Axel's PoV:
As I was enjoying eating the water wyvern at barbecue with my teammates and the junior heroes, I noticed a concentrated mana fluctuation in the surroundings.
I checked to see where the mana fluctuations were and found out that it ca from the mythical rank 3-D printer that Alex was currently using.
I found a lot of food scattered near Alex and it seed that it was the product of the mythical rank 3-D printer.
After a few minutes had passed, Alex finished using the mythical rank 3-D printer, and all of a sudden, the food that was previously piled up and scattered on the ground disappeared into thin air.
As I had speculated before, Alex sohow had a mysterious power that was different from the powers that I had seen before.
I had also noticed that Alex seed to have used an ability that was similar to my system inventory to store the food.
For so reason, I had the urge to dissect Alex and discover what his ability was.
All I know about Alex was only a few things. Alex had the sa ability as mine so it's safe to assu that he had a system.
Also, I felt a sense of familiarity with Alex as if he was my family mber.
I don't know if the Gods were allowed to summon more than one hero but if the Gods were allowed, then it was likely that Alex was blessed by the God Of Worldly Systems.
I might be able to find out more of the system's secret after the system level up to level 4 was finished.
I checked up on Alex and I saw him using wind magic to levitate the mythical rank 3-D printer and was heading towards Grace.
Alex returned the mythical rank 3-D printer to Grace and Grace thanked Alex for returning it safely.
Alex replied to Grace by saying welco and went to the tall tree to rest.
I focused on eating the water wyvern at barbecue and chatted with my teammates and the junior heroes.
"Did you obtain the artifacts that you have given to the junior heroes from Mathew Miles?"
Satomi asked and I replied to him by nodding my head.
"By the way, when will we leave the Monster's Abode? I want to go back to the Holy Church and take a lot of rest.", Zale asked .
"We will go back to the Holy Church tomorrow. The junior heroes still needed so camping experience about sleeping outdoors.", I replied to Zale's question.
After I answered so of the questions of my teammates and the junior heroes, we continued eating the water wyvern at barbecue.
Alex also joined us and sat beside us while roasting water wyvern at barbecue in the campfire.
"The two of us haven't introduced ourselves that much. Your Alex Eternalsoul, right?"
I started a conversation with Alex by asking him a question first.
"Yes. What can I do for you, ntor Axel?"
Alex replied imdiately after I asked him a question.
"There is sothing that is bugging lately. Isn't it odd that your na is Alex while my na is Axel? Isn't our na almost the sa? I don't think it's a re coincidence."
After I told Alex my concern, he didn't avert his gaze from but remained his eye contact with .
If I'm not wrong, then Alex was trying to be composed as possible while trying to remain calm.
"You must be overthinking. It might just be a re coincidence."
Alex replied with a calm voice but I knew that he was just putting up a facade.
Even though Alex didn't perform any suspicious acts that would prove he's lying, my gut feeling still believes that he was lying.
"You might be right. Anyways, care to introduce yourself?", I said and asked Alex.
I might as well just go along with his act. It would be an unwise decision to let the cat out of the bag without substantial evidence.
"I'm just your average teenage student without any significant accomplishnt in his life. What do you want to talk about?"
Alex might be right about that. After all, I haven't heard of any famous person nad Alex Eternalsoul despite my wide connection.
I even have military access to confidential information because of being a two-star general.
I once made a huge contribution to my country including the military so I was granted a high rank but I only accepted it as a title.
Only the military knew about my rank because I didn't want it to be disclosed to the public.
My reason was that I don't want to get tangled with the governnt since I only wanted to focus on the research field.
I should focus on interrogating Alex so that I would be able to pry about his secret.
"Tell about your background."
"I'm an orphan and I was sold to a human trafficker. After I was sold, I was brought to a laboratory where they used human children as test subjects."
I asked Alex and he replied to sincerely. I knew that he wasn't lying about what he had told .
"What did the researchers of the laboratory did to the children including you?"
"Nothing much. Just conducted so simple research studies and surveys."
Alex was lying. The research center where he was sold to must had committed unethical research studies so he doesn't want to talk about it.
It might be possible that Alex had suffered at the hands of the research center where he was sold.
That must be the reason why he lied to about the purpose of the research center.
I'm also a researcher myself so I knew about so of the research centers in the world back on Earth that had used humans as test subjects.
Of course, so of those research centers weren't illegal since the humans who had participated in that research agreed to take part in it and weren't forced to do so.
But there were still nurous research centers that were illegal and so of them manufactured biological weapons and conducted inhumane researches and the research center where Alex was sold to should be one of them.
I'll just feign ignorance that I didn't know about Alex lying to since it would alert him and cause him to bring back the mories of his past.
"I see. So what's your job or hobby in your past life?"
"I'm only a high school student so I don't have any job yet. I love reading novels and I play mobile and computer gas whenever I have free ti."
"So the two of us have the sa hobby! If only the two of us were brothers then you wouldn't have suffered in being an orphan."
Alex and I exchanged conversations with each other while often laughing and the two of us enjoyed our conversation.
As Alex and I were having fun talking with each other, the ground suddenly shook and the earth started to split apart, creating a fault line.
I had felt that my protective array was being attacked by a high-level beast that should be at least level 20,000 or above.
I had even used so of my mana to restore the damaged part of the protective array but the protective array still wasn't able to withstand the impact of the high-level monster's attack.
At this rate, it would take at least several days before my protective array would be destroyed due to deleting my mana because of repairing the protective array.
Even though the protective array was being attacked by a powerful monster, the heroes and I didn't panic since the monster was incapable of destroying the protective array.
The high-level monster was only able to send vibrations of its attack inside the protective array so it wasn't that much of a threat.
I used my mana to increase my perception of the surroundings and to judge how strong the monster was by its mana.
After using mana sense, the surroundings around were voided of colors and I could only see a hue of light blue in the surroundings.
I also saw purple color and pure white color in the surroundings and it seed that the colored mana ca from Ferros and Grace respectively.
I increased my perception around the surroundings and as I increased its range, I was able to see a deep blue color in the surroundings outside the protective array.
It must be the high-level beast that attacked my protective array.
I was able to discern the figure of the monster and it was standing on four legs. It possessed the sa build as a lion so it should be related to that.
I also found out that there was a much darker shade in the high-level monster's body and it seed that it was its mana core.
I withdraw my mana which caused my mana sense to be canceled.
"I'll be going away for now. Rest assured that I'm going to take care of that monster."
I told my teammates and the junior heroes while calming them.
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