197 Absorption 1 (2/2)
”It’s reacting!” Garen and Andrela were staring at the King of Nightmares.
”Pale red, I see.. This level can be further categorised into three tiers.” Zhaoxing Qin nodded. ”Congrats miss, you indeed have the potential to learn telekinesis.” Her reaction wasn’t excited as if this was a very common thing.
Judging the reactions from Julie and Zhaoxing Qin, the three of them knew that the King of Nightmare’s potential in telekinesis was fairly common and standard.
”Alright then. Miss, would you like to stay back and learn our style of the telekinesis battle strategy?” Zhaoxing Qin offered out of Garen’s reputation. Increasing the King of Nightmare’s strength meant that she was increasing the strength of the enemy of Immortal Palace. Furthermore, she was Garen’s ally.
”Battle strategy? Of course I’m very interested.” The King of Nightmares licked his fingers with a strange look in his eyes. Whenever she did that gesture, it meant that she had some troublesome idea in his mind.
Andrela, who was off to the side, had a strong hunch. He remembered that the last time when he saw the King of Nightmares did the same gesture, he had been horrified that she attempted to transform into a man the next day and attacked him with all of her new techniques. He was so horrified that he didn’t dare touch her for the next few months.
”What are you planning to do this time?” Andrela quickly asked in panic.
”To be honest, I want to know how it feels like to absorb to Argent Mirror, rather than learning the telekinesis battle strategy…” King of Nightmares started laughing softly.
Zhaoxing Qin was not that surprised as she had already anticipated it.
”It might be too much for you to absorb the Argent Mirror. It’s a very dangerous thing to do.”
”It is also very exciting as well.” The King of Nightmares continued. ”Do you think I am able to?”
”Yes. as long as you don’t regret it, any person who has potential in telekinesis is able to absorb it.” Zhaoxing Qin said coldly. ”A lot of people have actually tried it and without any exception, they either fail mid way through or became crazy.”
She looked at the King of Nightmares coldly. ”To be honest, your personality is very similar to of my mother, and hence I’m not surprised that you have made such a decision. However we may require some time as absorbing the Argent Mirror requires a lot of preparation.”
”How much time do we need altogether?” The King of Nightmares whispered.
”About three days. There are some materials required which we would need to obtain from an old friend of mine, who lived very far away. So this is the earliest we can manage. We also need some materials to isolate the Argent Mirror to prevent any pollution if it leaks.” Zhaoxing Qin calmly explained. ”The price of the material will be borne by you since we don’t have any extra money laying around.”
”That’s only natural.” The King of Nightmares nodded in agreement.
”What should we do then?” Andrela looked at Garen, who was supposed to be the leader of the team as he was the strongest.
Garen shrugged his shoulders.
”If possible, I hope to stay here and have a deeper understanding of the fighting style of a telekinesis master. We have too little knowledge about Sylphalan and his gang since they have yet to show their telekinesis to us yet.”
”I, too, think that to be advisable.” Zhaoxing Qin nodded.
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Hence, for the next three days, Garen and his team decided to stay a hidden basement, secretly constructed from an entrance to a tomb.
It was spacious; so spacious that it had more than ten rooms. The rooms were quite clean as well, a janitor having obviously made some rounds in this place.
What was most surprising, however, was that this basement was connected to other basements, and there were outsiders who used these basements to deliver essential products and food to customers.
The whole basement was like an underground kingdom, or an underground social circle. Garen and his team found out from a few people that these basements were like nodes connecting to other nodes, forming a complete, labyrinthine system.
The two old men that the trio thought had killed visited them on the second day. They even provided some intel and news as thanksgiving. They thanked them for saving his life.
It was just as Zhaoxing Qin had said, they were perfectly fine. However, they looked rather pale as if they had lost quite a lot of blood.
When Andrela was bored, he followed Julie to a specially designed basement which contained an isolation field for training. The isolated field was a field created by telekinesis with a metal enhancement. It’s hardness and toughness were well above all the metals on the surface. Andrela tried slicing it with his sword with all his might but there was only a fine scratch on its surface. This was nothing to a wall that was nearly half a meter thick.
This made both of them able to train at ease.
On the other hand, Garen had been studying extensively anything related to telekinesis, including the knowledge in advancing the telekinesis’ strengths from the books. Although he didn’t have the talent in telekinesis, that didn’t stop him from obtaining knowledge.
As a person who once lived on Earth, he knew very well the importance of information. It was much easier to deal with a dangerous situation or formidable enemy when one understood well the enemy’s techniques and strengths, rather than not knowing what the future held.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the King of Nightmares had gathered all the necessary materials with his money. Together with Zhaoxing Qin, he had spent up to a few hundred million in Pi dollar. This wealth was equivalent to a billion RenMinBi on Earth where Garen once lived.
With the cooperation of a few old men and Zhaoxing Qin, the ritual to absorb the Argent Mirror was finally finished.