Chapter 15 - Dao Partners, Forever Sek Si part 2

Outside the room,

"What is the meaning of this exactly, young lady?" asked Ke Si in confusion. He had rarely seen Charlotte behave so strangely.

"Just now, I received some intel that the group following us is beginning to surround this location," Charlotte's face was solemn, "They seem to be aware that the Fort Master has departed."

"How could that possibly be?" Ke Si was utterly stunned. "The Fort Master is a powerful mortal pharaoh! How could the enemy possibly detect his movements? Unless...No. It cannot be. Could it be that there is really a spy?"

"Maybe," Charlotte didn't deny it, as these words were indeed logical. However, she was familiar with this cult, and she had a different idea, " it is undoubtedly the only conclusion that makes a lick of sense. Unless, of course, there is someone by Fort Master's side that they can track through... special means. Maybe more than one person."

Ke Si's face turned sinister and dark shadowy smoke started to leak from his body, "Special means, indeed. Fuck, how could we overlook such a big issue? I should have long since made the connection. With her talent...this is truly not good."

"Less of this, let us go now! We have to find your kinsman and stop them from tracking us again!" responded Charlotte sternly.

"What about the young master? I cannot simply," Ke Si was thoroughly uncomfortable with the idea of leaving Jodye behind while this place was under siege.

"If I am aware of the enemy, do you think that she is not? Has she even showed concern towards this?" asked Charlotte matter-of-factly.

"This..." Ke Si knew exactly who this 'she' that Charlotte was referring too was. His tense nerves suddenly relaxed. He placed his hand on Slaughter's shoulder with determined eyes, "Indeed. Fine, we will go now."

A midnight shadow force field instantly covered Charlotte Slaughter and Ke Si as they both disappeared from the palace. Many masters in the underground bazaar had their brow twitch as a dominant force passed through their perceptions like a ghost. Some of the more astute masters in this underground world caught a glimpse of shadow and sword qi.

"Go to the dawn," instructed Charlotte Slaughter. Moments late,r Ke Si and Charlotte walked out of the shadow of a rock pillar.

In front of them was a beautiful sight that one would never imagine seeing underground. It looked like an upside-down jungle. There were even exotic trees and other foliage growing with the stalactite on the cave ceiling. There were rolling hills, winter peaks, and fertile valleys. Below was a multi-layered mist, with the first layer being white.

In front of the duo was a large cliff face, that stood 800 meters above that mist. It was impossible to see the bottom beneath the cloud. This was the region known as The Dawn. It was also the path that pharaoh used to travel between the different Wards. Standing near the edge of the cliff was a camp of at least 50 warriors wearing bone armor. In the center of this encampment, Ke Si was able to feel a faint bloodline resonance. There was a woman with olive skin laying naked on the ground. Her clothes were torn and in shambles, and she was covered in sticky fluid.

"Pu Si." Ke Si's eyes were dreadful as he could only imagine what these evil bastards had done to his clanmate, "Pu Si was the shadow vassal of Layla Goldwolf. Could Layla have been captured by White Demon Temple?"

"I've got three agents in their camp. That priest is rumored to be at the Void Philosopher Sage Realm. I can't tell what his Sinner Cultivation is, but the rest are two elite level priests, five senior expert level Saints, and a bundle of other junior sage experts," reported Hell's Daughter Charlotte Slaughter.

"Even if he is at the Prism Rank, we will not allow him to cast anything significant," replied Ke Si calmly, his level-headed response greatly reassuring Hell's Daughter. Reassurance that only grew greater when she saw him tap his cane and six triple-layered magic circles that radiated black runic light. Although Ke Si was a saint, he possessed a unique holy weapon that could use magic. This made the head butler the equivalent of a high-level priest. Ke Si smiled complacently, "He is likely entirely focused on the task at hand. As long as I catch him off guard, does it even matter that he's a rank higher than us?"

"Good, take out the priest. Then I will handle the rest," as Charlotte spoke her pale golden atmosphere exploded as she shot forward like a cannonball. In front of the camp were four guards in black armor painted with a two-headed white snake. Charlotte crashed into the four guards protecting the front of camp as the Swordfire Death Halberd appeared in her hands. Once the Heaven's Mantle was equipped her battle strength instantly tripled! Every time she swung her halberd, a maelstrom of flaming slaughter sword qi ravished an enemy into ashes. Within less than a minute of landing, 27 of the enemy warriors' camp had fallen to Charlotte's frenzied attacking.

Ke Si was stunned as even the force of Charlotte's weakest blow was still 21 AP. This was very powerful.

Deep in the enemy camp, within the main tent, a Voodoo Priest villain named Jonte Mack had his eyes closed. He chanted a mantra while using his spiritual qi to refine Pu Si's blood essence into curse marks to write a sinister curse art. His focus was so intense that he didn't immediately notice the commotion, "Eh?"

"WHO DARES!" Sinister force waves released from his body as his eyes snapped open. He stood up shredding the tent into pieces. A broadsword with eight-feet-blade covered in creepy eyes that moved on their own manifested in his hand as his combat aura tripled. He immediately noticed Charlotte Slaughter wantonly destroying their camp and murdering his subordinates. He grimaced but moved to engage this killing star. However, Jonte Mack only took two steps before falling back in retreat. He jumped and dodged from side to side as if he was a beast trying to throw something off his back.

30 meters away from him, a puppet made of some strange metal floated in the air. It was dressed like a butler and looked a little funny. However, this was not the terrifying part. The moment this puppet appeared, Jonte Mack felt the presence of arcane forces all around him. It was similar to the feeling of being cursed, yet different as well. What Jonte didn't realize was that on his shadow six magic circles had suddenly appeared, barely visible since they were also covered in black light.

"That's it! Dark hack! Crucify!" Jonte Mack slashed like a maniac at the evil looking puppet that seemed to be taunting him and making faces. Black sword light containing piercing energy waves crashed into the puppet, but some weird force deflected it all.

Behind this battle, Ke Si calmly rose from Pu Si's shadow, cradling her in his arms. She was barely alive. This indicated to Ke Si that the only thing keeping her alive was the fact that Layla was also alive. In that case, where was she?

"For daring to harm a member of my clan, only one outcome remains for you. Death." Ke Si spat, his fury making his temple veins throb. Jonte Mack turned his head, but sneered. Did they think a little puppet was enough to stop him? However, Ke Si's next words sent a shiver down his spine.

"Time to stop playing around, Jinx," Ke Si's gaze was so cold and emotionless that it gave Jonte Mack a chill.

"Yes master," said the evil butler puppet as a sage aura suddenly exploded from it's person. It was at this moment that Jonte finally noticed the spell on his shadow. However, it was a step too late. "IMMOLATE!"

BANG!

The Voodoo Priest's shadow was blown into nothing, forever disappearing from this world.

"NOOOO!~~" Jonte Mack felt like his soul had been obliterated from within his body, his ghastly scream filling his desperate subordinates with dread as they fought with their lives on the line. Jonte's lifeless body slunk to the ground, and Ke Si vanished into the shadows once more.

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Ultimately, Jodye decided it didn't really matter to him what they were doing. Even if they had disobeyed a direct order to sneak around like two high school children, and also if Charlotte had already promised herself to him. He would get over it.

Jodye Trill stood up and looked around the room, ignoring the intrusive gaze of the now standing Sek Si, which seemed to be permanently trained on himself. This was apparently a large and magnificent cultivation room within the palace. It had a meditation platform that could use the formation inscribed on it to draw in energies of the heavens and the earth. It also had a stone room where one could practice martial arts, or more specifically, Sage Arts.

There were also a couple of saunas and restrooms on this wing of the palace, and in the sleeping quarters. There was even some wine, juices, and fruits, all of which contained potent spiritual energies. Everything he needed was within reach, and there were plenty of things he couldn't identify at all. He immediately decided to take these things with him once he left.

This felt like a paradise to the current Jodye Trill, whose only thought was to grow and get stronger. Once he had sufficient strength, he believed his parents would let him roam around outside the estate. After all, this was Jodye's first time ever leaving his home since coming to this world!

Jodye made his way over to the platform and sat cross-legged in the center of it. Sek Si followed behind his every movement, silently, like a shadow, before sitting cross-legged next to Jodye. It was unknown what she thought as she stared at him.

Thus, he had to ask her, "What's the matter? Are you feeling unsatisfied?"

"No, young master, not at all," Sek Si frantically shook her head, slightly in a panic. Her handsome face turned beet red as she mumbled another response, "It's...I'm sure it is just a side-effect of the blood pact. Please continue to do your own things."

Inwardly she was thinking, "Why does my heart feel so unsettled the moment I remove my eyes from him? Is this really the blood pact? How terrifying."

Jodye Trill glanced once at Sek Si, causing her to blush slightly. He noticed that his natural sense of caution didn't seem to apply to this young girl anymore. He trusted her completely, and this was instinctive, similar to how it was with Sylvester Tricko. So many things had happened today, he barely had any time to process everything. Jodye quietly sighed, before flipping his palm, where a shiny blue book covered in runes appeared with a flash of light.

This was none other than the Bright Star: Battle Book, the mental cultivation method given to Jodye Trill by Grandpa Geb!

Cultivation is the understanding of, and the manipulation of the forces of the universe! More importantly mental cultivation was about becoming one with not just your current environment, but to understand that all of us are part of the reality of the universe, we are from it, we merge with it, and will be reborn from it.

The Titanic Rage Law was an immortal body transformation cultivation method that was focused on astral energies and body refinement. It followed the Dao of Supreme Might! It couldn't help refine his spiritual energies, it only converted them into star power, which constantly tempered his blood and flesh, allowing him to gain powerful brute strength and life force!

The Bright Star: Battle Book was different, it could teach Jodye to absorb and manipulate origin energy, as well as extract origin energy from the pure spiritual powers of the heavens and earth. Flipping through the first couple of pages, he was enlightened, as well as terrified. He had apparently been thinking about things all wrong.

"According to the Bright Star: Battle Book, an imbalance of different energies causes all the energy to turn cancerous. How scary!" Jodye felt his back grow cold with sweat. Hadn't Sly and himself been recklessly absorbing origin energy? Hadn't he subsequently done the same with crazy amounts of spirit source? To think he had almost caused his own death. Jodye felt his back wet with cold sweat.

"It is not quite that easy for energy to turn cancerous, Trill loser. You're far too weak to be concerned with such a thing," commentated Sylvester Tricko, rudely interrupting Jodye Trill's inner monologue. "Anyway, less of that, yes? Hurry up and use your spiritual sense to memorize the mental cultivation method. Pay special attention to the breath control, and the method of energy circulation. These are the crucial elements, everything else is secondary."

"Got it," Jodye Trill spoke out loud, startling Sek Si, who was already meditating next to him. This platform was just too useful, and she didn't want to waste even a second. Unfortunately, this boy enjoyed talking to himself. The boy in question was unaware of disturbing her as if he had forgotten that he wasn't alone.

After an hour had passed, Jodye had already committed the entire contents of the Bright Star: Battle Book to his memory. Though he couldn't comprehend all of it, Jodye discovered that when he used the spirit source of his right eye, he could at least remember the cultivation scripture in its entirety. It was like he was looking at it for the first time all over again. He could slowly study it over time.

For now, Jodye closed his eyes in meditation, and immediately entered his Host Space. Inside the Host Space, he activated his Mind's Eye, causing the outside world to be reflected in the Host Space. He then cast his spiritual force inward and observed the flow of energy in his body, before nodding at Sylvester.

"Hmph. Alright then. Let us begin."

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