1.19 Murderous Intent

Yemming Ritvik. One of the top beauty of section A, her short orange hair complemented her tall figure. A girl who had everything, from loving parents to a loving boyfriend who had a habit of getting jealous at small things. After entering Hunter realm her emotions for some reason were very passive, most of the time she had a bright smile on her face, when she heard what Tommy did to Sura, she only sat that thought in a corner and even laughed a little.

“So cute!! He is that jealous of me talking to other guys!” To her what mattered most was the love Tommy showed by ramming that student whose name she had already forget. In her eyes he was just some guy from class that can fix things. Her grandmother’s gift before her death was that phone, and no one in high class shops were able to fix it due to it being old, then hearing a backward shop in a corner of a street she gave it to them.

Who would have known that a student from section D worked there.

Even knowing that the student was hospitalized due to her, she didn’t feel bad, instead she went to Tommy and told him. “Haha!! Are you that stupid… that plebian was just fixing my grandmothers gift, and he came to me to give that back.” She made fun of her jealous boyfriend and made things clear at the same time. Though her answer made Tommy a little mad, but seeing her honest smile he didn’t say anything.

So it was just a misunderstanding. Thought Tommy.

Even she thought that the matter will be over with just that, but who would have thought that after forced to pay some reparations due to the accident he would send people to fight that plebeian to teach him a lesson. She never thought that a guy whose name she don’t even remember can get out of this unscratched, and walah!! Her thought came true, even though he used some under-handed method to win, that plebeian’s body was broken.

“What did I tell you! But this guy is good entertainment.” Said Yemming to her friend by her side. What happened were all according to her predictions, she didn’t feel bad at all for the guy that was suffering because of her, instead she was intrigued by this weakling.

What would happen next, she waited but the anger of Tommy was quenched with just that, he forgetting about that boy focused in training to surpass and getting a chance to enter the Hunter Competition.

“Well it was good while it lasted.”

She wanted to get more entertained, but the weakling disappeared for the next 3 weeks, so besides going on date with Tommy who had a packed schedule, she didn’t do much. What high aspirations, even though at the beginning she wanted to become something, but after getting spoiled by Tommy all these years, her dreams have weakened a lot.

Though she was questioned by the principal concerning the matter regarding the weakling, she was not angered by it, as I previously mentioned, she only feels happy at all things.

“This!... is he that same weakling?” Looking at the video of Helius brutally beating the top student of section B, her inside went into turmoil, why is she feeling something besides happiness?

She felt fear for some reason, even though her having an SC of 112, she couldn’t say that she can defeat the Helius in front of her.

“When did I started to remember his name?” The thing for her entertainment has grown up, it grew a lot faster than anyone would have predicted. The first thought appeared in her mind was. “Demon practitioner?” What if due to her and Tommy forcing him he took on the devilish path and to exact his revenge he cultivated in the Devil way?

Doesn’t it mean that her life may be in danger? She needed to notify the police immediately, she could imagine herself being forced upon by that giant guy, and Tommy with a broken body lying by her side.

She was a weird girl I say.

But even though she went to the academy and police, nothing happened, it was as if no one wanted to listen to her, they all denied her claim of Helius practicing the Devil arts, instead she was told that everything was alright.

What does this mean?

Eating dinner with her parents she didn’t had her signature bright smile instead she looked gloomy. Her mother was as beautiful as she was and didn’t look much older, she can be said to be a woman in her prime, as for her father he kept watching the news ignoring both his wife and gloomy daughter.

She wanted to speak to her parents concerning this incident that happened in school, and after enough consideration, she opened her mouth.

“Mother, Father!!” As her father still ignored her. “FATHER!!!.”

Seeing the attention of both her parents on her, she began speaking. “I need to tell you something.”

*

In a floating cocoon in a white river lay a man, only his mutilated face was exposed with hollow eyes. The river in which the cocoon was floating was made up of various ghost like figures flowing in the same direction the sky was filled with twinkling stars from which various colorful light fell on the white river giving it a very beautiful view.

This was a world devoid of life, the only thing that moved in this world was the river Styx.

“You can’t seal me forever!” Whispered the man in a single breath.

“You can’t gain power without me!”

“That old fool cannot seal me forever.” From the hollow eyes a red tint shined for a miniscule second.

Waking up from his usual vivid dream, Sura cursed the man possessing his body. He for some reason instantly a huge part of the dream, the only thing he remembered was the face of the man whose memories he has gotten used to.

Why did this dream? And after so many days?” Ah!! I need to go to a high class hospital or soul research lab… need to force this soul out of my body.” He had gained various things from the man’s memories, but all of them were not worth for his bad dreams that he usually saw, and after being trained by Old Han for the past 2 weeks and learning new moves from him, he thought that those memories were totally useless when compared with the fighting techniques Old Han taught him.

Those dreams now only acted like nuances.

Looking at the time, and seeing it was already half past 11am, and nothing better to do after his 1 week of additional suspension, Sura thought of going to Old Han’s place. He has forsaken his artifact creation work for a long time, he should set aside the training of his body for a while and focus of engineering.

Though he has gained a lot of strength he was still far from unlocking his gate and enter the Hunter realm.

“Why is it that even after being that close, I can’t breach the threshold?”

Some kind of barrier is blocking me from advancing. Is his my peak even after the drug that father gave me. Maybe I cannot improve much further?

He directly went to Old Han’s place, and knowing the fact of Sura’s suspension again, the old man only laughed for a while before. “Come! Come to the basement.”

“*Gulp!”

After 3 hours Sura got out, his clothes were torn in various places, this time he wasn’t even given the time to change his clothes before he was beaten to death. His already tight clothes couldn’t take on the beating given by Old Han.

“Go change into training clothes again.! After that I will give you work besides fixing those Glyphs and circuits.”

“Yes uncle!...” Sura nodded at this, he mainly focused on glyphs and circuits, his knowledge regarding other things was only subpar and as someone said that incomplete knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge at all, if Sura ever faced the problem other than Glyphs than he may be in a huge trouble.

When he got back to Old Han, he found various books and tools, what confused was why is Old Han giving him something ancient like books to read from, he can easily send the material to his e-mail.

“Uncle isn’t it possible to give me just E-books which will be easier to take home… and If I remember correct, all the old books have already digitized, so I don’t see any reason for using these things of old times.”

“Who said that you will take all of them home… I am giving you only one of them, these belong to a great man, it contain that man’s own understanding of the old technology.” Then giving Sura the first book, Old Han waited for Sura’s reaction.

Opening the book Sura found the whole book filled with ugly handwriting, thought it was still understandable, but the writing was too bad. It was a book that Sura has already read once on his computer “The Myriads of crystal processors.” It focused on working of an artifact instead of its creation, this was the most fundamental kind of books read by an artifact student. He thought nothing new was going to be written in the notes, but decoding the first line of the bad hand writing, his eyes went wide. “It’s better to create a circuit on top of each other than create a bigger and more sophisticated circuit, it saves up space and gives a wide variety of options with it.” With a complete pen drawing of the simple sentence to give a brief understanding to the reader, Sura now understood the importance of these books.

He may have already read it before, but the altered knowledge in this physical copy was more important than the actual high level books, this may strengthen his foundation and increase his understanding of the basic level technology.

*

Titus stood in a dark room littered with dust, his eyes signified his battle intent which was silent for a long time, no one know how long he has been standing in the room filled with dust, black grime was stuck all over his body, and an acidic smell come from his body.

He stood in this room in a normal stance, Both his fist at the level of his waist his legs open like an A, his breathing was unusually non-existent and his slender muscles bulged up, if any girl saw him now, though she may think that he covered in dirt, but she will surely try to seduce him with her charm.

He slowly changed his stance following the steps his father has told him.” Make the heart rate beat faster, generate more heat… become one with fire.” He slowly took a deep breath and then stretching his hand in the back and collecting all the force from the body to that single punch, he released it.

“*Boom”

The place where his hand left a small explosion occurred , it was miniscule to even notice, but that single punch contained enough energy to shake produce a sound that reverberated the whole room, all the dust in the room flew up in the air in front of him the dust got divided in to

Titus was an odd kind of person, even though his punch has just broken the obstacles of a Stage 1 Hunter realm expert, but he was still not that happy. I am lacking something. He didn’t know what was missing, but if he got what he was looking for, his strength will surely multiply.

Getting out of his training room Titus went to his room and opened the news, he was not someone who was completely focused in the martial way, knowing the world is as much important as training.

Not a single news intrigued him, but seeing one of the news his eyes went wide.” Mutilated body of Casper Dhorin was found at the gate of Heavens child hospital, his whole body was stitched in professional manner and seemed to be alive, for now he been kept in medicinal liquid bath due to the nature of his critical injuries that can’t be mentioned to public, the perpetrator of the incident seems to be a male with height of 6.2inch as recorded in the camera, his height could not be identified, but police is investigating the incident and no official statement concerning the incident have been released.” During the commentary Titus could see on the TV a man dropping the broken body of Casper in front of hospital.

Clenching his fist tight, Titus’s eyes went red. ”Teacher!!” the temperature of the room increased by a few degrees even though Titus haven’t reached the Master realm yet.

Crackling sounds came from his fist as a tint of murderous intent erupted in Titus’s mind. Steam was slowly getting released from his body drying up his throat, if he doesn’t stop he may lose consciousness. This easily signified that his power was much stronger than his current body.

Feeling light and almost falling on the floor, Titus controlled his anger and struggled to the refrigerator and drank some water.

“Teacher!!”