Lay low

A few hours later, Alex finally made it out of the forest after that tiring night he spent in there.

The conclusion to the events with the mercenaries had been quite uneventful in the end.

Everyone but Carter and that veteran turned out to be smart and obedient little puppies and surrendered themselves to Alex.

Such a scene might be funny to any passer-by's, if there were any, as the scene of 50 powerful, awakened men all submitting themselves to one lone teenager with looks of fear on their faces would make for quite the funny scene.

Though of course, if they looked a little closer and saw the blood splattered randomly around, and the dead body on the ground, things would become much less funny.

In the end, every mercenary gave Alex his beast cores back, but they had to give up one of their fingers in exchange for being so greedy in the first place.

At least Alex gave them the courtesy of choosing which finger they'd lose.