Primordial Soul's Rebirth

Chapter 217: CHAPTER 217 – The Anomaly.

As Ann walked toward one of the trees that looked most beautiful out of all, Alex looked at the system interface that was showing the new quest he had.

[New Quest: -

Quest objective: Clear the SSS-rank gate – "Wonder Forest".

Bonus 1 objective: Kill 2000 Mob Drrots (Power suppressed to SSS-rank).

Bonus 2 objective: Kill the anomaly in the gate (Power suppressed to EX-rank). Continue reading at m|v-l'e -NovelBin.net

Quest reward: 3,000,000 points.

Bonus 1 reward: Weapon upgrade rune.

Bonus 2 reward: Bloodline upgrade serum X2.

Time limit: --

Penalty: POTE title sealed. (Duration: a week)]

'Anomaly huh…'

Alex muttered.

The Anomaly part caught his attention since he felt that this anomaly was responsible for the changes in the gate.

[Most likely.]

Sophia replied to Alex, clearing his doubts yet again.

'But what about the boss and mid-bosses?'

Alex didn't see any bonus objectives about the boss and mid-boss this time, which confused him.

[This gate didn't have any mid-boss in the first place.

It just has way too many mobs that it doesn't even need mid-bosses.]

'I see, and the boss?'

Alex questioned again.

[Probably killed by the anomaly.]

'Thought so.'

Alex nodded inwardly.

It was not hard for him to guess that. The anomaly, whoever it is, must be strong, or he wouldn't get two bloodline upgrade serums for killing it, and since it is strong, it would be noticed by the boss monster.

The boss monsters in most of the gates are arrogant and territorial, and they love their position, so the boss of this gate must have tried to eliminate the anomaly, thinking that the anomaly could harm his interest.

But instead of being able to kill the anomaly, the boss must have died at the hands of the anomaly.

By the time Alex was done thinking about these things Ann had already arrived in front of a tree with beautiful pink and purple petals mixed together.

The combination just made the tree look better than any other in the surroundings.

Ann smiled in amazement as she looked at the tree.

"I'm here!"

She turned toward Alex and Alice and waved her hand.

Alex just smiled as he shook his head.

'It won't attack you right now, you know….'

Ann could see Alex shaking his head but she just shrugged.

'It was worth a try.'

She had intentionally turned her back toward the tree, just so that those creatures would reveal themselves.

For normal people, this would be the perfect picnic spot with very good scenery.

But Alex and Ann could easily point out some things that no one would notice that easily.

'The trees are swaying, but no wind is blowing.'

The first point.

'The surroundings are so cozy, with a warm feeling, but there is no living being in the surroundings.

No sound of birds chirping, no sound of animals calling, in fact, not even an insect is anywhere to be seen.'

The second point was that this atmosphere seemed unnatural like it was just a skit of something.

For Alex, however, it was clear what kind of beasts this gate had the moment he saw the quest.

"Sigh…."

Ann who saw that her attempt had failed sighed and then she waved her hand toward the tree.

*Swish*

A black arrow or more like a harpoon was conjured by her and the next second it was shot at the tree that was behind her.

*Ktch*

A strange sound of wood and flesh being pierced was heard, and the next second.

*KWAAAAAAKKKKK*

The tree that was behind Ann transformed into an ugly-looking tree with no petals and only black branches and a trunk.

Long gone was its beautiful appearance, the only this left was its hideous appearance as its trunk slowly morphed into a human-like face.

Its skin or membrane started to crack and show what was inside of the cover.

Unlike how normal trees should be, these trees or creatures had a fleshy interior.

It was like they were trees made of flesh with other parts of normal trees.

"Eww…"

Alice's face scrunched up as she looked at the bloodied view and the ugly creature.

But then her eyes widened in realization.

"If one is like that, doesn't that mean…."

Alice muttered as she slowly looked at the surroundings.

*KWAAAAAAAAAK*

The Drrot that had a harpoon pierced in his right hollow socket of eyes was still screaming in pain as it thrashed its branched toward Ann randomly, trying to land a hit on her.

Ann, right now, did not have her Epic rank stats, instead, she had EX rank stats.

"Master your control over your body with EX rank before we move to epic."

This is what Alex had told her when he gave her new suppression braces.

Ann didn't have a problem with that, after all, EX was still the peak of this world, and with that power, she was invincible in this world.

"All right, your task is done, goodbye now."

Ann who was avoiding the Drrot's attack without much effort just waved her hand and this time an even larger harpoon was created.

*Swoosh*

The harpoon wooshed toward the forehead of the face-like shape on the tree's trunk and pierced it, but it didn't stop there as it shot out from its back.

*Kwa….*

The creature let out a last growl before it died.

Then as if the death of one of them was an indication for them to move, the other trees started to transform into the same hideous form with low growls.

*Krrr…*

*Kaarrr…*

*Kooo…*

…

..

.

"What do you think about your picnic spot now?"

Alex asked as he saw Alice looking at the creatures with disgust.

"I'll clear the gate…"

Alice murmured in a low voice.

"You can take care of as many as you want, there is no scarcity of those things here, but leave 2000 of them for me to kill."

There were no less than 10k of those creatures in the surroundings, more actually, but they were at least 2k.

"All right."

Alice nodded her head and then she shot toward the nearest beast.

'Where are you now, Mr. Anomaly….?'

Alex muttered inwardly as he used his perception skill, which had a range of 500 meters right now since he had his stats suppressed to SSS rank.

But after not finding anything for a while he decided to just go on cutting or burning down the trees, there was no way he would not meet the anomaly on the way.

Alex took out his simple sword or Varethian, as he calls it now.

Alex had given his simple sword a name, it was now called Varethian, the ever-changing blade.

However, unlike the time Noctura was named, nothing happened this time, at least nothing that Alex could see or tell.

As for the question: Were there any changes in the sword after naming?

Alex would say, 'No'.

But were there really no changes?

Only time will tell.

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