8 Crisis or not?

The brother of the patient barged into the room and started screaming.

"Assassins! They want to kill my brother! Guards!!!"

It was terrible because they couldn't defend themselves from professional guards.

(FUCK! I told him to do something stupid asshole. We are screwed.)

It didn't look well. Three men in armed with swords came into the room. Neo had no choice, he took the needles into his hands and shouted while pointing at the patient throat.

"Don't move or your master will lose his life in pain."

"Kill him. They probably killed master already, and they are using him as a hostage."

Neo couldn't stand it anymore.

"Shut up, retard! You think everyone is stupid like you and won't see basic facts."

"WHO DO YOU CALL RETARD?"

"So you are deaf in addition to being stupid... You cannot even do assassination properly..."

Then someone walked to the room.

"Boy, can you explain? What do you mean by your words?"

It was the son of the patient with 2 guards in black armors.

(Is their low intelligence hereditary?)

"I think you should ask your uncle about this?"

Patient's brother expression changed, he panicked.

"Don't listen they are enemies that aimed for the life of your father! GO KILL THEM!"

He ordered his guards and they started approaching Neo.

"I am bored with this. How long are you gonna pretend?"

Neo said with irritation and a few seconds later patient eyes opened.

"Why did you aim for my life John?"

The patient asked with a low hoarse voice filled with sorrow. Seeing patient awake all the guards stopped their movement and knelt on the floor.

"Father!" Patient's son came closer.

"Hahahaha.YOU ALL ARE DOOMED HAHAHA!"

John started to laugh maniacally and attacked Neo.

"IT WAS PERFECT PLAN BUT IT WAS RUINED BY YOU! I WILL KILL YOU!"

He swung his sword and Neo wasn't fast enough to completely dodge, although he moved to the left and the sword only grazed his arm. One of the guards in black armor moved and knock out the John. He fell on the floor. The arm of the boy was bleeding, but he didn't care much. He took one of the needles and inserted it in the arm and it stopped bleeding.

"Let me deal with this asshole. You owe me this, old man!"

"All of you leave! Leave me with our guests!"

Noe closed the door and approached unconscious John. He touched man's forehead and started chanting something in the weird language. It was soul devour, but he didn't want to expose this fact.

[Detected memory flow. Do you wish to absorb them or store it for later?]

It was still a pleasure to devour someone soul but Neo tried to hide this and ordered AI to store memories for later.

"He won't ever wake up. It's punishment for trying to kill me. We already exchanged pleasantries so let's go to the business."

He approached the man with a confident smile on his face.

"I want call guards to kill you but my businessman sense telling me that it's a grand chance!"

"You sense isn't lying to you. I will introduce many elixirs in the future to this world. I need someone to sell them as my proxy and that person will get share total sale. What do you think old man?"

"Stop calling me Old man. I am Reis and I built my union from the scratch it was so alluring that even my birth brother decided to betray me. Tell me what's the catch?"

"The catch? It's easy I require you to sign the soul contract to prevent future problems."

Reis didn't know how to react, yet he was greedy and something like soul contract wasn't enough to scare him.

"Ok. Let's do it. I think you will make me richer than I am now so let's do it. Let's sign whatever contract you want and go straight to business!"

"Aron, you can go to other room and rest. Making a contract will take time."

Aron didn't think much, he was standing like an idiot from the moment they started treatment, so he left. The moment later Neo and Reis made conditions and started soul contract ceremony. It took a few minutes, it was necessary because trusting people is not safe.

(I should make a contract with Aron too. What if someone entices him with something. I cannot trust anyone.)

The deal was secured, so he decided to come back to Aron's home.

"We will talk later about possible deals. I want to rest. Don't worry about your health just drink these herbs for three days and you will come back to health." He pointed at contained with medicine.

"I cannot let you leave without thanking you properly. Business is business and debts are debts. What do you want?"

"Hmm. Let's say give me some money as start and later we will come back to this conversation."

"As you wish." He nodded and called some servants later. He and Aron were escorted home and one of the servants gave him a bag with money then they left.

"Aron. Do you want to follow me in the future ?"

"Yes. Why do you ask?" Aron was confused did he do something wrong or angered Neo that he asked him such questions.

"I believe that you are now cooperating with me because of gratitude. I believe that all the people have their prices. It might be money? It might be power? There is love that blinds people too. There is always something. People tend to believe that they won't do something but If I told them that I can..."

"If it makes you assured I will do whatever you want." He said without any trace of hesitation.

"Let's sign soul contract..."

He explained the entire process and conditions. This time it was a master-servant contract. Aron believed that if Neo didn't show up in his life. He would be dead and he would achieve nothing. It's better to be alive and serve someone with great knowledge than die with regrets.

They finished the contract it was a late night. It was a good time to meditate and absorb memories of John. Devouring souls was an evil path technique and you needed to stabilize the soul to not lose yourself. After a few days, he will be able to reach 3rd level of soul embryo stage and then start concocting some elixirs.

(Let's absorb John memories!)

[Absorbing memories...]

The process of absorbing memories was easier now because his soul was stronger, and he could support it. Earlier with weak soul, he relied only on his brain that could overheat it easily and that would result in his death.

(Filter out useless memories.)

It would be annoying to watch the entire life of someone every time he devoured soul.

[Filtering useless memories in progress...]