Elliot didn't take the time to enjoy the feeling of absorbing the hyena's soul and was conflicted, should he let that group go ?
'If they have been in that cave for more than 4 hours it's obvious they tried looking for another exit, since it's a straight line towards the door they must have seen it.'
When the group saw the hyena fall down they still didn't decide to go down, since they didn't know Elliot's identity and intentions they were cautious.
So just like this 5 minutes went by, in the end Elliot decided to let them leave. Although he needed huge quantities of money now, he didn't want to become a murderer for that.
If he heard about a party forming to open the door then he would join them and share the loot, if not then it would either mean that a closed party was formed and he wouldn't know about the raid or else that this group hadn't thought about looking for another exit and that was actually perfect for him !
Elliot walked away, this time he headed towards the breach ! He had decided now that he would go out and check on his family, on top of that he was curious about how much the armor could sell for. He had decided to keep the dagger as it made hunting a few hundred times easier for him.
When he made it close to the river he took off the armor and put it inside his bag, Elliot was very cautious of other people and so decided that showing off the armor was a bad idea in case someone had evil thoughts. He didn't doubt he could beat anyone out here but at the same time he didn't want to risk it.
'I wonder how dad, mom and Tim are doing, I've been away for 6 days already. Tim's holidays should be over by now, I guess he went back to school.'
Elliot walked towards the breach and looked at the map, the concentration of green dots around the breach had disappeared long ago and the horde of red dots that had attacked it had also left, that event didn't have big consequences for him but at least it taught him that big concentration of humans attracted monsters.
There were still a few green dots around the breach but a lot less than before, the ones who stayed were all daredevils who didn't mind risking their lives for money.
After a 1 hour walk Elliot made it to the breach, he realized that even his walking speed had been boosted ! This mountain - breach trip had taken him 5 hours the first time he did it, now it was 5 times faster !
"Hey mister ! Good job out there ! Do you have treasures to sell ? I'm from the Bord company, we're willing to spend a good sum on whatever you want to sell."
Although he might get a better price from this person than the military Elliot still shook his head, there was no guarantee this person wasn't tricking him into showing his treasures to steal them away.
Elliot also knew that he had to be less cautious because it would cost him opportunities in the future but he couldn't change his personality so soon and still decided to sell to the safe buyer : the military.
'Phew... its already been more than a thousand people I asked but none of them found a treasure, I wonder how the Australian military was able to bring one back when they are so rare.'
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Elliot stepped outside of the breach and once again he was on earth, standing on that same wooden bridge. To his surprise there were still thousands of people camping outside the gate !
'What's the point of camping outside the gate ?´
Elliot didn't understand them but still thought about a few situations where this could happen, maybe friends, lovers or family members of adventurers had came because they were too worried.
Seeing this made him miss his family even more, at the same time as he took a step forward a soldier came to him and extended his hand.
"Hello there, my name is Oliver. Glad to meet you mate."
"I'm Elliot, same."
Of course the reason this person approached him was obvious and Elliot had left the breach for this, he looked at Oliver and waited until he asked the question he was waiting for.
"Uhmm... did you bring anything you're willing to sell from your trip ?"
"Yes I did."
The Oliver guy couldn't believe it, he and his squad had been assigned with finding sellers outside the breach for the whole week after his friends had had bad behavior and today they had finally found one, he believed they would be freed from this annoying duty soon !
"The Australian military is willing to give you the best price ! How about you meet my superior to talk about it ?"
"Let's go."
As Oliver walked ahead Elliot was focused on something else, after leaving the breach he didn't feel like he had became any weaker ! He still felt his body was as light and strong as it was in the other world.
'Is it a misconception? I need to try it out later, keeping my superhuman abilities on earth wouldn't be that useful but really interesting.'
At the same time Elliot was handed several visit cards by people he went by and understood the reason they were standing on the bridge, they all were here to buy the treasures.
'When so many people want the treasures wouldnt I get more money in an auction ? I'll sell the armor like this for now because it's urgent and dad will need to pay mom's hospital bills soon and think about the auction later, I'm not sure if it's because of my high luck stat but I actually dropped two items in only one week, I'll be able to get a lot more later.'
Slowly Elliot was becoming confident, first he had went in the breach he didn't want to go close to any monster and then he realized he didn't have to be the pray, he could decide to be the hunter ! And now he was already decided on hunting those hyenas, they were worth a lot more experience than the crabs and leveling up was his priority together with looting expensive stuff.
'I'll just need to think of a new fighting strategy since I won't be able to use Explosive boost after selling the armor and that was the main reason this fight was so easy.'
While Elliot was lost in his thoughts Oliver opened the door of a prefabricated office and gestured him to go inside, Elliot complied and Oliver came after him.
"Sir ! This person said they had something to sell !"
The middle aged man who didn't even lift an eye after they got inside suddenly stood up, he scanned Elliot and then shook his hand while Oliver was still standing in a salute position, as long as he wasn't given the order to rest he wasn't supposed to move so he just stayed there...