(Juri's view!)
After this intense and tasty fun, we rested for almost 2 hours, naturally I handed Gabriela a few gallons of water to clean herself, since she got dirty from my semen!
I joked that she looked beautiful, but she sent me a cold look... gee, what happened? Is this woman bipolar?
But well, after the rest, I naturally finished my soup, which I ate happily, and Gabriela was very quiet.
Then I ended up showing her the [Mana Trigger], where finally Gabriela reacted better.
I explained the problems I had, I even demonstrated by purposely making Mana explode in my hand, it hurt like hell.
Curious, she asked why, even if I failed so badly, I kept going? What if I am wrong? What if I cause permanent damage?
Then laughing I said: As long as I don't hit what my body can handle, I won't die and I won't run the risk of permanent damage, so don't worry, beautiful!
Just as I said I need to get stronger, because if I can master Magic, we can stop the Sacrifices and contracts with Entities, which in my view, is no different than making a Pact with the Devil!
So if with my pain, I can develop a manageable and stable power path, that will help humanity resist the other side, then I will be more than happy to help.
In the end I live in this world now, I don't wish for the Other Side to become powerful and cause chaos in the world.
Of course, the world has horrible people, the society is quite unbalanced at certain points, not to mention that little by little humans are destroying the planet itself.
But in the end this is history, humans develop, we may be destroying the planet, but many are working to fix it and improve it.
So it's not because of those who try to fuck with the world, that everybody should pay, that's something unfair.
Of course, in the end the creatures from the Other Side don't care about justice, only force and killing!
That's why we need such strength, we can ignore the killing, but we need the strength to keep life as it is, allow the people to progress.
Simply put, I love movies, series, games, food and so on, should the Paranormal become powerful and influence the world in drastic ways, all these areas will be greatly affected.
I may not be an idealistic and kind human, I am selfish and hypocritical, my reason for fighting for humanity is not for its good, but so that it can continue to stand and generate content for my leisure!
Of course I didn't say this, I spoke in a more humanitarian tone to Gabriela, because it's not entirely a lie, I just hid my selfishness.
But this seems to have won me some points with her.
...
But well, after the rest, we went back to hunting and exploration, where we actively killed and hunted the animals, when we found Felines of Level 11~15, without hesitation we used our Firearms, these things are too fast!
But otherwise we were able to deal using our White Weapons, so we collected many precious materials, even some Rare quality materials dropped, same rarity as the materials given by the [Giant Hunting Snake].
Some HP and MP potions also dropped, as well as a few Negative Energy potions and only 2 Sanity potions...
When I told her about the Sanity Potion, Gabriela was shocked, so she asked to test it, I allowed her, she took it and her mood improved.
The other one we kept.
For now I took out a notebook and made several notes, Gabriela also made notes of what she had understood.
I see everything from a more technical and quantified point of view, Gabriela is new to all this and is still getting used to it, as well as having a lot of experience as an Agent of the Order, so she is able to analyze more things than I can.
So we spent another 4 hours hunting and collecting resources.
In the process we dropped 2 Skill Books, one called [Eagle Eyes] and the last being [Enhanced Agility].
Both Passive Skills, which I didn't learn, I wanted Gabriela to sacrifice [Eagle Eyes] to learn the language of the books.
She did, so I told her to try to learn [Enhanced Agility], but... the book was absorbed by her... it turns out that unlike Active Skills, Passive Skills must be learned by consuming the books...
"In other words, we sacrificed the [Eagle Eyes] for nothing!" - I say with a sad expression.
Gabriela not reacting much to what I said, just feeling the changes in her flexibility and senses.
And well, after spending almost 10 hours, surely it was time for us to leave!
We explored what I had to explore, if we continue we will probably fulfill the requirement and call a BOSS, which will only be problematic for us, as it must be a version at least 10 times bigger than your average version.
...
Leaving the Dungeon, I see the time, almost 8 pm.
Gabriela picks up her cell phone and notices countless messages, she answers quickly, then we talk a little, tomorrow we will talk to Mr. Pietro about all this.
I then send a message to him, telling him to clear his schedule tomorrow, that at 7 o'clock, I will meet with him and Gabriela, because it is something connected to my powers that can benefit the whole Order and Humanity!
Whereupon I received only one message: Ok!
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The next morning, bright and early!
I go to Gabriela's room, who opened the door when I was about 4 meters from her door.
She coming out well-dressed, I notice something. - "Your muscles...seem smaller?"
"That book you made me absorb...did it do that to me?" - Gabriela asks frowning, not least because there is no sacrifice.
"Oh, I get it!" - I say smiling.
"What?" - Gabriela asks frowning.
"[Enhanced Agility], let's say in a game, we have 3 Physical Attributes, those being: Strength, Agility and Constitution!
Before you were focused on the following order [Strength], [Constitution] and lastly [Agility]!
So let's say your Strength before was 100 Points, Constitution 80 Points, but Agility was only 40 Points, showing that before you weren't flexible at all and because of the large muscles, your mobility was very limited.
But with [Enhanced Agility], that Agility of 40 Points, may have gone up to 60 Points, significantly closing the gap, respectively modified your body to adapt better, that's why your muscles shrunk, it doesn't mean you lost them and got weaker, just that... they are more compressed and your joints are more flexible, I guess now you can touch your back, right?" - I ask smiling as I finish with a little joke.
Gabriela frowns, ignores the joke and seems to understand the analogy I used, then sighing she says. - "Let's not keep Mr. Pietro waiting!"
I nodded and soon we were off to the old man's office, time to make him have a heart attack!
...
"Gabriela, Juri!" - Mr. Pietro said in his grave tone, looking at us.
I can tell he's tired, he's probably worked too hard, so first of all, I take a potion from my Inventory.
"Take this, it will take away your tiredness!" - I say and he looks at the potion.
"What is it?" - He asks taking it and looking curiously at the strange bottle and the yellowish liquid inside.
"It's a Rest Potion, it takes away much of the physical and mental fatigue!" - I say, he doesn't seem to believe me.
"That's right, the reason we're here today is to talk about it and more... Juri showed me his amazing powers... which is simply illogical!" - Gabriela said going forward.
"Hmmm... I understand... wait, did you make a contract? Are you okay?" - Mr. Pietro asks worriedly as he notices Gabriela thinner.
"I'm fine, I used something called [Book of Ability] from Juri's powers, which made my body more flexible and I think compressed my muscles to do so, my strength has not decreased at all, in fact... I even feel stronger!" - Said Gabriela clenching her fists and veins appeared as her arm showed her iron muscles.
"Ok, explain everything to me better!" - Said Mr. Pietro placing the potion on the table and hinting for us to sit down.
"Well, you better take the potion first, feel its effects, it will help you believe what we are about to say!" - I say as I sit down.
Mr. Pietro looks at the potion, hesitates, but takes the lid off and takes its contents, he stares wide-eyed and stops taking it halfway through.
"That... interesting!" - He says touching his lips looking at the potion.
"How is it made?" - He asks seriously.
"I have no idea, but I'll show you where you can get more of them, but see, these here..." - I start pulling more potions from my Inventory and place them neatly on the table.
Soon I explain their effects, Mr. Pietro listening attentively, when I talk about the Sanity Potion, he gets serious and asks if it's true, Gabriela says yes, she took one and her mind stabilized in moments, even one of the disturbances she had disappeared.
I look at her and ask. - "You were crazy?"
But she just looks at me and doesn't answer.
So without further ado, I start explaining about the [Player Body], the lie I told Gabriela, the same one I tell Mr. Pietro, who is impressed.
"I see, so this is and is not your real body! As long as you have what let's say, be your [Vitality], you will stay alive, even if there is only 1% left, you are on the verge of death, you will still be able to exercise 100% of your capabilities without problems, right?" - He asks what I affirm.
"And let's not test it, you and this ogre here are too strong, you might use more strength than you should and end up fucking up my Vitality in one shot!" - I say hastily, I don't want to die.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't suggest something so... radical!" - Mr. Pietro said calmly, then asked to continue.
So I say that because my body is present in several dimensions and so on, as well as I have this power to have information about everything that affects my body and so on, I say about the [Magic Energy], where I say my assumptions.
I talk about [Magical Energy] being present in everybody, but being something more difficult to find and understand, not to mention that there is [Negative Energy], which is much easier to strengthen than spending a lifetime to understand something only to experience it and end up dying.
And Mr. Pietro got very intense and serious when I talked about the [Magic Energy], so when I spoke my assumption.
I said that the [Negative Energy], is the Energy of the [Negative Dimension], just like the Entities are technically the Gods there, their rulers, so the creatures of that place shouldn't sacrifice so much for their strength.
We humans, on the other hand, are not their "neighbors" or "children", so the sacrifices and us striving to make them happy in exchange for some power.
In the end they are not Humans nor of our world, they use us to have influence in our world, I even said that this is more like a Pact with a Devil, than anything else.
Then I talked about [Magic Energy] being the true strength of humans, I even showed my [Flaming Palm] and [Mana Shot], which shocked Mr. Pietro due to the lack of Negative Energy.
I told them that I sacrificed nothing but time and effort learning this, all I needed was to understand the basis of Mana in my "3 years" of meditation and study.
They believed me, and I just spiced up the lie to make it sound like an even more concrete truth.
Mr. Pietro asked if I could teach about [Magical Energy], I said that at the moment no, since I am learning as well, my theoretical knowledge is nil so to speak.
But I said about it being possible to try to force him to feel the [Magic Energy], it might be painful, but it will make him understand.
"I think I'd better not!" - Gabriela said suddenly and I look at her curious, since at the time she made several compliments.
"When you used that method to inject your [Magic Power] into me, that activated something in me, I can't tell, I felt what you call Mana, I really did, but I was very excited too... that's why that happened..." - Said Gabriela something that shocked me a lot!
[High mental damage detected! -5 Sanity!]
Fuck you System!
Does this mean... that our fun and burning passion was all a lie? Gabriela was technically drugged by my Magic Power?
That ... wow ... what a horrible feeling!
For me that was special... damn!
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