The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 76: Ch 76: Making a New Friend

Derotixa immediately turned toward Rein and looked at him with burning eyes. This unwanted useless inherent special ability of hers had created many problems for her throughout her life.

So if she could even get a chance to get rid of this ability, she was willing to pay any amount of price that did not touch her bottom line.

Feeling Derotixa's passionate gaze on him, Rein just gave her a gentle smile and told her to calm down a little bit and to take a seat by waving his hands. Seeing that Derotixa took a few deep breaths and was finally able to calm down. She calmly sat down on the sofa again and said -

"I'm sorry for suddenly losing my composer and please allow me to apologise for that. But please understand that I'm very desperate to get rid of this ability of mine and that is the reason for my hasty behaviour."

Saying so she slightly bowed to both Lauren and Rein. Lauren just said it was not a big deal and Rein said that what he did was something very understandable. After that she started speaking again.

"But please enlighten me on one thing. How did you find out that I have such an ability and I was troubled by it. I believe this is something that only a few people know other than me."

"Miss Derotixa, you're not the only one with an inherent special ability in this world. There are many other people who have even more unbelievable abilities than your own."

Hearing that Derotixa was able to guess that this person in front of her most probably had one such unbelievable ability. It was most likely to be an ability with investigation capabilities.

Think of how useful that sort of ability could be she was a bit jealous but also hopeful at the same time as this person might really be able to get rid of her ability.

"I understand. Let me be frank, to get rid of this useless ability of mine, I am ready to pay any price if that price does not touch my absolute bottom line. Please show me a way."

"Hmm, to solve your problem there are actually three things that I can do. The first one is very straightforward and I can just remove this ability from you. I have a very rare magic item that could do that.

It needed willing cooperation of the owner of the ability to extract it so I think we are good on that part. But this item is really very very rare and it can store only one skill inside it.

So you really need to pay a very high price if you want to use it as just getting your ability with it is kind of a loss to me."

As Rein spoke, Derotixa's eyes became brighter and brighter. When Rein mentioned a heavy price she did not mind that at all. This solution sounded perfect for her and she was going to agree to it right away without even hearing about the other two methods.

But Rein stopped her and told her to listen to all the methods first before deciding.

"For the next method, I have a special training method that will allow you to control this ability of yours even if it was a passive ability. This is the best way for you to not lose something you were born with and at the same time solving your problem. But there is a catch.

This training is insanely hard. Even a very talented person like you will have a very hard time mastering this training method. So, if you will be able to control your ability properly or not depends only on you and no one else will be able to help you in this matter."

After hearing about the second option, Derotixa started to think a lot more. She did not have any attachment to this ability at all but what Rein said was so true. She was born with this ability and it was a part of her own self.

So if she could really control this ability, she wanted to keep it for herself.

"As for the last method, I have a way to temporarily seal your ability. You must have noticed that your ability has changed over time but not all abilities are like that. Most of them remain the same all the time. But your ability is special and it changes over time.

It gave us a different way of solving this problem. As your ability could change, there is a chance that in the future it will naturally turn into something which could be controlled. So we can just seal the ability for the time being and wait for something like that to happen.

But, this seal is not very long lasting and I needed to renew it every once in a while. So which method would you like me to use ?"

Hearing Rein's question, Derotixa started to think about it very carefully.

At first she was one hundred percent sold on the first solution, but after learning that her skill might change again in the future and could even become stronger, she no longer wanted to think that getting rid of it was the only option. So she first asked a few questions-

"Mister Rein, umm, is it possible for you to allow me to try all your methods. For the time being, I want to try mastering the training you mentioned and at the same time, I want my ability to be temporarily sealed for the time being."

"If you want to master my training, you need your ability in an active state. So it is not possible to seal it and for you to try the training at the same time. And if you like it I can try all three of the methods on you obviously with proper compensation."

Hearing that her plan could not be implemented Derotixa was a little bit disappointed but not too much. She had expected something like that. So she then asked for the second best option in her mind.

"Then is it possible for you to give me the training method for the time being ? I will do my best to master it as soon as possible. But if I was unable to master it within a year or two, please help me by sealing this ability of mine.

And then if this ability does not change in a hundred years or two then please get rid of it for me."

"Very well, I'm glad that you've changed your mind. It might look like that an inherent special ability is given to someone randomly, but that is not the case. From my experience I had come to believe that any and all inherent special ability had a very close connection with the owner of the ability.

As if this ability is that person's family member. So even though it has troubled you quite a bit, please try to get along with it."

"Thank you for your kind reminder. I had also almost forgotten how much this skill had helped me in my younger years when it was still a decent normal skill instead of being a perverted one like the current skill.

I will just think of it as a troublesome little brother and would try to get along with it. Now, please tell me what I need to pay ?"

"Hmm, let's see. For the training method I really should charge you quite a lot as it is something unique that only I can provide. Not only that but you can feel that you have reached the limit of your current potential and this training might be able to increase that potential of yours.

That should cost a lot, right ?"

Derotixa was a very honest person. After hearing Rein's words she did not object and just nodded her head with a determined expression on her face to show that she was ready for any kind of price. Seeing that Rein gave her a gentle smile and said -

"But, after talking with you for some time, I really came to like your character. For that reason, I'm willing to give you a friend's discount if you're willing to become a friend of mine ? What do you think ?"

Hearing that Rein wanted to be friends with her, Derotixa became a bit flustered. Because she was the head of such a prestigious family and also because of her skills, she never had the experience to make friends with anyone.

So she was extremely happy and a little bit embarrassed at the same time after hearing Rein's proposal.

"I- I don't mind being friends with you. N-no, actually I would love to be friends with you, mister Rein."

"Come on, friends don't call each other like that. But never mind that, let's have fun together, Derotixa. Hmm, that's too long, I will just call you Xa from now on. It's cute, isn't it ?"

Derotixa was very flustered to suddenly not only make a friend but also to have that friend call her with a nickname. She was very happy in her heart and meekly replied -

"Yes, let's Rein."

"Good. So as a friends discount, I will give you the training method for free and as of the sealing, let's say that you owe be a favour for that. And let's not talk about the ability extraction for now."

After that Rein started to send her the training method via mental link. Just as he was down sending it and was explaining to her the hard parts a little bit, suddenly a powerful pressure envelope the room and strong presence was coming toward this room.

Rein had noticed it way before so he was not surprised and just smiled slightly.

This was getting interesting.