Bloom led Nathaniel to the only room in the open facility. The room looked like a basic gym, with heavy weights, bars pols, and benches. A man was sitting on a bench talking to a woman standing in front of him. Nathaniel figured the man is David, but he still didn’t know the name of the fifth woman in bloom’s team.

When they entered the room, the man got to his feet, and Nathaniel and his companions approach them.

“This is Nathaniel.” Jenifery introduced him.

“Nice to meet you Nathaniel, I’m David.” The man said.

“And I’m Velony, it’s very nice to meet you, Nathaniel.” The woman said.

“Nice to meet you to.” Nathaniel said. He usually felt comfortable meeting new people, but David’s eyes bothered him. Instead of human eyes, in David’s eye sockets, there was blue glow.

David smiled. “You’re the first one to meet me and look into my eyes like there’s nothing strange about them. Does your world have a lot of people with glowing eyes?”

“no.” Nathaniel answered with a smile. “However, my world has manners.”

“We have manners to.” Tiki said. “But pretending to not notice someone’s flow, it’s not manners, its politics.”

“You wish you had this ‘flow’ Tiki.” David replied. “You can only blow things far from you, I can blow myself up.”

“that’s enough.” Bloom said. “Stop acting like children.”

“I can blow multiple things.” Tiki mumbled.

“I said enough.” Bloom warned.

“Take a seat.” She told Nathaniel. “There’re things you need to know. And I’m sure that Tolverstov was too busy with studying you, that he forgot to tell you.”

“You are probably right.” Nathaniel said with a smile. “Although, it’s strange for a guy that love to talk so match.”

They all laughed.

“True.” Bloom said as they sat down.

“So.” Nathaniel said. “What do I need to know?”

“As we thought.” Bloom answered. “You were sucked in to a dalahar summoning. It’s Cleopatra’s fault, but what’s done is done. The important thing for you is that you’ve got the powers from the summoning. This means that the boss that was supposed to come, lost his powers.”

“This is good, right?” Nathaniel asked.

“no.” Bloom answered. “The dalahar bosses are in the thousand’s levels. The boss whose powers you took, is still very powerful. So powerful that it can take our world by himself, and we can’t do anything to stop it. And this powerful boss is going to be furious, and you’re its target.”

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“you’re right, this is bad.” Nathaniel said. “So, what’s going to stop it from killing me?”

“Distance.” Bloom answered.

“Do I need to run”?

“No. here is as safe as anywhere else.”

“But now that it has no powers to lose, it can teleport straight to me.”

“It still has a lot to lose if it teleports. For example, it’ll lose its levels. All its levels.”

“Oh, good. So, I’m safe here.”

“No, you’re not.”

“Why”?

“Because the dalahar will send forces to kill you.”

“And how will they do that”?

“I don’t know, but they did it in other places. We can fight those forces, but when they come after you, it’ll be difficult to protect you.”

“And you’re going to protect me?”

“It’s complicated, Tolverstov wants to protect you and I think that the continental leadership will agree. But there will be people that’ll argue that we should give you to the dalahar, for them to leave.”

“What do you think you should do”?

“I think that we should protect you because you need us to, our job is to protect people, and we need to do it no matters what.” Bloom’s face became cold with anger when she spoke.

“It’s nice to hear that. Thank you.” Nathaniel said.

There was silence for a long time, until Jenifery cleared his throat.

“Bloom?” he said. “Do you want me to take it from here?”

“no. but thank you.”

She turned to Nathaniel. “Sooner or later, you’ll have to protect yourself. You need to start to gather powers, and you need to train.”

“I can’t wait to start.” Nathaniel said. “What do I need to do?”

“First you need to plan your course.” Bloom explained. “What powers do you need, and what powers work best for you.”

“Okey.”

“When you advance through the levels, you can have more and more abilities. But every time you advance a level, you lose all your abilities, and you need to absorb new ones. In that process, if you’re consistent with your powers type, you get stronger. But if your abilities change all the time, you can lose power to the point where you can drop levels. The problem is that you can’t choose your abilities. You can direct it but not precisely. So, if you have powers that don’t fit you, next level you’ll get something else, and it’ll be more chaotic and unpredictable. So, the first level is very important to get it right. So, the first thing we’re going to do, is to figure out what you need and what you can.”

“Sounds great.”

“Good, so one ability you already have. Language ability of cores, and you’ll always have it.”

“He has two.” Jenifery interrupted. “He has some very powerful long rang weapon from his world.”

“Long rang is good.” Bloom said. “Where did you find more level powder for him?”

“We didn’t. he had a jar of purple powder.” Jenifery explained.

“really”? Bloom was surprised. “Where did you get it?” she asked Nathaniel.

“I have powers that give me rewards for completing what I assume is magic circles, and also loot power. I looted all the dogs you killed.”

“Wow. that’s awesome.” David announced to an invisible audience.

“Yeah. That’s pretty awesome.” Jenifery agreed.

“So, what ability did you get?” Bloom asked Nathaniel.

“Its best if I’ll show you.” Nathaniel answered.

They all went to the open area. on one side of the facility, was what looked like a shooting range for heavy weapons. A hundred yard that ended with piles of broken metal, surrounded by black walls and black ground.

“that’s where David and I train.” Tiki explained. “we’re blowing up those piles, and the magnets keep it in the area.”

“Okey.” Nathaniel said. “let’s do this.”

He concentrated and conjured a rifle.

“Aww I like it. Its beautiful.” David announced.

Nathaniel smiled and conjured a magazine. He shouldered the rifle and shot five rounds.

“Wow.” Velony said. “Just wow.”

“that’s what I’m talking about.” David said happily.

“Very nice indeed.” Bloom said. “So what style are you thinking about?”

Nathniel smiled “Navy seal style.”