BXBX NOVEL Chapter 121 Heartache
Chapter 121 Heartache
\'Well, the upside is that I\'m still alive.\'
However, although he was alive, he couldn\'t move a muscle.
Nor could he see, hear, touch etc…
His body was so severely damaged that all five of his main senses had been lost.
In fact, he was only aware that he even had a physical body left because he had activated his spatial perception to observe his surroundings for a moment, before it was forcibly cut off a moment later due to a lack of energy.
To give an explanation to what Alex had done to get himself in this situation, it was actually rather simple.
Just like every other time he activated his Phoenix fury technique and combined its use with his flame talent, he felt his body well up with flames and his strength increase etc.
But, all of those previous times he let the fire surrounding his body increase in ferocity and temperature all the way until it reached a point where his instincts told him it would be dangerous to continue any further.
And that was how his unique power up technique worked.
But on this occasion, he ignored those instincts telling him not to go any further and let the flames run rampant.
After all, the flames still weren\'t under his control — he was a long way from reaching that point.
And because of this, those same flames started to eat away at his own body as his body wasn\'t strong enough to bear the pressure this technique was putting on him.
How did Alex know this was going to work?
The simple answer was he didn\'t.
Well, he was certain there was a 50% chance on whether it worked, or he died.
This certainty came from the fact that his energy reserves were down to a meagre 30% of their original capacity.
His teleportation alone had drained 50% of that energy.
But Alex knew that even though he couldn\'t stop his flames from running rampant when he went past that threshold, there was one thing that could.
A lack of energy.
He was lucky enough that this self created technique used quite a lot of energy even before he did something as stupid and daring as this.
And when he had no more energy to give, those flames couldn\'t sustain themselves any longer and boom!
\'Please please please please please!\'
Internally, Alex was hoping, praying, doing whatever it takes to bring luck to his side.
His injuries would be too serious for even the most expensive and advanced of medicines to heal in the Primordial Expanse.
Sure, he could fully recover if he made it back to his own universe, but that was only an option to consider in the worst case.
What Alex was hoping for was to have gotten at least one Soul orb from all those beasts he had killed.
Just one Mutant class E rank orb could heal him back to normal in minutes.
Such a thing was easy for the most sought after energy resource in the universe!
The only downside was that all of that energy would go to healing him, so he\'d get practically no progress towards the next rank from it.
But that was the price to pay if he wanted to actually function like a normal human being again. Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn
\'Yes!!!\'
And just as he was hoping for it, he found what he needed.
But then again, he\'d have to be one unlucky guy to not even get one orb from killing 32 Mutant beasts.
Without a second to think about it, Alex summoned and absorbed the Soul orb the moment his eyes caught onto it.
Instantly, he felt some senses slowly start to come back to him as his body already started to repair itself.
"Men, spread out and search the area. I want you to tell me about anything you find that seems abnormal or out of place. I don\'t care how minor it seems, just report it."
Just as Alex felt his hearing come back to him, he heard a loud and commanding voice reverberate through the area and the clamour of what sounded like over fifty men rushing around.
\'Shit, I should have known my actions here wouldn\'t have gone unnoticed. I\'m lucky to be buried under all this ash otherwise they\'d have found me already.\'
Alex still needed another few minutes to fully recover, so he could only lie silently in wait and hope that nobody found him during this time.
"Boss, we found some beast cores just lying about in the ash! From what we counted, there were over 11 of them so far — there is a high probability that there are more buried underneath this ash!"
\'Fuck! These fuckers are stealing my loot! All my precious money, noooo!\'
Alex felt his emotions rile up as he heard the excitement and laughter of the mercenaries above ravaging through the spoils of Alex\'s efforts.
\'They better pray they don\'t absorb any of them, or they\'re dead meat.\'
Of course, Alex had no intention of letting them go scot free with what rightfully belonged to him.
He just had to recover to his full strength first…
"Oh shit! Boss, I think I found a body over here!"
\'Oh great, they just had to go digging around for MY LOOT, and now they\'re going to find me before I fully recover.\'
\'Screw it!\'
Alex wanted to be conservative with his Soul orbs, but if he wanted to recover even faster, faster than they could uncover his body, then he had no choice but to absorb more.
Opening his inventory again, he got a good look at what he gained this time and was delighted to find over 18 Soul orbs sitting there peacefully!
He had no time to inspect them closely and simply chose the smallest one of the bunch.
Even in this time crunch, his heart couldn\'t take it if he lost all of the energy of a D rank soul orb to simply heal his wounds…
After absorbing the Soul orb, Alex just waited.
And soon enough, light from some makeshift torches reached his eyes once again as the ash covering his body was removed.
"This guy\'s still alive!"