This meant that looking at Ibrahim as he happily sorted through gift after gift for his family, a weird deep sense of warmth filled his heart.
"Are you sure that is all you want to buy?" David asked
"This is all sir" Ibrahim replied as he waved his hand that was now full of bags
"Well if you say so, anyway lets go get something to eat" David said as he shrugged.
Everything they bought easily exceeds million naira but at the moment, he didn't care. Most of that price came from the tailor made suits that were yet to be delivered.
"I want to thank you again sir, I don't know why you chose to help me but i promise i would never disappoint your expectations"
Hearing the man, David simply smiled, though it was good that Ibrhim ws swearing hos loyalty to him, he knew that this was only just talks
No matter how honest a man was, they didn't just swear their life away to people just because the person bought things for them.
David used himself as a basis, if someone had randomly spent such a huge amount on him and even made the same promises that he made to Ibrahim.
He would respect the person and even hail them for being kind but then nothing was free in this world. From the look on Ibrahim's face, David could tell that the man was mentally preparing himself for whatever it was that he would bring.
The more the employer cozied you up in the beginning the more difficult the job likely was, it was just the way things were and Ibrahim probably knew that.
[I have prepared a custom training manual for him, would you like to train him personally or leave it to me] Nous suddenly asked
"Leave it to you how?" David replied mentally
[Holograms, give him a specific location and i can you hardlight constructs to coach him in various things] Nous replied
"Hard light constructs, wait doesn't that mean you could interact with the physical world" David replied
He remembered researching about such a thing for a fanfiction he had written at some point, Hard light constructs were pretty explanatory, they were constructs made of light.
Not just normal holograms, these ones could be felt and touched, like his editor interface. Or a more familiar example would be the DC Comics character, Green Lantern.
[As long as you are within a 100 meters radius of that location , yes i can] Nous replied as though it was the most normal thing in the world.
It was already a problem to chive holograms and yet she was talking about hard light constructs like as though they should be normal
"Okay that solves one issue but where would you stay to train him, i know that that house wouldn't be accommodating for us"
[I would suggest that you simply rent out an airbnb for now, it would give you the required privacy and space for the remaining three months]
"Just go ahead and give me an address to give him" David requested and very soon, Nous had an address down.
David immediately passed on the address to Ibrahim telling him it would be where he would receive his training from then on.
If Nous was to handle his training then David believed that his talent would be brought to full effect and more.
After sorting everything, the two sat in silence and continued to eat, there was nothing more to say.
[Sir, Duck!! ] Nous suddenly shouted
"Huh?"
[As in dodge, duck!! Now!!] Nous shouted again as David did as told
Immediately he felt a cold light pass over his head and he saw a silvery light pass over his head as well.
Following the silver light was a blue flash but looking to the end of the projection, David saw a young man who looked to be in his early twenties, dressed in a blue suit and in his hand was a sword.
An actual sword, even from his seat, David could feel the cold air emanating from the weapon. If it hadn't been for Nous, that weapon would have taken his head off
[Requesting permission to take control of Masters motor functions?] Nous suddenly asked
"Granted" David said aloud without thinking
Immediately he felt a weird sense of restriction come upon him, his body suddenly stood up in a sharp motion as it dodged another strike.
Looking around, he noticed that every order person seemed to have paused in time or something.
Even Ibrahim who had been sitting directly in front of him was frozen in place, his throat slit but yet minus the small immediately drip, there was nothing else.
"I don't recall ever meeting you?" David asked as his body dodged another attack
Then grabbed his arm, using his momentum and full body to flip the young man.
The young man said nothing but quickly flipped himself creating some distance between them. Looking at the young man's dressing again, David concluded that this was a rich person who definitely couldn't be an assassin.
He was in a really high end suit so he didn't understand what was going on and though he wanted to ask, the look on the man's face made it clear that there was no talking to him now.
"You, what are you?" the man suddenly asked out of nowhere
"Nous, what's going on?"
[Cultivators are sensitive to aura and the Editor is a being of cosmic duty, to him, you represent the inevitable both good and bad]
"So you're saying that this is instinctual?" David asked
[Sort of]
Thinking about it, if what nous had said was true then this might truly be a fight or flight situation, he didn't know much of how he would react but if he was standing before a person whose mere presence made me feel the very concept of inevitability.
His choice would be laid out very clearly, fight back or run but then if you could also feel that whomever gave you such a feeling had no power whatsoever, you would attack to get rid of this future threat. It was a reasonable thing to do on his part.
However, to attack someone that gave you such a feeling was the same as signing your death certificate if the person does survive it.
"If that is what you wanted to ask then i did not believe there is a reason to attack me" David said As Nous made his body back away.
His current situation felt weird, it was his body but he had no control, he could feel that all it took was for him to exert himself to regain control but even when he tried, he couldn't… It was as though he was having sleep paralysis but he was awake.
"An abomination like you shouldn't exist" the man said
[Sir, Permission to use lethal force] Nous suddenly asked.
"Lethal force? From where?" David asked
He couldn't even fight with a normal person so it was already a miracle that Nous had somehow been able to survive for this long but lethal force?
"Go ahead, lets just leave this situation" David said without much thinking
His situation was simple, this guy was clearly not a normal cultivator because no one senses another's aura and immediately thinks, i need to kill this guy. At most, they would avoid the person or just put the person under surveillance.
However the person before him had aimed to kill meaning this wasn't his first time and also this probably wouldn't be his last. If Nous had some means to kill him then the world benefited.
With his permission, David expected something powerful but Nous simply stood still even as the sword was flying towards them.
"Nous?" David asked nervously but yet there was no movement
Trying his best to regain control but he couldn't even move a single finger, before he knew it, he felt a sharp pain in his chest as the sword found its way through his body.
He could feel his heart stopping, for the first time in his life he became conscious of the blood that flowed through his veins. However despite all that, he felt no more pain.
Rather the man before him coughed up a mouthful of blood, his eyes bloodshot and blood leaking from each and every single one of his orifices.
"Whats going on?" David asked, confused.
He was the person that was stabbed but the person on the floor was the culprit of the stabbing. As though to make matters worse, Nous immediately pulled out the sword from his body and tossed it aside.
[I offered him as a sacrifice to you] Nous replied
Speechless, David could only stare forward as he regained control over his body.
Today had taught him just how terrifying his creations were. Nous had the capabilities to take control of his motor functions and even kill people, apparently just by wishing for it.
As soon as he regained control of his body, David saw what he could only describe as a glitch.
The cut on Ibrahim's neck seemed to phase in and out of existence, the damaged table repaired itself off and on multiple times
Soon he found himself sitting back on the chair that had once been split in half, even though his clothes were no longer bloody but he could still feel a soft pain on his chest reinforcing the fact that this event had taken place.
Everything had been reset, people were moving again. Ibrahim was quietly eating before him.
Nous had mentioned it in the past but experiencing it was way more bizarre than he had thought. It was unnatural no matter how he thought of it.
Every cell in his body rejected it for some reason, this was like the uncanny valley but increased by a thousand times.
However he had more important matters to settle at the moment
"Nous, what exactly was that? What do you mean you sacrificed him to me?"