Tarak, Hertley, Aitan, Ecko and Fox revealed expressions of surprising on their faces which instantly turned into look of suspicion and wariness. Within the wilderness, the rule of the jungle prevails.
Deception, dishonesty, disinformation, and distortion is as simple as breathing to the people of the wasteland. Being double crossed after making a deal is extremely normal and killing other humans to plunder loot and evolution points another groups loot is the main trend to living therefore, when they saw a young man alone, they remained cautious.
From the young man's appearance, he appeared very young - ultimately 18 or 19 but he had exited one of the most dangerous cave within the vicinity, carrying a load filled bag, judging by the green fluids dripping off the bag is suspected to be filled with corpses of Twin-tailed scorpions.
Their main purpose here was the same as Lucifer, kill the scorpions and sell them. They never thought someone would be faster than them in getting here.
Tarak, the blue-haired man in his mid-thirties was stuck in a dilemma. He was the one who suggested the idea and now and after purchasing a few armors and anti-toxins antidotes, they arrived here. However a tad but late.
"Boy! What the hell are you doing in our tuff?" Ecko, a particularly large and grumpy man growled as he stared menacingly at Lucifer.
Clearing away his initial astonishment, Lucifer replied coldly. "When did the wasteland turn into your hunting ground?"
"Since I deemed it so! Boy drop the bag and immediately take your leave. Don't let things get messy at this point."
Lucifer snickered lightly then proceeded to ignore them as he walked away.
The five people were surprised the youth ignored them and most especially Ecko. Tarak, Hertley, Aitan, and Fox specialize in different areas of evolution but Ecko had 2 levels in physique, making him the strongest amongst their bunch. He was also unreasonable, prone to anger and a pure brute with little brains
And as expected, Ecko was stunned and immediately infuriated. A boy not even half his age had the guts to ignore him?
With a roar, he grabbed his hands towards Lucifer's shoulder, intending to teach Lucifer a lesson.
"Bam!"
His large hands were as wide as a door as they slammed heavy on Lucifer's shoulder, clamping heavily against his bones tightly like a pair of iron pliers. He applied pressure to his hands. He could even crush a rough stone with his hands as for bones, they were nothing much for his strong hands.
The youth's indifferent eyes stared coldly at Ecko as the man applied pressure.
Hertley chuckled slightly. "Did you finally grow a conscience and choose to let the young man go?"
Ecko was confused. There was no expression of pain in the young man's eyes and he also couldn't feel the vibration of bones breaking or creaking under his force.
"Maybe Ecko haven't eaten this morning, right? " Aitan laughed at the scene.
Fox's eyes were gleaming as he stared intently at the young man with interest. The same with Tarak. For a young man like Lucifer to not flinch under the force of Ecko, now that was something rare.
Listening their words, Ecko's face flushed red and he immediately grabbed Lucifer's other shoulder, exerting his entire strength on that grip.
"Are you done?" The young man's indifferent eyes finally landed on him and Ecko seem to have felt his hair rising in end.
"BAM!" "BANG!!"
The ground instantly cracked into spider-web shape as Ecko's knees bumped heavily to the ground.
His eyes widened and a groan of intense pain escaped his lips. It was as though his shoulder had been dislocated.
Lucifer retracted his hand and then walked away.
"Hey kid." Tarak quickly called him while Aitan and Hertley made fun of Ecko while helping him up. 'Haha, you had your ass handed to you by a kid.'
Seeing that the youth had no intention of listening to him.
Fox's eyes glimmered as his brain cells worked quickly. "Can you sell us your the corpses?"
Lucifer finally stopped walking. The five of them were aware that he wasn't to be messed witj therefore, they intended to make a deal with him.
"For that sack, we will give you 20,000 Meta." Fox stated a price without beating around the bush.
Lucifer's eyes flickered and he shook his head. "That's too low price. 100,000 Meta."
Fox walked forwards as he laughed. "Kid, that's just too much. The flesh within one scorpion is so little that one can barely find 2 percent evolution progress."
"But the corpses can be used to produce anti-venom gene serums which can sell for a high price."
Fox squinted his eye Lucifer wasn't as ignorant as he looked. "Alright, 40,000 Meta then."
"90,000."
" My Final offer, 50,000."
"80,000."
"60,000. Really my final offer."
"Deal."
Fox nodded his head with a smile and then spoke. "It's good we have a deal. Now, we don't carry that kind of money on us but, we have something of equal."
Lucifer furrowed his brows and instantly shook his head. It was money he needed at the moment and not something of equivalent. "If you don't have the money, then forget about it."
He was about to leave when he heard the Tarak, the mid-thirty man said in a hurry. "We have a kilogram of level-3 flesh."
Lucifer squinted eyes shot open and he stared at Tarak in astonishment. Who would dare reveal to another person that they have a level-3 pair of flesh?
Super soldiers would fight to possess a level-3 piece of flesh as it was the only way they could increase their evolution progress, level2 flesh is useless to a level 2 individual.
Fox nodded his head in confirmation. Lucifer blinked his eyes in thought. He needed a level-3 or level-4 piece flesh urgently to advance to level-2 as he was just a percent away from an evolution point.
He could rare a beast and wait for it to evolve using the shriveled finger but he would have to spend time waiting for the beast to evolve and Lucifer noticed that there are different evolution time for different creatures which is why he decided to accept their request.