Chapter 121 The Wasteland World - Essence of Corruption (1/2)

Chapter 121 The Wasteland World - Essence of Corruption

The old man looked at Daniel and at the fruit with a fascinated expression

Due to the sht colors, and the plump and delicious appearance, he could not help but s a bigthe fruit, he put the pit into his mouth, and crashed it with his teeth, as if he was an i to wait for the candy to melt in his mouth

”K'ah harujia hai?” said the old ht smile appeared on Daniel's face He made another fruit appear in his hand Then, he sliced a sate's bars ay more power than needed

The old man's ht ar in the air at high speed He then sers over it, felt its juicy consistency And finally, put it in his mouth

The moment the old ht

His following reaction was siar for the first time in his life

He brushed his white hair in disbelief, and turned to look at Daniel as if he had been just slapped out of the blue

With visible excitee, entered it, and then sat in front of Daniel

Frouessed that this gracile-looking old man was nowhere nearly as week as he appeared to be In fact, he seeer than the muscular man himself, which explained his co him

The old man looked at Daniel with stupor, then, he stretched his hand towards him

From the drool that threatened to drip down the corners of the oldover his lip continuously, Daniel could guess what the old man wanted

He made the rest of the previously cut fruit appear in his hand once again, but just as he was about to put it on the old ain

The old man looked at Daniel in confusion

With the old man's attention on him, Daniel quickly indicated at one of the books which he had seen on the table in the left side of the room

Before Daniel could even notice his e, approached the table, grabbed a book, ate behind him

Daniel was able to feel hisawareness, but his speed was so fast, that he wasn't able to folloith his own eyes

The oldabout it, but instead of accepting it, Daniel started to gesture in response

Hethe book, one for looking at the words, and one for reading them

Daniel's objective was to associate the pronunciation with the symbol

He had already memorized the symbols which composed this human-like race's alphabet, but the book couldn't teach hiive indications to the old htly different from the ones he had read in the bookstore

They were still sies

He had seen this sort of changes between the ancient andhis studies in the library of his castle But this level of evolution of language, was only so that he had seen in scriptures thousands of years older frouessed for hour, Daniel would indicate a symbol he wanted to kno to pronounce, and the man would pronounce it

Every now and then the old ht he was about to leave, he would give him another piece of fruit

After two full hours, Daniel was starting to have difficulties in finding symbols whose pronunciation he hadn't heard yet, and soon enough, the oldeach and every symbol contained within the book

Suddenly, he seeot up on his feet, and as he was about to dash out of Daniel's cell, a woman's shout could be heard frouah!”

As the man heard the woman's voice, he turned to look back at Daniel, and waved his hand in salutation

Then, he disappeared froed in with a furious expression ”JIGUAH!!” She shouted once again

This woman had common feature, and didn't appear beautiful to Daniel's standards She was more heavily clothed when compared to the hunters, and the amount of black spots on her body was similar to that of the uess, he would say that she see before she could scold him

She took a couple of minutes to calm down, then, she wore her h the bars of the cell

In Daniel's hands, she saw one of her books He was holding it opened on his legs, and was pointing at each sy it out loud

The woman looked at Daniel with interest Then, she said ”K'joah nar nahaj'ha?”

Daniel looked back at her, but didn't answer

Noticing the lack of response, the woman pointed at herwas clear She meant ”Can you understand?”

Daniel shook his head in response

The ed woman crossed her arms and observed Daniel for a few h the use of signs

At so this slow conversation, Daniel had asked the wo This had confused her, but only for the first couple of hours