If Raiko's jaw was probably not attached to his body then it would have already touched the ground and to say that his mouth was open in shock was an understatement since that little guy was quite serious when he said for sure that he was the third reward even if it was just to surprise Raiko.
A few seconds of silence passed by and a look of confusion appeared in Raiko's face the moment he heard that the third reward was him because what exactly did it mean that he was his reward? And just as he was about to open his mouth, he suddenly received a slap in the face that made him back up a bit again.
"Perveeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrttttttt Raikooooooooooooo! How dare you have such thoughts of the great and sensual Sasuachin Extrihes Von Riitemberg Calim Usher Usher Maximial The Fourth, I hardly tell you that I am your reward and you start thinking nasty thoughts with this sexy body, I understand that I am beautiful and probably all beings are attracted before my natural beauty but you must control your carnal impulses, I'm really sorry to break your heart but you are not my type... My sincerest apologies!"
At that moment Sasuachin had walked up to Raiko and had climbed up to his shoulder, patting him as if he were comforting him after a great loss.
"Sometimes it is impossible not to get our hearts broken, I understand that it hurts a lot but that is okay because it shows you that what you felt was real. Do imaginary wounds hurt? Of course not, you should feel proud, I know you were about to confess everything, and I understand that you have formed those strong desires and feelings just because of the impression of having me in front of you but do not be afraid! Everyone eventually finds someone who complements them... As for me? I am a free and rebellious soul..."
While saying these the small 15 centimeters was looking at the distant landscape through the windows as if he was contemplating the infinity and showed to be full of wisdom. Raiko could not find words to answer him, he felt quite helpless before this little friend but even so he could not help smiling a little since at the end of the day his words had some reason.
"But seriously speaking what I meant by being yours is that actually Commander Aeris asked me to be your consultant."
Out of nowhere Sasuachin expression became one full of seriousness and haughtiness as if all the things that recently happened had not happened like he was the most professional person on the job.
"A consultant is basically an advisor or if you want to put it another way we are information providers, people seek our intelligent services constantly due to the fact that our information networks practically reach anywhere you can imagine and we have access to practically a huge amount of knowledge, one of the most powerful and expensive things in the world is information so as a personal favor I am willing to answer 3 of your questions, I understand that until now you had been a slave so you probably have a lot of questions so it is a good opportunity, don't waste it."
At that moment Raiko became thoughtful as it was very obvious that he had too many questions and was trying to organize his thoughts, there was a silence while Sasuachin waited for the boy to clear his mind for a few minutes because no one would definitely want to waste his questions.
"As my first question I would like to understand the general situation of the current world as I have never known any of this."
Raiko asked showing the surroundings with his arms expressively.
"I understand, that's a good question, in fact I would be surprised if you hadn't mentioned something like that, first of all you should know in a general way that the world is divided into three big territories which you can divide them as: the fair territory, the dark territory and the neutral grounds; as you may have heard the fair territory is where we are currently at and it is rare when there are major incidents in this place since it is dominated by the combined force of the 7 great empires, the 4 countries and some powerful sects and renowned clans that own large territories that are considered stocks at the level of countries and empires. There are also certain organizations that although not owning any territory under their domain have enough influence and power to influence the world balance such as The Union, The Adventurers Guild and the Association of Consultants.
The Dark territories are Lawless lands, their division of power is very different but if I mention it to you right now it would only hurt you, it's not something with a rank like yours should know so don't blame me for omitting it when you start having contact with them since you're going to get the information naturally.
As for the neutral lands, you can consider them war zones between the righteous path and the dark path, both forces are constantly in conflict, one side trying to defend their territories and their people from disaster while the other side tries to forcibly conquer the whole territory. There is an unwritten agreement between the righteous path and the dark path concerning that no force of major order should intervene in the neutral territories as that would only provoke a full-scale war and if so both sides would have great losses, even today it is not known who would be the winner, having said all this, let me recommend you to buy a map of the vicinity as soon as you can. Since the world is very big, maybe more than you can imagine, there are many danger zones of different range, many special zones, countries and cities more incredible than Skycity itself so spare no effort to travel."
Listening to everything attentively, Raiko was constantly nodding as if trying to memorize all the information.
"I understand... My second question is how do I get stronger?"
"Wow that's another good question well I'll explain how plasmas work. As you may know there are different types of it which are divided into body, energy, organic and mutant plasma, each one having different properties with all kinds of potential to grow.
The key to the strength of a person is the concentration of plasma you have in your blood, and when you just wake up your ability you only have 1% of plasma inside you and as you progress your ability can become stronger. Imagine that your ability is to make your hands increase their temperature and since you have 1% plasma, you'll just be able to heat them a few degrees above your body temperature but the more plasma you have then the higher the temperature will be. If the plasma continues to grow at some point you might be able to melt metal just by touching it or at much higher level you could project heat waves from your hands that would even char normal people instantly. I should clarify that as you increase your plasma concentration in your blood your body will also undergo changes and become stronger as it obviously must keep up with your capabilities and as the blood flows throughout the body it also alters its properties enhancing it.
Let's say we put a person who has 10% plasma against someone who has 25%, the one who has 25% would probably only need to use his physical strength to kill the other person, I could not give you a real difference in power because it depends a lot on several factors but the most important one of them is the type of plasma because those with body plasma are humans who receive more strength, endurance and other physical factors as they increase their aspects, those with energy plasma increase their energy reserves while those with organic plasma increase their compatibility with their abilities.
Those with mutant plasma are a mystery because it may be a combination of all of the above or none at all, we don't really understand much about this type of plasma."
He pauses to take some air and prepare to continue the explanation when he noticed that Raiko is listening attentively and seeing that, he plays along with him with serious eyes, he continues with the explanation.
"Now, to increase the concentration of plasma in the blood, the first three types of plasma is relatively easy because you just need a lot of training, effort and perseverance but although in reality there are 5 major bottlenecks that every person knows, first go from 10% to 11%, then from 25% to 26% then from 50% to 51%, from 75% to 76% and finally from 99% to 100% in each of these bottlenecks there is a huge difference between before and after in terms of the amount of power that the person have.
In those bottlenecks some talented people overcome them easily, others need life or death experiences to break them and some simply can never overcome that barrier. Unfortunately, in your case you have mutant plasma and those with this type of plasma cannot increase their concentration of it just by training their ability, actually each one has a special and unique condition to increase this concentration. I once heard of an adventurer with mutant plasma whose ability was that he possessed a kind of black hole in his stomach and from his mouth he could create a huge suction which he could devour anything you could imagine, his teeth were stronger than diamond and his requirement to improve his concentration was only to eat things... Obviously the more he increased his concentration, the more he required to eat finer materials or stronger creatures but I want you to understand that most of the time the requirement to improve this aspect is related to the nature of your ability. As for you... for some reason you reached 10% even though you are just awakening your mutant plasma so if you ask me how you did it then that is something only you have the answer to, now tell me your last question."
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Hello everyone, first of all I want to thank you for following this story, it is a pleasure to have your company.
Finally here is the Q&A section that I promised.
1.-Most important thing i expect from the novel is the world how it's built and how it interact with itself , i feel like kingdoms ,wars , fights, adventure, and mainly intriguing world is what make a novel good for me . also since this novel is about blood i want to feel the blood.
R-- Thank you my friend I hope that all of Xibalba is a living entity, that all the consequences are seen at all times, from the passage of time to the outcome of wars and other situations I really want to create a living world and that we are all part of the stories that unfold within it.
2.- You know I also considered writing a novel I have many ideas for a story but I can't seem to put it into action.
R--You should definitely start writing or at least give it a try, it took me a while to get started but once I saw how enjoyable it is to write and that people like it the rest was easy.
3.- I like the blood and power system you implemented sounds very interesting and original.
R-- Thanks actually I was thinking a lot about it I wanted something that wasn't too common and that would allow me the flexibility to let my imagination run wild and this turned out. I hope to take advantage of the full potential of the system
Thanks everyone, probably the next Q&A section will be in chapter 25 so keep posting your doubts, questions, complaints, suggestions, comments and anything you want to tell me I'm always reading them :)
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See you soon, Axe.