Chapter 216 - Milking Out Loot (2/2)

Hearing the human's words, Argentum could not help but ponder as to how they found that out. While Argentum was pondering over it, the other remaining humans looked at the human that shouted out and mustered their courage to say that the game was unfair to Argentum. It did not take long for all of the humans to have their fear be replaced with what seemed to be conviction and pride. As to whether this pride came from their higher existence level or from the idea that they found out what Argentum was doing, no one would ever know.

Seeing that their fear towards him had changed into something else, Argentum changed his train of thought from a while ago. He was now pondering whether he should persuade them to continue the third round with their subconscious fear towards him or change it into something else, making the humans feel like they've won, even though they ultimately did not.

As he thought about these two choices a bit more, Argentum seemed to lean a bit more towards the second choice, thinking that he would be able to extort a lot more items from them when compared to the first one, where the rewards he would obtain from them was only their bodies and the items on them. It was then that a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, instantly making Argentum favor the second choice as he laughed inwardly at the thought that he had just formulated.

'With this choice, I would not only be able to obtain their items, but I would also be able to obtain their knowledge as well!' Argentum thought to himself. The flash of inspiration that appeared in his mind was that of the knowledge of humans, or to be more specific, the knowledge of skills they had. He was thinking of making them surrender in exchange for giving them all of the information they had about skills, as well as the important items they had on them.

With this in mind, he could not help but look at the two bodies he had killed and muttered, ”Now that I think about it, two Rank 0 bodies have more than enough energy for me to undergo the first Power Baptism, so why should I go ahead and kill the others without obtaining more rewards from them?”

At this point, the humans thought that Argentum's silence was a way of telling them that they had won over his wits, that he was going to give up the game. Unfortunately for them, Argentum's voice resounded once more, breaking this illusion they had in their minds as he said, ”You know, I could just say that I was actually in the tree the second human was at a while ago, but moved back to the first one to attack and none would be the wiser, right?”

In an instant, the humans' confidence and pride had crumbled, reverting to fear once more as they thought that the game they were playing was going to continue. But after hearing what Argentum said afterward, this fear had turned to that of slight relief.

”But sure, I'll admit to it. I wasn't in the other tree in the second round,” Argentum said.

Just as they thought that the game was now over, Argentum continued to talk, removing the relief they felt a while ago in an instant.

”We're still going to continue the game though. Let's just say the first two rounds didn't count,” Argentum uttered as he chuckled with a malicious tone. It was at that instant that something inside one of the remaining humans broke as that human shouted, ”Do you plan to torture us one by one with this game? Isn't the conclusion just all of us dead? If so, just kill all of us at once, for f.u.c.k's sake! I'd rather die right now than go through a game like this again!”

”Calm down there,” Argentum said, slightly bewildered by the response of the human. He then continued, ”I was actually thinking of giving you five a choice to choose.”

Hearing that the Wind Spirit that killed their brethren without a problem was seemingly giving them a chance to live after what was done to them, the five of them could not help but think that their ears were clogged up with wax or something. Ignoring what they were feeling, Argentum continued talking, ”You have two choices. One, we continue the game and all of you die off one by one…”

”Or two, surrender all of your valuable items to me, as well as the knowledge of every skill you know. If you do that, I'll set you free,” Argentum added, to which the five humans looked at each other.

To them, the choice was incredibly obvious. By choosing the second option, they would be free. Skills and items were just material objects they could regain in the future, there was no problem with that. But then, just as one of the humans was about to speak up and choose the second choice, the human that shouted a while ago yelled once more, saying, ”Huh?! Give up our skills and items?! I'd rather die than give it to a lowly Pseudo-Animate like you! What are you going to do with it anyway?! Use it as some sort of—”

Bang!

Even before the human could finish saying what it was trying to say, a bolt of wind had pierced through the human's chest without a problem with great force, destroying its heart in an instant as blood gushed from both sides of the human's body. It did not take long for the human to die from blood loss like the previous human, the expression on its face filled with disbelief and regret.

The four remaining humans looked at the human that was killed off just now with intense disbelief. Just like that, the human that was with them a while ago was now dead thanks to a bolt of wind. All of them could not help but wonder about the same thing.

'How strong is this Wind Spirit? And we actually had the balls to try and catch it?'

Just as their thoughts were about to gradually wander off, a bolt of wind collided with the ground a few decimeters in front of them, jolting them back to reality as Argentum's voice soon resounded.

”So…have you four made your choices?” Argentum asked them.

In response, the four remaining humans looked at each other before looking at the tree where Argentum was. They then simultaneously nodded their heads as all of them said not long after, ”We have decided to choose the second choice.”

”Hehehe.” Argentum chuckled in response to their answer as he said not long after, ”Truly a wise choice.”