Preparations Before Moving Out

The whole room remained quiet for some time.

Achilles silently blinked as he stared at the old men with an interested look. He didn't expect that something sounded as simple as that could have such a great consequence. Perhaps there was more to the story.

After waiting for a while in silence, he opened his mouth and complained:

"You know you need to add an explanation after that, right?"

Sleepy waved his hand dismissively.

"I'm about to get to it."

He paused for a moment and yawned, then started talking:

"It's an incomplete technique that I uncovered in an ancient ruin. After using it once, I realized that it damaged a part of my soul in order to maintain the channeled essences as a different source of energy."

Achilles lampooned:

'...So they didn't include the side effect in the guide?...That's weird. Why would it be like that? Shouldn't there be a detailed description of the side effects on the front page?'