novelzi Chapter 97 Peak Half-Step!
Chapter 97 Peak Half-Step!
The next morning...
Since Hope was in his room, Muku had slept in Hope's room. Could have used an empty room but... Hope's seemed a lot better. Not for any perverted reason or anything like that, just that the unoccupied rooms weren't cleaned by anyone. Or at least that's what Muku assumed since Audrey didn't think it was important enough to tell him when she did.
Anyway, due to the constant supply of corrupted beast guards Audrey provided, the group no longer needed to have lookouts. They could all sleep at night, comfortably too. On top of that, Muku was still recovering, which made him fall into a deep sleep that night. Which shouldn't have been a problem until he found someone sleeping next to him when he woke up.
"Umm, what are you doing here?" He asked while he and the person looked into each other's eyes. Like the monk he was, he was completely unmoved...at least on the surface.
"This is my room", the person said with her purple eyes, looking back at Muku innocently. A sly look appeared on her face for a split second before disappearing.
"I know it's your room, but you were supposed to be sleeping in my room", Muku continued, speaking seriously like the monk he was.
"Oh right, I walk about in the middle of the night for a bit. Drank some water and came here subconsciously. I immediately fell asleep after lying on the bed. I didn't even notice there was anyone here" The person continued with her story, whether true or not, only she knew.
"How did you end up hugging me then?" Monk King Muku continued with his questioning.
"It must have happened subconsciously while I was asleep; I used to sleep while hugging giant teddy bears" " the person continued, her purple eyes showing nothing but purity and innocence.
"Okay, why are you still hugging me now?" Muku pressed on.
"Oh, I didn't even notice, my mistake. I'll go fetch some water and bathe. See you in a bit Big Brother" The person quickly made her getaway after running out of answers.
"Tsk, that brat, does she think I'm so gullible?. Luckily, I was too lazy to take off my clothes before sleeping last time," Muku spoke to himself after Hope ran out; the little girl had snuck into his embrace in the middle of the night! Didn't she have even a single vigilant bone in her body or did she just think so lowly of him? Fortunately, she didn't notice his morning tent, or he might have had to hunt down the FBI in the apocalypse and then offer them his own head. The embarrassment would have required at least that even if the tent had nothing to do with Hope.
"Oh right, Chloe mentioned some video; I'll watch it while I calm down", Muku spoke to himself before reaching out for a mobile phone by the bedside on a little table stand.
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A few minutes later...
{What an insightful video, to think she thought about how I can realise my potential so much. With this, I'm even more certain that I can reach Rank Two within two days tops!} Muku thought to himself with a little smile on his face. The video content was Chloe expressing her thoughts on how Muku could possibly realise more of his potential.
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Upstairs.....
"Well, this isn't what I expected, but it's better than nothing, I guess", Muku spoke to himself while trying to regain control of his aura that was getting suppressed by Audrey.
"Oh, and sorry about that, Audrey; I didn't know there was anyone here" He then apologised to Audrey.
He had managed to realise more of his potential and managed to increase it to 80%, which was as intense as the girls at their peak. So they had mistaken it for him having reached the peak. His meditation yielded one attack, but a very significant one since it could actually wound a Rank Two, even if it was only just a little bit. He leant the spell, "Mind Impact" which targeted the opponent's mind instead of their physical body.
Although it was a strong attack spell, Muku felt disappointed. He wanted Telepathy instead, his reasoning being that it and Telekinesis were on the opposite of the same coin so he should be able to get both. The latter dealt in the physical while the former was in the metaphysical. But sadly, it didn't seem to work that way; just getting "Mind Impact" was already good enough.
"It's okay, master; it didn't do that much damage. Of course, that's only because of our different ranks," Audrey said while the blood that was coming out of her eyes and nose returned back into her body and continued on its usual path. She had been hit by a wave of "Mind Impact" unprepared. She felt a headache and some dizziness for a second before everything returned to normal, other than the blood of course. Though she took care of that easily enough.
"Thank you for understanding", Muku said with a smile, then returned to a meditative state. He might have been done with his telekinesis but his metal still had some improvements. After which, he's likely to rank up, two days before the estimated time.
Audrey continued looking on, ready to intervene if anything went wrong. Although she got a minor injury, she still didn't mind, she even felt proud of having such an outstanding master.
As he sat there, a silver armour completely enveloped Muku. This was completely new to Audrey; he only ever created weapons and some random stuff like pots and buckets. Never before an armour, and she had to say, it looked quite cool on him. Then, right before her eyes, the armour slowly started changing colour. It was quite a magical scene; in less than a minute, the whole armour turned golden.
Audrey could tell that it was really made out of gold, not just coloured like it. As soon as it all turned golden, Muku's aura increased again. But this time the aura didn't leak out since she was prepared. The armour started to change colour again and turned to copper, then platinum, then tin, then iron.
Audrey couldn't help but have a thought as she looked on. {So this is what being a metal warlock means huh?}
The process kept on going like that, and every time, Muku's aura would increase. By the time he finished all the metals, his aura was no longer increasing. He was stuck at the peak of Half-step R2, the metals were likely not enough for him to break through. It was at this that Muku opened his eyes. His aura is no longer in chaos.
"Have you ever heard of mithril?" He asked Audrey with a little smile on his face. The armour was slowly melting away from his body as he spoke starting from his head going down.
"No, I don't think I have" Audrey, who hadn't been exposed to a lot of fantasy stuff before the apocalypse, had no idea what mithril was.
"We might have to go outside for this one" Muku said while getting up and walking out of the room. His steps were confident; he was certain that he was going to break through soon. Audrey quickly ran after him after getting out of her daze...