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Anita entered a private room with Emeka. They sat at the table that was in the room and Emeka started “I’ll get straight to business, Terrania can provide transportation for the sanctuary and special resources like DO – Diamond Obsidian, which is what we use to make our buildings and weapons in the most part and also Life essence water, which can easily heal many injuries in an instant, it is a very essential battle resource in these times. What is the High Sanctuary willing to offer?”

Anita thought ‘Transportation… makes sense since many settlements will want to trade with each other and there are monster hordes between us and them so flying will be able to get us there. DO… as long as it’s harder than concrete it will be a good material for building. The amount of high ranks have increased so we will need a harder building material to make our buildings last longer or else we will have to ban people from jumping from building to building. Life essence water, if we had that earlier we could have saved many lives, that one is a must buy’

Anita replied “We can make advanced weapons with monster parts. Our arsenal contains aura weapons with can make various aura skill attacks without the user being able to control aura. Our armors have been treated to far surpass the defensive limits of the creatures the materials were taken from. We can make weapons with special abilities based on the monster corpses you give us but it might take a while for our crafting department to decipher how to do it if we’ve never made weapons with similar monsters before”

Emeka nodded and said “Ok, I believe with that we can start some trade. Now is it possible for us to learn how you people made these weapons, we would love it if we had a crafting department too”

Anita said “We are willing to trade knowledge for knowledge but we also accept en-code although the price will be very steep”

Nodding again Emeka said “To be honest we don’t have any skill that we can teach but we are very high on en-code, how much are you willing to sell your knowledge for?”

Anita replied “That depends on what you want to buy. We have three pure combat skills for sale. The knowledge and equipment for crafting is also available and we have Magic spells that are for sale. For the spells you’ll have to meet some of the owners for the trade one isn’t here with us but the others are, there are only a few I have the right to sell”.

‘Magic?’ Emeka’s eyes lit up and he said “Please go into detail”…

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Deji and Semilore, the leader of the Martial Nomads, sat opposite each other in the private room. Semilore started “We have many martial arts we’re willing to teach. There’s flame swordsmanship, air boxing, glide walking, quake technique, third eye, slip and stick skin, mind arrow, heat sight, far sight, aura control and blast zone. We travel a lot and we usually go for monster hordes that are below Rank 7 so we have a lot of special monster parts for sale”

Deji was shocked; he thought ‘How the hell do they have so many skills? Wait, he could just be trying to sell normal martial arts to us. But they also have aura manipulation or as he called it, aura control.’

Deji said “What do the skills you mentioned do?“ Gbenga replied “Flame swordsmanship allows the user to control flames with their swords, of course it’s not like you can just control flames once you hold the sword, there are forms that you must use to control the flames, you’ll understand when you see it.

Air boxing is much more flexible, it allows you to use the air as your fist, that’s the best explanation.

Glide walking; although it’s called walking it can be used for running, the person who created it discovered it when he was trying to teach himself how to walk again, the dude was crazy, he fought in a horde without running at all. Anyways with glide walking you can control friction between your feet and the ground, or whatever surface they’re one, precisely and that allows you to walk at the same speed as person who is running, you’ll be surprised how fast you can run with this skill.

Slip and stick skin is an extension of glide walking, it allows you to control the friction between any part of your body and anything, unlike glide walking which can only increase friction, slip and stick skin can increase and reduce friction even to the point where it is negative and your skin sticks to things, it was created by the same person that made glide walking.”

Deji interrupted Semilore saying “It’s ok, I just wanted to confirm if you were going to sell us normal martial arts. I will prefer to see those skills myself to judge whether I we should buy them”.

Semilore replied “That’s a good idea” Deji continued “I’ll be honest with you, we only have 3 of the skills that you might call martial arts. But we have quite a lot of magic skills and we can teach you how to make better weapons and armor.”

Semilore’s eyes widened when he heard the word ‘magic’ he said “Magic? Like bring a bunny out of your hat magic?” Deji answered “We don’t have a spell for that but creating explosions, lightening and other sorts of magic are within our grasp”

Semilore said “Tell me more”…

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At the end of the party Lara made an announcement on the specifics of the competition. Lara said “The competition is simple; the fights are not to the death, if anyone is killed the representatives of that settlement will all be killed as a punishment. You only win if your opponent isn’t in fighting condition anymore or gives up.

The mode of the competition is thus: Everyone will challenge an opponent, whoever wins can challenge again when his/her turn comes around. If you lose to an opponent you challenged you will not be allowed to challenge any other person; basically you will be out of the competition. If someone from a settlement has challenged someone no one from that settlement is allowed to challenge the person.

There is no reward of any kind for the competition; the purpose of the competition is for every sanctuary to show what they’re capable of. So if you are not interested you can choose to opt out of the competition.

You will be healed to maximum condition after every fight with our Life essence water so fight to your heart’s content. That is all”