Alex was going to come back here to the Phoenixia Empire; this empire had some protagonists within it, and a protagonist meant a coin farm for Alex.
All he had to do was reap the protagonist, and he will have the rewards.
Even the Phoenix, whose name is Emberlyn Ashborn, was going to be reaped by him sooner or later; it would entirely depend on what her response was.
He could've just killed her and left with the rewards, no one would've even known that it was him, they would've thought that the phoenix died on its own.
But he gave her a chance, as he knew that she wasn't a bad entity; she might instead be the only one he found until today who could be called a good entity.
So, he let her be and moved toward the spot where he had left Ann and Noctura, as he could sense the presence of someone from legendary rank moving toward them.