Miles appeared in the stronghold. Crushing the Bach Gym was nothing worthy for him. If they didn’t try to record him once again or didn’t run their mouths stupidly, Miles would have to work a little bit harder, but it was as simple as walking into the building. After he was done, he wouldn’t care any longer. Now he had to hunt a little bit more, and experiment with different ideas he had.
“First, I have to collect more minerals. I am not strong enough to go deep inside of the cave, but for now, I can at least steal one or two minerals.” Miles thought to himself as he started to ride his car towards the direction where he encountered Jelly.
After driving for more than an hour, he stopped the car and uncharged the orb. “This is strange.” He talked to himself.
“It is different from last time.” Coin said and affirmed his thoughts.
“Yeah. Maybe because I came from another direction.” Miles thought to himself. He should have entered the forest he encountered with Jelly and Culga, but the environment was a lot different.
“Coin, draw a map according to my last time, please. It should be exactly the same as last time.” Miles said after thinking for a while.
“Are you suspecting of a wormhole?” Coin asked as he showed the map to Miles.
“Yeah. It was strange from the beginning anyway. Endless mountain range couldn’t be here at the utmost periphery of G-Circle, but I encountered it. If that was not enough, after entering a cave, I found hundreds of Elemental Minerals. But the most strange thing was Jelly’s mother and the land beyond the hole. Beyond the hole, the land was B-Circle. I am sure of it.” Miles tried to prove his points in his heart, but his heart was still beating madly.
After leaving the forest again for another hour, he walked in his footsteps and walked exactly the same path. When he arrived where the mountain entrance should have been, he was dumbstruck. He looked at the arid land with his mouth agape and his pupils dilated to the limit.
“It is gone!” He couldn’t help but shout.
“What is gone, mate?” A voice came from his back.
Miles looked behind and saw a handsome teen with scars all over his body. Miles was wearing his armor ever since he left the stronghold because he was riding the car. The car was Marooner’s so Miles wouldn’t risk his identity. So when he heard the voice, he calmly looked back with his armor.
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“Wow, the one and only Marooner, it is my honor.” The teen said. He had blood on his lips and was smiling.
“What happened to you?” Miles asked as he approached the guy. He didn’t feel any danger from the man and he was too injured to pull a number on him.
“I came this far from the stronghold so I wouldn’t encounter any strong monsters, but who could have guessed a pinnacle-tier monster would appear here?” He laughed then coughed blood.
“Take it easy.” Miles went to the teen and gave him some medicine before patching up his injuries. “Where is the monster?”
“I self-destructed all my orbs. I must have scared it away. I ran all the way here.” The teen said after a sigh of relief. The medicine started to heal him already, and his heaving chest was relaxing. “Say, would you like a deal?”
“What deal?” Miles looked at the teen with questioning eyes.
“I am too injured to fight, and even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to fight against that monster if it were to appear once again. So, you take me to the closest stronghold, and I will reward you handsomely. What do you say?” The teen said and looked at Miles expectantly.
“Sure, but we will agree on the price in advance, and if we encounter something beyond me I will use you as bait before running away.” Miles agreed readily.
“Sure thing, buddy.” The teen laughed so hard, he started to cough once again.
“From here to Veteran Aomine Stronghold, there are two hundred kilometers. I will not take advantage of you, so I will charge 10 million for every hundred kilometers.” Miles said and reached out his arm.
“Fuck you, you greedy bastard!” Teen cursed but reached out his arm nonetheless. Twenty million was transferred to his account and would appear in his account after he went to the Earth.
Miles grinned underneath his armor and summoned the ivory car. He let the teen sit before the car dashed off in the forest. While they were going, a roar was heard in the forest and a beast appeared in front of the duo.
“Shit, it is the same monster.” Teen cursed and looked at Miles. If Marooner left him to be eaten, he could do nothing.
“Seems weak,” Miles smirked and left the car. He wasn’t worried about the teen stealing his car because no one but Coin and him could use it while he was close by.
A purplish-azure orb appeared in his hand before it melted and merged with his helmet. Miles let the monster look like a giant boar approached him before he opened his mouth and shouted;
“Die you beast!” The shout traveled with the speed of lightning and ferociousness of wind before it blasted against the monster. The typhoon racked on monster’s skin and invisible blades created thousands of cuts on the monster’s body.
Not long after, with a dull sound, the monster collapsed to the ground, dead. Miles approached the monster and cut open its head. There was only a core with a sharpness element. Miles kept the orb and cut the monster's flesh. He removed dishware and cooking apparatuses from his bag before he started to cook. The teen in the car looked at Miles from where he was sitting with his mouth agape.
“What the hell are you doing?” He said. He was still shocked to see Miles could finish the monster with one attack. Miles on the other hand was too tired after using that damned attack. He wanted to try the orb, but it consumed all his energy, so he wanted to eat. He started to cut the flesh of the monster, thus the confusion of the teen.