Chapter 11

Sam stood there while looking weirdly at that huge group of people who were also looking at him because of the girl who had just screamed:

"Ghost!"

After doing so she had also fallen on her butt and when Sam extended his hand to help her up she first looked at him and then cautiously tried poking his hand with her fingers as if to check if he had a real body.

"How are you alive?"

The guy who was her friend walked from behind her and asked while looking weirdly at Sam whose military uniform was tattered after 4 days of incessant hunt.

"Oh it's you."

Sam remembered the guy because he had helped him carry the Ruby rat and they had a small conversation.

"I got lucky I guess, there was a hole in the pool leading to an underground grotto."

"I see, the senior soldiers who are supervising the examination looked for you for a long time but to no avail, that was why!"

Sam only smiled a bit, then looked at the huge group and asked:

"Are you all out hunting at night ?"

"Of course not, beasts become impossible to predict at night so we usually stay in the camp but tonight a strong beast was heading there so we had to evacuate."

Sam was about to ask another question when he heard a familiar voice in the crowd:

"Hey what's wrong with your uniform ? It looks like you're having a hard time here huh?"

Edward walked out of the crowd with a teasing smile, he had also been hunting for four days but except traces of dried blood on his uniform it looked completely fine!

[This person... he is weird.]

Before he had the time to answer his friend Sam was interrupted by Mechy's voice.

'What do you mean ?´

By now he had gotten used to Mechy spying in his thoughts and he didn't care anymore about it so he spoke in his mind.

[Although humans mixed with other races are common this one is special, even after all the research about the recent world I've done on the Uninet I never heard about such a bloodline.]

'Is there anything wrong with it ?'

[Except the fact that it is incredibly strong, unique and that it hasn't been awakened yet there is nothing wrong with it.]

'I see.'

Sam focused back on his friend and threw the thing about his bloodline to the back of his mind for the moment and received Edward's tackle like hug head on.

"Humph, it's too easy here so I've been giving myself challenges to get stronger."

Although he said it jokingly Sam had really been doing that, after hunting the first pack of Jade monkeys he had decided to not use his Blazing legs except if he fell into a desperate situation.

He did that for two reasons.

First he didn't want to rely too much on his skills and forget his basic skills that he had honed through the years.

The second reason was because of how precious a skill was, even to second a third grade evolvers it was extremely hard to get one so Sam decided that it was better not to flaunt it uselessly, jealousy was dangerous and Sam was well aware of that.

"Hahah it's alright, if you're having a hard time hunting I can help you."

As Edward's teasing was getting annoying Sam gave him a hit with his elbow and at that moment they heard another similar explosion to earlier coming from behind them.

"It's getting closer... maybe the senior soldiers have been eliminated?"

Edward said, he didn't look intimidated at all and instead he had a burning fire deep in his eyes, Sam saw that and he knew that his friend was thinking the same as himself.

'The beast core of such a strong beast must sell for a good amount...'

[It's beast core have a better utility than being sold.]

'What is that?'

[That beast is a grade two Midnight cat and it is extremely close to grade three. If you can get it's core we can make it into a agility type light armor and other great stuff.]

Sam heard about using beasts materials such as bones, tendons or skin to make strong and resistant weapons and armors but he had never heard that cores could also be used as material !

'What is an agility type light armor ?'

[Instead of just using the beast's materials to make a sturdy armor you can use a special method to transfer the energy from the core to the armor and give it special attributes such as agility, strength or even more defense, if you get good enough at this you can directly extract skills from the core and infuse them in the equipment.]

Sam's eyes started shining with greed, a piece of equipment infused with a skill?! If he had that he might be able to sell it for sky high prices and then he would never have to worry about money again !

'Mechy how high are my chances of surviving against that beast and killing it ?'

[Calculation ongoing ...

Survival chances : 96%

Chances of killing it : 16%.]

'Why are my chances of survival so high ?'

Of course Sam was aware of his strength and even though he wanted to rush right away he calmed his mind and asked why that stat was so weirdly high.

[There is a rank three evolver fighting against the beast at the moment and together with that person there are 16 rank two evolvers, even if the situation goes south you can use them as decoys while you run away.]

Sam was dumbfounded, he had gotten so used to Mechy that he forgot it was an A.I that didn't feel anything, even though he wasn't a saint Sam would feel horrible if he used his senior soldiers as decoys, he thought about it however and he was certain he couldn't make a better plan on his own.

'What about the probability of killing it, it is weirdly high even though I'm still a first grade evolver.'

[That's both because of your Blazing legs and your friend next to you who also looks eager to go there.]

Sam turned to Edward who was looking like he was hesitating to go or not and was baffled by Mechy's words.

'Didn't you say that although his bloodline is rare and strong it hasn't awakened yet?'

[It doesn't matter, his outer body is as strong as a second grade evolver wearing a full body armor.]

Sam sucked in a deep breath and thought about something.

'Mechy can you display his status in front of me ?'