บท 9: The John's Memories.

John was the second son of a small merchant family. He had no talent in business so his brother became the leader. He believed that parents didn't love him because he was worse than a sibling. Envy started to transform into hatred and hatred lead him to the evil side. He started to make deals behind his brother back and walking on the path without return. Associating with people of underworld influenced his character. He started to despise all people with lower status than him, basically, all his morals disappeared and were replaced by a twisted vision of the world. It wouldn't be a problem for his brother until he met a certain person that destroyed his arrogance. One day he was strolling around the town searching for something that would relieve his boredom. It wasn't long until he found a tall muscular man accompanied by the pretty girl. He was overwhelmed by lust and jealousy.

"It's such a waste of beauty in hands of such a brute! GO! Kill that man and bring me that girl!"

He ordered his minions and waited. It wasn't how he imagined when his men approached the man, the man turned around and said to them.

"Scram little flies or I will smack you to death." His tone was full of disgust.

Men felt provoked and unsheathed their weapons and attacked the man. Things that happened in the next moment terrified the John and his subordinates. The tall guy caught one of their swords with bare hands and shattered it.

"I wonder why such weaklings have so much pride in them? I gave you chance and now all of you die!" He was annoyed but a moment later he turned around. All John's minions froze in place. John saw that all of them have cuts on their necks. It was so fast that he couldn't follow with his eyes.

"I need to run away. This man is a monster." He almost pissed himself, but he gathered his courage and turned in the way and wanted to run but before he did it. The person said.

"Don't you dare to move, Trash!"

After these words, John froze in place. His legs started to tremble. Man didn't even stop what he was doing. He was pleasuring himself with beauty.

Sometime later he finished and after that, he grabbed the woman's neck and cracked it.

"One-time use!" He threw the woman body on the floor next to John's minions' bodies and cleaned his hand.

"Trash come here." He ordered John.

"YESSS!" John said with a terrified voice.

"I might use trash like you in some way." He interrogated John and gave him some orders. His intention was to make John take over his family business by killing his brother. He gave him the bottle of poison and instructed him how to use it. John thought that it's a chance.

"I might be his slave but I will control the family.HAhaha." Later he poisoned his brother.

...

He was scum. All these years converted a jealous boy into human scum. All of this could be prevented by simple conversation. The world makes terrible jokes on people.

"Hmmm. So we have a problem. I opposed someone with strength I cannot measure. Another funny time. I hope he would not go after me soon."

(I should focus on reaching the 3rd level of soul embryo stage and obtaining any kind of strength.)

He meditated and organized techniques that would help him in the future.

[Snake guts. — The technique made by assassins to be able to resist any poison. It was hard because it required to consume poison daily for some time. After achieving immunity to a certain level of poison, you needed to consume a stronger one. This cycle is repeated until the body develops total poison immunity.]

This man wasn't afraid of using poison so Neo needed to prepare himself.

" Assassination techniques doesn't suit my taste but I have to learn so of them. Some of them are really useful and will let me resist assassination myself."

He absorbed memories of clan member of assassin organization and later he annihilated them with help of his mercenary friends. He had more knowledge about assassination than any assassin walking on the Earth.

(I have no choice then. I will learn these techniques and I should be able to protect myself or at least run away in the worst case scenario.)

A few days later.

He finally reached the 3rd level. He couldn't directly control the flame, but he could inscribe some runes on the cauldron and it would let him actually concoct something. The runes were too hard to understand, but he could copy them from his memories. In the inheritance he obtained, it was described how to use these runes. After some tries, it was possible to replicate them with help of medium like blood. Runes were very interesting and useful but knowledge about them was lost in the Earth. The simple fire control runes were the only thing that left of this powerful art.

Neo drew the blueprint of the cauldron and make a list of ingredients. Aron took it and went to search and buy all of these things.

(I could recreate some technology too. I need to research the chemistry situation in this world. It will be important.)

"I should ask the Reis to gather me some scrolls. All knowledge will be useful as I have AI. Everything can be easy analyzed. I will ask him after I concoct the first products."

He needed to train flexibility and speed. So he created some weird looking tools to make his body more flexible. Pain levels were very high but it was crucial in the future.

After week Aron gathered all necessities and Neo started to prepare for concocting. The first step was to engrave the runes on the cauldron. He used his own blood to do it. It wasn't hard but it needed a high level of precision. He practiced on something else first and after two days he finally felt ready to do it on the cauldron. The cauldron was ready, so he processed all the ingredients for simplest elixir he knew. It was a healing elixir that could heal external injuries and simple diseases.

It didn't require a high level of fire control so boy decided to try out the equipment with this recipe. Healing elixir will be easy to sell too. So he could actually kill two birds with one stone. The fire was ready. Most important in concocting elixirs is stable hand and calm mind. You cannot make mistake in order or timing of adding herbs. It would cause instant failure.