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2024-10-29 19:42:56On the same night, the cover of darkness increased thanks to the moon and the stars hiding their faces behind floating masses of water.
At about a thousand meters high, an owl was flying through the sky. Bontu was sitting on its back. Kane, too, was there, sitting with his hands tied and mouth gagged. And his face was additionally covered up with a bag.
“If you had opened your mouth, then we could have avoided this,” Bontu still didn’t give up on hearing a name come out of Kane’s mouth. “It’s still not too late.” He removed the bag off of Kane’s face.
Kane’s eyes however showed no change. If anything, they were glowing red as ever.
Bontu shook his head and looked ahead. They were heading right into a forest full of ta
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WHIT 124 - JUST A BYPRODUCT
“Kane is more than meets the eye.” Bontu looked at Helia for support. “We must find him no matter what.”“Fret not,” Helia replied in an assuring tone. “Kane can’t leave these grounds so easily.”At the same moment, about ninety miles away to the west from where Edgar was.A mysterious man was flying away on a bat at extreme speeds. The upper half of his face was covered by his unmoving hair. He was smiling as he looked at Kane. “Are you still mad that I wasted your arm? Don’t worry. When we get back, I’ll help you grow it back soon enough.”“I said I didn’t need help. Why did you come, Boru?” Kane was sitting cross-legged, looking a bit frustrated. “Did ‘he’
WHIT 125 - WITHIN THE WINTER
The next morning.There was a ruckus in the mission hall regarding the incident that took place in the forest that was on its north.“Hey, did you hear that a fight took place last night in the Monkey Forest?”“What?”“And the High Elder himself was in action, it seems.”“Eh? Really? Who would dare fight against him?”“No idea. But they must have been powerful as their fight lasted an hour or so.”“No wonder I couldn’t sleep well last night. The rumbling sounds I heard in the sky last night must be because of their fight.”
WHIT 126 - THE MAN IN THE GRAY MASK
Edgar understood where she was going. “Fine. Since it’s only becoming an outer disciple and not an inner disciple, I will become—”Just then his eyes caught sight of someone walking along the nearby road that was on the other side of half-destroyed rooms, someone in a dark brown cloak with silver designs on it. Every inch of the body, from the head to the toes was covered up pretty well. And the sight of the white wolf mask with red markings froze his expression.He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There was no such figure now. He quickly stood and scuttled toward that road, puzzling his sister. He crossed the rooms and reached the road swiftly and looked around. It was practically desolate. “Am I seeing things?” he scratched his head. “Why did I remember her now?”&l
WHIT 127 - SUCCESS
In the evening, at the mission hall.Bontu just arrived on a muscular and was shocked upon hearing that they finished five missions in the span of twelve hours. “Are you guys even sleeping?”“We would love to, but we don’t get paid to sleep, do we?” Edgar asked back.“Still, sleep is important,” Bontu stressed his words.“Yeah, but don’t ask about that,” Edgar took out a sack and handed it to Bontu.“Mm? What’s this?”“Check it yourself,” said Edgar.After opening the sack and looking inside, Bontu’s eyes expanded upon seeing more than a hun
WHIT 128 - THE COIN I
The Great Wash was the testing ground for foot disciples, where they could be promoted to outer disciples, given they passed the required number of tests. It took Bontu hours to get to the testing grounds, as a lot of challenges kept popping in his way. For instance, there were some children who were begging for money. These were born inside the sect, and so they were also foot disciples like him, and though there were missions made especially for those around the level of the kids, they were mostly taken away by other outer disciples, leaving these kids with nothing but tougher missions that they couldn’t hope to finish. As a result, most of the children served other adult foot disciples, whereas a few resorted to begging in secret. Even though the children looked weak, Bontu didn’t give them any money or the evergreat coins. He just gave them some food.
WHIT 129 - THE COIN II
“I’m sorry. I can’t see you, so I’m not really sure of your identity,” the daughter replied. “But if you know me, then you should know how good I am. Please tell my father that I’m not a thief!”“Spouting scripted lines again, this little…” Bontu controlled himself as he didn’t want to fail, in which case a hundred evergreat coins would go to waste. (She must be the one who stole the coin. I’m sure.)He then looked at the last one, the innocent-looking boy. “You… What happened to your mouth? Did you not wash your teeth or what?” he purposely teased.The boy shook his head.“Did you steal the coin?”
WHIT 130 - LERO MOUNTAIN
Three days later.Edgar and Fabby had been busy doing missions left and right.For simple missions like ‘Delivering hydra eggs to a master,’ or ‘Supplying lunch to the officers at the mines,’ both the siblings didn’t work. Only one of them worked for the mission, while the other one was busy practicing and honing their skills in the shade of trees near the mission hall itself. But for tough missions like gathering the herbs or feathers or those that demanded physical labor, they worked together.In the past three days itself, they took thirty four missions and finished them all successfully.Now, they were doing five-star sigma-grade missions, so they earned five evergreat coins for every mission, but then either the difficulty or the time i
WHIT 131 - PAY TO SEE
In the evening.“So he joined the sect as a master last year under the name of Borubo, the same time when Kane also joined. Clearly things are adding up,” Macho was reading a report sent from Gavin. “Borubo might also be using a skin mask, but what is his purpose?” He glanced at Selly. “Do you know him?”“I’ve only met him once while on a mission,” Selly was eating a guava. She hated fruits that didn’t have texture to them, which made guava one of her favorite fruits. “He seemed boring, so I didn’t bother getting to know him.”“Mm… His pimples were all for show then. Just to keep unnecessary trouble away. Dig everything you can about this guy. His disciples, and all the people he’s acquainted with,” Macho glanced a
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272 - CLOSED BOOK
Edgar woke up, only to find himself in a pool of mud. He could feel that he was being healed by fish that were swimming in the mud and were nibbling at his skin.At first sight, it might look like they were eating him, but they were actually taking away the negative energy from his body, though he was not able to feel that.Edgar tried to grab one of those fishes, but they turned into pure mud, pleasantly surprising him.He looked at Fabby who was sitting in the distance, by the cliff. “What are these fishes, sis?”“Elder Gavin made them with his drive. He said they can suck away impurities from your body and make you stronger,” Fabby explained. “He said even your drive will get smoother and faster afterward. Also, the negative effect the beast cores have on our bodies can also be reversed, or so he said.”“Such a thing is possible with drive?” Edgar was both surprised and doubtful. “These fish are biting me, but I don’t feel any pain.”“Yeah. Just stay there until all those fish are
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271 - DAY BY DAY
The eagle brought the siblings to a mountain range and dropped them next to Gavin who was weaving gloves with drive.He wasn’t surprised to see the position the siblings were in.“Here,” Gavin handed the gloves to the eagle, and it put the gloves on its feet and then screeched in happiness.“Haha, you like them, huh,” Gavin smiled. “They are durable as I knit them with my drive. So, don’t lose them.”Scree~!The eagle replied in a confident voice and then began to walk around happily in its new footwear.“They look like gloves, but they should be called socks, I guess?” Gavin wondered. “Ah, well, whatever…”Gavin then looked at the siblings, out of whom only Fabby was still conscious. She was trying to sit up, and it was taking her a while.“You don’t seem to have any external injuries. You are probably tired from using too much energy,” Gavin said. He sent a bullet of energy into her forehead, which didn’t hurt her but went straight into her brain and melted into it. This suddenly ga
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270 - A DIFFERENCE TOO BIG
“Surfing Strike!’ Edgar’s foot viciously struck Ryu’s face and sent him flying high like a rotating paper fan. Any normal person would have had their head separated from their shoulders from that kick, but Ryu’s neck was flexible as well as sturdy as rubber.Ryu grabbed his head and stopped it from spinning before somersaulting and landing in the distance.“Huh?” Fabby was quite shocked by it. “Why is he not dead? Is he even human?”“His body is a bit special, you see,” Anarga smirked and then looked at Ryu. “But, hey, how could you get hit by that brat like that? You should be glad that there isn’t anyone else around, or it would have brought such shame.”Blood leaked from Ryu’s ruptured upper lip. He licked it and faintly smiled. “It’s been a while since I tasted my own blood.” His eyes turned red.“Oh, crap…” Anarga skipped backward. “You guys brought a disaster on yourself. When he goes into that frenzy mode, he’s unstoppable. Even I wouldn’t dare stand next to him because he can
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269 - KNIGHT OF NIGHT
Anarga squeezed Edgar’s chest down, but when Edgar saw Ryu step toward his sister, he uttered, “Thunder Knight…”The ground beneath them cracked, and the air around them crackled. The very cliff itself vibrated in resonance with Edgar’s heartbeat.Anarga lost her balance just for a second. A double-edged lightning spear appeared in Edgar’s hand, and he thrust it right through her abdomen.She thought it would leave a hole in her, but it didn’t. However, it then electrocuted her to the point her clothes were half-burnt, and she looked like a semi-roasted grizzly bear.Ryu immediately clawed through the middle section of the spear and then took Anarga and jumped a few feet away. “How could you be so careless?”Anarga fell on one of her knees. Blood leaked from both corners of her mouth, even though she tried not to leak any blood.“Does it hurt that much?” Ryu asked.She gave him a glare.“I see…” Ryu then looked at Edgar, who was rising off the ground without the use of his hands, as th
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268 - DRAGON THAT DEVOURS ALL FLAMES
Anarga’s body went into the rock, causing cracks all around her to spread for over thirty feet.Ryu’s feet were still locked by the earthen boots that Fabby had created, but he forcefully broke through them and whipped his leg at Edgar. “Dragon Knock!”“Ngh!” Edgar raised his left arm and blocked the kick with his forearm.Ryu’s foot forced its way through Edgar’s flame drive and struck his forearm and hit a nerve, sending a jolt of shock through to Edgar’s brain. On top of that, Edgar’s forearm got dislocated near the elbow.Ryu’s kick still sent a gust of energy over into the distance, which ended up blasting away a part of the cliff, shocking Fabby and Edgar.Fabby’s heart shook at that moment because if Edgar hadn’t deflected that kick, he wouldn’t have just got his arm dislocated. It was Edgar’s hunter-like instinct of parrying the kick at the last second was what saved him from experiencing a crushing defeat.Ryu didn’t even use drive. Whether he could even use drive or not, Edg
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267 - HOTTER THAN FIRE
“Is this the best you can do?” Ryu said disappointedly. “I know you can do better, bald brat.” He treated Edgar as nothing more than a kid because he was much older than him. “Why don’t you show me what you got, or I’ll kill this bald girl.”Edgar, who was bleeding profusely from the chest, felt his soul stirring madly after hearing Ryu’s words.“Don’t listen to him,” Fabby said in a low voice. “We are not their match. Fighting them will only put us at a disadvantage. And there’s no one else here to stop the fight in case things go bad. It doesn’t benefit us in any way no matter how I look at it. Moreover, you are already badly injured.”Fabby’s words made total sense, but there was one thing that she didn’t consider. Edgar just couldn’t digest let alone accept the fact that Anarga Utsav had used her wind attack and pushed Fabby off the cliff. What if Fabby died from that?Edgar utterly disliked Anarga as well as Ryu. He didn’t want them to leave with a sense of victory.“Sis,” Edgar
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266 - PERSONAL MISSION
“AHHH!” The siblings cried out in horror, mostly because of the pure shock value. Their eyes sprang out of the sockets. They totally didn’t expect that the eagle would do such a thing.Edgar was about to use his skill, but Fabby quickly said, “No, wait.”“Huh? Wait for what?” Edgar asked her back as winds viciously whipped at their faces.“Just wait,” she replied. As both of them kept getting closer to the ground, Edgar’s heart raced fast. “Screw this. I’m-” he was saying, but then the eagle suddenly came swooping down and caught both of them when they were about 100ft close to the ground and took them away with him.Edgar and Fabby held onto its talons so they wouldn’t fall.The eagle stopped by another mountain top and acted as if everything was okay.“You think I’ll thank you for saving our asses, you shitty bird!” Fabby punched the eagle hard in the face. “I thought I was going to die! You were the cause for scaring me near to death.”Even Edgar looked angry. His heart jumped in
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265 - LOVE AND DUTY
Coming back to the present.The eagle had no idea who Edgar was, so Fabby had to do all the work except for flying. “Where is he?”She was worried for many reasons.The eagle even flew over the colosseum grounds, and she shouted for him, “Are you there, Eddie?”“Who’s that?” some masters and disciples wondered as she wasn’t clearly visible from below. “How rude of her to be flying over this place when the competition is still going on?”“He’s not here, either,” Fabby told the eagle to keep flying.As she kept looking around, she noticed someone bathing in an open pond. Just when she looked at him, he also looked up. She remembered his face mask. This was the same guy she met in a cave not long ago.Numo was not wearing a shirt right now, and his body was pristine white. It wasn’t muscular, but it still looked athletic and toned. It was very attractive, especially because he was a tall man.“Ahem,” Fabby looked away.After the eagle flew out of his sight, Numo continued rubbing his body
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264 - THORNS AND THISTLES II
Months turned to years.Even though working in the fields had become a daily habit, so did the body pains. If not feet, then legs; if not legs, then back; if not back, then something else in the body took the turn. And by the time they got home, they were pretty tired, yet they wouldn’t be able to eat what they had produced or found.They were only given a limited amount of food such as corn or grains so they could make soup and live with it. The same plain soup with no vegetables in them whatsoever waited for them every night. And they were not paid anything else for their labor, for they were forced to work for the rest of their lives. There was no contract. Nothing. They were pretty much treated like cattle, or maybe even worse, with the only difference being their ability to talk. No matter how they were treated, they still worked hard, for most of them had reasons, be it their children and families.Fabby had Edgar, and Edgar had Fabby. Everyone had someone else they were willing
