[Time skip]
[CQC lv16]
[Pain resistance lv8]
[Malenia's teachings lv16]
[Reading lv7]
A few more weeks went by, my close-quarters-combat skills were pretty amazing. But not enough to beat Alexander yet, his jar body is frankly like punching iron. It was only at lv16 that I chipped it somewhat, but by then I already had some ceramic to patch him up. But the manual that Malenia gave me boosted me so fast in terms of ability with a sword, I'm closing in on performing the waterfowl dance properly now.
Today some soldiers of Godfrey came spears ready to attack and attempted to arrest me for selling illegal materials. To summarise, I'm now cleaning up and Alexander couldn't be happier with the new additions.
"I just don't get why they even bothered, did they even look at me?" With the training and the stat points, I've got obvious muscle definition, slightly bulky even. Not to mention I towered over them. I complained to myself as I mopped up the blood and teeth on the floor.
[Cleaning lv20]
[Congratulations! Skill [Cleaning] has reached the cap of mortal ability. Would you like to evolve it?]
You're fucking kidding me, what even? I shook my head and simply said, "Yes".
[Wipe lv1 -evolved-]
[You have gained (1) evolved skill, requirements met for new universe linkage]
Once again a wheel popped out from the wall, flashing neon bulbs giving me nostalgia of what came before. I finish cleaning, which literally took a second, it simply wiped away.
I gripped the handle and gave a good pull down, hopefully the next world teaches me how to get some more help around the bar. A moment passes, but I don't even bother looking until it lands, I was testing out the new [wipe] skill. It really does just vanish everything, as a test I got a cloth and wiped my arm. Removing the cloth I look down and my arm is hairless and I'm missing the mole I had there.
I finally hear it click in place, I turn around to look at it.
'The Boys - late timeline'
I knew there was no point looking, I have no idea what that is. But I still looked, of course I did.
I ignored it and started wiping down all the tables, I had to stop though because they begun to feel almost frictionless. So instead I got all the things ready for my usual breakfast crowd.
About 20 minutes later I heard the bell ring, so I naturally walked on over to see very different people compared to what I'm used to. "Oh hey, you must be part of that new universe thing I linked to… what was it again?… The boys! that's it."
(Billy Butcher POV)
At long fucking last, MM remade me the leader of the group. As much as I respect his decision to piss off to who the fuck knows where with his family, I knew he didn't have the balls for this.
"Alright, Hughie you're with me, let's see some pricks on ice." Marching forwards, a grin covers my face as I finally get another chance to fuck up homelander.
Hold on.
Was that door always there?
"Anyone recognise that door?" I ask around, chances are I'm losing it again, there's always the chance of it.
"Uh no… in fact, it leads outside, to a 5 story drop." Hughie said, peeking his head around to the window.
"Alright then let's see what's what then" I grab the door by the knob and pull it open, Kimiko second in line to jump in. Frenchie's just curious and Starlight's afraid like usual,
Inside was just a bar, which wouldn't be weird if it didn't just appear 5 stories up. But it got a whole lot fucking weirder when some giant bloke turns the corner in a uniform.
"Oh hey, you must be part of that new universe thing I linked to… what was it again?… The boys! that's it." He said, clicking his fingers as if he didn't just appear before us.
(Oliverick's POV)
"Yeah so this is my multiversal bar, woo. What can I get you?" They all look super on edge, like I'm gonna snap any minute.
"Who the bloody hell are you?" The one in front said with a strange accent.
"How did you get here?" Said the blonde lady.
"Yeah so my bar doors just appear at random around new universes I link to, no idea where they appear. Imagine my surprise when some demigods came in from the other world I'm linked to." I give a laugh trying to break the atmosphere. They just look more confused honestly. "How about introductions then, I'm Oliverick the owner of this bar/restaurant/store/armoury/morgue"
It took a few minutes but I managed to get the names from them, "So, what can I get you? Bear in mind that I probably won't have things you're familiar with, if you bring in a sample of something then I can replicate it in my kitchen for sale though."
"Anything alcoholic will do me" Butcher sat down on the stool. The rest followed suit.
This is when Annie spoke up, "When you were listing what this place does, what did you mean by mortuary?"
"Good question! One of my regulars is basically a living jar coffin, if he places the body of a warrior within him then he gets some semblance of power from them and he keeps living. So In return for giving me armoured corpses and whatnot, I give him the duplicate bodies so he can carry on living." I pour butcher a pint of lager, he seems like he would throw up if I gave him something like a sweet mead.
"Duplicate bodies?"
I then spent another 10 minutes explaining how this place works, just long enough for the breakfast crowd to come in. Of which, Alexander was a part of.
"Greetings friend! I came by today to replenish on cleanrot knights, my battles yesterday have left me rather drained." The sheer look of confusion on their faces seeing people with stone masks coming in along with someone they believe to be wearing a giant jar.
Like usual I grab a cleanrot knight and dump it into the lid atop him, Hughie had the unfortunate experience of looking inside Alexander.
"Oh my god Hughie what did you see" Annie rushed over to him as he started heaving from the smell and sight of it.
"Chill out man, it's just a few dead people. Nothing that new surely?" I say, so far everyone I've met has either seen a dead body before or caused their fair share of them.
"It- it's not a costume…" By now Alexander was looking a bit uncomfortable, I felt quite bad for him honestly.
"Look, if you're gonna be like this please leave, you're making my customers uncomfortable. Sorry Alexander, some people right?"
"Ah no fear, not many have gazed into a jar and not vomited afterwards, an iron gut this one has!" He patted Hughie's shoulder practically ragging him about.
"Anyway, so payment here is taken in goods, services, currency, runes, knowledge, etc. If it's good enough then I usually just say free whatever for the next week, month or day." I say, handing another lager to Butcher.
I look over at the rest of the group, Kimiko was looking over to Frenchie whenever she needed a translation from sign language. "Hey do you mind if I ask you for something, either of you two?"
They both looked up to me cautiously.
"To put it simply, whenever either of you two come in can you teach me a bit of sign language? The whole point of this place is to relax, so I need to cross these language barriers. Or better yet, if you find a book or even something so I can practice that would be great." Thinking about it, if I start learning a few languages, would that just be [language proficiency]? Because apparently english is the norm but I don't have any relative skills for that…
[English lv10]
Never mind, language revision it is.