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Chapter 123 – Fishing for Awakeneds
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Max played with his phone, joining random chat groups to see if anything unusual is happening.
It was currently night time, and Max was out again, leaving Yu’er with Xue at home. Initially, Yu’er wanted to join him, but when she heard what he was going to do, she backed out.
Max didn’t plan on doing something exciting. He only intended to explore around the city this late at night, like usual.
Ever since the incident with the puppet and the unknown glowing cube, Max had been exploring the city when it becomes dark.
From the more significant number of crimes being committed at night, he hoped to see another Awakened out in public.
Every crime done by an Awakened should have a reason why they were doing it, and Max has this feeling that he would find answers if he were to find and follow every Awakened he sees.
Though there was one bad news that will hold him back considerably, when Max was scrolling through his phone, he saw Awakeneds selling these accessories that were said to block Identifying Skills.
After reading positive reviews with a lot of people buying, Max bought one to test it out. When it arrived, Max asked Yu’er to try it, and just like what he feared, it worked.
He couldn’t see her Status at all. If Yu’er were a stranger Awakened, Max would have missed her being this close to him.
This hugely concerned Max since his Status Checker will now be nullified by the item, making it ineffective in finding new Awakeneds.
His Status Checker was quite cheap, only costing him 5000 Points. Max initially thought it was a good one since it said that he would be able to identify anyone regardless of their ranks.
However, he didn’t consider items that could block it, especially now that some people were selling it.
This would considerably make it hard for him to find new Awakeneds that might just be walking right beside him.
Fortunately, it was quite expensive, costing him a little bit more than ten million for one. There should be a lot of Awakeneds like those ones with weaker skills, that won’t have enough money to buy one for themselves.
But since Max has a lot of money now, he bought a few more, giving it to Yu’er, Xue and the others. He also stored some in his Inventory.
The accessories were disguised enough for people not to recognize them, but it’s still an accessory, easily noticeable by others. Max got an anklet for himself as he didn’t want anyone to see it.
There were also necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings available for them to choose from. Though in the future there should be more concealed ones, those that others won’t notice.
When Max asked Little Dou about it, she only said that if he upgraded his Status Checker, he would be able to beat most accessories available out there except for actual skill users blocking themselves with their own skills.
Max was currently in a rooftop of a small district, perfectly hidden within the shadows. Usually, Max would only stay outside for a few hours, moving to different places every few minutes.
From how he was acting, he was like a hero, trying to safeguard the people, fighting against the crimes happening at night.
But his intentions couldn’t have been more different. Max planned to wait for something bad to happen then he would see if it was an Awakened using his Status Checker and also keeping an eye out for any skills being used.
If Max were to find anyone out there, he would silently follow them to their lair or wherever they will go to in hopes that he could find a clue about the glowing cube or any opportunities that will benefit him.
Though one of his problems was, he had been roaming the city a few times now, and he still hasn’t seen anyone.
Even his sharp senses couldn’t hear a single shout or small skirmish in any area of the street.
Seeing that there was still no one, Max typed on his phone,
“Are you sure about this location? I’ve been here for quite some time now, and there’s still nothing.”
“Yes. The last consecutive days there had been reports about kidnappings in that area.”
Max was messaging an information broker from his phone. He had no way of confirming whether this person is telling the truth; he could only trust in the people supporting his claims.
Information was one of the most popular things being sold online. From the information of a person to their business to their family and hobbies, if there is enough money, some people would not hesitate to do it.
Max paid a high price to find an Awakened near his area, and this was the location that was given to him by the information broker.
Reading the report sent to him, he found out about the continuous kidnappings that had been happening around this area and from how fast it was happening with no police could solve it, there’s only one explanation for it.
“Wait and see. Something will surely happen. My reputation is on the line here so I will never give you the wrong information.”
Choosing to believe the informant, Max attentively waited for any signs of them. While waiting, he scrolled through other groups.
“Did you see what happened yesterday?”
“The arrogant guy?”
“Yeah him!”
“Did you see his face from the pictures? He looks like he was so proud of his achievement. For some reason, I want to punch him.”
“Same!”
“Me too!”
“That self-proclaimed hero should just die.”
“Wait, what happened yesterday? I didn’t see it!”
“Oh, you’re finally here. Where have you been?”
“The self-proclaimed hero showed up with his golden sword again, catching another criminal. His hypocritical face was so annoying from the pictures.”
“It’s him again? If he shows up in front of me, I will beat him till he cries like a baby!”
“Check your skill first! Are you even strong?”
“I’m alright. I have fought many Awakeneds in the past already, and this fake hero is a new guy, right?”
“Yeah. Forget about it. Someone will show him his place someday.”
Max read a particular group’s chat to find other useful information. Reading further back, from what he understood, there seemed to be a new Awakened, one of those who randomly got a skill, that always acts like a hero.
He doesn’t save any victims, only catching criminals in their acts. He uses a sword, a golden sword that emits a golden aura that strengthens him whenever he is against a person with evil intent.
When Max read it, he felt disdain for the guy, something about his image piss him off. He looks like the typical hero that does everything for justice but bullies other people he doesn’t like.
Thankfully from what he read, their city was quite far from his so they probably won’t cross paths because if they did, he better fix his attitude as Max won’t give him a warm welcome.
While Max was busy on his phone, on the corner of his eye, he saw shadows running on a roof.
Immediately reacting, Max closed his phone and stayed in the dark, watching them move closer towards his direction.
They’re here!
Chapter 122 – Close Encounter
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“Huh?”
“D-Did you see that Chief Li?”
“That guy just disappeared!”
“He’s an Awakened!”
The assistant stutteringly said as he stared at the spot where Max stood before he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Now knowing that he was an Awakened, he became quite annoyed that the person immediately disappeared without even waiting to hear their words.
If the individual has some skill as convenient as that, he could have stayed even just for a bit.
He didn’t know that Max was too cautious and thought that since they were walking so confidently, they must have some powerful skills or they were just idiots, but in the end, Max wasn’t going to risk it, there’s no point for him to do so.
“I did.”
Chief Li and his assistant, Jing Fei, had been waiting for someone to show up, and when they tried to approach the individual to ask some questions, the person was gone.
He thought that the person might have seen fights happening in the areas around them and along with Jing Fei, he wanted to take the chance to speak with the person and maybe find new information.
“Chief Li, could it be him?”
Trying to connect the dots, thinking of the Puppet Master and the person with his entire body covered that seemed to be hiding his identity, Jing Fei looked at Chief Li to ask.
“Unlikely. If he was the Puppet Master, he should be hiding in his cave by now. He won’t ever need to go out if his puppet is the same as what our informants said.”
Shaking his head and replying, Chief Li looked at the same spot, remembering the appearance of the unknown individual, preparing to report it when they get back.
These incidents weren’t new for them. In the past few days, they have seen a lot more unidentified Awakeneds than usual, and only a small portion of them was willing to communicate with them.
Every time they tried to initiate contact, they were ignored, giving them more trouble than they already have.
However, they also understand the fear and the disconnection between them, but they still have to keep trying since there have been a few Awakeneds who joined them with few and acceptable conditions.
“So that’s another new one, huh?”
Jing Fei thought back to what he saw a moment ago, the new Awakened just disappeared. There are a lot of explanations for it and thinking about only one of them, and he already knows how troublesome it will be.
“Yeah, only one of the many more I guess.”
“Could it be teleportation?”
Jing Fei thought it could be some form of teleportation, but whatever it is, that will be a hard one to catch if the Awakened were to be a criminal.
“We should go back to get more information.”
Without waiting for Jing Fei to move, Chief Li walked back to his car while the scene of the black figure disappearing in front of them run through his mind.
Something tells him the new Awakened would be trouble in the future, and they will be up for challenging and rough months.
…
Max walked on the busy streets of the city after changing into regular clothes. The sun was already coming down as street lights brighten up the city.
Now Max was intently thinking about the events back at the abandoned building where the two Awakeneds fought.
One of the things on his mind was the glowing cube. When the water user asked what the puppet needed, the puppet answered that he needed something from him.
Initially, when he was at the site where it happened, Max couldn’t understand it, but now he had more time to think about it, he had some ideas as to what went on.
‘Could it be that the glowing cube was with the water skill user and he wanted it?’
‘How did he get it anyway and what’s the use of it? That looks very important.’
The glowing cube on the hands of the puppet looked like something he would want to get his hands on. It was too bad that he wasn’t able to see it up close and maybe inspect it himself.
‘Little Dou, do you know anything about it?’
[The glowing cube? It looks familiar. I’ve never really seen anything like that, but from what happened back there, I think I have an idea of what it is!][But if it’s really that then I can’t tell you about it unless you discover it yourself! Once you encounter the same situation, then I would be able to explain everything!]
Although Max was disappointed hearing Little Dou’s works, it made him think about the whole Awakened situation in the past where Little Dou couldn’t say it.
Maybe this will also be important for him in the future. Max only has to run around the city more and encounter more Awakeneds and more fights without revealing himself and being in danger.
Everything that happened in the past few days, including Layla and the mission, Max had now accumulated a large number of Points.
His current Points reached 15400. From the daily sessions with Yu’er, adding all the things that happened around the day of the party, and the 2000 Points from the mission, it all piled up greatly.
It was surprising how fast they can earn Points when they don’t waste it on items and skills.
Though even with all that, they were still quite far away from the Magical Space that costs 50000 Points.
But Max wasn’t discouraged, expecting that in around a month, he would be able to afford it if he continues the pace he is in right now.
Looking around and seeing the peaceful faces of the people around him walking on their own pace, Max felt all the things that happened were unreal.
He is an Awakened, and he just watched two Awakeneds fight each other with one side dying. Also, the Awakened phone, the chats, and the forums, it was a whole different world than what was around him.
It occurred to him while thinking back on what happened a while ago; Max wondered who were the two people that he saw advancing towards him.
From the looks of it, they aren’t ordinary individuals since they have the same clothes and something was printed on it but he didn’t have the time to look at what it was.
Max read about government forces, organizations, and families around the world, but he doesn’t exactly know where they are hiding their bases or who were they.
Max questioned whether it was possible that they were from one of those groups and what were they planning on doing when they walked up to him.
Not that it mattered since he would only choose to stay away from them. Max couldn’t deal with them on his own, especially if he doesn’t know anything about them.
They should have many members on their group, which is a significant advantage against someone like him, who only has a few trusted members and a limited number of Points that he could spend.
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Chapter 121 – Glowing Cube
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After watching the puppet end the fight that quickly, Max became disappointed; he was never able to see the capabilities of the puppet in a battle.
The only one he saw was when its hand that separated from its body. It shot out without any warning.
From the hand piercing through the water user’s chest, and the smooth penetration of it, Max could only imagine the force around it.
Even he wasn’t sure how he would defend against it. The only way he could think of was stopping time to move away and dodge it.
Though he also has the Reverse Time so he could heal himself fast enough to around one second before it happened when he was still unscathed.
However, it was too dangerous. Max wasn’t someone who would play with his life like that, so that was definitely out of the picture.
Now he was watching the puppet reach down to the water user’s chest. Max couldn’t see it clearly since some of the fallen debris blocked his vision.
He also couldn’t get nearer as the walls were broken down, and the light outside was shining in. No matter how dark his suit is, he will be exposed, and Max only planned to be a spectator today.
There was no point in trying to meaninglessly fight a puppet that might be a disposable one.
And since the fight ended fast, he wasn’t able to learn of anything. Max was still considering whether it’s only the controller’s skill that’s making the puppet lifelike or the puppet was a product of the skill.
Max tried to check it with the Weakness Reader, but it only told him that its weakness was its owner, which was quite useless.
Hearing a noise in front, Max focused his eyes to see the puppet holding a cube glowing in a blue hue as it secured the object in a small compartment on his chest.
“I finally got it!”
“How many have I got already?”
The puppet seemed to be laughing while its face wasn’t moving, which was a weird sight to look at.
“Where is my next destination?”
The puppet stopped moving like it’s puppeteer stopped controlling it when all of a sudden, the time stopped.
Max wanted to have a closer look at it, using one of his Time Stop to have some time to inspect the puppet.
Reaching the puppet, the first thing he did was to touch the skin on its arm, feeling it with his hands and comparing it with his.
Max became surprised when he confirmed that it doesn’t have any difference compared to the real one.
He tried pulling it to take a sample, but he was unsuccessful. It felt like he was pulling a piece of steel from a steel rod.
It was soft yet hard at the same time as if every part of the skin was connected as a whole, making it impossible to pull a part of it away.
Max couldn’t damage it at all. He wanted to try using a streak of his Purple Lightning to it but zipping it a little bit already showed some damage, melting a small area of the surface, so he chose to stop and restored it with his Reverse Time.
Having limited time to inspect the puppet, Max tried to store it inside his Inventory, but strangely it didn’t work!
Max thought it was only an object, but he might have been wrong about it. This finding made him extremely curious that he ultimately used his Purple Lightning to open it.
Melting the middle area of it from its head to between its legs, Max split it open, only to find another compartment around the chest area.
It was where he saw the glowing cube was placed. Max tried opening it with his Purple Lightning, but it was too secured only damaging the surface of it.
Max could have opened it if he had more time, but it would take him more than a few minutes to do so and even if he used his remaining Time Stop, thirty seconds wouldn’t be enough to break through it.
Now with his remaining seconds, Max used Reverse Time to restore the entire puppet back together.
Since he wasn’t able to store it in his Inventory, he would rather not expose himself to the puppet, removing any trace of damage he did to it.
His Time Stop didn’t get wasted since he learned quite a few things while destroying it.
Firstly, he might not pierce through it with sharp objects, but he could melt it with a hot weapon which was what his Purple Lightning was good at.
And secondly, it can’t be stored in the Inventory so there should be something magical affecting it that Max couldn’t understand or something about the skill he knows nothing about.
Finishing the restoration of it and getting it back to its previous position, Max went back to the shadow where he was hiding.
When the time resumed, the puppet stayed motionless until it spoke again, showing no signs of suspicion.
“So this is where I should go next?”
“My next destination is quite far. I suppose I would have to prepare for it first.”
In the next instant, the puppet disappeared like it was never there in the first place, confusing Max that after waiting for a few minutes, he threw a stone to the area where it was standing.
After multiple stones being thrown, Max confirmed that it wasn’t just invisible, it was gone, long gone.
…
Max was now on his way back, going down the building as he thought of what just occurred back there.
The puppet disappeared. Max guessed that it was recalled by the owner, instantly moving to its owner’s location.
That was arguably the best way to escape a dangerous situation and also the worst opponent to have since he would have no way to defeat it if it disappeared.
“The only way to win against it is to destroy it? No, even if it’s destroyed, the owner might still be able to recall it.”
“So the only way is to find the one controlling it, huh?”
“What a weird skill.”
Before going away from the area, Max collected the body of the skill user in his Inventory since he might have a use for it someday and the space inside it was infinite.
This time, the body smoothly went in, causing Max to think about the reason why the puppet didn’t go in his Inventory.
While Max was making his way back, walking on the desolate road, he suddenly heard the sounds of cars behind him.
When he looked back, two suspicious people got out of the cars and slowly walked towards him.
Max knew he was currently wearing black clothes and a mask on his face. There was no way two people would approach him just like that.
He backed off the same time they walked forward, not waiting for them to speak, Max used another Time Stop and ran as far away as possible.
Thirty seconds was a lot of time, enough for Max to run back to an area where a lot of people were more concentrated.