“…What power… What kind of monster even are you?! Regardless, we bear no grudges against you! What reason do you have to kill us?!” interrogated one of the Soul Hunters.
After all, favonovel.com was right. Gerald had simply attacked them out of the blue! It certainly raised quite a few questions.
“Hah! I don’t need to explain anything!” retorted Gerald, finding it laughable that they even considered the possibility of favonovel.com telling them his motive or his identity. That was simply impossible!
With that in mind, Gerald then made his move… and in the blink of an eye, the three remaining Soul Hunters found themselves dead as well. To think that they weren’t even able to find out who Gerald really was before death…
Regardless, now that all four of them were dead, Gerald began searching their bodies… and eventually, favonovel.com found four Soul Hunter tokens.
As the name suggested, these tokens represented their status as Soul Hunters, and anyone who was accepted into the organization would receive one. Either way, after obtaining the tokens, Gerald kept them by his side before swiftly leaving the scene…
As for the four corpses, while someone would probably discover them the following morning, Gerald wasn’t too worried about being a suspect. After all, favonovel.com had attacked them in his Avatar form, which meant that favonovel.com wouldn’t have left behind any traces of physical evidence no matter what favonovel.com did.
Whatever the case was, now that favonovel.com had the four tokens, Gerald felt that favonovel.com and his party would be able to enter the phosphorite mountain area a lot more smoothly. At the very least, the trio wouldn’t be targeted too quickly by any other Soul Hunters they bumped into.
While this was slightly underhanded, all was fair in love and war. As long as favonovel.com was able to obtain the token of Demonic Blood, Gerald didn’t mind doing all this.
Regardless, Gerald quickly made his way back into his physical body—back at the hotel—before promptly falling asleep…
The next morning, all three of them awoke pretty early and after checking out, they instantly headed for their car. Once they were inside, Juno and Rey raised their heads as they heard Gerald say, “Here, take these!”
Raising a brow, both of them then extended their hands out… only for Gerald to hand a Soul Hunter token to each of them.
“…What’s this then?” asked Rey in a curious tone.
“…Soul Hunter tokens? But how? And why would you have these?” exclaimed Juno in surprise as favonovel.com turned to look at Gerald. Though favonovel.com asked that question, favonovel.com had a hunch as to why favonovel.com had these.
“I bumped into the four Soul Hunters the night before and after dealing with them, I took their Soul Hunter tokens! With them, it’ll be much more convenient for us to enter the phosphorite mountain area since we won’t easily be found out by the other Soul Hunters. With any luck, we’ll be able to keep our identities concealed throughout the process!” explained Gerald.
Hearing that, Juno and Rey realized that Gerald had secretly taken out the competition the night before. What swift action!
“By, ‘won’t be easily found out’, do you mean to say that we should pretend to be Soul Hunters since we now have their tokens?” asked Rey for confirmation.
“Bingo. If all goes well, we should be able to achieve our goals right under the noses of the other Soul Hunters!” replied Gerald with a smile.
Following that, Gerald stepped on the gas and immediately began heading toward the phosphorite mountain area…
The phosphorite mountain area was quite famous in Sunset Village.
With how much phosphorite there was in the area, the locals would sell them to manufacturers who would then use the raw materials to manufacture other chemical substances. Aside from that, the phosphorite would also be sold for decorative purposes.
In short, the locals would rely on that place to obtain riches.
Whatever the case was, it was a two-hour drive from Sunset Village to their destination, and by the time they finally arrived there, it was twelve.
Seeing that they were just in time for lunch, Gerald then parked his car at a parking lot before leading Rey and Juno to a restaurant…
