"So you two made the deal, and now I want to know: how exactly did you get your grubby hands on some magically laden lavender?" Tim asked me as he looked me up and down in doubt.
"First of all, boy-kisser, my hands are not grubby at all. Secondly, I grew them myself a few days ago," I told Tim, and he pissed me off with that look he gave me. Anyways, the reason I told the truth is because how I got them will come out at some point. Plus, it's not like they'll get stolen from me because I plan on putting runes all around the property to protect mine and the girls' place that I'll get from Bruce. Also, I'm going to make it where the runes only let people who live in the house choose who can and can't come onto the property, but I'll have to think about where to put the runes.
"And how in the frickery fuck did you grow them?" Jason asked, confused.
"Well, my brutish, slow friend—"
"Fuck you."
"—I dug my hands into the soil and pumped my healing energy into it to test if it would affect the growing process, and it turns out it does. It increases how fast it grows. Plus, I assume it sucked some mana out of the air and also absorbed my healing energy from the soil. In return, it made the plant into a magical healing plant," I said to them, 'cause honestly it's a very simple practice to do. Plus, I plan on selling this stuff to the Batfam in return for money and other things.
"You actually used your head for something?" Tim asked me, and I kicked him in the leg.
"What other things did you plant?" Bruce asked me, causing me to stop from kicking Tim again.
"Jasmine, mint, valerian, dandelion, rosemary, and ginseng," I said to them, 'cause all these plants are pretty common and can be found in places.
"Why those plants specifically?"
"'Cause they all can be used in tea. Plus, I can make them into hard candy."
"Do you even know the health benefits of those plants?" Tim asked me like I was an idiot. I mean, I was kind of a dumbass before I got these Essences, but I can't let that slide.
"Of course I do, you fucking twink!" I said to him as I threw a rag at his face.
"Eww, that was a dirty rag!" Tim said as he started to freak out.
"May I know the reason why you chose the ginseng?" Damian said to me.
"For the enhanced cognitive function. It has properties that enhance those things, so basically, if I make it into tea, then you can focus way better and relax—in layman's terms," I said to Damian. I'm pretty sure he drinks a lot of tea because he was raised by the League of Assassins, which is kind of filled with old people, so I'd assume he likes or knows a lot about tea.
"I would like to be the first person to try the ginseng tea."
"Sure, I got no problem with that, but you'll have to wait a while, 'cause I want to grow more things before I actually put stuff to dry like that," I said to Damian. And it wasn't a lie, 'cause I really want to plant a lot of things, like an apple tree—'cause imagine me in my whole costume with a cape, and then I hand you an apple that heals you very, very slowly when you eat it.
Also, in theory, I could infuse any plant that I plan to grow with any of the energies that I have, and it should either add some effects to the plants or increase the effects they already have. Now I'm going to give you my conclusion based on the info I got plus the tests I did: I poured my healing energy, causing the soil to become basically supercharged soil that grows things fast, and I assume the plant itself sucked the energy into itself and also drew a little mana from the air too.
I want to know what would happen if I were to pour my Nen, mana, and healing energy into the soil—how would the fruits turn out? 'Cause if you ask me, I'd say it'd be basically a knockoff version of a senzu bean—or a better version of one, depending on the fruit that I grow.
"Question, what was that backpack that you summoned out of thin air?" Tim asked me as he got a snack and handed me one too.
"Well, it's a Magical Backpack. It's basically an inventory in the simplest terms that only I can open and summon unless I give someone permission," I said as I ate the snack I got from Tim, which was really good.
"How in the fuck did you get a Magical Backpack?" Jason asked me, even more confused.
"I just did."
"Gray, can I see that backpack?" Bruce asked me, and I summoned it, then handed it to him. There's no harm in him seeing it. Honestly, he can never open it unless I allow him to, so it's all good.
I want to mention that I changed the look of the backpack 'cause the last look was a little boring for me. So I made it look like a herbalist or traveler-type bag that goes around the hip and is brown.
Bruce handed it back to me, and I unsummoned it. Then we heard the dryer beep, meaning it was done drying the lavender.
"Can someone please put some water to boil?" Bruce said to all of us as he put the dried-up lavender on a plate in front of me.
"Yes, Father," Damian said as he put some water to boil in a metal teapot.
"So, who wants to try this first?" I asked them as I started to take the heads off the lavender and put them aside. It's the heads that are used for tea, and they've got to be dry. That's just how it is. Honestly, it's not that hard of a thing to do—it just takes time, and I've got a lot of that.
"I will," Damian said to me as he ignored the look Bruce sent him.
"Okay then, you'll be first," I said to him as I saw the steam coming out of the teapot. I went to the stove, put the flower heads in the teapot, then brought it over to the table in the kitchen. As I did that, I saw Damian grabbing teacups for us.
We waited a few minutes, then I served some for Damian in a cup.
Damian took a deep breath before he took a sip of the tea. For a few seconds, it seemed like nothing really happened, then I could see his shoulders drop a little in the way that happens when someone is relaxing. Also, now I could hear him breathing a little bit clearer. If you didn't know, let me explain: lavender has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties that might help make breathing easier.
"I feel tired now…" I heard Damian mutter gently, and his voice sounded a little calm and not as stern as before. Then he said, "I feel more relaxed. I can also feel a gentle energy coursing through my body a little bit."
"That must be Gray's healing energy you're feeling—a bit of it, on a small scale," Bruce said as he poured himself a cup of tea too. I'm pretty sure he's going to make a long file on my tea alone. There's a bad and good part to that. The bad part is that if his stuff ever gets hacked, they'd know about my stuff. But the good part is that they wouldn't be able to get my stuff, 'cause it'll either be in my Backpack or in the house that we get from Bruce, which will be surrounded by runes to protect it.
"Fuck it," Jason said as he poured himself a cup, then just chugged the whole thing down. Damn, the effects happened pretty fast—his body relaxed quickly, his eyes dropped a little like he was tired (which I bet he was), and his breathing got way better too. Then he said, "That was a terrible idea, but I feel better."
"Let me try some of this tea," Tim said as he went to pour himself some.
"That is not a good idea for you, 'cause you don't get enough sleep. So if you drink some, you'll pass out," Jason said to him as he sat down in a chair.
"How long will it take you to grow a few pounds of this lavender?" Bruce asked me as he took a sip of tea.
"Well, it really depends," I answered him honestly.
"On what?"
"Umm, for starters, I won't be growing anything until I get that place, because I'll need a lot of space. Secondly, I'm going to need a lot more soil and pots so I can grow them in. I mean, I'm going to make the pots myself. Also, I'm going to set up some runes around the property to protect it."
"You can do that with runes?" Tim asked me.
"Yes, I can, dumbass."
"Well, excuse me for not knowing that information, fat boy."
"I'd rather be fat than a twink."
"And how exactly does that work?" Bruce asked, interrupting me and Tim.
"Well, it works by either combining multiple runes together or having a series of runes in a formation of some kind if you want a certain effect or effects. Like, if I used the Wolfsangel rune, then it would have some protective effect and ward off wolves. But if I mixed a bunch of runes together to spell 'wolf,' then tattooed it on someone, they'd get wolf abilities—like wolf speed, wolf strength, wolf senses, and some other things."
"Tattoo?"
"Yeah, in theory. I think I could give people powers by either tattooing a rune, animal, or something like that. But I have no real idea if it could work, plus I've got no one to test it on."
Jason opened his mouth, but then Bruce said, "No," and Jason just rolled his eyes at Bruce's answer.
Thump.
We all looked toward where the noise came from—and it was Tim, knocked out with a cup of tea in his hand. So I'm going to assume the lavender made his body relax and the tiredness he'd been holding off finally hit him.
Bruce stood up and picked Tim up gently, then looked at us and said, "I'm going to take him to his room so he can finally get some sleep," and then he left the kitchen with Tim.
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[AN: Hello goblins, it your favorite Hispanic Daddy here with some food for y'all so be grateful.
I have come across a fanfic that it peak and it is a Cyberpunk fanfic that the MC is full ganic that have a cool power so I am not going to spoil it at all cause I want you to read it yourself and show that fanfic some love and here is the name: The Gonk and The Forge (Cyberpunk Edgerunners/2077).
Guys I graduate this 23 so I really happy to be out of high school.
If you people did not notice yet is that Gray like to rant a lot about things and he does not really lie like that and most of the time he would just say the truth and leave somethings out.
Tim is a damn twink that is a slut just like the rest of the Batfam cause they be sleeping with a lot of people at the time.
I think that I am going to give Gray a bladed tonfa or something like that or I will give him a long bladed weapon but y'all got to remember that he will not be really throwing hands like that unless all the people are save.
Here is his new backpack look:
Here is his current body built:
Give me some ideas on what plants that he should grow that are fruits or herbs and their effects or what they help with health wise.
And finally thank you all for getting me to 1 million reads and I am very grateful for that even though I have only posted 23 chapters.]