Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

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[Third Person POV],

As Andrew Dawn was thinking of a way to resolve the issue of where both he and Ace could do what they want in the earth rat den, he suddenly realised that he was thinking a bit too much.

For one, he has one magic he had subconsciously ignored.

Thinking of this, Andrew Dawn turned to Ace and spoke.

"Little Ace", he started as he brought Ace out of his thoughts before continuing.

"It is not my wish to hold you up here and I know it is also not your wish to stay here so let's do this....", Andrew Dawn said as he started to explain how his contract magic works.

As Andrew Dawn spoke, he made sure to read the expression on Ace's face just to be met with no expression so he gave up.

After hearing what his former Emperor had to say, Ace used his right hand to hold his chin for a while and contemplated on what Andrew Dawn told him.

For one, the idea of having a life and death contract was an over-exaggerated action in Ace's opinion but when he thought of it a little longer, Life and Death contract or not, it didn't matter if one did not go against the contract.

He wasn't even planning on breaking the contract in the first place and just wanted to leave here and continue his business.

The condition of the contract was also simple. All that both parties had to do was not take what item the other party was going for.

For this, Andrew Dawn stated in the contract that Ace should not take anything that had to do with a dragon heart in the den and Ace stated that Andrew Dawn and his men should not do anything to him during the course of time they were going to spend in the dungeon.

While this allowed Ace to know what item Andrew Dawn was looking for which also made him curious since it seems like something that was related to a dragon due to its name, Ace still prioritised his job over everything else that the emperor was concerned about.

He just wanted to evolve, get stronger and create items with alchemy. These were his goals so after making sure that there were no loopholes in the contract that could be used against him, Ace readily signed it with Andrew Dawn.

After signing the contract, Ace's chest felt heavy for a few seconds and a slight frown appeared on his face. There was no similar expression on Andrew Dawn's face since he had experienced this more than a thousand times already.

Seeing this, Andrew Dawn finally had a relaxed smile on his face.

Andrew Dawn was not worried about Ace knowing the name of the item he was after in the earth rat then because he was sure that with the help of the contract holding Ace, there was nothing that was going to stop him from taking the Dragonheart from the den today.

He wasn't scared of anyone, he just didn't want to affect Ace's objectives.

If he was someone else he didn't know and was not close to, he wouldn't have gone through all this.

Even though he was kind and had good intentions for most people, he wouldn't allow that to affect his goals.

He knew what he had to do in the old world to gain his status so he wasn't as kind as one would think he is. He was just a little more considerate to people than his fellow emperors at most.

After signing the contract, Andrew Dawn was freer with Ace and both of them made their way to the earth rat den as Andrew Dawn asked Ace some questions while Ace also used this opportunity to acquire new information.

"Little Ace", Andrew Dawn started and asked; "Have you encountered any strange-looking beings lately?"

When Andrew Dawn asked this question, Ace became interested immediately and replied.

"Yes"

When Andrew Dawn heard this, his heart became heavy but as he was about to ask another question, Ace asked before him.

"For Emperor Andrew to ask that of me, you must have also encountered one right?" Ace asked as Andrew Dawn nodded before speaking.

"Yes, and they were quite powerful",

"They or the leader?" Ace asked curiously because from his experience and what he had heard from his teammate, while the other members of the rest were all powerful in their ways, it was the race leader that was to be feared.

Ace had no way of really knowing since the race he encountered was without their leader but each member of the race was powerful and there was the part where he believed his teammates' words.

When Andrew Dawn heard Ace's words, he was quite surprised as it didn't seem like this 'encounter' that Ace had with the race was from afar.

"Seems like you know somethings", Andrew Dawn said and added; "Yes, their leader was powerful but do you want to know something shocking?" Andrew Dawn asked as Ace immediately nodded.

He didn't know if the words that will come out of Andrew Dawn's mouth next will 'shock' him but it did look like it was going to be something important so he was interested but instead of telling him the real thing immediately, Andrew Dawn asked quite an interesting question.

"Do you think I'm strong?" Andrew Dawn asked and Ace nodded.

For one, it was obvious that Andrew Dawn was strong. He had a job that was at least a rare grade job, he was level 41 and he was ranked eighth among all the humans in the true world.

If that wasn't strong then Ace did not know what is.

Seeing this, Andrew Dawn smiled and asked another question.

"Then do you know about the sealed state of the leaders of these strange races? Andrew asked as Ace nodded again. To this, Andrew Dawn was quite surprised that Ace was still able to survive after meeting a leader of these strange races but he still continued what he was saying.

Little did he know that Ace has not even met one of the leaders of these strange races.

"So will you believe me if I say that I couldn't even kill a sealed creature at level 25 with my power?" Andrew Dawn asked as he finally saw a very big expressive expression on Ace's face for the first time in his life.

Ace was quite shocked when he heard Andrew Dawn's words and it was exactly because he understood the meaning of Andrew Dawn's words, he was shocked.

The fact that a sealed race specie was able to fight a human in the top 10 on the ranking board was enough to say a lot.

Like, how powerful will that particular creature be when it was unsealed?

Thinking of this, even Ace had a sense of urgency.

He also wondered if he should tell Andrew Dawn about the unsealing that will happen in a few days and after thinking of it for a while, he did so.

After Andrew Dawn heard what Ace had to say, the drive to have more power only increased so when he and Ace got closer to the rocky hill that served as an entrance to the earth rat den, both parties quickly separated after adding each other to their contact list.

Andrew Dawn only went in with two of his men and made the rest patrol around the rock hill to prevent people from entering.

Ace noticed that it was two people with the highest levels among his men that followed him but Ace didn't care since he also had to focus on what he was going to do in the den.

Ace chose a different hole in the rocky hill to enter a little far away from the one that Andrew Dawn and his men used.

At least this way he would be less likely to run into them with the complicated terrain down there.

Celeb was one of the men Andrew Dawn left outside which was not unexpected so Ace asked for his help to look after blue.

He was not really bothered about blue as it wasn't useful to him yet so he was able to leave the gryphon in someone else's care.

Overall, he was fine with how things turned out.

He now had the contact of a ruler and not just any ordinary ruler but a very powerful one so Ace told himself he had to make sure he took advantage of this.

Perhaps he might be able to get more information about the true world through Andrew Dawn but only the future will tell because right now, he had other things to focus on and that was finally to complete his job quest today.