Niyad moved his aching left arm in a circular motion; His body felt horrible after sleeping on the hard floor. Before him was the cultivation academy that the General had advised him to attend.
Checking that his light blue robes were properly straightened he approached the huge gates of the academy. On either side of them stood statues of men holding a scroll similar to the one on his identity medallion.
When he arrived at the gates he nodded slightly to greet the guards then showed them his medallion. The guard nodded back to him, signaling that it was fine for him to go in. Upon entering the academy his mouth hung open in awe. He had never seen a building so big and exquisite up close. Sure there were large buildings in Blenheim's city but he was from a small village on the outskirts of the kingdom. He never really had a close look at them.
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Niyad stood in thought across from the headmaster. General Kai who sat in the corner of the room kept silent the entire time. "So for the sake of both kingdoms I must stay alive." Niyad’s face was expressionless as he repeated what the headmaster said. The headmaster nodded solemnly in confirmation, "Ye-" "Bullshit." Niyad interrupted him. The headmaster who was shocked at Niyad's sudden outburst asked in disbelief. "What did you just say?" "I said you're trying to feed me bullshit." Niyad's expression suddenly turned to one of ridicule, there was a heavy silence that permeated the room and the General who sat in the corner couldn't help raising his brows in surprise.
At the end of his first day at the academy, Niyad strolled back to his small house. He had checked the price of a duvet but what sense did it make for him to check when he had no money? The sixty silver coins he earned using his blood sweat and tears were all taken by the bandit clan. Originally he gave it to them so they would send back the kids to the village but after Sercy and Count swooped in and saved the day it was all for naught. His life kept getting more and more frustrating. "I swear once I get strong I will wipe out this entire kingdom! If not for them I'd be 60 silver richer." "GR~~~!!" The sound of his stomach interrupted his thoughts and he suddenly remembered he hadn't eaten all day. Although he was a cultivator, he was not yet at the stage where he could go without eating. ~I only have a few
Niyad contemplated what Count said but nothing was making sense. ~Why would a whole planet's existence depend on whether or not a dark fae stays alive? Who exactly would be trying to harm her?~ "Why are you so confident that I can become strong enough to save her? Why me?" "Because you're part fae." "Then choose another part fae." "Thus far other than Sercy you're the only other known person who has dark fae blood. All the others are light fae. Although they can coexist, healing each other would be impossible, so would reproduction. Their powers oppose each other." ~Reproduction...? What does that have to do with anything?~ Niyad sat in the cultivation space. Two weeks had passed since Count sent him the ring and his cultivation base rose quite a bit. He spent 60 hours in the ring cultivating daily which was equivalent to 12 hours in normal time. Niyad was now at the 3rd stage Spirit realm and noticed that each time he made a breakthrough, his dantian would become exponentially larger. Therefore, an increase in Qi would be required to fill his dantain for each succeeding realm. Although Count had pointed out how abnormal his cultivation speed was, his recent success was not only due to his talent. Due to the time difference in the life space, the two weeks he spent cultivating reaped the rewards of him cultivating for thirty five days days in total. Count had instructed him to keep his cultivation base a secret and showed him another function of the ring. Realm Kings Chapter 20: Why I cultivate
"I-I.... I think I need to request to go home... I-I can't have an old wife... She needs to cultivate too." "But wouldn't that defeat your reason for cultivating? She'll just start beating you up again." Minki sank to the ground, a defeated look on his face. "This isn't good won't I develop a heart devil at this rate?" Other students walking by gave them weird looks and in return Niyad gave them an apologetic smile. "Why would you have a heart devil? Just make sure you're stronger than her at all times." Minki's expression suddenly lit up once more. "You're right. Once I get to the Earth realm I'll request to go home and help her to start cultivating. I just need to make sure that I'm always stronger." Niyad stared at Mi
Minki was surprised, this was the first time someone had managed to break his Earthen spear formation. He kicked away the spear then extended his arms, two wind blades materialized in his palms. With a yell he swung the blades which blasted the red haired guy's flames away and knocked him out of the ring. The students watching this fight all wore dumbfounded expressions. "He really is a dual attribute cultivator, I thought the information was bullshit." "Yeah, I've only seen him use earthen spears for the past year. I totally forgot about that." Minki withdrew his wind blades and Niyad couldn't help being surprised at how domineering he looked. ~This is the same idiot?~ As
Niyad sat in a bamboo tub of steaming water. The heated water helped him to relax his muscles after sparring. Although all the sparring happened in the life space ring, it affected his physical body as if it were the real world. Therefore, all injuries or insights were real. Niyad's eyes were closed and he was unaware of when he fell asleep. He was in a dark room, two large golden twin doors stood before him. The room seemed oddly familiar but he was unable to figure out where he had seen it before. His hair stood on end as he got the feeling that something was terribly wrong. His heartbeat sped up and breathing quickened. He couldn't help feeling like he was being watched. He observed his surroundings and realized there was nothing but the large door there. The golden door was strikingly grand with its extravagant carvings, he took a step closer and was star
Sercy sat in front of her mirror brushing her hair while Count stood several feet behind her with a complicated look on his face. "Sercy, how long are you going to keep this up?" A few minutes ago he felt that Niyad had crushed a summoning talisman but he ignored him. He first needed to appease his little princess. Sercy continued brushing her hair as if he hadn't said anything. Count appeared next to her, he ruffled her hair then moved away quickly, but instead of getting mad at him, She casually fixed her hair once more before leaving the room. He followed her. "Sercy, are you going to throw a tantrum every time something doesn't go your way?" She hadn't said a word to him for over a week. Each time he went to train Niyad then returned he could see her withdraw more and more into herself. She was upset because he wouldn't tell her where he went or what he did to Niyad. Sercy paused briefly then with a wave of an arm, her appearance changed to that of a fifteen year old girl with
Helshire Continent Kiro gritted his teeth in anger, his entire body was coated by fire Qi as he inspected one by one, the lifeless bodies strewn in random locations. A few days ago, Peter put him in charge of leading a search group that consisted of only tyrant realm cultivators. Their goal was to find the location of the lamia then alert Kiro who would be in charge of capturing it. His group started out with a total of thirty eight cultivators in all who were then split into several smaller groups in order to efficiently comb the forest. However, the lamia was far craftier than he had expected, and as a result fifteen of his men had disappeared. After a brief search, he found their remains. The wounds on them were similar, a single slash to the neck; This suggested that they were all killed by the same person or beast. The most eerie part was that none of them seemed to have expected their deaths. Which means whatever killed them, was quick enough to surprise them and quiet
Sercy, Nora and Niyad stood above the walls of the Southern Kingdom, they arrived just in time to see Aloysius grabbing Viktoria before sprinting in their direction. The moment he breached the wall they made eye contact and his shocked expression turned to one of relief once he recognized them. After coming to a stop he gently placed Viktoria on the ground then turned to face the trio, now that he had backup they could easily wipe out the rest of the sovereign realm experts.Nora, who didn't think much of the red haired man, asked directly, "I'm only sensing a few Sovereign auras in the city, are they all enemies?" Aloysius, not sure of her identity, hesitated a bit before nodding in response. Receiving an answer, Nora swiftly raised her bow aiming it at the city. The temperature around them rose rapidly and the trees withered as all the water in the surroundings vaporized.She relaxed her fingers and a red Qi arrow shot forward growing in size as it descended on the City. Unlike w
Southern Kingdom The people within the Cultivation city of the Southern Kingdom didn't hesitate to evacuate. Although they weren't allowed to use the transportation formations for security reasons, the borders of all three Kingdoms would be opened if they decided to relocate via merchant routes. They also had the option to retreat to smaller villages and cities within the Southern Kingdom if they wished to stay in the territory. After making sure everyone left, the two split up to destroy the transportation formations. It didn't take long before Viktoria finished and contacted Aloysius. "Are you done destroying the formations to the North and east?" The Ice Queen used a communication talisman to speak with the Barbarian King. "Yes, what about on your end?" "I'm already done so meet me back at the Western entr-" A large Qi fluctuation caused Viktoria to pause; Her eyes grew wide as her divine sense picked up on something. "Aloysius, 20 of them, sovereigns..." "Shit!" Was A
Niyad stared wide eyed at the two figures before him. One was his mother but her current image looked unfamiliar to him, even her aura seemed foreign. The other was technically his master, someone he had grown fond of in a weird way. But he had transformed into a strange beast with a baleful aura of death surrounding him. Count's true form was ten times more terrifying than anything he could have possibly imagined.It was almost impossible to find a creature of his likeness, what exactly is he? An amalgamation of beasts? A chimera?Niyad made a mental note of Count's true form, the more details he noted the more his mind felt jumbled. ~The head of a fox, eight eyes, his two centermost tails were snakeheads, shiny fur the color of obsidian. Chains, what beast had chains? ~Just what exactly is he? I was disrespectful to this thing? How am I still alive? GULP~ Once more Niyad's mother pulled on her bow string and aimed. Niyad wanted to stop her but was interrupted by a deep voice pro
The Blenheim KingdomNora was angry as she glared at Sercy, "What do you mean Niyad isn't with you? I just sensed more than twenty new sovereign auras on the continent and you can't tell me where my son is?""I assure you Niyad is safe, he is currently on a mission with a hidden expert who has been with me for more than a century. He has the cultivation base of a Divine expert above the origin realm even stronger than myself"~Someone I was unable to sense?~ Information that Sercy thought would comfort Nora made her worry even more.Nora remained furious but reeled in her temper a bit. "You should know that being the minor lord doesn't mean you're the strongest person on Thorsus."Sercy became rigid at Nora's warning and was unable to mask her shock. Although she knew Nora wasn't normal, for her to know such things without being in the Divine realm..."I just hope Niyad is safe for your sake." were Nora's last words before she turned to leave. Once again Aliel was left dumbfounded by
Peter was shocked that even with his Azure Dragon blood and domain activated he was still being suppressed. The aura of the creature before him was enough to intimidate him, it even caused the image of the illusory dragon behind him to tremble. He realized that he couldn't depend on his instincts as much as he did before because the danger was now all around him. ~I need to act now if I want to survive this.~ With a roar he raised his arm and pointed it at the figure of Count in the distance, "DRAGON DESTRUCTION!" Peter yelled and all the divine energy he could muster accumulated in the illusory dragon behind him. In one swift movement the dragon shot around him and charged towards Count in the distance. The dragon transformed into waves akin to a tsunami and a loud rumbling sounded out as the dragon crashed into Count. Peter didn't stop there, he brought his hands up above his head and swirls of green Qi representing wind energy formed into cyclones. He then slammed the palms of h
Peter's hair stood on end, trusting his instincts, he quickly tilted his head to the side then glanced to the left. The clawed hand of a beast was suspended in a grabbing motion right where his had been a second before."F*cking Cockroach!" He heard someone behind him swear and he didn't hesitate to leap away quickly then twisted his body to get a good look at what it was that attacked him."As I thought, it's difficult to kill someone in the divine realm without using divine energy myself." Peter's eyes narrowed at the eerie figure that stepped out of the spatial tear.A grating sound rang out as it moved forward akin to chains being dragged along the floor. It wore robes with a familiar crest that represented the Blenheim Kingdom and a veiled hat that hid its face. Though it had the figure of a man, something told him that this thing was not human. He could feel an aura of death seeping from it.The creature moved a clawed hand to remove his hat revealing a bluish tinted face with br
The Sovereign realm cultivator wore an arrogant smile as he probed Niyad with his Qi sense. "Your aura is that of a third stage Sovereign realm expert, while that is abnormal talent for a kid like you, what makes you think you can stay alive after that declaration?" Niyad smirked, "You should know that A Divine tribulation expert is currently at the Azure Dragon palace assassinating your current lord, unless you want to be next, I'd advise you to choose wisely." "Divine tribulation? Don't let me laugh, that's impossible. Plus whoever it is won't make it out of the palace. Our current lord has the azure dragon blood running through his veins." ~What bullshit even if he had the blood of the divine turtle he would still die.~ Niyad was already annoyed, to him, the sovereign realm expert's looks were annoying, his clothes were annoying, even his voice was annoying. In one fluid moment he pulled his bow from his life space ring and notched an arrow. "Is your final answer no?" The Sove
The old man stared at Niyad like he was a lunatic and what a coincidence, he never felt more like a lunatic than he did today. "How did you find me?" The man finally said. Surprisingly, Niyad felt no hostility directed towards him, even after he had made such a ridiculous declaration. This encouraged him to be honest with the old man, "I didn't, Lua did." He replied pointing at the beast next to him.After eyeing Lua with slight interest the man scrunched up his nose then looked at Niyad like he was a pile of dung, "What kind of mad person thinks they can just go around ordering people to sign a soul contract? Your Queen must be batshit crazy." Niyad: "I..." He did expect a response similar to what he got albeit a little less vulgar. He wasn’t sure how to respond to the old man, because without any context, their sudden demands did sound ridiculous.~I should have gone to fight Kiro instead.~ Lua snorted and Niyad couldn't help thinking he was being laughed at. Feeling the urge