126. Just a helper (2)
Joe led Oliver to the basement below the gym.
There were no lights, it was black everywhere, and the air was stuffy.
When I turned on the light, a light from the ceiling came on.
“like······.”
Oliver cried out as he watched the scene unfold before his eyes.
The basement was as big as the ground floor, but there were far fewer iron-ball exercise machines.
Instead, it was full of huge rings, bloody ghastly punching bags, mitts, gloves, and even chains, blackjack and other blunt weapons.
“What are you doing here?”
“This gym is a training ground for martial arts players. I’m a former member here, but I can still use it.”
“Are you a former member?”
“…before I joined the Fighter Crew, I was an illegal arena player. All the guys working out here are the same. They’re mostly gangsters, thieves, pimps, illegal martial arts, etc., and they make a living out of violence.”
Oliver looked up at the stairs he had come down. Maybe it’s normal?
He said it was not easy to find even a decent job in Zone X.
Again, curiosity arose.
Although Zone J and Zone X are far apart, they are the same city, how can they be so different?
“Hey.”
“yes?”
Confused, Joe called for Oliver.
He thought for a moment as if in trouble, then opened his mouth carefully.
“First of all, since you have something to say, I will do what I am comfortable with. Is there really no problem?”
“Yes, of course. Rather, I wish it were.”
He answered with memories of Marie, Peter, and countless others whom Oliver had taught in the past.
Every time I taught them, every time they improved, every time they had a crush on Oliver, the pretty light they had originally faded away.
That was very sad.
“····great. Then, teach me here. As I said in advance, nobody’s coming here for a while. What are you going to teach me?”
At Joe’s question, Oliver took the test tube out of his arms. The test tube, of course, contained emotions.
“I am not very good at teaching, so I want to check my skills first. Could you please extract some of the emotions from here?”
At Oliver’s words, Joe took out the test tube and extracted it.
“····yes?”
“why?”
“Why are you so slow?”
Oliver watched Joe’s extraction process and asked.
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No joke, it was really slow.This is the level of a low-level disciple when he was in the Joseph family.
I don’t think it was like this when we fought.
“…if it’s not a processed emotion, it’s normally this speed.”
“A fabricated emotion?”
Joe pondered for a moment, then pulled the test tube out of his closet and held it out.
Oliver checked the test tube.
Inside are emotions. However, it was not a common feeling.
As Joe said, it was a processed emotion that was easy to use.
If I had to compare it, it could be said that it was an object that had the blood removed from the fish, the scales removed, and the flesh was applied.
It was easy to use, but the power was lowered that much.
“Where did you get it?”
“You can get it if you go to the Fighter Crew. We don’t just give it away, but we can receive it without need.”
“Then, are you still using this?”
“okay····. Is there any problem?”
“Is it a problem? Yes, there is. Don’t use this anymore.”
“why?”
“Thanks to the processing of emotions, the original power of emotions can’t be used, and if you just use them, you won’t be able to improve any more. Then, I can’t even wear a black suit.”
“I don’t quite understand… Why?”
Oliver was lost in thought. how should i explain
“Well·····. Wait.”
With those words, Oliver reached out into the air.
In the test tube that Joe had with him, he clicked-! emotions burst out.
emotions in one hand.
“He said he wanted to learn the black suit.”
“Yeah, disease-based black magic puts a risk on your body if you use it too much.”
That’s right. At first glance, disease-type black magic seems like an intuitive and powerful technique that strengthens the body, but it forces the power of the body and life force to gather.
It can be managed as long as it is not exceeded, but it can be dangerous if the frequency of use is frequent and the intensity is strong.
Because of that, Oliver also developed the black suit.
“Do you know how to make a black suit?”
“recipe? I don’t know.”
“Recipe?”
“We call black magic that way.”
Oh, then I remembered it.
Black magic suddenly occurred in several places at the same time, and the methods and terms used were different for each.
Recipe, cook, process, recipe. called variously.
“····Yes. Anyway, the recipe for making a black suit is like this.”
Oliver showed it slowly.
Pulling out the clumps of emotions thinly like a thread.
In fact, Oliver was in full control, so it didn’t get messy without power, and it clumps into a ball in the air.
Joe looked at the scene without saying a word. His emotions were full of admiration.
After all of it was made of thread, Oliver said.
“For now, this is the first step towards making a black suit. No, it’s exactly half a step.”
“0.5?”
“Yeah, the vitality has to do this as well.”
Oliver immediately took out the test tube containing the vitality, extracted it, and made it into a thread just like emotion.
Joe looked at it again without saying a word. The light of admiration did not diminish, but grew stronger.
“You have to complete these two, and now you can say that it is the first step.”
“…and what’s next?”
Instead of answering, Oliver manipulated the emotions and vitality that had turned into a ball of thread.
The threads, divided into dozens, moved dazzlingly like the threads in a loom and began to tangle with each other.
I made it slowly so that Joe could see it, but his eyes were still busy moving around, seemingly unable to catch up.
In the meantime, a huge fabric tightly entangled with emotions and vitality was completed.
“This is how to make a black suit. Making emotions and vitality as thin as a thread, weaving them into cloth, and then wrapping them around the body. You have to have a little bit of control to do these three steps.”
It’s a bit high in control ability… Most of the warlocks would not agree.
Emotions are powerful energy like magic, but they were very resistant to magicians, so it was not difficult to handle them.
Black magic is easier to learn than magic, but that was the reason why there were only a few people with great skills.
Joe, who knew this fact, said.
“Impossible.”
“What?”
“To make and weave emotions and vitality like that. Each one is difficult and takes a lot of time. How many days will it take to make? In a fight, speed is important, but it is not a method that can be used in real life.”
“It just takes practice.”
“It’s not something you can do with practice.”
“Well·····.”
Oliver was in trouble.
It was a strange sight, but the sight made Joe nervous without realizing it.
It’s like a student being scolded by a teacher.
I felt this sensation only when I met the chef, the head of the Fighter Crew.
It is the feeling of being overwhelmed by a strong person who cannot be approached.
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Now Joe was feeling it again in Oliver.Oliver opened his mouth.
“Have you tried it?”
“What?”
“Practice. Have you tried it?”
“········.”
“As I said before, I have no talent for teaching. It will only help you get a feel for it a few times if you just keep trying to learn. But I’ve had some pretty good results with this approach. I’ve helped someone who can’t even handle emotions to become a pretty decent warlock.”
“········.”
“If you really want to do it, don’t do it……. But there is no way I can help you beyond this. I won’t be coming here any more. but····.”
Oliver raised his tail. looking at joe
“If you want to try it even at the risk of the impossible, we will come to you regularly to help. What would you like to do?”
***
Fortunately, Joe was a great person.
He said he would give it a try instead of giving up.
It was great. It was great.
But apart from that, there is a long way to go. So Oliver calculated Joe’s ability and gave him homework in steps.
The first task is to practice extracting emotions that are not processed.
The extraction was perfect from start to finish.
Reducing the extraction time and keeping emotions in your hands are the next story.
Even that seemed difficult for Joe, but when we practiced together and indirectly got a sense of it, somehow he seemed to have mastered the trick.
Perhaps, if we did not neglect our practice, we might not be able to extract properly the next time we meet.
“like·····. That’s great. I will really learn the basic grammar and interpretation of code words.”
The street leading to the gray market.
Oliver was sitting with an old man between the store and the walkway, talking. An old man who runs a bookstore and a horse.
The old man looked surprised, drank the bottle Oliver had bought, and wrote a new code word on the paper.
An incomprehensible language located halfway between text and pictures.
“Can you read this too? young friend?”
Oliver looked at the sentence on the paper.
one and a half lines. It was rather long for a basic code word.
“······The old man prefers better wine. I think it was written?”
“Accurate. Next time, bring a more expensive drink.”
“Oh, yes.”
Oliver nodded. But apart from that, it was frustrating.
I bought a fairly expensive drink at the Forest restaurant saying that I cared about it in my own way.
“What was that…. Fortress mage is very popular.”
“Magic?”
“exactly. Sorcerer… It’s illegal, but it’s said that popular restaurants have a few boxes, can’t you just buy one?”
“ah·····.”
“I thought I could make a living just because I got a lot of tips at restaurants. Can’t you live?”
“Maybe we can save it.”
“I’m glad you did, young friend. By the way, the snacks taste good.”
The old man at the bookstore said as he ate the wrapped grilled meat with his fingers.
Those snacks were also bought at Forest Restaurant.
“That’s fortunate. So, did I understand the code word correctly?”
The old man at the bookstore licked the sauce on the tip of his finger and nodded.
“Yes, young friend. I hope it’s great Usually, in this first stage, many challengers collapse on their own. Even though there are good teachers and classes as well as books. But, to do this by self-study with just one book… Just to make you wonder if he really is a restaurant employee.”
meaningful words. Oliver focused his attention on his eyes.
‘yes····?’
Oliver rubbed his eyes and answered.
“Why?”
“no····. Suddenly, my eyes became blurry.”
“I usually do it when I’m tired. Speaking of which, how much have you slept lately? You look a little tired.”
The old man’s words were not very nonsense.
After Jane’s guard was over, Oliver was extremely sleepy.
In particular, lately I have been falling asleep.
There was no special reason.
It was just that I had so many things to do that I was trying to do it all at once.
Thanks to this, the scriptures were completely read, and the primary processing of Duncan’s body, including the Pink Man’s body, had been completed.
It’s only the first chapter, but I’ve finally started reading the book Edith gave me.
I was a little tired, but that was fine. But the old man thought differently.
“You should sleep well. I’m an old man, so read it.”
“is that so?”
“It’s not yet clear exactly why you need to sleep, but what happens if you don’t get enough sleep.”
“How is it?”
“It is said that he lost his cognitive ability, hallucinatory symptoms, schizophrenia, short-term memory loss, motor loss, speech loss, and eventually became thin and died. Someone experimented in the past.”
Hoo… Oliver was interested.
If you don’t sleep, what are the consequences?
“It’s an interesting experiment result……. Who did that experiment?”
“Well, I guess I don’t remember that. a long time ago.”
The old man replied with a slight smile.
Contrary to his smiling face, a faint sense of guilt shone. As before, my eyes soon became blurry and I couldn’t see my emotions.
“…More
“Yes? Oh yes. Do you have any next books?”
The old man at the bookstore took a drink and went into the narrow bookstore. And he brought the book right away. Not one, but five volumes.
bang! With a sound, a small book tower appeared on the table.
“This····?”
“Code word basic learning step 1 (bottom), and code word basic learning step 2 (top) (bottom), deep learning code word (top) (bottom). Five volumes in total. I studied on my own in one book, so I will be able to read this in a little bit of time.”
All five books were thick. Oliver became greedy.
“How much is it all together?”
“Let’s see. Basic learning stage 1 is 300,000, code word basic learning stage 2 is 600,000 each, and deep learning is a rare edition, so you should get 120 each. All together, give me 4 million Randa.”
“… the price has gone up? Isn’t it 3.9 million dollars in total?”
“It’s a used book and it’s a rare edition, so if it’s the original, you should get it for Rs 5 million. Do you really want to starve to death a helpless old man? Then there’s nothing you can do I will only receive 390,000 Randa. I can’t give up any more than this.”
Something was terribly wrong, but Oliver was so good at negotiating that he had no choice but to nod his head.
“·····Oh, sorry, but I don’t think I can live.”
“Don’t be fooled. young friends. There is no Enuri.”
“no. I don’t have enough money right now, so 3.9 million at a time seems a bit unreasonable.”
It’s not that 3.9 million Randa isn’t missing, but it’s true that the cash has gone down significantly and you have to save for a while.
The old man at the bookstore looked at Oliver.
“…don’t be fooled.”
“It’s real.”
“Wow…. I see it’s true. This wasn’t in the plan, then, I’ll give it to you as a credit.”
“A trauma?”
“exactly. I think I like books, so I’m giving this out of a curious mind. Never, not because I have nowhere to put my books.”
The last words bothered him, but Oliver did not refuse the kindness.
First of all, Oliver liked what he had.
“Then, thank you for your kindness-”
“Uh-huh, where are you going?!”
The old man was very angry.
“You take your ass off as soon as you see everything. Are all young people like that these days?”
“Yes, then?”
“You’re supposed to get my drink in the ass road chair. Do you know that I gave it to you as a foreigner for nothing? All young people are the same.”
Oliver groaned, “Ah…” and sat back down.
Still, the old man’s anger did not seem to be resolved.
“Ahh… i’m pissed Come on, please comfort me.”
“Have fun…? Three men played poker in a bar. One is a Norse, one is a Kingdom, and the last is a Landain. These three-”
“-No, don’t be angry, just have fun.”
“Well then, let’s play a restaurant joke.”
“under·····. Oh God. Excuse me, may I ask how old you are?”
“Why?”
“I’m just asking because it’s not so much fun. It’s a restaurant joke.”
“Is it weird?”
“Of course not. Isn’t it usually polite to talk a lot about women when you’re your age? It’s about making an appointment with a girl and playing with it.”
“ah·····. I also made an appointment with a woman.”
“····??!!”
The old man at the bookstore opened his eyes wide in surprise. like you can’t believe it.
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Oliver nodded. As a result of regular visits to the church, he met Joanna and managed to make an appointment.
The old man at the bookstore was suddenly excited.
“Oh, damn it! ·····Suddenly it becomes fun. You said it was a woman, right?!”
“yes.”
“Damn it! Where is the meeting place?”
“It’s a church-”
“-What the hell are all these idiots?! To set up an appointment with a woman at the cathedral. Get your pen right now! Write down what I call and prepare accordingly! hurry! Right now!”
Oliver panicked and grabbed the pen as instructed.