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2024-10-29 19:42:56About ten days later, on June 28th.
In the morning, Edgar was near the counter, talking with the innkeeper. “We might extend our stay depending on how we do when the beast tide comes. So, can you keep our room reserved till then?”
“I appreciate that you’re asking two days before your reserved limit reaches,” the innkeeper indifferently said, “but I’m afraid there are just too many customers that keep asking for rooms.” He then smiled cheesily.
Edgar squeezed his lips. “So there’s nothing you can do?”
The innkeeper shook his head and then smiled again. “But it should be okay. There are plenty of other places to stay in this town.”
Edgar didn’t
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WHIT 47 - NO STOPPING
Edgar’s heartbeat raised as he witnessed the cruelty and the wickedness of war. This no longer seemed like a simple war between mankind and beastkind. A violent, lawless war it was shaping to be.Even though he was yet to raise his sword and put it to use, a strange burden was already weighing his heart down.But that didn’t stop him from unsheathing his blades and arriving at the eight-limbed bear. His blade deflected an avalanche of claw attacks from its eight limbs.“Flowing Blade Floating Flower Arts…” to the shock of those who were watching, he slipped past its numerous attacks and got to its side.The big bear violently swept its arm at him.He hopped over its fast-moving arm, and a blinding swift horizontal swing of the blade followed
WHIT 48 - SHEEP'S BLOW
The sun almost sank down the horizon.A five-meter-tall elephant threatened to kill a group of defeated people by stomping over them, but Ashang appeared out of nowhere and landed on its neck and punched in its head with his cupped hands a few times, and the elephant crumpled to its feet and bled from its ears and moved no longer.“E-Even our spears couldn’t pierce that elephant’s skin, but he defeated it with his bare hands!”“As expected of one of the Four Masters, the First Master, Ashang! Thank you for saving our lives!”People tried to thank him but he roared in rage. “Shut up, you fools! You would’ve died if not for my interference. Don’t try to take on beasts that are out of your league! You didn’t come h
WHIT 49 - FAMILIAR FACE
A flock of over a hundred sheep poured into the town.“Those damned sheep…” Harley, the head of town guards, was watching the battle from the skies, and he didn’t like what he was seeing. A sparrow came from the side, but just as it got close enough, he shot it and blew its head off. “Let’s go, Keecha. We should lead those things to their graves.”His pet crow, Keecha, descended and flew over the houses. He warned the guards of the incoming threat with hand signals and also told them to guide the sheep in the path he showed.The guards then stood in the streets and blasted their pistols in unison and forced the sheep to change their direction. But even after the sheep were taken care of, the guards had to fight with other beasts such as mongoose, squirrels, rats, cats, snak
WHIT 50 - KILL OR BE KILLED
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WHIT 51 - CLASH OF DRIVES
“Haaa!” Edgar took out the other sword and slashed it vertically at Russell. Russell blocked the blade with his forearm. Hard scales formed on his skin. And the blade couldn’t cut through it. Red energy then enveloped Russell’s whole body as he pushed Edgar’s blade away and headbutted Edgar in the chest. As Edgar got blown back, his foot smashed in Russell’s nose. Russell got sent packing up and backward more so than his opponent. Edgar landed on a table, and Russell stomped his feet on the wall, and both of them lunged at each other. BAM~~!! They met in a thunderous collision, and the shockwave sent Doce and all the nearby coins and tools flying away. <
WHIT 52 - NIGHT'S WOES
A mob of mongooses were hurrying toward an old age home because it didn’t have a door. The only guard stationed there had run away when he saw them coming from afar. Now, only the old people were left in that house. A few dozens of them, most of whom couldn’t even see or walk properly.As the mongooses closed in, an old woman with pale blonde hair and bent back stood near the entrance. She tapped the walking stick on the floor once, and the mongooses suddenly stopped. They forgot that they had the advantage of numbers and scattered away, like their lives depended on it.But the very next moment, the mad bull entered the same street. As it got closer, the old woman’s gaze sent chills down the bull’s spine, and it skidded into a halt and turned its tail and ran away without looking back.&ldquo
WHIT 53 - CLOSE TO DEATH
Harley led the sheep to the south-eastern corner of the town, directly into the wide quick mud, and they got stuck in it. They kept struggling to get out, and that made them sink deeper rather quickly.“Hmph, enrich the soil, you filthy sheep,” he muttered before flying away on his crow.Only seconds later, Lice arrived there. It tried to hop on top of the sheep to reach the other side and run away into the fields.Fabby, too, reached there and was out of breath. However, after seeing the monkey run away into the fields, she didn’t want to pursue it any further. It was just too dangerous to get far from the town because she heard that many beasts would be roaming all around the town for a few days after the war every time.Fabby’s gaze was now set
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273 - CRAZY BEAUTIFUL GIRL
After bathing in the mud pool created by Elder Gavin, Edgar came down the mountain to bathe in the river, as per his sister’s orders.“My Fuzzy Step has gotten much lighter,” Edgar found himself smiling. “I don’t feel any soreness in the muscles. The pain in the toes and shin is also completely gone.”He felt so refreshed, he jumped off tall, thin boulders that were hundreds of feet apart.And he jumped in the river with full energy.He swam underwater like a fish and shot himself out of the water like a fish and landed on the shore.To his surprise, there was a girl who just covered herself with clothes. Her hair and body was still wet. Her thighs and below were still uncovered.Her skin was so white. He had never seen someone so white before. And her blue eyes were striking.“I-I’m sorry,” Edgar turned the other way. “I didn’t know you were in the river.”“This has never happened to me before,” she uttered in a cold voice.“What never happened?”“Someone disturbing my peaceful bathin
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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
