"I just got almost 100,000 energy points all at once?! Am I seeing this correctly?"
Noland Lee rubbed his eyes, making sure he wasn't mistaken.
He stared at his fingertips in disbelief.
"Why was it so easy? Why didn't that tentacle resist even a little, at least give me a few slaps or spray a few streams of black water? It felt like it had completely given up resisting..."
Noland looked at the place where the tentacle had disappeared and muttered the words, "collect soul fragments".
[Soul Strength +36 points.]
"This is odd, the abundance of the spoils of the war doesn't match the difficulty of the battle. There must be something off. The way the tentacle gave up resisting feels very strange. Let me think this over..."
Noland didn't let the sudden windfall of energy points get to his head.
He calmed himself down and started analyzing the series of events.