My Beginning 3
Yesterday was such a ride, I couldn't help but tease Qian Xin whenever she annoys me.
Nonetheless
"Wait, you don't get fat!?"
"Yeah… I could eat a lot and still won't get fat"
This atmosphere ain't bad, if only Qian Xin don't act so hard headed with me, why do I always get involved with tomboys?
They're having their friendly chat as I look at my phone, I'm reading the news. If I used OS here it would look like I'm staring blankly in the air.
I'm calling myself stupid, honestly. Senna there seems to be a chance with you.
I can change your opinion with the spear.
Senna is one of the main characters as she is one of the members in the protagonists party.
Thanks to her own technique of spear throwing and her fearsome close quarter battles she was monstrous in the battlefield.
Don't forget that her spear has a return to owner function. So she is both ranged and close quarter fighter at the same time.
If I couldn't help her change her opinion on her family art then I would allow the tragedy to happen.
After all, I can't let one of the core members defeat the final boss to disappear, can I?
If she needed to go under that tragedy then I guess I'll have to betray her.
"Damian?"
My face contorted as if I'm uncomfortable. I was warned about this phenomenon.
*
"Damian, This is one of the very reasons why this place is abandoned"
"What is it, A-9?"
"Casper's Blood"
"What… what is that?"
My curiosity couldn't help but look at the tube in front of me containing red liquid.
"He was a special case Damian, his blood can detect Zenite mana and it would go wild."
"Just… That?"
"No.. No.. He also got himself strengthened after that, but the side effects are strong."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because… either this will be lost, or will be taken by you"
"I'm pretty sure I told you, didn't I?"
A smirk appeared across my face
"that I'm greedy"
*
I remember my conversation with A-9 back at Naia. I told him to merge Casper's blood with mine at a low dosage.
He informed me about the side effects after all.
But before that I looked around, my blood boiling and my status rising a bit due to its effect.
I searched for the cause just for my eyes to lie upon a middle aged man. He was our teacher for all I know.
"Am I mistaken?"
After all, my Casper's blood is weaker than the original, how come it would affect me like this.
And why is our teacher, Mr Graham, the one with Zenite mana.
If you are contracted to a Zenite you'll be called a Zenith. In this situation Mr Graham is a Zenith.
I looked away to calm my blood. I can't believe a teacher is a Zenith, and why is he walking around scoff free?
Is he… using an illusion magic or…
I don't understand. But screaming that he's a zenith here and now would be dangerous, I don't know his ideals are.
To change the subject between Senna and Qian Xin. I asked
"Senna, you wanna join our spar?"
"u-uh… well I have to—"
"Qian Xin make sure she don't escape"
"who do you think you're orderi—"
"No spar"
And with that Qian Xin held Senna close to her. This is a funny sight.
To make sure she doesn't fall to the same tragedy I'll just make sure her opinion changes. Therefore we have a bright, strong Senna in the protagonists party when she enrolls in Imperium.
…
Passenger cars have a total of 0.7 to 0.9 g's when accelerating. Formula cars in racing can reach up to 1-2 g's.
With myself here on a gravity pod, I tapped 2 G's of force and it felt quite normal.
I bumped it up to 3 and it felt like being on a roller coaster. I bumped it up to 4 now and it felt like I'm walking with weights on.
That's my limit. Well at least that's passable since I'm -E rank.
Gravity pods have their own tools inside of it, from weights to treadmills.
I of course started running to have some sense within the pod.
Not going to lie it was hard, being in the constant weight I immediately stopped within 2 minutes.
I could go running for a lot more if I'm in normal gravity but I swear this was a reality check for me.
Since I'm here I trained my calisthenics, it was much harder. But it was fun, training in here.
"Damian!"
"Hey!!"
Just out a thick window I could see Qian Xin calling for me. This battle junkie I swear to god, can't I have my own time?
After my fight with Fermund all of the whole class 1 thought of me as weird, and rightfully so. With this strength I should be ranked one.
And the looks get weirder as I train with Qian Xi and Senna, they felt like there's an old man in class 1-A.
It's not my fault I got influenced with Serge's mannerisms. I'm always with him whenever I'm training.
I stopped the gravity pod and walked out like a sick old man.
"Huff.. Huff.. Shiet…"
"What's wrong with you?"
"I just had a good exercise bruh"
"Spar with me!"
"Can't"
I flopped on the ground and my sweat splattered on the floor as my back squeezed out the sweat on my shirt.
"Guh' damn"
"What are you doing?"
"I just had an exercise in 4G's the hell you mean what"
"Tsk"
"I'll pull out that tongue don't you do that in front of me young lad"
"What are you, my mom?"
I raised my brows, I swear I would twist her ears if I could right now. But I'm so tired and all of those calisthenics pulled me to my limit.
So I stayed on the ground and went to sleep.
"Damian?"
Qian Xin on the other hand had the audacity to kick me.
…
Not going to lie, Training like that opened some possibilities for me. We never had this kind of station within the outpost so this is great.
I could at least rank up if I trained myself properly. I was on F+ rank back in the days. It was so hard to rank up even though I was eating raw herbs as I found them when I'm hiking in jask.
I need to find a way to rank up more and one thing available was potions. I have this research papers back in Naia. With the knowledge here I made my own potion making technique
I could buy my own but there's one thing. Making them was hard, making them pricy as hell.
One Low quality potion already amounts to 20,000 C and it's the lowest quality. The high quality is already out of my hands
But of course I have the potions on me from Naia, though the aren't going to last.
So I formulated a plan to earn money while making a supply myself with potions. Bullets could go later but, I only use minimum anyways, I won't show my true guns in here.
I woke up with a great recovery, I don't understand why my constitution was so different from others I didn't question it.
It was a great addition to me.
Walking out the training grounds I walked towards my dorm room and took a good cold shower.
Afterwards i called Decker, I needed to learn some estate costs around this City
And he answered that it took about 2 hours for him to get what I asked for.
"So you're telling me the average 2 story building here is about 80,000,000?"
–Yeah and a warehouse is about 600,000 in auctions.
"If you can, please secure me with two warehouses, abandoned for a few years, the location doesn't matter."
–Ya sure the location doesn't matter?
"Yeah, why?"
–There's a military checkpoint near one and it's the highway towards Ceath and Jask.
"oh- uh.. Yeah just made sure that's it's not in crowded places and yeah, make sure it's not near that place"
The reason why I'm letting Decker handle the buying was for one reason. I'm just 12 years old. And I don't have enough power nor any background to buy an estate by my name.
I might have to start a good background myself so those two little critters could use it in the future.
Though I doubt that they would use it since it's made by me.
–I found a warehouse just two bus stops away from your academy. It's about 1.3 mil and there are two participants here. Would you like to take it?
"Yeah, take it."
Decker didn't speak for a while, keyboard taps can be heard on the other side of the phone.
–Phew. We secured it
"Okay… how much was it?"
–1.6m you're also lucky, it's 4 abandoned warehouses. And since you don't have any money for now I'll take some payments later.
"Send over the papers alright?"
–Sure, sure. Hope you know that legal age when it comes to this is 14 so you better keep that safe.
"Of course"
I was lucky it was four warehouses for 1.6M. I only have 2M after selling monster corpses and extra herbs for those 6 years I continuously hiked.
And if I have to continue with Decker trading for me it would be over 4M. All in all, stock trading is the fastest way to earn money.
I could buy some things like renovation for the interior and some equipment with the remaining 400 grand but that could wait.
–ring ring
Suddenly my phone rang, looking at the caller, it was Senna. Curious I picked up the call
"Hello?"
–U-uhm… Damian
"You sound nervous, everything okay?"
–Y-yeah! It's just…
"Yeah?"
–does… being afraid of pain… make me a coward?
"Hmm.. Why'd you ask?"
–I mean… it's just… that I'm going to succeed my parents guild… and I'm still afraid.. It's not that I hate pain I experience it every time I exercise but… but that pain is different.
"Well.. Senna, why do you think of yourself as a coward?"
–… it's because I'm useless.. I can't seem to lift this spear-
I stopped her before she could even finish her sentence, her voice was trembling. She really has this fear of pain that really affects her self esteem.
"Senna, what makes a coward is running away"
–…
"You ran away from everything that inconvenienced you, you ran from every problem, everything—
… That's what makes one a coward, so… are you a coward?"
–I think.. So..
"Will you keep being a coward?"
–n-no.. I.. I don't want to disappoint my parents, and… and myself.
"Senna you don't have to get over this for one day you know?"
–…
"Just take one step at a time, you're still young"
–Yeah.. "
She sounded calm as if she heard what she wanted to hear.
"Well, is there anything else you wanted to ask?"
–… No… but can we chat a bit more?
"alright.."
We talked a lot till it was time to sleep, the Senna Kagui I knew is now changing. I hope it will be for the better.