Technique

Roland was nervous at first but the incident with Fifi and his new 'Master' made him bolder. He regained his composure and frantically said, "I'm sorry about that, it just happened on it's own and I can't controll it! I'm really sorry"

"What did you do to it?" The middle age man's voice sounded, he regained his composure.

"I don't know!" Roland had a nervous look on his face. 

The middle age man opened a drawer and took out another similar rock and gave it to Roland saying, "Do it again!" 

Roland nervously touched the rock and repeated the same action and the rock gradually turned into dust. The man's face morphed in shock and he fell into deep thoughts. 

After a while his face turned angry as he said, "Those were very rare minerals that you just destroyed! Tell me why I shouldn't kill you right now?"

Under the middle age man's gaze, Roland's body floated in mid air as he felt a strong pressure around his body. 

Roland screamed out in pain, he couldn't move his limbs. Roland's face sank as he scolded in his head, 'What's with this delayed anger! You wouldn't have asked if you wanted to kill me! I really have to get out of here! Everyone here is crazy!'

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to! Please don't kill me! I don't have any money right now but I can work really hard, just don't kill me!" Roland frantically said, he was feeling a crazy amount of pain.

"I'm a generous and fair man. I won't kill you if your willing to work deligently." the middle age man stated, although he said that, Roland felt the pressure around him get stronger.

Roland scolded the man for his cunningness, not only applying pressure mentally but physically as well, meanwhile he acting kind and giving Roland a way out.

"I'm willing to work! I'm willing to work!" Roland screamed out, he was starting to feel his internal organs and tasted a bit of blood.

The pressure around him decreased and his body sat back on the chair, the middle age man looked at him and said, "Than I'll believe you, I hope that you don't disappoint me, cause that would make me angry!"

Roland swiftly nodded. 

The middle age man suddenly disappeared and appeared besides Roland and grabbed him by the arm. Before Roland could think, his vision turned dark, wind sliced across his face as he felt his body moving at a fast speed.

Finally after a while they stopped moving and Roland fell down and started vomiting, his head was ringing and his vision was spinning. 

After a while he got up.

Roland looked around and saw that they were in a large cave, the cave was the size of a soccer/football field. In front of them was a large dark wall. The dark wall covered more than half of the cave.

The dark wall looked like a dark crystal or gem stretched out to the ends of the cave. The only source of light was the entrance behind them so it wasn't that dark.

Roland noticed a few white marks on the wall, it was clear sword marks, there were thousands of them but only a few were clearly visible.

"Try and see if you can destroy this wall" the middle age man said. 

Roland was confused for a second, the middle age man must have misunderstood his 'absorbing' as 'destroying', even his master was the same. 

The middle age man seeing Roland standing in a daze frowned and added, "If you fail, you can forget about working for me and I'll kill you." 

Roland walked out to the wall and placed both hands, it was cold to the touch, he heared the prompt and the progress screen appeared.

[Pure Fabric substance was found. Do you want to absorb and boot up the chaos system?]

Roland was surprised again. He started to suspect that the other rocks came from this place. The previous rocks were dark blue and almost black just like the wall here. Plus both rocks had "Pure Fabric substance" something he recently came across.

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 29.24%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 30.24%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 30.24%]

..... 

At the beginning when Roland was absorbing there wasn't any reaction but then, dark powder like sand started to fall off the wall and around his hands. It was a similar powder that was left every time Roland used the system to absorb the 'Fabric substance'.

Roland didnt think much of it and just continued.

A small dent that was barely noticable appeared on the wall. The middle age man behind Roland saw this and was surprised, he was obviously aware of how sturdy the wall was and even he could barely leave a scratch on it.

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 33.70%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 33.74%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 33.79%]

Roland continue to absorb, the higher the numbers got, the slower it became. 

_Thirty minutes later_

Just as Roland was absorbing, he suddenly stopped. He was panting hard and was covered in sweat. His arms were trembling in pain. They were swallow and looked like they were filled with water.

The pressure from earlier had injured him and since he was wearing the restraints his body couldn't heal itself. This made him fear and hate this middle age man even more.

Under someone else's territory, he had to endure. One day, I'll make you guys drink the water I used to wash my feet. 

"*Pant* I'm sorry! *Pant* I don't think I can continue! I'm too tired." Roland looked at the middle aged man and struggled to say. 

The middle age man ignored him and went to touch the small dent, he turned and looked at Roland, with a shocked expression. He regained his composure, cleared his throat and said, "If you got some rest would you be able to do it again?"

Roland thought for a second, nodded and carefully said, "but it might take a while for me to heal because of these restraints"

"Remove the restraints." The middle age man's voice sounded louder.

Roland was confused and surprised. Just as he was about to absorb the restraint, a robed guard appeared besides him. 

The guard swiftly removed the restrains from him. It happened so fast that Roland didn't see what or how it happened.

When the restraints were removed Roland felt the familiar feeling and his body started healing again but this time it was slower. 

The middle age man placed his arm on Roland's shoulder and said, " You have quite the body, I'm expecting you to be fully healed in two days time. From now on, you will come here and continue destroying the wall and that will be your job, understand?"

Roland didn't really have a choice so he nodded.

"Take him away and give the proper instructions to the others, in two days time bring him here." the middle age man commanded to the guard.

The guard nodded and brought Roland away.

The man looked at the dark wall and threw a punch, the regular-looking punch landed. There was no reaction from the wall. The man touched the dent Roland left and muttered, "You'll be my ticket now."

....

Roland was returned to his room, this time free from any restraints

Along the way the guard had pulled him along, meaning he couldn't see anything, although it wasn't as fast as the middle aged man, it was still faster than what his eyes could keep up with.

Roland anxiously entered his room, he ran towards the tunnel and touched where the tunnel was but there wasn't a prompt. 

The place where there was the entrance to the tunnel looked the same as the rest of the ground. It was like the whole tunnel was a lie.

'What happened? Did Fifi do this?' Roland pondered.

He knocked on the floor a few times but there was no reaction. 

'It's most likely Fifi! I guess I'll wait for her to come back!'

Roland sat down for hours and just thinking random thoughts when suddenly.

"Human cub Roland are you there!?" Artic's voice drifted in from the vent and disturbed Roland's thoughts.

"Yeah, I'm here" Roland quickly replied.

"You were taken away right? What happened? Does it have something to do with this inspection thing?" Artic asked a plethora of questions.

Roland hesitated for a sec, he wanted to tell him what was happening but he didn't know who was listening. After collecting his thoughts Roland said," Yeah I was taken away but they only asked me a few questions before bringing me back."

Roland continued and said, "About the inspection I think I heard a few guards talking, apparently there's a prisoner who suddenly disappeared from another floor."

Silence lingered for a while and Artic said, "Another floor? Does that mean were in a building or rather we are underground." 

'My guess is that were underground.' That was his theory based on his findings.

"Whoever it is that escaped must have been strong." Artic's tone was filled with envy.

Roland was surprised for a second, so he asked, "Why do you think that?"

"Although I don't know much, I at least know that this place is massive and there are a lot of guards and they are quite strong." Artic said with helplessness. 

He continued and added,"So it's safe to assume that, you'd have to be strong to escape from here or you'd at least need to have some special ability like walking through walls"

'Or digging through them', Roland added in his heart. 

"I'd do anything to get out of here." Artic's voice drifted into Roland ears, causing his ears to perk up.

"Brother say theoretically that you get out of here safe, what is the first thing you'd do once you get out of here?" Roland kicked back and asked.

"That's quite impossible but if I could, what's the first thing I'll do huh? Let me think about it...." Artic said and silence soon engulfed the room. 

After sometime Artic's voice sounded and he said," I guess the first thing I'll do is visit my family, they are probably not looking for me but I wanna see them again...."

"Secondly I guess I'll continue my dream of getting strong and explore the heritage mountains range. Ohh the heritage mountain range is....."

Artic then began to explain, they talked back and forth for a while. They continued to talk for hours, the guards came in like usually with a tray of 'food'. After that Roland and Artic talked for a bit before going to sleep.

Roland quickly drifted into the realm of dreams and fell asleep, but the respite was short-lived...

"Roland! Roland! Wake up." Fifi whispered into Roland's ears while shaking him.

"Fifi your back!" Felt hot air in his ear

"Shhh, Yeah! I was hiding down there! What happened after you left? Did you remove your restraints." Fifi asked, she had a worried expression on her face. Roland was her partner afterall.

Roland than recounted to her what happened, he included the talk and deal he had with the blond man. After talking they both fell asleep and woke up early.

Like clockwork a guard came in and Fifi hid, After eating, Roland and Fifi both went down to the mysterious old man.

"Master!" Roland quickly got on one knee and greeted his master.

"Good! Disciple what happened?" His Master repeatedly nodded.

And again the story was recounted.

"Hmm Edward is still as cunning as ever" the Master said.

"Master how do you know him?"

"Hmm it's a long story, anyway let's get down to your training. First..."

In this world, living things are born with a reletively weak mysterious power inside of them. This included plants, animals, humans, demon, dragons etc. 

Every creature had this mysterious power albeit it was different for every race, it could all at most be used the same. 

Also for some races the mysterious power was, for lack of a better word "stronger/potent" then most races, ie a year old demon or dragon had a stronger power then a human.

This mysterious power allowed for every creature to not only grow faster and stronger but also do incredible feats like flying or moving things without physically touching them.

Through training and comprehension that mysterious power grows stronger and more versatile. 

"Now I'm gonna pass you my secret technique, with this you'll know how to use that power inside of you."

"Also remember this technique is sort out by a lot of people and your not allowed to pass this onto others, understand?" The old man said as he placed his finger on Roland's forehead.

Images and texts suddenly surged into Roland's brain, almost overwhelming him, this also caused him to have a strong throbbing headache.

Roland's eyes shot open when he read the exaggerated title of the technique. [Dragon slayer technique]

'For some reason this title sound a little arrogant.' Roland thought but he was ultimately excited. 

What did this mean? This proved that dragons existed and from what Roland knew, were one of the strongest races. And this techniques claimed to slay them.

Fifi who was standing some distance away was a little jealous when she saw Roland get a technique, she thought, 'This old man is very powerfully so he has some good techniques, I wish would also get a technique.'

"Little girl come here, I'll pass onto you another technique as well" the old man signalled. 

Having 'stronger' power doesn't make you a better fighter or more skilled, when it comes to that aspect, having techniques is what's also important.

Techniques helped to guid the power in the body like water in a water slide. Techniques didn't grow on trees and were as rare as hen's teeth, so they were valuable.