1.22 One more for me!

“Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” Looking over the pair of mother and child candidly walking along the path, where the child happily ate the flavored cotton candy, with his mother holding his other hand and having groceries in the other hand.

For Sura, this was a beautiful scene. His fist was clenched tight but getting his emotions in balance, he moved along the path and reached Old Han’s shop which like usual looked like a rundown place than a normal establishment. How he attracts customer is still a mystery to me.

He has completely memorized the book given to him, though he haven’t understand the whole knowledge provided by the notes of the genius person whoever wrote his thought in the book, but it had helped him greatly, and remembering the pillar of similar books that Old Han had, he was thinking of devouring more knowledge from them. Maybe the day he creates his own personal artifact is not far.

He entered the shop with his hulking figure and was just going to ask for more books as soon as his eyes fell on Old Han, but he felt a cold gaze fell upon him.

There was someone else in the shop beside Old Han today, and the woman didn’t look like a customer. She looked to be at the same age as Old Han but due to taking care of her skin, she held a much rosy complexion while wearing a business suit. Her eyes were like poisonous snake checking out every part of Sura’s body to consider his threat level.

But seeing that the boy who looked much older than his actual age was still at Human realm, she sifted her eyes back to Old Han.

“Helius! You wait outside for some time!” Gestured Old Han with his hand. Sura didn’t forget to notice sweat trickled down by Old Han’s head and disappear in his beard. And the temperature of the room also seemed high, the woman and Old Han were having a heated discussion that required absolute privacy.

Something is not right! Nodding towards Old Han, he got out of the shop before even entering it. He took support of the display glass and gazed over time to time inside the shop to assess the dealings that were taking place.

But after Sura’s second time peaking, something happened, the whole glass got covered in a thick sheet of ice, even his back which was touching the glass got freezing cold and he was forced to change his place.

“Just what kind of talk are they having inside? They won’t even allow me to peek inside?” SUra had a ominous premonition that whatever was happening may not be good for Old Han, ultimately not good for him.

Why was Old Han so scared?

Isn’t he the same man who almost killed him without even flinching an emotion?

Who was that woman that made Old Sweat?

“And what the hell are they talking about?” He waited for some time, and what seemed to be like the longest time he spent outside a shop, the ice melted and the door opened with the woman exiting the shop. She took a small peek at Sura before stepping towards a lavishing looking wing wih

A man appeared out of nowhere and opened the door as the woman sat in. She have already forget about Sura and the man who seemed to be the driver, sat in the front seat before flying the wing into distance.

“So much smug and proudness. Just who was that woman?” Looking at the fast disappearing wing in the distance, he didn’t wasted anymore time and directly entered the shop.

The shop that now was cold due to previous ice that covered the door was nowhere to be found, even the melted water was not present, but the figure of Old Han figure that he was used to before appeared before him. Where did that timid uncle disappeared to… there are still many things I don’t know about uncle.

Old Han was a master realm expert who was merciless to even teenagers like him, warm to other customers and the him before he started his training with him. Even holding enough power to make the police turn around and ignore his close to death state.

But whatever Sura thought of Old Han, he never thought of someone who was timid before anyone. But that thought has been shattered to pieces. He now looking over Old Han who has come back to his old expression. He wanted to ask Old Han about the woman, but predicting that he may be beaten again. He just silently handed over the book.

“You still haven’t broken through?” Old Han wanted to forget with the meeting with that woman as soon as possible. He used his essence to scan Sura’s body and found there had been not even slight improvement for the last few days.

He would lie if Old Han says he wasn’t worried about it, instead he found it odd. The kind of drug that Sura was gifted withheld enormous potential. Even someone with bad talent like Sura was able to increase his SC astronomically in just 3 weeks.

“I check in the academy, and even though it was 99, I didn’t felt any pain in the chest.” Old Han has told him, when he was close to breakthrough, his pain would feel acute pain, as if a dam was forcefully facing immense pressure. The time it broke will the time the inner gate inside of him will open and his body revitalizes and expunges all the impurities that it had absorbed from the moment from Sura’s birth.

This was a very painful process and required clear mind during it.

Old Han thought about it for a second. Before saying.” There is no other way.”

He looked at Sura while feeling sorry for the boy. “Helius! There is a way to breakthrough faster, it requires one to face enormous pain, not on the physical body, instead the mental fortitude of a person can come into question, you may even go mad for some time.”

Sura listened carefully, and hearing that there was a way for faster breakthrough, he nodded instantly. “I am free for the next week, and the time I will be insane, I will just live in your basement.” Lively answered Sura. His expressionless face had a tinge of hope, he wanted to breakthrough as fast as possible, when his memorizing speed increases by 10x, he will have a better understanding of the wondrous books that Old Han provided.

“No! you can’t stay in one place! You need to live your life as you usually do. The technique will attack your mind at random which will cause immense headache, well what happens during this differs from a person to person.”

Old Han didn’t spoke the full truth, the technique he was talking about was able to distort the mind so severely that the victim may even start to question what is real or not, the person may attack people at random. But this was only people who were in constant warfare or have faced absolute injustice, creating various inner demons and hence creating even worse attacks on the mind.

But knowing the life Sura had lived, Sura shouldn’t have that kind of mental state. Even though he has instincts of a killer, Sura haven’t faced any tribulations. SO in general it is a very good method.

There were even cases where people broke through without facing a problem or emotional instability just after using the Grim Reaper Mental Arts, it differs from person to person as its creator mentioned.

There must not be any problems…Correct? Even Old Han wasn’t sure about it. But he needed to give it a try.

His eyes filled with deep affection looked at Sura. His heart is strong! He can see a small spark of fire inside Sura.

*

“Young Lord! The awakening has begun. Your father has forbidden you to go on an expedition!... I suggest following your father’s advice.” A man who should have seen younger days asked the young master of the Togu Clan, Taigin Togu.

The Young Master had a giant wide smile spread over his face while looking at the never ending cursed land, the sky above was covered in dark clouds as usual.

Standing atop the tall wall that divided the cursed land and FSA continent, the young man’s eyes were bright to imagine what the opportunities and possibilities the land that was dubbed as a cursed one hold.

He Taigin Togu was only 21 years old and has already achieved the cultivation of Master realm. He was a prodigy among prodigies. His hair was like fire standing like a yellow flame and oddly enough his body was clad in a moving chain like object that seemed alive giving a very bleak feeling to anyone who would watch it. With a manly laughter he completely ignored the suggestion of his attendant. Instead he wildly focus his view on the horizon to have a chance to glimpse on a demonic beast.

“Young master for the next 10 km there will be no demonic beast, so you may stop now.” It was true, as the Demonic beast that enter the 10km radius are blasted off by combustion guns that defended the wall, they were high level powerful guns that released high quantity of heat at a focal point, incinerating the target instantly. It was a perfect demonic beast killer, but it required a lot of energy to function, making it absolute useless beside tower defense.

“Rolus! You must have hope even if it’s not possible! Maybe there is a variation of demonic beast that can hide from the radar and have already closed in!... or there is a demonic beast that flies so high that the radar can’t even reach it.” The young master had a very wild personality, if not for his father forbidding him, he would have already jumped off the wall and ran on foot out fo the 10km radius just to see the demonic beast and hunt them alone. The slithering object on his body started to move faster as he started laughing like a maniac. Even some of the tendrils of chains came loose and slither towards the horizon.

“Shut up kiddies!” Ordered Taigin, the slithering chains dig back into his body and moved like usual.

“Young Master don’t need to worry!” Rolus knew how much his young master was excited after seeing the cursed land for the first time, he can easily tell that through the reactions of the chains that covered Taigin’s body.

“Let me stay here for a while!... Father never let me out of the clan even for a socializing! And the only women I had gone on date with are the young maids that are tasked to take care of me.! Their acting is bad! Really bad. They don’t know how to act cute like Jiya…. Oh! Jiya-chan!” Jiya –chan being a famous celebrity was very popular among young men, even though she was only 19yrs old, she had already acted in 4 movies with 2 of her albums that were instant hit. That was the woman Taigin wanted to marry.

Hearing this The Old Rolus’s face was a bit surprised, but then he asked in a teasing tone. “Young master didn’t had any problems when they were helping you sleep?”

“They are bad at making me sleep! They always keep me whole night!” Candidly replied Taigin. He know where his old butler was getting at.

“*cough* But I had heard that it was you who keep them awake whole night!”

A pervert is going to arrive soon.

*

On an island filled with various demonic beast, with a giant ship floating above it had a woman walking alone on the land with only a sword in her and 2 black and white butterflies flying around her head. It was the same woman who was on X-Wing when surveying the area for Hunters competition.

She walked without any worry, as in front of her a whole green hologram of the island was shown with the locations of each demonic beast. There were some registered green and the others yellow.

When she reached close to one of the red marker.” HQ I have reached destination 7! Request to eliminate the target!”

“Confirmed!”

Came out a sound into her head.

Hearing that her request was accepted she felt a bit happy. ”I will be the one to devour the goods here!” Her way of thinking was simple, the more she hunts the better she will be awarded, and the place she was in needed to be cleaned as in just one month the Hunter Competition will commence. Being one of the announcer and overseer of the competition she held a lot of power and choices, but in dangerous situation like the one present here, she may need to ask her higher ups before acting.

She walked without worry of anything as she saw a prime hunter eating his prey, the demonic beast was of feline species without a tail and thin legs.

“This one’s fast!!” The woman can easily tell this, The beast in front of her was adept at hunting its prey or running away, for a human like her it was a hard beast to kill alone, but she didn’t mind that she was short on personal even though it was only her.

She closed her distance with the beast in an instant, and the beast didn’t even notice her presence.

In general a demonic beast goes mad smelling essence near it, but the woman was easily able to suppress her essence and even her whole being was invisible to the outside world.

The 2 butterflies kept fluttering around her head.

As she reached the beast which was having its dinner, she lifted her sword and while putting close to the beast temple so that it couldn’t touch it, she said.” Ok! Go to sleep sweet cat!”

She opened her palm and the sword released a strange light that was noticed by the demonic beast, but due to the sword being so close, it didn’t had the time to react or even put up its miasma shield, its skull was easily penetrated and a life was snuffed out.

“One more for me! Means one less for brother!”