A Pillow?

Henry directly flashed his Golden Badge to the guards and entered the Stadium without any complication.

He had already recovered from his exhaustion due to Soul Energy Potion, so he was able to go back in forth from the White Cloud Inn and Stone Stadium.

The precious soul energy potion was personally given to him by Vice President Hans just for his 'mission'.

They were skeptical when he mentioned about him having a way to recover soul energy without huge expenses. But with his years of experience in bribery and hoaxing, he had skillfully convinced them.

With a pillow in his hand, Henry entered the field while panting from exhaustion. He really needs to train his body, he thought.

When he arrived, there are still Puppeteers laying on a stretcher with beads of sweat on their pale faces.

The puppeteers who took a rest didn't lessen a bit despite the soul potions provided, In fact, it just got larger with the constant retreat from the battlefield.

If the battle continued any further, their base in the Green Forest would be eradicated.

This is also the reason why the Federation didn't provide full support. It was the same for the Heavenly Families. The Green Forest is one of the PA's territories!

"Where's the 'thing' that you emphasized that could save us from this predicament?" Vice-President Hans saw Henry and asked with restlessness.

"It's... It's here!" Henry said as he presented a pure white pillow.

"A pillow?" Everyone blurted simultaneously.

"Puppeteer Henry Miles, are you aware of the consequences of impeding Association Operations," Hans said coldly.

Hans Quez, one of the powers in Stone City, unlike Sage Lucas, he had meticulously made his way to the top and attained the position of Vice President of the Puppeteer's Association.

Henry shivered when he felt the blatant murderous intent from the man in front of him. His elegant face didn't lessen his ferociousness at all.

Seeing Hans slowly approached him, seeing this Henry quickly tried to explained, "I didn't lie! This pillow really has magical effects that could remove fatigue. I tried it myself!"

Henry hurriedly went to a nearby motionless man who was drained from color. If it wasn't for his heavy breathing, He would've thought the man was dead.

'This should work, right? No. It better work,' Henry consoled himself as he replaced the worn-out pillow with Seth.

"Vice President Hans, please give me a chance," Henry said to the cold-face Hans, almost pleading.

"Guard him, if you see any signs of Goliath Puppetry... Kill him immediately," Hans said to the guards near Henry as he walked back to the tent.

Henry shivered from his unconcealed killing intent but didn't say anything. He could feel that if he annoyed Hans any further, he would instantly die.

Seth was observing their exchange attentively as though he was watching an action-packed movie.

Seth had thought about not helping the fatty but decided against it.

Even though he hated the man—that he would kill him if he were given hands—Seth could also benefit from this play.

At that, Seth proceeded to invade the man's mind. Inside he saw a blue orb of light floating calmly in the void of space.

Seth then flew towards it and touched the glowing orb. When his ethereal hand—which is just imaginary and doesn't hold influence on the real world—made contact with the orb, his body synchronized with the blue orb of light.

The nature of the orb slowly spread to his body. Before he knew it, he was already releasing a faint blue light like the orb.

[Claws Strengthening Attachment Ability(Blue)]

'Sure enough, I could easily acquire blue quality ability or even higher with puppeteers sleeping on me'

Seth was delighted when he felt the ability energy in his void mind increasing.

After that, he looked around and saw the person's mind was different from usual. The entire place was dyed in red and was throbbing in short intervals as if it was in pain.

'Is this the effects of depleting the soul core? Wait, does that mean I'm actually not invading their minds but instead their soul core?' Seth had a sudden realization.

Seth spread his attachment energy to the entire area instinctively as though he had done it many times.

After discharging his attachment energy for a while, he suddenly felt an obstruction.

'Just as I thought I'm inside a spherical space. Proving to be the person's soul core,' Seth said as he reached every wall, which formed to a spherical shape.

Thereafter, Seth poured his ability energy to the wall of the sphere till it gradually lessened its rapid throbbing.

'This is it!' Seth exclaimed. He now knew how to fixed the aftermath of depleting the soul energy.

. . . . . . .

An hour has passed and Henry was getting stiff every second.

He would shudder every time he looked at Hans who's busy dealing with the battlefield's procedure.

Hans also glanced at him coldly, he would definitely punish the conning bastard after this incident passed. Not only he was fooled, but he also wasted his time.

Just as Hans was about to ask him brutal questions, the unconscious man in Henry's side suddenly sat up.

The man then yawned and stretched his limbs like he woke up on a pleasant Sunday.

Everyone was speechless.

Can you at least looked around after waking up?

"How do you feel?" Henry asked confidently.

"How do I feel? Wait, who are you..." He then froze when he noticed the countless gazes pointed at him.

The man was at a loss. Where am I? Who am I? Why the hell are these people staring at me?

Seeing the man just blankly stare at them. Hans quickly ordered a nurse to check his pulse.

"38 BPM. His resting heart rate is just normal... No, it's more than normal. It's like he slept in heaven," The nurse said in disbelief.

A normal resting heart rate for puppeteers is usually from 45-55 BPM, yet the man had much lower than average.

"What are you guys talking about?" The man felt like he suddenly doesn't understand English.

"Did it really worked?" All of them stared at the pure white pillow in disbelief.

"Quickly try it on another!" Hans was ecstatic by the result. It was unbelievable but as a leader, he needs to try everything that could solve their problems. Even if it's ridiculous.

After that, they waited for 45 minutes before having the same result. The man woke up tirelessly and it was faster than before!

"It really worked!"

"Is that pillow a Divine treasure?"

They continued to employ the pillow one slumbering person after another. To their delight, the time for them to wake up lessened gradually.

When they finally used Seth for the 9th time, it only took 15 minutes for fatigued puppeteers to wake up with energetic bodies.

However, It wasn't just them that are elated.

Seth was dancing in his mind after receiving an incredible reward. He was so happy that he could die.

As he received more attachment ability, he became more proficient in healing soul energy depletion until he could heal them easily as breathing.

And after acquiring his 20th Attachment Ability, Seth received another Pillow Inheritance.

Its result shocked him.