Four days had passed since the incident with David's team and Zane had been living with Old man all this time.
At first Zane thought that it would be a chore to live with the old man but as it turned out it was actually quite nice.
Old man was always locked up in his room meditating anyway so it was like Zane was on his own, if one didn't count Bella.
Bella had been training Zane almost twenty four hours a day for the past four days. For the first time, Zane was actually sore all over his body. He didn't have a single wound or scar but his body was sore.
He summed it up to that he trained himself so hard that the pain training became useless so today he begged Bella to give him a day off.
After Bella begrudgingly agreed, he went to Old man to make a strange request. He asked Old man to make a mud pit in the middle of the training basement.
On this day no one had come to train so the whole place belonged to Zane. Once again after a lot of begging, Old man agreed.
Zane had found out that Old man was an Earth elemental High Mage so doing something like that was easy for him.
Old man dug a one meter deep, four meter long and two meter wide pit in the training hall and filled it with mud. Zane then asked Old man to use his fire element to make the mud warm.
As soon as Old man was finished with his requests, Zane stripped down and jumped into the mud pit. He closed his eyes and immersed his whole body inside.
A few seconds later, he brought out his head and rested it on the side of the pit, opening his eyes, he saw Old man still standing there watching him with wondering eyes.
"Hey Old man, you don't happen to have cucumbers would you?" Zane asked. To his amazement, Old man brought out a cucumber from his storage ring, just that it was red.
'Ohh well color doesn't matter' he thought "Can you cut it into thin slices and hand me two of them please?" he said.
Old man nodded and used the wind element to cut up the cucumber. He was too curious to object to any of Zane's demands anyway.
Old man gave Zane two of the slices, thinking that Zane would eat them, however to his surprise. Zane placed the cucumber pieces on his eyes!!.
Old man couldn't keep his surprise in check anymore and his mouth hung open. "What the hell are you doing?" he asked.
"The hot mud soothes my painful muscles and helps my body relax" Zane answered. Old man was naturally an intelligent man and he immediately understood the validity of Zane's claims.
He even started thinking of ways to implement this in order to make a support spell. However he was still confused by the cucumbers.
"What about the cucumbers?" he asked.
Zane had already gotten way too relaxed as he felt like he was back on earth enjoying a spa day with his wife.
"I really don't know, Linda said it helps with the eyes or something" he mumbled.
"Who's Linda?"
"She's my wife" Zane said.
Old man furrowed his brows "Since when are you married?" he asked.
Zane chuckled "Ohh yeah i forgot, she was my wife on my previous world....you know before I died and got transmigrated into this world" he said.
Old man blinked a few times "I guess this thing he's doing has it's side effects" he sighed "And here i was thinking of making a good support spell based on it" he mumbled as he climbed the stairs leading to the main house.
Zane was left alone in his mud bath and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep. About five hours later, he woke up and made his way to the washroom.
Surprisingly, Old man's house had a shower, however the water didn't come from pipes or anything, rather it came directly from the wall itself.
When asked, Old man explained that once a week, a water mage would fill up a formation matrix on the wall with his mana. Then to turn that mana into water, one only had to inject their mana into the wall and the formation matrix would do the rest.
Strangely enough, Zane thought that this world was behind on technology, but now the more he learnt about it the more he thought this world was actually more advanced.
For example, back on earth, one of his projects was to create a cheap unlimited energy source and he died without completing it. However this world already had pretty much free renewable energy in the form of mana.
'I need to learn more about formation matrixes, or is formation matrix?' he thought 'Alex what is the plural of formation matrix?' he asked.
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'Fuck you'
After washing up, Zane looked into his ring and took out a new pair of clothes. They consisted of his slim fit white trousers and white shirt with black and white shoes.
The reason Zane liked white so much was that his mother said the color white suited him. Ever since then, Zane has only wore white.
It must be noted that although Zane couldn't see color, he could 'see' perfectly well if the object is inside a storage ring. That was because when looking into a storage ring he wouldn't be using his eyes.
"I need new clothes" he mumbled after seeing that he only had three pairs left. Zane finished dressing up and walked around the house looking for Old man.
He later found him with his eyes closed inside his room "You meditate a lot you know that?" Zane commented.
"I'm Cultivating my earth" Old man said.
"I thought you gave up on Cultivation" Zane smirked.
"I did, just that when you do the same thing for as long as i have it becomes a habit. What do you want?" he asked.
"I'm going out shopping" Zane said.
Old man nodded and took out a device, he then sent mana into it before putting it back into his ring "Bella will be here soon" he said.
Zane nodded but didn't leave.
"You can wait for her outside my room" Old man said after noticing Zane wasn't moving.
"Umm master, i need some money" Zane said.
Old man almost fainted from the shock of Zane calling him 'master' it was when Zane finished his sentence did he understand.
"Don't you have your own money?" he asked.
"Come on Old----- master, I'm going to leave here soon and i need to save everything i got. Seeing as my previous boss wants me dead" Zane said.
Old man watched Zane for a few moments with narrowed eyes, then he heaved a sigh and a pouch appeared in his hand "Here" he threw the pouch at Zane who quickly caught it.
Zane looked inside and was surprised to see about one hundred gold coins "Thanks Old man, who knew you also had a heart under that beard" he said.
Old man couldn't help but chuckle "Get out of here you leech" he said. Zane smiled and quickly left the room.
"He reminds me of him" old man mumbled with a forlorn expression, thinking about his long lost son who died at the tender age of two hundred.
Old man didn't want to admit it, but the last four days were enjoyable, all because of a certain white haired leech.