Silver Sword Sect (Arena)

“And… BEGIN!”

Crowds roared at the announcement, and even Maria looked on with excited eyes. The two disciples on stage began to approach each other cautiously until the boy with the brown hair made his move. Mana instantly left his body and formed several fire figures which resembled demonic beasts.

The beasts roared and rushed towards the other figure. Right before the first figure arrived the younger boy formed a shield and made several dragons made up of water. The beasts engaged each other, until the water dragons won out. Steam filled the stage, and the older boy used his mana to strengthen his body as he rushed towards his opponent.

Each boy had more power than any of the outer disciples, and they seemed to be in awe of the boy’s fighting power. The fight lasted a total of about half an hour, and the victor ended up being the 14 year old.

[Maria] “Every once in awhile some inner sect disciples fight, so the bell rings to tell us when! It’s a rare chance to see such powerful moves!”

Powerful huh? I have seen moves that make those seem like child’s play… however that was in my past life. Now I have the chance to be powerful myself… so I must work hard… harder than the rest.

[Maria] “By the way… how old are you? You seem to be pretty young.”

[Me] “… eight.”

[Maria] “*Sigh* so Elder Choro has done it again.”

[Me] “What? Again?”

[Maria] “Yeah… Elder Choro is known for taking people slightly younger than ten at times…”

[Me] “So that’s not normal…”

As I thought, usually you have to be ten. This elder is just prone for breaking rules. How does he get away with it?

I head out of the arena ahead of Maria and decide to do some training. There is a forest around here, so I think it would be a wise decision to practice my skills on the demonic beasts there. I shall go at night that way I can avoid all the other disciples.

As I’m walking back to my room / house I notice quite a few fellow disciples looking in my direction. I wonder why? My robe is the same as theirs, and I’m not doing anything in particular to stand out. Looking around I see no other people near me that could be the center of everyone’s attention, so I speed up and quickly enter my house. I take a glance in Maria’s hand mirror and see that nothing is wrong with my appearance. I sincerely hope I didn’t offend anyone or do anything wrong…

--------------Outer Disciple Meng’s POV--------------

I am standing with a few of my friends beside an outer-sect shop when I hear whispering.

[Friend] “Wha… Look at her man!”

Turning to where my friend was pointing I see a beauty. She is an elf with blond hair and brown eyes. Her figure was skinny, and she seems to be quite a beauty. I find myself drawn to her even though she does seem a bit young. I know for certain that she must be new because if she wasn’t everyone would know her by now. Considering her approximate age and time she showed up, the infamous Elder Choro must have done it again.

Every man’s eyes were viewing her as a wolf watches a sheep, and even the women were looking at her admirably. Just who is she?!

--------------Luna’s POV--------------

Night finally showed its face and I stepped out of the house. Running to the forest, I send out my mana to act like a sensor to tell me if any other disciples are in the forest. When my mana determines that there are no others I head into the forest.

Upon reaching a clearing I see two red-horned bears. They seem to be fighting, and the larger one is clearly dominating the smaller. Despite that fact, both bears seem to be wounded and are running out of energy.

I am pretty excited because red-horned bears have demonic cores that are full of thick mana. All I have to do is watch both bears wear each other down and then kill the victor. Suddenly the large red-horn bear struck down the smaller one and I suddenly sprang into action. I pulled out my sword, which I found in my house, and used wind blade to cut the bear’s head.

Hehehehe… two hard-to-kill demonic beast’s cores are now mine! Well, to be fair, they are simple to kill if one had an appropriate tier and experience, but for me it was a large accomplishment.

I pick up the demon cores and pull of the demonic red-horn bear’s horns. These horns could be used for magical items, so they should sell for quite a bit. Now to find a place to cultivate the cores.

I run around for a bit and finally my eyes gleam. The perfect place has appeared… and that is a cave! Sure enough, with just a little searching I found a cave hidden deep within the forest. I go to approach it when a roar suddenly shakes the mana within my body.

I look around frantically for the source of such strength when I suddenly see a Red-horned, Three-tailed Demonic Snake. This particular demonic beast was a rare breed and no problem for a stage 4 cultivator. Me being an early stage 2 cultivator could not even dream about it, but if I were to get a disciple from the inner sect… well they would have a chance. The only problem with this is having them have no questions about why I wanted this beast dead. Hmm… I guess it would be impossible to find an idiot in the inner sect willing to do things without question.

Sigh… to give up on such a perfect cave… tears begin to form in the corner of my eyes. Quickly wiping the tears, I head to find another place. One hour later I find a clearing at the outer edge of the forest. Here I could easily kill any of the demonic beasts, so I feel relatively safe. I sit down and cultivate the demonic cores.

I feel the cores fuel my mana, however my mana only breaks through to tier 7. It took me a couple days of meditation and three demonic cores, two of which were pretty high in mana, yet I only advanced one tier. Hmm… it seems like it will take a lot more mana to advance than previously. My research was correct when it said that it gets harder the more you advance.

Tsk! This looks like it will be harder than I originally thought. I return to my house that I share with Maria and lay down on my bed. My nose cringes when the musky smell hits me, but my exhaustion kicks in and I fall asleep.