There were crashing sounds not far away, accompanied by the sound of thumping.

Everyone's expressions changed. they exchange looks and looked at Jack with expectation.

Alto for his part was kinda shaken by the loud sound but got himself sorted out and looked the the source with a curious look.

"Lets go, lets look at whats happening" Alto then started moving to the source of the sound.

the others looked back at Alto and started followed once he moved.

With the protective cover he wasn't that worried that something bad will happen to them.

once they were near the source of the sound they saw a kodo beast

the kodo was interesting, normally it has a lizard like head, a horn on its snout, rhino body, its back like a camels and heavy long tail.

this one is different from the other kodo beast. with scales allover its body, and its reddish-brown skin.

when they came, they saw it constantly hitting the protective cover, trying to rush in.

When the kodo saw them coming, it started attacking the protective cover with much more ferocity.

"A monster from the Azure Shroud"

Jack said with his magnetic voice and a curious look; not at the kodo but at the cover. he continued to explain at the new lording.

"Azure shroud monsters, formed from the overabundant Azure Shroud that infects this world."

Alto gave him a suspicious look but then chance his target to the lizard to see if he can see a panel for it.

The monster panel then appears before him.

Monster Name Barren Land Kodo Beast Strength Level Tin-Lower Level Monster Overview A shroud monster native and born in the azure shroud within barren lands with harsh environments. Wild and manic, anything it sees it like to trample and lay waste to. Loot Units Level Rate Units Level Rate 1 Shroud Core Tin Level 100% 1~20 Kodo Meat Tin-Low Level 30%~5% 1kg Water Sack 5% 1 Swordsman Promotion Token Tin Level 0.4%

"so this how my talent works? seems like a decent list of loot, and all the loot are for basic survival in the area, that's good."

Alto looked at the loot drop rate with an excited expression. "and i can have all of the listed loot!"

he then look at himself and his soft hand and flimsy arms and then back at Jack and his fully jacked self and asked him to fight the monster.

"mind if you shoot it down Kai? Our territory has a protective cover, this monster can't rush in, we can just kill it through the cover."

he then imminently offered. "can i also borrow your sword and I'll help dispose of it."

Jack looked at Alto slightly and said with black face "i can do it myself, it can give me some exp. no need to fret"

When Alto heard this his eyes lit up. "exp? seems like we can level up in this plane. i wonder how that works"

Jack then looked at the monster slightly pulled the bow and drew an arrow. took aim for a while, and then shoot the arrow directly into the eye of the Monster.

The kodo beast roared in pain, and hit the protective cover even more frantically. wishing to fight and kill him.

immediately after he began to shoot arrows one after another.

Seeing this, even if it seems futile the other four also picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at the beast.

embarrassed, Alto didn't join in as they might fail to get exp. it was better to test it out when more opportunity and convince is available.

with rocks being thrown on it immediately aggravate the kodo. but with the cover on the territory its efforts were fruitless and in around three minutes the beast drew its last breath.

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A kill prompt appeared in front of Alto.

A [Territory Resident] (Jack Alion) killed [Barren Land Kodo Beast (Tin-Lower Level) ] and his exp was increased by +10

at the same time. a warm feeling suddenly appeared in Alto's center forehead, and then spreads throughout his body. he also noticed that he was a little more energetic than before.

When a [Territory Resident] kills, they will gain [90%exp] and the [10%exp] will belong to [Territory Governor]

"so anything killed by any member of the territory will contribute some experience to the territory lord"

"seems easy to level up as a lord then"

"though it kinda force the lords not need to fight and its more beneficial to have territory residents gain the exp."

Alto thought. then he heard one of the other men without a profession ask.

"Our Liege, do you want me to bring you back the corpse?"

before Leo answered to the other person Jack answered for him.

"no need, its dangerous out there. I'll do it, I'm more durable"

he said his piece and Alto gave him an appreciative look and thumbs up.

Jack then gave him a look and then slowly approached the corpse and check the surroundings for danger. then drags the corpse in front of Alto.

"My Liege, you need to touch the corpse for it to be usable."

"all corpse are useless and is only use is to extract loot"

"they also only last for an hour. after which, if its a creature of the shroud it turns into smoke and dissipate" Jack reminded.

Alto frowns."is there such a thing?" he then ask

"and what about other corpses?"

"they also only last for an hour after which they scatter to light and dissipate"

Alto asked another question.

"what about anyone else from the territory, can you or the others loot the corpses?"

"can."

"then why didn't you loot the corpse?"

don't get Alto wrong, its not that he didn't want to loot the corpse but was just plainly curious. and this curiosity was subjected with the mans frowning and slightly embarrassed face. a first from his stoic face.

"my luck is terrible."

"This kodo beast... when I was in the army, the best loot i got was 3 units of meat..."

Alto saw that the mans face was slight red with annoyance. "might be a bad experience for him".

"I saw that it can also drop pure drinking water. and it was cause for celebration for their luck"

Jack was a little listless at the end.

Alto understood, he understood very well how he felt. he also had terrible luck from his past lives.

he gave Jack an understanding look.

Jack nod at that, but then his face grew dark as he read the look Alto gave him and some exasperation at know that their lord had the same luck hand he had.

"seems like were going to have someone else touch the corpse other that them." he thought

he also swear to himself to commit to have him and his lord to not touch the corpse to extract the loot.

before he can advocate to his commitment he saw Alto extract the look...

"look like we're going to have to tighten our belts. our lordling seems keen on extracting the loot. should i make excuses for him to not do it?"

unbeknownst to Alto, his action gave his only combat force some existential crisis. spent no time to consider as he touch the corpse.

with his legendary talent he will definitely use it extract all the loot in the territory, and he shall give no one a chance to veto him.

a screen appears.

Extract loot

with a thought in his mind, Alto chose to extract, and the next second a new text prompt appeared.

Governor Talent has intervened

You have obtained Loot Units Level Units Level 1 Shroud Core Tin Level 20 Kodo Meat Tin-Low Level 1kg Water Sack 1 Swordsman Promotion Token Tin Level

Hurrah!!!

Under the stunned eyes of Jack and the others, the body of the kodo instantly scattered into lights and turned into countless trophies that scattered on the ground.

They even piled up into a small hill of loot.

"Water came out! that's pretty lucky"

"and whats that? is that a token! how come!"

"do kodo beast produce tokens?"

"never heard of it before."

"man, our lord sure is lucky"

Jack was in shock and was too stunned to speak.

while the others are exclaiming and appraising the loot.

Alto was also giddy with excitement, "loot explosion sure is fun to watch!"

the scene was so explosive all of them had colorful expressions.

suppressing his shock Jack then turned to his lord and explained seriously.

"my lord, we should move the loot into the storage box inside your cabin to reduce its exposure to the elements, specially the meat, we can do it for you but you'll need to give us permission"

with his explanation Alto frowns and see to it how to do thing.

easy enough it seems, some function can be done while inside the territory.

he saw another screen and with a thought gave permission to everyone.

"lets move all the loot to the cabin"

"Yes!"

the four people came back to their senses and said quickly.

together with his residents, they all start moving things each carried part of the loot at the back of the house where the large chest is.

the lock seems superficial as it didn't stop them from opening it and depositing the loot

Alto started the appraisal of the loot with them.

he took a square tablet like stone from the storage depicting a soldier with a sword and shield and basic breastplate armor set.

With a thought text prompt appears.

Item Swordsman Promotion Token Level Tin Level Item Effect basic unit upgrade prop. After use, the user will become a basic unit class - Swordsman. user will also has a set of standard equipment(Tin) one year of actual combat experience as a Swordsman, and strength(Tin-Low Level). Introduction Token for the promotion of basic arms. Only one token is needed to allow an ordinary person without strength to step into the extraordinary road of taking up a class.

Alro's eyes lit up. "this is awesome!"

As expected of a loot that can only be dropped with a 0.5% chance!