Chapter 12: The Arcane Theorist

Chapter 12: The Arcane Theorist

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"Take this, put it on your head." Molly handed Leon a towel drenched in cold water.

"Man! Jessica is so violent." Leon complained while covering his left eye with the towel.

"Is it true? You spoke to her boobs?" Beside him, Jordi asked with an amazed face.

"Yes, I've been telling" Leon Spike in confirmation looking at Jessica's boobs across the counter but.

*Slam*

On the bar's counter, Jessica slammed a cup and pointed at Leon's face with her index expressing her passive-aggressive anger causing Leon and Jordi to back out together in fright.

"No talking about my boobs no talking to them either."

"Yes, ma'am." Leon and Jordi both nodded.

The way she warned was both intimidating and charming. Her tan skin, her light freckles, her deep brown wavy hair tied up together and her bartendress makeup and tattoos were all adding to her charm.

Leon and Jordi took distance from her yet she could still hear them whisper.

"What do her boobs say?" Jordi asked.

"The left one said that Madam Ruth told you guys to throw me on the streets and Jessica didn't protest." Leon said.

"Holy shit!" Jordi's eyes widened.

Molly heard them as well and laughed, normally passed out people would remember what was said around them roughly.

"What about the right one?" Jordi kept asking.

"It said that even though Jessica didn't seem to disagree, she wanted to smack the Madam right in the face." Leon said.

"Such a thing" Jordi didn't really buy it this time.

Molly laughed casually and looked at Jessica whose face was stiff as if she heard something she never expected. She then turned around and faced the wall while hurriedly fixing the neck of her dress to hide more of her chest.

Molly looked back at Leon with a fearful face and retreated to her kitchen. People hit on the head can really awaken strange powers.

***

Leon took the rest of the day off afterward. He could no longer focus on anything and headed to the shack behind the saloon. On the way, he checked that the books he was reading were back in his Storage not sure how.

Now that he thinks about it, how did he come down from the roof in the first place? Mostly this will remain a mystery and he just skipped the unnecessary details right to bed.

He closed his eyes, time passed, he opened them, it was a new day.

His head was so heavy and he couldn't even move properly. It seemed that the exhaustion from last night was still haunting him.

The Mental Resistance skill decreases the mental stress after spending too much focus on something, not sleeping for a long time or reading for a long time. A very useful skill in cram studying.

The Heresy Resistance skill may sound comical but its reading said that it resists negative effects such as Madness, Mind Manipulation, Seduction and Hypnosis. A truly wonderful addition and probably added because of the commentary on the Arcane Theory since it had a lot of bias.

[A/N: For those of you who didn't study republished manuscript the way I did, the page is normally divided into two parts, one for the original text of the manuscript and the other one is for the commentaries which shed some light on the complicated sentences.]

The skill Hemorrhage Resistance is pretty self-explanatory and useful in combat where stabs may cause fatal bleeding but training this skill sounds very spartan if one considers leveling it.

As for the title {Arcane Theorist}, it was given to those who achieved a sufficient amount of knowledge regarding the Arcane Arts and it had the rarity SSS attached to it. More to that, it gave him a special skill.

Down in the list under the [Relife Ring], there was something called [Unrestrained Magic]. Its reading said that the owner of the skill has achieved sufficient knowledge to reshape the very fabric of Magic itself.

"I won't get that last one without experimenting."

With that Leon decided to put the idea into action and got out of bed while holding his aching body and limbing outside barefoot.

"Good morning!"

As he went out of the shack, Jordi greeted him as he was washing some clothes in a wooden tub as he sat on a small stool with his back to the shack's wall.

"Morning to you too. Doing your laundry?" Leon asked.

"The girls'." Jordi replied.

"Yuck! I won't be touching that." Leon felt a disgusting feeling.

"You will do extra cleaning then." Jordi said.

"Whatever!" Leon didn't disagree and looked around, "Hey, where does a man take a bath?"

"Up for a hygienic morning now?" Jordi laughed.

"Bruh! My face was covered in blood last night, if I wasn't so messed up, I would have taken one after each shift."

"Fine, fine. Don't rant. If you still have money, go to Ray Plaza and find the bathhouse near the market. If you don't" Jordi said and pointed at the river.

"This doesn't bring back good memories."

Leon sighed and proceeded to pick a towel and a new change of clothes from his storage as he returned inside the shack. He went out again, and walked to the river just on the other side of the backyard and looked down. There seemed to be some sort of old stone stairs as if this place was once used to harbor riverboats.

Anyway, Leon took a spot where no one could see him and took off his clothes then walked in the water.

"Burrrr! That's just so good."

The water was refreshing despite being not entirely clear. As a river runs through a city, a lot of impurities get caught in the stream yet it wasn't as bad as the Nile for example.

Thinking about it, Leon never realized how scrawny his body is. To think that this weak body with his ribcage and joints almost visible managed to carry him through this chase with the Knights. It almost felt comical.

But none of this matters now, he took a small dive underwater to clear his mind and now he is ready to test what he learned from the Arcane Theory.

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