The contract ca as expected and I simply signed after reading it. Everything we agreed upon was there. I had a mont of hesitation to force that girl to follow , just like Angelica. However I refrained from doing that for now.
First I didn't know what this ace was really capable of. Despite the fact that she gave a slight surprise out there with that dungeon key, I didn't know if she had any more surprises or not.
Secondly I wasn't sure about her curse. Having a high intelligence stat and locking up the rest wasn't sothing good in the long run. If she couldn't break through this curse then she would beco a great liability.
So I decided to wait and see when I et her later on. Who knew, she might turn out to be a loser, or be a real ace as in legends.
"Isabella," I didn't hurry to tell my plans to Angelica to save her friend as I ushered Isabella to co closer. "Do you know if there are any big hospitals in the distance between here and the statue of Liberty?"
My sudden question was unexpected. No one knew what I was thinking about. It was expected, after all they still lacked the right mindset to deal with things here.
The key thing to face the monsters was one of three things, either strong stat individuals like myself, the use of heat, or the use of light.
Hospitals were one of the few places out in the world to have the innate advantage early on. They had backup generators that could work for days without problems, providing light and security to hospitals.
So at the early stages of the apocalypse, hospitals were considered slightly safer places. The reason I didn't select a hospital before was simple, I was after the item hidden deeply in the central park.
But that didn't an the angels didn't have their own ways to crush this advantage. The apocalypse didn't happen out of the blue, and those bastards were having their own ti studying us before everything happened.
The presence of traitors was sothing out of the question. In fact if there was a big hospital out there, then aside from patients, their families would rush over at the start of the apocalypse.
So the number of humans there would be large, so their survival might be better than other places coupled with the light.
"There are few," Isabella's eyes showed her doubt but she didn't ask about the reason, "I believe that there is a good hospital I once visited before. It's called the New York health center."
"Is it close to us?" I asked as if that hospital wasn't, then it might get subrged by the ocean waters by now.
"I know where it is," Angelica cut our speech in such impatience, "but what does this have to do with saving my friend?"
"She has to go there," I said before adding in a firm tone, "let her see if this hospital is still standing or not."
"In the middle of all this… It might be hard to find it," Angelica wasn't trusting my judge, and I didn't take the trouble to explain for now.
"Let her follow the light," I said.
"The lights?!"
"Just tell her that, and eventually she'll get it," I saw this issue was over before turning around, "let's keep going."
Despite her reluctance, Angelica relayed my words. It seed like her friend was much calr than her as she didn't ask about the details.
"You are full of mysteries and always speaking in riddles," Angelica pouted in a displeased tone while walking side by side with .
"Ain't I always right all the ti?" I replied with a girl. Despite acting in so strange way most of the ti, I always brought results in the end.
My answer managed to silence her until we finally reached the place we wanted. The museum was still ushering under darkness but the people there kept their vigilance as they surveyed the parater.
I could see groups of ten people moving all around, looking for any monster attack. It seed that the angels had to draw all the monsters from the museum as well to hit Angelica before.
So that ant this place might be secured. However I lacked any trust in the angels. Those bastards proved to be relentless in achieving their goals with different thods.
"Look!"
"It's the witch!"
"The witch is back!"
"Yeah, we knew she won't be easily killed, hahaha!"
All of sudden our appearance was spotted half a mile away. The people there seed to have few with night vision skill it seed, a weird thing to be honest.
I looked at Angelica for a mont before asking in seriousness; "Did you scan all of them before?"
"Sure, I spent a great deal of my fortune on them," she said in a tone that didn't give any sense of confidence.
I saw how she acted before when I asked her to scan a slightly smaller group in size. She acted all bitter and seed to not be willing to do it.
Even with my presence and request she was reluctant to do it. So how co she would do it out of her good will?
"I want you to retest them," I said while linking the dots together. In fact the presence of the hybrid monster was sothing that ca out of the blue.
What if this was done by one of the traitors? That would also explain how so of them had the night vision skill.
I doubt anyone else in this world would be aware of the secret and very pricey way to gain skills. In addition to that, the other way to gain skills from the killed monsters was sothing hard to know so early.
Sothing was wrong here, and I wouldn't risk the presence of other traitors around again.
"But…"
"I'll take all the cost this ti," I simply shrugged, "I have tons of cores and monster materials. You can take them and sell them at the market to gather enough coins."
"Uhm, that will do," her face was covered by the helt but I saw the corners of her mouth curving upwards. This fool… She seed to only scan only those she selected to be with her.
During our march, Gerry was busy scanning the attributes of everyone. As I expected, there were all common grades, with few of them at special grade. There wasn't even a single one with a unique grade or above.
That proved that we already lost a good deal of goot seedlings even before the apocalypse hit us. Scary!
"Hey hey, stop it," Angelica was instantly absorbed in between the large crowd that ca darting from the museum. She acted stingy and had so bad traits, but she was trusted by her group and that was a good thing.
"Let introduce soone to you," after she controlled the situation, it was ti for her to introduce , "this is Hye. you all saw him before. He is the one who saved my life back there and from now on I've decided to follow him."
The next instant I sensed many hostile gazes falling on . C'mon, she said she was following , not sleeping with or sothing.
"Hi everyone," I said after clearing my throat, "let's get things organized first. Stand in one line facing that way," I pointed to one side before adding, "we are going to scan you first."
"Scan? With the witch's sacred ability?" one of the large group asked and I only nodded. I turned to Angelica before saying, "I'll take things out, you store them and do as we agreed."
I couldn't use the full abilities of the system for now. So the only way to transfer items to her was by taking them out. Under the questionable gazes of everyone I moved to one side while Angelica turned and spoke a few words with them to make them listen to my orders.
"Isabella," I ushered her towards the museum, "go place our esteed guest there. Make Allen watch Allen," I added while cracking a wide smile. I found it funny, but others seed not to share the sa idea.
"Sara, take everyone and help organize others." The number of Angelica's group was really big. Trying to control things here would prove to be challenging.
If a group of traitors were there, then things might get ssy fast. Everyone heeded by my orders while I started taking things out for Angelica.
After roughly ten minutes of pouring out items like a waterfall, Angelica was ready. She took off her helt and her face appeared with a bright smile.
"Don't think too much about this," I simply said, "any extra is given back to ."
"C'mon, you already take too much of wealth from those traitors," she seed a bit displeased but I had plans for each penny I had.
"If not then I'd force you by the contract," I threatened and all she could do was to mumble to herself about how stingy I was.
In fact I was sure she would keep part to herself. It wasn't bad. After all, I didn't know for how long I would be separated from them. What if a new group of traitors were sent here as refugees? I had to look over for them even if I was away.
Things proceeded like I expected. There were many traitors here as well. When the first traitor was discovered and killed, Angelica looked at and tried to give so lousy excuse.
But when we killed the tenth traitor, her face was all dark and her eyes were filled with apologetic gazes.
I didn't say anything and I only took the responsibility to kill traitors alongside others. The sa thing we did before about distributing the loot was applied here. Plus I left a few inventories for Allen to get his share as well.
We took roughly an hour and a couple of big battles when traitors started to cause a ruckus. However at the end, the remaining main core team of Angelica remained loyal and that was a good sign.
Yet they only had eight people left, with half of them having wounds.
As for the traitors, we killed two hundred, almost one fourth of the big group here.
After everything was settled, my own balance grew up with three hundred thousand coins, many monster drops, plus potions and stat points. Things looked good to , as this was like having a free al when one was hungry.
As I thought about it, John suddenly blurted out: "I'm hungry! Is there any food left over here?"
I suddenly realized that we were fighting for our lives all this ti. Under the stress of death, no one ever thought about food or sleep.
In fact when increasing stats, one could feel less hunger and need to sleep. But we were humans after all. We needed to eat, drink, and sleep.
"We…" Angelica's face looked hesitant as she looked around at her group. It seed they had so food and water with them.
"Sorry esteed witch," one of her core team without any injuries said, "we have already consud everything."
Despite him speaking to her, his eyes were fixed on . He didn't harbor any ill intentions. He looked grateful with his eyes. After all, I gave them such a good chance to get coins, monster drops, and even potions and stat points.
I had to organize things here first. Even having such wealth, potions, and stats didn't an they would use these things for their best uses.
"Listen up," I shouted and waited until everyone's attention was focused on , "don't use anything for now. As for the monster drops, take half out and give them to Angelica," I turned to Angelica while my eyes warned her not to ss with this.
"What for?" Angelica noticed my warning gazes and couldn't help but ask.
"I'll tell you later," I slowly said before adding, "I want soone with a good mory to keep track of the number of drops everyone is giving to Angelica. I also want people who are chefs or are studying to be so."
"Chefs? What for?" Sara asked while her face told she expected sothing bizarre from this ti.
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