"finally I'm done with it, it took me three whole days to prepare" Liyan said as she came out from the room she was cooped up in for three days.
"at last you are out, i was starting to worry, if not for you asking me not to do that I would have already barged in." rahen said as he saw her coming out.
"it was for your own good. there are a lot of dangerous chemicals inside, if not handled properly that can even prove fatal. not to mention the harmful gases that come out during the work, i don't have a mask that you can wear inside." when she entered inside the days earlier she had asked Rahen not to enter inside unless she asks him to do so.
"so how was it? did you prepare everything you needed? "
"oh yes I did. next time I go against that bastard it'll be him to end up in a wheelchair. no not just a wheelchair I'll make him worse "Liyan had anger burning in her eyes as the image of that masked man flashed in her head.
"so what now? nothing happened in the last few days, the temple is not showing any movement and we were unable to find those masked men. so I think we still got a few more days for the calm before the storm to end." Rahen asked. he knew that nothing big happened since he would occasionally go out to roam around the city. and if something did happen the guards would have come to inform liyan.
"well I do need to gather up my division, so I'll go do that." Liyan thought for a moment before answering.
"division?" Rahen tilted his head in confusion.
"yes. you see I'm the captain of a special division of the army. most of the time it's disbanded and only comes together during special events, in fact this is the second time it's going to come out" she cleared Rahen's confusion.
"it must be very special then"
"yes it is, you'll be surprised when you finally see it" Liyan smiled.
"let's go then, I'm ready for a surprise" Rahen sat on Liyan's shoulder, ready to go meet that special division of Liyan.
"oh it's not that easy to assemble them, I'll need at least 5-6 days to do so" she said stroking Rehan's head which he did not mind.
"I don't think I can come with you then. I'm at an important part of my training that I want to complete before everything starts."
"oh! what kind of training are you doing. maybe I can provide you with some help" she asked which put him in a difficult position on how much he should tell her about Qi and skills. aur thinking for a while he answered.
"well most of it is like meditation, and for the remaining time I practice a special power i have." he said.
"a special power! "
"yep, you are not there only one to have something special" he replied
"can you show me?" she said holding him in her hands as she liked at him in excitement.
"I can" he said and used energy leech on liyan. since she was much stronger than anything he had used the skill till now it took longer time and was much harder to do it.
"I can feel myself becoming weak, is this your special power?" liyan asked as she noticed the changes.
"it's only temporary though. i can absorb energy from others and use it temporarily to increase mine" rahen stopped using his skill feeling really powerful after absorbing liyan's energy. he could clearly tell the difference in quality between hers or a anyone else's energy he had absorbed till now.
"it's really good, you absorbed almost 5% from me, and I'm sure it can improve if you practice more" she replied hearing rahen's explanation.
"yeah, I'm working on it and it's slightly improving over time" he said.
earlier when liyan first asked him to show his powers he decided to go with his skill 'energy leech'. after he had started talking to her he came to know much more about this world he was in, and one of those thing was that some people in this world possessed special skill.
so he thought that liyan will take his skill as something similar to that. as he was thinking about that a notification rang which surprised him as he opened it up.
[SKILL LEVEL UP
ENERGY LEECH LVL. 2 - 3 ]
he was surprised because according to what he had calculated he needed at least half a month of daily practice for this skill to level up. Before he could even ask the reply from system came.
[ SOME OF THE SKILLS EVOLVE MUCH FASTER IN SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS. LIKE 'ENERGY LEECH', THIS SKILL WILL EVOLVE FASTER IF USED ON TARGET STRONGER THAN THE HOST UPTO A CERTAIN DEGREE. ]
"could you not tell me that sooner" he Asked in a frustrated voice.
[SYSTEM CANNOT TELL THE CONDITIONS TO THE HOST. HOST WILL HAVE TO DISCOVER THEM ON HIS OWN]
"fuc**ng bastard" he cursed inwardly but as usual no reply came from the system, and he could do anything about that. as he was doing that he felt Liyan shaking him up.
"hey, what are your doing?" he asked
"oh! you went silent all of a sudden so I was checking up on you" she replied smiling with apologetic tone.
"so, I was trying to say that there might be a way for me to help you" she spoke again before Rahen could say anything.
"do you really have a way?" he asked, surprised they she could think of something that fast
"yep I've thought of a few things that I think can work, there is nothing wrong in trying, right? I'll be leaving after a day so let's try all of those before that" she said with excitement that was clearly visible on her face.
"ok let's do that" Rahen said with a sigh.