Armageddon: Defying Fate

Euphoria

Kiran walked towards instructor Yama's lab, which was still in the same room, though separated from the lab Kiran had used.

"You are finally done after using up all my materials"

Kiran Didn't didn't know how to answer that, he had used up practically all the materials he had picked from the wild as a task for the instructor.

"That's good actually, you have done most of my work for me, and I no longer have to give you points"

Kiran's heart fell as he heard that, he had depended on this particular task to buy the basic elemental manual, and now the instructor had said he wasn't going to give him any points.

"Damm it, I should have stopped when he suggested"

If he had stopped he could have gotten his points, what the instructor had said was a bit unfair, but he was right, Kiran had used up all the materials, the instructor was supposed to use.

Instructor Yama watched Kiran berating himself, and he smiled.

"Though am not giving you points, I am still going to give you a portion of the evolution liquid, as payment for making them"

Kiran was elated as he heard that, he would be able to sell the evolutional liquid to students in exchange for points, that was perfect.

"Since all the equipment were mine and also the materials, I would take 70 percent of the evolutional liquid"

This percentage was unfair to Kiran, but the instructor had thought hard before making this choice, one of the reasons he had taught Kiran how to make evolutional liquid was so Kiran would get points faster, aiding his training, but if the boy got too many points, he might stop entering the wild, and also reduce the number of evolutionary liquid he made, he had seen from the boy's eyes that he made evolutionary liquid solely because of points.

Kiran had calculated how much evolutional liquid he was going to get after listening to the instructor, he had made 20 bottles filled with evolutional liquid, if the instructor took 70% of that, he would be left with 6 bottles, basic evolutionary liquids were sold 300 points for a bottle in the academy store. That meant the 6 bottles were 1800 points.

He had 3900 points, he had gotten an extra 100 points the day he entered the wild to pick herbs, with the addition of points he would get from the evolutional liquid, it would be enough to buy the basic elemental manual, he was excited, the basic elemental manual was all he cares about now.

Instructor Yama saw how excited Kiran was and couldn't help but sigh in resignation, he had taken most of the evolutionary liquid, but the boy was still happy, he had expected the boy would protest a bit, and he would bring down the percentage he would take a little, but the boy was contented with what he had.

"What a good-natured boy," he thought.

Kiran went back to the lab he had used, and picked up the bottles of evolutional liquids and brought them to the instructor, the instructor picked his portion and then gave Kiran the rest.

"You can always come back here to create evolutionary liquid, and also ask me any questions you don't understand, but you would have to pay me, for using my equipment, you can look for your materials yourself, I will take 50% of all evolutional liquid made using my equipment"

Kiran was once again happy to hear that, making evolutional liquid was the fastest way for him to get more points, now that the instructor had allowed him to come here and make evolutional liquid, point would soon no longer be a problem for him.

" I can see this time you are very tired, you should go and rest "

Kiran thanked the instructor for all his help and finally started making his way back to his room, he was really tired this time and needed to rest, as he was about to exit the door when the instructor's voice came.

"Remember, you are not to exchange any herb from the students even if they are your friends, you are to go out and pick any herb you need yourself if it is found out that you used a herb picked by another student to make evolutional liquid, all the evolutional liquid made from it will be seized"

That put a damp on a plan Kiran was already forming in his head, he had wanted to exchange herbs with evolutionary liquid from the students, doing that would save him the time of going to the wild himself to pick herbs.

He could understand the reason the instructor had declined Kiran from exchanging herbs from the students it was hard for students to get herbs, as it was not easy differentiating the real herbs from the lookalikes, if Kiran exchanged herbs from the students that would mean fewer herbs for the instructors making evolutional liquid.

"What about the evolved monster materials I can't get myself?"

"You can always buy from me"

Kiran cringed as he heard that, he would have to buy it, though that was still better than getting it himself as most of the materials were located in the area after 3000 meters mark, Kiran wasn't strong enough to enter there yet.

He finally left the instructors quarters after that, it was almost noon, he had been working all day and was exhausted, he practically ran towards his room, after entering, he fell onto the bed and immediately started sleeping, he didn't even remove his suit, he was just too tired.

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He woke up the next day feeling refreshed, and full of vigor, he vividly remembered what had happened yesterday, he had made perfect grade basic evolutional liquid, he brought out the evolutional liquids from his spatial ring to look at them, they still looked very much beautiful, just as they did yesterday.

"I have to start looking for buyers"

The basic evolutional liquid he had made was a body evolutional liquid meant for body evolutionists, the difference between a body evolutional liquid and an energy evolutional liquid was in the evolved monster material used, the bones were used for making body evolutional liquid, while any part of the flesh could be used for energy evolution liquid, as he had used a bone when he was making his body evolutional liquid, it could only be used by body evolutionist.

He stood from his bed, removed his suit, he looked at it, the suit had been damaged since the first day he had gone hunting, he needed 100 task points to get a new one, though he had enough points, he had prioritized buying the basic light elemental manual first, but this time if he sold the evolutional liquid, he would have enough to also buy a new suit too.

He tapped his transponder and scrolled down a list of names on his contact list, and then came across Sam's name, he initiated a call to Sam.

"Kiran why are you calling me this early morning" a sleepy voice came from Sam.

Kiran looked at the screen projected in front of him, showing a sleeping Sam.

"I have a surprise for you"

"Kiran am still feeling sleepy, I trained all through last night, and I need some sleep," Sam said annoyed

"I have the thing to aid you in breaking into the 9th level basic evolution realm"

As Sam heard 9th level basic evolution realm the sleep in his eyes quickly disappeared.

"Kiran are you sure about what you just said"

"Of course, am sure, look at this" Kiran said bringing out a bottle of his perfect evolutional liquid.

Sam saw the evolutional liquid on his screen, it pretty much look like any kind of evolutional liquid in the store.

"Kiran you know a body evolutional liquid can no longer help me, I have bought a lot of them since breaking in into the 8th level of body evolution, and apart from pains I get after using them, they are pretty much useless to me"

"You have told me that like a zillion times, look at the color of the evolutional liquid"

Sam looked at the evolutional liquid once again this time taking note of its color, and yes its color was a little strange, it was completely colorless like water, normally the evolutional liquid will always have a tint of some color, but this one had none.

"Don't tell me......this is what I think it is"

"Kiran is this a perfect grade evolutional liquid?" Sam said shouting.

"Of course, it a perfect grade body evolutional liquid"

"Damm Kiran why didn't you tell me earlier".

" I just did".

"Kiran where did you get this evolutional liquid, did instructor Yama give it to you"

Kiran had told both Sam and Airra that he had accepted the task to deliver herbs to instructor Yama, so he thought the instructor had given Kiran the evolutional liquid.

"I made them myself, I using instructor Yama's lab"

"Stop joking please, how could you have been the one who made this evolutional liquid, and even if you could make one, why would the instructor allow you use his equipment"

Kiran smiled as he heard Sam's questions, even he wouldn't have believed, he would make this perfect evolutional liquid a day ago.

"Seriously I was the one who made the evolutional liquid, I have been in the instructors quarters since morning, instructor Yama had been teaching me how to make evolutional liquid"

"Are you serious Kiran!, instructor Yama had been teaching you how to make evolutional liquid"

Learning that Instructor Yama was teaching Kiran how to make evolutional liquid was even more shocking than Kiran been the one who made this evolutional liquid, Instructor Yama was the top evolutional liquid creator in the entire green city, a lot of students had tried countless times to get the instructor to tutor them, but they had always failed.

"Yes he did, am so amazing even he couldn't help but want to tutor me"

"Stop joking Kiran, this is serious do you know who Instructor Yama is, he is one of the best evolutional creators in the entire continent, he is in the top 5," Sam said hysterically.

"Yes he had accepted me as his student"

"Lucky bastard, I was seriously unlucky to have challenged a freak like you, do you know how many students would do anything to be taught by him"

Kiran explained everything to him, starting from when he went to the wild to pick herbs and also when he came back.

"How much are you going to buy this evolutional liquid"

"Kiran my friend, you know am kind of short on task points....."

Kiran quickly cut his speech short, he knew Sam was a sly bastard "it 300 task points for one if you want them"

"I will take two" Sam quickly replied, he wanted to stretch it out but he saw how serious Kiran looked, he could not afford to lose this opportunity

"Okay you can come and collect them in my room"

Sam quickly transferred 600 points to Kiran, so Kiran wouldn't change his mind later.

"How many do you have Kiran?"

"I have about four left"

"That much?"

"How much are you planning to sell them"

"The same price as I sold them to you"

"You can't do that, do you know how precious the perfect grade evolutional liquid is, almost all the old students would want to get their hands on it"

"Don't the Academy store sell them?"

"The Academy sore only occasionally sells them, and they actually sell them through bidding, sometimes the price might go as high as 2000 points"

"2000 points Are you serious, isn't that cheating"

"Cheating! The students are always happy buying it, do you know the frustration of being stuck in a bottleneck"

"So you should sell them higher"

They discuss a bit before Kiran turn off the call.

He had sold two of the six perfect grade evolutional liquid and was planning to sell the rest in the private new student blog, on the school's server.

He made a post on the private new student blog, advertising the perfect grade evolutional liquid.

He had set his post in a way that, only the first 4 students who sent him a message, would enter his inbox, he didn't want to be disturbed by the other students, after all, he only had 4 other evolutional liquids to sell.

Just a minute after posting it he receive a message, he checked it and was surprised it was Jiang Zhi, he had not seen him since the first day, when he was beaten by Sam.

He inquired if Kiran really wanted to sell it for 300 points, Kiran replied yes, and he immediately sent Kiran 300 points, but he didn't forget to call Kiran a fool for selling it so low, Kiran was surprised the guy was never going to change, he was benefiting from how low Kiran was selling it, but he was still rebuking him.

Kiran set the cafeteria as their meeting point,

Kiran had decided to sell it at 300 points because he knew his fellow new students didn't have many points like the old students, and he wasn't going to sell it to any older student, he wasn't planning on making people who he would have to fight during the monthly tournament stronger, that would be like hitting his own head by with his own hand if Sam wasn't his friend he wouldn't have sold it to him.

after finishing with Jiang Zhi he saw that he already had three messages from other interested students, they sent their points, and Kiran set the Cafeteria also as their meeting point, they were all to come by 10:00 am, including Sam.

He now had 5700 points, which was even higher than what he needed to buy the basic light energy elemental manual, he was so excited and could not wait any longer, he quickly made his way towards the Academy store.