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Chapter 34: GATES: Embodiment of Sins and Malice Part 2

This bloated man is actually a monster. I don't have any expectation of what the monster looks like but I am not used to the look that the monster gives to me. It was actually a human man, only with a bloated stomach. Imagine a boomer in Left 4 dead but just a bit slimmer, and he would look like the Man of Greed. The drops are also stated in the description too but I have no idea what are Mana Shards. But since they are shards, my guess is that if you collect them, you can use them as currencies similar to the Demon Shards. The voice did not respond so my guess is that I have to find it out on my own.

The Man of Greed walks close to me and growls. It was a very hostile monster since it is trying to give me a bite but I made sure that it won't bother me at all. Without hesitation, I activated my flames and used it to blast the Man of Greed off. Before I can react, the Man of Greed exploded and I was sent flying into the ground. That was the most insane occurrence that happened to me. I made a mental note that the Man of Greed is basically boomers that explode once they attack them making them a dangerous sh*t to come from.

I was injured due to the pain that the explosion did to me. If I knew that would happen, I wouldn't have done that at all. I pull out from my bag the Healing Stem and started chewing it. It tastes a little sweet and bitter but it is nice and chewy. The bitterness doesn't really matter so when I started chewing it, wounds in my body started to disappear. Even the scars did not even get spared. This thing can be a wonder if brought to the human world. But knowing the greed of humans, if the greedy people get their hands on this item, they would immediately think up ways to exploit this and sell them as miracle medicine. The magicians indeed did the right thing or else, evil will just get stronger and stronger.

After chewing the stem is done, I checked all of the wounds and most of them are all healed up. Some are still there but they are already clotting so it is alright. Now time to inspect the monster. It looks so gore just watching this scene. If this happened when I was still a normal guy, I might have puked out from disgust. Good thing that there is a perk in becoming a magician and that is able to last around looking at things like this. Now, what I am looting around here for is the Mana Shard. I scanned around the area for the piece and not too far from the torso, shining blue shards are glowing on the ground. I picked them up and examined them. Good thing the panel for the description appeared or else I might think this as a piece of rock.

(Mana Shard)

Description: A shard containing a lot of concentrated mana. Collecting 100 of these shards would form the Mana Orb and will be available for consumption.

A straightforward description but I need to gather 100 of these just to get this thing to be consumed. And here I thought I can get myself a little bit amount of mana once I consume this one. I am quite disappointed but if that was the rule of this world, I have no choice but to collect the shards. From that Man of Greed just now, I got at least 5 shards of Mana which means, I still needed to find at least 95 more to complete the orb. There are other monsters out there but I don't know their behaviors much which gives me a bit of a hard time on this one. I don't want to risk using Mana Scan in this place. If I used it, it might cause me to take in lots of info about this world that might break me down. I better avoid doing that.

There is nothing else in these pile of meat except those which means it didn't drop anything else. Without anything else, I need to move on and find things needed. Monsters are the only creatures inside the GATES that can give me Mana Shards so this time, I won't just explore, time to go destroying some monsters.

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Monsters were rare near the entrance. It was like a barren land for beginners and can be said to be the safe boundary between the dangerous land and the safe land. I noticed it since there was a boundary in the form of the trees. If you are from the safe boundary, once you pass through the trees, you are going to be welcomed into the dangerous world inside the GATES.

Massive hordes of monsters and there are some of those demons with wings walking around in groups. I frowned looking at the place as it was very dangerous for me to venture out alone. No wonder Godou recommended me to raid a GATE with a party, it was due to the insane amount of monsters here. However, hunting here is not impossible, just hard to do it alone.

Right now, I am stalking a horde of orcs.

(Horned Orcs)

Description: These monsters travel in groups but they can be seen sometimes traveling alone.

Drops: Mana Shards, Earth Fragment

I am stalking this group because they are the fewest of the group. And from the looks of their behaviors, they sometimes split up once in a while and the other group would not care what happened to the guy unless something happened. I made sure of this target to work.

I pull out a dagger out of the bag and stalk it on the rocks. By the way, this dagger is one of the items included in the Advanced Kit. It's an ordinary dagger but it was effective against enemies in sneak attacks. I am proficient in sneak attacks since that was one of the trained skills I got when I was still practicing martial arts from my old master.

Patience is a virtue in here and I am not in a hurry. Even though your patience will wear thin the longer you wait, the opportunity will arise soon enough.

And I am not wrong. One of the orcs separates from the group and seems to be in the middle of urinating. I focused my eyesight, ready the dagger and boosted my sprint using the Blazing shoes. The orc is taller than me so to make sure I can stab this pig, I grab his neck and grapple him down. The orc did not get to react as the dagger was deeply buried in his neck. I didn't stop stabbing the neck with the dagger and the blood in my body splattered me red already but I did not care. After a dozen hard stabs, I ignite my free hand with the Burning Gloves and poke the eyes of the orc while I continue to stab the monster.

It didn't take me too long before the orc fell limply. I jump off the orc and sighed in relief. I grab the tabar it was carrying and swing it a bit. It was heavier than expected but it was still in good condition.

"Hey, can monster weapons like this tabar can be sold in the real world?" I asked the voice.

The voice did not hesitate to answer. "Yes. Weapons in GATES can be sold in the real world. Even broken ones are also sold without a spare. They can be a good thing to use as smelting materials so if you want to, you can bring that weapon along with you. I heard that they can be sold in a hefty amount of money or demon shards depending on you."

I see, so this would be a good investment. Inari did a good job of giving me a suggestion. I ignited the body of the orc without hesitation and waited for the body to burn to ashes. After that, the orc 's body is in ashes while 7 pieces of Mana Shard appeared on the pile.