258 Its on Purpose, Right? (1/2)
Elder Lagan then opened a Spatial Gate that connected directly to the closest Super Long Distance Teleport Formation. Dilo, of course, followed as well. Krune looked at him and then asked with a Divine Sense Message.
”Just what is it that you want? It doesn't matter how I see it, a Soul Forging Realm like you following a Core Formation Realm like me feels weird. There has to be a reason for that.”
Dilo smiled and said.
”I wasn't lying when I said that it was thanks to you that my life was saved. I really would prefer to die if I couldn't cultivate anymore, so my gratitude is definitely not a pretense. But there is indeed another reason for that. You probably guessed it already too. I'm thinking about your future.”
Dilo felt like telling everything was the best way to go.
”I have little doubt that with your talent in Pill Making, your future is very bright, even if you are a wisp. So other than repay for your help, I also want to be there to see that happen. Call it greed, shameless, opportunism, or whatever. I will definitely do as I say. Also, in case you don't believe me, here's my guarantee.”
Without anyone noticing. Dilo took a sliver of his soul and sent it on Krune's way.
Krune almost had a hard attack seeing that. He quickly took that and hid it before anyone could notice.
”Are you crazy? This is the same as becoming someone's slave! As long as I have your slive of Soul, I can totally kill you anytime. Just why would you trust me this much? We barely knew each other a few days ago.”
Dilo laughed and said.
”Consider it my own gambling. Since I decided that I owe you my life, what is the difference between you having a sliver of my soul or not? If you feel like my life isn't worth keeping, you might as well crush it. I, Dilo Krois, have never gone back on my word before, and I don't intend to start now.”
Although Krune is an easy-going wisp, he would indeed have his reservations about Dilo. But the guy just had to give him a slive of his soul to prove his determination. Krune couldn't help but remember the time that Wang Mei asked for the same thing. Didn't he give her a sliver of his soul without thinking as well? In the end, Krune could only sigh.
”Fine, I accept your determination.”
Krune then sent Dilo's sliver of the soul back to him, just to have it be refused by the later. Krune was taken aback by that.
”What you doing? I don't want it, I decided to trust you for now.”
Dilo, on the other hand, was adamant.
Krune was feeling gloomy already. He really didn't like the idea of holding someone's life in his hands.
”Cough, cough. Can't we just use simple communicators? You know, like any normal person or demon beast?”
Dilo's face didn't even change. It was evident that he wouldn't hear it.
After a few more minutes of insistence, Krune finally gave up. He decided that he would find a way later to make Dilo accept it back.
”Fine, I will hold onto it for now. But this is definitely not a permanent thing. Are you okay with that?”
Dilo smiled and said.
”That's good enough. Oh, right! You can also use it to force me to do anything, even if I don't want to.”
Krune couldn't help but ask.
”You are not a masochist, right?”
Dilo almost vomited blood!
”You are a masochist, your entire family is masochist!”
Krune let out a sigh of relief. At least he was wrong about this point.
The group of five then arrived at a planet called Gilea. There, Lagan guided them to the teleport formation that they would use. Because this is something that would benefit both the Alchemist Organization and Krune, the Organization had already paid for the entire trip. It goes without saying that a trip this far would be quite expensive, but Amark Guli didn't care at all.
”Amark had me spend the last week doing research about the wisp talent test. But in the end, there wasn't much information available. So although we said that the round trip would take a few weeks, that is only the travel time. We are not sure about how long it will take for you to get into the wisp protection system. In the end, it is all up to you.”