Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 123

Chapter 123: Caught
“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!’

He felt like his soul was getting ripped apart but his teeth clenched and he suppressed any urges to cry out and howl all of his grievances into the sky.

Eventually, he couldn’t take it anymore and was forced to stop after 60% of the soul orb had been absorbed, otherwise he would have risked permanently damaging not only his body, but his soul too.

Thankfully, his energy reserves were pushed right back up to 95% full, and his progress towards E+ rank had even gone up by 7%!

It was around the same time that Mike, who happened to be one of Carter’s deputies, noticed that Alex was standing upright, looking like he had just come back from a refreshing bath rather than the brink of death.

‘What the-‘

However, alarm bells started ringing in his mind when he saw the bodies of the two mercenaries lying down beside him. He could see they were still breathing, but the scene still didn’t look good.

“Men, get to battle formation!” Mike shouted at the top of his lungs, catching the attention of every mercenary and putting a temporary stop to the sounds of constant digging.

“Mike, what the hell are you doi-” Carter started to question Mike’s judgement immediately, but Mike didn’t say a thing and just pointed towards Alex.

“What?”

Carter had the same reaction as Mike at first, but he immediately jumped out of his hole and landed a couple metres away from Alex.

His gaze could scare an ordinary person into pissing themselves.

He looked like an angry predator that had been backstabbed by its compatriots.

“Explain yourself immediately.”

Alex looked at the pitch black sky and cleared his throat.

“I’d like all of you to kindly place my loot in a pile in front of me. All 25 of them are to be returned, and all of you get to keep your fingers in exchange.” Alex returned the gaze back to Carter and didn’t flinch a bit.

He had faced far scarier opponents before — Carter was nothing compared to those.

The mercenaries looked around at each other in shock. None of them were terrified, but they were shocked that someone would speak so boldly and brazenly to their boss.

Especially when they outnumbered him 50 to 1.

“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!?’