Last Ruler Of The Empty Throne-Chapter 116: Specials
Hearing Amelia’s voice, he felt a certain kind of relief he couldn’t explain.
Honestly, Jon didn’t want to fight her. She had helped him a lot just by telling him things he needed to know, and he felt she would only continue to be of help and if he was to fight someone like that, no, he didn’t even want to think about it.
’Where did you go?’ Hence, he decided to act ignorant about the matter.
-Don’t give me that, you of all people shouldn’t try to act this way.
’My acting is not that bad?’
-You can lie to your little girls, but I can totally see through you.
’L-Little girls?’ Jon didn’t even want to know what she was talking about.
At this point they had reached the exit of the camp, and the girls tensed. It was obvious the reason for it, the possibility of a second realm jumping on them was very high and from experience, they didn’t want to depend on just the new skills and treasure they just got.
-Not bad...
It seemed even Amelia acknowledged the girls’ attitude as they moved. And Jon just kept moving. He had already spotted his test subject about a kilometer away.
’Is that...’ he didn’t want to believe what he was seeing through his senses spread all around until he saw it with his own eyes, when ironically his senses actually saw better than his eyes. So, he increased his pace a bit, and seeing his pace the girls also picked up the pace.
WHOOOSH
Jon arrived at the place with his face displaying a slight shock at the sight of what he was seeing.
"Is that really..." Cynthia, being the second to arrive gasped at what she was seeing.
"Wow...I never thought I will see this day." Jenny too displayed her own surprise at the scene as she arrived.
"Huup..." Even Alexa and Laura who usually didn’t talk much had no choice but to react. After all what they were seeing was a first.
They had seen many things since this fall.
A lion the height of a building, or a monster that didn’t attack on sight, zombies, even chickens as strange as it sounded. However, this was the last on their list of things to see, or rather they hadn’t thought of seeing it at all.
Lo and behold, right in front of them was a standing crocodile.
It was standing without any issues, and it looked like it could even run if it wanted to. It had the usual dark green scales all over it and since it was standing, they could see the belly. And for an animal that usually crawled on the ground, its belly was unusually clean and grey in color. Its tail even kept sweeping around behind its body without any issue, it was like watching a standing dog.
And it didn’t seem like it had difficulty seeing, because it was clearly looking at them at the moment.
Immediately, Jon began looking around.
-What are you looking for?
Amelia asked realizing his scanning.
’The rest...where are the rest.’
And it wasn’t only him looking around. The girls were also looking around for the remaining standing crocodiles. It wasn’t a surprise from their actions. All the enemies and monsters they had fought till date were always in groups and not alone.
-Oh...no, this is different.
’What do you mean?’
-I mean they are different in the fact they evolve differently from the rest of their species. They are called ’Specials’, you don’t usually find them often and when you do, they definitely have drops, which most of the time are their skills.
’Ohh...I have experienced one like that.’ He mused as he remembered the tree he and the girls fought on the first night. And from that tree he got the tree skill, ’speed healing’.
-Obviously you have met one, should I be surprised.
Honestly, she had expected him to have come in contact with something like that and not disappointing her, he had actually come in contact with one.
’Then...Perfect’ his thoughts started spinning as he began coming up with plans and when he finished, he was grinning.
-What are you thinking?
It was a new look she was seeing on Jon, and she couldn’t understand what he wanted to do.
’Well, if it’s rare, we just need to multiply it right?’
-Y-You...are you serious?
Leaving Amelia in her daze as he looked at the crocodile again, the crocodile was still looking at them with a cautious gaze.
Being at the first realm and a high level at that, it could sense the power in the intruders in front of it and especially the one dressed differently from the rest.
"Cynthia, Jenny, you remember that tree we fought."
"That tree?" Jenny tilted her head in confusion. She couldn’t understand the relation between the tree and this crocodile.
"Are you saying they are similar?" As expected, Cynthia was able to think of something instantly.
"Yes, I think they are similar." Jon looked at Cynthia with a surprised gaze, not expecting her words.
"The fact there aren’t more crocodiles around and the surprising features." Jon chose a roundabout way to describe it, not saying it in a direct way.
And they looked at the crocodile again. Truly, even though evolution helped it a lot, it shouldn’t be able to walk. That was almost as difficult as giving snakes legs.
"So, are we killing it?" Alexa asked in a rare moment.
And they got their surprising answer, "No"
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Then..." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
"..."
The girls couldn’t understand his choice.
’Haa...explaining will just take time.’ Jon just turned back at the crocodile planning to show action than just words.
Grrrr
It was as if the crocodile knew Jon would attack soon, so it quickly coated its body in shining dark green scales. And if not for the fact its body was getting bigger or Jon could see it regardless, no one would notice the difference.
Whoosh...
Without wasting time, Jon immediately disappeared and reappeared with his hand punching forward.
Thankfully, the crocodile had already set up its defense because it didn’t have time to react when Jon’s fist hit its body. And without suspense, its body flew back and,
BANG...
With a heavy hit, it caved in a nearby tree and fell to the ground.
THUD...
"Huh?"
"W-What..."
"Urghh..."
"..."
The girls were displaying various emotions at the moment with the most apparent, shock. It was because they couldn’t even follow his movement. By the time they noticed he was gone, they were already hearing the sound of the tree caving in.
For Jenny and Cynthia, it was a question of, when. They had been together since the world fell into what it was currently. They couldn’t forget that among the almost over a month they had spent together, Jon had slept for a week in that time, and he had also spent ten days in the blacksmith. So, Jon had actually been active for about two weeks, and they couldn’t already see his movements.
They had been seeing the difference recently; however, they thought they could still catch up. But they couldn’t think the same way.
As for Alexa, she was the one who showed almost no expression at his strength. If the girls had seen the destruction Jon caused in the zombie area, they wouldn’t react for just this.
As for Laura, she didn’t know what to feel. She still kept remembering what Jenny and Cynthia had said earlier, Jon’s main skill was mind related, meaning he was meant to be weaker in overall, but what was what he was displaying now.
Even looking at the crocodile, it already had cracks all over its coating. If it didn’t put its defense up, it would have been dead, there was no second thoughts.
’I understand your pain too, but you can’t give up.’ Even Amelia understood the girls and was rooting for them to not despair.
And Jon, who was just doing his thing, not even cautious of the emotions of the girls and already focusing on his next step, placed his ’Piece’ on the ground.
After applying mana, the deem red lines around the ’Piece’ glowed and shook. Before Jon could even react, it expanded beyond normal.
It was like a toy suddenly becoming a house.
At this point, the girls were no longer in their daze and were now looking at this situation.
-Now throw the crocodile inside.
Following her words, he picked up the unconscious crocodile and threw it inside the now house.
-Now first realm cores.
’How many?’
-Until it shows a reaction.
And since he recently became a wealthy man in cores, he immediately threw ten cores, and the effect was immediate.
RUMBLE...
The house shook as if it was to collapse. Before Jon could ask if it was a strange situation, the rumbling stopped, and grey fog fumed from the house.
And as if using it as an entrance, two crocodiles came out.
Grrr...Grrr
The two crocodiles looked at each other. It seemed they were communicating about the situation when they saw Jon and the girls behind him.
’So, five cores for one.’ Jon was keeping in mind in case of next time.
-Hey, I think it is that number because it was a ’Special’
’I thought so too.’ With this the first part of the ’Piece’ worked. And since the house was still standing without becoming small, it meant the crocodile he put earlier was still alive.
Now unto the second part,
WHOOSH
In another flash, the head of the two crocodiles flew. And,
[YOU HAVE RECEIVED LEVEL 46 ’GRODIN CROCODILE’ REMAINS]
[YOU HAVE RECEIVED LEVEL 46 ’GRODIN CROCODILE’ REMAINS]
[YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE EVOLUTION REQUIREMENT TO ABSORB...]
