Chapter 10 – Discovery
“No, look behind you.”
Xia, who reluctantly looked behind was instantly stunned to see Peng standing on the ground with a face plastered with confusion
“Bro….. Brother Peng.” Xia jumped on her feet as she ran to Pengfei pulling him into an embrace “I thought I’d lost you.”
Xia’s voice shivered as she tried to stop herself from crying
“No….. No, I… I will never leave you.” Pengfei voice was completely blur as he tried to understand the paranormal activity that happened
“Ghou?, what… what’s this, why am I here.” He instantly pulled out of the embrace and sat on the damaged chair of the room trying to recall what had happened before his death, especially how and why he could find himself in Ghou’s home
“Ehn.. Emm… you and Xia came to my doorstep pleading for my forgiveness…..”
“Forgiveness, for what.” Pengfei jumped up from the chair with a facing drowned in awe “Pleading?, why were we pleading.”
“Ehn, but… but brother Peng, you woke up this morning with the decision of coming here to apologize to Ghou for the malice.” Xia looked more confused as she tried to pull the trigger into his brain. But Peng remained ignorant of the situation “You really don’t understand anything, do you?”
“Not one…….”
“But wait.” Peng’s words were interrupted by Ghou’s, whose brows were knitted in confusion “Peng, you came here with an intention to kill me, I’m going to ignore that for now and just face the fact that you died, bu6 yet you’re alive without a single scratch to the skin. Isn’t that some sort of ability.”
There was a brief pause between the three individuals who switched gazes at each other as it finally dawned on them that Peng wasn’t a normal human after all
“Hello, message from the empress.” There was a sudden interruption to the silence with a lazy voice which shouted from the door that briefly followed by a gentle knock that prompted Ghou to temporarily ignore Peng’s discovery
“And welcome to my humble residence.” Ghou’s said with a clean and polite voice as he partially opened the door to avoid any sort of suspicion from the man as his room was all messy
“I don’t want anything to do with you or your home, I’m only delivering a message.” The mail-man rudely answered before forcing a sealed letter into Ghou’s palm “Remember, it’s from the empress and cannot be ignored.”
He instantly walked away after his last words, not giving Ghou any opportunity to speak or interfere in his speech
“Okay, whatever.” Ghou slammed the door diverting his attention back to Peng as he dropped the letter on a local table that located behind the damaged sofa
“Now uhm, what exactly is brother Peng’s ability.” Xia’s face flushed red as she vividly tried to subdue her over excitement “Like uhm….,he….umm, yeah!, he’s like an immortal.”
“No.” Peng retorted unable to comprehend on how he was to react “Emm, what if I’m just alive by pure luck. Like, nobody can be sure if such ability even exists.”
Xia’s face twitched upon hearing her brother’s words, she subconsciously nodded her head with pity on why Peng will be on denial to his newly found ability “Brother Peng, are you going to stab yourself in the chest before accepting what you have.”
“No, who would want to risk his life fore something he isn’t sure of.”
“Then why don’t you just go to an affinity center.” Ghou shrugged staring at both Pengfei and Xia whose eyes locked contact. The suggestion was a very clever one as the ‘Affinity Center’ as it name implies was a form of discovering Mana strength in an individual that would farther more discover the person’s ability. But this came with a prize as it involves the individual paying a reasonable amount of coin “The paid coins could worth it.”
“Ehn, nah.” Xia finally replied even though it wasn’t in her position to do so. She turned her gaze to Peng who stared blankly and once again to Ghou “Not that the idea is bad, the main problem is the payment, how can brother Peng waste lots of coins, not even bronze, silver or gold coins for something he already knows.”
“Then I could help you guys out with some gold…”
“Oh no…. That would be unnecessary.” Peng quickly interrupted startling Ghou who shrugged over the decision “But wait, if this is real, does it mean I can bow pursue my future ambitions.”
“No, brother Peng, don’t even think about that.” Xia shivered hearing the words of her brother who had already began day-dreaming of his future achievements “Noo, brother Peng, don’t do that, don’t even think about it.”
“Ahm, am I missing something.” Ghou stared in awe as Xia whose eyes suddenly turned tearful
“Yes, uncle Ghou, please advice brother Peng not to join the military..”
“Wait, are you serious right now.”
“Yeah, just think about that, brother Peng is so saggy to the extent of not having a single body muscle, please, convince him that the military is…”
Xia’s words were instantly cut short by Pengfei who shushed her by placing his palm over her little running mouth
“Ignore her. But anyways we’re going to take our leave now, see you soon.” With a laugh Pengfei slowly began to make his way towards the door now holding Xia tightly in the arms “Greet him a goodbye.”
“Uncle Ghou, bye, hope to see you again.” Xia reluctantly quoted with a daunt smile
“Peng, remember to inform me in case of any new discoveries.” Ghou waved at Pengfei and Xia who finally exited the room into the crowded streets.
Aah!
With a loud sigh, Ghou fell unto the damaged sofa of the room. It has been such a strange day with Pengfei’s attempt to kill him and the suddenly discovered ability
“Indeed a strange day.” Ghou tried to close his eyes but was instantly reminded of the letter from Kiara. With a single hand movement, he picked up the stamped sheet of paper from the table and broke the seal into half before he was finally allowed to view the hidden content.
Chapter 11 – Monster Manual : Opening“ This note goes to GHOU FE LING, one of the Deluxe empire’s wall guardian. You are informed that you will have to temporarily go into a forest hunt after seven dawn, and then proceed the capture the four main predator of the empire’s border. Your presence is required in the Palace tomorrow. This information is very urgent and must not be ignored. EMPRESS. KIARA MIHOU LING„ Ghou growled at the note instantly flinging it to an unknown direction “Stressing us around all in the name of royalty, as if she remembers when last she got Mana exhausted.” Ghou laid back on the sofa, already tired of how stressful the day had been. Since sleeping was the only thing he could do, he curled himself to the size of the chair before petting himself to sleep.**** The next day arrived early with Ghou already dressed up in his uniform and ready to head into the Palace.The previous day was a whole headache for Ghou b
Chapter 12 : Monster Manual : Aboleth“You could start now.” Kiara repeated her words with a bright smile that compelled the others to rise on their feet “We definitely can’t say no, so it’s is yes.” Cheng blundered with a sharp smile. Silas on the other hand turned to Cheng with a death glare as it wasn’t in his interest to join the hunt, but he was a sheep bent to oblige to all their words since he was too embarrassed of his voice to muster a word. After all, if things were to get out of hands, he had the simplest solution by abandoning the project “Okay, good. I think we’ll start with the Aboleth today and continue with the others tomorrow. And please note that your ability is no stranger to the illusion, so it’ll cause harm to the children meanwhile the creatures can’t hurt you.” Kiara briefly explained already making her way to the wide opened door of the room. ----“So it all going to begin here.” Kiara invited the group into a huge dark hall which held different small
Chapter 13 – Monster Manual : Trogen“Ghou, time for you to demonstrate what you’ve got.” Ghou stood alone in the room as he patiently waited for the transformation of the room“I’m waiting,” Ghou shouted out to the room as the transformation seemed to be taking longer than the others. After waiting for what seemed to be five minutes, the room glitched into the sunny forest before it immediately transformed into a dark room.“I think they are Mana exhausted, you know, it isn’t easy creating these realistic illusions.” Kiara interrupted the fading silence of the room as she watched the room glitch continuously. “Anyways, I think this will be all for now, tomorrow will be another day.”“I didn’t even fight the monster.” Ghou said with a frown still staring at the pillar-filled room“Well, it is not my fault. The others are already gone.”“What about the book, the one from my… deceased parents.” Ghou reminded Kiara who ran out of the hall, into the throne room where she picked the
Chapter 14 – Maybe A Drop Of Blood After some hours, the teams were finally done crazing with the Trogen that was a Challenge for Ying, and lot more easier for Silas who blood-bent the creature until death. The huge door of hall finally closed as the illusionists who were mana exhausted came with a conclusion to put a stop to the daily training with the illusions.“Wait…. But why, don’t I pay you enough.” Kiara cursed at the four men who stared quietly to the ground, without a response to her words “Don’t keep me quite.”“We’re sorry empress Mihou, but we are going to slump dead to the ground one day if we are to continue with the illusion.” One of the men bravely answered, staring face to face at Kiara whose face revealed pure anger “And…. And, we’re always mana exhausted after a single fight with one of them.” The man pointed out to Ghou and the other three who stood vogue behind Kiara with a blank face “Yet, we go beyond our limits, just for them.”“Well… But
Chapter 15 – The Grasping Thread(Readers should please use their imagination for the postures which are going to be mentioned below since they will be easy to understand. Your imaginations is not limited and please grammar mistakes are not absent in this book)“Whoa, this must be fancy.” Ghou jaggedly scrolled through the book until he eventually landed on the required page. The book gave Ghou a stun as it revealed pictures of what the ability was going to be, when in effect.“So, first step will be to…” Ghou interrupted his statement with a frown, seeing that meditation was the first step to cross through, followed by a variety of different postures which were drawn on the book, and finally the thirteen sub-headings which taught in detail on how to make the ability effective. Ghou, being an impatient individual skipped the beginning process, going straight to the point of the book.“Okay.” Ghou who already stood on the ground glanced at the first step wh
Chapter 16 – Military SchoolNow all he could do was to sit on the sofa and wait until he felt sleepy, or rather force himself asleep. The morning approached early with Ghou already set up to go into the training center. The book was going to stay at home since it was very risky to be handling such type of book in the streets in risk to theft. Opening the book to the Fire Wall page, he began to mumble some words as he tried to memorize the instructions. After some seconds, he closed the book and ran to the door which he opened in a hurry, finally switching his location to the outside of the house. Twining the local bronze key to the door, it made a low bang which signified it was locked before leaving for the training ground. Ghou finally reached the training center, where he hurried to the Fire section that was already present of few other elemental that practiced their various skill individually.“Hahh, Fire Wall, here I come.” He muttered walking into th
Chapter 17 – Border Of Beasts And Monsters The day of the forest hunt came with Ghou already dressed up in his uniform and the Fire-equipped gauntlet fixed neatly into his left palm. There was also a scabbard that was tied on his waist that tightly coated the silver-rapier.With a sigh he walked out of the room, into the parlor where Xia sat responsibly on a sofa while reading a small book.“I’ll be leaving now.” A words from Ghou startled Xia who jumped from the chair with a face filled with nervousness“But… But why can’t I go with you.” She stammered, already expecting the worse reply. Xia had just arrived a day before as Pengfei made his way into the Featherstone Kingdom to fulfill his ambition of being in the military. Ghou now stared at Xia with concern as he tried in desperation to find another phrase that still meant ‘No’ instead of him just saying it straightforward “Emm… I’m not sure Xia, but don’t worry, you’ll find thirty silver coins in my room, just on the bed
Chapter 18 – The Lying Pirate“Ahh, phew.” Ying exclaimed as sweat dripped from all parts of her body. But just then she stared around the surrounding in search of Ghou who had suddenly disappeared from the area“Guys, where is Ghou.”*** Ghou whose eyes suddenly flung open met a cloud of darkness, followed by a source of glittery light.“Ahh. Where am I.” Ghou who still laid down on the seemingly wet ground muttered as he stood up, trying to place his memory that seemed blur.“Ghou Fe Ling, am I right.” A loud voice pushed him into reality as his eyes fell into a tall red dragon. With a shriek of fear, Ghou once again fell to the ground, already shivering in sight of the monster that slowly advanced towards him. He immediately began to muttered words of denial as he disagreed with his eyes on what it had saw. No! The existence of dragons in this world was too impossible as they were ancient or rather, legendary creatures that would never fall into t
Chapter 39 – Three Dust Chamber Meanwhile, Alistar was abruptly forced awake after hearing a loud thud that resounded from the duellet wall.‘Aah, it’s about time to leave here.’ He quickly transformed into an Oxyl and turned the two cub who looked scared. Alistar slowly walked towards the tightly closed door and only stopped when he stood directly in front of it. Beside the door was three different colored tube which became a mystery to him as he stared in awe. He turned his gaze to the golden dust of the animated mage some seconds later and back to on of the tube which was golden in color. ‘I don’t believe it.” He immediately transformed into his real form and hurried to pick a handful of the golden dust and poured it into the golden tube. A glow suddenly illuminated from the golden tube, but the door remained stiff almost as if nothing different happened. ‘Impossible, this isn’t possible.’ Alistar cried inwardly and immediately began to pound on the doo
Chapter 38 – Taboo Techniques Of course!, Alistar looked unfazed after the sudden regeneration from the immortal, after all, he expected it since one wasn’t likely to be called an immortal for no reason. “Quit trying petty creature, you’ll meet the same fate as your other species.” Alistar didn’t bother to ponder at his words and immediately transformed into one of the most feared and legendary beasts, a dragon. The immortal looked stunned for a while but immediately regained his consciousness by bursting into a disgusting laughter, “You can’t intimidate me with that look, pirate, you’ll always remain the weakling you are.” “And who ever told you that pirate are weakling, I’m only being nice towards you while trying to give you a painless death. Don’t ever push me to the edge, and remember you’ll always be a mere human.” The immortal was immediately stunned after hearing the menacing voice in his head. He immediately turned his gaze to his tight fist that began to turn golden.
Chapter 37 – Guest Fighters The mage gave an evil grin after seeing the transformation with seemed to fit his hidden aura. Within an instant, the mage raised his scepter while reciting a quote that remained unknown to Alistar who looked unfazed by his action. After standing for almost a minute without any interesting action, Alistar decided to give the first blow by flinging his silky muscle-build tail to the animated mage who remained calm with his dark eyes wide opened. When Alistar’s tail made contact with the man skin, he instantly felt a sharp pain that felt like he was being stung by millions of needles. Even at that, the mage also felt similar pain as the force sent from the tail would be enough to shatter his skeleton with one blow, but fortunately, he used the ‘Adamantine technique’ which had the capability to strengthen his skin. “Humm.” The animated mage finally gave a word with shivers running down his spine. Even with the Adamantine skin, he shivered to the force of t
Chapter 36 – Three Inscriptions“You haven’t told me your name..” Alistar asked a few minutes after they began walking through the tunnel.“Leah! What about you.”“I’m Alistar. So, have you ever tried leaving the realm?”“Just once, and it wasn’t successful at all.”The place remained silent for a while as they walked non-stop through the seemingly endless tunnel.When the mother Oxyl, Leah got too bored of the unbearable silence and decided to start a conversation.“There were monsters, should I say predators in here when I tried so I didn’t go this far.”“Monsters, predator?” Alistar immediately gave a halt and turned to Leah who had a weird smile, “Do you mean real monsters live here.”“When last I checked, yes. But they might all be dead or tired of living here by now.” Alistar turned around and continued his journey but now with a curious mindset. After walking for almost one mile, they decided to rest on the thick metallic steel that strengthene
Chapter 35 – Way Of The Ju-Jung Realm Alistar could not help but feel irritated after hearing the words from the mother Oxyl. He felt like running away for his life but controlled his urge since he actually didn’t know anything severe about the Ju-Jung realm.“Don’t worry, I and my kids are already stuffed with other creatures. And by the way, we have a home full of free food.”Alistar heaved a loud sigh of relief after hearing the statement, but even at that, he felt pity for the species.Some minutes later the mother Oxyl continued, “Now about the bullet-python. You should be aware that they only eat rodents and other small creatures… in the past. But due to the realm condition, they will risk attacking even a dragon..”“Have they gone nuts?” Alistar interrupted the mother Oxyl's speech that sent a feeling of goosebumps especially when the explanation made it clear that the realm was a suicide case.“Some of them... And why they have an advantage for creatures like us
Chapter 34 – One Mommy Oxyl Ghou stood motionless in front of his door staring at the talisman that suddenly flew to his palm. He turned his gaze once again to the position of the carriage but unfortunately, it was long gone. “What is this? Since when was there a Winterfoe kingdom?” “I’m definitely going to try it out.” “Thank the heavens for this kingdom, the empire is really becoming a risky place. Winterfoe kingdom here I come.” These were the words of the people around the scene with most of them having a bright face and only few of them making any reasonable comments. ‘I must inform Kiara about this nuisance, how can a so-called king lower himself to the stage of going into kingdoms and empires looking for citizens!’ Ghou felt disgusted with the ill action that was considered inappropriate by many. With that in mind, he flew into the room to take a quick bath and other things necessary before going to the Palace. *** Thud! Thud! Alistar continuously bangs on the door
Chapter 33 – Wei Bei Bei Days quickly turned into weeks and Alistar found himself stranded in the temple that didn’t make the slightest movement.“No… No, somebody help.” Alistar screamed at the door and immediately transformed into a huge creature before pounding on the door that easily absorbed all his movements, not even bulging any parts of it. After transforming into a dozen of heavy-weighted creatures, Alistar finally fell to the cold floor of the temple in an exhausted manner.‘Such bad luck… Somebody, please come.” After his words, he immediately closed his eyes and fell asleep, after all, he had to regain his lost Mana. Meanwhile, in the real world, Ghou stood outside the wall of the empire handling the Grimm Reaper long-sword casually in his palm, almost like it was a normal weapon.1 minute….5 minutes….12 minutes….20 minutes... Finally, Ghou could see two magical beasts approaching him from the forest. Although i
Chapter 32 – The Ju-Jung Realm‘Humm! So you’re Jiang Lang eh.’ Alistar who had been watching Senior Jiang Lang from the sky thought with a happy heart especially since he’d suddenly gained a vital information, now leaving only the name of the realm to banter with his curiosity.Though he was more than aware of the place being a realm, but there were more than a hundred realm around the globe that were only differentiated with their name. So therefore, without much options, Alistar decided to follow Senior Jiang Lang to his unknown destination while remaining in a low key. After what seemed to be over two hours, Senior Jiang Lang stood before the fancy looking temple that emitted a suffocating aura that could only be ignored by a King level individual. Some seconds later, a bright formation of different symbols appeared underneath his feet followed by a loud trembling sound that shortly followed after the temple’s camouflaged door flung open within an instance.
Chapter 31 – Grimm Reaper Long Sword Ghou grabbed the long-sword some minutes later and immediately began to fantasize on the mighty weight of the weapon. “Is it supposed to weight like this.” Ghou complained some minutes later when the weight eventually surpassed him even to the extent of pulling him towards the ground. Elbert nodded his head in disgust before saying any word, “Swing the sword while you can.” With those words, Ghou summoned all his strength, lifting the sword off the ground and immediately swinging recklessly in the air. After swinging the sword continuously for almost a whole minute, Ghou felt the weight reduce into that’s of a feather. A smile immediately appeared on his face with the idea of him able to handle the sword effortlessly, but unfortunately he couldn’t feel anything more. “I learnt it?” A frown replaced the bright smile on his face some seconds later as he stared in a fit of rage at the sword, “There’s suppose to be a glow, r