I Can Copy Curses

Chapter  89. Mutagens

While he waited, Orion saw that no one came looking for him. He had thought that maybe some police or someone responsible for managing this place would come looking for him since he 'murdered' someone in daylight.

'It appears I thought too much.'

As he looked around the area, he observed that he didn't see Elyn with Vance this time.

'Maybe she is busy or something.' n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He thought as his darted around looking for someone. He was sure that the needle that killed that guy was aimed at him—targeted him. So, there had to be someone who attacked him.

But what he couldn't understand was why someone would want to kill him? He just arrived to this city yesterday and yet someone wanted to kill him and they might have succeeded if not for his unique curses.

'Who would want to kill me?'

He looked around the whole area for any suspicious people but he didn't find one after searching for a long time.

He knew one thing about the one who tried to assassinate him and that was that they weren't amature people. They were proper assassins, from what he could tell by their attacking methods.

Nobody would use needles in a fight until and unless they were forced to or they wanted to kill their enemies in silence.

'It seems they escaped.'

He thought after finding no one here. So he just waited for the group to make their way towards mine.

A while later, the area where they stood became packed with people.

It was then that Orion felt tremors all around the area, and his body started shaking as a result. But it was just a little tremor; it didn't do anything besides that.

However, just as when he felt everything was fine, Orion noticed something.

He saw that the ground where they stood, around a radius of a hundred meters, was slowly but steadily pulled down. As a result, the ground and all the people on it began to descend downward at a stable pace.

Orion was shocked when he saw this. He couldn't believe his eyes. He had thought that they would have to walk towards the mining area, wherever it was, but he hadn't thought that it was just below them.

At that moment, he understood why this area was so crowded during this period of time.

'It's probably because it's around this time that the ground descend towards the mining area.'

The ground continued to descend for a few more seconds before it came to a stop.

Orion looked around and saw that they appeared in an area where all he could see were cave entrances. He also saw many other people roaming around those entrances.

"Just go to any of the cave entrances," Vance said to his team. "Don't worry about this passage. It automatically goes up and down ten times in an hour, so you won't have to worry about anything."

Orion, who was hiding in the other dimension, also heard him. He then saw that Ryfin, Famir, and Lisa went into one of the caves and disappeared from his vision.

Looking at their backs, Orion recalled how they hadn't trusted him on account of killing that guy.

He understood that if he were in their shoes and if Famir and Ryfin were in his place, then he would also probably think that they killed him. But he would definitely ask them what clearly happened before jumping to conclusions.

'Huh, I don't need any friends.'

It wasn't like he had any friends back on Earth, so it really didn't matter if he had any in this world or not.

He had accepted Famir and Ryfin as his friends because they were around the same age group as him when they were on Earth, and they had gone through life and death situations together, so he thought they would understand him better, but now he realized that sometimes it's better to be alone.

Orion didn't waste anymore time thinking about useless things and also went into one of those cave entrances. He also came out of the other dimension.

As he walked along the cave, he observed that the cave was pretty big, and all around him, he could see sparkly blue shiny particles around the wall.

He speculated that they were left behind after the mana crystals were dug out from there.

He increased his pace but eventually came to a stop a moment later because he saw a monster blocking his path.

The monster appeared to be a four legged beast like a wolf, but at its head and the sides of its body, there was a pointed, driller shaped structure.

As the four legged monster noticed him, it immediately ran towards him with his head pointing in his direction.

Orion noticed that as the monster ran towards him in a berserk way, the driller at its head started spinning.

'So, that's it's attack?'

He thought as he took out one of his flying swords.

As the monster neared him, he quickly sidestepped to the side, dodging it's attack, and slashed with his sword, causing the head of the monster to fly out.

'Too weak.'

He thought as he waited for the corpse of monster to disappear but after a few minutes of standing there, nothing seemed to happen to monster's body at all.

'Do monster's corpses not disappear outside the dungeon?'

Orion wondered as he waited for a few more minutes before he felt sure that monster's corpses really not disappeared outside the dungeon.

'That means I have to physically cut its body to look for core.'

He felt that it was too much work for his lazy ass. But he still went to cut its body.

After taking the core out, he absorbed it.

[Perception increased by 1 point.]

He asked the system to randomly distribute his stats to all his remaining attributes and the first thing it increased was his perception.

As he looked at the beast's body pieces, he wondered where the mutagens were found because he hadn't seen anything that could be called a mutagen.

'System, where are the mutagens of this monster?'

He asked his system about this.

[Mutagens are present in the core of monsters but if the cores are used to absorb for stat points, the mutagens inside becomes dead.]

'So you are saying the core of the monsters contains both stat points and mutagens?'

[Affirmative.]

'Then why haven't I seen the option of absorbing mutagens and only seen the option of asking to absorb the stat points?'

[It's because the host needs to be at the peak of bronze rank to see that option and in host's case, the five attributes needed to be at maximum points. Also, one simply cannot absorb the mutagens from the core of same rank monsters as themselves. The core needs to be one rank higher or more than the rank of individual wanting to absorb the mutagens. Otherwise, the individual won't see that option.]

As he heard the system's explanation, Orion understood many things he wasn't clear about. But he still had one more thing to ask.

'Is there a difference between absorbing the mutagens from low rank monster core and a high rank one?'

[Not in particular. An individual who absorbs a high rank core and wants to break the limits of his agility attribute would find his speed faster than the individual who breaks the same limit with low rank core.]

'So it does matter.'

He thought. That also meant he would have to look for five high rank monsters for his five attributes.

'I will be busy these days.'

Orion thought as he headed deep into the cave.