1.12 Breaking through

Waking up, Sura found that he had lost all the feeling of his body neck down, he didn’t even know if his limbs were spared or not, maybe he has become a disabled person, the only thing he can do was look at a crude ceiling, with a small fan throwing cool air at his face.

“Oh! You wake up?”

Sura wanted to turn toward the man who said, this but knowing full well the condition he was in he only blinked.

“You must be thinking why I broke you…Right?” Old Han stood atop Sura and looked straight in his eyes.

Broke me?.. Isn’t that bit of an understatement?

“Don’t worry.. I have a way to fix you up again, for now, I have bandaged your whole body and stopped the blood flow, and you may only be able to live for 2 more hours if you don’t get any medical attention soon.”

Sura’s eyes went wide hearing his impending doom. This old man instead of taking him to hospital had put him in a bed after bandaging him.

“Don’t worry you won’t die.. Though the beating I gave you was enough to kill a supreme Human stage expert, but predicting full well of the effects of the gift your father has given you, your body will return back to normal.”

Then rubbing his chin Old Han replied.” Though I don’t know why your healing hasn’t begun yet?”

You stupid old man, it only starts if I eat if you want to just check the extent of my healing, you should just have asked me.

And how am I going to eat with a broken jaw or tell you anything?

Sura was cursing Old Han from the bottom from his heart, he couldn’t help but cry at his sorry state. Why did he come to his shop today, at the beginning he thought he was just going to get life lessons, but remembering the state he is in right now, he knew even if he didn’t told Old Han about his gift, he would still be beaten to a pulp.

“Why are you looking at me like this… feel some joy Helius.” The old man was laughing looking at Sura, he wanted to hurl obscenities on the old man. Feel joy my ass, I may die soon if I don’t get any food and you are asking me to be happy? Who in their right mind say that to a dying man?

“I know what you may be thinking, what kind of person ask someone to laugh who is at death door, but don’t worry as I promised, you won’t die and tomorrow you will walk just fine.”

Old man I previously respected you a lot, you always took care of me… I never knew this side of you , if I have known it previously, I would have stayed away from you.

“But first eat this, it’s a high class spirit healing medicine, it contain a lot of spirit qi inside it.” SUra couldn’t even move his lips how is he to eat the medicine, but all of his worries were washed over in an instant, as Old Han turned the medicine into powder and placed it at the nose of Sura.

“Take a deep breath!”

Following the order given, Sura took the medicine inside and he can feel his body heated up and small amounts of steam started releasing from his body, the bandages on his body got wet in an instant, and seeing Sura all dehydrated, Old Han placed a straw in Sura’s mouth and squeezed the bottle throwing water in a steady flow down his throat.

The pill is working a bit too fast, is this the effect of the gift? Thought Old Han.

Though he cannot see the cheeks of Sura, but he can feel the coldness that had spread throughout Sura’s body was slowly subsiding.

It didn’t take long before Sura started feeling pain throughout his body. It seems my nervous system is healed, but I still can’t move my jaw… how will I eat?

Seeing Sura’s pained expression, Old Han understood its meaning and picked Sura up in a rough way that made Sura curse the old man again, he took Sura into a dark room with a tube spacious enough to hold a grown man placed inside it.

If Sura could look up, then he would have immediately identified the strange tube, it was a medicinal liquid tank, able to heal a person’s injuries in few hours, but the drugs used in it were a lot expensive so only a small amount of people from the general public can afford it.

Removing the blood covered bandages and then putting the body of Sura in the tank with an oxygen mask attached to his face Sura’s body like a broken twig dwindled in the tank, giving him enormous pain, he was feeling tortured by the old man, if he wanted to put him in this tank, he should has just put him directly without giving him the spirit healing medicine, so that way he didn’t need to deal with all the pain he was facing now.

And seeing the expression on the old man’s face who stood by a console injecting various kinds of drugs in a funnel. You are having fun.. Don’t you Uncle?

Soon the glass tube started filling up with green liquid, wherever the liquid touched Sura’s body, he felt a burning pain spread throughout that part.

Soon his whole body was covered with the medicinal liquid, the dried blood in his skin turned mixed with the medicinal liquid giving it a murky and dirty color.

Sura has long ago closed his eyes, he was fighting the intense burning sensation in his body.

The whole tube was fill with rich spirit qi, it was helping the efficiency of the medicine multiply and get easily absorbed by the body.

Old Han was looking at the stable no. showing on the nothing unusual was going on until.

“What?”

Old Han saw on screen the medicinal liquid and spirit qi present in the tank was started dropping at a fast rate, he can see the medicinal water turning faint and turned into water before his every eyes, and Sura’s body producing cracking sounds.

“Amazing! His thirst is so enormous, that it absorbed the whole medicine in one go, but his body still is not healed yet… let’s see.”

Injecting 2 more tubes of drugs in the tank, he could see the see in front of him the medicine getting absorbed at a unimaginable rate, the swollen and bruise parts of his body were slowly healing up, Sura’s eyes were closed, his focus was on the inner working of his body, he could feel his bones restructure and come to their right place before the broken parts started to meld together and getting stronger from before.

“Haha! This is much better toy.”

*

Inside the huge mansion Titus fought with his sparring partner, who for some reason was a hunter stage expert.

“Master Titus, something happened in the arena again?” The man easily blocking all of Titus’s attacks asked with a serious expression.

He only used one hand while fighting Titus and didn’t moved from his place at all. All of his attacks were easily counter-attacked, something that usually happened between Sura and Vulture, but the roles were exchanged during this fight.

“Nothing!.. I don’t need to go there anymore, considering that guy also didn’t come yesterday he is probably holed up in his home trying to enter Hunter realm.”

Titus was thrown in the air before rolling on the floor and while looking at his teacher. “And huh! I want to enter that realm before him.”

Titus’s eyes were shining with bright light, he was not intimidated by the sudden increase in power the Monkey showed, and instead he was feeling a surging joy from within.

From the day his illness was healed, he has taken less than 2 years to get from 1 SC to 99 SC, it was even monstrous considering the other geniuses groomed by certain clans and guilds. This was his pride.

Titus was a natural born fighter, but the illness that made him holed up in his room also stopped him from having any physical activity and for some reason his SC never increased by the brain power he used while dong mental problems. His knowledge increased, but his SC never increased.

He was having the feeling of facing a rival, though he was in lead now, considering the speed of Monkey, it will not take long before Monkey overpower him.

I need to awaken to hunter senses soon, my passive ability will be fire attributed surely, considering the tradition of the family.

“Teacher! I think I reached the limit today, maybe I broke through today.”

“Go and remember to keep your mind calm, if there are any undulations in the brain, your passive ability will have an effect on it.”

“Yes teacher!”

The passive ability is born from the emotions and mindset of a person, ignoring the element of the ability, the ability is formed from the nature of a person.

For example take Gerald, his ability was the chaotic flame, it was flame attributed skill. During his Hunter days Gerald only needed to cultivate a set of skills to advance and fight with his contained chaotic flame. He practiced the technique passed down to his family named “Scorching Flame” technique. Though it has a normal name, it was actually a high class cultivation technique.

Titus thought to practice the same technique.

On the way to his room Titus can feel his body heat up.

“Shit! It’s happening a little soon.”

Instead of going back to his room, Titus went to the wide open place and sat on the ground and closed his eyes.

Silent and serene! I don’t want it to turn into something I do not want.

Putting his thoughts in balance, and focusing on what he wanted. He felt his body turn hotter by the second, but this heat wasn’t having any effect on his body, he didn’t feel dehydrated. Instead he felt a surge of energy flowing through his veins, something was awakening in his body.

He remembered the time he was forced to stay in room while all the kids played outside, the time when he was gifted various toys and was treated like a sensitive flower whereas other kids beat up each other and laughed.

For some reason he always wanted to fight people.

“Titus forget about the bad memories, think about what you like the most.”

In front of Titus stood his older brother, though he couldn’t see him but hearing his brother’s warm words, he forgot all about those feelings, instead he remembered the time he fought in arena.

Yes! That was the place where I felt happy.

He remembered fighting various people in the arena, each time he was hit in the arena, Titus felt alive. I want explosive power. To throw those guys off stage.

Titus remembered Monkey with his odd naming sense, though he always win the fight, but beating that guy made him feel uneasy for some reason. He felt that he will be left behind by this guy if he doesn’t try hard.

Power to always beat him to pulp.

He remembered beating Monkey again and again, and Gerald could see a smile form up on Titus’s face.

Without him knowing, Titus now look at Monkey like a one looks at a rival.

“Yes that’s the way.” Gerald looked at his brother with a smile.

The hair on Titus’s head started to fly up from the hot air his body produced. Yeah it’s fire for sure.

Suddenly all of the pores in Titus’s body opened up and started releasing a black ooze, his body felt an intense amount of pain dark oil and dirt was released from his pores.

Gerald. It’s happening… he’s opening the gate.

Gerald didn’t speak again, but continued to look at his brother in wonder. What will be his ability?

Soon a booming sound came from Titus’s body and he hunched on the floor with the support of his hand throwing intense amount of black blood.

“Yeah that’s it!”

Titus soon lost consciousness.

Lifting his brother up, Gerald then placed Titus on the room.

“He lost consciousness… his ability will be stronger than mine considering he couldn’t take the blowout he felt while opening gate.”

He can see his brother’s body getting stronger.

“You smell!”

Leaving his brother in his own room, Gerald left him alone and went back to watching TV.

“I will check his progress after he has woken up.”

Titus’s body will take some time to get used to the changes it went through. His body released a huge amount of impurities, it has probably injured his body in some sense.

When he wakes up, he will be unable to move.

“Father will be happy to know, that his d… son is a genius.”

*

Sura silently drank the hot chocolate while looking menacingly at Old Han.

“What kind of test did I pass?”

Old Han lifted his hand and clenching his fist. “The test to be my new toy.”

Where did that old dirty jolly man go? The man who fed me spirit medicine after I was beaten a little?

“Seeing you fight in the arena made me remember my old days, so I thought I should coach you a little.” Han’s hand got encased in ice giving it a menacing air about it, it appeared like a dragon’s claw.

Looking at the formed dragon claw, Sura immediately understood what will going to happen to him from now on, and instead of showing a scared face, he looked brightly at Old Han.