Plundering in the Apocalypse

Walking out of the shopping mall with a large number of shopping bags in his hands. Shin couldn't help but glance at Alice beside him. All this time she was stuck to him and didn't let anyone approach him.

'In a way, it's better. But it's quite fun to tease her.' Thought Shin.

"Where are we going next?" asked Alice.

"Hm, well although I still want to enjoy more that can wait for later. There's something I want to check," said Shin with a thoughtful look.

Alice was a little down hearing it but soon put on a smile on her face thinking. 'Does it matter what we do as long as I am with him? Though a normal date still would have been nice.'

Shin understood what she was thinking. He put the shopping bags inside the [Soul space] and gently rubbed her head. "You do know Alice, currently we are very weak. There are many powerful enemies we are going to face. We have to improve our strength fast. So we can't just enjoy our time now. Otherwise, we will be living with the constant threat of death looming over us all the time."

When Shin reminded her, Alice also understood this fact. So her depressed mood lightened up a lot. "Fine, but next time it should not be like this.'

Shin nodded his head in agreement. He swiped his phone searching for something and turned on the navigation system.

"[Gravity control] and [Shadow Veil]."

He activated his abilities and both of them became invisible and their bodies started to fly. Following the navigation, in his phone, Shin started to fly in a certain direction.

"Where are we going, Shin?" asked Alice.

"Lourein Road." He replied blankly.

"Where those mosquito bitch*s did the bloodbath?" She asked with an innocent smile.

'If those royal vampires hear themselves being called mosquitoes, I don't know what their reaction will be.' Shin smiled wryly and replied "Yeah." Then he continued. "I want to see if their souls are left there."

Hearing this Alice's eyes lit up. "Do you want me to absorb their souls?" To be honest, Alice didn't care about them as they don't have any personal grudges. Now that Shin has mentioned it she has no problem absorbing them. Although she has a lot of chaotic energy stored, she has no problem getting more. As for taking them as servants, she has no thoughts currently. She first wants to test if Glasses and Baldy would turn out useful or not.

"First I want to test something. If it doesn't work. You can absorb them." Shin knows that they were just thrash. So there's no guilt about doing such things.

Alice didn't ask anymore and just continued enjoying the flight (Reverse gravity) with Shin.

Shin's thoughts were wandering somewhere else. 'I don't know if that will work or not.'

Shin has plundered [Demonic Fog (A)] ability and [Demonic energy] stat from Ren Hector because he needed it in the future. But he doesn't know if having two different types of energies which oppose each other will work on his body.

He already has Divine energy but he doesn't know if having Demonic energy will corrupt his mind or how to make these two energies coexist. Having mana together with either of them is no problem but the case with Divine energy and Demonic energy is different.

If Divine energy represents the energy of divine beings. Demonic energy represents Demons. Currently, they haven't faced such threats but that doesn't mean they will not face them in the future.

Even with his limited knowledge of Leonard's future. Shin knows Demons are terrifying beings. Whom he is not ready to face.

So he is still hesitating about whether to learn it directly or wait for the right time. Neither did he add any stat points on Demonic energy. 'If only I could find some help.'

Thinking of this he turned to look at Alice. Suddenly a thought came to his mind as he asked. "Alice, when you defeated Ren Hector you absorbed his energy, right?"

"Yes," Alice replied not knowing why Shin is asking about this. But regardless she replied honestly. "His energy was different but compatible with my chaotic energy."

Hearing this Shin smiled widely. "That means you can absorb it again?"

"Yeah, I can."

"Okay then, listen Alice. I am going to learn Ren's ability. So if you find something wrong with my body. Absorb that demonic energy okay?"

"Yeah, sure." she has no problem helping Shin. She also doesn't want something to happen to him. "But if it's so dangerous you shouldn't take such risks?"

Shin understood Alice was worried about him. So he reassured her. "I am not certain how it will work that's why I want you to be ready."

"Okay, I'll believe you." Alive was still worried but she knew she won't let anything happen to him.

With, that they started making their way to the location of the last night's massacre.

While flying Shin started using his mana absorption to increase his mana capacity again. To his surprise, the absorption rate was a lot better than before. 'What happened? Now that I think about it. I haven't checked yesterday's notifications after defeating those Mettle Turtles. It's all because I was too busy building friendships with Aurora and Emily.'

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[You have killed 298 Mettle Turtles.]

[You have gained experience.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[ +20 Bonus stats for leveling up.]

[Plunder activated]

[You have absorbed 10 stat points.]

[You have absorbed a new skill Mana Eater(D) X298.]

[Ding! The Host possesses the special skill Mana Absorption]

[Ding! Mana Eater X298 is being fused with the special skill Mana Absorption...]

[Congratulations! Mana Absorption skill is successfully upgraded. Mana's absorption rate is increased threefold.]

***

'Not bad. Because the Mana Absorption skill has no rank I don't know how good it is. But threefold is already a lot better. That was some unexpected gain.'

'I still have to sort out all the abilities I have collected from Green Serpents.' Thinking of the large number of abilities in his collection he couldn't help but get a little excited.

'Let's see how many useful abilities I can get. It's time to use the [Upgrader (SS)] skill again.'