Chapter 15 - Penguin

“You got a point”

Realising that what Ark said makes perfect sense, after all how the hell am I going to go find Grant a second time now that his previous home is destroyed. I better take his offer but that doesn’t mean I would let my guard down

“Fine, now can you stop this mysterious technique you used on me”

Feeling the pressure gone, Jay stood up and stretched his body before standing still

“That wasn’t technique kid that was just me putting pressure on you”

Confused, Jay wondered what the difference was

“What’s the difference?”

Watching Ark facepalm himself sighing with an almost inaudible voice that Jay just managed to hear

“Figures, country bumpkins”

“Yo, I ain’t no country bumpkin”

“Yes you are”

“No”

“Whatever, I don’t have time for talks. Hungry?”

Jay looked at his stomach and realised how hungry he is and nodded. As he followed Ark through the doorway and into the kitchen, he saw how poor the man was. With a wooden interior house, with two square bedroom on the left and right side of the kitchen that is placed in the middle with him coming out of the right bedroom. A large rectangular bedroom connected to all three spaces, which Jay suspects to be the master bedroom and where Ark resides in in the house. The kitchen is simple, with only a table, two chairs with a pot nearby and inside the pot looks to be an orange watery soup

“Are we going to eat that old man?”

As Jay points to the pot as he sits down opposite Ark

“Don’t old man me *Ark grabs a bowl, scoop some soup out and past it to Jay* I’m not that old. I’m only 321 years old”

Puh

“The fuck? That’s fuckin old you old cunt”

“Don’t waste the soup kid, and no it isn’t”

Jay wipes the soup dribbling from his mouth

“Yes it is, the oldest person I’ve ever met was an 80 year old man and you don’t even look that old. You probably are only in your 50-60 ish if I’m correct. You most definitely do not look 321 years old”

“You must live in a very poor area to have that low life expectancy”

“No we don’t, we got technology. Advanced shit like plastic utensils, stainless steel stuff, PS & Xbox consoles, HDMI TV and all that, and most definitely don’t live like you in a broken down hut or whatever you call this place”

Hearing the strange words like ‘plastic’, ‘stainless steel’, ‘PS & Xbox consoles’, ‘HDMI TV’ or ‘hut’. Ark figured Jay must be from a foreign place

“Ah a foreigner”

“Guess so *Slurp* hmm, this soup is nice. How’d you make it?”

Hearing another strange word, Ark dismissed it under the assumption that Jay is a foreigner

“This isn’t ‘soup’, this is goop”

cough

“What kinda bullshit is that? Goop? Seriously, don’t you have a better name than goop”

“Kid you waste my precious goop again; I will smack the shit out of you”

Clearly Ark highly values this goop

“Meh, I’ll let the naming sense slide and enjoy the meal since it is delicious”

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Standing outside the wooden hut, Jay sees a world unlike anything he has seen. Unknown beasts that look like man sized cactus groups roaming around in desert plain with weird trees sprouting here and there (think of Giza Plain from Final Fantasy 12 )

Really? Giant Cactus walking around……..and in the middle of the desert..…… better ask Ark because I feel like I’m going crazy these days

“Yo old….Ark, what is that walking around” Jay points to the cactus group strolling around

“Oh those, don’t mind the ‘Bo’, they’re a harmless bunch. That’s beside the point, you ready for training boy?”

Ark faced Jay with an evil smile, Jay seeing this nod

“Let’s go meet your first opponent”

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Standing in front of Jay was a rockhopper penguin. What is a penguin doing in front of Jay? Well his mission is to defeat this lil fella

“Are you fucking with me right now?”

Jay says looking at Ark with anger because he feels insulted

“No I’m not”

Ark slouched on the side picking his nose

“Oh and be careful, Pegus can be quite a handful”

“This is utter-Puh”

Jay got interrupted by the penguin kick at his face as he flies away, landing 30 metres from where he was before being sent flying. Standing back up feeling his check that has a red feet mark

“You little shit, IMMA FUCKIN KILL YOU”

Jay rushed towards the penguin, once close he threw a right punch; the penguin dodged the punch, jumped and head-butted Jay. The penguin seeing the opening that Jay left himself after he got hit, landed, aimed his head at Jay’s stomach and bolted out as he sent Jay flying 40 metres away

Jay stood back up and felt immense hatred at getting his ass whooped by a penguin as he wiped blood from his lips

“YOU ARE SOO FUCKING DEAD LITTLE MAN”

Jay dashed to the penguin again but this time swung his right leg straight at the penguin’s face, the penguin leaned back to avoid the kick which Jay predicted he would do, so he twisted his body to follow the flow of his right leg as it missed the penguin and shot his left leg out that landed on the penguin’s face

gotcha

Jay realised too late that he didn’t send the penguin flying like he thought he would before he crashed into a tree which cracked a little from his impact

What the?

Jay stood there thinking how come the penguin didn’t move

Ark laughed and spoke to Jay

“Haha, you got some technique but that’s only so-so, but the worst part is you can’t even defeat this Pegu”

Ark figured out that Jay felt insulted when faced against the ‘Pegu’ so he rubbed salt on his wound, although he felt baffled as to why Jay should look down on the Pegu because when born, they possess the ability of a 9th rank beast and every normal person when faced against them run in terror unless they’re ‘Tahi’ rank or higher

Looks like this kid got balls, good

*****

Jay POV

What kinda bullshit is this? This damn penguin is fucking strong and to boot, my strength is insufficient to hurt him

The Peng (I shortened it from penguin) dashed towards me with unpenguin speed and swung its right flipper straight at my face, I immediately leaned back to avoid it, but it quickly brought its left flipper up towards me as it spun in the air (that some bullshit). I quickly drew backward blocking its flippers by cross linking my arms together, then I pushed hard against its flippers, which immediately cut 3cm through my left arm (FUCK THIS SHIT) I brought my right leg up after it aiming to kick its chin while it was still in mid-air, but it dodged my attack by headbutting my foot with no force behind it as it flew away with the force of my foot towards my right doing a backward flip, once it landed we both were facing each other. Then, before I could grasp what just transpired the peng disappeared and reappeared in front of me, it hits my crossed arms with its head (why is the fucking penguin’s head so fucking strong). This cracked both my arms loosening my guard, but it was not enough for the peng as it jumped up and twisted its body. It extended its leg as it impacted my left cheek sending me flying a third time. I crashed into a tree (I think I went through 3 trees, but that’s impossible right?) The duel quickly turned into a one-sided slaughter with me on the receiving side as I passed out from the peng brutal hits

*****

Seeing the boy knocked out, Ark looked at the Pegu (the penguin’s race name in this world) and asked

“Well? How good is he?”

Pegu – “Good, but what troubles me is I don’t sense any energy used when we fought, that is weird in and of itself”

Ark nod at the Pegu reasoning, after all this world inhabitants all use energy or mana even if normal people don’t have enough to be like warriors or mages of Nova. They can still use the power for miscellanies things like cooking, cleaning even walking is infused with power but the boy never showed any power at all even when near death

Pegu – “Besides the no power issue, his body is surprising sturdy for a human. If I had to rate his body durability in human’s term, it’ll be equivalent to a 6th rank warrior”

“WHAT?”

Ark visibly shocked at the Pegu estimation of the boy’s durability, to have his body be at the 6th rank alone with no power is on a genius level that is rarely been done in the history of Nova, with only 100 people having made that level of strength. It may not seem like much but when you compare the known 300,000 years of history, you can imagine the enormous hardship to get to 6th rank with body alone

Pegu – “How old is the boy?”

“……..I never asked…”

Pegu – “This boy if my guess is correct should be in his early 20s”

“You’re kidding right?”

Ark said as he stood up and stared at the Pegus pressuring it for more answer

“No, and I know that of all the previous users, the youngest was 120 year so I can understand your shock”

Ark after hearing this, calmed down and walked to the boy. Picked up Jay’s left leg and started to drag him away

“I am curious about one thing though Rogue, why are you taking a disciple of all time? That’s never been like you”

Ark stopped and turned to look at the penguin

Ark – “Who knows”

The penguin raised an eyebrow at Ark’s vague answer and chuckled before he disappeared from the desert

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