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The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 58: No Bandits
Oliver hit his back on a tree and slid down while Caden relaxed on another, Elaris remained standing in front of the beast and studying it. The white belly had turned utterly black, merging with the rest of the color of the beast.He remembered what he had once heard one of his teachers say; An Ashcrawler’s color is only united at death.This event had made him realize how much he had missed while he trained at home and never left the military camp, training to be on a higher level.Sure, he had heard of different kinds of beast while he was at home here and there but he never truly faced one and didn't feel the need to study intensively about it because he believed he had no business with it.And he had had none.By the time he was general and earned the king’s approval, monsters had long disappeared from the land and only met once in a blue moon.Now, years back in the past, he discovered that he had no true extensive knowledge of beasts and monsters, and his ignorance almost cost t
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 59: Threatened!
“Ashton! You are here!” Caden exclaimed and Ashton nodded, glancing at him briefly before his gaze was back on the bandit leader and Elaris.The men were already attacking them when they saw that their leader had taken the lead with Elaris, a few blows were exchanged and the sounds of steel colliding was heavy in the air.The man was tall and heavy while Elaris was fast and nimble, putting the former in disadvantage, it didn't help matters that it was just the perfect place suitable for Elaris movements.The fight was over as fast as it had commenced, the men who were fighting Oliver, Caden and Rex also retreated when they saw that their leader had surrendered–it wouldn't make any sense if they continued the futile fight.“We surrender, you can go,” the leader grunted quite harshly, still glaring at Elaris who remained unbothered with a side eye.Even though it might not seem like it to any other person,the bandit leader was very aware that he wasn't on Elaris' level. There was also a
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 60: Poisoned!
“The poison backfired on the girl, didn't it?” Elaris asked suddenly and the man’s weapon stopped a few inches from Caden's neck.His eyes widened in shock before he whirled over to turn to Elaris, the others exhaled in relief, they were also shocked that he went for Caden instead of any of them but when they thought about it again, it wasn't surprising.“No fair! Trying to hurt the only lady among us.” Oliver scolded as he moved closer to Caden to check his condition.The man’s attention was on Elaris who met his gaze confidently.“H-how did you know about that?” He stuttered and Elaris stared at him from head to toe once again before he shrugged.There was a faint scent of blood and poison on the man, but the splashes on his clothes were bright red that might have been gotten on his during the hunt for a killing but very dark red that a poisoned person coughed out.His sudden request for money also solidified his suspicion, of course, they were bandits who tried to take something fr
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 61: Prideful Soldiers and Mindful Warriors
Elaris studied the man and nodded in agreement when he saw that he had no killing intent on him, he was staring at them with renewed admiration and gratitude.“If you are okay with that, then yes.” He said.The man waved at him. “Nonsense, I am note that okay with it,what kind of person would I be if I allowed you to wander at night when you saved my daughter's life?”“And whose fault is it that we might go out so late?” Rex said grumpily.“uh, I apologize for that, I apologize,” he said. “If you would follow me.”He started leading them out.“How far is your place from the city center?” Ashton asked.“Not too far, but no worries, I would send word out there that no one should block your ways.”“We are perfectly capable of protecting ourselves,” Rex frowned.“We are still getting the ashcrawler money right?” Oliver asked as he adjusted Caden who had fallen asleep again.“Of course, I would make sure that it would be sold at the best price, first thing tomorrow morning,” He answered.“
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 62: The Violent Harsh City
Nethrowl City; the third city on the pyramid in the empire.It was a city that shared a border with almost every city in the empire, a very dry, rocky, harsh city with harsher dwellers. The places in the city that weren’t often visited or lived in by the Neths were spiked with thorny bushes and their houses were mostly wood because any other form would cause too much heat in the harsh city and those houses were painted in mostly brown and grey.The whole city is surrounded by the scent of heavy metal and everything about it was hostile; it was strictly advised never to bring an adult who couldn’t watch after himself, talk less of a child. The city was recorded to be the dwelling place of great generals and many warriors when the Slave War broke out centuries ago, it was chosen because the open desert space was close to every major city which allowed the soldiers to enter any city quickly once help was requested.Centuries later, only people whose upbringing was similar to the harsh cl
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 63: Morales & Surprise
Ueaz glared at him as if Caden just said something to offend him while Estrina also frowned but Azacia hurried to defend them all. “It is not stealing if you return it once you are done.”“Besides, if they didn’t want us to steal it, then they wouldn’t have placed it in the middle of the yard and say that anyone is free to steal it.” Ueaz shrugged and both Estrina and Azacia nodded.“That doesn’t automatically give you a pass to rob them, you don’t see anyone stealing Astrad city treasure,” Caden argued.“That is hard to decide since Astrad doesn’t have any treasure of any sort, even money is hard to find in that city,” Oliver replied and Caden glared at him.“That is beside the point.” Caden said.“No, that is the main point.” Rex agreed.“Let us just go and find a place to stay for the time we are here,” Elaris said, bringing their attention away from what they were discussing, he needed to find a good place to help Caden do his first channeling so that he would be in time for the s
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 64: Forms
Every one of them assumed a fighting stance as they readied for the attack of the wild animals, their eyes glinting dangerously as they prepared to kill them.Oliver had already taken out his rope, Rex had his sword out, all the ones with the military had their sabers out while Ashton stood vigilantly with no weapon in his hand while Elaris rested his hand on his sword.But to all their surprise, once the animals saw their pose, they retreated back behind the housekeeper and stared at them.“What is with the hostile reaction? This is your surprise!” The man had the nerve to look like he had been deeply betrayed by them.“Surprise? How about I slice your head off your neck as a surprise for your surprise,” Azacia asked angrily, she was already marching forward to the man who was stepping with the animals and Estrina quickly wrapped her hands around Azacia’s arm to stop her.“I don’t mean any harm! This is a nice kind of surprise in Nethrowl! The animals aren’t going to do anything to y
The Making of a Living Legend Chapter 65: Heatstroke & Discussion
Both Caden and Estrina glanced at each other nervously, before nodding at the same time as if they were giving each other the resolution that was needed.“Since I am going to benefit from whatever is done today, I am not going to let fear be the reason why it is impossible,” Caden said, and Estrina nodded in agreement.“Since we are on the same page, you can start now. Just do it just like you were told, don’t think, block out every sound and let it all come to you effortlessly.” Elaris instructed as the both of them closed their eyes and put to good use, the explanation that was provided to them earlier.“What do you plan to do in this city? Something tells me that you are not here only for Caden’s first channeling,” Ashton said but Elaris didn’t say anything, he only focused harder on the two people in front of him.Ashton only sighed when he figured that Elaris wasn’t going to say anything.“Alright, I would trust you to tell me before you start though, I don’t want to get into tro
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Chapter 90: Plans
Thwack!As slap that resounded through the whole forest like explosive met the cheeks of the woman whose body and face were still hidden under her long black lace gown and covered face, her face was forced to turn to the other side because of the effect of the slap, but she still continued to struggle even as she was shoved into a room that had no doors or windows and four men stationed themselves at the entrance and stare directly at the woman whose hand remained tied tightly behind her back and legs firmly put together, with the scarf of her dress covering her eyes, her vision was cut off from the rest of the world.“Goodness, you are really something; do you think that we wouldn’t catch you even if you escaped back to your city lord, Princess? What happened to those wanderers you met at the forest, went back to their cities, didn’t they?” The man who remained squatting in front of the woman taunted, but the woman in front of him only looked the other way and refused to answer him,
Chapter 89: Lestria Nerith
They watched as the swirl closed on them and tried to put a barrier or summoning their energies to take a form that would at least weaken the impact of what was coming, but no matter what they did in the direction of the force, it didn’t dissipate and there was no sign that it was being weakened, it still continued to charge towards them in full force.Just as it was about to hit them, a blast of crackling thunder appeared about them and white light shot towards the swirl that was closing in on them and stopped it in place, the men at the other side also increased their capability but another cackling light shot to the one which was already stopping the one there in the first place and the swirl was forced to shatter and burst, which made the men who attacked to stagger back as they stared in shock because they didn’t expected that their force would be stopped just like that.They conjured another one with higher capability but this time, there was simply a slash in the direction of t
Chapter 88: Reckless/Brave Princess
Every person could channel energies if they tried, and made it take a form if they tried harder, but what took a lot of concentration and determination was using a skill for the form. Every single form has its own skill and most of the time, these skills overlapped each other or are the same but some skills worked better for some form than another.The skill that these men used further confirmed that they weren’t just low level kidnappers because the skill called Wander was an extremely hard skill to master not to mention that all of them had mastered it and were using it as a group attack.It is a skill that require turning their form into a force that continue to move around until it strikes the opponent it was targeted at, it was one of those skill that it was hard to evade and once it strike the opponent, it caused them to be unconscious if they weak and render them unable to move if they were strong enough but there were some people who would still be able to move eve after they
Chapter 87: The Victim & Her Helpers
Traveling around Nethrowl wasn’t easy, but Ashton made sure to continue to drag Caden, Oliver and Estrina around the whole place. The best place for practice was the forests where there were a lot of beasts like the ashcrawler they dealt with on their way to Nethrowl and beasts who were fiercer and had different attributes than the ashcrawler.Ashton was doing this in order to ensure that they were all trained and get good control over the forms of their energy, it had been over a month since Elaris left without disclosing his destination and he would be damned if he came back and saw that there was no improvement.He got some strange news from his master the last week about strange things that happened in the desert and Faded Mountain, the whole Fragile Souls Establishment were scrambling around to find any information they could get on controllers whose aim for meeting up and controlling a whole horde of outlanders were still unknown.Two of them had been caught and placed in tortur
Chapter 86: Decvil’s Tower
The only land in Nethrowl which was under shade and had protection from harsh weather, a perfect tourist center or vacation place Neths don’t want to go too far from their city, the air was crisp and cool and for a while, he just continued walking without meeting even a single soul. Everything was dead silent even though Elaris was sure that he had entered Decvil.Maps were the easiest thing for him to follow because once upon a time, it was the only thing that he could firmly depend on when taking a journey, his sense of direction is top notch and he had absolute confidence in it.Elaris passed by a small stream and waited as he searched himself for something, he removed the small container that was given to him by Radai and opened it before he took the cure of the disease in his hand, he just stared at it wordlessly for a while reliving the matter that led to the event that made him still have it.Elaris had given it to Areth for consumption and he collected it at first, but then he
Chapter 85: Scattered Informants
The journey down the mountain and out of the desert was easier than when Elaris came in, yes, he had to deal with a few outlanders and he had to wind through a storm of sand but it didn’t take him long to arrive outside the desert and at the edge that led to Nethrowl city.Alone by himself with the necklace that contained the ashes of five brave people who had painstakingly gone on a journey that fulfilled nothing while also claiming their lives, he couldn’t bring himself to breathe in relief to appreciate the scenery or the environment that were much less harsh when compared to the desert. He still had things to do.He walked a bit further from the forest and it wasn’t long before he arrived at a small town which had a scarcity in the number of people walking on the street and looked like a mini version of Nethrowl’s capital as far the atmosphere was concerned, fortunately before he could walk further he saw a shop that he was looking for, he entered the shop that sold all sort of th
Chapter 84: The Last one Off
Elaris, his partner and Radai hurried to the gate with their might, kicking the crazies blocking their way away without lingereing too much, there was no need to fight them anymore because the number advantage was greatly against them, the most they could do was hide when needed and run when concerned. It would be their end if they were caught.Suddenly Radai’s movement slowed down considerably, which made Elaris turn to look at the man, without asking any question he dragged him behind a stone with the other man and the three of them hid there.“What is wrong with you?” Elaris whispered, in order not to get the attention of the crazy people with his voice.“I think the disease is acting up,” Radai replied and the temperamental guy glared at him.“Are you nuts?” He asked. “You gave us the stupid cure, don’t tell me that you haven’t swallowed at least a dozen of it.”“Uh… I think it must have been when he held me earlier, I just realized it now but his hand was sweaty and strange when
Chapter 83: Out of Control
Everybody froze with complicated expressions on their faces, there was no saying if they should advance forward and bash the two men standing with their back against each other or withdraw to their master who was already bleeding from the thin slice on his neck.There was a dead silence as everyone continued to stare at each other, Elaris and his partner continued to advance backward and near the houses, it was easier to find an escape route around their than at the front.“Boo,” Radai said, and Eadai glared hard ahead since he couldn’t turn his head or he would risk detaching his head from the body.“What the hell are you doing?” Eadai asked, his lips trembling as he clenched his hand tightly.“What does it look like, brother? I think it is self explanatory,” Radai replied.Elaris and his partner had walked a considerable distance from them all but then all the soldiers standing at the rare gate also came forward and stopped behind them.“Your time is up, you have pranced around for
Chapter 82: Subduction
It wasn’t the time to show mercy or try to play around with the men, so Elaris and his crew fought their out of the group that surrounded them, cutting them down furiously and not waiting to check if they were dead or not, the major concern was to leave Faded Mountain as soon as possible.“You can survive life without your brother, yes?” Elaris asked and Radai snorted.“How old do you think I am to ask that question? Two?” Radai fired back.“Who knows, you might have been accustomed to him taking care of your needs that you wouldn’t want to leave him, there are all types of twisted reasons and love flying around.” The temperamental guy fired, hitting one man’s neck with his knife before he stabbed another.“I am not that attached to being lazy, besides, it is if I leave that I would be able to use medicines as much as I would like to.”“You could have fooled me,” Elaris replied as he slashed two men who rushed over to him.There was no need for any accursed mercy right now, they would
