Desmond knew something was up with this place that he wasn't aware of, but he seemed unconcerned with such things.