It had been 2 weeks since the classes had started.
Turner was lifting weights in the gym.
"Huff"…."huff"... the dumbbells went up and down , perfectly coordinated with Turner's breathing.
Turner kept them down and then used the towel around his neck to wipe of the sweat from his face.
"Damn…. Building strength sure is tough. Though, I do have an easy way to enhance my body but this natural way is also important."
Yes, the easy way he was talking about was through his talent of poison.
Talent of poison-
- full immunity from all type of poisons
-the body's strength , speed, flexibility, dexterity, defence will increase when Host consumes different poisons. The more deadlier the poison, the more gain for the body. After drinking 5ml of any poison , host's body wont gain further from it .
-Host can absorb poison completely from anything just by touching it
(Linked to system – system will tell host when his body consumes any poison)
Drink more poison and strengthen your body , such a nice talent. But there were a few problems with this method.
The question was how to obtain such poisons ?
There were 2 ways and both ways had problems.
The first, was to get it on his own from monsters. But for this Turner would have had to hunt monsters which in itself was a problem . There were 3 places where he could get monsters to hunt.
One – the monster jungles spawned across the world. But the problem here was that he could get any level of monsters and if he would meet a high level one he would surely die.
Two – go to dungeons. Yes, the world had dungeons too and luckily for Turner the humanity had marked all the dungeons that were currently existing on the planet. Each dungeon had different type of monsters , different difficulty and rewards according to the difficulty. One could get rare minerals , fruits and well the body of monsters itself was a reward. No one knew how these dungeons came on the planet but one thing that was known was that the monsters appeared on earth only after the dungeons came on the planet. Further, new dungeons would spawn randomly over the earth every once in a while.
If these dungeons were not cleared often then one could even expect a dungeon breaking and a monster swarm rushing from it. Luckily, this was rare as the currently existing dungeons were under one or the other guilds, who regularly cleared them.
Also, all the major guilds were always on a lookout for spawning of new dungeons. Once they spawned, they used to rush there to be the 1st to clear them as this enabled the guilds to gain more popularity and resources.
But for getting access to them Turner would either have to join a guild or would have had to join an adventurer's team and pay entry fees to the guild in control of such dungeons.
Even their red divine academy had 3 dungeons under its control – a rank G, a rank F and a rank E dungeon – all having monsters of that level. But , alas , Turner could not access these dungeons too till he got into 2nd year of his classes.
The second and easier way to get poison was to buy it from the online auction. But the problem in this was that one needed money for this and Turner himself knew how poor he was.
hmm , I cant get the poison from monsters myself as of now thus the only way is to buy the poison. Well on the top of my head there is only one way through which I think I can earn money quickly.
Heh heh, the god did good by giving me his blessing.
Tommorow it's a holiday and so I'll be able to go out.
Tommorow I'll earn a lot of money.
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Scarlet was tapping her foot on the ground. She was standing outside the railway station and was continuously looking at her watch.
"ughhh, why hasn't Emilia and Chrome come yet ?"
Light was standing beside her busy in humming the tunes of his favourite songs.
"Relax Scarlet. You know how Chrome is. He doesn't like to go out and pass time like this. We both know what Chrome must be telling Emilia – "A minute wasted is a minute less practice time for my sword"
Emilia did say it would take her some time to persuade Chrome to come with us."
Just then came a loud shout of "Scarlet" from a distance.
Emilia was waving at her and Light , while her other arm was linked with Chrome's arm.
Chrome's face had a big pout and when they came near Light and Scarlet , one could hear murmurs of "Waste of time", "Sword", from Chrome's mouth.
"Oh come on Chrome. You don't get holidays everyday. One should learn how to enjoy life too." Light said with a light chuckle.
"Light, god gave us holidays so that we could be free from other work and practice our weapons. Not for fun" Chrome huffed.
Emilia tightened her arm around Chrome and leered at him.
The leer was super effective.
One could see a drop of sweat coming down Chrome's forehead. Chrome gulped.
"Yes yes Light, You are right. One should also learn how to rest and enjoy his life. We will go to the main city and eat whatever Emilia wants to eat."
Emilia nodded and smiled.
One could hear a "phew" sound from Chrome's mouth.
On the side Scarlet and Light were chuckling.
"Come on guys , we have to catch the next train to reach on time." Light said while covering his mouth to control his laughter.
Just then Scarlet while looking in the other direction , narrowed her eyes. "What is he doing here ?"
Emilia looked in the direction where Scarlet was looking, "Ohhh, lucky you Scarlet" and then shouted "Hey, Turner look here" and waved at Turner.
Meanwhile Turner who was walking ahead paused and looked in their direction. He smiled, waved and walked towards them.
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Emilia was sitting inside the train with her arm linked with Chrome.
Chrome had his eyes closed.
Light was chuckling while sitting beside Emilia.
Even Emilia had the broadest smile on her face. In her front of her one could see Scarlet with a scowl on her face.
"What are you doing here ?"
Turner who was sitting beside Scarlet had a poker face. He was having this face right from the moment all of them entered the train and Emilia made him sit with Scarlet.
One should have seen the tantrum Scarlet threw because of this but a big leer from Emilia (which again was super effective) made Scarlet yelp and quietly sit with Turner.
"Oh, I came to visit the Evergrande City", Turner replied.
"Are you stalking me or something ? How did you know that we were going to Evergrande City." Scarlet said with her eyes narrowed.