Chapter 38: Tricking the Prankster.

In the crowded dining hall, the guild members were having dinner while discussing and chatting around.

Among them, two boys, a dark green-haired one and a silver-haired one were sitting together at a table with the former not stopping his mouth from talking and the latter grinning evilly at his plan.

Felix raised his hands and interrupted Steve from his never-ending rambling.

"You know what Steve? I think you're a nice and helpful person."

"Really?", Steve had a dumbfounded expression as couldn't believe when he was called helpful. It was the first time in his life someone had ever told him as such.

"Yes. Because even now you're helping me learn more about cultivation. So, I think that you're a great person."

Steve smiled and folded his hands arrogantly when he got praised. He let out a chuckle and waved one of his hands.

"Hehe, you don't have to compliment me so much. I already knew that I was great. It's just that people did not realize it all along. Poor them."

He shook his head sagely.

"That's right. I think the same, they are pitiful that they can't even realize your true worth."

Felix replied while faking a pitying expression on his face.

His words seem to have boasted Steve's ego that he harrumphed and shook his head like some hidden boss gloating over the masses for their ignorance.

Seeing as it was the perfect moment, Felix made a sad face and continued.

"But sadly, the dining hall has many people here shouting aloud. So I can't focus on what you're teaching me. Sigh..."

Steve frowned looking around the dining hall and nodded as he felt it was right, the area was crowded and loud so it was reasonable that the kid could not understand properly what he was saying.

"You're correct. Wait a second, let me tell them all to keep quiet so you can focus on what I'm saying."

Saying that he tried getting up on the table for everyone to hear his speech for them to quieten down. But Felix was quicker as he hurriedly pulled him back in panic.

"Wait wait wait, instead of disturbing them I have a better idea...."

Steve turned to look at the boy who stopped him and asked curiously.

"Hmm? What's better than telling them all to shut up?"

Felix shook his head in fear of angering all the people in the dining hall as he told him what he actually planned.

"Why don't we just meet in my room and continue our discussion tomorrow morning?"

Steve pondered for a few seconds and nodded as that seemed nice. He could help this boy in his room without getting disturbed by anyone.

"Sure, we can just continue our discussion tomorrow in your room. But you'll owe me a favor for assisting you, and help me with something later."

Felix smiled and started eating from his plate ignoring Steve who wanted to start another conversation now that there was someone to accompany him unlike being left all alone on the table.

They both finished their meal happily and got up to leave the dining hall.

"By the way, you cannot tell anyone about our deal, or else I won't help you with your matter.", Felix reminded the boy as that would keep some things hidden from everyone.

"You can trust me with it. I won't tell a soul about this.", the boy replied patting his chest confidently but his claim was not anywhere near trustworthy at all.

The pair stopped in front of the room and entered secretly without alerting anyone.

Felix told him to sit on the chair the moment they got inside and took out his aura manual. Flipping through the book, he paused on one of the pages he was confused about and handed it to Steve.

"Have a look here, this part confuses me a lot."

Without wasting any more time, he started asking him questions to clear his doubts.

"Oh, this part. It may seem confusing at first but if you read it properly, you'll understand that the explanation indicates having only focus is..."

While Steve started his rambling without breaking a sweat, Felix quickly called to the system in his mind to continue the last part of his plan.

'System, make this skill for me.'

[Processing the skill's power scale....grading the skill....estimating the possible points required.....skill successfully moduled.]

[Ding!]

[Skill Name: Parabolic Hearing.

Description:

This skill allows the host to focus hearing on certain areas and filter out unwanted information or noise from the area or person.

Cost: 10 skill points.]

[Does the host wish to use 10 skill points and create the skill 'Parabolic Hearing'?]

Felix briefly went through the details of the skill and agreed to create it before his mind could go crazy from the boy's rambling.

'Create it hurry.'

[Ding!]

[Successfully created a new skill.]

After the skill was created, Felix focused his ears on whatever the boy was speaking out of his mouth and started understanding the actual information that seemed useful to him.

Omitting the unwanted information like how he achieved aura and mana in a few seconds, and the color of the receptionist's undergarments, Felix focused his hearing only on the details of cultivating aura and information about warriors.

And what he gained from his plan made him dumbfounded, and he realized how lucky he was to have gotten this free Wikipedia without any effort.