The wilderness one of the most dangerous places on the blood continent, settlement of an innumerable amount of magical beasts of any kind, legend says that a heaven ranked magical beast dwells inside but no one entered deeply in the wilderness and left alive to tell the tale.

Yefan was seated under a tree resting, he still didn’t leave the black scaled lizards territory, it was already night he reckoned that it was too dangerous to move by night due to the dense foliage and unpredictable magical beasts, all around him were corpses of lizards all cleanly beheaded, in front of him a fire was lit and some meat was being cooked, he didn’t want to attract other beasts so after a short time he extinguished the fire leaving the moonlight as means of illumination.

His back against a tree and his sword between his legs Yefan was gently stroking the storage ring that was given to him by the old man with an expressionless face, sometimes his eyes flashed not knowing what he was thinking.

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“Mother…mother I got a good grade on my exam! And the teacher praised me hehe”

A young and cheerful child barged inside a room.

“Oh sweety congratulation, your mother is so proud of you “

A beautiful woman was lying on a bed reading a book, her eyes were full of tenderness and her expression was warm looking at the child.

“hehe thank you mom ! Today I made some friends at school“

“Oh you made friends mommy is jealous now I will feel lonely …”

The woman made a teasing expression while smiling secretly.

“No mom I will always be with you! “

The child rushed in the embrace of the woman.

“Silly child mommy was just teasing you hahaha “said the woman while gently caressing the hair of the child.

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“You are not worthy of him! How did you do to become his wife did you seduce him you vixen! “

“Calm down miss, why are you saying this?”

Two women were facing each other one of them was pointing to the other on her face was rage and apparently she was drunk, she had short hair and wasn’t a mesmerizing beauty but we can at least admit that she was pretty but her expression was ugly.

One of them was the beautiful mother that was with the child.

“You are from a poor background! You don’t deserve to be a part of this family! How can you be better than me!” the short haired woman began to yell hysterically.

The child was hiding behind his mother looking scared, he was afraid of the woman who was insulting his mother continuously, that wasn’t the first time it happened in fact it happened many times that the child wasn’t able to count anymore and each time his mother will look so sad and uncomfortable but she always tried to appease her withstanding all the insults and verbal violence, the child didn’t understand why his mother never defended herself against all this persecution.

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“Old man I succeeded hahaha “a young man with long black hair exclaimed enthusiastically

“Good your sword techniques have tremendously improved “the old man praised

After completing the training and sitting beside each other eating some fruits, the old man began to talk about him.

“When I was your age I had the best teachers, coming from a line of nobles and having all I wanted I was talented and conceited but one day an incident made me wake up and notice that I was wrong to be arrogant and I was wrong to think that I was special , what family what background this is all bullshit in front of absolute power things like money or family are nothing so I trained hard and became strong to the point that I began to feel disdain for my family who always flaunted its political power and riches so I left and I didn’t feel regret I pursued my dreams and lived my life fully until the day I was crippled , I felt like falling into the darkness , my power I had lost my dreams coming to an end but I met those simple people they treated me kindly and even healed me , they didn’t feel greed or having malicious thought no they simply help someone injured that was the way they lived …young man I saw you having nightmares sometimes and looking at you it was probably painful but I want to tell you something …I want you to think of us as family we will always help you when I first saw you I had a hunch you were not a normal young man and probably the amnesia is also some sort of excuse ….”

The old man looked mysteriously at the young man before continuing.

“But it doesn’t matter to us, I knew that you were a good person …”the old man smiled and patted the back of the young man.

The young man looked at the old man with a complicated expression before standing and bowing.

“Thank you!”

“haha no need for ceremony I’m just an old timer …”

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Yefan reminiscing about the past he didn’t feel sad or wanted to cry on the contrary his eyes flashed coldness and deep hatred that penetrated the soul, his hands tightly gripped the soul slayer between his legs.

“So be it … I have no one in the other world, and now living here is more interesting I will climb the stairs of power and reach the pinnacle with my own hands , all the enemies will be trampled over and cut to pieces, my revenge will be the first step …”murmured Yefan before slowly closing his eyes sleeping.

The next day, Yefan woke up early and executed his agility techniques a number of times to get rid of the coldness of the early morning , the meat of the lizard didn’t have any negative effect so that means magical beast meat is edible concluded Yefan.

All along the wilderness a river crossed to each extremity, Yefan knew that he needed a source of water so he always moved not too far from the river.

Today he spent three hours meditating to increase his Mana after that he hunted some black scaled lizards, they became easy prey for Yefan and even four or five of them were not his opponent anymore.

The problem of water always bother Yefan he didn’t want to always go drinking directly from the river, thinking carefully he decided to look inside the ring, the old man before dying removed the restraint and now he was able to use it, to look inside was simple it only needed the owner to send a little amount of Mana inside the ring.

Yefan concentrated and unlocked the space, he was surprised, it was a 5x5x5 meter cubic space inside was various objects, Yefan sweeping the space with his consciousness found a large amount of gold and some rare gemstones, there was also lumps of different kinds of metals and even some weapons but they were clearly inferior to his soul slayer, he searched all the objects and finally found a leather jug.

Yefan then proceeded to go to the river, it wasn’t too far it only took five minutes to reach the place, what appeared was a large flowing river and the a spacious surface without the thick tall trees some rocks were here and there, Yefan cautiously walked near the edge of the river to fill the jug with water, he already left the territory of the lizards so he always was on his guard who knows what sort of magical beast will appear.

Slowly filling the jug he noticed that the river was deep and he wasn’t able to see the bottom at all even with his enhanced vision, suddenly a tremendous sense of danger engulfed him and his hair stood on end, in front of Yefan the water began to deform and a huge shadow rapidly surfaced, a large sharp teethed and hideous mouth surged and attempted to gobble him up, fortunately he clearly sensed the danger and reacted properly by jumping backward distancing himself from the river.

“What is that?”

Due to the abnormal power of the jaw the edge of the river got literally destroyed leaving a deep hole , Yefan gazing at the scene saw a long and slender creature , it was green and had scales all over , it eyes were small .

“a giant serpent ?...” Yefan thought.

But he didn’t even finish his sentence when the monster completely made its appearance, what he was now seeing was a mix of a turtle and snake.

It had a long neck and a large shell that dominated two thirds of its body, a powerful and intimidating long tail that exuded strength and its extremity was sharp and looked like the head of an arrow.

What stunned Yefan was its size, five meters of length and three meter tall, Yefan looked like a child in front of it.

He quickly seized his sword that was on his back and stared coldly at the turtle like monster, this was the second magical beast that he encountered in the wilderness, judging by its magical flow it was of the second rank but its level was near to the third rank, it was most likely soon going to breakthrough.

The monster eyes flashed a bloodthirsty light and intently stared at Yefan, all of sudden a flash passed by an aimed at him.

“Fast! ”

Yefan didn’t see the flash clearly but he thought he was likely to die if he was hit directly, he didn’t have the time to dodge so he tried to block with his sword.

SFX: Clank!

A metallic sound rang, the body of Yefan got blown away by the force and was smashed against a rock at a distance of several meters.

“Gasp!”

On the rock appeared cracks proof of the impact and the physical strength of Yefan but nevertheless he got injured, blood escaped from his mouth.

“Shit what the fuck was that?”

Yefan wiped the blood from his mouth and vigilantly looked at the creature, in front of it the tail was dangling in the air boasting its sharpness.

Indeed what hit Yefan was the tail, its speed was fast, it stuck heavily and accurately, truly a dreadful weapon.

Seeing him barely blocking the monster became irritated and launched another attack, the tip of the tail aimed at his head, Yefan concentrated and dodged, the tail grazed him leaving a scratch on his cheek following by striking the rock, Yefan quickly moved as to not being hit by the debris.

The tail embedded itself on the rock and a deep hole bore through before slowly retracting, missing its target again the magical beast became enraged and launched multiple frenzied attacks hoping to impale its prey.

Yefan focused with all his mind , sometimes he parried sometimes he dodge he slowly adapted to the speed , suddenly he made a slash and tried to cut the tail , the monster was surprised but it didn’t try to evade .

SFX: clank!

A sound of metal again resounded, a shallow mark was left on the scales covering the tail but Yefan blow didn’t inflict the slightest damage.

“Oh shit “

The tail didn’t wait for Yefan and struck against his side fortunately it wasn’t with the tip or he would’ve been pierced, it looked like slapping a bug nonetheless he felt like his ribs got broken even with his strong physic , after being blown away for a second time he gritted his teeth and was able to land properly .

“ugh!”

Touching his ribs he felt the bitter pain in this fight he suffered greatly and had difficulty contending against the magical beast it wasn’t the same with the black scaled lizards, their speed was fast but their strength was incomparably weak resulting in them using surprise attacks.

“No choice I have to use that, a normal sword doesn’t work “Yefan murmured coldly

This time Yefan concentrated his Mana, a crackling sound was heard and the blade of his soul slayer got enveloped by bright blue lightening, the aura of Yefan rose exponentially, this was the first time he will use magic in a fight.

Sensing the pressure emanating from the sword the turtle like monster became wary and felt threatened, it launched several attacks more powerful than the previous ones.

Yefan barely dodged, with his agility technique he moved along with amazing speed before griping his sword and striking against the base of the tail.

SFX: Howl!!!!

A deafening sound was emitted from the monster proof of it being injured, the powerful tail was completely separated and fell on the floor twitching.

The eyes of the magical beast became red and it became mad it stomped the ground making it tremble, it suddenly opened its mouth wide a ball of water quickly condensed and was aimed at Yefan.

“Not good! “

Yefan was about to move but it was too late, the ball of water was like a bullet and was shot at him at an extraordinary speed, this was the innate technique of the monster it looked like a basic magic spell but it was more powerful.

When the water ball was about to hit Yefan a transparent wall shielded him.

SFX: boom!

A mini explosion of water was made, it was the result of the clash, Yefan got pushed back several meters living deep trails on the ground.

The wall of wind was the defensive spell that he learned and was given by Wilkins it came in handy this time but imagining being hit by that ball of water made Yefan shiver.

(I need to kill it quick or I will die I already consumed quite the amount of Mana and I don’t know if there are other enemies ...)

The wind shield disappeared and Yefan quickly closed the distance between him and the monster, after that he jumped high bypassing its head and thrust downward aiming at the back of its thick neck with his lightening imbued sword, the tip of the sword easily penetrated the scales before allowing all the blade to drill inside inflicting a mortal wound, the smell of charred meat emanated from the hole.

Withdrawing his word, the hole spurted a large amount of deep red blood that splashed his face.

SFX: Howl!!!!

This time the pained cry was more intense, the magical beast struggled chaotically, due to the wild movements Yefan hoped down from its back landing steadily on the ground, he didn’t loosen his guard and nervously looked at the magical beast writhing in agony, it struggled for several minutes before finally slumping on the hard floor but it was still breathing heavily.

Yefan was panting but he was finally relieved and walked slowly toward the dying creature, looking at its expression, its eyes contained hatred, anxiousness and fear it also looked like it was pleading for its life.

Yefan with his face and body bathed in blood appeared frightening, his eyes were abnormally cold and emotionless.

It was the eyes of a cold-blooded man.

He lifted his sword before delivering the finishing blow beheading the magical beast without a shred of hesitation.

Yefan figure appeared to be lonely and sad but also ruthless and cold, this battle initiated the long and full of struggle survival journey…

End.