813 Woven Web 1 (1/2)
Time flew by, and Garen and Celine had already stayed in the hospital for over half a month. After a few visits from friends and family, the two were safely discharged, as the injuries on their body were almost fully healed even after there was a small hiccup in the middle of recovery. Garen's physique received praises from his attending doctors and nurses, as it was a physique attained by strong athletes, yet it was seen on a normal student.
With an average of 1.5 points increment from normal people's physical attributes, he displayed nearly twice the overall qualities of a normal human body.
Upon his return to the academy, the final match had already ended. The award money was directly transferred to Garen's account.
Life returned to the daily routine of classes and training in the battlenet. However, the two geniuses that had emerged from the finals, Celine and Nonosiva, had slightly prolonged the excitement. These two bastards that suddenly came out of nowhere nearly had the chance to claim the thrones of the top three and drag Caus down by a notch.
Of course, Garen didn't have the time to care for such trivial matters. He was busy attending to the clients Celine had contacted, after all, Blue Narcissus had gained some publicity after this.
Within his dorm, Garen greeted them with his hand extended to welcome them in.
”There's not much for me to serve you, but do sit anywhere as you please.”
The two people who just came in observed every corner of his dorm room. These two people were clients introduced by Celine to examine the goods, in respect to Celine, as well as potentially reap greater benefits. The two of them had personally come instead of sending their henchmen to examine the goods.
Among the two, one of them was a gentle-looking man wearing a white shirt and glasses, the other was a red-dressed girl with slightly puffy shoulder-length hair.
”Student Nono, let's not delay any longer, just show us the goods.” the man was named Wade, and he didn't mention his surname. Regardless, he was still rich and influential. He adjusted his glasses before returning his gaze to Garen.
”I've already prepared the goods, however, it would be impossible to display it out in the open. I shall show it to you immediately,” Garen nodded. He then retrieved a bottle of highly potent fuel powder from the cupboard in his room.
Within the transparent glass bottle he just brought out were powdery, pale yellow shards. Some were still clumped into tiny pebbles.
Garen passed the bottle to the man and then retrieved another one for the girl to examine.
”For the two of you to have personally come all this way, it is obvious that you're familiar with this thing. Tell me, what you think of its purity?” Garen smiled as he said.
The two lowered their heads, opened the bottle and poured out a little of its contents. They examined it closely.
The girl dabbed her finger into it and gave it a taste.
”Quite good, there are higher amounts of impurities as well,” the girl replied softly. Her name was Vivienne Sina, and apart from her family's background, she was familiar with chemical productions. Her family business thrived on it.
”A thousand kilograms of these could net a purity around 600 kilograms. The ratio itself is quite good already.”
”I just need to know, how much is your purchase price altogether?” Garen waved his hand, his back leaned against the cupboard and asked with a smile.
”Purchase price… let's not talk about that for now, we're much more interested in the methods of extraction for this,” the girl smiled while twirling a few strands of her silky hair around the tip of her finger. ”If you can provide information of the extraction methods, I'll be willing to offer this price.”
She extended two fingers on one hand and formed a fist with the other.
”Two million.” [1]
For a normal academy student, even if he was a bit of a genius, a genius who had not matured bore no significance. To offer two million Units was her giving face to Celine.
”How is it? The price is quite high already,” the girl tossed the bottle back and forth and smiled as she replied.
”High?” Garen anticipated such problems would surface early on, hence he wasn't provoked, ”That bottle in your hand alone is worth more than ten million, yet you're telling me that you're purchasing the extraction techniques for two million? If I were to truly intend to hand over the knowledge of the techniques, why wouldn't I donate it to the academy higher-ups? I'll be able to attain the higher-ups' attention as well, maybe even receive closer attention in nurturing me when I become an elite.”
The girl's smile slowly faded away.
”Two million is already not a small amount... There are some things that can't even be bought once gone, even with all the money in the world.”
”Oh? Are you threatening me?” Garen remained unfazed. ”With just your two master bodyguards standing right outside the door?” he wore a shy smile, like how a normal boy saw his crush.
”Perhaps Celine did not mention to you what would happen to anyone who threatens me within 50 meters?”
”Ho ho ho ho….” the girl nodded and replied, ”You truly are formidable in a fight. But no matter how long you can last in one, some things only require one instance to eliminate someone.”
”I will kill you first before that happens,” Garen narrowed his eyes.
”You're quite mad!”
”You may try.”
The atmosphere suddenly froze, as a red electronic key appeared in the girl's hand. Her thumb rested on its red button, ready to press it at any moment.
Garen folded his arms across his chest, silently staring down his opponent as a sliver of killing intent oozed into his stance. For such a thing as killing intent, which bore no visible shape, it was more like a physical display of determination. From a person's actions and gaze, along with various subtle movements, one could determine whether or not that person truly intended to kill. A true killing intent, when released through spoken words and the body's base capability, could completely and truly manifest as an intent of desiring death upon another. This form of biological electric field could generate subtle effects on another being. This was what most people could interpret as a killing intent.