Gurgggle~
As Lord enjoyed the terrible air, his stomach grumbled and roared in hunger.
"Ugh! What a beast!" Lord turned his face at his stomach, it was physically vibrating as it sent roars of hunger.
"Hmm, the seventh moonlight bell must have rang a while ago" Lord pondered with a wondering expression.
The "New World" way of judging time was not consistent nor as accurate as previous times as clocks were judged "unnecessary". The common people of now used the Moonlight/Sunlight bell system to tell time.
The moonlight bell could be referred to as AM while the sunlight bell as PM. There were 12 bells for both, representing 24 hours, however there was no indicator for minute or second.
However, Lord was a scavenger and his job by nature was to find relics and pieces from battles and the past, so he had himself a working alarm clock.
Just as Lord said that, a loud sound of a bell rang across the entire [Ark] using mana as a carrier.
Dan~ dun~ ding~ donnnngggg~
"Ohp! It's the eighth bell!" Lord said in surprise, he wasn't expecting that it had been one and a half hours already.
Seeing as he was hungry and didn't have time to waste, Lord immediately got going.
"It's still early, the church should still be open." Lord whispered, he was going to a place that would feed him.
Walking for ten minutes, Lord came upon a large and grandiose gate.
It was ten meters high, with golden ornaments strewn around, and had two small statues of child-like angels on top of the gate.
Just by looking, one would have an impression of the grandiosity and magnificence of this gate.
Staring at the gate, Lord calmly observed. Although he had no superhuman abilities, Lord had an uncanny sixth sense that told him that he was being viewed by a person.
Feeling his sixth sense tingling, Lord looked up to where he felt he was being peeped on by intuition.
"Please come out." Lord spoke softly, he did not speak in a questioning or alert and threatened tone, he simply spoke with a soft voice.
Soon enough, at the top of the golden gate, a shadow moved and fell on the concrete of the [Ark] with a balanced landing.
Lord saw this shadow and was shocked in his heart.
'He was able to land on the concrete floor with absolute balance that gave no opening or flaw…. this guy is dangerous!' Lord's instinct as a scavenger who roamed the wasteland screeched at him to immediately run as he had come face to face with an absolute beast
Lord immediately took a ready stance, although he knew that the other party was superior to him and possibly much stronger, Lord still had to be prepared.
The shadow seemed silent and unmoved as Lord took a prepared stance.
"Heh!" A few seconds had passed as the shadow smirked.
"Young man, you have good instincts!" Surprisingly, an elderly voice came from the shadow giving praise to Lord.
As the elderly voice came, Lord kept his silence.
~WHOOSH~
An awkward silence fell, if one looked close enough they would be able to see the figure of a tumbleweed rolling with the wind.
"Young man, are you mute?! That shouldn't be so, you just called me out!" The loud elderly voice was first to break the awkward silence.
"....Who are you?" Lord spoke after a few seconds of deliberating what he should first ask. Taking caution as his main approach he asked.
"Hahahaha! Good! You can speak!" The elderly voice started laughing in a hoarse tone filled with pride(?)
"Hahaha! Boy, you don't need to know this old man's name! This old man has taken an interest in you! Be my disciple boy!" The elderly voice laughed again, not telling his name but clearly so of his intentions.
"No." Lord only had one word to respond with.
"Good now let's- what?!" It could be heard how surprised the elderly man was, he clearly hadn't believed that someone would reject his kindness. He had already prepared for how he would train this unpolished boy, however HIS consideration was denied?!
Preposterous!
"Why not boy?!" The elderly man said in a stern tone, showing his aggression visibly. Having his consideration turned down enraged the elderly man!
"Because, I don't know who you are!" Lord replied with a cool and calm face. Lord would stand his ground, he didn't know this man and thus didn't know this man's true intent!
What if lord was captured and sold into slavery!?
He had heard that although slavery was officially banned, many slave traders still existed and fooled naive young men and women into it!
He didn't wish to be fooled and put into slavery!
He still had a life ahead of him!
"Why does that matter?! This old man just wants you to be his student!" The elderly man refuted and told of his intentions again, not understanding why telling his identity mattered, he was offering such a rare opportunity, yet was being refused of his every consideration!
'Youths indeed don't know what's best for them!' convincing himself on this thought the elderly man waited for Lord to reply yes.
"No, it does matter, what if you are some scammer?!" Lord once again refused and refuted the man, he wouldn't easily fall for such a ludicrous scam.
"What?! How dare you call this old man a scammer?! Do you not know who I am?!" The elderly man became very offended at being called a scammer.
A scammer?!
He was far above ordinary people! How could he be compared to the likes of the lowest of the low?
"Yes, that's exactly the problem! I don't know who you are! What if you are some child predator lusting after my youthful and delicate body?!" Lord said loudly in false dismay, acting as if he was a poor victim being bullied by a bad man in a terrible BL novel.
"Ch-child predator?!! B-boy I am no such degenerate thing! Why are you being so stubborn?!!" The elderly man became dumbfounded at being called a child predator lusting after innocent youths, he was simply giving an untrained youth the opportunity to ascend!
How was he misunderstood as a child predator?!
Did this boy not understand words?!
"That should be me asking you old man! Why are YOU being so stubborn?!!" Lord replied back in a shout, he was being asked why he was so stubborn?!
Why wouldn't he be stubborn?!
Did this old man become senile from age?!
Doesn't he have a shred of common sense?!!
Who comes in front of a sixteen year old boy and without explaining anything demands that the boy be his student?!
What ludicrous idiot would believe something like that would work?!
What does he think this world is?!
A fiction?!
"Motherfu-!" As the elderly man was about to say explicit things not suited for his age, he heard a grumbling.
Grumble~~
Grrrr~~~
"Boy! Talk with me properly and I will give you food!" The elderly man thought he was smart, using Lord's hunger as a bait to lure Lord in. Food worked on anyone who has lived in the apocalypse, even some elites could get lured by these temptations!
And it seemed as if Lord had fallen into the bait!
"Hmm?! Old man! Feed me first and then we can talk!" Lord's ear twitched when he heard the old man was going to give him food. thinking about food, Lord accepted the man's offer.
It was clear that the temptation of food had lured him into the bait!
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE: I am going a stock pile week so I can pile a bunch of chapters cause the deadlines are killing me!
Author note: If you overthink and believe Lord actually fell for it, I would like to reassure you that while Lord is a dimwit he is not THAT big of an idiot!
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