Chapter 1794: A Gunfight Out Of Nowhere

Because I had an infinite money glitch, I decided to just buy the Starlight Stone that interested me so much. While I can replicate the stones with the combined powers of Benladra, Kate, and mine, the original ore is unique and has special properties I wanted to study.

I had the feeling that it might be a useful item for what's to come, so getting it as soon as possible was the best move. Perhaps it could be used to power up machinery or something, maybe even that train, or somehow it could even help at dealing with the Whalebug.

And well, with this infinite money glitch, why not get it right away?

"I-It's more than enough..." Larry sighed in relief as he counted all the money. "I-I don't know what to say! W-What's your name, son?"

"Drake!" I said with a smile.

"T-Thank you so much! You don't know how you've helped me!" the old slug man sighed, his big eyes almost about to cry, his long beard waving as he moved happily. "My shop hasn't been getting any sales lately and... Well, life hasn't been fair as I said before! This Stone, it is so expensive nobody was buying it for the right price... to get it off my hands is a relief, honestly!"

"Is that so?" I wondered. "I had no idea you had a family Larry."

"Yes, a big family at that..." he nodded. "Three kids, lots of grandkids! My three kids work but the grandkids are just babies, they can't do anything and need a lot of liquid too, so it's hard to buy everything. Our race is supposed to be born in very wet places like swamps, not a desert, so raising children is hard for us Slugs."

So there are specific races struggling in here, huh? But its either this or living on spaceships, which are probably even more expensive, so its not affordable for poor people.

"So that's how it is... Well, I'm glad I could be of help." I nodded.

This shop, I can tell why it's just scrap, Larry and his family probably pick this up from trash or other waste areas and try to make some money from it.

"May I take it?"

"Yes, of course!" Larry said, quickly dragging himself to the stone. "Let me give it to you!" As he moved, he started reminiscing.

"This Starlight Stone is actually a treasure from my family," he said. "It is something we proudly display and that we aim to sell for a just price. But it has been years and many generations, and we've been unable to sell it yet... I promised my father I would sell it for no less than seven thousand."

And as he was about to bring it to me...

ВАААМ!

The door of the shop was kicked open as a group of five thugs entered, wearing cowboy clothes and carrying huge guns. Three of them belonged to the same race, resembling huge, two-meter-tall cactus men with green cactus bodies and sharp spikes over their bodies, they had no face other than a small mouth resembling a crack in the middle of their cactus body and empty holes as eyes.

Meanwhile, the other two were different, one was a red-skinned alien with a huge black horn in their forehead and three orange eyes, they looked lanky and not as burly as the cactus men. The other was a scaled man, slightly similar to us, but much smaller, not taller than one meter and a half.

Their equipment irradiated powerful Starlight Auras, the guns they carried, which seemed rather small, were imbued with this energy as well.

"Larry! Where the hell are you old man?! I hope you finally got the money! That debt ain't going to pay itself you slimy old man!"

A debt?

So old man Larry was on a debt!

But isn't this too much?

"A-Ah! T-The debt, right...!" Larry muttered. "They just purchased the Starlight Stone, so they'll take it away and..."

"Purchased?!" laughed the leader, the largest of the three cactus men, covered on red colored spikes. "Ain't nobody going to believe your shit, old man Larry! Who would ever buy that relic? You better give it to us and you'll pay at least half the debt!"

"W-Wait, don't take it! It was already purchased by Drake!" Larry screamed, as they tried to run towards him and grab the Starlight Stone.

"Drake? Who is- EEK!"

The moment they noticed my presence and I glared down at them, they quickly took a step back, their eyes widened as they saw me.

Yeah, I was pretty tall and intimidating.

"Oi."

I started cracking my knuckles.

"You want to take away what I purchased?"

As they stepped back, the leader gritted his teeth, clicking his tongue afterwards, and unsheathing his gun, pointing it at me.

"You ain't got the fucking money to pay for that, you tall son of a bitch," he smiled. "So get the hell out of here if you don't want lead filling your skull."

"Hah..." I smiled. "So you want to die?"

"WHAT?! Fill him with holes boys!"

Suddenly, the leader called, and the rest of the bandits unsheathed their guns and pointed them all at me, loading them with Starlight Energy.

"DRAKE!"

Larry panicked, trying to call for me as he screamed. But it was too late, as they all shot against me at the same time.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The guns were strong, they pierced through my scales and left bleeding holes all over my body. Yeah, it looks like even weapons and these damn bandits are overpowered in this trial. But that doesn't matter, bandits are just bandits at the end!

"Done already?!"

"Huh?!"

"He's still standing?!"

"What the hell?!"

They quickly realized that my body despite all the wounds, rapidly regenerated back to normal. In fact, it was so quickly that the holes didn't last longer than a second over my body.

"My turn!"

I swung my claws against them, slashing apart one of the cactus men that was the closest, their flesh and skin was harder than I imagined, but by imbuing my Claws with my Aura and empowered with my Divine Abilities...

SLAAASH!

He was quickly sliced apart, cactus juice splattering everywhere as his green pulp fell into the

floor, wetting everything.

"Damn, so that's how you guys look inside."

"Uuuaaaggh!"

The bandits screamed in horror, running away.