Chapter 3 – Ling’s war (3)
Ding Dong!
Ghou Ling jerked off his sleep hearing the bell of the door, his eyes were still heavy and lazy.Who is disturbing me in this early morning! Ghou Ling thought in his head still lying on his bed wearing a black pajama, his hair were all untidy since he was one who always had rough sleeps. Once again he heard the door-bell and immediately began to protest against who disturbed his sleep in this early dawn, just then it struck him that this was a new dawn, the day the Ling’s war was to take place.He narrowed his eyes in resentment and hurriedly got up from his bed, he rushed out of the bedroom into the parlor and immediately opened the door.“Eh, you’re still dressed in this.” Funji Ling Dou barged into the house while Xia followed him“Hurry and take a bath Ghou, you and my brother don’t have all Dawn.” Xia Dou’s tired and soft voice muttered, she rushed to a small sofa at the side of the room and sat on it, she made a soft sigh wiping the sweat off her forehead while Funji made his way to the long couch in the center of the room. “Okay, excuse me.” Ghou Ling slammed the door shut and walked away from the parlor. After about thirty minutes, Ghou Fe Ling stepped into the parlor looking well organized and ready to go, his dark hair slide backwards with the help of the thick gel which suited his dark blue eyes. Ghou Ling wore a purple long and loosen garment fitted with a pair of black shoes.“Lets get going, we already wasted enough time.” Funji grumbled and rushed toward the door “Xia are you coming or not.”Xia who lazily dozed off opened her eyes frustrated and stood up from the chair, she walked lazily to the door which was already opened allowing the freezing breeze to pour in. Ghou Ling followed after and stepped out of the house igniting his teeth together as they shivered, Xia and Ling followed after him.**** Ghou and Funji stood amidst the large crowd of people who gathered in the large field of the Ling Palace, the smell of the environment was pleasant and cool, the tiny whirlwind which blew around gave the atmosphere a cool temperature.“Welcome children of Ling, I believe you all know what you are here for.” A loud voice filled the surrounding, the large crowd which could be around the population of two-hundred to one thousand immediately gave a loud cheer which vibrated all through the environment.The field was currently filled with the participants of the Ling’s war and the supposed announcer could not be found anywhere. However, it was possible that the announcer was using an echo magic that could transfer his voice to the field. Soon after the cheering stopped, the voice continued“The Ling war will begin immediately after the brief explanation. You all will be transported into the Wall of tempest, a deceased land where the war will take place, please take note that the area of land in the wall of tempest is not large giving a ninety percent of encountering each other, if you encounter each other you have the choice to fight or ignore, you will all spend two-hundred and ten Dawns in the wall of tempest where triple-threat wars will be automatically organized by the wall three times in a Dawn for a short fight and two for long fight. Request to quit from the war will be allowed only for the maximum of sixty-five people, on the last day, all remaining survival will be transported to the General war ground where a fight till death will be done, if not the past three competitors will be automatically brought together for a triple threat, if request to quit is still available then you will be allowed to leave the war, death in the wall of tempest is real so beware. And by the way, two-hundred and ten Dawn in the wall of tempest is only four Dawns in the real world. Transportation will begin now.” Saying its last word, a large dark hole appeared underneath all the participants sucking them into the wall of tempest.**** Wall Of Tempest Dawn 1, Participants 551 2 death found, 5 seconds ago [Ghou Fe Ling] Nō of kill - 0 [Fire magic] Request to quit, Yes/No [Tap one] [0/65 quit] [Blink once to close] [Blink twice to open] Ghou Ling opened his eyes to see a swarm of text, he knitted his eyebrow as he read the content, this had to be a collection of information or guide set up for all the participants. Ghou Ling instantly blinked his eyes and the text disappeared, he just noticed he was in a new place and did not wait the next second to begin exploring. Almost everything in the wall of tempest was similar to reality except some parts of the ground which held dark green sand and the dark red sky, the surrounding was dead silent and cool, no birds or even living things could be found in the area, the tall trees and bushes were all thick brown in color, this really was a deceased world. Though, with every breath Ghou Ling took he felt a great surge of energy flow into him, this feeling he had was known as ‘Mana nature’ but it seemed unnatural since mana nature could only be derived from life-forces but everything he could currently find was dead. Thwack! Ghou Ling tripped on a skeletal figure and fell, he began to roll downward since that area slopped downwards. Moreover he was shocked seeing a skeleton lying on the ground. Thud! Ghou head rang upon landing on a small boulder, he immediately stood up placing his palm on the back of his head, the surrounding was a little blurry but he could clearly see himself standing about 6 meters away from a boy“Hum, I can see you want a triple-threat hun,” A soft feminine voice scoffed behind him. Ghou Ling’s vision instantly got more clear making him to comfortably see the boy who wore a free trouser and an oversized T-shirt, he got confused at first hearing the feminine word from the boy“Hey, behind you.” Ghou Ling turned his head backwards to see a muscular female who wore a body-tight shirt and a short trouser Eh, how is this girl even fit to be an empress, she is so shapeless! Ghou’s eyebrows raised in opposite direction as he stared at the girl, he instantly snapped out of it and stepped to the left ready to accept their invitation“Why don’t you just make a request to quit than dying here.” Ghou said with a smirk on his face, he flung his eyes from the girl to the boy in other to see their reaction“Eh, you are going to die here.” The boy who seemed to be around eighteen rushed toward Ghou puffing ice spikes out of his hands.Ghou Ling ducked the moves manually avoiding all the spikes which landed in different position. Ice ball! The boy shouted waving both of his hands shooting large balls of ice toward Ghou who jumped into the air thereby avoiding it. The boy continued attacking not giving Ghou any space to make an attack, his actions were all prompted from the words of Ghou making it vivid that a was a very cold person who had anger issues. Stomp! Stomp! As soon as Ghou landed on the ground, a large part of the earth pulled away attempting to crash on him, he immediately jumped backward dodging the crash which left a large crack on the ground.“Ahh, you are such a violent killer.” Ghou Ling murmured staring at the girl who smiled mischievously, he looked behind and saw another huge boulder which was covered in blood. Ahh, she just gave that guy a dirty death!Ghou Fe Ling body shivered with irritation, he turned back toward the girl who still had the dirty smile on her face Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Multiple boulders uprooted from the ground and vastly began to fly towards Ghou Ling Fire shurikens! Ghou instantly made several fire shurikens on his palm and rapidly began to throw them towards the rock which shattered into dust as soon as they made contact with each other, this was the only option he had since the boulders were too much and fast for him to dodge.Chapter 4 – Ling’s war (4) Fire vein! Multiple fiery and long thin ropes instantly sprouted out from the ground and continuously began to whip the rocks into pieces“Do you even know who I am you stupid brat.” The girl shouted in anger seeing her rocks being shattered continuously“Well, I know you are not fit to be an empress.” Ghou Ling replied instantly standing gallantly on the ground letting the veins to do their work. Though, he was surprised to notice that he had no sigh of exhaustion from this skill since it was a mana eater but he didn’t have time to think about this.“Erg, you-” She shouted in frustration and swung her hands upward Crack! Ghou Ling looked below him to see that the ground was gradually breaking down, just like an earthquake but only in his standing position, he jumped away from the surface in the last second and the earth collapsed“Okay, I’ve played enough.” Ghou Ling muttered tightening his fist, the veins had already destroyed all the approac
Chapter 5 – Empire wall Ghou Fe Ling sat on the small couch in his room, he raised his head unto the ceiling with a face filled with disappointment and guilt, his eyes got wet recalling the memory of how Funji fell into the furnace while he stood, watching the whole scene without doing anything to help.How is Xia and Peng going to feel after discovering the news, especially Xia who is the youngest, how am I going to explain to them how he died, or-or I should not even tell them if I -. Ghou Ling’s got interrupted from his thought as his eyes caught the door as it flung open“Ghou, how could you allow our brother die in your watch.” Pengfei Dou’s broken voice yelled in the room while his eyes suddenly began to drop its tears. Behind him was Xia whose eyes were bloody red with thin veins visible on her eyeballs, tears were falling freely from her eyes while catarrh gathered under her nose Wait, is this how they walked to my home! Ghou’s eyebrows knitted unconsciously as he
Chapter 6 – Empire wall guard Kiara stood up from the chair and began to walk to and fro in the room, Ghou watched her quietly thinking hard of the request. Kiara finally stopped walking and rested her hand on the jewelry table of her room staring into the clean mirror which hanged on the wall“And you should know that you are not going alone, I sent for three more powerful people I met in the war and I am expecting them any time soon.”“Wait, did you just mention powerful people, w-wait did you ever had a match with me to know if I’m powerful or not.” Ghou Ling asked with a grin“Soo, are you going to work as a guard, I already made uniforms and special weapons.” Hearing the word ‘weapon’ from Kiara reminded Ghou of the artefact that was supposed to be given to him from his parents“Yes, I would fulfil your request but, umm, I wanted to ask if you have any artefact with you.”“What artefact is that, cause my under-croft is totally empty.” Kiara chuckled, she turned around an
Chapter 7 – Assigned The next Dawn came along easily, Ghou jumped off his bed and freshened up. After a long time, Ghou was fully dressed up with the uniform and ready to leave, he immediately stepped out of the house with his hairs packed upward and instantly closed the door.....“Ah, Ghou always the first to arrive.” Kiara praised sipping a cup of tea while sitting on her majestic bed, staring at Ghou who sat on an armchair with a smiling face“Hehe, it’s actually isn’t my-” Knock! Knock! A loud knock interrupted Ghou and the next thing was the door pushed open allowing Cheng, Ying and Silas to enter the room.“How do you guys always walk in together.” Ghou brows knitted upon seeing the three of them, this was two times that something similar to this happened and it looked all suspicious“What if the three of us are neighbors.” Cheng instantly replied with narrow eyes“Well, when last I checked you lived in the streets pickpocketing for a living.” Ghou retorted eyeing C
Chapter 8 – Beasts and monsters Ghou immediately turned his head backward to see a large gray shark which was diving vastly toward him“Heaven’s flame.” Ghou muttered and instantly jumped to the opposite direction successfully dodging the attack of the shark which had its rough spiky teeth to the ground. The shark began to flap it claw-like tails realizing that it was stuck.“Ahh, my goodness.” Ghou instantly stood up from the ground and ran to the other guards who were shivering at the sight. “That’s a diseased shark right.” The guards tilted their head toward Ghou and nodded, the shark violently began to twine it head from the ground and successfully removed it therefore landing on the ground creating a loud thud, it body began to jump up and down on the sand to the water where it zoomed off“Oh, okay then, I’ll just stand here and wait.”“I do not think there is any time to wait, look.” One of the guards pointed toward the sea were an army of strange alligators swam vastly
Chapter 9 – Death and Vessel Silas turned his head back to the bear which was running in a fast pace toward him, he lifted his hand to the air realizing that the bear was too close for him to attack. The bear instantly lifted into the air making it impossible for it to advance any further. Silas pressed him palm into a ball while the bear movable joints bent into strange positions with loud cracking sound, he stood up from the ground with his hand still fixed in the air while making a direct eye contact with the bear. Silas instantly spread out his hand like he was calling for a hug while the bear widened it body with a loud roar.Silas brows fuzzed with narrow eyes, he raised his hand further into the air and with a sudden movement began to swing it from the left to right. Meanwhile, the bear began to bang recklessly on the sand which sudden got red of blood. He heaved a sigh of relief and finally released his hand leaving the bear to crash on the ground. Silas who wa
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
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 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