“I am Barry, captain of the fifth division.”

The guard that was assigned to him was a young, energetic man with short brown hair that perfected his soldier look.

“Alright, Barry.” Tristan greeted the young man as a start, which earned him a vigorous nod from him. Clapping his hand, he continued, “from now on, you will only be answering to my command. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir!”

Tristan nodded his head as he looked at the young man before him. Pointing at the ring on his finger, he said, “First, tell me how to use this ring.”

This ring was exactly the one that Uriel previously wore, which is currently in Tristan’s possession. He remembered the sight of the town mayor lending the ring to him, the bitter expression that clearly represented his heavy heart.

Apparently, the ring was called a storage ring, and its function was just like what its name implied, storing things. After a simple blood ritual explained by the young captain, the artifact could open up an individual space inside, allowing him to store up to 2 cubic meters worth of objects.

Sensing the empty space, Tristan unconsciously let out a smile, “This is a very useful thing.”

He decided to put his sword inside the ring in order to make him less conspicuous. After all, the huge thing always attracted the attention of everyone who lay their eyes on it.

Other than the ring, Tristan also received the gun and a pouch of coins from his threat-request. When he checked the pouch, he estimated that there were 50 silver coins or so inside. It was apparent that the fat elf was really stingy with his coins.

The moment the two of them came out of the building, Tristan decided they needed to go back to the Magus Guild, to settle their previous regrets. They had to go there to buy the previously unaffordable spell scrolls.

They were quickly led by the same female attendant to the library, and presented the same spells they saw before.

Out of the five that was available to buy, the one that was extremely useful in Tristan’s opinion was the healing-type spell, [Healing Ray – Rank 2], which cost 30 silver coins. He bought the spell for Layla, which immediately made his current money to under fifty percent of its previous amount.

Afterwards, Tristan took the chance to ask the attendant about fire element spells. He wanted to buy one of the cheapest ones, to let him try the theory that he thought.

[Fire Touch – Rank 1 Fire Spell]

The spell only cost 5 silver coins, much cheaper when compared to the Rank 1 Light element spells.

Layla gave a look to Tristan and flashed a smile, as if she was supporting him to be able to cast spells. However, Tristan knew her better than anyone else. As expected, the young girl quickly transformed her ‘encouraging’ smile into one of the teasing one.

Tristan prudently decided to ignore her taunt, and proceeded into an important matter at hand.

Both of them quickly went ahead and paid for the spells. Tristan gave Layla her Rank 2 spell. and began following the instructions on it.

A few minutes later, Tristan was attracted to a sudden light coming from beside him. Turning his head, he could see Layla’s hand was releasing a bright light.

“WOW! This is so exciting, Tris!! I love this!” said Layla, waving her glowing hand left and right.

The female attendant who was near them was quite shocked to see that Layla managed to show apparent progress within the span of minutes.

After congratulating his excited sister, Tristan returned his attention back to his own spell. Suddenly, a familiar notification appeared on his mind.

[You have learnt Fire Element Spell – Fire Touch]

[You have insufficient Blood Essence]

Even though he could not use the spell at the moment, the notification at least gave him more assurance. From it, Tristan speculated that he just needed enough Blood Essence to cast spells. Therefore, this only made his dilemma about the solution to sufficient and steady supply of Blood Essence even more urgent.

While Tristan still struggling thinking of ways to deal with the blood essence, his sister cant stop talking about her newfound spells.

Turning his head to the attendant, a thought flashed through his mind. Tristan wondered if there was a spell that could glue his sister’s mouth shut.

After thanking the female attendant, Tristan asked Barry if there was any suggestion on what to buy if they were heading out for a quest.

Barry took them to a store where they could buy general items needed for adventure, such as tents, blankets, pots and pans, lighters, food ingredients, and more. Tristan then went ahead and bought enough stuff to let them last for a few days.

Next, they made their way to a weapon shop, where Tristan bought a sword, a dagger and a grey leather armor for Layla. He decided to use all the remaining silver coins they had on Layla.

Tristan didn’t regret his decision in the slightest, as he would do anything for his sister’s safety. Moreover, he believed he didn’t need any equipment to protect himself as long as there was enough Blood Essence.

Later on, Barry took the two siblings to an empty residence located at one corner of the town. A place that was prepared by the Mayor.

On the afternoon of that same day, Barry was forced by the protective brother to teach Layla the basic technique of wielding a sword and dagger for her self defense.

“Thank you for taking the time to teach me, Barry.”

“It’s my honor, Maam.”

“What the hell. I am younger than you! Call me Miss or just Layla”

“Yes miss Layla”

“…”

Unfortunately, the training did not last long because Layla had difficulty learning to use these two weapons. She was annoyed that she could not learn the essence of the technique. Therefore, she forced Tristan to give her the gun he took from Uriel.

“Who needs a sword when i have this beauty?”

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The handgun shoots energy bullets that were not inferior to bullets back on Earth.

Thus, the sword and dagger training turned into shooting practice. Barry was running around the field at the residence, positioning a target for Layla to hit. Much to Barry’s complete surprise, she managed to hit the targets with ninety-nine percent accuracy, which, honestly, was scary.

The sight of Layla firing shot after shot at the targets reminded Tristan of when their cop stepfather show them how to use guns just to show off his power and intimidate them. Fortunately, now it has become a useful lesson.

It looked like there was still something good that came out of their stepfather, after all.

Seeing his sister able to do magic, and skilled in shooting, Tristan began to think that maybe, his sister was better suited to this world than he was.

After firing dozens of shots, Layla finally felt fatigued. When she checked her status, it appeared that the gun uses her spirit energy as its source of power.

This feature brought her disadvantages as well as advantages. One of its disadvantages was that the weapon would be extremely tiring to use and Layla needed to control how much she fired it. On the other hand, she wouldn’t need bullets to use it.

The next day, the three of them went to the Adventure Guild to meet up for the job.