ALL NOVEL Chapter 285: Conflict
As a cultivator herself, I find it normal to find out someone's limit to the point of exhaustion under controlled situations. It's far better than learning it in real combat and ending up dying.
Knowing one's own strengths and weaknesses is a very important matter.
But hearing this, Elly disagreed. Her line of thought was similar to her mother's.
Alex was still a kid at this time; they should have told him it was not good. But she didn't say it out loud since she didn't want to have a debate.
"What happened next then?"
"Well, he spent three days like that until he fainted. Based on how my mom said it, I am sure my father got an earful," Emily said with a chuckle.
"Do you remember how old he was at that time?" MingYue asked.
"Probably around seven or eight. Honestly, though, I respect my brother a lot. He's always there for us, no matter the situation, even when he was bullied."
"Alex bullied? You are joking, right?"
"Well, he won't admit it, but in middle school and high school, he never had any friends nor played with any of them. Every day, he went straight home from school."
"With his abilities, it's not weird. Who can he trust?" MingYue could relate to what Alex felt.
Even though she couldn't tell if someone was really lying or not, the cutthroat competition between everyone in the sect and clan was more than enough for her to not want any friends.
"Well, let's go and not disturb him. I wonder what he is doing, though," MingYue said as she turned her back, leaving the room.
"Who knows? I never get what passes through his mind," Emily replied as she closed the door silently and followed MingYue.
Catching up, she asked, "MingYue, how about going shopping? This is your first time in our world."
"Don't you need money to do that? And I don't really need anything. My clothes can change form," MingYue replied as she showed Emily how it worked. Based on many movies she had watched, shopping meant buying tons of clothes.
Seeing the clothes, Emily's eyes sparkled, "Do you have more? How does that work?"
MingYue still had a few pieces of clothing, so she gave one to Emily.
As both of them left, Alex's lips curled into a smile. "Finally!" he exclaimed happily.
At first, he kept failing. Translating the movement between a sphere-like monster to a human was just something impossible. He needed to completely modify it for it to work.
Then, an idea came to his mind. Why would he need to do that?
He decided to change how it goes. For Awakened, like Emily with elemental abilities, their hearts usually transformed in a way to generate that element. Emily was no exception.
Alex then used the heart circulation path, creating a secret technique to move qi in a way that replicated the Wisp technique. Based on the simulations he did, there should be no bad effect on Emily's body.
"Now I just need her to test it out and see if the abilities come out. If I am right, she should be able to improve this skill to use for attack or even more things."
The Wisp of Light ability allowed them to change light into something solid. The Wisp used it to control the Golem from the inside.
Alex imagined with this technique, Emily's control over her abilities would increase manyfold.
"Adding the Wisp under her control, her combat ability will be off the chart. She then just needs to raise her cultivation level. Everyone should at least reach Nascent Soul before we go."
Alex then proceeded to create a secret technique for Zold, as he was the second easiest.
Using the hammer secret technique as a template and his understanding of Emily's secret technique, Alex quickly made a new one.
He also started pulling information on existing combat styles.
"Using qi and motion is the key to the secret technique. In one way, it could also be said to unite qi and body so they work together," Alex thought in his mind.
"In that case, I could just copy combat arts and put the flow of qi in the movement, then link it with the abilities they already have. That should work." Alex then asked Vesa for help to filter all the information in his brain and the book he had just taken for combat art and fighting style.
He also asked her to combine and optimize it.
"Sure, King, but could you give me some time? It's not that I don't want to do it, but things are kind of a mess now in Edonia."
"What happened?"
"I tried to quell the populace, but when I appeared and told them the new rules, their reaction was very intense."
"Let me guess, the abolishment of the class system irked the royalty and sovereigns?"
"It's complicated, King. That is why I am trying to mediate both factions right now. Unless you are alright with me just killing some of them."
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"Some people deserve it. With your ability, you should be able to see and hear everything, right? Try to recoup it into a consistent report and send it to me."
"Sure, King."
A flood of information then started pouring into his mind.
In total, there are three groups in Edonia now. The first is those who agree with Elvira's direction. The second is the sovereigns who think they could establish their own authority.
After seeing Vesa's control over the world, they are not dumb enough to challenge her authority, but they negotiate, not wanting to lose the class system.
Weirdly enough, the majority of the grassroots class also oppose the change. Injustice and unfairness do happen, but it's still the minority. The majority of the populace feels better about the class system.
They are already used to just doing what is told. In exchange, they get enough food and housing.
As for the royalty, the majority of them show approval in the front, but at the back, they are all now planning to overthrow the sovereigns. Elvira's father is one of the most vocal about this.