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Chapter 4 - New Strength!

Hmph! Even with this kid's potential, I will not believe that he can comprehend any method in the book in two years!

When the “Forgery Sage” tried to comprehend one of the methods in “Divine Emperor's Manner”, it actually takes him more than one year! And he not even achieved a perfect comprehension!

Hira’s face are dripping with sweat while he trying to comprehend the first method of “Divine Emperor's Manner”!

The Manner of Greeting! When you want to get to know someone, what will you start with? When you meet your friend when walking on a certain path, how will you respond? When you meet a respectable person what would you do?

What does greeting stands for?

Respect, relationship and equality!

A way to show respect to another being! A way to show the intimation or relationship between others! A way to show the equality rank between all beings!

All essence is not just an emotionless life form, they also need to be loved, respected and be appreciated! They have provides us all with a help, a tremendously huge help! But what did we do? We ignore them and just assume them as a tool or fodder for us to improve ourselves! Even though they let us to absorb the essence of themselves we still don't know how to appreciate them! They also have emotions!

Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Grief, Despair, Lust, and much more!

The least we can do for them is to greet them! Greet show a sense of respect! It showed the intimation between beings! It showed the equality level between beings!

When someone provided us a help sincerely, do we respond with an evil intention? Will we hate them? Will we abandon them?

No!

We will appreciate them! We will help them in time of needs!

That is The Manner of Greeting!

Greet to respect! Greet to love! Greet to be equal!

That is one of a Divine Emperor's manner should have! A calibre to treat all being as equal! Respect! Love! Equality!

Hira’s mind is vibrating with all the new information enter his mind! All of the sentences are being played unceasingly! Suddenly his mouth curve upward and showed a satisfying smile! A smile of an emperor without any arrogance! A smile that show respect to all being!

“This kid…..“ When the old man saw Hira’s smile, his heart felt unknown warm. He felt like Hira’s smile is the most humble and friendliest smile he had ever seen!

But, this is not Augustur’s method? Does this kid gain a different method than him?

*Sigh*

Seriously… just what kind of luck did you get Augustur!? Given time, this kind of inheritor can spread your name throughout the higher realm! Just glad that you created this small realm at that time! Seems your bad luck is exchanged with a huge luck! You legacy will exist for a long time…

*Sigh*

And I will be this realm’s guardian for quite a time……

While the old man complaining about his situation, Hira continued to comprehend the first part of The Manner of Greeting. The time continued to flow and Hira stayed in the realm for five months! At present he already reached the age of 11, by two months ago.

Hira’s is in the verge of comprehending a final piece of the first part in The Manner of Greeting. This method contains three parts and Hira’s can only comprehend the first part because his strength is too low!

This final piece is really hard to be perfected because it contains a different concept from the other pieces! It takes Hira for about two month to comprehend the other pieces, but the final piece is yet perfected by Hira even after two months!

Greeting is a form of battle! It's a form of challenge! It's a form of arrogance! It's a form of hatred and revenge! It's a form of deceit! It's a form of cruelty! It's a form of poison!

When being challenged, greet it with arrogance! When being indulged by hatred, greet it with a deceit! When executing revenge, greet it with cruelty! When being insult, greet it with poison!

That is The Manner of Greeting!

Greet to fight! Greet to show arrogance! Greet with poisons! Greet to hide the hatred! Greet with cruelty!

That is one of a Divine Emperor's manner should have! A calibre to be fearless and cunning!

“I see…… “The moment Hira completely comprehend the final piece, he began to combine all the pieces that he has study to be a one complete concept!

“Every light has it’s own shadow… the bigger the light the bigger the shadow. The light and shadow need to be balanced because the shadow will easily surpass the light! Respect, love and equality need to be balanced with arrogance, hatred and evil intention. One can't be consumed by the shadow, but also can't be consumed by the light! One must always balance their nature to attain the neutral state! That is the first part of The Manner of Greeting! Impartial Greeting!” In an instant Hira completely comprehend the first part of The Manner of Greeting, his eyes shone with red light! The red lighting around him started to ripple around much more vigorously! His whole body is in a stage of transformation again!

“What!? This is impossible! This kid had only stayed in this realm for five month!” This transformation had also happen when the “Forgery Sage” comprehends the first part of the method he got from the book! But he achieved this state much more slow than Hira!

In a trance state, Hira feel the change in his body. From a peak-Median realm, he has ascended to the High realm! The early-High realm! He achieved this realm at the age of 11! This kind of cultivation speed can be categories as a supreme genius in Ilsiya continent! But, even if he is at early-High realm, his battle prowess and control power are much higher than any ordinary early-High realm practitioners! This what make him different from other practitioners! His cultivation method can be considered unknown in this whole continent! And his mental energy is being cultivated at unprecedented speed!

After the transformation completed, the new figure of Hira are seen! His body became taller, achieving 1.5 meter! His whole body figure is shown as someone who is fit and athletic. His messy green hair became longer and reached to his shoulder, while his golden eyes shine brightly with determination! If he is wearing a noble cloth, he will give an impression of a young hero! If he wears a scholar robe, he will give an impression of a hard-headed scholar! But with his clothing right now, he looks….. like a beggar. With his messy hair and his clothing ripped apart because of his transformation, he looks like someone who just survived from a war and became a beggar!

When the old man sees this scene, his laughter rang out loudly. Even though it's a scene that totally worth to be memorize, this final appearance of Hira give a comedic sense to the whole scene. If he is wearing a full knight-armor, Hira will look like a young general hero who leads thousands of army. But this kind of appearance? He looks like an ordinary poor beggar!

When Hira heard the old man's laughter, he can just smile wryly. This must be karma.

“Ahahahahaha, kid you amaze me! You able to comprehend one of the methods in “The Divine Emperor's Manner” book for only five month! That is quite a big achievement!” Even though the old man praised Hira, he only gave a vague praise and doesn't compare Hira with “Forgery Sage”. He doesn't want Hira to become arrogant with his own achievement. But, even if the old man compares Hira with the “Forgery Sage”, he would not become too arrogant because of the enlightenment he got from Impartial Greeting! Everything must be balanced and neutral! That is the first part of The Manner of Greeting!

With Hira’s newly acquired strength, he is itching to test his new strength! He wanted to test how far he can go with this strength!

“Hey old man, does this place have any training puppet?” Can't contain his patience anymore, he ask the old man.

“Training puppet? Well there is, but even the lowest realm is at early-Perfect realm, it is not suitable for you right now. Rather than calling it as a “puppet” it should be called Soul Consciousness. Different from a puppet, this is a spiritual manifestation that has life properties. So basically it has it's own intelligence, and will be dangerous for you to take it down with your current strength.” The old man explains to Hira simply.

Hira pondered for a moment, with his current strength, he felt like he can even beat a peak-High realm without much problem. But for a Perfect realm, he's not really sure. Even though it's only an early-Perfect realm Soul Consciousness, it is still at a Perfect realm. The difference between each realm is as heaven and earth! A Perfect realm practitioner can defeat a peak-High realm easily!

After pondering for a while, Hira said to the old man, “Got it, let me fight it.”

Hearing Hira’s answer, the old man thought, does this kid deaf?

“I already said that it is at early-Perfect realm, even if you have an amazing battle prowess it will impossible for you to defeat it! I can't interrupt when you're fighting with the Soul Consciousness, so it will be truly dangerous for your life! ” With a grim expression, the old man warns Hira.

“Okay, but still, let me fight with it.” Even though Hira know it will be impossible for he to defeat a Perfect realm Soul Consciousness, he still want to try his strength to it's highest potential! He just not sure that he aren’t able to defeat a Perfect realm, it doesn’t mean he can’t defeat it.

“Argh, you damnable rascal! Why can't you listen to this old man!? I don't care anymore! What kind of weapon did you specialize at!? I'll give you a set of weapon to help you right now!” With Hira’s current equipment, it will be hard for Hira’s to even fight with a Perfect realm equally! And he still stubborn to fight with it! The old man can only help Hira externally.

“Erm….actually I kind of good with many kind of weaponries. But can you give me a dagger?” Even though Hira is proficient with a lot of gear and weaponry, he still loved the dagger most as it is small and easy to manipulate.

“Got it, even though I can't help you too much, I'll at least give you two types of weapons. A dagger, and choose one more.” The old man said it solemnly. He doesn't want Hira to be dead, his potential is too high and it is too wasteful if he died in his first battle with a Perfect realm! His potential can be nurtured to even much higher realm than Perfect realm!

“Really!? Then…..a stick weapon please!” Excitedly, Hira answer to the old man.

“Well a stick then...WHAT!?” Shocked by Hira wish, the old man subconsciously shouted. Just what in the world is in this kid head!? A stick!? What can a stick do!?

“Don't….. you has any other choices?” Can't bear to give Hira a weak weapon, the old man can only try to convince Hira to change his weapon.

“Nope? I love stick weapon, it has a blunt element. So it is kind of funny to hit the enemy with it.” Hira answer the old man while letting out a small chuckle.

“........... “

The old man…. is speechless. This kid humor is really bizarre.