Magic Shop System

Chapter 60 - Torture Begins

After hearing that shocking news Kadyn and Elora decided to go back. They had already spent a lot of time outside. But before that, the duo had a delicious supper in one of the restaurants of the Food Market. 

"Food was delicious," Kadyn praised. "I'd love to come back again."

"I know, right?" Elora said, and asked. "So, are we going to attend the auction tomorrow?"

"Yeah," Kadyn replied and fell into deep thought. 

"You want an employee for your Artisan Hall, don't you?" Elora chuckled, looking at him with interest.

Kadyn eyed her and nodded. It seemed his sister had become smarter. She could see through his intentions pretty easily. "Dwarves are born Artisans. If I could win his trust and could recruit him, that would be great. After all I can't do everything by myself."

"You don't want his secrets?" Elora asked curiously.

Kadyn glanced at his sister and smiled, not replying. She must be kidding. He'd almighty System to assist him. With time he'd be able to learn who knows how many tips and tricks about artisans. He refused to believe that a puny dwarf could contend with the System, who was able to drag his soul from earth to this world and give him a new life.

Elora nodded and didn't comment any further. Though she had hundreds of questions in her heart, she suppressed them. He would tell her when he wanted. She glanced at her brother's back, who was paddling his broken cycle.

Then she asked. "Why do you think that slave dealer announced such news at that place? Though the Market is a most prosperous place in the Lower Town, it is still poor as compared to the Upper Town. No one in the Lower Town would be able to bid for something like a dwarf."

"Of course their actual intention was something else," Kadyn said. "After all they could not go from place to place to announce this news. So they adopted the easiest option, telling this news to some people in the Slave Market. Now that information would spread like a wildfire. Even other cities would know about it in no time. I'm sure that tomorrow's auction is going to be something really interesting."

When they arrived at the shop, it was already dusk. The crimson sun was sinking down in the west, spreading yellow rays on the bustling city of Avibria.

Suddenly Elora remembered something and glared at him. As if knowing her thoughts, Kadyn laughed sheepishly and said. "Don't worry, we'll sell those potions tomorrow and you will have enough points to use." 

"Didn't you say the same thing when we were going out?"

Kadyn laughed awkwardly at her tantrum. "This time it is real. I promise."

"Humph!" she snorted and scurried towards the Potion Hall. However, before she could take over ten steps, a notification sounded in her head that left her stunned.

[You have gained 20 Energy Points]

She eyed Kadyn with mouth agape. He smiled and said. "With these points, you can enjoy ten hours of Elementary Meditation Room or four hours of Level 1 Meditation Room."

[Author's Note: this Meditation Room is different from Kadyn's that requires 10 points to meditate for an hour. It needs just 5 points for a Level 1 Meditation Room and 2 for an Elementary Room]

Elora had no idea about the difference between the two levels. So Kadyn explained to her in detail. Only after that did she nodded and went towards the Meditation Room in excitement. 

Kadyn looked at his sister's back and shook his head before moving towards the Practice Room. Last time he had tried to break through but failed miserably. He realised that the main reason behind his failure was his weak willpower. He could not take the pressure and failed. Therefore, he was going to torture himself a little and see if he could improve his willpower.

He entered and looked around. It was still the same room. However, there used to be a single screen before that controlled the Body Pain, but now there were two. Something was written on top of those two screens—Body Sensitivity, Soul Sensitivity.

He had still a vivid picture of last time's torture. It was complete hell. However, now there was Soul Sensitivity also added. Torture to his soul? Even thinking made him shiver. 

Nonetheless, he had no intention to torture his soul, yet. Therefore he put that screen on zero while the other on 70%. "I will try it after I have some resistance towards the body pain." He said and imagined a dragon he had encountered not long ago. 

[Practice Room can not visualise something/someone stronger than Rank 1 magus]

Kadyn was surprised. He had never thought that this would be the case. So there was a limitation on visualisation. Thus he dropped the idea of visualising the dragon. He thought for a moment and a man appeared in front of him: he was Barret Duncan, Magic Association Leader.

Barret Duncan looked at Kadyn with red eyes filled with hatred and said with gritted teeth. "You bastard, I will slaughter you!"

"Heh?" Kadyn exclaimed when he heard him talking and hatred in his voice was evident that anyone could discover. But why? It was just a projection, wasn't it? A doubt flashed inside his heart, but no one explained.

Barret Duncan eyed him and smirked. "Today I will torture you to my heart's content. Today I will relieve the hatred in my heart."

As Barret spoke, the ground split apart under Kadyn's feet. He couldn't even resist before he fell inside. "Damn, what is going on?" his heart was filled with confusion. Why did Barret have consciousness? He also had hatred in his heart. Does that mean every visualisation inside the Practice Room had the thoughts and grievances of the actual person to who that projection belonged?

At this moment the earth started to shrink. "Fuck, is he going to squash me to death?!" his voice was filled with horror, and his speculation wasn't wrong—the walls from both sides continued to close to each other, shrinking closer and closer.

Kadyn screamed and roared and whined when his body started to contract in between two sides. His throat broke and his tears and snot fell uncontrollably, but to no avail; ultimately, he was squashed to nothing but a meat paste.