EQUIPMENT

After taking the whole box inside, Kai immediately began opening it. He couldn't help but be excited. He was expecting his equipment to be like Allaric's, Cool and helpful. Allaric's equipment wasn't that impressive for him, but Kai took a liking to it. He wore a dark-gold chest plate, the two colors fused with each other at the center of his chest, forming something like Yin and Yang formation. His gloves were the same, but one was fully golden and another black. Golden was left hand, and black was the right. However, the small armor on both of his thighs was black, and boots were relatively lower quality, leather.

Kai was expecting something like that, but he knew that it would have been too expensive for his father, so he decided not to complain even if the equipment wasn't that good, but what he saw upon opening the box gave him quite a shock.

He looked between his father and the equipment in disbelief. Even in his dreams, he couldn't have imagined gear like this.

When he took out the chestplate, he again gave it an appraising look. Wherever he won't look, whatever angle he looked from, he couldn't help but think. 'Iron? Simple iron? For god's sake! Isn't this a magical world? How are they planning on keeping me 'save' with this?'

It was basic iron armor consisting of an iron: chestplate, shoulder protectors, and thin thigh protectors. There also were leather gloves and boots, but they didn't make much difference. Instead, they made the situation even worse as they were somewhat ugly.

Allaric noticed Kai's disappointment and couldn't help but sigh at his reaction. It wasn't surprising that he didn't like his new gear because it was intended to be low quality and unreliable. Of course, it was dangerous to hunt with it, but Allaric, Graham, and Cass had a different plan for Kai. They wanted him to develop. They would increase his equipment quality as he progressed. for example, the first reward would be given when Kai would 'help' Allaric slay 50 or more creatures. Next, when he defeated the opponent alone or helped to kill 100+ foes. It was something like a 'rewarding system' of theirs.

Allaric looked at Kai's sad face and said with slight disappointment in his voice. "Kai, why are you so disappointed? Wasn't it you who said that you wanted to achieve everything yourself, without depending on other's wealth or power? Wasn't it why you refused to use the Core I gave you? then why are you disappointed?"

At that moment, when Allaric finished talking, Kai felt so shameful that he lowered his head in disappointment. He was disappointed in himself. At least now, he understood how hypocritical he was. He remembered how disgusted he felt when the boy named Coop started to abuse his family's wealth and power for his selfish desires, and now he was doing almost the same thing. Instead of being satisfied that he even got the gear and thank them, he felt upset that it wasn't 'cool' like he wanted it to be. Now, he understood how hypocritical and childish he was behaving. Technically He was a child but at the same time was not. His real age was 21, three months away from becoming 22, so it wasn't like he couldn't understand something.

Allaric didn't know why or how his son was so intelligent, but he accounted it to be the effect of Kai's Hibernation and the Special Core. It was a well-known fact that Core also influenced the brain, so based on this fact, it wasn't that weird for Kai to behave like he always did.

Finally, after long 5 minutes, Kai raised his head and looked at his father while saying in a very low and sad voice that Allaric could barely hear. "Sorry... father..."

"It is good to be sorry and understand your mistakes, but the most important thing is to learn from them and don't do it again." Allaric's smile grew wider as he spoke, and he reached out to something in his pocket, and When Kai saw what it was, he was more shocked than ever in his short life in this world.

'You tell me this man just reached to his 'pocket' and took two 30 cm daggers out of nowhere!? Is his pocket Dimensional storage or what?'

Indeed, Kai just saw Allaric casually reach out to his pocket and getting two daggers from it like it was another normal thing to do. His pockets were maximum 10 cm in length, so it raised another dozen of questions for Kai.

Kai calmed down and looked at the daggers in a new light. They both were beautiful in their way. They were both made from iron, but they were different, Kai could tell. He felt a slight connection with them. One had red engravings on it, and the other had light blue. Those engravings were most likely some runes that he knew nothing about, so he looked at his father with a questioning look to clear his doubts.

"These are in case something happens, and I won't be able to defend you. Upon cutting something with this one, the wound will start heating up and preventing its regeneration." He pointed at the dagger with red engravings on it. "And this one has the same effect, but it freezes the wound instead of burning it. Now, these are yours. May they help you survive." He then gave two daggers to his son and looked at him while he was inspecting them. He couldn't help but be satisfied with himself.

While inspecting them, he gave them both testing swings and could feel how they were sucking his energy out of his Core while heating up and freezing everything on their way(only air:)). After five minutes of testing them, Kai felt a slight headache while his vision started becoming a blur.

"Oh, five minutes? Not bad. Not bad at all." After a few seconds, Kai finally fell unconscious, and Allaric moved him into his room, where Kai slept for 1 hour.

After he woke up, He was greeted with the angry face of Meira and the smiling face of his father. He wanted to straighten up and sit instead of laying like a patient in the hospital, but when he moved, his whole body began to ache, and he fell on the pillow he had his head on.

"Wha-" He tried to say something, but Allaric interrupted. "don't move nor try to talk. It will be better for your recovery. You overused your energy reserves and fell into a 'Mind down' state. Remember this and take this into consideration whenever you use your energy."

Kai now seemed to understand his situation and tried to do as his father said, but red sparks surrounding Meira didn't give him time to relax even the slightest.

For the next hour, Kai was subjected to a cruel lecture of his sister while he could do nothing to defend himself. But what Kai heard after, made his heartbeat increase considerably.

"Kai, rest for today and be ready for tomorrow as it will be your first time in life to see how cool is your father."

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ALT TITLES: MYSTERIOUS POCKET, ICYHOT DAGGERS.