章 17: Chapter 16: More villagers +

"Enough!" Simon yelled as he looked at the last remaining variant with disdain, The baleful Mana came rushing like a flood, stopping everyone on their tracks.

Alex could only frown as he thought of his old Boss, the gang leader in his old world.

For some reason, you can't just bring yourself to defy his order and Alex hated that feeling. the feeling of not being in control of his own body due to the words of another, now he's getting the same feeling, only much worse as he couldn't even lift a finger.

Simon looked at the rest of the overseers and couldn't stop the disgusted expression from appearing, He then snapped his fingers,

Snap!!.

Poof!!.

The variant and overseers disintegrated into dust, giving the impression that they were never there.

All this happened in about 15 seconds since his shout.

Everyone froze in place, watching in mingled horror and anticipation as Simon Weiss suddenly turned towards them, well Alex in particular as his gaze alternated between his Orcish face and tattoo. with a grin he tried approaching Alex but paused before staring at the edge of the Carriage's shadow.

It was then it finally clicked, Alex had been wondering why he had been uneasy since he saw Simon's name and he finally thought of it, Within the Novel, Simon was described as a monster that suffered due to him evolving into a Black druid.

He had given up his body and became a monster that chose it's shape by stealing the body of others, like a parasite. which was why he was so obsessed with experimenting to build the ultimate body which he would use for the ritual.

All this, was why Simon had been so hard to kill, especially when he got to the stage of metamorphosis when he had merged with his grandfather's Tome and the body of a high human mage.

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After Simon had assessed him again, he nodded his head like he had come to a decision. What had seemed to be a human, became clusters of jelly-like eggs the next second and began to vibrate and emit noise that was like a whale song.

In a matter of seconds they became green colored Goo and vibrated fast before they emitted sparks of black. Then in the blink of an eye it prepared to lunge but suddenly paused. From the blob grew limbs until it looked like the human it was before it's transformation as The whale noise stopped as well.

"Consider today, your lucky day...you earned your right to be free" He suddenly said with a shrug before turning to enter the carriage before the carriage driver with dead eyes whipped the horses and zoomed off.

Alex only reacted when the Carriage was in a distance, the other creatures let out a sight of relief as they plopped to the floor.

Alex remained standing even with his shaky legs.

He had to admit it, He was afraid even though he knew Simon would reject his body, he had felt fear and horror.

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As everyone rejoiced, Alex had a slight frown on his face, He needed to get stronger fast.

While he had this thought, Torrelsav The berserk Orc approached him, the Orc was visibly weaker and seemed to be trying to silently bear all his injuries.

"I apologize for dragging you into this mess, I don't know how to repay you" Torrelsav began speaking with an apology which surprised Alex once more but the latter quickly responded shamelessly.

"It's easy, serve me" The berserker Orc had an 'as expected' expression and seemed to want to reject but Alex continued his sentence," for six purple moons and I'll help you get stronger".

In the world of Luegad, a phenomenon tended to happen for one night, on the last night of every two months. which is roughly every eighty days (40 days make a month in this world), On this day, the Magic would not only become more intense, but it would also provide all creatures, plants, and inorganic ores with a qualitative change which would make their body stronger to absorb more mana for one Night.

The intensity was so high, that most creatures wait for this day to evolve or perform a sacred ritual etc.

And with the multiple increases in magic intensity, Alex imagined that it would be a day with 100% EXP buff.

On the other hand, Torrelsav looked at Alex deeply before nodding his head as he thought in his mind 'It's not like there's anywhere I can go with those two'. Suddenly he felt he should warn Alex but he didn't even know how to address him.

Soon, all the slaves followed behind Urim as walked towards Alex as the latter observed them. 'Hmm, 15 first circle goblins, 10 first circle Kobolds, 13 first circle Orcs including Torrelsav and 2 first circle Half...orcs?'.

Seeing the last two made him frown a little, Half orcs were majorly a taboo subject among orcs or any creature in luegad. Within tribes, they are seen as bad omen and are automatically killed or downgraded to slaves as soon as they were born.

Although this twin Half-orc sisters didn't bother Alex too much, it still made him worry about the response from the black moon tribe. He used the system to look at their stats,

{Name: Gilgar}

Race: Half-Orc Shaman

Level: 14(Order of the first circle)

Power rating: 3243

Relationships: Daughter of Torrelsav, Shadow fang slave e.t.c.

Alignment: Lunatic}

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{Name: Largash}

Race: Half-Orc warrior

Level: 13(Order of the first circle)

Power rating: 3455

Relationships: Daughter of Torrelsav, Shadow fang slave etc.

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral}

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Once Alex noticed the information in their relationships, he understood a lot of things and couldn't help looking at Torrelsav.

'another human-like Orc that's tied down by sentiments...perhaps this makes them more trust worthy or dangerous' with this thought, he remembered how he still didn't know how to act around Dabok and couldn't help sighing.

The original five goblins that followed him here now stood behind him and were taking postures that would sample their tattoos to the others, it was this sight that reminded Alex how lucky he had been this time.

'I need to watch the kind of fights i jump into and not do it blindly.'

Urim then took the opportunity to explain the situation to Alex and apparently this creatures didn't know the way back home, so they chose to follow him.

'just like that?...perhaps this was the same with Torrelsav earlier...haa' Alex's thought began to run rapidly as he brought their status collectively. It was then he noticed a Kobold blacksmith, which was surprising as it was a second circle evolution!!!.

The Kobold arrogantly looked around like this didn't concern him but he was obviously in the crowd that wished to follow him.

"Lets go" Alex said as he headed back to the village, he just noticed that it had enough mana for an upgrade, so he want to use the system to awe this newcomers. As for Simon Weiss?, he wasn't worried about him following as the Man doesn't chase after something he had vomited, especially ants, if they meet in the future? so be it.