Ray was now on his way to return to the mystery merchant.
He had also recovered the 8 swords that were buried deep into the eyes of the Brood Queen, though he needed to cut the head of the Brood Queen just to get them.
Ray is currently looking at the item in his hand as he was walking with the Mutated Giant Wasp on his side.
____________________________
[Miracle Fruit]
Consume to gain one E rank elemental resistance.
____________________________
He managed to find one dropped on the ground, for some reason, it was saved from the burning fire around.
Right now, Ray had E Rank Fire resistance and Poison resistance from the Spider-Slayer Ring.
What are the chances of gaining another Fire resistance?
Seeing the redness of the fruit, and the scene earlier of it not being burned, the fruit is already screaming fire resistance.
Still, the description says he would gain one E rank elemental resistance.
Without thinking further, Ray then started eating the fruit.
Eating it, Ray felt himself become hot.
[Congratulations! E Rank Fire resistance gained!]
"..."
Sometimes, unlucky things just happen.
...
Ray is now near the lake at the center, when he saw a man sneaking around the periphery of the lake.
____________________________
[Name: Cole]
----------------------------
Stats:
[Strength: 17 (+50%)]
[Agility: 15 (+10%]
[Vitality: 15]
[Mana: 5]
[+] Skills:
____________________________
____________________________
[Skills]
Great Strength (Passive Unique Skill) - + 50% Strength.
Inspect (System Skill) - Examine object/ person's status.
Bullet Time (Active Awakening Skill) - x5 time perception for 5 seconds. (CD: 6 hours)
____________________________
Curious, Ray also sneaks behind the man with concealed steps, to look at the thing he was checking out.
'Did someone already release it?' Ray was serious. If it was released right now, then it would be a problem.
As Ray arrived behind the man, he saw what it was he was looking at.
He could hear the giggling of girls.
"Damn, Elsa, you really have big chests!"
"Stop it! Anna what are you doing?!"
Ray could see two naked cute girls frolicking on the lake.
"You two...You can play around, but no shouting, we don't know what monsters we could attract with our voices" A naked woman said coldly, it was Flaye. He didn't know how and when but her haggard look was replaced with an expression of a woman with a purpose. Making her reveal her beautiful form. Something might've changed her before coming to the wasteland, or maybe it was just because she is currently naked.
Seeing the scene on the lake, Ray's face immediately turned black.
Sneaking right now, looking at the naked girls, he looks like a pervert.
"Hehehe" Ray could hear the lewd laugh of the man next to him, there was a perverted expression on his face looking at Flaye.
Now they looked like a pair of perverts together, no matter how you looked at it.
Ray then heard a girl scream at them.
"Ahh! A pair of perverts!"
"What?!" "?!"
"Oh! Shit!" The man next to Ray suddenly turned around and was about to escape.
When the man saw Ray, he was shocked and stood still for a moment.
*Bang!
An ethereal bullet had then suddenly hit him from behind accurately as he had then fallen down.
Ray looked at the person who shot the ethereal bullet.
Flaye was currently looking at Ray with a doubtful expression.
At first, she was about to wait for 5 seconds to fire another bullet, but she found out that it wasn't the person she was thinking it was. She thought it was Yale, but found out that it was Ray instead.
She didn't know that he was this kind of person.
"I know how this may look, and this might sound like an excuse, but it's not what it looks like" Ray said to Flaye.
"Shameless!" A girl suddenly shouted at Ray!
"-Quiet" Flaye reprimanded.
"But!"
"Just! be silent" Said Flaye seriously.
"..." The girl was teary, as she then silently hid underwater. Ray could only see half of her head as she continues to glare at him.
But as Ray and Flaye keep on looking at each other.
The girls realized that the atmosphere seemed tense, as they had also begun being affected, becoming tense also.
As a leader, Flaye wanted to appear strong in front of her group but she knew that the person in front of her is someone whom they shouldn't offend right now.
Earlier, she heard some words from a woman with thick make-up that this person had killed an entire group of people by himself, and looted their corpses. She had even said that it seemed that he even wanted to go against them with an appearance of a psychopathic demon laughing like mad, screaming that he wants to kill the men and force himself on her, that's why they had run towards the mansion.
Flaye had her doubts about what the woman said, but there was some truth in it.
When they return to the grassland earlier, they saw a group of dead people on the area where this person was staying earlier when she and Yale had asked to join him.
It looked like the people really died in a short moment as they were still in a formation akin to surrounding him.
Flaye thought that it might've been self-defense since the people in those group are a bunch of bastards, but still, he was too good at it.
Someone too good at killing people is someone who is hard to trust.
This person has taken the lives of people, a murderer who is now isn't bound by the law.
But still, this person also gave them useful advice, and could also be said to be one of the reasons why her current group is formed.
Everything about him somewhat made a balance in regard to the impression he is giving.
That's why, If they could settle everything with a talk, then they should.
Ray, on the other hand, was at first got surprised by the sudden situation, and found it annoying at first being labeled as a pervert.
But after time, he realized that it doesn't matter if they labeled him as is or not.
'Why am I wasting time right now' Ray suddenly thought, as he then ignored them and continue towards the bridge leading towards the Mystery merchant.
He just spent a good amount of time just looking at a naked woman.
'Am I sexually frustrated?' He questioned himself.
"Wait!" Flaye suddenly called him.
Ray stopped walking and responded "What?"
"From your opinion, where do you think is the safest area to kill monsters?" She tried to find a topic to remove the tension between them, and could only ask such words.
"Dead Forest" Ray replied shortly and then continued walking.
"Thanks" Flaye's words could be heard as he continued.
"Thanks, also" Ray also said his thanks, since because of this event, he won't be caught off guard again if he saw similar scenes next time. Now that he thought of it, he was somewhat weak at surprise attacks.
"Thanks, about what?" Flaye murmured quietly. But it only caught to her mind by then, that she had always been naked in front of him for a time.
!?
"Perv..." She muttered with a blush.
The two girls on the other hand, are still confused on the side.
"..."
"..."
Meanwhile, they had forgotten about a sleeping man on the side.
"hehehe" He is currently asleep with a lewd smile.
...