153. Bigger ones (3)
Oliver took a taxi to Area X as usual.
This is our sixth visit.
There were still eyes watching, nevertheless, I was slowly starting to get used to this area.
I even thought about going to see Master when I finished my urgent work. It’s been too long since I last saw you.
Leaving the head of the car behind the moving taxi, Oliver went straight inside and made his way to the gym where he was supposed to meet Joe.
After walking for a while, we arrived at the gym located relatively inside, and a man standing in front of him turned to Oliver and greeted him.
“I’m here?”
It was none other than Joe.
“Yes, . . . have you been waiting?”
“Because we were supposed to meet today. By the way, can I get some of that first?”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
Oliver pulled out a bulging glutinous rice pouch from within.
It was the guy who swallowed half of the bounty with a wallet-type glutton bag.
“Randa 324 million, which is half of Randa 648 million excluding fees, is here. You can check it out.”
Joe took the gluttonous bag and rubbed it a few times before shaking his head.
“I’ll figure it out later.”
“Yes, at your convenience. And take this.”
Oliver held out three bottles of red drug from within.
“This?”
“It’s a potion. Arthur said he would participate in the big deal, so he applied. Oh, did you get the potion?”
Joe shook his head.
He inquired about gray markets, black markets, and distributors using the shallow connections he had built up while being hired by the black market, but it was not easy to find the right product.
Good things have more power, and the rich take it first.
In that sense, Joe was very grateful for the potion.
“thank you·····. money?”
“Well····. After all, it was supported by the city, so I don’t think it’s necessary to get it.”
It was an attitude that was hard to see on this floor, of course, in Zone X, but Joe nodded.
Even if others didn’t know, Oliver understood. No, he understood whatever Oliver did. Oliver had a unique side to that extent.
A strange yet overwhelming feeling that cannot be felt by ordinary people…
“Then, shall we go in? I don’t have time.”
Joe nodded and took Oliver into the gym.
Just like the last time I came to the gym, there were a lot of people working out in a large space with their tops off.
bang! bang! Some people hit the sandbag enough to make a noise, while others made a squeaking noise and lifted and dropped a lump of iron.
Everyone was enthusiastic.
“Ah, here you are.”
A stocky, bald man appeared among the muscular giants.
He only came from the waists of others, but his arms, chest, and leg muscles were extremely developed, giving him the impression of being as hard as gravel.
And as if he knew this too, he was not discouraged by the overflow of people who were twice his size, but rather proud of it.
It was Dinklage, the director of this gym, whom I had met before when I was visiting Joe.
“Nice to meet you. Chief.”
“uh. Our group only comes to us when we have business. That one is… Dave, right?”
“Yes, long time no see. Dinklage, Mr.
“What is Mr. Just call me manager. I heard that they want to register for our gym.”
“Yes, I can’t because I have a job right now, but I would like to learn some sports when I have time.”
“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s reckless. We don’t do light exercise, we only work out to become real males, so if you’re poorly prepared, you’d better find another gym right now. That’s good for each other.”
“Oh, then I will.”
“But if you want to learn here so much, let me teach you well. I’ll come to you when it’s time to do it in earnest.”
“······??”
Oliver tilted his head at the disjointed conversation.
Joe advised.
“Even if you say that, don’t worry, new members are always welcome. Rather, the manager. Can I borrow the basement?”
“Okay, but it’s only two hours. And don’t forget what you promised me. My memory is sharp even when my hair is bald.”
Joe nodded and took Oliver down to the basement training room.
The training ground was filled with musty air and huge rings, sandbags, mitts, and gloves, as we had seen before.
The only difference is that the blood traces on the floor have become slightly darker.
Oliver asked, taking off his jacket.
“What is your promise?”
“ah? ····It doesn’t matter. I’m asking you to participate in a gambled martial arts match. It’s one of the few big money circulating in Zone X, so I decided to participate a few times on condition that I could use the gym here.”
“Oh, I see. Come to think of it, you said you used to play as a player in the past, right?”
“Not now, but it looks like I will be participating again.”
Joe’s voice was slightly bitter. I want to ask more details, but Joe opened his mouth first.
“Then, can I go straight to class? I don’t have time.”
Oliver nodded, pulled out an emotion-filled test tube, and held it to Joe.
Unlike last time, Joe extracted emotions quite skillfully. Surprisingly, I wondered if he had any talent.
“Keep your emotions in your hands as much as you can.”
Joe didn’t say a word and followed what he was told.
Even after a minute had passed, his emotions stably stayed in Joe’s hands.
“Then, would you like to draw as thin as possible this time?”
Joe immediately transformed the form of emotion. Although, not as thick as a thread, it was about the thickness of a fingertip.
“ね・・・・・・!”
Even though that was too much, Joe made an impression and focused as much as possible.
Oliver stared at him, taking a finger and placing it on the back of Joe’s hand.
By indirectly giving the trick, the emotions that were actually drawn as thick as a finger were reduced to 1/4 of that.
In fact, it should be thinner than this, but Oliver did it slowly without overdoing it. Obviously learning comes first. However, Joe had a different opinion.
“Hey there, Dave.”
“Yes, Joe?”
“Can’t we make a black suit even in this state? I don’t mean to cheat. But, I want to find a way to use it somehow until the next time.”
It wasn’t a lie. But apart from that, Oliver shook his head.
“It is difficult.”
“okay?”
“Yeah, if it’s too thick, it won’t be flexible enough to cover the whole body, and there will be many gaps, so the defense will also drop a lot.”
“What if I use it for attack rather than defense that wraps around my body?”
“·····Yes?”
“For example, how about weaving these thick emotions and vitality as if to make armor rather than cloth, and putting it on only one arm?”
Oliver pondered.
Wear it on one arm, not the whole body, and a black suit for attack rather than tight defense.
It seemed like Oliver’s idea of the black suit and its ark would deviate, but it didn’t seem like it would be impossible.
“Wait.”
Oliver pulled out two test tubes from his bosom.
A test tube with emotions and vitality.
Oliver extracted emotions and vitality from two test tubes at the same time, then transformed it into a thickness similar to Joe’s and wrapped it around his right hand, arm, and shoulder.
It feels like a reinforcing bar. It wasn’t too bad. In a sense, the attack power could have been better.
As the thickness increases, more vitality and emotions can be used.
“That’s great. I never thought of it this way. I think it is possible.”
“really?”
“Yes, seriously. I think it’d be better to use it a little faster this way. name is·····. Shall we wear black armor?”
Jo’s expression wasn’t very good, probably because he didn’t have a good naming sense. I didn’t take it any other way though.
“Then, can you teach me about that?”
When he had a goal he could reach more quickly, Oliver nodded and rolled up his arms.
In order to do the black suit, I had to put in the control ability to extract emotions like a thread, but the black armor I just made was able to go straight to the assembly stage.
“Then, I will teach you as soon as possible. I have work to do.”
“yes? What are you going to do?”
“It’s nothing. There is one skill I want to develop.”
***
Oliver returned immediately after that day and began his work.
Although Harura had a limited time, he taught Joe step-by-step how to wear black armor on his arms and legs.
After extracting emotions and vitality with the size of the reinforcing bar, he even wrote down on paper how to weave it according to the relevant part.
Assembling was also quite difficult for Joe, but Oliver helped him practice one-on-one, so the time was slow, but he was able to mount it on his arms and legs by himself.
The problem is that the longest time is 2 or 3 hours, and the shortest time is over 1 hour.
It’s important to be able to do it though, so Oliver came home after helping the gym until it closed.
I was able to devote my time to self-research faster than I expected on unexpected good ideas.
Oliver’s research was none other than magic, to combine the magic of the Spatial School with Merlin’s technology.
“Well·····.”
An empty basement in the hotel. Oliver let out a hoarse voice, extracting magic power, and casting magic on both hands.
The colorless and transparent magic gathered in Oliver’s hand and gradually established order and system.
With him, the magical power that gradually turns purple. After a while, purple energy condensed in Oliver’s hand.
Understand-!
The condensed purple magical energy was compressed like a dot in the air and then exploded to form a small portal, the other pair of portals opened in Oliver’s opposite hand.
“Hey…”
Oliver sighed in relief.
After realizing that he could extract magic, Oliver practiced to use Spatial School magic.
It wasn’t for combat, but it was more convenient and unexpected.
However, living up to its name as one of the most difficult studies to learn, Oliver could not use it alone.
It was possible until the preparation stage, but when I tried to open the portal, it collapsed.
In this regard, professional training is deemed necessary. Still, he couldn’t give up, so Oliver tried to figure out a solution of his own.
The method is to create not one but two portals at the same time,
Rather than opening one portal and drilling a path in another, it was to create and connect two at the same time.
Surprisingly, using this method, the two portals were connected and activated.
Although the location was limited and the size was only about the size of a fist.
Oliver saw great potential in this.
It’s not worth much by itself, but it’s usable enough if you combine it with something else.
So Oliver went straight to the next step.
First, Oliver closed his eyes, unlocked the portal, converted it into magical energy, and created the portal again.
There was almost no wastage of magic power.
As I repeated the work like that, I could feel the shape and flow of magic inherent in magic along my fingertips little by little.
Create a portal, transform it into magic, create a portal, transform it into magic…
The composition of the portal, which was made depending on the senses and talents, gradually took on a concrete form in my head.
It gave me a different kind of joy than when I succeeded in magic.
Breaking…
As Oliver clenched his fists, the portal shattered like dust and turned into magical energy.
In that state, Oliver put his hands together, combined the magic, and poured it into the inkwell he had prepared in advance.
The condensed magical power was transformed into HLF (Hearthstone Liquefied Fuel) and permeated into the ink.
Merlin’s book used an unparalleled method, but Oliver studied his own method, mixed magic and ink completely, and then began to draw the circle of space magic he had identified earlier on paper.
‘One large circle and two small circles. A uniquely shaped mesh in a circle. And the connecting lines in the form of symmetrical tree roots.’
A magic circle was drawn on the paper as if it had been drawn by machine, and after drying, Oliver applied the paper over it and drew the same magic circle without an inch.
Swee-chuck- Sweat-Shoot-
After drawing all the same magic circles on paper, Oliver placed two of them on each end of the basement, and then spritzed them with magic to activate them.
The magic scattered in the air came into contact with the paper and activated the ink containing the magic, which activated the portal on the paper.
Although the size of the portal was at the level of an open hole, and the activation time was only 2 or 3 seconds, it was sufficient.
It was a very, very big achievement.
Based on this, Oliver turned Duncan into a mortuary doll, and then applied black magic to the Spatial School magic created by Oliver’s style.
When I secured a new means of attack, I got a call from Forrest.
“I got a call from Arthur. We have secured Wallace’s position.”