One fruit had boosted Ethan's mental energy by almost ten percent. That alone made him fixate on it like it was a life-saving drug.
If he could find ten of them…
His mental energy pool would practically double.
After that, the whole team turned into a treasure-hunting squad, combing the mountains and forests like prospectors.
They searched for an entire day.
But the fruit was insanely rare. After the first one, they only found one more—all day.
Ethan ate that one too.
Fallen Star Squad had an unspoken rule: anything that directly benefited the boss went to Ethan first.
And right now, nobody needed mental energy more than Ethan did. Every one of his abilities was a mental-energy guzzler, and his toolkit was the kind of thing that only got scarier the more fuel you poured into it.
So the fruit naturally ended up with him.
But after the second one, Ethan frowned.
The effect… wasn't quite as good as the first.
Not by a lot, but enough that it set off alarms.
Resistance?
