303 Beginning 1 (1/2)
Chapter 303: Beginning 1
The window was splashed with falling rain.
Garen served up a hot cup of coffee, standing by the window.
On the large bed behind him, that girl called Lala was lying down on the bed massaging her head, not fully conscious.
”Are you awake?” Garen turned back to the bed, this Lala girl’s motive of coming here was obviously to get some form of protection from him. It’s just that he had his own agenda to accomplish, staying by his side is not that much safer compared to somewhere else.
The girl tried to get up. The clothes on her body had not been touched by Garen; they were still the original dirty attire from before.
The first thing she did was to check her body for traces of possible harassment. She relaxed herself . Following that, she placed her gaze upon Garen who is standing by the side of the window.
”Thank you, for saving me once again.” her voice sounded sore, obviously she is having a flu. ”If it wasn’t for you last time, we should be dead by the roadside outside the city.”
”I always expect for returns when i do something, I have saved you twice, how do you intend to return the favor?” Garen looked at her calmly. ”If there is a behaviour of wanting something, it is only natural to consider the price, there is nothing that can be gotten without paying a price in the world. Don’t you think?”
”I understand.” Lala’s eyes shows that she seemed to understand, ”I am but a weak lady, what else can i give you? Or rather, what do you intend to take from me?” Her speech is clear and without hidden meanings.
”The cleanliness of this house, the daily chores and housework, very simple requests. The condition is that I provide shelter and food, how’s that?” Garen answered coldly. ”Also, as a man with normal sexuality, to be able to see a clean and cute lady at home, will improve my mood greatly too.” He spoke straightforwardly.
Lala lowered her eyes: ”Your demands are reasonable, I am willing to work in order to exchange for my safety and livelihood. Under this isolated environment, you are able to suppress your desires and stay respectful to a lady, you are a good man.”
”Good Man?”
Garen laughed without voice. He extended both arms, looking at his clean, untainted palms. These arms, who knew how much blood had tainted these arms, innocent ones, sinful ones, or even just plain brawls, but such is life.
He snapped back into reality, laughing sarcastically.
”I’m glad to get to know a partner of an opposing gender which is rational, but I will remind you, there are many places in the house which are prohibited for you, you best not run around. If you wish to go out, leave me a note. I will arrange for it. The medications are placed by your pillow, and for your information, this is my first time taking care of someone outside my family.”
”It is my pleasure.” Lala relaxed and smiled. As she looked at garen calmly leave the room, she exhaled in relaxation. Aunty had already arrived in the city safely, in one night, her entire world collapsed, countless creatures killed people around her; the ones who she were familiar with, the ones who weren’t, too many lives have been taken away as she watched.
”Sufficient food, sufficient safety, warm blanket…” Lala had not had a moment where she thought of things she normally had to be a luxury.
Garen walked out of the guest room, tidied his collar and walked back to his master bedroom.
Standing in front of the mirror, he took a good look at himself.
His smooth bald had have a layer of short hair now. On the outside was a grey mantle, so long as he wore the hood and lowered his head, nobody will know who he is.
He pulled open his wardrobe. After some flipping through, he took out a greyish-white inner tee to be changed into and wore the pieces that would make up the complete leather armor he prepared previously.
Two round shoulder pads, forearm guards, knee guards, calf protectors, boots, and then a helm with a chest plate.
As he wore all of those, the person inside the mirror looked similar to the guards of Iron Tank city.
After giving it some thought, Garen took off the helm and wore the grey mantle again.
”Now this is much better.” He satisfyingly said as he looked at himself.
The mantle covered the entirety of the armor, giving him a muscular look.
”Next, let's look at what my little babies are up to.” he focused on the attribute pane.
”Strength 2.66. Agility 2.72, Vitality 2.76. Intelligence 2.53. Potential 632%. Possess the qualifications of a Luminarist ”
6 points of Potential points.
Garen squinted his eyes, he glanced over the totem pane, the amount of parasites had dropped to five, which should be due to another battle happening.
”Let’s have the blue back lizard evolve instead, the success rate for third form evolution is too low.”
He triggered a thought.
Soon, the doors were nudged open, and three blue back lizards slowly walked in. The last one closed the door under Garen’s control.
This kind of deep blue colored lizards normally inhabit the desert areas, so their survival abilities are really strong, with extreme tolerance to hunger and thirst.
Garen squatted in front of the three lizards and touched their heads.
”From now on, you're Number 3. Deep Swamp Croc will be Number 2. This will ease identifiability. I’ll have you evolve first.”
His gaze placed on the blue back lizard’s icon, quickly, three points of potential points disappeared in a quick jump.
Number 2 blue back lizard shuddered for a moment,, and then started vibrating intensely, as if something were vibrating immensely inside its body.
Jiii…..
Number 2 let out a painful hiss. Its body rapidly grew from about a meter, quickly elongating to two meters, three meters, four meters, five meters!