Chapter 34 - Babies Against Adults

Asahi laughed awkwardly at the current situation. Without much waste of time, he plucked his hair and gave it to the robot.

"What's your name by the way?" Asahi wondered after putting his hair on the stage plate.

The robot's hand retracted as Asahi's hair was now inside its body. Its hand then changed to its ordinary crab hand.

"Call me T-322INC124AN."

"Or in short tin can. That's your name." Ryu abruptly said in a teasing manner.

"If you say that one more time, I'll mince you!" The robot was enraged but Ryu smiled, showing his faint white teeth as his mood became better.

"Your name is kind of complicated. I'll call you like everyone else!" Asahi decided to follow the norm.

"Please don't. Call me Tin, that's enough." The robot appeared to be tired of being called tin can and thus, made a new name for itself. Since there was a new face, this might be a chance to change its name!

The more it introduced its new name to everyone else, the more its new name was recognized. Its humiliating last name would cease to exist! 

For now, the starting point would be influencing the new faces to call it that.

"Alright then, nice to meet you. Tin! My name is Asahi Ringo, I'm a new sorcerer. Looking forward to working with you." Asahi introduced himself with a bright smile and ended his words with a slight bow.

The robot, Tin, was rather happy as its mouth smiled. Its mouth was 32-bit pixels so when Tin smiled, it formed a U in a pixelated way.

Tin responded pleasantly towards Asahi's introduction.

"This is what I like to see! A polite and kind young man! Unlike someone…" When it said the last words, its eyes moved in a glimpse at Ryu and the latter felt the brief gaze.

"Welcome to All Beyond. As you're new, I admit that you're smart. 

Practicing a robot with the same physical strength is not something everyone could think of. 

Most people here usually face something that was much stronger than them with no second thought and end up beaten to a pulp."

Its gaze on Ryu again, albeit short. Ryu's eyebrows twitched upon noticing this thing's gaze.

"Narukami, you found yourself a good sorcerer. He has a lot of potentials." The robot praised Narukami and he nodded, expressionlessly.

His response in lack of expression made the robot slightly feel down as his expression wasn't as Tin expected. 

"Sigh, receiving a compliment from me is a rare thing, you know?"

After it said that, something raised from the ground. The white floor slid open as a humanoid robot on a pillar gradually ascended.

A few seconds later, it stopped as the whole figure surfaced on the ground.

"This is your training partner. Few things to note, its body was sturdy but its strength was the same as yours. It only has better durability, anything is the same as you." Tin briefly explained Asahi's training partner.

'So cool…' Asahi muttered as his eyes were sparkling and he was excited to exchange some blows with it!

As Asahi admired the creation, Ryu turned his head to Narukami. Ryu's hand was still behind his neck.

"Narukami, can't we wait until tomorrow? I mean, I'm okay with a few lessons but..."

Before Ryu could complete his sentence, Narukami interrupted with a gentle yet flat tone.

"Don't worry, it'll take two hours."

Narukami moved forward and talked to Tin.

"Can you create a training space?" Narukami requested.

"Sure, this is what my purpose is." Tin agreed in a good mood. Its change of heart was abnormally fast.

Anywho, a training space was a medium-sized room, the size of a small gym with two hundred and ninety square feet, closing to three hundred.

A captain could request such a room for his members and it lasted for five hours so other captains could have the opportunity to train their members.

Should a member request such a room, it needed permission from its captain in a form and a few signs from the vice-captain.

In short seconds, sturdy walls rose from the ground. The structure of a small gym was formed as soon as it was created.

It took a few minutes before the room was completed. 

In the process, walls could be seen rising from the ground and moving on their own in the air, as though an invisible ghost helped the construction of the room. 

Before all of the above happened, Tin swung its hands to the sky.

"Your control over this space is quite incredible." Narukami complimented.

Just as Narukami approached the gym that had completed. Before that, however, he came to Asahi's training partner's side and drag it there.

"My liege, does that mean this training hall is this thing's Illusion Realm?" Aya asked as she gazed on Tin with a look of doubt.

Narukami paused as he answered with a shake of his head, "No. Tin has the control over it but doesn't own it."

"I'm not a living being, only a bunch of parts combined and codes." Tin said as he approved Narukami's words with a nod. 

Spiritual energy flowed inside living beings. For robots, let alone flowing, they didn't have any!

"How Tin controls it is beyond my current rank to know. It's classified information."

When he said this. Ryu examined Narukami and what he just said.

He wasn't an all known god. Although he knew more than he seemed, what he said just now appeared to be the truth, Ryu thought inwardly. He couldn't read others' expressions but a different story about the being inside him.

With the help of it, he could faintly tell if someone was lying or not. As it was faint, it didn't always happen unless he really focused.

And to do that, he had to drain half of his spiritual energy! That was akin to running 5km without a break.

He focused silently just now. His face became slightly pale and his heartbeat rapidly increased.

Then, hiding all of the above.

"I've been wondering this whole time but how hard is it for someone to be able to use the Illusion Realm?" Ryu asked.

Narukami didn't answer his question right away. He continued his pace to the gym room and said his thanks to Tin. The others followed and there, Narukami answered Ryu's questions.

"Illusion Realm could only be attained when one's spiritual energy grasps the essence of the world. 

The earth itself has spiritual energy overflowing underneath. To stabilize itself due to rich energy, it emits them into the air through the soil.

Anomaly sorcerers used these energies. They are our source of power. Without them, fighting Anomalies are similar to babies against adults."

The gym room was an empty, white room with no facilities whatsoever. There was one, which was Asahi's training partner. It was on the floor with one of its legs in Narukami's grasp.

Anyway, Narukami's voice spread to the empty, white gym as it echoed.