Chapter 465 Sun's Uncle
Lenny looked through the items piled up above his head in the room.
At another corner, Victor and Moses were arranging the items, sorting them out into different parts.
"Who are all these for?" Lenny asked.
Moses raised his head to Lenny, "They are gifts for the young master."
Lenny could not help but ask, "Is it your birthday or something?"
However, Moses chuckled at this.
"Actually, these gifts are from merchants, elders, and other wealthy men of the city. After everything that happened last night, especially with the rumor that you were capable of becoming a Greater Demon realm existence, they are sending gifts over in the attitude of gaining the young master's favor."
"Hmmm!" Lenny nodded at this.
Victor suddenly stopped what he was doing as he walked up to him. "I separated those that I think might be very useful to you. For the others, I'm taking them down to Bitter Street. I hope you don't mind!"
Lenny raised a brow at this but instantly waved it off.
Honestly, even if Victor had taken the entire thing, he would not have minded one bit.
After all, his growth was not dependent on them.
And if he truly needed anything, he could just exchange it for it on the market.
Victor nodded at him in thanks.
"Yes, that reminds me, can you help us take this down?" Victor asked politely.
Lenny nodded and proceeded to carry the big basket down and out of the house.
This place was a full-apartment duplex on the top side of the huge building.
Lenny helped carry a big basket of all kinds of gifts, and so did Moses and Victor.
Through the elevator and downstairs, Lenny was surprised not to see another soul in the building.
To his surprise, this building was actually owned by Victor, one of the things he inherited from his mother.
Unfortunately, no one wanted to rent a place in it because of the Terrie reputation that the building's residence had of always falling into suspecting accidents.
Another method that Curtin used to suppress Victor's rise in the city.
On getting to the ground, they walked through the nice court yard that had well-groomed trees and flowers planted around the place.
However, unlike the expected sweet smell of the morning breeze, the air was filled with the smell of manly sweat and blood.
There was also loud groaning at a particular corner.
Lenny, Victor, and Moses turned in the direction of the groaning sound.
It was none other than Perseus.
He was training, and the method by which he did it was extremely gruesome to watch.
Firstly, he was already at the lesser demon rank 1 strength.
This meant that he was already far stronger than the average person.
However, he wanted to improve his strength, and the only way to do that was by using the pressure of danger.
At least, that was the only way that he, a gladiator, knew how to do it.
And so what he did was put his mind in that state of pressure by cutting his own flesh at different points and allowing himself to bleed out a great deal.
But that was just the start, after all, that was not the source of his intense growling in pain.
With certain herbs Perseus had gotten after asking Moses, he peppered the wounds with the hottest pepper, called the 'Sun's Uncle'. This was a mutated plant breed used by the former Alpha to punish criminals. It was so harsh and unforgiving that the locals referred to it as the sun's uncle.
This pepper was used against the most terrible of criminals that were at the deep demon level, as it was the only way to make them feel pain.
It is said that rubbing it about the body of a rank-one deep demon-level werewolf would make him sing in pain and repent for a long time.
The most amazing part about this pepper was the fact that even if a person tried to use water to quench it, the mutational properties of the pepper only made it harsher.
That meant that the more water it came into contact with, the stronger it became.
Even against criminals, it was not used for more than an hour and was a punishment that shared the same sentence as death.
This was the level of discipline that the city of milk and honey ensured for even its warriors.
This sun's uncle was a plant only cultivated in the garden of the Alpha, and without Elder Isaiah's permission, it would not have been given.
However, Perseus had been gifted since he was a companion of Lenny's.
Perseus used the pepper to delay the natural healing factor of his wounds, bathing in their red milk after squeezing out the juice with his bare hands.
Without blood in his body, even a gladiator of his strength would still die.
However, this was the best time for training.
After this, he carried a boulder weighing ten tons on his back as he dug into the ground in a very precise and calculated manner at a certain location.
He was basically doing farm work. Also, he did not rush at it.
He dug the ground one side at a time.
His sweat, blood, and fluids from the pepper fell to the ground.
Even Lenny could tell how terrible the pepper was from the way the garden plants died and shriveled upon contact with its fluid.
Lenny took a look at him, and he looked at Lenny.
Perseus's was red from the torture that the pepper gave him.
After what happened before, both of them did not look like they were on the same page.
Perseus only looked at him a bit before removing his eyes.
This was the same thing for Lenny.
Both men pretended not to see one another and continued with their activities.
Victor and Moses also pretended not to have seen anything, not coming in between the fights of these two.
As far as they were concerned, it seemed to be a battle of Ego's.
Lenny, Victor, and Moses walked away, and the moment they were gone a certain distance, a particular person peeped in from a side into the court yard.
It was Sam, Victor's uncle.
(Author's note: like I said before, nothing is as it seems... (Please wait for it...)
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺