Into The Portal: Monster Invasion

Miles returned to the Marooner's room after meeting with Quinn and Lucy.

"When will you use the mind serum?" Coin asked. He was silent during the meeting, but now since they were alone, he talked freely.

"I will use it soon. I would rather take the serum in my apartment, but I am sure Mother will not allow it. I am also afraid I may reveal something if I were to take it in her presence." Miles said. He had some secrets he wanted to protect, and may not be able to do so while under the influence of Mind Serum. .

"There is also the super bomb Tian Ling just acquired. Since he dared to explode my door last time, he may try again. I doubt he will waste 370 Million worth of bombs just to enter my room. Especially after he failed and alerted me last time, but it is better to be safe than sorry." Miles didn't want to leave any of his secrets in his room anymore.

After his room door was blasted by Tian Ling and his goons, Miles did not feel rooms were as safe as he initially thought. Even the military only, top floor. Thus, the little stone he purchased was not safe even if it was stored in the safe he rented under his alter identity. Even though his identity was foolproof, he couldn't rule out the possibility of people targeting the Marooner and attacking his room. Even when nobody knew Ezio was the Marooner.

Even the little stone he bought from the vendor was hanging on his neck all the time. Miles didn't know if it had any value on it or not, but he wouldn't want to give it away without trying to reveal its mysteries. Whether he was speaking the truth or not, MIles was not sure but the vendor said it was acquired from the treasure room of the pyramid.

Not many people knew, but the place was also very close to the location of the first portal that was opened to Earth. Miles didn't waste too much time thinking over it, he just felt there might be a connection between the two, although unlikely. After all, Coin felt something from the stone, and it surely wasn't a regular piece of rock.

Miles felt the rock on his ċhėst giving him some sense of comfort. He didn't know if it was just an illusory feeling caused by a false sense of security or whether it was something caused by the rock.

The stone wasn't so big, so he decided to carry it with him all the time. He looked at the silver necklace on his neck and attached the stone to it. After pulling it a few times to make sure it was strong enough, he let the necklace rest on his collar bone.

The necklace was a present from his mother for his 15th birthday. It wasn't a regular silver necklace, of course, but a strong alloy made from a meteor. The meteor was millions of years old and was first discovered after monsters invaded the Earth. One of the big monsters dug out the earth where the meteor was, and even scientists did not know what the monster's aim was. After testing the meteor for some time and trying to figure out it's properties, scientists gave up working on it, and Evelyn was able to secure a piece. She melted it into a necklace and gifted it to Miles.

Miles stayed at the train station and opened the UniNet, browsing through the Hunter Forum and the biggest online shopping site Unizon. He searched for arrows and further filtered the results for alloy arrows and then looked at the results. Because Portal World was abundant in minerals and with the aid of cores, newer alloys were being created each day. People were still perfecting the craftsmanship of these new alloys. Some of them were strong, while some of them were light. But the most noticeable difference was that almost all of them are stronger than any metal found on Earth.

Miles wanted strong arrows to injure monsters. Thus, he also filtered down the weak and light arrows. After that, he still had thousands of results. Miles was about to sort them by price from cheap to expensive but got curious about how expensive alloy arrows could be and so he did the reverse instead.

"What! 100,000,000 UD for a single arrow?! Why don't they ask for my kidneys." Miles exclaimed as he opened a new tab to look at the most expensive arrow. "Frenzy-Rank High-Tier Piercing Core melted into an arrow by mixing metals and minerals can be found in F and E-Circle only. One arrow is 600 kilos, and can pierce through even the hardest of tanks."

Miles thought about it and understood why it was so expensive. Even though humanity was helpless against monsters before they discovered laser weapons and orbs, the armor-piercing bullets could still hurt them to some extent, for example killing monsters through their eyes and ears. But because of their low rate of mortality, they were still insufficient.

But these new alloy arrows were much better than regular armor-piercing bullets as they could injure Frenzy-Rank monsters. On the other hand, armor-piercing bullets couldn't even kill Grunt-Rank monsters without hitting soft meat.

Miles decided on a seller and started to look at their other products. Since they had super expensive arrows for F-Circle, they could also have weaker but cheaper arrows for G-Circle. Miles clicked on the seller ID, Suchiru Workshop.

Miles wasn't surprised to see many different arrows and bullets made of thousands of different alloys. Since they were able to produce the most expensive arrow on the site, other weaker arrows should be much easier to produce. Miles filtered them immediately and found the arrows he needed in no time.

"1 million UD for one arrow, too expensive." Miles sighed as he looked at the arrows. "Oh, all the elements are the same price." Miles looked at the different colored arrows and wondered. The regular low-tier monster cores sold for 10k only, and depending on their elements they could go all the way to the 50k UD when sold.

Mid-tier could be sold from 50k to 200k, high-tier from 200k to 500k and pinnacle-tier cores from 500k to 2 millions depending on the elements. But the producer of the arrows was ignoring the expenses and selling them at the same price. He wasn't intending to earn from them at all.

"As of now, I can only buy 25 arrows, but it will dry my funds. I still have to compensate for Xavic and Zall. I promised to buy Zall a shield, which should cost me more than what I have now. I might even sell one or two orbs for this, but the mask and shield was worth it. I will also get my first salary soon." Miles pondered out loud. He decided to buy 20 arrows since he could afford them.

Miles looked at the elements of the arrows and decided which ones he should buy. Unlike Monster Orbs dropped from monsters, those created from regular cores were a tad bit weaker. For example, a high-tier orn can injure most of the high-tier monsters, but an arrow created by a high-tier monster core couldn't injure high-tier monsters if not hit on soft tissues. Also, orbs can heal themselves and can turn into their orb forms. That is why they are much more expensive.

Miles decided to buy 10 poison elements and 10 piercing elements since their prices were all the same. Elemental arrows weren't very strong when created by orbs. They could hardly cause extra elemental damage. So, Miles decided to use his bodily strength and some extra effect with a piercing arrow. Poison Arrows were for humans because most monsters wouldn't be affected by minute amounts of poison in the arrows.

He then finalized his orders and requested them to be sent to where he was now. With the technology developed to this extent, shipping got a lot easier. Soon, a drone loaded with arrows dropped by at the speed of sound as it traveled to where Miles was.

He received the package in a short thirty minutes and checked its interior. After making sure all was fine, he paid through the drone's interface, and then the drone left.