'Don't tell this is the guy the Count warned us about…'
Carter slowly started to beco more nervous when he considered this question.
On the other side, Alex just gazed across the entire crowd of unmoving rcenaries, completely unaware of Carter's thoughts.
His energy had already recovered completely to 100% by this point.
"Well then, it seems like none of you are willing to return what is rightfully mine. For that, I can only say that what happens next is your own fault."
Alex announced then shook his head.
The mont the last word left his mouth, he imdiately made his move.
His first target was Carter, who happened to be the strongest person out of this bunch of rcenaries.
His Mutant class D- rank strength would prove to be a decent challenge for Alex to overco.
Yes, only a challenge.
Alex didn't actually view Carter as a threat at all.
"You leave no choice." Alex spoke to the man, but Carter didn't look like he was in any mood to listen.
Swoosh!
Alex's sword drew a heavy arc across the air, scaring away any brave rcenaries who wanted to step in and intervene with Alex's fight against Carter.
It's blazing glory proving to be quite the effective deterrent.
A second later, Carter appeared at another spot in the clearing.
Deep red blood splattered on the ground.
When his bloodshot eyes spotted Alex's, a nacing light flashed across them.
With that one swing from his sword, Alex had cut off Carter's thumb. Even worse was that it was his right hand's thumb — his dominant hand.
Carter's grip on his sword imdiately loosened, and he couldn't hold it right without a thumb to support it. He was forced to switch it to his non-dominant hand.
Without wasting a single second, the enraged Carter shouted so incoherent grunts and rushed forward to attack.
Alex swiftly sidestepped, dodging the sword, and then kicked forwards, removing Carter from his rampaging path. Simultaneously, Alex's sword flashed in the air and landed a mind numbing blow on the back of Carter's neck.
His huge sword, over double the length of Alex's, shot forward with a terrifying speed, tearing the air in its path.
Alex swiftly sidestepped, dodging the sword, and then kicked forwards, removing Carter from his rampaging path. Simultaneously, Alex's sword flashed in the air and landed a mind numbing blow on the back of Carter's neck.
Thud!
He hit the ground not a second later, completely unconscious from Alex's previous attack.
"Oh man, you really made this whole thing a lot easier for by going all blood frenzy mode on !" Alex made so sarcastic and joking remarks about Carter while casually wiping down his sword using Carter's clothes, removing any blood or dirt that still lingered.
The mont this scene occurred in front of every one of the rcenaries' eyes, Alex expected one thing to happen.
For everyone of them to use their intelligence and see that they, even as a 50v1, were no match for Alex, and surrender themselves and Alex's beast cores back to him.
However, everyone just stood there, unmoving.
That was the case at least, until one of the older n, clearly a veteran among this group, made the first move.
But he wasn't moving towards Alex, nor did his eyes even drift near to Alex.
Instead, he held his hands behind his back the whole ti, facing in Alex's direction but staring at Carter's body with a gaze that Alex couldn't decipher.
"What? Was he your lover or sothing?"
Alex joked, making fun of the guy, but even that prompted no response.
However at that mont he felt a spiking of energy in the air, one which didn't seem natural.
The source of the spiking energy just happened to coincidentally originate from the sa direction the veteran was…
'What's this… wait!'
"You fucker!" Alex shouted in a rage as he realised what was going on by now.
'He's absorbing one of my beast cores!'
Alex felt himself beco welled up with anger and every other negative emotion as he launched off the ground.
Before the veteran adventurer had ti to react, Alex closed the distance between the two of them in less than a blink of an eye.
"You shouldn't have done that."
Silence.
The mont Alex spoke, all of the clamour and light speaking from the other adventurers died down in an instant.
Shing!
Alex drew his sword back to himself and wiped it down once again.
"Puh… Puh…" The veteran tried to spit out a few words, but all that ca were so noises and grunts.
Thud!
Shortly after that, his vision started fading to endless darkness, but not before he felt himself toppling to the ground.
Alex hadn't shown any rcy to this man — the mont he saw him so boldly take one of his beast cores and start absorbing it, he was practically a dead man already.
This was only confird though the mont his head left his shoulders and rolled into the hole the man was previously digging.
Mike felt his back drowning in a cold sweat. He looked towards the grueso scene of the veteran's still standing, headless body and couldn't even catch his breath since the whole ordeal took place before his eyes could even register what had happened.
But it was like his brain instinctively knew, as the cold sweats appeared before Alex had even killed the man.
It was like Mike was staring down a real predator, and he didn't like what he was seeing.
Step…
Step…
Mike slowly started to walk towards the centre of the clearing, where Alex happened to be.
Alex of course noticed this change imdiately, but he paid no notice to it and continued wiping down his sword.
But when Mike finally ca within stabbing distance, he looked up at him and t his eyes.
Gulp!
Mike couldn't help but beco afraid when he looked into the deep abyss of Alex's eyes.
"I-I surrender!"
Pushing past his nerves, he stuttered out his surrender towards Alex as he passed him the two beast cores he had already collected, emptying the rest of his pockets as well to prove that he wasn't hiding anything from Alex.
"Thank you! Finally soone here with a brain, I'll do you the favour of letting you keep all 10 of your fingers for being brave enough to step up first!"
Alex announced loudly for all of the rcenaries to hear, and shooed Mike away when he was finished.
Mike, naturally relieved, couldn't stand staying here any longer and made a run for it out of the forest.
He couldn't care less what happened to his compatriots anymore.
But Mike's actions sparked a big movent, as every one of the remaining rcenaries started to walk towards Alex and offering their apologies and beast cores.
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