Three days later
Outside the city walls of the Southern Kingdom Count stood smiling creepily. Today would be the day Niyad got his test and that put him in an oddly good mood. With a grin he phased into the kingdom, as he walked his body bounced with excitement. This was a scene that would leave even Sercy bewildered.
As he got closer and closer to the cultivation city and his appearance slowly changed, he got a bit shorter and his bones audibly creaked as they started rearranging underneath his skin. Soon the cold handsome face of Count turned into the innocent face of Niyad. His skin changed from a deathly pale color to a healthy glow and his black clothes changed to that of the South Academy.
After the full transformation he paused momentarily. He tilted his head to the left with a thoughtful ex
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Kiro scrutinized the person in front of him, he really wanted to snap this kid's neck but after discussing with the other two kingdoms today, Niyad would be useful for their future plans. "You're so calm, what's the matter? Are you feeling remorse towards Blenheim for killing mortals in cold blood?" When Niyad said this he used his cultivation base to boost the sound of his voice. Everyone in and around the kingdom could hear him. Cultivators of all realms were either running away from the area of chaos or running towards it to see what was happening but everyone was paying attention. You could see a few of them wearing puzzled expressions. Pretty soon the entire area was surrounded by soldiers. "You bastard, you're actually from the Blenheim kingdom!" A red haired boy yelled at him from the ground. The boy wore
Niyad sat by a tree in the forest. Count told him to wait there for over an hour now and he was beginning to get restless. Earlier this week Count had been stressing how hard the test would be. But it's already been an hour since Count told him to wait. He was about to doze off when suddenly someone appeared in front of him with a girl in his arms. After taking a good look at the person his eyes widened and he quickly used a movement skill to back away. The person looked just like him and the girl in his arms was Lianlian. Niyad quickly pulled out a bow and arrow from his spatial ring then aimed it at the person in front of him. He already suspected that it was Count. But why would Count have Lianlian with him? "Who are you?" "Isn't it obvious, kid? I'
Wind blades shot towards the man and he blocked them using water elemental energy. A water whip materialized in his hand and he swung it towards Niyad's neck. Niyad hopped backwards, blocking the whip with his sword. He was finding it difficult to hold Lianlian while fighting. His movements were less agile and using only one arm was making him clumsy. He suddenly thought to himself. Count had said this would be a difficult test but he didn't give any rules now did he? After coming to this conclusion Niyad turned and ran away as fast as he could. The cultivator watched Niyad turn tail and flee, he was caught off guard. "You coward, you were so cocky a few hours ago, why don'
Two hours ago Niyad had gotten to the edge of the Southern forest. It was still night when he got there and he decided to stop briefly for rest. He was lucky that he only ran into one cultivator thus far. He laid Lianlian next to him then started stretching and doing a few flips. He couldn't help but feel relieved at how light his body felt. The weights had really made him feel sluggish and now that he no longer wore them, his speed had almost doubled. If he weren't carrying Lianlian he would have been able to go even faster. Ever since removing the shackles, he ran instead of using a flying sword, this helped him to save his Qi for battles. He stealthily spread out his Qi sense to check his surroundings, he had to be very careful while doing this, it would be danger
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They were sprinting through the forest. Niyad was moving at a slower speed so that Minki could keep up. "Brother what kind of move did you use earlier?" Niyad was too curious not to ask. The power of that skill was just too strong. "Ah, it's actually a skill I created myself. One day I randomly thought about combining my dual attributes to form an ultimate skill and after some trial and errors it finally worked. But as you can see, once I release the skill I have no way of controlling it." "Ah." Niyad nodded in understanding. No wonder why they had almost been smashed earlier. Minki thought about how he had nearly destroyed his entire village when he tried
Lianlian sat in a lotus position with a cauldron in front of her. She started concocting pills an hour ago and had already finished three batches. Niyad watched her in awe, she moved with practiced smoothness almost as if concocting pills were second nature to her. Niyad had given her the formula that Count gave him and after looking at it she decided that practice would be needed before she could do it successfully. Plus she didn't have all the necessary ingredients. When she said that, Niyad had happily provided the spiritual herbs and advised her that the next stop they made she could give it a try. Currently she was concocting food pellets for the cub. Niyad had given her a rough explanation about how she had gotten here. At that time Lianlian glanced at him then calmly replied, "My
A week had already passed since they entered the Dark Forest. Lianlian was successful in concocting the energy replenishing pill after her third try but it only had 3/4 of the energy in Count's pills. Not only that, Niyad had tried experimenting and he realized that he was able to put people in the life space ring. At first he was worried about revealing the ring to others but he decided to take the risk. Lianlian spent a lot of time in the life ring studying Count's medicinal formulas. She was amazed by all the types of formulas that existed. There were so many different types of pills with uses she thought were impossible, Growing back entire limbs, fusing souls with bodies, curse pills, poison pills, explosive pills. She was eager to try them all but there were strict warnings and restrictions on some. What limited her the most was her inability to use her
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