Building relations

"Me? I'm just a commoner. Who lives in a little village, the name's Ron Kayler."

"A Commoner? No way a commoner can have information about me having a ho-"

"I didn't know you had The blessings."

"What than how?"

"How do I put it. Let's say, a student uses a sword at the beginning and than suddenly switches to a basic kitchen knife.

Than barely grazes you but you fall down and aren't able to breathe properly.

It's a basic Knife that shouldn't be able to do much against magic users but for someone of your calibre to get that badly injured, it means that that knife contains a certain effect.

The Curse of death."

"You thought of all that within mere seconds? That's not possible."

"Haa... I have a thought acceleration skill that allows me to discern certain situations quickly as long as I have the information."

"Thought acceleration skill? You have that?"

"Well yes... Anyway, that type of curse is mainly used against Holy Magic users to kill them before they mature."

"I can understand that much but... How, did you know about the cure?"

"It's simple really... Demonic magic gets repelled by Holy magic, and The Curse of death is a product of demonic magic. So obviously Holy Healing magic should work on it."

"What? How did such an obvious fact slip out of us?"

"Well it's simple really... People don't want to put others in danger, on top of that... A human can be killed in mere 10 Minutes if he's infected by The curse. And, nobody really knows what the symptoms are."

"That's true, since there are no symptoms except for only I can feel anything."

"The symptoms are the same as Mana Exhaustion. As far as I know, the curse spreads across your body and sucks the mana out of your making you completely dry of mana. Which in return kills the host."

"You, have a lot of information about the Curse don't you?"

"Well, you can find them in any book you see in a library. So it's nothing special."

"So, I can understand everything... But, why did you saved me? Was it just because you couldn't see someone getting hurt or is there some other reason?"

I pondered for a bit to see if I should tell her the real reason why I saved her. Well, I can't just save a Princess and expect nothing in return.

"So you do have something in mind, what do you want?"

She said with a frown on her face.

Well whatever let's just do it.

"Join My Club that I'm about to create."

She seemed surprised the moment I asked that as she pondered for a bit and asked

"Club?"

"Yes Club."

"What kind of a club is it?"

"A club that'll make you stronger. Here take this pill, it'll help you level up stronger. I have a lot more of these if you want."

"What kind of a pill is this? Are you scamming me? Or is this some kind of a business deal."

"Haha, it's nothing like that... I'm gathering strong people people with potential talent and make them join my new Club."

"What kind of a pill is this?"

"Well, Eat this pill and meditate for about I Month and you'll get past D rank and Get to C10 by than."

"What? To break through from D3 to D it almost takes 3 months and you are telling me that taking this shady pill will get me there in 1 Month?"

"Precisely."

"Are there any side effects?"

"None."

"What? Where did you get such a pill?"

"Well, it's a secret."

She looked between me and the pill before cautiously asking

"Can I trust you?"

"Very much. I saved your life after you were Cursed by an incurable disease."

"And if it doesn't work?"

"Well if it doesn't work than you don't have to do anything nor be indebted to me for saving you... Plus, I only told you what to do so technically you saved yourself. I didn't really do much."

I'm being honest tho, I really didn't do anything except tell her what the cure is.

That was it. I didn't particularly help her since she helped herself.

"Hmm... Alright, if it works than by next Month I'll join your little Club. I don't know what the purpose of your Club is but if it'll help me get stronger than I'll join it."

"But, I have one condition."

The moment I said that, she halted her departing steps and looked at me with a frown on her face.

Guess she still doesn't trust me much haa... She probably thinks I have an alterior motive and whenever I say I have a condition she seems to think I'm ganna use her in some way.

"Don't tell anyone about this pill, except probably the principal. You probably know her since she is your Mother afterall. If you don't trust me just tell her about the pill."

Well she knows about the pill precisely because she is the one who made it.

Her mother who is the principal of this Academy, since it is in the central Human domain and they wanted a skilled human to take care of it.

They appointed her Mother the crowned princess and an Alchemist who excels in potions, Skill development Pills and Rank development Pills.

She sold these pills for cheap because they were prototypes and I bought almost a 10000 of them with the 2 Gold coins I had when I entered.

I had to suffer Starvation for that Month but that was well worth it in my eyes.

"Well than I'll be leaving, can't Be getting too much attention now can I."

"Alright, if it works than I guess we'll be seeing each other in 1 Month."

And with that, I'd built relations with another potential Heroine who might be of great use in the final Battle.

And, The 3rd tournament went without much hassle and I'd managed to get to the 4th tournament.

***END OF CHAPTER 24***