Chapter 257: CHAPTER 257 – The Strange Device.
"Did you get something out of them today as well?"
Luna questioned as she saw Alex coming out of the store room.
The store room was an underground floor before, and it was just one room of 3X3 meters, but now it was a large compartment.
Alex used his earth element to make enough space to fit a plane in the store room, and that place was his little lab, a place where he experiments on his lab rats.
The lab rats don't even have their limbs or their mouth, but they are still useful.
"Yep, I got a new way to use the space element, though one of them died…."
Alex started speaking with a smile but in the end, his voice got tinged with frustration.
His lab rats were too weak for him to test his powers on.
He had been suppressing his power while experimenting on them, but they still broke down pretty quickly.
"Well, they are lab rats, what do you expect?"
Luna who sat on the sofa just shrugged her shoulders.
She knew who those people were and what they had done, so whatever they were going through didn't look bad to Luna.
Not like Luna would've stopped him or tried to dissuade him even if the people Alex was torturing were actually good.
That was just who Luna was.
She never cared about the world.
"I guess…"
Alex nodded his head with a sigh.
It was the fifth lab rat of his that went to meet the lord up in heaven.
All of them died during experiments.
'But oh well, they are lab rats for a reason…'
Alex even fed them dog food, and although they denied it at the start, in a week, they were gulping it down their throat even without chewing.
It was not like they had their mouth to help them chew.
"When are you going to use that thing?"
Luna then questioned as she pointed at the stone-like device that was kept on the study table.
Alex thought for a moment before he stood up from the sofa he just sat on.
"Let's just do it right now."
Alex asserted as he picked up the device.
This device was something the assassins' leader used to talk with their real leader, the one who gave them commands.
It was always handled by a guy named Bees.
He was a Dogman, and unlike wolfmen or werewolves, they looked tamer.
They were supposed to be very careful, and that was the reason why he held most of the important stuff of the group.
Alex got this device out of that dogman's storage ring.
Oh, and just so you guys know, that dogman is dead.
He died in an experiment related to his Destruction energy.
His innards were disintegrated, leaving only the skin and bones.
"You are going to use it now? Shouldn't we wait for Alice and Ann?"
Luna hurriedly asked.
The idea of doing something alone with Alex excited her a lot, especially when Alice and Ann weren't here, and it was only her.
'The first thing related to Alex that I would know, but they won't, at least not until Alex or I decide to disclose it.'
Luna giggled inwardly.
"Well, we can tell them what we get."
Alex just shrugged.
Unlike Luna, he didn't think of this situation as anything special.
He had never tried using that device before because he was not in the mood or busy with his experiments.
But, right now, he was free, so he decided to get on with it.
"Ok."
Luna nodded her head, letting herself enjoy her alone time with Alex.
It was rare for her to have alone time with Alex, but just then….
"What are you doing, master?"
A wolf pup jumped up on Alex.
And, of course, it was Noctura.
"Nothing special."
Alex replied as he picked Noctura up and placed her on his shoulder.
"I see that you've mastered your size manipulation."
Although Noctura was a child-sized wolf, her features were sharp like an adult's, and if someone observed her carefully, they would be able to tell that, instead of growing younger, it was just her size that had decreased to that of her younger self.
Noctura was in a chibi wolf form.
All of this was possible because of the new ability that Alex gave her.
'I want to lie on your lap like I used to….'
This was Noctura's request a while ago.
Her size was growing a bit too fast and she was already 2 meters tall, and 5 meters long.
Even staying in the house was getting hard for her, so Alex decided to buy her size manipulation technique.
Now it was not the real manipulation type ability, this was just an imitated version of the real one, but it still cost Alex 2 million points, something that took him a while to collect.
But he didn't really care about it, for him, Noctura's happiness mattered more than some measly points could ever do.
"Hehe…"
Noctura giggled as Alex praised her.
She rubbed her head on Alex's cheek causing him to chuckle as well.
"All right, all right, calm down.
I have something important to do."
Alex patted Noctura's head, telling her to tone down a bit, and Noctura simply sat back on his shoulder, relaxing her body.
'Sigh….'
Luna, on the other hand, just sighed.
'Not alone, I guess…'
Luna was celebrating a bit too early.
Even if Alice and Ann were not here, Noctura was still here.
Now, where were Alice and Ann?
They went to the labs where the mysterious group conducted experiments.
They had to save the all of people or it would be better to say women, in there.
Clare tagged along with them as well.
She wanted to contribute to the tasks, so Alice and Ann let her tag along.
There were no major gates right now.
No SSS-ranked gate that any of them would have to move.
The gates that were appearing the most right now were SS-ranked gates, and they could be cleared by other people out there.
Unless it was a special gate or something like that.
"Let's see if they pick it up or not…."
Alex finally focused on the stone-like device and poured his mana into it.
Luna and Noctura also turned serious.
Both are serious for different reasons.
Luna was serious because she knew who they were calling and where they were calling, while Noctura turned serious because she could feel a strange energy from the device.
It was the same as the attack that Alex had taught her, and as if reading her thoughts, Alex smiled.
"Good job, pup.
Your senses are getting stronger."
Alex smiled as he continued to supply mana to the device.
The device was taking time to get working.
However, It was not because Alex didn't have enough mana to activate that thing, it was taking time because the runes over the stone-like device worked slowly.
"You mean it is…"
Noctura muttered and Alex completed her words.
"Space element, yes.
This device had a very deep connection with space."
Alex nodded his head as he stared at the device.
All of them just kept staring at the device until 1 minute later, the device finally shone brightly.
*Click*
And with a click sound, it got connected.
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