by Pegaz A
While Sarah and the puppets stayed home to reorganise things, John went to the rune shop and bought more runes to use on his new nano swords. He had to recreate his fingerprint and molecule runes—two of each—when he returned home. A few minutes later, he had two nano swords just like his old ones.
Over the next few hours, he helped Sarah with the beginnings of her medical practice. Once they’d gotten enough of the initial setting up done, the couple decided to relax.
They went on their first date in years, a celebration for Sarah’s awakening. John took his wife to the ocean, where they went scuba diving. Because they no longer needed to breathe, they had no need for any special equipment. They simply sunk into the water, allowing their hands and feet to get crinkly and soft, chasing after schools of brightly coloured fish and swimming with dolphin-ish creatures. John even wrestled a shark-like creature.
Sinking all the way down to the ocean floor miles under the surface, there was complete and total darkness. However, the couple only had to activate their night vision, and soon they were walking on the ocean floor, observing the strange creatures and oddly shaped pieces of coral. It was a calm day of rest and renewal, full of little kisses and ‘I love you’s’ as they spent their time together.
They spent almost all their time together over the next six months.
On this particular day, Sarah was sitting next to John on a two-person patio bench in their back garden. She rested her head on his shoulders.
“Is today going to be the day you tell me what’s bothering you?” She didn’t move her head as she asked her question. “For the last few months, you’ve had this look on your face that says you want to tell me something.”
“Ah, well…” John sighed. “I need to go into a closed-door cultivation session for quite a while to get enough Toxin Power needed for Rank 7.”
“Quite a while?” Sarah sat up and looked at him. “How long?”
“About nine to ten years.”
Sarah’s head jolted up and her jaw dropped in shock.
“It’s just that,” John started, pleading softly, “if I don’t do closed-door cultivation, then the time needed to reach Rank 7 would double. It would take about eighteen to twenty years. But you’ve only just woken up so you can see why I’m hesitating.”
Sarah rested her head on his shoulders again, eyelids flickering shut.
“You need to do it, then,” she said simply. “By the time you come out of your closed-door cultivation, I’m hoping to catch up to Rank 6, at least. I might even be in a closed-door cultivation session at the same time as you. That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway.”
“I hope so, too.” John put his arm around her. “While I’m gone, look after the farm. I’ve planted them further down, too, so find the right depth and move the farm if they get more Life Power per year than the ones I planted years ago.”
Sarah only nodded.
“You still have all the maps from the Adventurers Guild, right?” John chuckled. “Put them up somewhere so I can give you all your stuff back. You’ve even given me your communication device.”
“Before you leave, put all my stuff on the floor and I’ll sort it out.” Sarah could only smile, a light chuckle escaping her lips. “I’ll only use the communication device if it’s an emergency.”
John nodded back.
The next day, John gave Sarah the sect master token for the Nobody Sect. He explained everything to Sarah, including how he found a new Sider called Luke, what to do and say if anyone ever found out he was Jonathan.
When it was time to leave, John kissed Sarah goodbye and left the Sword Sect, not so much as even greeting Fred or Frank during his stay. He headed towards the mortal planet he had used in his experiment by creating wars.
It took over two months to reach his destination. When he finally did, John went directly to the mountain that he initially dug down from. Along the way, he noticed that most of the surrounding villages had been completely levelled to the ground. There were no signs of anybody living but he didn’t think too much about it.
After arriving at the mountain, he travelled down the hole he dug and went through the deflecting metal into the underground world. He went down and found the cave with the Life Power liquid inside it. He took out a lot of nano metal from which he created an airtight shield around the cave and the umbrella shaped deflecting metal he made the last time he was here. He even made a chair out of the remaining nano metal and took a seat.
There was a sixth tab in the system where the Sleep options were. At the top was a Sleep button which would activate the skill. Below it was a chart of five empty lines into which he could program when the alarm should go off. Even further below that chart was the cultivation skill slot to place the skill of his choice in.
He opened the bottom line and thought about the cultivation technique he would be using. To his surprise, the empty line got filled with all the details of his technique. It even included the details of how he didn’t need to use a breathing technique, the four mind parts that would absorb the Life Power, the three mind parts that would merge the Life Power, and also the conversion of these parts into Toxin Power.
Opening the five empty lines, he thought about the conditions he wanted to be awoken for.
1. If there is a creature with enough strength to threaten my life within my Scan’s reach
2. If anything goes wrong with my cultivation technique
3. When I have enough Life Power or Toxin Power to become a Rank 7 immortal
4. If the Life Power in the area drops by 25% of what it was when I activated Sleep mode
5. If my communication device goes off
After making sure he set everything up correctly, he used his communication device to tell Sarah he was going to use his sleep mode. They took another minute to bid each other their bittersweet goodbyes.
After he finished talking with Sarah, he placed the communication device in his shirt pocket. Taking a deep breath, he looked at the Sleep mode button in the sixth tab, smiled, and pushed it. His vision went blank and his head and arms dropped as he sat in the chair motionlessly.
Sarah sat on the couch. She still had her communicator in her hand from her last call with John. With a sigh, she finally moved.
She put on her nano helmet to change it to her silver skull look and walked towards the shed where she planned on opening her medical practice. It was only an hour away from the grand opening.
There were eight single beds on each side of the walls and her desk was at the back wall in the middle. When seated at her desk, she would be able to see all sixteen patients.
It isn’t a lot, but it’s a start.
As she opened the door to her practice, she wasn’t expecting to see her first patient standing there.
To her surprise, it was a familiar face. She recalled a heavyset woman, someone she’d threatened years ago. The woman was holding a sword in one hand, staring straight into Sarah’s eyes. On her face was a nervous smile.
“I’ve finally found you!” the woman cried out. In a flash of motion, she rushed at Sarah, blade in hand.
Afterword
Thank you for reading the fourth book of the series! I hope you’ve enjoyed the story so far.
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