Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Chapter 82  Shadow Wolf

Pain.

That's all that Alex felt when he awakened.

His entire body ached to bits, and he was completely unable to get himself up off the ground. He could only lay there completely helpless and defenceless until his body recovered.

Since he had nothing to do while waiting, he decided to check the notification he had received when he killed the wolf.

He was curious to know just how strong the thing was since it brought him the closest to death than he had ever been before.

[You have killed a Mutant E rank beast, Shadow Wolf]

Alex gasped in shock when he read the short sentence from the system.

'This thing was actually a Mutant beast???'

This was the first time he had ever come across such a thing, and it was by far the strongest beast he had ever fought.

The times with the Galephant didn't really count, as he hadn't even attempted to put up a fight either time.

'So this is how strong Mutant beasts are…'

He couldn't help but go back over the battle, reminiscing every moment as if he was back on the scene fighting the wolf himself.

Alex knew that if it wasn't for that resonance between his fire elemental energy and his Phoenix fury technique, he would not have been able to take down such a fearsome monster.

But one thing he had failed to consider was one fight in particular back during the exam. He and Mira had worked together, using their full power at the time just to barely take out a crocodile beast.

They didn't know it at the time, but that beast was actually also a Mutant beast. They were just unlucky and didn't get any beast cores from it, nor did Alex get any soul orbs either.

Speaking of soul orbs, Alex accessed his inventory for the first time in a while, excited to find out what a Mutant beast's soul orb would look like. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

But his face scrunched up in anger when he caught sight of the vacant white space.

There was nothing in there!

It wasn't just a one time thing back due to the Floodgate!

Clearly, something had happened to him that had caused him to no longer be able to obtain any soul orbs.

Alex tried his best to think of anything that could have caused this, but he was all out of ideas.

"Why did this happen? Why now of all times???"

He spat out in anger at the open air of the cave, completely venting whatever pent up emotions he was feeling.

[Whether you get a soul orb from a beast you fell is not guaranteed, and has never been. You were graced by the aid of the Primordial Expanse during your time as a mere F rank weakling, the system substituting the beast's lack of energy with its own to facilitate the creation of a soul orb each time you kill one. But that privilege was only ever meant to last until you became an Evolver.]

Out of nowhere, Alex received a completely unprompted response from the Primordial Expanse, which had never happened before, nor had he heard of it happening to anyone else.

He reeled from shock when he saw the words floating in front of his face, unable to comprehend what exactly had happened for a few seconds.

But after reading through the information the system had presented to him, he understood, although still shocked.

It seemed that the system had decided to provide a response when he vented out his anger towards this new development.

'Wait, does this mean that the system, or Primordial Expanse or whatever is actually a living being?'

Alex had always suspected that there was something mysterious about the system and its working ever since he read his trait description upon his first arrival in the Primordial Expanse.

The way the description for each trait was written was clearly the work of a cynical mind, not fond of weak people.

But now that this system had actually responded to him, he felt unsettled.

If you found out that there was an almighty, omnipotent god that clearly didn't care whether you lived or died, constantly watching your every move, then you wouldn't feel good about it either.

The worst thing was, you weren't even safe in your own thoughts as it could probably listen in on them too…

The more Alex thought about it, the more he didn't want to think about it.

It was like that saying.

Ignorance is bliss.

In this case, Alex wished he had stayed ignorant.

There was literally nothing, or anyone alive who could do anything about it. Alex just pushed his head back on the ground and released a heavy sigh.

His only thoughts revolving around whether or not he would find a Mutant beast core hiding in the head of the wolf. But he had to wait another 12 hours before he was finally able to stand again. Fortunately it seemed his feast the previous day had filled him up with enough energy to completely heal his injuries, and at quite a fast pace too.

'Mutant beast meat must have an increased effect on healing whenever you eat it.'

This made sense to Alex. Mutant beasts were a higher classification than Ordinary beasts, and were supposed to be superior in every way. It was only natural that this superiority also included their effect when ingested.

'Now it's time for the big reveal!'

He could finally scratch that constant itch he had on his mind over the last day and find out if he was lucky enough to find a beast core in the wolf's skull.

Alex took his hand and sliced down across the beast's neck, severing the head from the rest of its body.

Next, he plunged his hand deep inside the open wound, grabbing and pulling out anything he could feel.

He dumped the large amount of brains, skin and muscles onto the ground, until finally his hand caught onto something hard.

Alex's eyes lit up as he excitedly pulled out the source of this feeling, his heart palpitating with excitement as he could barely hold himself back from just tearing the skull apart to get to it.

Finally, he forced it out, and a yellowish hue melted out into his surroundings.

A sturdy, glowing yellow rock about the size of his fist lay in his hand.

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