Chapter 459: Throwing Cards

[Affirmative. The required time for the genetic simulations to officially complete: 12 Hours.]

’Okay, fine. That is perfectly fine. Since the sun literally just set, I think it should be ready by tomorrow morning.’ he thought and then he smiled slightly, ’And before that, quickly bring me a bunch of my meat, and then you can do your long simulations.’

[Affirmative.]

A moment later, a massive bunch of thick sausages popped out of his inventory into his lap. Adrian just efficiently stuck the thick sausages firmly onto ten cleanly cut bamboo skewers. He stuck the other far end of the sharp stick deeply into the ground near the fire pit. He just carefully placed all ten of them there to slowly roast.

Looking at this weird-looking, processed piece of meat, all of the tribesmen looked a little confused. The main guard that Adrian had originally met at the start walked over and squatted down.

"What this food?" the guard pointed.

"Well, this is premium meat," Adrian smiled proudly. "It can... well, it will not spoil for a few weeks."

The guy looked pretty surprised. "Exchange what for meat?"

Adrian blinked. "Well... exchange what for the meat?"

He didn’t really know exactly what to say to that. This was his own personal dinner and he hadn’t really thought about trading it with others. He just looked at the guard.

"This is pretty valuable, so I can’t exactly just freely trade it right now."

He paused, a smirk forming on his face.

"You know what? I wouldn’t mind trading it to with right now... if you teach me exactly what you guys do with the rain that you collect."

The guard grinned widely. "Okay. I will tell."

Adrian nodded happily. He took out one incredibly huge sausage that was almost as long as his entire arm. He stuck a thick bamboo skewer deeply in it and gladly gave it directly to the eager guard.

"Now tell me."

The guard took a massive, greedy bite.

"You just drink. You should not use the rainwater on anything else. Not on food, nothing. You need to drink directly from the stone bowl. If the water goes anywhere else, it instantly becomes normal water."

"Okay, got it," Adrian nodded. "What next? How do you guys train and everything else?"

The guy chewed on a bit of overcooked rat meat happily. "We no train. We just drink rain water and we become strong."

Adrian nodded slowly. "Okay, so you just drink the water, and do you, like... train or something? At least a little?"

The guy just shook his head firmly. "We collect water when it rain. After rain, we drink. And we go hunt, eat, happily dance, sleep, eat more, and repeat."

Adrian just chuckled. "Okay, got it."

He looked over at the Demon Chief, who was still lazily sitting comfortably back at his mud hut. Adrian just shook his head and thought to himself. ’These Demons have the knowledge, but they don’t really share any of it with these people. And I don’t even know why. Well, not like it is something I really care that much about.’

He just slowly turned the sausages around a little to roast evenly and continued doing that for the next few minutes.

Once they were fully cooked, he grabbed four of them. He happily gave one each to Aria, Claire, and Serena before gladly taking the last juicy one for himself.

As he eagerly took his first delicious bite, he looked down at Aria.

"Since you are going to train as a Knight, what is your plan? What weapon are you going to use?"

Aria chewed thoughtfully. "I want to use Chakrams exactly like you." she said and giggled as she looked up at Adrian while he just chuckled warmly. "Do you really want to use Chakrams?"

Aria nodded firmly.

"You know," Adrian smirked. "I was thinking about something different for you."

Aria raised an eyebrow. "What?"

Adrian tapped his spatial ring. He took out a pristine deck of metallic playing cards directly from his Dungeon and gave it to her.

"These specialized cards... You can use them in a way similar to the way I use my Chakrams. But you can also use them safely without relying much on your Telekinesis."

He grinned. "Want me to show you?"

Aria nodded eagerly.

He smoothly took one of the sharp metallic cards, which were less than a millimeter thick. He effortlessly lifted it up between his fingers before he aggressively shot it forward with a smooth but quick flick of his wrist.

The razor-sharp card spun extremely fast. Thanks to him currently possessing the raw strength of a higher-ranked Knight, the card just spun so fast and went forward in such highly terrifying speeds that it just lodged itself into a thick tree trunk halfway across the clearing.

It cleanly sliced straight into the solid wood and got stuck deep inside.

Aria just stared blankly at the distant tree. She couldn’t even see the card travel, but she could clearly safely see the very thin line that the sharp card left behind in the bark. Right inside the incredibly thin hole was exactly where the card was lodged.

Seeing this display, Aria blinked twice in awe.

Claire leaned over eagerly. "Wait. Can I use this technique then?"

"Yeah, sure you can," Adrian smiled. "No one is stopping you. But you also need a little bit of technique to perfectly throw these cards."

Claire grinned. "Well, you can just teach me, right?"

"Yeah, sure I can," Adrian nodded. "But it is not really that hard to grasp. I am pretty sure you can easily find your own method."

Claire nodded confidently. "Yeah, I am pretty sure I can, but I want you to teach me."

Adrian smiled and agreed before he turned around to Serena. He gently placed his hand on Aria’s head as he spoke. "Do you mind if I... do you mind telling me about your blessing and your curse?"