Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

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New World Kingdoms[5]

[Ace POV]

Following the previous event of encountering the corpse of one of the men I was trailing, I came across two more, each wielding a sword and a bow and arrow.

And as for the state of their bodies when I saw them, they were not much better than the first one I saw, and both men, like the first, were dead by the time I saw them.

Their weapons were also of high normal grade, as was the first.

This basically confirms that the last weapon, the spear, should be a high-normal-grade weapon as well.

Because they all had high normal-grade weapons, I began to wonder if these four were actually men from a rank 100 king. If you ignore their overall poor performance, this was quite impressive.

The only problem, which wasn't really a problem, was that I couldn't confirm this thought because I hadn't encountered the male who wielded the spear. It should be noted that at this point, I was already so deep underground that it was difficult to breathe, making it quite unusual that I still hadn't met the spearman's body.

Given the state I met the other dead men who were the spear man's companions, I didn't expect him to survive the pursuit of the mutated earth rats.

This thought was fueled by the fact that I also believed that these four men were not rank 1 creatures and should instead be like me, who improved his physique with accumulated level-ups provided by their performance since I'd been trailing them.

It was also possible that the reason I haven't encountered the spearman is that he took another tunnel that I must have passed and ignored since still now I was walking on the same tunnel route I'd been in from the beginning but since the spearman and the other make I encountered before were not my main aim and reason I was still in this place, I put the matter at the back of my head after thinking about the issue for a while.

I exchanged the remaining corpse of the mutated earth rat I had just acquired it's crystal core for gold coins in the primordial chronicle's store section for an additional 2 gold coins.

My gains as a result of this one-time dangerous event that just occurred could be considered my most rewarding to date, but they weren't because I had other valuable treasures, the most valuable being the awakening fruits.

At this point, the total number of crystal cores in my storage ring was 458, and the total number of gold coins in my possession was 928.

These two figures were far too unrealistic for me to archive in a single day.

In fact, apart from the gold coins, the crystal cores were so valuable and many that the current me didn't know what to do with them other than use them in alchemy, which was still too much because the only things I could do with alchemy using crystal cores were limited.

For example, I could use the crystal cores for formation, magic arrays, runes, and other purposes, but making a magic sword was impossible for the current me.

But no one could argue with having more than enough, and I wasn't about to break this.

I was only slightly perplexed as to what to do with so many crystal cores.

But it's still satisfying.

'I wonder if I can reach 1000 gold coins', I thought as I turned to look at the scene in front of me.

The amount of mutated earth rat corpses in front of me now compared to how it was when I first began is small, to say the least, and there's also the part that starting from a while ago, the mutated earth rat corpses were not fresh.

Fresh in the sense that they didn't appear to have just died.

This made me believe that I've long passed the mutated earth rats that died in the hands of their fellow race and were already harvesting the old dead mutated earth rats instead.

I don't know when it happened since I was quite focused but I realized this was when I started getting mostly one gold coin whenever I exchanged the mutated earth rat corpses.

But since I had already started, I didn't bother stopping and just continued.

After all, it only meant lesser gains.

As I thought of these things and some other random thoughts in my head, my body did not stop moving as I continued to work and harvest more crystal cores and exchange the corpses for gold coins.

...…

"That's all", I muttered as I watched the mutated earth rat corpse in front of me slowly disappear as I turned to look at my surroundings.

At this point, there was no more corpse in sight and the corpse I just exchanged now was in fact the one I met after walking deeper into the tunnel.

While this meant that I could still see some corpses to harvest and exchange, I didn't bother going further into the tunnel since it was not worth it in my opinion.

Mosquito meat is still meat but that doesn't mean I always have to settle for it when I see one.

At this point, my crystal cores were too many for me to decide what to do with it and my gold coins surpassed 1000 in the end so I was already satisfied with all this.

And the fact that it was barely possible for me to breathe here, I decided to head back to the surface.

'It would be good if I can leave here smoothly'

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