Chapter 27: The Dinning Hall.
Training was split into three parts, the hand-hand combat, weapon lessons and lastly assassination techniques. Main problem was securing your own food, as most people were afraid of going to dining hall. High intensity training required high nutrition, you couldn't train hard without eating properly. Aron decided to go and check the food.
Dining hall was small hall with only one counter, weirdest of those was all people's hands were shaking while eating.
"Hello. Can I get something to eat?" He greeted lady responsible for distribution of food, she scanned him with her purple eyes and said.
"You are first comer? Heh? The rules are simple. I pour three bowls of soup and you need to choose which one you want to eat." She had three cauldrons filled with soup, three substances were different. Aron checked every each of them, and immediately understood.
'They aren't calling it last meal without reason.' Three soups and all of them poisoned from weak to strong poison. Taking poison could actually develop poison resistance to some level, however it was slow process. At the beginning taking smaller doses and slowly forcing body to get used to poison. Increasing amount from time to time would make your body develop immunity, there was high risk of getting addicted to it.
[Vegetable soup(Poisoned)]
[Desc: Soup with the addition of weak poison. Low nutrition.]
[Vegetable soup(Poisoned)]
[Desc: Vegetable with the addition of moderate poison. Some pieces of meat were thrown inside. Moderate nutrition]
[Meat soup(Poisoned)]
[Desc: Meat soup with strong poison inside of it. Deadly yet nutritious.]
'Second option shouldn't be a problem as I have poison resistance from goblin. It cannot resist strong poisons though… I could try third option to check effects of poison digestion…Risk is little high.' At the end, he took second option. Testing out new trait wasn't worth risking his life.
The bowls were covered until you made a choice. His appraisal could differ from them, however others didn't have such luck. The problem was recruits couldn't starve themselves, even if they wanted. Inability of getting food from other sources simply meant being forced to eat one of soups.
'Can you summon vegetables inside of my mouth? I cannot starve here.' His idea was ingenious summoning things inside of his mouth won't be visible for those people and stomach won't cause him any troubles.
[It's impossible. There is risk of host choking himself to death.]
'Ohh, come on. I mean small berries for example.'
[It's impossible. System won't perform any action that can risk host's life.]
'Bullshit! YOU LAZY…'
[…]
Woman treated all of them like her own property, throwing weird things inside of meals from time to time. Poisons, expensive potions, aphrodisiacs and many more. It was ultimate gamble to leave this hall alive without any weird symptoms.
'Mad scientist! I like her, haha!' Woman wasn't happy that boy chose moderate poison, so she frowned and came back to her previous actions.
Her appearance was little unusual. Shoulder length hair half greed and half purple, black finger nails and extremely white skin. Aron thought that she is quite beautiful.
Beautiful face, hypnotizing purple eyes, unique hairstyle and perfectly developed body. Some lust came through his mind, however he remembered that his body is 11 years old.
Snow white took his bowl and started eat without any fear. People around him took him for insane person.
[Poison will be completely digested. Host shouldn't be worried about effects of strong poison.]
The portion was too small to fill his stomach. Worry about dying from poison disappeared so he decided to ask for refill.
"Can I ask for refill?" It caused all people stop their actions and look at madman. He tried to commit suicide in broad daylight.
"OH! R-E-F-I-L-L? Hahaha! It's first time in my career!" Her mouth formed small smile, basically someone voluntarily wanted to eat another portion of her poisons.
"Wait a moment! I will bring my speciality!" She went to kitchen to prepare new meal specially for him.
Food lady came back with bowl of soup with bizarre color, kid immediately appraised creation.
[Anesha's Speciality]
[Desc: Ultra nutrient soup with strengthening elixir and strong poison.]
'Can I eat it without kicking the bucket?' Mixed things could cause many different effects, sometimes ingredients amplify effect of each other and sometimes they negated or created new effect.
[Poison will cause host being uncomfortable but it won't kill host.]
He took his new meal and walked to empty seat. The soup was really tasty, but his stomach started to make weird noises. Anesha observed his reaction with pride and anticipation. Boy devoured 'last meal' and brought back the bowl.
"Thank you for the meal." It was shocking, strong poison didn't work on him at all.
"Interesting! You are first one to thank for meal! I am Anesha! People call me Poison Lily! You can to me if you are hungry! I will feed you my best creations!" Anesha was happy to see perfect test subject.
"Aron. People around call me Snow white. Nice to meet you!" His voice was polite, all people in hall looked at him with hatred as he befriended death itself.
'At least, there will be someone to talk to...' His mind wandered to searching way to escape this place.
[Physical attributes increased due effect of strengthening potion.]
[+0.5 STR/DEX/END]
'Interesting! I would like to have recipe for this potion! Haha!'
[Quest Generated.]
[Name: Escape the organization.]
[Reward: ???]
White haired boy didn't know but there was Rose that searched for him. Weak willed girl blamed him for death of people in village. Strong existence inside of her body promised to take revenge on bandits and him.
Most people in group chose one weapon in the end. Aron trained every weapon as system allowed him to improve proficiency and only time could limit his improvement. Another thing was physical training, most of recruits were doing basic training, but not him.
His body had traits from animals and the instructor decided to create personal training for him. This wasn't training, they basically tortured him. Their methods were efficient but extremely painful.
It was first time, Aron regretted some of his actions. He could just move to other village, not come to this cursed city.
'DON'T FUCKIN LET ME ESCAPE THIS PLACE OR I WILL SLAUGHTER EVERY ONE OF YOU! ONE BY FUCKIN ONE!'
The day of selections was coming, and he was stronger by many folds than Goblin's brother. His plan was to improve his strength by killing someone with something good to plunder.
It wasn't actually a real plan, the person in charge of watching over the recruits was impossible to appraise.
'Why can't I appraise him?'
[Appraisal level is too low.]
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone