After leaving the bamboo hut, Sila went straight to the hotel. He paid 1,000 silver to rent a room for one stay. He didnt want to go to the Mansion of Secret as that would disturb Bows practice. He also didnt dare to wander in town as he was afraid to encounter so opponents, which would be a detrint to Buraphas plan.
Sila was fixated on coming up with the answer by himself.
What am I capable of? Sila decided to look through his system window. His skills were all the sa except for one additional skill.
Greed Skill? Sila tried to recall what had happened. He finally rembered that he had gotten it after killing the Water Dragon. He forgot to check it as there were so many things for him to do previously. Sila began to read the description of the card and its skill.
(S) Greed Card Level 10 (Maximum)
Player obtains an active skill: (S) Greed.
Increases the minimum drop rate of all items to 40%.
Increases the minimum drop rate of cards to 60%.
Increases the minimum chance of coming across a special situation to 40%.
Increases the minimum chance of encountering a hidden boss to 30%.
Increases the minimum chance of benefiting from any randomness to 80%.
Player will earn twice as much money when defeating a monster.
Upon skill activation, player has 0% chance to encounter Mammon the Demon of Greed.
The chance of encountering Mammon will increase by 30% every ti player uses the Greed skill.
The chance of encountering Mammon will decrease by 1% every ti player gives 10,000 gold to Mammon.
Player will earn only 10% of all experience points from now on.
(S) Greed Skill
No resource is required to use this skill. Player can only use this skill if possessing Greed Card.
Cooldown ti: 30 days.
Can repair, refill, and replicate an item.
Cannot be used on an item that is unique in the ga, or personal item.
Cannot be used on an item that has had Greed cast on it before.
Sila didnt fully understand its description, but it did look like it could increase the quantity of an item. Luckily, Sila had one item that he wanted more of. That item was the bottle containing Emperor Qi Pellets. It belonged to Lone Wolf but he had eaten too many of the pills already.
Sila imitated Lone Wolf by opening the palm of his hand and focused his mind to use Greed skill. The Greed Card instantly appeared, floating on his palm. It was like what Lone Wolf had done. The difference was, depicted on Silas card wasnt a picture of six-winged archangel but a picture of young black-haired prince with a golden crown. He was surrounded by all kinds of jewelries and treasures.
Greed. Sila activated the skill.
The card in front of him scattered into dusts. The dinsion around Sila began to shake.
A nauseating and disgusting sensation soon filled the room. The air in front of Sila distorted into a football-sized black hole. A hand which clearly wasnt human pierced through the hole.
Sila swallowed his saliva. The opposing hand opened its palm, waiting. Sila realized that he needed to put his item on this palm. He put a bottle of Emperor Qi Pellets onto it. Once it landed on the hand, the hand slowly pulled back into the mini dinsional portal.
After not even five seconds had passed, the sa hand pierced through the portal again. Revealing its palm, there were surprisingly two bottles of Emperor Qi Pellets there. Sila anxiously extended his hand to take them.
The mont he took them, the hand suddenly grabbed onto his wrist tightly and tried to pull Sila into the dinsional portal.
Shapeless Qi automatically activated and concentrated into Silas wrist to strengthen it.
Argh. The hand squeezed Silas wrist like serrated tal and the portal expanded. Sila didnt have any ti to think. He imdiately activated Hidden Weapon Firing to summon three daggers into his free hand. He reinforced them with his qi and fired them at the devils hand.
As knives stabbed into the wrist of the devil, its grip loosened a little. Sila hurriedly reinforced his wrist with qi and forcefully pulled it back.
Silas wrist was finally freed. He took several steps back to stand at the corner of the room. Looking at the red mark on his left-handed wrist, he felt trendous pain; it was as if it was broken. Sila looked back at the dinsional portal. Its size was shrinking to the original size.
That hand returned to the portal. As the portal continued to close, a mans voice echoed from it, Please co again next ti. It ca together with high-pitched devilish laughter. Then, the portal completely shut down. The atmosphere inside the room returned to normal.
Sila still felt shocked at what had just happened. If not for the pain on his wrist and the fact that there were two bottles of Emperor Qi Pellets lying on the floor, he would think that what he had experienced was a dream.
Sila circulated Immortal Qi into his wrist. The pain soon subsided. The bones seed to be healed too.
Five minutes later, Sila took both bottles of Emperor Qi Pellets to see their contents. There were five pellets in each of them. He threw them into his system window. Now, the problem of returning the items to Lone Wolf was gone. He even had one more for himself.
The experience he got from using Greed caused Sila to not want to use this skill ever again. He neither wanted to see that hand a second ti nor experience the nauseating feeling that the portal filled the room with.
He inspected the status of Greed Card again. The chance that Mammon would appear had gone up to 30%.
He decided to leave the problem for later. What was more important to him right now was the answer to the old mans question.
Sila sat on the bed. Usually, when facing this kind of question, he would always seek an answer from others. But this ti, his teacher explicitly stated that he must co up with the answer by himself.
Almost ten hours later, Sila, who didnt eat nor sleep, was still sitting on the bed motionlessly. He was still completely unable to find out the connection between the terrible soup and Montra.
The system alerted him that it was ti to log out. Sila closed his eyes and logged out, having yet to find the answer.
***
Sila opened his eyes to the sa hospital room. There was food placed on the table next to him. He got up from his bed and ate his last hospital al. It was a rice congee mixed with shrimp that automatically ward itself with the help of a high-tech bowl.
Sila ate several spoonfuls of it until the door of his room opened. Uncle Rashane and the doctor entered his room.
Have you been awake for a long ti? greeting Rashane.
No, Uncle; I just woke up not long ago.
Finish eating, then change your clothes, okay? I have prepared so for you. Rashane handed over a paper bag to Sila.
Sila opened it and found that there were several casual clothes inside.
Theyre my clothes from the old days. Is that okay? I can buy new ones if you dont like them.
Sila hurriedly rejected, No need to do that, Uncle. I can wear anything. These ones are fine.
Is that so? While youre eating, please let the doctor examine your body again for the last ti. While you do that, Ill ask the employees to move this life-supporting device. Rashane walked toward the door and beckoned two staff mbers to co inside.
Sila got up from his bed and sat on the sofa. anwhile, the employees quickly disassembled the device with expertise and neatly collected its pieces into a box. Sila was impressed. He himself wasnt good with machinery at all. In his dojo, except for an old computer and a keyboard, there were no other technological devices at all.
The doctor examined Silas body and agreed to let Sila out of the hospital. Sila hurriedly finished his al and changed his clothes. anwhile, Rashane pardoned himself to pay the hospital bill, while Sila quickly followed. As Rashane took the bill, Sila sneakily took a glance at the amount on it.
230,000 Baht. Sila felt guilty. If he had perford physical therapy earlier, the amount might have been much lower than this. Sila decided to not cause any more problems for his uncle. He would stop at nothing to clear the debt of 15 million.
Lets go, Sila. The staff will carry other things for us later. My car cant carry all of them.
Both of them went to Rashanes dark-brown car, waiting for the staff to move things to a pickup truck next to it. Sila just noticed that Varee hadnt co with Rashane.
Where is Varee, Uncle?
Varee is playing the ga. Good grief, its true that her grades didnt drop, but maybe shes playing too much.
Where are we going?
We still cant find Mora so Sila, you should stay with for now. I believe we will find him soon. I would feel uneasy if you lived alone. My house has a vacant room anyway. Rashanes eyes were filled with sorrow when saying this, but Sila didnt notice it.
Has there been any progress with the investigation? Sila asked, to which Rashance shook his head.
The staff ca to them to inform that they had finished packing things. Rashane and Sila got into the car to drive ho. It took them around two hours to arrive at Rashanes house. Only now did Sila realize how far Rashanes house was. Despite that, Rashane had still visited him almost every day. This showed how much Rashane cared for him.
Rashanes house was a white two-storey house made of wood. It was located quite far away from the main city. There was a small dojo next to the house, which Sila looked at with curious eyes.
Rashane ordered the employees to carry things into the house and approached Sila. Seeing Silas interest in the dojo, Rashane explained:
That was my wifes dojo. She practiced martial arts. Rashane looked at the dojo with a sad expression.
I still dont know how your wife passed away, Sila said softly.
It was a car accident. A car was about to hit Varee and my wife used her own body to block it.
My condolences, Uncle, Sila said
Rashane nodded and fell into silent.
About the room that Im about to stay in, was it your wifes room?
No, its my daughters room.
Varees? Sila was startled. How was it possible for him to sleep in Varees room?
Its my oldest daughters. Her na is Vata. She left ho two years ago, shortly after my wife had passed away.
She left the house? Why? Sila thought that he had heard this na before, but he couldnt recognize it imdiately.
Rashane was making a sad expression again. It was because of .
Sila frowned. How could a good person like Uncle Rashane cause a problem for anyone?
Why do you think so, Uncle?
When my wife stopped breathing, I was in an important eting with my clients. At that ti, the company was facing a financial crisis. I thought that since she was already in doctors hands, she would be fine. After I finished the eting, I hurried to the hospital, but it was too late. She was gone. I still rember Vatas face to this very day. She was looking at with resentful eyes, asking repeatedly Why didnt you co? Mom kept calling for you the whole ti...
Tears appeared on Rashanes face. Those events must have left a big scar on his heart.
After that, she left ho. I couldnt find her no matter how hard I tried. Sila, Im not a good person. The reason why Im helping you is because I know what it feels like to be separated from soone important. Taking care of you is just a part of my selfishness. Hearing of you being admitted to the hospital, it reminded of my wife. I was afraid to arrive late again.
Sila fell silent. He didnt know about Rashanes problems before. It was too big. He couldnt possibly co up with any words of comfort.
You dont need to be concerned about my problems, though. What about you? You have your own problems, dont you?
Uncle, you can tell? Sila was surprised.
Sort of. Tell , maybe I can help.
Sila shook his head. This problem is one I must solve with my own ability.
Rashane fell silent. He knew that Sila tended to distance himself from others, but so problems are better solved with many people rather than alone.
Sila, do you know what I do when Im facing a problem? Rashane started a topic.
Sila frowned. Does a skilled person like Uncle also have a problem? He had listened to many words of praise from the doctor toward Rashane during his stay in the hospital.
No one is perfect, Sila. I also have things that I cant do. For example, that life-supporting capsule? Its like a foreign object for . I couldnt possibly do anything about machinery. Thus, I hired those employees to help us. Those guys are better than . If I were to do it myself, we would still be at the hospital, loosening the knots, Rashane said it jokingly.
Sila smiled at Rashanes word. However, in the next instant, his expression changed.
He finally knew the answer.
Thank you, Uncle, Sila said with a bright smile.
Ah? Did you solve your problem?
Sila nodded. Yes. Its thanks to Uncle. I have finally co up with the answer.
If you have found a solution, then Im happy for you.
One of the employees ca to Rashane to inform that they had finished the installation. Rashane signed his signature on a device to confirm their process. Then, the employees took off.
Are you going to log in? Rashane asked.
Yes, Sila replied with a smile.
Then, go. Im going to work too. By the way, can I ask you to bring Varee with you the next ti you log out? Really, whats with you two? Theres always one of you logged in. Can you two please log out together just once?
Yes, Uncle. Next ti, I will bring Varee out with .
As Rashane and Sila went into the house, Rashane smiled rrily. After his wife had passed away, that smile had left the house. But now, even Sila was able to smile. Rashane was glad that his decision to invite Sila to Monster Soul was the right one.
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