Chapter 440: Ray alone (1/2)

Anger, sadness, and fear. Ray didn't know what exactly he was feeling right now. All he knew was that at this moment, all he wanted to do was to go and see if the girls were alright. It was strange, but he hadn't felt like this before.

Even when he was away from the Redwing kingdom and when he wasn't with the girls, just knowing they were alive was enough. So he didn't understand why was he worried about them now.

He knew they were alive, right? But still, it didn't change that fact, and it was the very reason why he had used all his strength to finish the fight as quickly as possible. He wasn't even trying to get a faster time than Roki. He had completely forgotten about the entire competition altogether.

After declining to fight the emperor tier beast, Ray walked up to the dead beast and then using his fist, he impaled its chest. At this moment, accessing his system he made the beast crystal appear in his hand that was in his inventory and pulled it out from the beast lifting it up in the air.

”Wow, like a real gladiator, I'm really starting to like this guy!” Someone from the crowd said and they all let out an almighty cheer as he raised his hand.

Even if they were upset at him for not taking on the Emperor tier beast, they couldn't be upset for too long after he had given the impressive performance he had done.

However, his reason for doing this wasn't to gloat in his victory. It was because after killing the beast; the system had automatically given him a crystal. If they were to check the beast for a crystal, they would find no result. Not wanting to cause any suspicion, Ray needed to make it look like he was the one that had extracted the crystal.

It was safe to say Ray was in a rush to leave the place. He had decided that it would be best for him to look for the girls rather than to focus on the event anymore. But there were still some procedures he needed to go through before leaving, and he also needed to wait for the audience to leave the field.

At the reception area, the crowd had left and Roki was busy registering for the event once again for the next day. That was when he saw Nes walk past him, however this time, he had walked straight past the registration center.

Roki looked on the sheet and he could see no such name.

'Is he not planning to participate, tomorrow?' Roki thought.

Exiting from the arena, the first thing Ray decided to do was send to a message to the guys asking where they would meet up. He waited and waited, but in the end, got no such reply. Thinking that they might have gone back to the inn and fallen asleep, Ray returned to the inn but still could see no one there.

”What happened to them?” Ray said. ”Has their fate become the same as the girls?”

He popped up the list and all four of their names were still present on the Redwings list. It settled his heart a little, but for the first time in a while, Ray was in a city completely on his own. Some would say this was probably one of the most scary things to happen. the very idea of Ray being on his own. Before leaving the inn to search the streets, the Inn keeper had stopped him.

”Sir, I'm sorry to ask but, will you be staying a few more nights? If so, I will need to take the payment now, as you can see we will be really busy in the next few days as more visitors come in.” The little girl asked.

Ray looked around and soon realized that he had left his money with the boys as well. So instead he opted up his hand and handed the girl two intermediate crystals he had gotten from the arena.

”Is this okay for now, I have yet to exchange them?” Ray replied.

”This is more than enough, thank you, sir.” The girl bowed down and quickly left to go fill in her sheets of paper.

Even if Ray didn't have money, he had the crystals he had obtained from the fights he could exchange for coin, and he still had the king tier crystal as well, but he would have rather used that to turn into a nice piece of equipment. But he didn't have enough money to pay for someone to do the process in the first place. The others had the money for that, so for now he would just have to keep it on himself.

After paying for the rooms of he went to look for the guys and girls himself. It was a rather unusual style for him, but all he could do was to use his dragging eyes and at the same time ask people from the inns and tavern if they had seen anyone.

The conversation was unusual, to say the least, with a few people even shunning him for how direct and rude Ray seemed to be, and it turns out Ray wasn't the best at giving descriptions.

He would pull random people facing them towards him, with no introductions, and went straight to the point.

”Have you seen a bald headed man, who has an annoying voice, with a blonde handsome boy when comparing them to normal human standards?”