Chapter 285 Last Draw?

[Third Person POV],

BOOM!!!!

Ace was startled when he heard the now-familiar sound, which was still sudden. He immediately turned to look in the direction the sound was coming from and was a little surprised to see a massive mushroom-shaped cloud of dust in the atmosphere quite some distance away.

By witnessing this, Ace was able to confirm that he had indeed activated the explosives, but he had to take care of another matter before determining how successful the explosives were against the dragon phantom.

He turned to the "blood" guy next to him and said as he was considering this.

"Thank you," Ace said to Andrew Dawn, panting heavily between sentences.

He was initially perplexed about why he had suddenly changed locations, and just as he began to address the issue after realising the cause, the sound of the explosion interrupted him. However, now that he knew that the explosives were set off before he changed locations, he finally had the opportunity to express gratitude to the person who saved him, and there was no one faster than Andrew Dawn who could act quickly to perform actions that were similar to teleportation.

Well, it resembled transportation, at least in Ace's eyes.

Andrew Dawn turned his bloody head to Ace when he finished speaking, just nodding in response before shifting his attention back to the dust cloud off to the side of where they were standing.

Ace occasionally made a small sound of discomfort while concentrating on the dust cloud in the distance, and the two of them were otherwise silent.

The two of them continued to stare off into the distance for a while without uttering a word until Andrew Dawn lost patience and turned to Ace and spoke.

With a deep voice that was heavy with weakness, Andrew Dawn commanded, "Sit down," adding, "You're hurt, so don't force it."

And Ace was indeed very weak as a result of the internal injury he suffered from bearing the crushing pressure of the dragon phantom claw before Andrew Dawn rescued him, as Andrew Dawn stated.

There were several places on Ace's body that kept oozing blood, and this was the reason why he occasionally let out sounds of agony even as he fought to stay upright.

He wasn't as bloody as Andrew Dawn, who appeared to have blood all over him, but he wasn't that far from Andrew Dawn either because he appeared to be quite bloody as well.

While Ace agreed that he was indeed a mess, just like Andrew Dawn stated, he did not follow his advice to sit as the man who just spoke to him was a bigger mess than him. "Don't worry, I can still hold on for a while," Ace said as Andrew Dawn just nodded.

Ace saw this and inhaled deeply before focusing on the receding dust cloud in the distance.

For one, Ace could have taken some basic health pills to help his condition, but he was sure that even those pills couldn't instantly improve his health and might even have negative side effects on his body because it was too feeble to even withstand the toxic effects of the pills.

Toxic as in the impurities in the pills.

Apart from what was stated in the knowledge he had in his head, Ace had no idea how the toxic in pills could affect a person from a personal experience. However, he did know that if one had already accumulated a lot of toxic in their body from taking numerous impurity-containing pills or potions, it was best not to push their body's limits and to only try taking more pills or potions when they were seriously injured.

Ace had this knowledge in his mind, and he had no intention of finding out what exactly his body would experience as a result of ingesting too many impurities from pills.

Ace surmises that this should be comparable to instances in his past where doctors treated patients properly but ended up crippling them because they were treated right away.

If Ace were confident that his body's immunity to the impurities in the pills was strong enough to still resist the accumulated toxic in his body, he could continue to take the pills and ignore the warnings stated in the knowledge in his head. However, because Ace was still an unranked specie and had consumed a large number of pills since he began producing them—which should have numbered to above half a hundred—Ace was not very confident he could still keep on.

Although he did not believe his body was capable of withstanding additional toxicity, particularly in the injured condition he was in, this did not preclude someone else from taking the pills.

Ace spoke after turning to face Andrew Dawn who was standing next to him.

He fumbled for a basic pill bottle in his storage ring and muttered "Take" before slowly extending his palm to Andrew Dawn.

Since Andrew Dawn also owned a storage ring and was familiar with its operation, he exhibited no astonishment or other reactions when the pill bottles appeared out of nowhere.

Ace was also aware of this when he first met Andrew Dawn and noticed a ring on his finger that was somewhat similar to his own. Ace was confident that Andrew Dawn would not have any plans for his ring because he must have also received his storage ring as part of the first kill reward and should be aware that it was sealed and could only be used by the person to whom it belonged.

Putting this aside, Andrew Dawn was the one in the pit who needed the pill the most. He needed it not only to stay standing and avoid collapsing, but also because he was their last line of defence and power in the event that the dragon phantom still had some fighting ability.

Ace deduced that Andrew Dawn must not have taken as many pills as him based on the way he made his men appear to have so few pills in their possession. Ace reasoned that pills should be rare in their hands.

If his king was like this, his men should also be the same, but Ace was unconcerned about them because he had seen them in the distance when he was previously watching the cloud of dust. Their predicament was better than his and Andrew Dawn's because they were still alive, and even if it wasn't, Ace didn't care because he also had to take care of himself.

Fortunately, he did not need to say much because Andrew Dawn swiftly and without hesitation took the pill bottle from his hands.

When he saw this, he shifted his attention back to the dust cloud, which was already disappearing.

What Ace didn't realise was that if he had continued to pay attention to Andrew Dawn, he would have seen that Andrew Dawn took the pills all at once rather than one at a time.

Ace's expressionless visage might have given birth to another expression if he had seen it.