Rex lied since after lazing around the bed for only 15 minutes he started getting bored. Rex finds the enchanted bell that Aqua gives him and ring it. Not even a minute had passed since he rings the bell when there's a knock on the door.
"Aqua I need to postpone Qis training, I need him for something. Tell him to meet me in my study room."
"Yes, master."
Rex study room is located just beside the master bedroom. After waiting for a while he hears a knock on the door and Aqua voice. "Master, Qi is here."
Without waiting for Rex permission to let him in Qi just barged inside and closed the door with force at Aqua face. It looks like he's not happy about something. Watching all of that Rex let out a chuckle and asks Qi. "How's your training?"
"I don't know what you wish to accomplish by sending me to study from her but by the looks of your face, it tells me that you have reached your goal. Now tell me the reason I'm here?"
"You need to relax a bit, enjoy every second of your life since you don't know how much longer you are going to be alive. Anyway, you remember those ants I told you about?"
"The ants that you made a pact with?"
"Yeah yeah those ants, I am trying to mind control them but they just explode, I wonder if you have anything like that?"
"Exploding an ant is easier than picking my nose."
"No, not exploding thing, I want you to teach me mind control."
"Mind control is a hard and rare kind of magic since you have to be very careful if you don't want to make a pact with the target. Don't you ever experimenting to mind control something, if you lose focus and made a pact with another creature I will be the one exploding."
"How about I inject my mana to the creature body except for the brain, do you think it will work."
"That may work but never touch their souls with your mana"
"Wheres, the souls located?"
"inside their head, the brain"
"And if they don't have a brain?"
"The cores"
"Like monster cores?"
"Yes every creature with mana have a core inside their brain"
"So I have one too?"
"And so do I"
"Cool"
"Is that is?"
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"No that's not all, now that I have a new experiment to test and a room for me to write I need to start cataloguing my experiment. Wait for me to catalogue my experiment and we will go find a new test subject"
Rex quickly finds a quill and ink and what looks like to be an empty book made by unknown material and start scribbling down on the books. Qi appears to be meditating while waiting for Rex and after a while.
"Qi cmon, we need to find a new test subject"
"Where are we going?"
"South of the city but before that, we need to register you as a monster hunter. Hehe, a monster as a monster hunter ironic."
Two people are standing in front of the quest board at the monster hunter guild, an average size black hair man and the other is a big hulking red-head.
"At the south, there are only goblins, are goblins strong?"
"They are usually a weak creature, an average human can kill 3 adult goblin without breaking a sweat. But beware, just like any other species, they can have some outstanding goblin of their own for example those shamans can be quite problematic."
"Whats a shaman?"
"Human have mages, elves have a wizard and the goblin they have shamans"
"Well let's go kidnap some shaman from the forest"
Rex takes some notice from the board that is mostly a hunt for goblins and one notice for a rogue wizard that is said to be hiding in the forest. When they arrived in front of the receptionist desk Rex told the receptionist that Qi wishes to be registered as a monster hunter.
Qi goes through the same procedure as Rex the only different when Qi goes to the four pillars, the pillar of earth, water, and the wind is the same with Rex but the pillar of fire burst out violently with blue fire. When they are finished with the guild they go straight to the forest without even preparing food or other necessities.
"It's weird"
"What?"
"The last time I'm here there is no goblin to be found but now" Rex open up his hand to show the pile of death body made out of goblin corpses that are scattered all across the village.
"All monster including goblin can instinctively detect the aura of a strong creature. They likely sense your aura then goes into hiding, after all the first time we meet you are beaming your aura like the sun"
"So that is why I don't encounter anything interesting the first time I'm here"
"Quite possibly yes, now what are you going to do with him?" Qidorth pointed at a goblin with weird clothes that is gagged up and tied at a tree.
"Well communicate of course, before we use force we must always remember to use diplomatic ways to solve our problem"
"It is funny how you said that while standing at the middle of fresh corpses that you just killed"
Rex just shrugged of Qi retort and moves to remove the gag on the goblin mouth. The moment Rex do that the goblin viciously screams at Rex with an unknown language. Rex feels that the weird goblin is cursing at him but he can't be sure since he doesn't know the language.
"Qi what is he saying?"
"How the hell am I supposed to know that? He is speaking their language"
Rex watched as Qi placed his hand on the goblin head and channel mana through the hand towards the goblin.
"Hey I thought giving mana to someone head is making a pact with them"
"No it's different, I have trained over the years to avoid making contact with the soul when I channel mana to the brains"
"I want you to teach me"
"I can't, it's very likely for you to touch the soul when training and you touching souls other than mine equal my death. And I don't want to die yet"
The goblin is petrified when Qi touch his head but at the moment Qi removed his hand from the head.
"Fuck you, your mother is a pig, fuck off-"And other unpleasant words.
"Well its a bummer I can't do that but luckily I have you to do that for me"
Rex smacked the goblin to make him shut up and interrogate him or rather just asking the goblin how it feels to be a goblin, whats their social structure, their opinion about gods and other nonsensical things. While Rex and the goblin are talking about the kind of food they like to eat suddenly there's a whooshing sound.
They stopped talking or rather the goblin stop talking because the goblin stopped being alive since there's a dagger pierced through the goblin forehead. Rex heard that sound again and when he turned his head to see, all he can only see is Qi hands extended in front of Rex. His hand is bleeding caused by a dagger that is stuck to his palm.