"Was that really necessary, lvin?" Nial asked with a frustrated expression, knowing that his friend could have lectured him without inflicting dozens of light cuts on his body.
lvin heard Nial's complaints but instead of acknowledging his mistake, he remained stubborn and made no effort to soothe the situation.
"Well, you now know what you are lacking Nial, rember that!"
Hearing this, Nial felt like punching lvin, but being forced to focus on enveloping the dozens of cuts with his mana to heal them gave him no ti to do so.
A few minutes passed and once Nial stopped the bleeding of all cuts he had sustained, he walked in his room to change his clothes.
Afterward, he felt like punching lvin as he heard his teasing voice.
"Nial, are you afraid to spar with now? Hehehe…did you finally accept that I'm stronger than you?!"
His friend's abrupt change in behavior confused Nial once again, and he was unable to understand how lvin could switch from being serious to being childish that quickly.
However, if Nial knew that lvin was trying to savor the days in which he was still stronger than his friend, he would think differently.
The more lvin thought about it, the more terrifying his friend's natural instincts seed to beco.
His combat awareness, perception, movent, and so on were simply too fearso and he was working on it tirelessly to polish himself even further.
And that was just a few weeks after he had awoken his origin.
Nial had yet to learn how to control mana as if it was sothing natural to him. At the sa ti, lvin knew that Nial's first ability would be a crucial point in his friend's developnt path.
It could either open the pathways to a broad future or seal off his entire future, destroying the potential he had!
That was not sothing lvin wanted, which was why he had planned to be extrely harsh and strict with Nial, while trying to feel happy about winning against his friend as long as possible.
Unfortunately, Nial was not happy with his plan, and instead of bothering to answer his question he simply asked him pointedly.
"Instead of trying to kill by covering it up as training, how about we let several rchants take a look at the [Shockwave Barrage] ability crystal, and see who is willing to pay us the most?
The origin crystals have a standardized price, so it doesn't matter who or where we sell them, but I don't want to lose out on profit with the ability crystal!"
lvin thought that Nial would comnt on his harsh way of teaching things, but instead of doing so, he kept a straight face.
Thus, lvin cald down too, hiding his discomfort about the spar against Nial that was much more fearso than he liked to acknowledge, as he smiled slyly.
"Why do we need to search for the best rchant, if you have by your side? I have connections to the best rchants, and they won't dare to con us. Otherwise, they will have to fear the wrath of my family, which everyone avoids, and that has a good reason!"
It was not like the idea of approaching lvin's father had not crossed his mind, but he had discarded the idea a mont later.
Even though he trusted lvin, his family was extrely fearso, and Nial felt that it would be best to avoid them.
From the looks of it, lvin understood Nial's thoughts and the situation they were currently in pretty well, otherwise, he would have said that they should directly visit their shop.
With that in mind, he comprehended that his friend was probably not as oblivious to his family matters as he first thought.
At least that was what Nial assud as he pulled lvin towards the door of their backyard.
lvin's family was far more foreboding than he had initially thought, and if Nial had even the faintest inkling of how the entire Tyr family was already looking for lvin, he would feel even more burdened than it was already the case.
In the end, lvin had just told his father's butler that he would not be ho for the next few days before hanging up. He hadn't even called his father directly, knowing that he would throw a fit.
Because of that, the entire shelter was about to be combed through and turned upside down just to find lvin, which was sothing neither of the two young n expected.
Only Maline thought that lvin's father was a tad bit overprotective in a sense she was familiar with.
As such, she had decided to do sothing Nial and lvin didn't know about yet.
Thus, without letting others know, she secretly wrote a ssage to the Tyr family that lvin was doing fine, and that he was currently staying with her son in their house.
Because she assud that lvin's father would just storm into their house upon reading the note, she scribbled in the words stating that nothing happened to lvin, and that he was just worried about his friend and trying to help him.
Afterward, she added a few more bits of information, including the location they lived, with the request to do nothing that would make lvin hate his family because it looked like he had figured out what happened a few years prior.
Upon reading through the ssage his butler had forwarded to him, lvin's father's first reaction was to beco enraged, but the further he read, the calr he beca.
Recalling that in the past his son had made friends with a pair of siblings, he also rembered that he had sent his butler to them in order to threaten them.
This caused his expression to sour after reading about the incident of the Orin family's son that had occurred years before lvin had befriended them.
He also clearly recalled hearing about another incident that happened a short while after they had threatened their family to bring hell upon them if either of them were to try exploiting his son.
Maline had clearly written that they never ntioned anything about the incident that had occurred a few years ago, but it was possible for her son to have been a little bit too emotional. As such, she couldn't promise anything that her son might do, for which she apologized multiple tis in the letter.
Procuring more information about the Orin family, Serl Tyr, lvin's father's expression turned grave, and the emotions depicted in the letter clearly showed how the writer's turmoil while writing those words.
Adding the facts written in the few sheets of information their information departnt had acquired in a matter of minutes, to that of the contents of the letter, Tyr grew certain of one fact- the financial situation of their family was not at all good. They were in huge debt.
And all of that seed to be because of the expensive dicine they had bought to try tending to the son's blindness as well as their daughter's unique and unknown disease that seed to be lethal.
However, even after their miserable situation and extre financial crisis, they didn't ask for any help from lvin, knowing that sothing worse would happen.
Serl had already been confused about why lvin was so happy when they had arrived in Katu, only to call in the evening, saying that he won't co ho for the next few days.
Yet, after recalling how he had threatened the Orin family while seeing the information about their current condition in front of him, Serl Tyr could already tell what his son had seen, heard, or comprehended about his family's doings.
Understanding this, Serl couldn't help but hold his head in his hands as he placed his elbows on the table he was seated in front of.
"What kind of ss is that even?! How can a family be so naive and selfless while facing so many tragedies…"
Serl was one of the rchant tycoons, who was sly and knew what he had to do in order to receive what he wanted, but the mont the situation switched from making business, to personal matters, Serl turned into a useless and clumsy man, who was known for saying and doing wrong things at the worst possible timing.
As such, he was currently trying to figure out what he should do in order to nd his relationship with lvin, which he seed to have almost cut off unintentionally,
In the end, Serl hadn't even thought about what he did years before to his son's best friend's family.
The only thought he had in mind when it was sothing concerning lvin was to protect him.
Because of that, he had assud the Orin family to be leeches, which was the first mistake he did, followed by the second, which was to threaten them without even knowing them.
Fortunately, an idea popped up in Serl's head, the mont he received a call from one of the rchants in Katu, who was a distant business associate.
At first, he had wanted to reject the call, but when the butler, who had forwarded the call told him that it had to do with his son, and a blind friend of lvin, Serl received it without hesitation.
Even if Serl looked like a tall, cold man, with an athletic physique, short brown hair, and ice-cold brown eyes, his core was soft.
The only issue was that he had been betrayed and exploited too often, from every possible side, which made it difficult for him to trust anyone easily.
Other than that, he wanted to protect his family from all kinds of possible harm before anything could even happen to them.
That was also why he had special attention to lvin's training and turned him into soone who knew how to fight, while having a calm mind in face of adversity, even if a friend, his family, or a lover were to betray him.
lvin's only problem was his comprehension of the Lightning affinity. Other than that, there was nothing Serl could complain about because his son was simply perfect.
Yet, that was also the reason why his sudden announcent of him staying away from ho irked Serl the most.
Trying to calm down, Serl looked at the holographic screen in front of him, where he saw a sowhat familiar chubby face of a craftily smiling middle-aged man who was shouting excitedly through the holographic screen.
"Your son, lvin, and his friend are really unique kids. It looks like they obtained a [Shockwave Barrage] ability inside the lind dungeons. Are you trying to let your farm team of Originals grind rare bosses in Katu?
What are you even teaching your son to not know the value of the [Shockwave Barrage] ability? Or did you try to lure into your honey trap by sending your kid to make business?
Either way, if you need sothing, just tell . I offered your son a price higher than most people would get, but I doubt he knows that other shelters would pay a fortune for the [Shockwave Barrage] ability crystal!"
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