Chapter 382 - Unbridled Rage
Grey stood on the same spot for a good two minutes, but none of the ladies noticed him. Although he didn't even try to hide his aura, they still didn't sense him.
The eyes of some of the ladies were dull and lifeless, given the injury marks on the body of some of them, it was easy to see how much they've suffered.
Grey was sure most of them had already given up on life, and would most probably want to die than continue living such a hellish life. Of everyone here, what Grey found more absurd was still the young girl who was around eight or ten years old, he still couldn't wrap his head around why they would even keep her locked up.
The young girl hadn't even properly developed, what was she doing here?
Grey looked around for a while, his heart aching for these people. If he didn't see them, then he wouldn't care about it even if he heard about it, but seeing them now, he couldn't leave without doing anything.
'Hmm, I can't kill all the people here, obviously, and I still don't know how the Emperor would react if they find me missing when they come. Since that's the case, I'll slowly corrode the essence beads of the people below the Overlord Plane, if possible, I don't mind corroding their life forces,' He thought as he started strolling around the place.
While strolling around, he noticed none of the ladies even looked at him, they all had their heads hung low, looking at the ground.
He currently had his robe on, and even wore a mask since he couldn't take the risk of being seen. On getting close to where the little girl's cage was, he heard something that made him angrier.
The little girl was mumbling three words repeatedly, the words were, 'Please kill me'. Even Grey who rarely showed his emotions was almost in tears when he heard this, his eyes red from anger.
'*Sigh* I'll grab what I can then,'
With a sigh, Grey sucked in as many essence stones as he possibly could. Previously, there was an area designated for essence stones, the number of stones there was well over hundreds of thousands, and Grey just took more than fifty percent of them.
Of the fifty percent Grey took, more than half of the stones were mid or high-grade stones, the ones left were all low-grade stones.
The reason he was unable to take all of them was simple: he didn't have any enough space in his storage ring to take them. Had Void been here, given how big his spatial storage was, then they would've been able to completely sweep the entire vault in a matter of seconds.
After taking the essence stones, Grey turned around and casually walked out of the secret room.
Outside the secret room.
All the experts in the Smith manor whose cultivation stage was in the Overlord Plane were already rushing towards the secret room. Surprisingly, there were different places to go into the vault.
Just like Grey thought, there was one in Jean's room. He was the first amongst all the people to get to the vault, on seeing that the things were intact, he heaved a sigh, there were some extremely valuable treasures in this place that the family couldn't bear to lose.
His expression changed when he noticed that the array was still intact, but no one was in the vault. After looking around, he almost fainted when he saw how little the essence stones numbered.
Given how rare it was to get essence stones in the Azure continent, it was a rare commodity even for the big families. Although they had an easier time getting it compared to the others, it still wasn't that much.
There were few essence stones mines in the Azure continent as a whole, and each empire controlled about twenty-five or so.The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.