[You acquired five thousand coins]
[You acquired four thousand coins]
[You acquired three thousand coins]
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[You acquired one thousand coins]
[You acquired one thousand coins]
[You acquired eight hundred coins]
The early batch I killed gave a good amount of coins. But those who I killed late managed, sohow, to exhaust the coins they had.
However, even taking one digit coins from them was enough for , not to ntion three digit coins like this.
I kept moving from one traitor to another while Angelica kept following in silence. I didn't say anything to her just to make her feel more guilt. In fact I understood the reason behind what she did. After all, we just got together and I forced her to follow .
However that didn't an I would tolerate such actions. This happened in the early quest of the apocalypse. The damage she caused wasn't that significant. But if that happened during any other big quests then I would have to reconsider keeping her on my side, or even alive.
"Not bad," I checked my new balance and couldn't help but grin in satisfaction. The initial number of the people here was around four hundred to five hundred people. After this massacre, only a handful of two hundred remain.
The number of traitors was astonishingly over sixty, not to ntion the traitors I killed before leaving this field towards the museum. That ant out of the initial group, almost one fourth was traitors.
That made things clearer in my head. Those angels didn't aim to use monsters to make fail the quest from the start. But the astonishing thing was the possibility they saw what I did. Even my provocations seed in their calculations; scary!
"I got it big this ti," I looked at the inventory that was now filled with a lot of stuff. The number of gears I got was already enough to arm my group with a full set of armor, two weapons, and additional pieces like helts, arm guards,... etc.
In addition to that, the monster cores and other monster drops were also a good gain. However I didn't focus too much on this. My inventory already held thousands of these things before.
My biggest gain to remark wasn't only in my terrifying current wealth of over two hundred thousand coins, but in these small bottles which lied inside my inventory in small numbers.
'Hp restoration potion, stamina restoration potion, mana restoration potion… I got it big this ti!' I thought to myself while my eyes shone in brilliance.
These potions weren't available yet to purchase from the system, not for at least. To be able to use such a privilege, one must have a class.
Looking at the small number of each potion made realize one thing, they all ca from soone with a class, from Allen.
Killing Allen might provide with slightly more potions, but that wasn't the main point here. I turned to Angelica and this ti I knew how she benefitted from other traitors.
"I… will hand you what you want," she seemingly felt my threatening gazes and after all this silence she realized I wouldn't let her off with what she got from behind my back. "Just say the item you want and I'll give it to you."
"Humph, trying to play smart on ?" I harrumphed while stepping forward towards her. My two swords reappeared again and my intent of killing skyrocketed to be even felt by normal humans.
She couldn't help but retreat a few steps to the back while raising both arms, shakingly, in an attempt to stop .
"P… Please, I'll do what you want," she said in a shaky tone. After all, she knew how terrifying my stats were.
She must be bewildered by my stats. She didn't know anything about my penalty and I didn't plan on telling her that.
Let her mistake for the old monster I once was. If she knew I lost half my stats, she might have a bit of hope of getting sothing in return.
What she offered was rely a trap. She wanted to ask for things to bring them out. In fact that was the control of the contract we both had over her. But it was also one of the fatal flaws in it.
As long as I didn't ask for anything she had, she wouldn't be punished by the system for hiding it from . The contract didn't force her to say anything like a slave. After all it was a basic form of contracts and it had its own limitations.
So trying to pull a trick on and letting ask for the things I want just to keep other things I didn't know about hidden… Humph, she just underestimated .
After seeing these potions my mind realized sothing, people with classes were in the enemy ranks already. So it was obvious they must have things that normal people like wouldn't.
For example these potions, and it might even reach far dangerous and more rare items like scrolls.
"I'll do anything you ask," she kept shivering while the only visible part of her face from her helt showed her ashened skin. She was terrified and that might help to remind her to not cross again.
"Give everything you got in your inventory," I was ruthless to not ask for the things she got from the traitors. I wanted everything she gathered so far. "Keep the coins and the race detection compass for now."
I sensed her body shivering more when I spoke first, but when I added my last words she seed more collected.
"So at least you got so consciousness," she said in a relieved tone. Yet I knew she was still feeling bitter over losing everything she worked hard to acquire.
"This is your punishnt for crossing ," I said before I got a ssage about an exchange between the two of us. I couldn't have such a privilege as I didn't have a class. Good thing she had a class to make things easier and more discrete.
"I will think twice before doing sothing foolish like this again," her tone told she wasn't sincere at all.
"Next ti will be your last," so I had to show more ruthlessness to her, "if you ever did sothing like this again, I'll simply order you to take your life with your own hands."
"You…" her eyes widened and her body shook again. "Don't go overboard over sothing worthless like this!"
"Items and coins aren't that useless," I shrugged as if I just didn't promise her death, but what's important is trust. If I can't trust you, then it's better to get rid of you and look for soone else."
"..."
She stayed all silent for a long minute while the transaction between the two of us finished. My inventory got a good boost for now as many items were added.
"I promise to not do it again," this ti she said it with so sincerity.
"I hope you stick to your words," I said while starting to check the items she sent to . With the force of the contract she couldn't hide anything in her inventory away from my reach.
But if she thought this was only my punishnt, she would be wrong. I didn't plan to just punish her by taking away all her items, I still had a more vicious move to hamr that lesson deeper in her mind.
As I expected, there was a good addition of potions inside my inventory. Each potion I had before now grew in number to exceed sixty. This was astonishing wealth in my opinion. But it wasn't the best stuff here.
'Wow! There are even stat potions here,' I took one small bottle and examined it closely. It was small to fit the size of my fist, filled with shiny silver liquid that was enough to illuminate so light around.
"You got such nice things and didn't think of using them? How an!" I looked at her with a grin, an evil grin. My words ant that she wouldn't get such good stuff and I would enjoy them for myself.
"I was busy chasing after you," she looked a bit regretful, "who thought that my kindness and worry were repaid in such a way."
"You have only yourself to bla," I shrugged before storing away the potion, "if you told about this loot, then you'd have gotten a good portion of it. I'm that stingy with those loyal to , but very strict with those who aren't."
She glared at in silence while I hoped my words would find a way inside her stubborn mind. I didn't want to lose soone important like her, not to ntion she wasn't weak either.
"Gather up everyone," unlike what others expected, I didn't head towards Allen. Instead I gave such an order to make everyone co and stand around .
It was ti to give Angelica her second and most painful punishnt.
Unaware of my intentions, everyone of the humans remaining here gathered except for Isabella who kept herself standing beside Allen.
Even Angelica seed ignorant about my next severe punishnt to her.
"Line up," I said in strict words, "One line, all of you."
Since everything turned out to be like this, no one had the boldness to fight anymore. They weren't stupid. They were just about to lose their lives if not for my tily intervention.
They all stood in one line while Sara ca to ask:
"What do you want to do with them?"
"Make my team line in another line first," I said to her in a tone that held coldness like she was my enemy. The look over her face slightly changed before she realized sothing was wrong.
Without delving into any details, she led others and stood in one short line compared to the other one.
"What about ?" I turned to size up Angelica while anticipating her reaction to my next words.
"Take out your compass," I simply said, "and test every single one here for loyalty."
"What the f*ck…?!!!" she was instantly enraged and flabbergasted by my sudden request. "You can't ask to do this! No way! Hell no!!"
"What's wrong dear?" I said in a soft tone that didn't carry any sense of affection or sympathy, "if you didn't do it voluntarily, then I might strip you off from the compass and all the gold you have."
She looked at in glaring eyes that were filled with rage and hatred. "You can't do that! That's simply outrageous!"
"Do you want to force you to do it then? Or do you prefer the alternative?"
I calmly spoke like there was nothing to negotiate about. She had no one to bla but herself. She dug this hole so deep that she couldn't get out no matter what.
She glared back with red eyes and a shaky body, but she didn't say anything anymore.
"My coins won't be enough," she said in defiance.
"Then I'll let you donate them to to check by myself then," I didn't take her words to heart as I simply threw this answer in front of her pretty face.
"You…" she shivered out of rage, but she had no way out of this. If she didn't want to do it herself, then I would rather take all the coins she had alongside the compass and do it myself.
I was sure she had an astonishing figure of coins in her possession. I didn't notice this little wealth of hers as I wasn't that crazy about money. I got enough to make regain my lost stats and even raise the remaining stats to max if I wanted to.
But I needed her. She was soone who got access to the market for now. She could be useful later on. All I was doing was just disciplining her and showing her who was the boss here.
She hesitated for a long ti but didn't say anything else. I also remained silent and indifferent. After all, whatever decision she would make here wouldn't make any difference to my plans.
"Then promise one thing in return," she tried to get out of this deal. But dear, who told you to ss with a lion like ?
"I'm not asking," I coldly said, "if you mistook my words then I can give another order to you if you wanted."
And the real aning of words was quite clear. I wasn't bargaining or making a deal here sweetie, I was simply giving you two dead ends to choose from.
If you didn't want to willingly get out of this with the least damage, then don't bla for being rciless.
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