For your own safety

'The most valuable resource in the universe???'

Alex would be confident in saying that right as he read that line would be the most shocked he had ever been in his life.

The prospect that his soul orbs would be so sought after that people would literally commit genocide just to get their hands on some had never occurred to Alex. He had been absorbing them for a while now since he had started off as an Awakened, and although they were much better than beast cores, surely they weren't so good that people had to go to such lengths?

Now that he knew this fact, Alex knew that he had to be much more careful in consuming them in the future. He didn't know if the federation knew of the existence of soul orbs, but he wasn't going to so casually expose them like he had mistakenly done before.