New World Kingdoms[3]
[Ace POV],
I didn't feel disgusted or irritated, but when I saw the scene in front of me after coming out of my hole, I took a quick glance to the other side before returning my attention to the scene I'm seeing right now.
Multiple mutated earth rats had been stomped to meat paste in front of and behind me.
All of these bodies had one thing in common: their current appearance was unsightly and incomplete.
In other words, these rats died horribly at the hands of their own species.
'I wonder how many of them died,' I thought as I prepared to leave my current surroundings when an idea struck me, and, without hesitation, I went to the body of a specific mutated earth rat.
I could still see in the dark because the men I was following had dropped their only source of light on the ground.
This appears to be due to fear, but it was none of my business. They're probably all dead now as well.
I returned my focus to reality a second later after having these thoughts in a flash.
Looking at the body of the particular mutated rat in front of me that had all its guts out, I first used my leg to kick it even though I felt no sort of life from it but just to be sure, I still followed through with my actions.
After all, what was a little pretending to be dead in a world where gods were potentially real?
Who knows if there is such a thing as a death-faking skill.
Fortunately, I was just bothering myself with nothing because the mutated earth rat had died.
Something about these mutated earth rats piqued my interest, and that was how they differed from the other earth rats I had encountered previously.
The mutation of the earth rats piqued my interest more than anything else.
Something I expected to see in the true world was no mutated creatures because my understanding was that the mutated creatures I encountered in my world were caused by mana affecting them and changing them, but it's clear now that my assumptions were incorrect because this is the true world, which is a different world than my own.
But, if my memory serves me correctly, the guardian did say that the true world was still on the same planet as ours, which could also mean that my thoughts were not incorrect and that this true world did contain traces of our former world.
Of course, this was just my speculation.
As I was thinking of these thoughts, I bent down and laid my hands on the corpse of the mutated earth rat and began searching for a specific item in its body, and due to the corpse's small size, I was able to find the item I was looking for relatively quickly.
Looking at the milky-looking crystal core in my bloody hands that was unique to rank 1 creature and was quite different from the blood-red crystal cores I harvested from the zombies, I turned to look at the multiple dead Bodies around me that were scattered around.
'Am rich'
I thought as I transferred the crystal core in my hand to my storage ring, stood up, and prepared to leave when I suddenly stopped to look at the mutilated corpse of the mutated earth rat I had just looted.
'Mosquito meat is still meat' I thought as I turned to touch the mutated earth rat's corpse again and called out the primordial chronicle in my head before turning to exchange the corpse in the store's exchange sub-option.
This resulted in one gold coin for me.
Given the state of the corpse when I exchanged it, along with its level and race, this was understandable.
I did, however, get something worthwhile.
After that, I turned to look at the corpses scattered around me, and I began to see them as golden items rather than blood corpses.
With this and a plan in mind, I got right to work and decided to start cleaning from the back, where I came in first.
'I wonder how many crystal cores and gold coins I'd get after all of this,' I thought as I subconsciously increased my moving speed while still attempting to remain stealthy and blend in with my surroundings.
I also brought the light-emitting item with me to illuminate my dark surroundings.
Along with this, I worked as a harvester for a while.
"I guess it's luck that I benefited from this," I muttered, remembering how it got into this.
...…..
Looking at my still-increasing crystal cores in my storage ring and my still-increasing gold coins in my hands, both of which numbered more than 200, I knew tonight was like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.
I never expected my gains to reach this level when I decided to start from the back, where I can start harvesting the things I want from the mutated earth rats as soon as I see the first dead one on the route I was taking.
The actual number of crystal cores I now have in my storage ring is 263.
This may sound exaggerated, but it was the truth.
My total gold coins were now 618 gold coins, which was even more exaggerated.
It got to this level because after I got the crystal cores I wanted from the mutated earth rats, I exchanged their corpses for gold coins using the exchange sub-option in the store section of the primordial chronicle and each corpse gave me 1-3 gold coins and although it was quite tiring to move from one corpse to the next and become rich easily, I'd rather do this and practice alchemy than fight monsters that couldn't even bring me a smidgeon of excitement.
Before continuing to work, I took a look at the numerous mutated earth rat corpses that were scattered in front of me.
'I really wonder how big my gains will be after this'
...….
Harvesting took a lot of my time, and it took even more time because I did everything quietly with the maximum amount of silence I could produce, and even though it was stressful, I still did it. I didn't want to be the cause of another monster wave because I made several sounds.
Perhaps it wasn't the four men's noises that triggered the monster wave, but I'd rather be cautious and waste time than invite trouble.
After all, just because I survived the last wave didn't mean I'd do it again if another one came along.
Nobody knows what will happen in the future, so I'm not sure if something unexpected could happen at any time.
This was my train of thought before I was brought to a halt by something.
It was the body of one of the men I was following.
It appears that I had already traveled a long distance unknowingly.
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