20 Becoming Wealthy (1/2)

The mutant tree's eyes glanced at it for a moment and then ignored it just like all the rocks it did in the past two minutes.

I looked at Rahul and I could see his excited expression and then…

KABOOOOM!!!

A large explosion rang in my ears following which, three shock waves crashed against my body in succession and threw me a few meters away from my original position.

A large amount of debris, wooden fragments and other miscellaneous stuff flew past my ears and I quickly ducked down and prevented my head from suffering any damage.

I felt my ears ringing for a few seconds as I tried to make sense of my surroundings. And when the debris stopped falling from the sky, I looked up in the direction of the mutant tree and the sight in front of me made me feel both fear and excitement.

There was a huge whole in the mutant tree's trunk. Almost all of it's eyes were destroyed in the blast and it's whole body was charred black.

The other half of the trunk which was still not destroyed after the explosion started creaking and before long, the whole tree bent to a side, and fell to the ground.

The whole ground trembled upon it's fall as if signifying the death of this giant.

I looked in the direction where Rahul was standing before the explosion and saw that he was also looking in my direction.

We both looked at each other in excitement and without anyone telling us to do anything, we rushed toward the mutant tree at once.

I looked at the large number of mutant beasts on the ground with a greedy expression. Almost all of them had died from the shockwave of the explosion and the few that had somehow miraculously survived were already half dead.

I chopped the head of a large mutant boar and took out it's blood red Core in a practiced fashion.

'Sell it.' I shouted in my mind and put it close to the Black Watch.

The Core in my hand turned in light that flew out of my went inside the Black watch.

'Mutant Boar's 1st tier Core sold for 48 white coins.' Lily's voice rang in my ears like a sweet melody.

I jumped at the next Mutant beast in exhilaration. 'This is a treasure.'

'Sell it.'

'Mutant monkey's 1st tier Core sold for 12 white coins.'

'Sell it.'

'Mutant cow's 1st tier Core sold for 64 white coins.'

'Sell it.'

'Mutant dog's 2nd tier Core sold for 40 white coins.'

'Sell it.'

'Mutant monkey's 1st tier Core sold for 16 white coins.'

”Wait!” Rahul's voice woke me from my trance.

Then he showed a White Leather glove and said ”Watch this.” He put the hand wearing the White Leather Glove on top of a Mutant dog's head and as if by some magic, the Core inside it's head broke out of the skull, tore through it's skin and was pulled into the Glove.

I was shocked when I saw that. 'What's the hell is that glove?'

As if he'd heard my thoughts he said ”It's called Clipping glove. Buy it and be quick. We don't have a lot of time.”

It was then that I heard the howls and barks of the mutant beasts coming from the other side of the forest.

'Lily. Buy the glove that he's wearing.' I shouted in my mind.

'It's worth 60 white coins. Are you sure?'

I gritted my teeth and said 'Yes I'm sure. Be quick.'

A white light came out of the Black watch and turned into the form of a glove which then landed on my hands.

Without thinking much, I quickly wore the glove on my right hand and put it on top of a Mutant rabbit's head.

Just like before, the blood red Core broke through it's skull and was caught by the gloves.

'Sweet!' I thought in my mind and quickly told Lily to sell it.

'Mutant rabbit's 2nd tier Core sold for 12 white coins.'

'Sell it.'

'Mutant cow's 1st tier Core sold for 64 white coins.'

'Sell it...

Lily's voice rang continuously in my ears. Just that this time, with the help of Clipping Glove, my speed of taking out and selling the Cores had gone up a notch.

I glanced at the other side of the forest. The sounds of the mutant beasts had gotten closer while we were taking out the Cores.

”Brother.” I shouted at Rahul who was a few meters ahead of me.

He looked back at me and understood my implications. Instantly he left all of the mutant beasts behind and jumped at the mutant tree at the center of all the corpses.

He put his hand a the trunk of the tree and after five seconds, I saw a fist sized green 'thing' coming out of the truck.

I didn't get and good look at it before it turned to light particles and entered Rahul's Black watch.

Rahul instantly turned to look at me and shouted ”Run.”

At the same instant, hundreds of Mutant beasts came out from the other side of the forest. I turned around and was shocked to find a large group of Abnormals coming out from on between the trees.

'Shit! Seems like the Explosive Grenade was a bit 'too' effective.' I cursed in my mind and turned to look at Rahul who point at another direction and said.

”Come. We'll get out of there.”

Before his shout ended, both the Abnormals and Mutant beasts saw each other and started running toward each other at once.

I was dazed for a moment when I saw this. 'Damn! Are they gonna start a war or something'

”Run.” Rahul's shout broke me from my daze and I started to run in the direction he had pointed at.

My Speed stat had restored to it's original 2.0 stat a few minutes earlier when were throwing rocks at the mutant beasts so I was able to keep up with Rahul's speed.

We reached the edge of the clearing and entered the dense trees without stopping.

I gave one last look at the place where the giant mutant tree had once stood and saw the two different races colliding with each other before everything was covered up by trees.

”Don't look back.” Rahul shouted and pulled my hand ”Keep running we're still in grave danger.”

I looked to our left and realized that a small group of a dozen or so Mutant dogs had separated from the main group and had started to chase after us.

'Damn it! why the hell are you coming after us. Do we really look that tasty to you.'

We continued to run for a while but the Mutant dogs who also had double to speed of normal dogs kept on our trial and started gaining on us.

”Brother they're coming closer.” I shouted while panting

He looked at me and said in between breaths ”Buy 80 Agility crystals.”

Rahul didn't had an AI like Lily so if he wanted to buy something then he will have to open the hologram and buy it from the interface himself. Such a thing was definitely not possible while running so both of us had to rely on Lily.

'Lily. You heard him.' I said in my mind

'Very well then.' Lily said and in a few seconds 8 small blue pills entered my hands.

'These are the pills you talked about earlier.' I asked suspiciously.

'Yes. Don't drop them while running. Each of those pills is worth 10 crystals.'

'Very well.' I opened my mouth and swallowed 4 of them while passed the other four to Rahul.

A hot feeling gushed out from my abdomen and spread throughout my whole body.

I suddenly sensed a surge of power of power being generated in my body as I realized thatmy Agility stat had gone from 2.0 to 4.0.

My running speed doubled at once and the same thing happened with Rahul who was running beside me.

With our increased speed we quickly left the Mutant dogs behind. I saw with elation as those dozens of dogs were left far behind and soon stopped running.

But as I was about to get excited. A money suddenly came from behind the group and tore through a few mutant dogs like they were paper.

It was the biggest money I've ever seen in my life. It was so big that it might be comparable to a gorilla. Except, no gorilla would be able to tear through a group of mutant dogs so easily.

The Large Mutant Monkey howled at the top of it's lungs and started chasing after us.