Earlier, because of the load of work Max gave her, she was planning to ask for a paid vacation.

But now she completely forgot about it. She could swear this was the happiest moment in her entire life.

‘master is best’.

‘master is so handsome, I am not lying!.’

‘no paid vacation needed. ‘

when he heard the first sentence Max smiled, but when he heard the second, his expression twitched.

But after the third he was just bewildered and confused, unable to handle Lucy's thought process.

“what the?”…

Max was so confused he forgot to be angry at her words, so he just shook his head. Ignoring Lucy's shenanigans was better for his health.

Max prepared a cup of coffee, and as mok arrived, the coffee was ready.

Taking a sip of the hot coffee, Max pointed for Mok to sit next to him.

“Hey little mok, I called you because I wanted to teach you something.

Mathematics and some slight physics. “

Max opened the laptop and showed mok the calculator, and some notes he wrote.

Previously, he wanted to teach these things to Lucy, but it would be like trying to teach a human being how to do photosynthesis like a plant.

But thankfully now he has mok for the job, so he doesn't have to torture Lucy and himself with this process.

“ Listen to me mok, I didn't call you to teach you right away.

You have the materials, and you can learn by yourself at your own pace.

Also, don't go too deep in it. Your target is to be able to calculate mass, speed, air resistance, and distance.

Things required for shooting artillery. You'll learn what artillery is later, for now you can go back to play with the others. “

Mok nodded smartly and left. Somehow Max could tell he really understood, unlike some other nodding fool.

Speaking of the fool, even before Max could call for her, Lucy was already in front of him.

“you need to be in your mountain form for this Lu.”

Lucy nodded immediately and turned back to her mountain form.

Max took out a bottle of water.

“all what you need is inside. “

This was normal water, and when Lucy saw it, she was confused.

She saw Max drink water all the time. Even she drank it sometimes since it looks similar to her special mineral water, so if it contains dangerous stuff then shouldn't the two of them be already dead by now?

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Could it be that her master is just having one of his crazy moments?

Max could somewhat guess Lucy's confusion, although not the part where she thinks he's crazy.

“it's a wonder in its self that something we drink all day long can be turned into a dangerous weapon, with what looks like a simple process.

Oxygen is available in the air with abundance, but hydrogen isn't.

so first, you need to separate the hydrogen and oxygen within the water.

For us humans, splitting water molecules into oxygen gas and hydrogen gas is done using electricity.

The process is called ‘electrolysis’.

You should be able to do it with your innate, but if you can't, we can try electrolysis to help you out.

After they became gas, you have to force them into liquid form, but this time separately.

Again, I believe you can do it with your innate but if you can't, then we'll have to go into pressure and temperature. “

Max was all about that slow and steady explanation, making sure Lucy got it by repeating himself.

Lucy felt dizzy, but she tried her best to learn, since her career in exploding things was on the line here.

............ After sometime Max felt it was enough.

“alright Lu, take this bottle of water, first make an isolated chamber far away from here and use it to test.

And you are not allowed, under any circumstances or in any form, to use more water than this bottle.

And you can't refill it unless I say so.”

‘OK’.

After leaving Lucy with a strict warning, Max went to rest, maybe watch something fun.

It was already morning and Max didn't plan to go to sleep, anyway with his vitality, one sleepless night is not a big deal.

........

After an unknown amount of time, while Max was watching Mafia out of the city, Lucy interrupted him.

‘ the robber is back.’

“huh? Robber?.” Max thought for a moment and figured it out.

“you mean the little twin?”

‘yes’

“so fast? Alright, start preparing the trap, and do as I told you before. “

‘OK’.

Max didn't have much animosity with this bunch, but this is a cruel mystical world.

There was always a very small chance that one of them will gain some incredible treasure or awaken some hidden ability by dumb luck, and decide to get revenge on everyone that bullied him.

With his luck, Max didn't want to bet on that small chance, so he won't leave any hidden dangers.

But at the same time, this bunch might've been attracted by his bad luck, and anything related to his bad luck must be treated carefully, so he will not kill them himself, matter of fact, he didn't even plan to meet them anymore.

As Max was chilling inside his room, a forest vehicle parked at the base of the mountain, and the younger twin came out of it looking around, trying to find something.

Suddenly, a small hand made of mist appeared in front of him, and opened as if waiting for the younger twin to hand it something.

The younger sibling wasn't too smart.

He didn't think about keeping the item, and exchanging the hostages on the spot, but just put a bag on the palm of the Misty hand.

The hand made of mist flew away, and another one appeared next to him and pointed in a certain direction.

The younger sibling followed it to a stone wall, different from the one they were digging last night.

When the younger sibling wanted to ask what was going on, the wall opened on its own, and his older twin and the two ladies came out.

The two ladies burst out crying looking at the sunlight, while the twins hugged each other.

The older brother looked at the handmaid of Mist cautiously. “Sir, can we leave now?”

The hand didn't respond in words, but just waved around as if saying goodby, and dissipated.

“Sigh.” the older brother sighed in relief, but he didn't relax yet

“Let's get out of here guys, quickly. “

The group started moving to the vehicle, on the way the blonde asked curiously. “where did you get the money from? Didn't we spend everything?”

The young twin's face became as white as paper out of fear.

He didn't want to tell them that he mortgaged all their property for a little sum. At least he won't tell them now.

“ah, about that we'll talk later.”

The older brother was too absorbed in getting out of here, so he didn't notice his younger brother's strangeness.

“Let's get out of here first, then we'll talk and he would tell us. “

As the vehicle started, and the group was on their way, they relaxed completely.

But as they drove away from the mountain, suddenly the ground in front of them collapsed, and the vehicle fell down with them inside.

Wooosh! Thud.! C!.

.....

“Cough! Cough! Cough! Is everyone alright? “.

called the older twin, while pushing rocks away and getting up.

“I am fine, cough!”, called the little brother.

“this place shouldn't be too deep. I am fine. “ yelled the blonde.

“fuck! First, we start digging for treasures in the backyard of a powerhouse, then we randomly encounter an earth collapse, wtf”. cursed the pink-haired.

As the group were discussing how to get out, they didn't notice that the place was strangely blocked too perfectly.

it was as if they were in a closed box.

More importantly, they were coughing a lot as if the place was void of oxygen.

......

Soon enough, they noticed, but it was too late.

“big brother, I am not feeling too good.”

Getting no response, the younger twin looked at his older brother, who was leaning on the stone wall while closing his eyes.

He wanted to reach out for him, but he couldn't as he fell unconscious.

Thud!.

The ladies didn't scream this time because they were in the same situation.

And soon they all died silently.

............

Back at the Mountain House, Max was playing with the fist sized yellow gem.

He already checked with the simulator before he killed them this way.

After reading a little, he found out that dying out of Suffocation this way makes it much harder to track him as the Killer, since most skills and powers will consider it a natural death.

As for why he didn't use the Oubach Army downstairs.

Well, let's say after experiencing power in recent days, crazy ideas started popping up in his head and growing endlessly.

One of them was related to the small army downstairs.