“Yadina?” Erhart sounds a bit surprised.

“YES that’s me.”

“Were you in your [Second]?”

“like, No.”

“Why did you attack me then?” Erhart asks, his eyebrows tighten.

“You attacked ME!”

“Did I?” Remembering when he first feels her presence coming close, instantly he sends out a wall of sword auras without even asking any questions, adding onto that throughout the whole fight Yadina did not even fight back. Erhart feels a bit embarrassed and guilty for his actions, he apologises, “Sorry…” With a flick of his finger, Erhart retrieves the auras back into his green sword, while unsheathes the it back into its scabbard.

“What is this?” pointing at the [Domain] she asks.

“Isn’t it your [Domain]?”

“What? Mine what is this? [Domain]? My [Domain]! REALLY I HAVE A [Domain]! Like, Grand pa is going to be so happy.” Yadina’s eyes widens in happiness and she starts to hopping around for some particular reason, head slightly tilt up seemingly to be appreciating her [Domain].

“But, my [Bloodline Level] is still… WHAT I LEVELDED UP TO LEVEL FOUR AND LIKE, and I CAN ALREADY USE [Domain]! Like, I REALLY AM A GENIUS! Emm, why are you on the ground?” Yadina asks seeing Erhart also for some particular reason lies face flat on the ground. Out of curiosity and worry Yadina hops over there, only to find Erhart fainted, with a thin trail of blood leaking out from the corner of his mouth.

“KITCHEN KNIFE! LIKE, WAKE UP! IT IS NOT FUNNY!” all of the sudden, Yadina’s face turns from curiosity into worry and also horror. She tries to wake him up by slapping him a few time, but it did not have any effects other than add a few red hand marks onto his face.

“NO! NO! NO! Black haired human! YES HE DEFINITELY KNOWS What to do! WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS HE?”

…….

“Slap yourself three hundred times each, then we will call it a day.” A young looking man with long jet black hair coloured hair that covers his eyes, says. Sitting cross legged on a crumbling throne, with what looks to be the remain of a palace on the background. Just after he finishes his sentence, another pillar of the palace collapses, shattering into millions of pieces, causing a violent gust of ashes floating into the air.

“Wizard Without Magic, I apologise deeply for my servant’s rudeness and is willing to accept all responsibilities. Please forgive us. But it is only shaming us, if you are to ask a Legend, especially my servant and I to slap themselves and I will not allow that!” About twenty metres in front of Zotoady stands a handsome looking man looks to be in his twenties, with ash white hair and blood red eyes. He wears a golden edged, red band jacket containing a crystal medal. Near him, what looks to be a badly beaten Arnold, kneeling on the ground, sobbing.

“Forgive? Responsibilities? Shame? As the Sage of Blood, you should know that you and your servant are indeed responsible for all the troubles and sins you people caused within the mortal realm. And broken the rule of ‘A Legend may never meddle with a mortal’s business.’ And now, I am not asking you to kill your servant, I am simply asking him to slap himself a few times and we will be over with this matter.” Zotoady says coldly.

“Zotoady, I am warning you! don.. doon. don’t make me angry! I am not afraid of fighting you! But well, em, it is just that I am afraid of the distortions we can make to the Realm of Legends, if we are to choose to fight here.

“O, is that so? You don’t have to worry about that Grimlock (Sage of Blood). If you decide to challenge me, it wouldn’t be a fight. Really, it will be an annihilation”

Bitting his teeth, As Grimlock knows Zotoady is speaking the truth. If it is not that he knows some other Saints and Sages are spying on him and he do not wish for them to know that Saint of Blood just lowered his head in front of an unknown being, which will most likely make him the laughing stock within the Realm of Legends for the next few hundred years. Grimlock would not even think of challenging this monster, not to say fight. As one of the oldest Saint, Grimlock have a clear idea of What this monster had done before and how far this monster is willing to go, in order to achieve his goal.

“Millions of years had passed since I last been here,” Zotoady pauses looking up into the ceilings, he continues, “Did the Realm really forgotten about my existence! If so, I think it is about time to teach the realm another lesson!” Gradually moving his right hand towards a black coloured metal bracelet on his left forearm.

“NO! STOP!”

“STOP!”

“STOP”

With a golden light, a few more people emerges into the palace.

“Elders….” Arnold says.

“Sage of Blood, please just do what Zotoady asks you to do.” One the Elders speaks.

“I refuse.”

“It is not the time for YOU to care about your reputations. Please Sage of Blood!” Another Elder has spoken.

“I refuuuse.”

……..

“I am back!” Zotoady shouts cheerfully, while stepping out of a purple vortex, carrying a huge bundle on his back.

“Hello?” Zotoady asks, slamming the bundle onto the ground, seeing no one is in the clearing. His face in all the sudden darkens. Slowly moving his right hand towards the bracelet on his left forearm. But when a golden coloured dome enters his sight, he seems to have realised something. He let out a faint smile and begins sprinting towards the dome as fast as he can.

……..

“INCOMING!” Unable to slow down his pace, Zotoady trips and falls and rolls down the slope, landing face first on the field in front of Yadina’s [Domain]. “No fear, for I am here.” Breaking out a huge smirk at the same time giving the thumbs up signalling that he is alright.

Seeing Zotoady arrived, Yadina’s eyes and face in all of the sudden light up, she shouts, “Black Haired [Human]! Erhart, Erhart, he , he , he…” tears accumulate in her eyes, and just like a tsunami impending down upon a small dam, a burst of salty water can be expected any time now.

“It’s alright! Do not fear, Young Erhart is totally fine! Calm down! Don’t cry, please don’t cry” Before Yadina explains the situation any further, Zotoady says, attempting to calm her down.

Zotoady stands up and pats the dust off his cloak, travels to the border of Yadina’s [Domain] and knocks on it. Seeing that his body is not able to pass through, Erhart says,” Can you remove the [Domain]?”

“No… like I don’t know how to….” Yadina says, her face flushing in embarrassment.

“Well….Shxt. Can you stand back a bit, but leave Young Erhart as he is.”

“Like, Ok?” unsure about what Zotoady is going to do, but Yadina trusts that Zotoady will not harm Erhart, well most likely that is…..

“Here is another lesson for you!” Zotoady takes out a bottle containing some cloud like substance. With a swift movement, he smashes the bottle onto the surface of the dome, with the cracking of the bottle, the cloud like substances escapes into the outside world, ignoring the dome entirely. Like a starving traveller catches a glance of a table of delicious food, the substances fly straight toward Erhart, covering his entire body bit by bit.

“What is this?” Yadina asks curiously, ignoring Zotoady’s previous warning, she walks over to the smoke covered Erhart and lightly taps the smoke, but instantly retrieving her hand back, when she feels a sudden pain caused by the touch. Few seconds later a small cut appears on the parts of her skin that contacted the smoke.

“What the hell? Wait? Like? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL HIM?” Yadina shouts, eyeing back at Zotoady with a glance filled with anger. Without thinking, she reaches forward for Erhart.

Despite knowing the full consequences, This young girl is not in the slightest way discouraged by the harmful effect of the cloud, instead she moves her hand further and further into the smoke, attempting to drag Erhart out, cuts after cuts, countless wounds are added onto this young girl’s soft, snow like skin. But still, the young girl did not stop, she reaches forward closer and closer to Erhart. 3 cm, 2cm, 1cm, but just as she was about to grab him. Zotoady cracks another flask, sending a sequence of shockwaves which knocked Yadina back five metres or so away from Erhart. But once again, Yadina moves inwards.

‘a blood for a blood, a bone for a bone, a gift for a gift, I slay all those who harms me, I replay all those who gifts me. Remember this dear Granddaughter, help all those who helped you, revenge on all those who hurts you.’

“Stop! The smoke will not harm him! It just assists him with his ‘Breakthrough’ AND NEXT TIME EVEN IF YOU ARE TO DO SOMETHING SO STUPID, At least PUT UP your [Blood Transformation]”

“Like, What?” Yadina pauses, but still not convinced.

“Like when your [Bloodline Levels up]. You faint for a few days, it is the same thing happening to Erhart.”

“But, like isn’t he a [Human]”

“Yah, but he is a bit abnormal.”

“Ohh, I see.” Yadina breaks out an awkward smile.

Zotoady sighs.

…….

‘Where am I? Who am I?’

‘What is this thing? Why is it so delicious?’

‘I want more, more, more!’

‘Taste? Why can I taste things? Should I suppose to taste things? Who am I? Why does taste feel so foreign to me.’

……

“Breath in, Now breath out. Reach out for the deep inside, feel that you have the full control of everything near you. You are the ruler of everything within domain, you are the King , no the Queen.” Zotoady says.

“I can’t.” Yadina closes her eyes, sitting on the ground cross-legged. The position is right, but she is still unable to do what she is asked to do.

“God…This is going to take whole day, isn’t it.” Zotoady says, face palms.

…..

“More take more! Take more, Erhart you know you want it.” A foreign voice speaks to Erhart.

“Who are you?” Erhart asks.

“I am you?” the voice says.

“Who am i?”

“You are me.”

“I am all of your desires and wants!” The voice continues.

“What do I want?”

“Errrrr, that’s a good question…. What do you and I want?”

“I want? I want Yuna to be alive again, I want Big sister Amelia to stay safe, I want to return to my Master and Aunt Taissa. I remember now I am Erhart!”

“Good, what you want is what I desire, so If I tell you that I can grant all your wishes if you just liste..”

“Good try, but before you finish, I am just going to tell you, ‘I refuse your help’.”

“WHAT! WHY! WITH ME YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU EVER DRE..” the voice becomes irritated.

“So cliché, bloody hell, if you are actually me you would know that what you are trying to do happens in literally all of the Mangas and Light Novels I read. Oh Erhart I will give you power, just sell your soul to me. Who do you think I am? an Idiot? I think I’d rather trust that black haired bastard than you to fulfil my wish. And of cause, I would not even trust him that much either, the only person that truly fulfil my wishes is I and my actions.”

“Is that so….” The voice says.“Well, Thank you, I guess, well played, it is the end, Good bye and be careful, Erhart.”

“Goodbye….Me.”

……..

With an amber coloured energy pillar shoots into the sky, the [domain] dematerialises bit by bit. Soon it fully disappeared.

“LIKE I AM REALLY A GENIUS! I JUST HALF A HOUR I AM ABLE TO LEARN TO CONTROL MY DOMAIN.” Yadina compliments herself happily.

“Good on you,” Zotoady yawns. “And our young Erhart here also seems to have passed through his first test and is entering his second stage.”

“What is it?”

“Divine Punishment.”