Trading With Another World

A Great Threat

Two days had passed since the increase in strength Alex had experienced. During these two days, the clones of the two were on a guild mission to investigate the movements of the members of the Blood Star Church in the villages northwest of Xyras city.

Dozens of villages he had investigated during his travels. After making sure there was nothing strange about the villages, he decided to go back and inform the results of his investigation to the guild.

During that time, he had also managed to increase his clone's combat abilities based on both newly maximized skills.

With maximum universal communication skill, he managed to use the ability that only mithril-level adventurers had, which was to control elements.

But he felt that something was lacking. Even if he only controlled a small plot of land, the entire mana reserve within the clone's body was instantly drained out.

Alex feels that this is the limit of his current control. After he upgraded the system to the next level, that was when his true strength would equal or even exceed that of a mithril level adventurer.

In contrast to universal communication, the maximized mind-sharing skill greatly improved Alex's combat ability.

Right now he could divide his thoughts into five parts. But thanks to the evolution of the fast thinking skill before, one part of his soul alone had made him to think quickly in making decisions during the meeting.

During the training in the forest, Alex left his three souls inside the body of the second clone.

He managed to take advantage of this by allowing one soul to process the information received from around, one soul to move its body as desired, as well as one soul to spread its consciousness twenty-two meters around it.

With this, he managed to increase his combat abilities even further. Even if it was in a meeting, its consciousness could be spread at any time so that the enemy would find it difficult to carry out sneak attacks on him!

***

Alex stepped through the front door of the guild and noticed the crowd on the first floor.

"Look, it's Leon. Isn't he the fourth golden adventurer in this city?"

"That's right. Do you know what? A few days ago, I, this great Scarface had once fought with him without any injuries."

"really? I heard that you were easily defeated by him."

"Who said that? Even though he is stronger than me, it is not that easy to defeat this great me!"

"Hey hey, he's headed this way."

"W-what?"

Scarface stood up from his chair and rubbed his hands together and bowed, "Master Leon, have you eaten yet? Please sit at this table, I'll order food for you."

"really? Thanks Scarface. Please order rice with grilled chicken plus cold beer for the drinks. You can take the change"

Alex handed over twenty copper coins to Scarface and sat down at the table.

"I'm sorry for joining us all of a sudden. The other table is full and I only know Scarface among other adventurers."

Alex smiled wryly at the three adventurers sitting at the table while apologizing politely.

"Don't worry mister Leon, we are honored to be sitting at the same table as the gold-level adventurers. Introduce my name is....."

While introducing themselves to Alex, the three adventurers stifled laughter at the sight of Scarface ordering food in the distance. 'Hahahaha, look at Scarface's changing attitude in front of master Leon. His arrogance instantly vanished!'

After finishing his meal, Alex left Scarface and the others then walked towards the stairs connected to the second floor.

"Did you guys see that? Mr. Leon and I are friends. We respect and respect each other."

"Yes yes... You're so great Scarface."

Scarface's head was held high when he thought three of his friends were praising him.

Inside Zeff's study, Alex finds Zeff standing by a window looking at the cloudy sky.

"You're back, Leon? How's your investigation going?"

A sad atmosphere emanated from the location Zeff stood.

"There is no movement of the Blood Star Church to the northwest of the city of Xyras pak Zeff. I think we should focus more on the defenses at the gates of the Eastern and Southern districts."

Zeff breathed a sigh of relief at the information Alex gave.

"Is there something I don't know?"

"Yesterday the Big Three and the others have returned."

Unlike Alex, who is working on a mission alone, the investigation into the southeastern city of Xyras is conducted by the Big Three, Christopher, Jean, and Mina.

This is done because there has been a lot of information about the destruction of several villages in the southeast direction of Xyras city.

"They're very fast!"

"That's right. However, the farthest village they reached was only a hundred kilometers away from Xyras city."

Seeing Alex remain silent as if waiting for an explanation, Zeff continued his words. "In that village, they found a large number of cursed creatures. In addition, they also saw rows of cursed creatures from other directions coming to the village, as if they were gathered in one location to prepare for a great war."

"Is it possible....."

"Yes! The Blood Star Church seemed like it was going to attack Xyras city with the results of their previous experiments."

Alex's thinking is confirmed by Zeff's words.

"Then what are we going to do?"

"I advised the mayor to evacuate the residents to the villages to the northwest. But he rejected it, it would be very difficult to sort through the residents and distribute them to every village. Moreover, the mayor is just the leader in this city, he does not know whether the villages will accept the arrival of refugees to their place."

Alex felt that it made sense. But Zeff did not say the solution they had created. 'Is he desperate?'

After the raid on the hideout of members of the Blood Star Church who were in the four districts of Xyras city, Zeff visited the mayor by bringing in the detained merchants.

The mayor was convinced, he also had the full support to at will mobilize all the guard troops in the city of Xyras.

Even so, the guard troops only had ordinary human strength. Even the one with the strength of a level with silver adventurers was only six people. The rest are only superior in numbers!

"Last night after I told the mayor what the Big Three group saw, he gave me five thousand gold pieces to contact the headquarters and ask for the help of an adamantium adventurer."

"Did it work?"

Zeff sighed and shook his head, "There are currently no space magic users residing in the central headquarters. Even if there was, they didn't master it as well as the former The Number who sent Odorin and Melbach here. In addition, it is not easy to find adamantium adventurers who have free time."

"According to Mr. Zeff, how long will it take before the horde of damned creatures attacks the city?"

"Maybe in about five days. But if they're ready, it's very likely that this town will be attacked the day after."

"Then let me go alone to raid the army of damned creatures gathered in that village."

"Are you crazy?"

"No need to worry, Mr. Zeff. Instead, give me half of the gold coin the mayor gave me if I manage to exterminate all the damned creatures there."

"But what you're up against is equivalent to thousands of silver-level adventurers. Not to mention the few members of the Blood Star Church who were definitely around there."

"I have my own plan. Calm down, I promise at most in five days I will report back the victory. Mr. Zeff just needs to get his gold coins ready."

Logically, Zeff wouldn't have sent Alex there alone. It would only make him die in vain. But when you see the eyes of Alex, it looks a great belief to eliminate thousands of cursed creatures.

"Bahhh... All right, but if you feel you can't, you need to get out of there."

"of course. I'm more concerned with my own life than the people in this town, hahahaha."

Zeff shook his head in disbelief at Alex's words. Then he handed over the information regarding the distance, as well as the location where the damned creatures gathered.

Before exiting Zeff's study, Alex makes his final wish. "Please don't tell this to others. If they follow me, I'll have trouble showing my true strength in front of the enemy."

Alex blinked his eyes and closed the door.

"What does that mean? Lest he still have an undisclosed trump card all this time?"

Zeff's slightly claustrophobic breath held back his overflowing excitement in the chest.