The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 29: Magic.

“You know Ms. Sydni?!” as if he hadn’t got enough surprises for the day, the Mother of his best friend and the manager of the orphanage appeared to know each other for some reason.

“Do you know where she is Adam?!”

“No! I don’t! She left a message saying she well be back by 4 pm!”

“Oh my god! I can’t reach her! She’s not answering her phone! What do I do?!”

“You are an adult Mrs. Perla, and so is she, I don’t believe its quite appropriate asking a child what to do.”

A twitching smile formed on Mrs. Perla’s face while her eyes closed to slits. “Its… nice to see that you are still… you!”

“who else would I be?!” he slid passed her into the apartment uninvited. “Can I speak with Mela?”

“You… are already in!” she sighed while pinching her nose Bridge slightly.

“Mela! Are you here?” he knocked twice on the door to Mela’s room. His mind still working to figure out the relationship between Sydni and Perla, the breakfast a few days ago in Sydni’s office kept coming to his mind. ‘Is Mrs. Perla the reason Sydni started helping me?’ he wondered.

“Come in Adam!”

Adam went through the door that opened on its own to see Mela who sat on a massaging chair, her whole body vibrating slightly.

“Exhausted?! We didn’t move around much!” Adam raised his eyebrows, he didn’t think that her case is as bad as being exhausted from just this amount of effort, she was wearing an exoskeleton suit that supported her movement, the symbiote also reported that she undergoes treatment, and her muscles functions with 78% of its normal strength.

“No not that! My body is just stiff from all the excitement, I need to relax a bit.” She closed her eyes peacefully.

‘Can we make a suit that can help her get better? Or any solution!’ Adam inwardly asked.

[Muscle stimulating exoskeleton suit will require an external power source.]

A slight smile appeared on Adam’s face. ‘Keet! Can you redirect my order to my current location and add a power cell to it!’

An icon with Keet’s face appeared in Adam’s vision. (What are you planning kid?! You know if an hour passed and you are still not out, I’ll level the entire city to get you out! And that will be on you, any thing I do is your fault from now on.)

‘Shut up old face! It’s not like you have a conscience.’

(I changed your f*king diapers brat! Respect me a little!!)

‘Ok! Will you do it then?!’

(Shameless mother f… do you need any thing else?)

‘No thank you! I appreciate your help.’ Adam closed the channel between them and approached Mela gently.

“I’ll help you get better, it’s a gift too.” He said in a soft voice patting her head.

“How are you going to do that? Do you have magic?”

“Yes! I can breathe fire too! What kind of crap do you watch on TV?!” he chuckled flicking her head. “I’m waiting on a drone to deliver a few things, I’ll go to the bathroom until the delivery arrives.” He headed into the bathroom and closed the door behind him.

‘how much time will it take to absorb these crystals?’

[approximately 10 minutes for the full process once the materials reaches the stomach.]

‘Easy for you to say! I’m the one who’s gonna be choking on 13 pieces of 10 centimeter crystals.’ tears gathered under his eyelids.

The 10 centimeter crystal in his hand was not thicker than a finger, however, the pain he would feel during the fusion process is what brought tears to his eyes.

He closed his eyes and hastily swallowed them one after the other before he can think twice about it. A single tear traveled down from his left eye, as he used some of the fabric on his body to make a comfortable seat.

The relieving dismantling process ended, and he mentally prepared for the hell to come, alas, no amount of preparation was enough.

A hellish 7 minutes of regret and self cursing made his expression as dark as a burnt bread when he regained his mobility.

[New skill acquired, space displacement.

Can be used to control the host’s position in space. Flying and floating is possible. The amount of space displaced is dependent on the host’s strength and the amount of gravity stone in the body.]

‘magic!’ Adam’s eyes widened in excitement, his whole body felt heavier and stiffer, moving was like lifting heavy weights, but if he can fly, it’s definitely worth the pain and the unpleasant feeling of countless ants crawling under his skin.

He thought to test it first, he focused on the skill too hard, and his head made a bump in the bathroom’s ceiling.

“Are you okay in there Adam?!” Mela asked when she heard a loud crashing sound.

“Yeah! Don’t worry! Coming out.” Controlling his altitude proved to be harder then he anticipated, as the gravity stone’s function is to cancel or generate a gravitational field, or do both at the same time.

If he cancels the planet’s gravitational field, he would start falling out of earth due to its continuous movement in space, and the centrifugal force of its rotation. And if he creates his own gravitational field, the planet would pull on him harder and harder, until he falls through the ground to the core of the planet.

The way to control his position in space, is by constantly calculating the amount of force needed to keep him in place or fly him to wherever he wants, and to have the accurate control to produce this exact amount of force, no more, no less.

A very powerful quantum computer is used to stabilize these forces in all flying machines, to master the equation used for controlling the gravity stones, mankind spent more then a century studying the stones after finding a small amount of it near the core of some planets in the solar system.

Luckily, Adam had a very powerful card he was too rash to play, the symbiote can do the calculations for him using his subconscious mind, which as proven earlier, it can surpass a strong Artificial intelligence. However, the skill and his body were still adapting, he used the skill before it was ready, and his head paid the price.

“You are hurt! Oh my god! You are bleeding! What happened in there?” Mela brought an icy bag from the fridge to ease the red swelling bump on his head, and a first aid kit, which unfortunately she doesn’t know how to use.

“I’m fine! It’s just a shallow wound!” he stopped her from wasting a good bag of beans, and opened the glass window to receive the package he was waiting for.

“You ready Mela?” Adam started opening the box that the drone gave him the moment he opened the window, it weighed about 15 kilograms, but Adam almost didn’t feel his weight.

“Ready for what! Did you really bring me a gift!” she blushed cutely as her shining hazel eyes fixated on the box.

“I hope you aren’t getting mad as well!! I have no clue how to cure madness!” Adam glanced at her and her precious look.

“You ruined the moment!!” she shouted at him madly for interrupting the romantic scenario she had playing in her head.

“What moment! Are you okay? Should I worry?!” Adam unpacked the box slowly while glancing at her every now and then, until a white bracelet studded with many blue crystals came to his hand.

“This doesn’t look like the picture at all! Stupid sales!”

“Its gorgeous! I love it!” She screamed in joy snatching the bracelet out of his hands and jumping around with it until she tripped and fell.

“Is it madness! I hope it’s not contagious!” He never saw her that happy before, he genuinely had no idea she would fall into madness.

“Shut up and let me enjoy the moment!!” she screamed at him before turning her face back to a delighted smile.