Chapter 261: Traveling Around The First Step
Nevertheless, the 'beast' and 'monster' race's weren't even the worst of them! That title was solely withheld from all other races, as only one race and one race alone could truly be called the most lascivious race of them all
That race being the Dragon's!
They truly didn't care what it was that had a hole! Even trees, plants, and even whole planets were not beneath them to f*ck!
But that's enough talking about the 'peculiarities' of the race's inhabiting Asterion.
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Azmond leisurely strolled through the streets of the Luminous Grounds first floor, gazing upon all the inner workings of the 'World' and its denizens.
He was also 'marking' all the extremely heinous monsters on his bucket list for 'experience acquisition'. And that led to around 95% of the monsters becoming destined Exp bags for the future!
The Discerning Quantum Eye had always possessed the ability to scan the habits and personalities of all those it came into contact with, but Azmond simply hadn't paid attention to such a thing before he entered the Luminous Grounds.
Of course, in the beginning, Azmond wanted to just indiscriminately kill all the monsters he saw. But that last shred of consciousness he had would not allow him to kill innocent monsters who were simply trying to live their lives just the same as any 'innocent humans' would.
Azmond passed a relatively large hut located on the outskirts of the 'countryside' of the first step and saw a few bunnykins harvesting crops on seemingly arable land.
A few bright lights flashed as he scanned over the stats of these 'monsters'.
[Bunnykin (Joseph): Tier 0: Level 36 {[Stats: Strength: 189, Speed: 196, Defense: 225, Qi: 205]} {[Relationship Status: Neutral]} {[Overall Personality: Helpful]}
[Bunnykin (Sandra): Tier 0: Level 37 {[Stats: Strength: 206, Speed: 209, Defense: 235, Qi: 265]} {[Relationship Status: Neutral]} {[Overall Personality: Generous]}
[Bunnykin (Midus): Tier 0: Level 49 {[Stats: Strength: 450, Speed: 476, Defense: 483, Qi: 425]} {[Relationship Status: Neutral]} {[Overall Personality: Kind]}
"Hmm"
Azmond took one glance over their stat sheets and added them to his 'No Exp List'.
They were just monsters trying to make a living with the cards they were given. He had no reason to murder 'people' like that over a few experience points.
After all, most of the strong beings in Asterion were all a bunch of deplorable assholes, so Azmond would have plenty of chances to acquire billions of times more Exp from them!
However, it seemed like a certain someone~someone found this entire 'To kill or not to kill list' a little weird.
|Why are you being so considerate of these people, Azmond?| Boundless questioned with a mildly perplexed tone.
She truly couldn't comprehend why he would even bother going through the trouble of making this 'list'. It didn't seem like something he would do if she were being honest
It wasn't like what Azmond did with mortals, or even immortals and gods, would affect how she felt about him. But it still resulted in a few question marks going off in her head.
"Why am I being considerate, you ask? Hahaha~!"
Azmond responded with a hearty laugh as he looked over his shoulder at Boundles, before his voice leaked out once more.
"I am not being 'considerate', My Love~ I simply don't see the point in killing all the weak sauce monsters when I could instead let them liveand by letting them live, there could be the chance of them making stronger monsters in the future!" He ended with a wide smirk.
|...| Boundless took one look at his expression before...
|You're lying.|
"Whaa? Impossible. I wouldn't lie over such a thing," Azmond retorted.
|'Is he doing it unconsciously!? It would be better not to bring it up to him then. It's only really the cute beasties that he is avoiding for his 'Slaughter List' so I see no problems!'|
|Mhmm Where are we going next, Azmond!?|
Boundless quickly changed the subject as she used his back as a sightseeing board and dangled her two snow-white breasts over the top of his head.
"We will make our way to the second floor," Azmond replied, completely overlooking the fact that she had changed the subject.
"There look to be mostly farmers and agriculturalists on the first floorthey appear to be growing some type of red crop, and I am curious to know what exactly they use them for," he ended with an intrigued tone.
There truly was a certain amount of interest he had in the crops that all the farmers grew on the first floor.
It even looked like only a certain crop was being grown, and although he could ask the farmers in question what that was all about, he figured they would probably respond with something like 'we eat some and sell the surplus'.
Which was fine and all, for that was to be expected. But there was a part of Azmond that believed there was more to this singular gourd shaped crop than meets the eye.
It seemed like that was a trend as of latethere being 'more than meets the eye', that is.
Almost every new place Azmond ventured into seemed to have 'more than meets the eye' to them. There was probably something going on with such a series of 'coincidences'; however, he was too preoccupied to figure that out for the time being.
Azmond would leave such matters for the stronger him.
Azmond, Boundless, and Emu traveled through the first floora floor the size of a small worlduntil they eventually reached a large, prosperous city that extended out for thousands of miles.
The City itself appeared almost like a steam engine city, as just about everything had smoke coming out of it!
There were hundreds of thousands of buildings, all variegated in size and shape, with at least 75% of them having some form of smoke being released out of some type of vent.
And although Azmond was not too keen on the technological trend going on in the world of Asterion, he assumed that the top-level forces would be at least at the modern level, if not already at a degree surpassing the technological achievements back on earth.
But color him surprised when he found out that an organization filled to the brim with strong monsters had cities still in the Revolutionary Era