33 Awakening (1/2)

Leon wasn't going to show mercy to someone who pointed a gun at his head. Snake deserved death anyway. Being the ex-boss of the gang, his hands would surely be stained with the blood of many people.

Leon dragged the unconscious Snake by the collar back to the rear end and place him on a table.

Arlo and Gower returned at this moment. It shouldn't have taken them that long to kick the people out of the building, but he wasn't going to question them.

”Do you have any other instructions for us, boss?”

”I need you two to guard the stairs and not allow anyone to come down and disturb me.”

”Right away, boss.” They took a last glance at the miserable and unconscious Snake before leaving.

...

”The new boss seems to have strange aesthetics taste.” Arlo suddenly said, while they were guarding the stairs.

”What do you mean?” Gower was puzzled by Arlo's comment.

”Didn't you see? The boss sent away the beauty without touching her before, yet he told us to keep others from disturbing him, while he's in there with the ex-boss.” Arlo explained.

”T-This... surely not 'that'... right?” Gower felt chills crawling up on him.

”I hope not... who knows how kids are raised these days. It's fine as long as the boss don't call us for 'that'.”

If Leon knew how the two was talking behind his back, he would have puked blood from anger. There was no problem with his sexual orientation!

...

When Leon finish his preparation, he sent his divine sense into Snake's unconscious body and inspected every part of his body, making sure not to miss anything important.

He wanted to study the difference in the body of a 2nd step awakener. The body was naturally stronger than ordinary person. Leon discovered that the strengthened body wasn't simple. It was tempered by earth element and would have a degree of resistance against earth-element attacks, albeit not much.

Leon speculated that other awakeners are also tempered by their respective elemental affinity. With the acquired resistance, the chances of awakeners being harmed by their own ability is lowered. for example; It would be bad if a fire user accidentally burnt himself to death.

Leon sent his divine sense into the glabella region after he was done with the other areas. The earth core was spotted in the center as he expected.

Even without pills, they could still advance naturally. It was just a matter of time. There must be a bigger secret behind their source of strength.

Leon couldn't discover anything new in the glabella, so he decided to peer into the core directly. The core was not solid. It was just a body of energy clustered together. Leon's divine sense was immaterial and was able to pass through it easily.

The center of the core was empty. Just a bunch of earth elements revolving around it. Nothing particular stood out. Leon was disappointed and was about to give up when suddenly he felt the faintest connection of the earth core leading elsewhere. It led direction into the sea of consciousness, which could also be called the spiritual sea.

If it was someone else, he would think carefully before entering the spiritual sea of another as he could cause irreparable damage to that person, if he was not careful. He didn't have proficient understanding of the soul to be able to heal a soul injury.