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 toward them.
“Guards, are you ready.” Ghou asked with his eyes glued to the alligators which already landed on the ground running crazily toward them. The alligators which were at a number of twelve had thick blue scales around it body and elongated long spikes on the center of their back, their thick scaly and long tail waved hardly as their four short legs daggered the sand with the help of their claws.
One of the guards instantly jumped forward and raised both his arms to the air, a large piece of the earth ripped off from the ground and violently landed on the alligators
Bang!
The uprooted piece of earth instantly shattered as it landed on the alligators doing a zero harm unto them.
“Eh.” The guard stared with shock with his hand still in the air, the alligators were fast approaching now about 12 meters away from him “Let me see how you’ll handle this.”
He pushed his hand forward and the surface of the earth the alligators ran through pulled and within a matter of seconds flung itself into the deeper parts of the sea
“Good j-job.” Ghou stared at the direction of the sea in awe, his jaws were slacking on the ground as he imagined what his fire could had done to the alligators.
Absolutely nothing, that boulder shattered on them without causing a single scratch, what exactly would my shurikens or vein had even done to it!
Ghou was shocked miserably, seeing the power of the earth skill and how it did a good job on getting rid of the alligators made him feel weak as his powers were so common and weak.
But just then, his thoughts paused upon seeing a large maggot that instantly crawled out of the sea, the skin was slimy pale and dark purple with orbit lines around it to enable it movement, the singular large and bulgy red eye of the maggot revealed itself vividly while its round large mouth coated itself with an army of red long and pointy teeth which sprouted out of it.
The monster instantly gave a loud screech as it mouth widened leaving the dark body of the maggot to the open.
“This will be easy.” Ghou knitted his brows and began to shoot multiple shurikens which the maggot dodged easily as it twisted and stretched it body “Stay still you idiot.”
“Or maybe I should help.” Another guard walked towards him with a smile, he closed his hands together and a beam of light instantly glowed out of it before he slowly began to widen his hand making a fiery rope which spiraled itself into a zig-zag shape. After some seconds, the guard pushed his hand forward sending the spiraled rope to the maggot.
Boom!
The maggot exploded releasing a slimy purple liquid from it skin. The liquid headed directly for the guard with a fast pace thereby not giving him any chance to dodge, his body was covered with the liquid which glued unto every parts of his armor including his exposed face within his helmet.
“Teddy, are you alright.” A guard ran toward him immediately after noticing the stiffness of his body
“Ted, T-Ted are you okay.” Ghou asked with his head staring to Teddy who stood at his direct opposite. Ghou eyebrows were knitted together with his eyes glued on him, the liquid did not go anywhere near the other or even him who was at the direct opposite and this made things confusing.
Teddy the guard stood still like a statue not responding to anyone, the liquid were finally solid on him and cracks appeared in all the parts like it was ready to shatter, but yet nothing happened.
“Teddy.” The guard touched Ted’s hands which immediately broke down into dust, the guard eyes opened with while his eyebrows were shot towards the sky.
“No!!!” The guard began to caress all the part of Ted’s body thereby grounding it into dust.
Ghou walked forward away from the guards who were already in grief, he looked toward the sea and saw another army of eels which were floating quickly towards them.
“Looks like we won’t have a break after all.”
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Silas countered the blow of the large bear with the help of his large sword by ripping its arms off its body. The bear made a loud roar at Silas who stared at it with a blank expression as he wriggled the large flamberg sword in his palms.
Slowly the bear began to back off with one of his hands caught off while it made an almost non-audible grunt. Silas curled up his lips with his gaze fixed on the bear which instantly jumped back into the forest with bloody furs.
Roar!
Silas felt a sudden sharp pain in his wrist followed by a deafening roar, he instantly tilted his head to see another large furry bear with a long and sharp horn attached to the center of its head.
The bear made another deafening roar and lifted Silas from the ground with the help of it paws which grew a large sharp claw. Silas was about to release a shout as he floated in the air with the motion of the bear but he stopped himself with a sudden thought of the kind of voice he was going explode. In a short period of time, the bear flung him violently to the left part of the wall.
Bang!
Silas landed abruptly on the ground with a loud thud, his body were aching in all part due to the crash but fortunately it wasn’t severe thank to the help of the metallic armor on him.
Silas sat upright on the ground with total silence not making a slightest sound, he looked to the left to see Ghou and other guards who were battling with an army of eels, he turned his head back to the bear which was running in a fast pace toward him.
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 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 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