Mission And Reward System
Chapter 25's

One year has passed, a time that is not easy and so difficult for Derrick and Raki who are now the personal disciples of master Xiao, who is, it happened because the two of them were trained by master Xiao in an inhumane way and were impressed trained only to be made to give up.

They were told to start from running up the mountain and down the mountain, swimming in a fast-flowing river and also inhabited by deadly monsters with both hands and feet tied, splitting a boulder as big as a house without using any inner energy, to the point of having to pull a turtle that was the size of two large houses (pet Xiao) without using hands.

"Derrick have you mastered the technique you chose?" Asked the supine Raki and the hunting breath, being very tired of holding a boulder on his shoulder due to Xiao's punishment.

Raki was punished by Xiao with a sentence of holding a boulder for two hours for not mastering the semi-magic fighter-type skill he chose, namely darkness element control magic.

Raki one year ago chose the darkness element controller magic technique, because he had not mastered the darkness element magic at all even though his inner power energy was identical to the darkness magic.

"I've mastered it, because after all I've mastered wind element magic without a field, so it's easy for me to master the wind dagger skill." Derrick replied as he was by lying next to Raki.

One year ago Derrick chose a fighting-type skill, that is the wind dagger technique when invited by master Xiao to choose the sect technique he wants to learn and develop by himself and also Raki who chose the Darkness element controller magic technique.

"Ahh, you are indeed a genius, haha.., I became envious of you." Raki responds with a happy smile because Derrick has mastered the skills he chose, and also feels the spirit back to master the element of Darkness so that the distance between himself and Derrick is not too far.

"Alright, I'll chase you!" Raki continued his training with silat and directed boxing movements.

"Heh.., if you were like that you would never be able to master the technique of controlling the element of darkness." Derrick laughed. That's natural because Raki practices kanuragan instead of practicing controlling the dark element.

"Why is that?" Raki asked as she scratched her cheeks which did not itch at all.

"Raki, calm your mind and feel that you are in control of the dark element like you are in control of your own body." Said Derrick giving advice while patting Raki on the shoulder and leaving.

Element magic and element control magic are very different, where element magic is indeed pure magic that requires a spell before activating it, while element control magic is a type of semi-magic fighting skill, where the semi-magic fighter type skill is a skill that relies on body movements and inner power (magic) that resonates and appears on its own.

For example, like Rean who fought against fire dragons in the past, when Rean fought he felt that he could control fire like the dragon, then all of a sudden he could actually control the fire like his own body, and that became the beginning of the semi-magic combat type skill fire element control created in the past.

Ok, continue.

Derrick, who is walking the market for the first time since he was locked up in a valley of darkness (headquarters of Xiao's Darkness squad) to focus on training, is seen buying various foods that he thinks are delicious.

"Uek...., why doesn't it taste good at all?" Derrick asked while spewing out the cakes that were sold and looked very nice to see.

"Appearances are deceptive, you fool!" Bumpat Derrick slammed the remaining cake right in front of the seller, the old grandmother who was just smiling sadly while cleaning the cake.

"Dude, I'm sorry if Grandma's cake doesn't taste good, Grandma promised to make a better cake than this one." The grandmother said with grief, even her sad tears dripped down the cake she was holding.

How the grandmother was not sad, because after many years of selling she realized why her merchandise was not in demand by people even people who had bought the cake no longer came after buying the cake, no matter what the reason, no matter what, but now he knows the reason.

"Grandma's sorry if I make you sad, but to be honest the cake made by grandma tastes bad, tasteless, and also too hard." Derrick explains why he slammed the cake.

"It's okay, grandma is glad you're honest with grandma about the taste of the cake made by grandma, unlike those who are dishonest and do not come again after buying a cake made by grandma that tastes very bad and is not good to eat this." The grandmother replied, thanking Derrick for being honest about the taste of the cake.

It was like looking for something behind the counter, after looking around for the little smile and pulling a book tucked behind the fragile walls of the shop.

"Dear, please accept this book as an expression of gratitude from grandma, maybe this book looks outdated, but I'm sure the contents of this book might be useful for a young man who is dashing like you." The grandmother's words gave Derrick a book that had a black cover and a dark aura.

"What is this grandma?" Tanya Derrick picked up the book, then read the cover of the book that said "Eye technique..," and some of the writing was lost and unreadable.

"Grandmother doesn't know either, she found the book while searching for firewood in the forest, it looks like it fell from its owner." Reply grandma was honest as it is, because it is true she found the book while looking for firewood.

"Oh so apparently,." Derrick could not open the book.

"System?" Call Derrick.

The system immediately scans through the light coming out of Derrick's eye, after a while the system completes its scan.

"An ancient book that can only be opened by dark element users, it contains dark-type magic techniques, estimated to be a hundred years old." Said the system gave the scan report.

Magic techniques can indeed be mastered by anyone regardless of what elements are used, but the magic technique will be easily mastered if the person who learns the magic technique is the user of the same element with the type of magic technique element.

As an example of a teleportation magic technique that Xiao could easily master, Derrick had to try more and harder than when Xiao trained in the teleportation technique, it happened because Derrick was a wind element user while teleportation magic was of the dark element type instead of the wind element type.

"This book is perfect for Raki, even if he is able to master the element of darkness." Derrick muttered in memory of Raki who was practicing understanding the element of darkness and trying to master it.

Derrick catches a leaf that falls in the wind with his finger, then turns the leaf into paper, Derrick uses a suction technique to take a twig and turn it into a pen.

"Mother please accept this, if grandma follows this procedure I wrote, guaranteed grandma's cake will sell hard." Derrick said while writing a recipe for Bakpia cake typical of Jogja, of course it is a recipe that comes from the world that Derrick lived before.

"What is this, a cake recipe?" The grandmother asked as she accepted the recipe after hesitating a little.

"True granny, that's my mother's ancestral cake recipe." Reply Derrick who does have a real Jogja mother.

After chatting and a little explanation, Derrick continued the snacks that were on the market, because rarely he could go out and be free from the boring exercise activities that he valued.

"Truely, I miss Jogja." Derrick muttered with a feeling of longing for the city of Jogja that he always went to after completing the mission and got a vacation on the sidelines of his activities as a member of the Indonesian State Army (TNI).

Seriate.