DEFEATING A BULLY WITH KFC FLOUR
Among those people in the auction, some of them were from the other Trading Houses.
"Did the Kaleon family start buying grains recently?" a merchant asked his fellow.
"Yes, they are buying grains crazily. I thought the Kaleon family is trying to corner the market when the price is low", another merchant replied to him.
"This scion of the Kaleon family is crazy, the Kaleon family will not survive long in Starri city with someone like him running their trading house", a third merchant added to the gossip.
"The Kaleon family wants to purchase our stock of grains recently, should I sell to them?" the first merchant asked.
"Hell, if it was me, I would sell everything to them. After a month, if they can't resell the grains, they will come to us begging us to buy them back at cheap", someone else added.
"Is that your plan, young master, trying to make yourself look like a fool?" Hagar asked me as Orol listened carefully.
"Only a fool will buy all the grains in the market at this time and the other trading houses must know that there is such a fool before they will sell to us", I replied to him.
"Master, the young master's information is accurate. I have a trustworthy source working in the Church, they told me, at the risk of being punished by the church, that the demon army will arrive to Starri city soon", Hagar told Orol softly.
"Are you really sure?" Orol asked Hagar.
"Yes", he replied to him.
"This here is Oriese my son. I support anything that he does with all the wealth of my family", Orol shouted to Yasidee now in my defense to the surprise of everyone in the auction.
"The Kaleon family has gone mad", the people in the auction concluded and said to themselves.
"Since when did I have a genius as my son?" Orol said to himself as tears fell from his eyes.
"150,000 Aurs, going once…twice….sold to the Kaleon family," the auctioneer announced.
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"Hey, Oriese, do you know we have two beautiful teachers in school now?" Agrilla asked me.
"You came to school to study not to look at the teachers", I replied to my goon friend.
"They are so beautiful that even the birds sing to them", Agrilla told me in a daze.
"Agrilla, you must get back to class now. And you, are you not Oriese who misses school for a month without asking for leave", a woman scolded me and said suddenly.
Agrilla quickly ran back to class while the teacher disciplined me.
I recognized this teacher immediately. She was Cassandra, my Golem girlfriend.
"Hell, since when did you come to teach in my school?" I asked Cassandra.
"You left us with the Temple of Solomon people for so long, I got bored, so I started teaching here so I can see you when you come to class but you play truant all this time", Cassandra told me.
"I'm sorry, it's the mission. I will get to you guys when I have a reason", I told her.
"You'll have plenty of reason to be with me now that you are under detention for the rest of forever", Cassandra told me as my new teacher.
"Where is Meera?" I asked her.
"She's here too, teaching Religious studies", she told me.
"Damn, it will be like the devil teaching Sunday School", I told her.
Meera was an expert in the lores of the Dark Angel, the enemy of the Church of All-seeing.
"What is Ratatouille doing?" I asked her.
"He's here and there, stealing from the rich mostly", she told me.
All my Golems stayed with the Solomon people after I took over Oriese's identity except Chash who returned into my Shangri-la space to be with his friends, the Soul Spirits.
Being Golems created by me, my Golem friends could access into my soul realm naturally although they wouldn't go inside unless it was necessary. My soul realm was taken over by the nascent soul of the Dark Angel and it wasn't a livable space in there.
I also have another magical space that was attached to my soul, distinct from my soul realm, the Shangri-la. In this magical realm, a race of magical souls, the Soul spirits, I rescued many years ago lived there and they have lived there ever since.
Chash was close to these Soul spirits, and he would visit them often.
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"Hey Oriese, I heard you beat the crap out of Yasidee. Why don't we have a magic spar?" someone said to me suddenly.
Soon, the students gathered around us to nose around our problem while the teachers looked on without doing much to stop us.
The teachers were aware the students at school were from prominent families of the city and they would be wise to stay out of our quarrels as much as possible in case they might run afoul of one of the families.
Even Cassandra and Meera looked on amusingly.
They were not worried about the student challenging me though, because they knew he wasn't my match. Nobody in this school was my match in magic.
"His name is Panshee. His father is a minister of the city. Stay away from him. He is one of the best students in school", Saye said to me suddenly.
"Hey pumpkin face, if you don't want your face to become a Pita then shut your mouth and beat it", I told the guy.
"How dare you. The only reason I let you live this long is because of your father", Panshee screamed at me as he charged his hand with magic energy.
"Gauntlet of Molten Burst"
The gauntlet that Panshee wore was a magical artifact that gave him increased power when executing a punch. But this wasn't just any ordinary strength enhancing gauntlet.
A boulder of molten rock was conjured before his gauntlet. This boulder would disintegrate most people if they didn't have armor or magic to protect them.
"Panshee will kill Oriese", someone from the crowd shouted out but nobody stepped in to stop the attacker.
Suddenly, when Panshee almost reached me, his face was covered with white powder. I dashed toward him quickly and poured the powder on his face, causing him to stumble and lose his powerful conjuration.
"Arggghhhh"
"What in hell is this? My eyes hurt", Panshee screamed at me again.
"It's my Kentucky Fried Powder", I told him.
The whitish powder that I threw at Panshee's face right before his magical punch hit me was my most cherished Bar-be-que seasoning that I prepared for the roadkill that I frequently found during my travels.
"You, sneaky bastard", Panshee screamed at me as his friends quickly brought him away to wash his face.
"You wasted my good seasoning. Do you think you can leave just like that?" I said to Panshee as I leaped into the air and swooped a flying kick at his behind which threw him a few dozen feet into the air.
The rest of the students were stunned by what I did to Panshee.
Although Oriese was a bully in the city, he wasn't so much of a bully in school because his family's guards weren't there to help him. Oriese's magic was never too great, and he wasn't much of a fighter and what I did today was definitely out of character again.
"Damn you, you OOC again? Why did the mother bring you aboard in the first place if you wouldn't listen to me", Saye, my handler said to me.
"I didn't even use magic on him", I protested to my handler.
"That is worse than using magic. Do you know what the Church will do to people who have devilish momentums?" Saye asked me.
"It's the latest artifact that I bought, the Wind of Speeds", I replied to her.
The Winds of Speeds was one of the artifacts that I outbid Yasidee in the auctions. It gives the user a sudden boost of speed in a fight.
"That Oriese is using the Winds of Speeds his father bought for him from the auction. It made him move like lightning", a student gossiped.
"I heard he fought with Yasidee for the artifact in the auction, it must be very useful. I am so jealous", another student added.
"His father is giving their family business to him, he has everything that money can buy", someone added.
"How can we even compete fairly with rich students like these? They don't even need to study magic at all if they have those artifacts", a third student added his complaints.
"See, nobody believes that I could be a powerful deviant. They will only think my abilities are due to the expensive artifacts on me", I told Saye.
"You cannot always explain your messing around based on the possession of magic artifacts alone, one day you will get our temple in trouble. I prefer it if you go around pinching the boys' butts", Saye protested to me.
"My chicken seasoning is not expensive artifacts. I beat Panshee because of them", I replied to her.
"Whatever, why must I have an assignment like this?" Saye protested to me.
After my fight with Panshee, no students dared to challenge me again because I suddenly became too tricky after I returned from the school break, supported by many powerful magic artifacts.
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