CHAPTER 10
Bob entered the building that was in a higher level community. He knocked on the door and found it opened by Bianca. He looked at her in doubt as he did not expect her and James to live in together this early on as both of them from a traditional family.
Seeing his doubt, she smiled and said, "Come inside, James is waiting for you."
He walked inside and saw James who was working hard on the laptop. James who saw him was dumbfounded and walked over to him and touched his face and his hands and then touched his muscles and asked, " how did you become so refined. Why are you muscles so strong? Did you undergo some kind of plastic surgery and take some hormones? Don't tell me that you signed up for some kind of government test?"
Bob looked at James with seriousness and asked, "Are there some kind of research going on?" Rich businessman had connection to government so if he said the government was trying to make super-humans, they some government office is surely doing so.
James chuckled and said, "Not that I know off."
Bob sighed in sadness. He wanted to see if fight with such strong man. He smiled and said, "The fact I announced about being trained by a hermit warrior was not false."
Bob planned to show his power to James and Bianca as they were the only connection he had among the upper class. Even if they cannot help him, he can use their relations with his friendship with them as a leverage to make more connections. But there were limits to how much a friend can help in business as money matters. So unless he shows his strength in one manner or another, they will not like always helping him. But if he shows enough strength and potential, they will surely help him and when he grows up within a year, he will help them back. The so called betrayals among friends is when they find that the friends can no longer bring them benefits. A good friend will slowly cut off the connection if the they can no longer be helped to stand on their own level again.
But that was not what James and Bianca thought. They thought that he had been dreaming but they could not think otherwise as he did indeed appear something akin to a warrior as per the legend. A glazed body and strong appearance. Seeing their appearance, Bob used his energy to lift up all the tables, chairs and sofa, even lifting both of them up.
He then put all the things he floated against gravity gently. There were legends about warriors in the history of the human history. So both of them were dumbfounded. James finally smiled and asked, "So, is that why you asked for 20 million? Did you want money for something related to your warrior inheritance? How do they teach you? Are you taken to some hidden hills or towers by a teacher to teach you? Are you asked to take bath in lava to make you body as hard as steel? How do you control things? Is martial energy real?"
Bob chuckled and said, "The legends are just legends James. I have not taken any medicine and nor have I taken a bath in the lava but yes my body is harder than steel and bullets will no longer work on me. As for medicine, I did not need to take it as I was talented." Yes, him awakening his origin power was indeed talent. "As for martial energy, that is indeed true. When a person becomes skilled in any one of the thing too much beyond what is called a human limit, they awaken a kind of energy called aura. If the skill they are good at is martial arts, the energy is called marital aura. Another method is to develop the physique to the limit to develop aura. Aura is what I call it. Aura can strengthen the body in all directions present to the limit. Aura can be used to enhance moves. As skill is what is needed to develop aura, there are records of some scholars who had been living in library purely by reading books or people like Archimedes who kept thinking developing aura."
Bianca nodded. She now understood why she felt that kind of temperament from him. But still, no matter how rich she was and how much of the world she had seen, she like all other humans yearned for super-human strength. So she asked in interest, "is it true that the atmosphere has martial energy and can be used for forging the body."
Bob smiled and said, "That is not the truth. At least not in the current era. Aura is made from physical energy. So if such energy did exist in the atmosphere or was available as crystals, it was when some beings with aura produced aura and let it be in the atmosphere or made it into crystals. But humans do not have much energy limit to digest enough food to make aura. So the only possibility is if some kind of animal big enough does produce aura and releases it or if there is a plant big enough consuming ordinary energy to produce aura."
Both of them nodded. They stopped talking about warrior as they were not ready to talk anything further about it. They knew that assassins existed and if assassins with ordinary human strength to kill rich people like them even if they are present in 2 digit number in the whole world. This was not including the talented and trained people like the intelligence agents among various countries. They are not fools to make someone else an enemy when the enemy could potentially kill them. So what if the one who killed them gets retribution. When they are dead, they lose everything.
So James simply asked, "Why did you come here?"
Bob smiled and said, "I have 300 tons of black rice and pigs worth 350 ton mass to be sold. I plan to sell the black rice worth 400 for 300 as I plan to create a connection for future purposes. The 350 ton worth pigs are only used for a quick money"
Bianca asked, "Are you sure that you have 300 tons worth black rice? That is about 90 million and you can sell the pigs for that amount too. You should be getting about 195 million as the current cost for a whole pig is about 300 per kg counting the bones and skin as the whole pig is bought. How did you get this much property?"
Bob smiled and said, "Inheritance."
Bob waved his hand and he released some black rice from his aura space as his aura space held all the black rice he had harvested. He had also sowed another round of black rice seeds.
Both of them took it, Bianca said, "They are of the highest quality."
Bob nodded and then said, "My inheritance provides me some certain recipe for letting the pigs grow faster and with much higher meat quality. The same can be said about the black rice."
James smiled and said, "What are you going to do with the money?"
Bob smiled and said, "I plan to use a large part of it to strengthen my warrior self."
They nodded. They did not ask further as stuff related to warrior stuff was something they did not want to discuss about. They did not know about warriors. So what if he did not want to speak about his plans. Let his secret remain secret.
James smiled and said, "I shall introduce you to a wholesaler who buys items from factories to sell it to many retailers."
Bob nodded and the rest of the time they spent chatting about common things.