
"Hah, I'm weak ...," said Daru who was sitting next to Frey.
"Daru, what are you going to do?" ask Frey while looking at him.
"Eitherway. For now it is best to repair the damage to the store and strengthen the defense," Daru replied.
Daru pulled out his smartphone and called Zoref to come.
Then ...,
"Mas Daru, what happened?" ask Zoref.
"Something beyond my prediction. Mas Zoref, please repair the damage to the store. I also want to make Sarren Hill have only one access entrance, which is a teleportation portal," Daru explained.
"Huh ..., did your enemy come in here from the air?" ask Zoref.
"Yes, he went in and brought a powerful monster," Daru replied.
"Then, I can add a magic array on top of the wall. No living creature can pass through it. But that doesn't apply to inanimate objects like rocks, and other things thrown from the outside" Zoref explained.
"Can we add some kind of cannon that targets an object at a certain height?" ask Daru.
"ah! Wonderful idea. Two layers of protection, a magic array to dispel living things while a cannon for inanimate objects that managed to pass through the magic array. The estimated cost is about three billion, what can Daru do?"
"I also want Mas Zoref to build a building that can be used as a dormitory for about 10-20 people. How much does it cost in total?" ask Daru again.
"If the feature is made standard, 500 million so. Of course there are solar panels and electric-powered equipment as well" Zoref said
"Well, I'm not too short of money, just do it" Daru replied as he transferred 3.5 billion rupiah to Zoref's account.
After confirming the payment, Zoref left Daru to prepare for the construction.
"Frey ..., can you walk?" ask Daru. Daru knew there were still deep wounds suffered by Frey as well as himself. And the internal injuries on Daru's body were the worst between the two.
"It can, but I can't go too far" Frey replied.
"Take this and turn off the teleportation portal. And also, call Shera and Sylph" Daru said as he pulled out the necklace which was a portal control device.
"Near the portal and you'll know what to do" Daru added.
Frey nodded and went to carry out Daru's orders.
"Is there a tool to make me stronger? If only I hadn't gotten Julius' treasure, I would have died" Daru murmured.
Daru looked back at his smartphone screen and opened the Universal Shopping web. Hoping to find something like a strengthening serum.
He also discovered many things such as strengthening serums from various worlds. There were those that increased physical strength, some that added to the mana circle, there was even a pill that awakened the mana circle.
"Is this pill from the world of cultivators?" murmured Daru. The pill was perfectly round in black with some golden-colored lines that looked like veins.
"Buy all!" shouted Daru.
Daru bought one strengthening serum with a different type of strengthening serum he bought first, ten petals of mana circle enhancer flower, and one whichever circle generating pill. He spent more than two billion in the transaction.
"This reinforcement serum will be safe right? This is not from Niberu ..., am I going to explode while wearing it??" Daru wondered after pressing the purchase button.
"Package ...," said Veux who stood behind Daru.
"Mas Veux," said Daru as he nodded his head looking at Veux.
Veux knew that Daru's current mood was chaotic. He also heard what happened from Zoref. He was not stale and directly handed the package over before leaving with a receipt.
"So, what should I use first?" murmured Daru wondered.
Daru is still afraid of the risk of serum strengthening. In the past, he read that Niberu strengthening serum can only be used once, if used a second time, then the user's body will explode. Although the strengthening serum that was in front of Daru did not come from Niberu, but still he felt a little worried.
He clenched his teeth, clenched his hands and decided to put on the serum.
Cesss
A voice came out of the serum, indicating that the serum had injected fluid into Daru's body.
Daru was glaring because he felt pain that was more severe than the pain he felt when trying the first strengthening serum. But she tried not to scream, she held it back by tightening her teeth tightly.
Deg deg deg deg
Daru's heart rate was getting faster and with each beat he felt the pain in his body increase.
Daru's body grew slowly. In just a few seconds, his body shape completely changed. He no longer looked like a human, he looked like a lump of flesh.
Am I going to explode? thought Daru.
Daru was confident that he would explode in a moment. But, suddenly blood came out from all over the pores of Daru's skin. His body slowly shrank. But the pain is getting worse.
"Arrrrrggghhh!" Daru screamed loudly hoping the pain would subside.
Frey who had just closed the teleportation portal like Daru's command heard a shout coming from inside the store.
"Dream!" Frey immediately ran after hearing Daru's scream.
Sylph and Shera also immediately rushed towards the cry. The three of them felt anxious about Daru's really severe condition after the fight earlier.
They ran towards the shop, climbed to the second floor and saw Daru's limp-spattered body with blood pooling around Daru.
"Dream!"
"Boss!"
They shouted and approached Daru's body.
Daru opened his eyes slightly and looked at the three people who were around him with helpless gazes. Although the pain had disappeared completely, Daru was mentally shaken because of the pain he felt before.
Frey, Shera, and Sylph were confused. They examined Daru's entire body which was drenched in Blood but did not find a single wound, Daru bled out blood without any injuries.
"Antar ... I ... to .. room ... shower," Daru stammered.
Daru walks into the bathroom and starts rinsing his body, while Shera waits at the door just in case Daru needs anything.
"My body feels stronger but my head feels very dizzy. Is it like this mental injury from pain?" murmured Daru while continuing to wash his body.
After a while, Daru regained his full consciousness. His mentality has stabilized thanks to the freshness of the water from the shower that continues to hit Daru's body. He came to the mirror in the bathroom to see the changes in his body.
"My muscles are smaller than before but my muscle curves have not changed at all" he murmured.
Although the muscles in his body are shrinking, but he feels that very great physical strength is in his body. He began to test his body.
She came out of the bathroom wearing a towel to cover the bottom. Shera was speechless looking at Daru's completely attractive body shape.
"Don't look at me with a perverted look. Get me some clothes" Daru ordered.
"Ba-good Boss!" Shera's reverie breaks down and immediately brings Daru clothes. Daru could not wear the clothes he had worn before because it had been drenched in Blood.
Shera came back with a clean set of clothes. Daru picked it up and turned around about to go into the bathroom to change clothes. Shera can also see Daru's back which is now covered in a black painting that is quite beautiful but like emitting fear.
"Bos ..., what painting is on your back?" ask Shera.
"Drawing?" Daru was confused by Shera's words. He tried to look at his back and found some black stains there. He took out his smartphone from the dimensional ring and opened the camera app.
"Give it to my back and touch this round circle." Daru hands her smartphone to Shera and shows her how to take photos. Shera is amazed by Daru's smartphone. How not? He had just this time noticed there was an item that could paint something exactly like the original.
Shera took a photo of Daru's back and handed it to Daru.
Daru was surprised when he saw the photo. The black painting that Shera refers to is a round-shaped tattoo with scratches around it.
"The sun?" murmured Daru. He was confused because he felt that he had never tattooed any part of his body during his life.
"The serum effect?" Daru stroked his chin. He went into the bathroom to get dressed and went to the second floor with Shera.
"Boss!" Shouted Sylph who was still clearing the blood on the second floor when she saw Daru enter the room.
Frey was surprised by Sylph's scream and turned his gaze towards Sylph staring.
"Yo," said Daru as he raised one of his hands.
Frey energetically ran towards Daru and hugged him.
"You okay? What the hell's going on? Why is so much blood coming out of your body? I'm afraid you know!" frey said without giving Daru a chance to answer.
Daru was silent and returned Frey's embrace with a smile.
"Shera, help Sylph clean the room. Someone will come, let me know if that person arrives. Oh, he has a slightly creepy face, so don't say hurtful things" Daru said.
"Good!" answer Shera.
Shera begins to help Sylph clean the room, while Daru escorts Frey to rest in the lower first-floor room.
....
"Rest Frey, you need him" Daru said as he laid Freg's body on the bed.
"Lay with me" Frey's pint as she pulls Daru's hand.
Daru sighed and obeyed Frey's words.
"What happened to you?" frey asked after Daru lay down.
"I put on the strengthening serum again," Daru replied briefly.
"Don't you wear it again your body will explode?" ask Frey. Frey had already told Daru about the origin of Daru's strength, so he knew the intricacies of the strengthening serum.
"That's another kind of strengthening serum. The pain is many times more than before, I'm grateful I'm not crazy because of the pain" Daru replied.
"Ah so apparently. I'm sorry, because I wasn't strong enough to protect you so you were forced to feel the pain" Frey said, wearing a sad look on her face.
"I told you, don't apologize for that" Daru said.
"But I work for you. Then what's the point of me not being able to protect my client?" frey asked with an expression that was getting worse.
Daru wrapped his hands behind Frey's neck, grabbed him and said, "I never said to hire you as an adventurer. I hired you as a right-hand man, not as a bodyguard. That's because I don't want to see you get hurt."
"But I also want to protect you, fight beside you, be in front of you when you're hurt." Frey started shedding tears.
"Haha, which man made the woman he loved fight in front of him? Well, when fighting with Xavier earlier you fought in front, it turns out I was that bad," Daru sighed.
"Pfft ..., no. .., no, you don't suck. I've never loved a lousy person" Frey said with a sweet smile.
Daru replied with a smile. After a while of talking, Frey closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Daru recalled about the tattoo on his back and tried to find out about it at the Universal Shopping web store where Daru bought the serum earlier.
[Natural Generations Serum]
[Improving body strength by twice as much as before and increasing the number of circles where there are in the body of the user, as well as awakening one element of nature that is useful for magic. It has been clinically tested by the Government of the planet Korn.
Caution:
- If the user has no mana Circle, then the mana circle and the natural elements obtained from this serum are locked until the user evokes the mana circle.
- Natural elements will be obtained randomly depending on the physical strength of the user before using the serum. The stronger the user's physique, the greater the natural elements obtained. Which elements can be seen from the tattoo on the user's back.
Price: Rp.980.000.000]
....
"Oh, so element of nature .... I must awaken my mana circle first," murmured Daru.
Daru also took out a mana pill generator from his dimension ring.