Over the next 4 hours, Alex entered fights all over the battlefield, completely wiping out any and every beast that he came across.
There were too many D tier beasts to count, and he had killed over a dozen C tier beasts, with 7 of them being mutants like the first one he had encountered.
But he wasn't just going on a killing spree — every beast corpse he came across succumbed to the same fate.
They were all burned to ash, and over time the battlefield was looking a lot less littered with beast corpses than it looked before Alex had arrived.
Of course, Alex left any human corpses he found untouched. He didn't particularly feel much emotion about seeing so much death — he had already accepted the reality of how things worked in this society.
Death was everywhere.
But he wasn't just going to disrespect their corpses by burning them to ash either. He didn't know what their wishes were regarding how their bodies were dealt with, so he wasn't going to involve himself where he didn't need to be involved.
But the beast corpses he couldn't give a shit about.
He received a few frowns here and there, probably from the awakened that had killed a beast, only for Alex to burn that beast's corpse to ashes a few minutes later.
But none of them said a thing to him.
It had already become clear to them that Alex was by far the strongest person on the battlefield.
Not to mention the fact that the huge piles of beast corpses were becoming eyesores to them as well, so he was doing them all a favour.
As for any beast cores that dropped, Alex collected any from the beasts he had killed himself, as for beast cores that dropped from beasts he had no involvement in other than the disposal of their corpse, he just left the beast core in the pile of ash.
The original owner could come over and collect it for themselves whenever they wished to.
Though it was far more likely they would get snatched up by some other awakened, especially the Mutant class ones.
These were far too valuable to be left alone, which was unfortunate for the awakened who killed the beast originally.
But again, Alex couldn't care less.
He was here for himself, and himself alone. What these other mercenaries and students thought, Alex didn't concern himself with.
His range with it had matched that of his Spatial perception, reaching hundreds of metres.
But upgrading talents wasn't as easy as it seemed.
It all depended on how high his affinity was with the element attached to that particular talent.
For example if he had 100% affinity with the space element, then he could theoretically increase the talent to S tier, making it on par with Mira's spatial talent.
Though, there were far more things to consider when upgrading a talent to S tier than just affinity alone.
Such as some very, very rare resources that could barely be found across the entire federation or Primordial Expanse, and that others would be after his head for if they found out he possessed one of them.
It was either that, or to encounter a special case like Alex did with his Phoenix flames, where certain conditions had to be met before he was able to unlock an entirely new talent, or to upgrade an already existing one.
'Anyway, I should think about things like this for later. Right now, I have no need to use my teleportation.'
Alex would only even consider using it if he were in a desperate situation.
However while Alex was in thought, a sudden situation had encapsulated the battlefield outside the Floodgate in chaos.
"W-We did it!"
Shouts and cheers echoed across the battlefield, as thousands of awakened stood, exhausted and some even immobilised by their injuries.
But they were all celebrating regardless.
There were no more beasts standing on the battlefield.
And there were no more beasts filtering through the Floodgate anymore.
They were finally able to bring some peace to Ceres-9, after the constant onslaught of beasts had already claimed the lives of thousands of awakened, and millions of unawakened, normal civilians who were just going about their daily lives before this unfortunate incident occurred.
'Something doesn't feel right.'
But Alex still had a bad feeling in his gut.