Corrupt Creations

Chapter 156 - Negotiating

"One week... Arwen asked me to wait for another week, but there is nothing to do in this destroyed city anymore."

"I don't know what you are going to do Seth, but I have lots and lots of spirit treasures to absorb. So, you'd better bring them out and help me absorb their energy." Lexi was talking about the loot Seth had acquired from the Luberus family treasury.

Seth took every single treasure that contained spiritual energy out of the spatial ring and started to absorb their energy inside his soul space.

"Lexi... I have been wondering... What do you do with all this energy I am helping you absorb? Are you able to cultivate with it?"

"Cultivate? Nah... That's too boring."

"Then, what do you do with it?"

"I eat it."

"You eat it?!" Seth wasn't able to believe what he was hearing.

"Yeah. And then I go to sleep." Lexi said in a nonchalant intonation as if it was a normal routine for her.

"What the fuck!" Seth wasn't able to comprehend how she was able to eat spiritual energy. He couldn't even picture it happening.

"Wait... Then you mean that while I and every other practitioner in this world, need to train hard to progress on our cultivation and grow stronger, you're actually able to upgrade yours while sleeping?"

"Eh? Train hard? I actually just witnessed you getting stronger after rolling on the bed the whole night with that beautiful elf. Where did you train hard there?"

With a simple phrase, Lexi turned the table against Seth.

Seth was left speechless for some seconds, until he found something he could use to defend himself.

"No... That is different! I didn't get all my strength like that. I had some bitter years of torture training and a lot of fateful encounters!"

"I didn't obtain all my strength sleeping as well. Like I said, I eat and sleep!"

"Holy Shit! This is unfair!"

What kind of joke was this? If anyone were to discover that Lexi was able to eat and get stronger, while Seth is able to get stronger through "night exercises", that person would implode in anger.

After calming down, Seth helped Lexi absorbing the energy of more than a hundred items. It took him more than eight hours and throughout the whole time, he kept thinking the world was unfair.

"Phew! Time to sleep!" Lexi's voice resounded inside his head, but Seth ignored her. After knowing that she was eating and sleeping the whole time, he stopped giving her credibility.

'Phew...' Seth was tired after helping her for many hours and decided to do something else. His body wasn't in need of sleep, but of some activity that would help him to pass some time.

He remembered he had some skillbooks to learn, so he decided to get them. Two green colored stones and one golden colored stone appeared in front of him. He took the first green colored stone and concentrated on the energy inside it.

Quickly, many images appeared inside his brain. There was a projection of his body holding on a bow and shooting an arrow forward. The arrow flew fast and a whirlwind of green colored wind blades destroyed everything wherever the arrow passed.

After watching the projection executing the skill, a lot of information was imprinted inside his brain, containing every single detail he needed to know on how to perform that skill.

"Whirlwind Arrow. A wind element-based skill..."

Seth took the second green colored stone and did the same thing.

His projection infused wind energy on many arrows, shooting them towards the sky. They fell down while piercing everything in a large area. The floor turned into a sieve after the technique was executed.

"Arrow Shower... Another wind elemental technique. I can't use wind attribute skills, sigh..."

Seth took the golden colored stone and concentrated on it.

His projection concentrated a high quantity of Mana in a single arrow, making a golden light encompass it. The brighter the light was, the stronger the arrow would be.

After the arrow was shot, it suddenly changed its position in mid-flight, going towards the distance.

"Golden Hawk... Good. This is actually an ability that doesn't have an attribute. Very good."

'I need to discover a way to learn how to use the wind attribute and find a place to train these skills.'

While Seth was thinking about those skillbooks, he heard someone knocking on the door of his guest house once again.

Knock! Knock!

Seth opened the door and saw Arel waiting for him there.

"Arel? How are you?"

"Young Master Seth, I'm fine. It's been a while."

"Yeah. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Actually, Lady Elyra just arrived from the city and sent me here to call for you. She said she wanted to talk with you inside her office."

"Oh? Alright, I will go in a minute."

"Do you want me to accompany you there, Young Master?"

"No need. You should go rest. It's already getting late." Seth already knew where Elyra was, since he scanned the whole mansion with his Soul Sense.

After gathering all the things he had left scattered on the floor of his room and putting them all inside his spatial ring, he left to meet with Elyra.

He knocked on the door of her office and it opened for him.

Elyra seemed to be tired after working on many things regarding the new Secret Security Unit. The Elf Queen had promoted her to Chief Commander and she was now the second most important figure in the whole kingdom, however, her work load had increased too.

"How are you, Lady Elyra?"

"Seth, come in. There is something I wanted to talk with you."

Seth entered and sat on a chair.

"What is it?"

"I'll go directly to the point. Were you the one responsible for what have happened in the Luberus family?"

Seth didn't show it on his expression, but he was inwardly amazed.

"Oh? Why do you think so?"

Elyra realized what his phrase implied. He hadn't denied nor had he agreed, but it was clear for her that he was the one responsible.

"Just a hunch."

"A hunch?"

"Others may not know, but I know what you are capable of. Not only that, but you were the one that left together with the Elf Queen that day."

"Am I in trouble, now?"

"... If it was anyone but me that had discovered about that, I'm certain that you would be arrested."

"Then why aren't you arresting me?" Seth asked while trying to understand it.

"I regret not listening to Elyon's wife at that day. After that, I don't want to do anything I will end up regretting again."

"I see... There is something I wanted to ask you, Elyra. How were you able to develop your wind elemental affinity?"

"Wind elemental affinity? Just like any of the other normal elements, you need to stimulate it and see if you are compatible to use it. But for the wind attribute, it is a bit harder to stimulate it than fire, water and earth."

"Why is it harder?"

"Because it's formless. Well. You asked me how I achieved compatibility with the wind attribute, and that was because of two things. The first one, being the wealth of our family supporting me to buy many wind elemental items. Those items were crucial for me, since I used them as material to understand it better."

"What is the second thing?"

"My father helped me out training, he is a wind element user too. While forced to deal with his attacks, I slowly digested the knowledge I acquired while studying those items."

"Hm... Then that's good."

"Hm? What's good?" Elyra didn't understand him at first.

Seth took the three skillbooks he had just learnt out of his spatial ring, putting them on the table right before Elyra.

"!!!" She suddenly understood where he wanted to get.

After putting those three skillbooks on the stable, Seth said: "Help me practice for some days and I will give you those skillbooks."

Elyra didn't say anything, she just took one of the skillbooks and observed what technique was inside it.

"This... This is one of the core techniques of the Luberus family! If they achieved the "Nature Root" position, it was practically because of their mastery over these techniques."

Elyra saw that there were two more skillbooks, but she didn't even try to look what was inside, because she already imagined it.

"Are you really going to give me this? It is a priceless treasure. You could say that these skillbooks are the heirloom of the entire Luberus family. You can practically create a very powerful force if you train them in these techniques."

"I don't need them. You can have those skillbooks and use them to increase your family strength."

Seth really didn't need them. He had already gathered their information inside his Soul Essence Lake and if he ever needed to recall it, he just needed to search for the right memory.. As for the possibility of him teaching those skills to someone, he could do it through his Soul Link, just like when he transferred information to Serene.