Chapter 125: Looting the Strongest 4th-floor Contestant - Cuteness Overload!
A crack resounded as Kai flicked his tail like a whip, cracking his neck.
The hairs were vanishing all around him, turning into tiny blue globules. Near him, lay pieces of a broken red skull and a dull red hairpin broken in two, which once could have glowed demonically. Not anymore.
Kai's chest heaved up and down as he took deep breaths.
This entire mission had cost him a vast supply of HP capsules given to him by Red Sun, the 9th-floor Contestant. From what Meg had told him, the HP Capsules restored 250 per pill. It was a ridiculous amount.
If a Contestant were to take the second HP/MP/SP capsule within a 3-hour window after taking the first capsule, then he would get only half the original amount the capsule would have restored after the Cooldown was over.
Despite this restriction, Kai could take two pills back to back without worrying about the loss of HP. The second HP capsule he had taken, to heal his charred self after the explosion, had given him only 125 HP, but it was still well over his HP.
Now, he only had 12 of these capsules left.
There was no other choice, Kai thought, consoling himself. I could have saved them if I had the time to do these things in a roundabout way. That would have taken much time, though. Using these HP capsules was the shortest and most effective way to get to the things I had planned without losing time.
When Kai shook off the drowsiness creeping over him, he looked at the notification.
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