Chapter 45: Unknown

In the room where simplicity was observed, Desire opened his eyes and lifted his body right after.

Well, he couldn't as he was sleeping in the bucket of water.

He just stood up and went out of the water and gasped for air.

"Haaaa!" However, when he did, he only found that he didn't really lack air in his lungs.

Tilting his head, he observed the room. He saw Jarina standing right in front of him, saying something.

However, he couldn't hear it as it seems the water went inside his ears.

He gestured for Jarina that he couldn't hear her, and it seems she got it as she immediately used magic to clean the water inside Desire's ears.

"Now, can you hear me?" Jarina's voice smoothly flowed to his ears.

Desire nodded his head while asking, "What happened?"

At that moment, a vein popped out in Jarina's forehead, but she didn't speak harshly.

"Well, you collapsed while you were doing your thing. So, what happened?"

While Jarina was speaking, Desire tried to get out of the water bucket until he heard Lionel's voice.

"Don't come out yet. That water will heal you, so stay there for a while."

Desire turned his head in surprise due to Lionel speaking so abruptly, but he wasn't really shocked about it. It was kind of an instinctive reaction.

"Oh...I see." Desire muttered while going back to the water.

He could already guess what happened just from what Lionel said.

'Heal me...did I fail?' Desire thought as he shook his head.

During that night, he could feel that he succeeded in his plan of cleaning his core thoroughly. However, he wasn't able to see it to its completion as he fell to the pressure.

"So? What happened?" Jarina spoke with expectant eyes. After all, this was the first time someone got into this kind of situation while cleansing their core.

However, the reality isn't so wonderful.

"Hmmm. Well, I decided to stack up all of the Magic Core's mana and pushed it all in one go to my Core."

"W-what? You didn't let it flow one by one, but you let it all out in one go?!"

Lionel's flustered voice rang out as he grabbed Desire's small shoulders. His fangs were revealed in a nasty smile as he spoke.

"Kuhahaha! So that's how you did it!!"

Lionel was overjoyed that he finally found out how Desire could get stronger in such a short amount of time.

After all, he didn't know the reason why. He just checked Desire's body and his condition.

Desire did something so simple, but it seems Jarina doesn't agree with it as she asked with her eyes quivering.

"H-how..."

She remembered the night where she felt powerless in front of Desire. Even if Desire stacked up the Magic Core's mana and used it all up in one go, there's no way Jarina, who is a Rank 6 monster, would get scared by it.

However, even if she did think about what happened, nothing could explain why she felt that way.

After all, Lionel already told her that Desire was able to reach Pure Blue Core during the Cleansing, and that isn't enough to match Desire with Jarina's strength.

It was then.

Lionel, who was rejoicing loudly, asked with an interested tone of voice.

"Oh yeah, how come you're still alive?"

"Eh?"

Desire answered without much thinking. After all, it was a question so absurd, and it was a question one wouldn't ask someone who was still alive.

It was that rude.

It was as if Lionel was doubtful that Desire was still alive after what happened, and he was expressing sadness at the fact Desire survived.

Of course, Lionel also knew that, so he immediately spoke while stroking his chin.

"Oh, don't get me wrong. If you said you collected all of the mana and then gave it to your Core in one go, I can't see the reason how you are still alive."

He then continued as he gestured to Jarina.

"Jarina probably told you to take it easy. The reason is that if you put it too fast or too much one at a time, you could die from mana overflow. Little bastard is a bit extraordinary, eh?."

Lionel continued to ask how Desire was still alive after coming up with an impossible task.

He was thrilled about it, and his curiosity got the better of him. However, he soon judged that it was probably luck or because of their efforts that saved Desire.

After all, Desire answered with, "Hmm, I also don't know. I just know that I would stay alive after that."

After a while, Lionel gave up on asking, and he spoke to Desire.

"Rest for a while, and I'll teach you how to use the Core. Ah, don't get Ranks and Core entangled up. They are entirely different; I'll explain that to you too."

It was then.

The quietly watching Jarina spoke while tilting her head.

"Isn't it me who will explain that? How come you're suddenly going for the basics? When you said that you would only teach him after I brief him about matters like these?"

It seems the two already had talked about who will teach what. Well, it was quite reasonable as Desire is the only person who could accompany her in this city of Jakart.

After all, Jarina wasn't a part of the Lion Clan. And she needs to hide.

If people were to get word of her becoming part of the Lion Clan while her hidden enemies were searching for her...the Skinjur being a bait wouldn't be a bait anymore.

That was why her time with Desire was precious to her.

Of course, Lionel also knows her feelings. And because of that...

"Of course, you can teach him too. While you're here, I'll teach you how to reach rank 7."

Rank 7.

It was the rank that Jarina has wished for so many years. However, it wasn't easy to surpass her limits every time she reached one.

After all, even her mother has not surpassed the limits of rank 7.

However, even if she were to achieve Rank 7 now, she still wouldn't be a match for her mother.

Ranks aren't everything there is to consider in battles.

There may come a time when even a rank one might kill a Conqueror. Well, it's all speculations until it happens.

Anyway, just hearing that her father will train her too in reaching Rank 7 made Jarina gulp some saliva down her throat.

"R-really? You haven't tried teaching me before..." Her voice was somewhat shaky, but it was clear she has some hopes for what was to come.

"Well, the situation is..." Lionel trailed off his words to let Jarina's imagination finish it.

And while the father and daughter were conversing with each other, the third person who was inside the large bucket of the Blessings of Tears was silently listening...reading the system.

It came all of a sudden, and this made Desire stare into the air dazedly.

After all, the system he knew was not something he could read before. It just intrudes into the brain and says whatever it wants.

However, this time...it was...

[The Heavenly Demon Trait has succeeded in combining the system and the Monster's Way.]

[...Unknown, which is the result of combining the system and the Monster's Way, has been created.]

[...Desire's two ranks will be separated.]

[...Monster Rank]

[...Human Rank]

[...Unknown has finished sorting out the two.]

[...Desire's innate skill is forcibly awakening due to the formation of Core, Pure Blue grade.]

[Desire will have to wait 500 days for the innate skill to finish its awakening.]

It was then.

Desire finished reading the text that has covered his line of sight in front.

As soon as he finished, he was confused. After all, the system locked the Monster's way so that it wouldn't be forcibly combined.

However...

'How did the Heavenly Demon Trait manage to do it?' Desire thought. However, he can't remember any details that might have helped it.

He breezed past the Unknown and read the Human Rank and Monster rank, and he immediately widened his eyes.

'Two Ranks...?'

Due to Lionel's teaching, Desire knew that there was only one category of rank for one person depending on that person's race.

However, it said that Desire has two types of ranks: the Human Rank and the Monster Rank.

However, no matter how much Desire thought about it, no answer came up.

He then looked at the third message, which contained the message about the innate skill.

'My innate skill has already awakened, but why is it forcibly awakened again? Is something wrong...?!'

It was then.

As Desire thought there was something wrong, a new screen came up.

It said...

[Innate skills]

-Authority

-???(On the process of awakening) 500 Days remaining.

Desire finally understood why his Innate skill is forcibly awakened. It was because it was another one, and it wasn't the same one from before.

"Desire? What's wrong?" Jarina said as she noticed the youth was staring blankly at the air.

"Nothing. Can I get out now?" Desire said as he pointed at the bucket of water.

However, Lionel reminded him not to be too hasty, so he was there for almost 3 hours.