Chapter 157: Well Played
Benton slowly lessened the effect of his gravity burst, lowering him to the ground. Once he landed, he stowed the cyclops’ corpse in his spatial ring. It occurred to him that the fight would have gone a lot better had he known about the beast’s weakness earlier.
He should do something about that oversight, but it wasn’t like he could just snap his fingers and gain as much knowledge of spirit beasts as he wanted. Oh wait…
Heavens, he really didn’t think that situation through, did he? Next time he was spending points, he’d add a technique to give him knowledge of spirit beasts to his buy list.
Self-recrimination complete, he turned his attention to the question posed by the popup. Did he want to choose his rewards?
A far higher priority in his opinion was to get back to the village and make sure that everyone was okay. He was low enough on qi that he’d need to consume a handful of spirit coins to afford a Quickstep traversing such a great distance, but he had plenty of the consumables available.
As he glanced down at himself, his appearance gave him pause. Far from looking like an all-knowing, mysterious master, he looked more like a hobo than he had since he’d first appeared at the village. He really didn’t want his disciples to see him dressed in torn, dirty, bloody robes.
But he needed to know if everyone was alright. Soon. Now.
Then it hit him. One of the rewards was contingent on the percentage of people surviving. The System should be able to tell him that quantity, and sure enough, after he posed the question, it did just that.
100%
He let out a very relieved breath. Everyone had survived. That was the best news he could have gotten.
For a moment, he worried that some of them might have ended up injured, needing him to come heal them, but he remembered how many pills he’d left them with. They’d be fine.
Feeling like he’d been rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off for entirely too long, he took a very deep breath and exhaled slowly. He took a moment to appreciate what he’d accomplished.