5 Layen

Enopy's mind was in turmoil, trying to understand what was happening "who is he? Is that even his real identity? Do they know that I am not the real Enopy partially? Who does he work for? Is he here to kill me." Enopy thought frantically.

"No, no, let's calm down and analyze the situation."

"Right now in front of me is Layen crouching on his tiptoes, his two fingers stopped my dagger, and he is asking for my food.....huh, I can use this, " Enopy thought.

"Oh, it's just you, Layen. I'll give you food if you answer some questions", Enopy said with a confused/ sly expression. But on the inside, he was vigilant.

Layen looked at Enopy with a cheerful expression and said in a euphoric voice as he drooled, trying to taste the ankle sheep from the steam flowing out of the hot pot," sure gimme", Layen said without moving his eyes from the pot.

Enopy then said, "who are you?" while loading a bowl up with sheep, mushrooms, and broth.

Layen completely zoned out and reached out for the bowl his face showed a muddled expression when the bowl was abruptly pulled away.

"hawaaa" escaped his mouth as his eyes followed the bowl; he seemed as if he was going to crawl towards the bowl, but Enopy stopped him with a finger to his forehead.

"Who are you? answer, and you'll get this," Enopy said slowly as he removed his finger from Layen's forehead and pointed at the bowl.

A sense of calmness spread over Layen as he sat correctly and said, "I am Layen Stiro, 17 years old, peak stage of peak rank one magic knight, son of Odd Stiro an earl of Pattern kingdom."

"Peak rank one!" Enopy screamed in his head, his mind was in turmoil, but on the outside, he kept a straight face, something he had mastered in his past life. But he was unable to realize that Layen finished talking.

"Enopy!" Layen shouted successfully pulling Enopy back to reality.

"How do you know my name," Enopy said.

"I'm pretty sure I have been down low the entire time I have been on the caravan so how does he know," he thought.

Layen replied "everyone knows who you are", and continued, "they even call you the lone wolf."

"Aren't you the same?" Enopy said, taking no offense

"No, I have friends," Layen said while putting his hand on his chest wearing a prideful expression.

"You do?" Enopy asked in an unconvinced tone.

"Yeah, we play hide and find, tag game. It works like this -they take my stuff, and I have to get them back, and if they lose my stuff, we play hide and find where I have-"

"I get it, stop," Enopy said while shaking his head.

"Let's continue," Enopy said as his expression softened.

"Fine," Layen said as he remembered what he was doing.

"Why are you going to the training facility when you're already peak rank 1?" Enopy asked as his expression turned solemn.

"I have reached a bottleneck", Layen said and continued, "my dad sent me to the training facility to breakthrough to rank 2", his eyes began to fill with water, but they never left the bowl next to Enopy.

Enopy ignored Layen's display of emotion and continued, "what technique did you use to become a magic knight?".

"Quiet."

"What?" Enopy said with a confused expression.

"The name of the technique is Quiet," said Layen.

"How do you cultivate it," said Enopy while pushing the bowl closer to layen.

"Well, it's easy," Layen said while looking at the bowl being pushed closer to him; almost in his grasp, he zoned out but was awoken by Enopy's loud clap.

"Oh right, so it works like-" (Ding! The system's voice suddenly ringed out with a note- the inner strength fragrance technique has been processed. Enopy sense of hearing soon came back only to hear a few words from Layen "that's how it works now give it to me, "said Layen who looked like he would pounce on Enopy if he did not give up the bowl.

Enopy did not want to risk his life or put it on the line even though he thought Layen was not the type to harm people for something like that. He wouldn't want to end his life so quickly.

"huuu," Enopy sighed and thought, "It's a pity I didn't hear what he said, but I don't want to irritate him."

"Do you want to see all records of Layen?", the system said all of a sudden.

"Oh?! so it can record stuff", Enopy thought with a surprised expression. Then he said," yes, I would like to see the latest recording of Layen".

His consciousness did not go dark this time allowing him to sense his surroundings, but he still closed his eyes, and the pictures and sounds played in his mind; it soon got to the part that he wanted to see.

And what he heard/saw was, "the Quiet technique is a stealth technique, but it trains your body while you use it in battle."

"So before you are a bodybuilder to become a magic knight, you have to let out your aura, spread your influence and change the energy around you into your aura; you would then push that changed energy into your body and repeat, you know this"

"right, but here is the tricky part to becoming a magic knight you have to push out your energy to the limit and take it all back in at once and create a physical core"

"Most people struggle on this part because they can't push themself to their limit. this is the secret way to become a magic knight; listen closely, " Layen said as he took on an eerie tone.

"The way to become a magic knight is- To get into a life-and-death battle/situation, it is the only way to push yourself to your true limit.

And once you become a magic knight, the way to train your physical core is to let your consciousness flow into the fragrance realm. You will now have a fragrance whose primitive name is (odored spiritual energy); you would move your consciousness towards the fragrance that you were most compatible with or the fragrance that you are closely compatible with then you would absorb it and send it back to your core; that's how it works".

Enopy then opened his eyes and grinned; "I almost forgot about the inner strength fragrance technique; I wanted to study it, but it's late, and if we don't go back, someone would come looking for us," he thought.

He then spoke up and said, "I'm going to cook the rest of the sheep tomorrow when we stop for the night, so follow me, I have some more questions for you. "

"Sure," Layen said as he licked his lips and looked toward the steaming pot

They quickly ate multiple bowls of food and sprinted back but were shocked at what they saw.