Chapter 269: Trials of the Lord of Weapons! (a) (1/2)

”It's undoubtedly a fantastic material, but how is it created?” Elliot questioned.

”Death of a star,” Karim replied casually.

Once a planets die or get killed, it leaves behind a core full of energy, and one can use it to create unbelievably powerful treasure or upgrade existing ones.

”What about why this technique is hard to learn?” Elliot asked while shaking the black book up and down. While he was shaking it, it opened up. That should only happen if he were already its owner!

”What? When did you purchase it?”

”Never did.”

He only used the free token to become one of its owners!

”I was just getting to that part,” Karim said. ”The person who created it added a few insidious mechanisms to make it hard for others to read or comprehend it. Some say that the words started twisting around when they read it. Others say that in addition to the words moving about, their consciousness also got pulled into a different dimension where thousands of beasts assaulted them. The former are those who failed to comprehend even the tiniest bit of the book. While the latter are those who managed to learn the first part. Of course, there are many other rumors, but they are mostly similar or so exaggerated that it's hard to believe. And they are not many as not everyone is rich enough to purchase this book only to read it once a year.”

Although a person could only purchase these pieces of information from information brokers, Karim didn't mind telling them to Elliot for free. Information brokers like their name were people dealing in gathering information from all across the universe only to sell them to whoever wanted to buy them, and they were extremely costly. As for why Karim was being so friendly to Elliot, it was because he was interested in him, immensely interested.

He didn't have any ill intent in trying to befriend him, just pure interest.

Elliot was also feeling thankful to Karim. He didn't care what plans the other had for him as the other had helped him immensely. Thanks to him, Elliot understood what the high-level civilization considers as treasure. And it was also because of him that he came across the demonic-ranked skill, energy radiation.

”Thank you for telling me a lot of things,” Elliot said, ”In the future, if a situation arises where you are in a troublesome position, I will help you.”

Elliot just finished saying his piece of mind when Karim pulled out a card with numerical numbers on it.

”It's my number. Call me if you want to purchase information.” Karim, although an infamous space pirate, was also an information broker.

”Sure,” Elliot said and accepted his card.

He didn't know anything about the vast universe.

Thus, It was going to be helpful to have the contact information of an information broker.

Elliot also checked the card to ensure that it wasn't a recording device and merely a card. After making sure that it was simply a paper with numbers on it, he put it in his subspace.

”Well then, excuse me.”

”Please.”

Elliot went to the nearby table, activated the privacy barrier by paying a few spirit points and immersed himself in memorizing and mastering the demonic-ranked technique.