Chapter 310 - Offer (1/2)
There was no reason for me to wonder how I was able to either speak or understand what the other party was trying to convey. Since some kind of system built-in translator was working, trying to figure it out could only bring bad luck!
”Ah, I think you are mistaken. I came from the other island!”
Considering how weak those people were, I believed that there was no reason for me to hide where my stronghold was, but since I didn't know whether someone else wouldn't try to ask them out about my whereabouts, I decided to keep things ambiguous.
”To be fair though, you should actually call me a traveller. My real homeland is too far for me to even know which direction it is right now!”
That ruse was the best to go with. No matter what did they believe and know about the world on this island, as someone completely foreign to not only this place but the overall culture of the region, a lot of my potentially strange quirks would have their explanation in my background while giving me a lot more space to research the locals!
”Traveller? That's actually quite something! We only have out Overlord entourage strong enough to challenge the seas, forcing us to rely on his abilities to sustain our lives here. Ah, I don't mean to make it sound bad, compared to how we used to live back before his coming, most of our people can't see his presence as anything else but a blessing!'
I didn't expect this guy to share such important information with me right away! While the fact that this overlord of his could travel through the seas made the threat bar next to his name in my mind skyrocket, he was probably the one I could negotiate with to both settles here and conduct some research!
The only worry, for now, was how much strength this person wielded, or rather, how proficient he was in using it!
As my small talk with the officer continued, I didn't refrain from using my energy vision to scan every last cell of his body, hoping to find the secret behind their peculiar situation. It was unnatural for someone who could garner so much energy inside their bodies, to be unable to use it almost at all!
What actually surprised me the most, was the way in which the mana reformed their bodies. In the case with the cultivators, it started gathering in the core, then a person could drive it through their meridians and later on, acupoints. As soon as the flow turned strong enough, one could push it away in order to add the energy to his own punches, while just driving the energy around the body made the body more resilient as more and more energy continued to build up in every muscle, bone and joint.
Compared to cultivators, the local people or at least the officer I was talking with, had achieved perfection in nourishing their bodies with the energy!
Thinking about it, I could only imagine how wasteful this approach of growing stronger was since, despite all the energy-rich resources growing everywhere on the island, they could only reach such a measly stage of growth!
But I had to admit, that the way in which every last cell of their bodies was brimming with evenly spread out energy, was something to be jealous of by itself. While it made them unable to drive their energy around their bodies as there were no changes to the density anywhere, I could only imagine how insane effects could this kind of reinforcement have on their lives!