THE JOURNEY (DESTINATION IN OBLIVION)

JOURNEY NINE

~Dave~

Seems the self proclaimed "harvester Of lives" finally got himself into a fight, I thought, as he maneuvered his palm past a sage's and hit one of his students on his shoulder, the force made him stagger and fall on his butt. The sage threw him a deadly glance and their eyes locked on. Uncle lance smiled and muttered faintly saying "The ocean and the iceberg" then he approached them. We were quite far from where they were so it took a while before uncle lance walked up to them. The guy that fell down was already on his feet and he looked sullen, he seems to be playing victim when he was the one that asked for trouble anyway. Harvester Of lives was already moving towards me as he walked past Uncle lance casually, he just bowed and continued walking towards me.

~Ice sage ~

Damn!! I can't believe I couldn't hinder that guy's palm, well I saved knife edge's life anyway, if that palm had not been deflected by my hand, he would be under surgery right now. Despite his palm being deflected, the force still put knife edge off his feet, that guy wields a scary power. I exited the training hall and used the transtubes to my office but I suddenly received a notification to report at Emperor sage's office so I changed direction with the help of vMax and headed for his office.

Tell the boys not to mess with him again, he could kill anyone of them within a minute. Emperor sage said, feeling concerned. You are right boss I answered firmly. Emperor sage sighed and replied, I know you think bringing him in was a bad idea and I should just give him back to the people who wants him dead but that will be synonymous to throwing treasure into the ocean. He has talent but he has only been brainwashed to do evil, we can realign him to our taste and he will end up becoming a great asset. We chatted for a while on how to handle the formidable harvester Of Lives before Emperor sage dismissed me back to my office.

~Dave~

We were at the far end of the room, out of everyone's sight so he brought out the book and tossed it to me, before the next training session, translate every letter here for me and I will answer all your questions, he said, so I asked if I could call him "Hol" the acronym of harvester Of Lives, he just said "whatever" and walked away so I took the book and was ready to go then he warned me not to let anyone see the book. I ain't that stupid though I saw you were trying to hide the book anyway, I thought within me and took the book back with me to my room. I activated IP and asked if it could translate the text and it immediately scanned it and translated it all to detail. I was surprised and I thanked IP, with it by my side, many things would come by easy.

I glanced at the translated text and found out that it is a panaroma of fighting techniques perfected with the deity's potion, maybe I should ask Hol about the deity's potion, no, I discarded the idea, translating this text is supposed to be a very tedious work but thanks to IP, the work load is lifted, I thought. ohhh!! Now I know what to ask him.

~HOL~

buggy guy approached me with empty hands which is quite unexpected, I expect him to be done translating the text by now. Where is the translated text? I asked. How about we make a deal? , he answered, looking quite serious. You teach me the "deified ultra combat arts" and I give you the translated text, he blurted, the deified ultra combat arts is the collection of the most powerful combat arts but it's sources are unknown though but it can only be perfected by using the deity's potion. I learnt the first part of all ten part for most of my life. Although it was the incomplete version, it was still quite effective but the real versions can be found right here in this HQ. I knew giving this guy the book was a bad idea but I had no choice. Well am not shocked though, I knew he was going to learn a thing or two from the text so I quickly retorted, "I can't teach a spineless twig like you!! He just turned around and told me to think about it. This guy is so lucky!! I thought, if we were on the surface, his head wouldn't have a shoulder to rest on if he keeps talking nonsense like this but even though I teach him he isn't even gonna learn anything for a hundred years. He is too old to learn it, though we are almost of the same age and if he wants to learn it with a good foundation, he will need quite some amount of the deity's potion in his blood so I just called him back and accepted his proposal. He was quite happy and he tried to hide it but he failed pathetically, only few people would be able to hide their emotions from my consciousness, the likes of icesage and emperorsage will do just fine in that aspect. Suddenly he intruded my thoughts and asked, when should we begin?, NOW I answered coldly