《God Slayer》 Prologue~ Fallen of a heavenly genius? I am Arya Vihan, the most renowned young master of Vihan clan. So why am I that famous? It''s because I am a genius, you see The first time, I came in to this world, I smiled like a triumphant warrior instead of crying. I completed learning basic courtesy and educational language before I was two. I read over thousands of books before I was 5. That''s not all, in this world martial arts are real measure of your worth and I am pretty good at it. I became proficient in basic martial arts and techniques at the age of eight. The fastest in the history of this province. It''s a big thing really.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Many people wanted to betrothed their daughters to me. Of course, I got the best one. The most famous beauty of our generation from Shin clan is my fiancee. In other words, I have a life that many people dream of living. The world is waiting for my rise. Everybody is waiting for this heavenly genius''s martial awakening. At the age of twelve to fifty, people usually awakens their martial spirits. The more talented you are the faster you get it. So I got mine at the age of twelve, as expected of me, I must say. What a exceptional future I will have, heh. ........ Or I must say I should have had. ....... Arya Vihan Martial Spirit : Sleeping serpent Grade: basic martial spirit Basic martial spirit? Basic? "Those guys whom I have beaten balck and blue in the past, will kill me", that was what ringing in my head. Heaven made a prank on people and that prank was me. Chapter: 1 ~The God who bestows martial spirit is a retard... From the day I was born till now, this probably was the worst day of my life. I suddenly started to feel some emotions that I haven¡¯t felt before. Disappointment? Yes It''s one of them. If a tiger sleeps in night and ends up waking up as a pussy next day, How would it feel. Horror? Helplessness? Scared? Fear is something I have never felt before either. But now I am doing so and it''s justified alright. If you are born as a genius and hailed as one throughout your life, you will gather enemies even if you breath. Yes enemies, lots of them. Even inside your own clan, those unfortunate people who think they didn¡¯t get better treatment because of your existence. Yes, they make me scared all right. More than the people who are outside of our clan. They surely will not try to use resources to beat a horse that''s already dead. Well, most of them probably won''t ..... I looked around myself. I saw disappointment in the faces of my well wishers. My father, I have never seen his face being this ugly before. If this continues, I might end up questioning my gene.... There were people who in the past tried to sugarcoat me. They are probably thinking how to milk out the resources they spent on me just to build a relation . Some people who used to worship me in the past looked at me with schadenfreude and mockery. Some were looking at me like a prey, as if they couldn¡¯t wait to hunt. But in all of those eyes, I saw something similar. They all saw me as a waste.Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. I experienced failure for the first time in my life and the consequences of that failure was too great for me to handle. "Next. Move out to the corner, Arya", the inspection elder of my clan said. His voice was no where near as amiable as it was before. I looked at him to eyes and choose not to say anything. Winner dominates while losers wait for other people to determine the dignity level for themselves. I understand this pretty well. Slowly and silently I left the platform that was build for the sake of my expected heavenly awakening as if I were never meant to be there. Gradually, people shifted their attention from me, and this was the first time I felt relief from such occurrence. Ha, sigh. People sure know how to give up on someone and move on with their interest fast. Huh! I sure learned a valuable lesson today. I understand one thing clearly today though. With my previous mindset and personality and how I viewed this merciless world, even if I ended up awakening a king Spirit, I would have died young. How naive of me to have faith on people like these. How very naive! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! How can it be? How can it be? How can this happen to me? What did go wrong? What have I done wrong? I slapped my spirit totem which was in my left hand hard. ..... Eeh? ...... What is that? I was amazed,because there is something on my right hand. On a closer inspection it looks like a spirit totem? A dual spirit? Why is that thing so small? It didn¡¯t even light up during awakening. What grade of spirit is this? Ultra low basic grade spirit or something? What is that? .......... .......... A mosquito? Really a mosquito? A dual spirit of a sleeping serpent and a mosquito? If there is a god who bestows martial spirit, then he is a fucking retard!!!! Bullshit!!!!! ......... Chapter: 2~ A king Grade Martial spirit ¡°Well what kind of joke is this?¡±, I thought. I was thinking if I should show this to everybody that I am a dual spirit wielder. Nah, I immediately ended up discarding the idea. I Already made a big joke out of myself alright. What else I want to achieve by showing this tiny spirit totem? ¡°What is that?¡± ¡°Oh my god, a genius! a true genius!¡± I was brought back into reality by people''s screaming. On the platform a person was standing like deity while light was glittering all around. A three headed dragon like totem were hovering above his hand. ¡°A Zmei?¡± , I thought. Our Vihan clan possess serpent martial spirit through our blood line. In our clan if a sleeping serpent martial spirit represents shame, then having Zmei as a spirit is something to be extremely proud of. No, probably it¡¯s enough to be the future owner of the clan. A king grade spirit! Aside from the 4 Ancestors of the big clan and 5 previously known younger generation people, there are not any other king grade martial spirit wieldier in this province. As our clan had one of those five people, this is a huge leap for our clan. It means, our younger generation will have the capability to face off against the people from Hanya clan, the strongest clan in this province. Well lots of people came here expecting this result. Yes they did, but the figure who they thought would wield this spirit was me. However the protagonist of the expected show changed at last minutes. I saw joy and relief in the faces of my clan members. Envy and worship in the faces of younger generations. Love and adoration in the faces of young maidens. Huh, I used to experience those things in the past. Man I am so jealous! The protagonist of the show suddenly turn towards me and looked intensely. Hatred or disappointment?Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Tatti Vihan. Huh, I don¡¯t blame him though. I am someone who is well learned about lots of language. In one of the southern-East language, Tatti means shit. When I was little, I unintentionally said it loud. Because of that, this guy became a laughing stock among people. Some over-enthusiastic people thought I was targeting him and in order to coat me intentionally bullied him. Those guys will be really hating me for that now. Later he trained hard and beat the shit out of those bullies. Because of his ferocious nature, he got the title mad demon. But he still failed to beat me in basic martial arts though. A tale of the past considering the current situation, I must say. Aah, I am sensing a lot of hostile gazes. I guess I will become target of a lot of people in the future. A retribution? Probably so, I sighed in my heart. ¡°Heh It¡¯s just a king grade spirit, the level looks low too. What¡¯s the big deal?¡± someone suddenly said beside me. ¡°What¡¯s the big deal? What bullshit are you spouting? Do you know what a king grade spirit represents? ¡° I ended up shouting. Suddenly a lot of people turn towards me and looked at me as if they were looking at a fool. ¡°Arya, why are you shouting yourself? Did you lose your basic manners?¡± one of the clan elders shouted with anger. ¡°What do you mean by, I lost my manner? Didn¡¯t you guys hear what this fool said?¡± I thought and looked behind me and found no one. I was stupefied. I was sure I heard someone sprouting bullshit. Suddenly I gathered a lot of attention on me, at a wrong time at that. I turned around and apologized to the elder. People looked at me as if I were some kind of attention seeker and shifted their gazes to the main protagonist of the show eventually. ¡°Sigh! Was I hearing things in my mind? I must be tired¡± "You were not¡±. ¡°who is it?¡± I said in a low voice and look around me. ¡°Oh you are looking for me? You better look at you martial domain kid¡± "Martial domain?" I raised my spirit flow and enter into my Martial Domain. And the thing I saw shocked me so much that I became stupefied. An endless world, that is the only way you can describe this. I just could not see the limit of my domains with my eyes. It looked like, I came to a different world. And in that plain blank world there was a serpent that was sleeping, and above its head a mosquito was sitting and shouting at me, ¡°That¡¯s right kid, the one who is talking with you is the tiny useless Martial spirit of yours¡± My eyes became as big as chicken egg as I looked at the scene. ¡°There are something really wrong with my world view¡±, I thought. Chapter: 3 ~ God Slayer I was trying to comprehend the scene before me. But no matter how knowledge I was, I really wasn¡¯t able to realize how a martial domain can be that big. A martial domain''s size represents a practitioner''s potential. ¡°What? You are surprised? ¡°, The little mosquito asked. I started smiling like a stupid and said it was hard for me to believe that I was such a heavenly genius. ¡°Sigh! It''s hard to believe someone like you posses slayer veins. I don¡¯t sense any bloodlust from you. You probably haven¡¯t even killed anyone before. I really don¡¯t know whether It¡¯s your blessings or curse that you were born with this power.¡± I was silent. I could feel this particular tiny guy was quite emotional about my circumstances. ¡°What exactly are you? I have never heard of a talking martial spirit before. What grade of Marital spirits are you? Demigod grade?¡± I asked. ¡°Before you ask me so much question. Don¡¯t you think, you should excuse yourself from such a occasion? After all, even though you are a fallen genius, there are still a lot of people who are placing their attentions towards you. Should you be in your meditative state for so long?¡± The mosquito said. I came back to senses and immediately pulled out my spirit force from domain. Although I have a lot questions I would like to ask but I have enough patience. I took permission from one of the elders and excused myself from the event. Since the protagonist of the event changed, it was not particularly hard for me to excuse myself. I went straight back to my yard. Among the younger generation I hold the second best yard of the clan. Just this privilege is enough to make other¡¯s intestine green. I sat down on my room and enter my domain again. ¡°You rather work fast. Seems you are really desperate to seek some answers, huh?¡± ¡°cut the cheap talk. What really are you?¡± ¡°Well, I would answer your question, but before that tell me something. Now that you can guess the grade of your spirit is not low. Probably even higher than a King grade. What are you waiting for? Should not you just tell the elders and get your lost glory back?¡± I looked at the mosquito and kept my silence for a while. ¡° I know, I act goofy sometimes. But why do you think I was held as the number one genius in the province before my awakening? Was it all for my talent? Of course it had it¡¯s part. However, that¡¯s not enough. In the past there were a lot of people who had potential but eventually failed. The reason I am hailed as genius is, because I never failed till this day. Whether handling affairs with in clan or outside, I never failed. My survival instinct is pretty strong. I can judge situation pretty well. Regaining glory? If I go back and said something like I got a Martial spirit that is above king grade, then I will die. If someone has a king grade spirit, the other clan even if they try to eliminate him, they will do it in the back, secretly. How ever a Monarch grade martial spirit is something that will surely break the balance and create absolute dominance in this province. So all of those clan will join in hands to kill me. If the situation is out of control, I might die by my own clan members. They will kill me and display my corpse publicly to avoid annihilation. I am not someone who courts death, you know.¡±Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. ¡°Ah I see, so you are not an absolute idiot after all. Good so it won¡¯t be that boring being with you as I initially thought¡± ¡°In your eyes, I was nothing but fool initially, huh?¡± ¡°Hahaha, you can say that was too early for me to judge you. As an apology, I will introduce myself with my name. Don¡¯t underestimate it, it¡¯s the gesture of me acknowledging your ability. You will know Its value in the future. My name is Emphusa¡± ¡°I am Arya. Well Emphusa what kind of Martial spirit are you? I know there are Basic Grade, Human Knight, King, Monarch, Sovereign, Saint, Demigod, God, Highgod. So which grade are you then, Emphusa?¡± ¡°None of them¡± ¡­??? ¡°What? It¡¯s impossible I haven¡¯t heard of any other grade that exists before and I am sure that I am pretty well informed regarding this issue. Highest Grade that exists with in this continent is Saint Grade. Other only has information regarding them and they exists in higher Continent.¡± Emphusa was silent for a while before saying, ¡°People don¡¯t know about them, it''s because the people at the top of food chain didn¡¯t want them to know. It¡¯s because there exists a martial grade that breaks all the shackles of beings and seeks perfection. Even at the top of food chain, there are countless strong people. They keep each other in check. But someone with this type of Martial Grade breaks that balance. A single person can break every barrier in his way and establish absolute dominance. That¡¯s why, they are also known as the forbidden Grade of Martial Spirit.¡± My heart skipped a beat after hearing Emphusa. The fazed and unsettle look on my face was pretty obvious. Emphusa sighed and said, ¡° Well you can lead a normal life if you want. After all you have not establish a blood contact with me. You are a dual spirit wielder, so you can still be a practitioner. You won''t have a life of glory but you can still live your life out pretty well. But if you choose to contact with me, it means you are challenging the authority of Gods, those who maintains the balance of this world. So, you will practically be the enemy of the entire world. It¡¯s a foolish choice after all. Don¡¯t worry I will spend my time here sleeping till you die and I won''t tell you the grade of Martial Spirit though. After all it will just bring extra hesse¡­.¡± Emphusa didn¡¯t finish speaking before she saw me cut my finger and draw the seal of pledge as practitioner. A pledge to fulfil in the path of glory, a pledge towards your martial spirit. ¡°State your demand and Tell me the grade of my spirit.¡± ¡­¡­. ¡­¡­. ¡­¡­. ¡°If you reach the apex, give me freedom.¡± After a long while Emphusa stated. Let me re introduce myself. ¡°I am Emphusa, the goddess of dark night. As for my grade, It¡¯s called¡­..¡± ¡°The God Slayer" Chapter: 4~ Ascending with a single skill? Impossible!!!! The God Slayer! What a audacious name I thought. If I just state it, I will be killed for blasphemy. Huh. Well now that the bond has been created, there is no turning back anyway. Although I don¡¯t know how everything thing will turn out. I can feel, it will be quite a bloody road ahead of me. But I will reach the apex eventually. I will. With a determined look, I looked at Emphusa. Right now, I want to know how many potential martial skills I can have. Generally the higher your martial spirit grade is the larger number of skills one can possess. Since My martial spirit is so amazing I surely will have a lot of skills right? The reason a higher grade Martial spirit is valued that much is because they have faster and smoother cultivation and they have stronger martial skills. Two practitioners of same cultivation level with different grade of martial spirit have big gap between them. The higher the cultivation level the bigger the gap becomes. There can be some exception in some cases. Casting aside every other thoughts running in my mind I looked at Emphusa with enthusiasms. ¡°So how many skills can I have in the future? ¡° ¡°Well about that¡­ before reaching Nature Ascension Realm, you can only have one¡±. ¡°One huh¡­one skill? One? What? You are joking with me right?¡± ¡°No¡±Stolen novel; please report. ¡°You are expecting me to cultivate till Nature Ascension with one skill?¡± ¡°Yes¡± ¡°F@#& you @&%*@&&@#&*@¡± ¡°Come down, idiot¡± ¡°You expect me to come down? Really Do you even know what Nature Ascension realm means? You sure, you haven¡¯t make a mistake? That¡¯s the realm, when people broke through the barrier of this continent and leave. Starting with Muscle Shaping, then Bone building, Vein molding, Blood boiling, Marrow cleansing, Soul purifying, And Chaos creating. Chaos creating is the highest realm of this continent. As the practitioner practically becomes equal to the continent''s heaven, that¡¯s why they have ability to go against the heaven itself. Thus having such name. After that comes Nature Ascension realm where people Ascended as a being, from mortal they become a Godly being. So you expect me to ascend with just a single skill?¡± ¡°Yes, I do. You will realize once you know about it. Besides that¡¯s just my set of skill, you sure are ignoring the sleeping guy here. You honestly think, I will share my space with an ordinary basic grade spirit?¡± ¡°Ehh, what do you mean? You mean to say this tiny little guy is not normal either?¡± ¡°Well, let me tell you something the reason you never heard of anyone who has Martial spirit above Saint grade is because, people of this continent is not strong enough as a vessel. They will explode if they awakened such a spirit. The training, you have gone through is no where near enough. The reason you didn¡¯t die was because, I suppressed this guy''s power and mine. Now how far you will really go is up to you. But remember you already owe me a life.¡± ¡°Well thanks for that then, so what is this skill you are so flaunting about then?¡± I asked with anticipation. I must say, my life depends on this skill. The decision I have made and the path I have taken was already hard enough on me, okay? Emphusa was silent for a while before saying, ¡°Well, the skill you will have is called¡­.¡± ¡°Spirit Absorption¡± Chapter: 5~ I want to reach to the top Spirit Absorption? The name gave me some idea about it. But I still want to confirm my assumptions. ¡°So, what does this skill do?¡± I asked, it was obvious that my voice was a bit shaky. ¡° You already got a glimpse of it from the name, didn¡¯t you? As the name suggests You can basically absorb martial spirit of other people and make it your own. Just like how a mosquito sucks out blood, your entire body will suck out spirit. The more you can absorb, the better it is for you and the more harmful it will be for the original wieldier. I mean if It¡¯s your enemy, it¡¯s pretty convenient to suck them dry. But if it¡¯s someone whom you don¡¯t want to hurt, you can just take a tiny portion, like the amount of cell from a human body. In the formal case, you will be able to develop that martial spirit really fast. However in case of the later one, the process will be really slow, it¡¯s like a cell that needs to develop itself with time to get a multicellular body. So in this case, every time you raise your level, you will improve the grade of the martial spirit. So, the long time it takes, is a drawback¡± I was shocked as I continued hearing. Drawback? What bullshit? Even if the process is slow, doesn¡¯t it mean I can practically have every martial spirits I wish to have regardless of their grade? If the time it will take is what you call a drawback, I will gladly accept it. ¡°So you mean to say, I can have all the spirits I want to and make them my own regardless of their grade?¡± ¡°Technically yes, If you reach Nature Ascension realm and ascend from being a mortal then you will be able to have as much as spirit you want. But as a mortal, you will have some limitations, If you cross that limit, your body won¡¯t be able to take the burden and it will explode. Now As someone who just awakened his martial spirit, the most you can have is four. And the highest grade you can absorb will be a knight grade. After you reach Muscle Shaping realm, you can take in another one and absorb higher grade than you currently can. Your capacity will rise along with your cultivation level.¡± ¡°That¡¯s still good enough.¡± I clenched my fist and for the first time in my life, I truly felt I could reach the apex of the road I am heading to.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°You should be careful about choosing martial spirt though. As a God slayer Martial spirit I have my own dignity. If they are useful enough I don¡¯t mind having them here. But I won''t share my space with random useless spirits. If something like that happens, I will kill them¡± ¡°With that tiny body of yours?¡± ¡°I have suppressed my power but I have my own way. Don¡¯t test me though. Losing a spirit will be painful for you too as a wielder.¡° I didn¡¯t doubt her word''s. I felt she was quite serious about this. So I choose not to annoy her anymore and was thinking which two spirits, I will take to fill my slot. ¡°Oh, I forgot, when you are choosing a particular spirit, don¡¯t choose them by their original grade, instead observe what kind of skill they have. Grade of a martial spirit is useless when choosing spirit. You might have it at a better grade initially, but that¡¯s it.¡± ¡°What do you mean grade is useless? If I absorb a king grade spirit, I will have king grade spirit. If I absorb a human grade, I will have human grade. How can they be same?¡± ¡°They are, because the spirit you absorb will not have their original grade as their limitations. They can grow infinitely along with you. It means if you absorb a king grade spirit, it will not stop growing after reaching original grade. It will evolve itself and reach a new level as your cultivation progress.¡± ¡°What??? That¡¯s absolutely b@#&*@#&. What kind of ridiculous skill is that? That defies every logic. How could it be like that? ¡° ¡°Do you think God slayer Martial spirit is Chinese cabbage? Every single one of them are heaven defying. If they weren¡¯t that terrifying , do you think those higher up people would have been that desperate to remove their wielders? The moment you chose this path, you were destined to have the entire world against you.¡± I grasped for breath, the information I received was hard even for me to digest. But there was a fire sprouting in my heart. I was feeling it, excitement! I want to be strong, strong enough to defy heavens, gods, devils. Strong enough to control my own fate. ¡°You should be careful about displaying your martial spirits too. Martial spirit have some connections with bloodline. Like your clan people, they have serpent if lower or Dragon if it¡¯s a higher grade. If you show too much in public, people will have some guesses. And that will be rather troublesome. ¡° ¡°I am aware of it, I know when I need to back off. But if someday I am forced to use my abilities that shouldn¡¯t be made public and that attracts unnecessary attention, I am not afraid of it. ¡° Unknown to me I was oozing blood lust, terrifying blood lust that I myself was not aware of. ¡°Slayer vein¡±, Emphusa muttered Chapter: 6~Trouble comes faster than winds ¡°So he does have it. I hope he does not lose himself and end up being a madman. It¡¯s a good thing for him though, at least he will have a better chance to survive.¡± Emphusa thought. ¡°Arya¡± Huh? Oh, I came to back to my senses after she called me. For some moment I had a urge to slaughter people as much as I can. The thoughts of such line kind of made me scared. I have never killed anyone before, But for a moment I Indulged myself in the pleasure of killing? I took a deep breath and calm myself down. That feeling was weird. I maintained silence for a while then looked at Emphusa. ¡°You said that you are the goddess of dark night before. So you are a female?¡± ¡°Yes¡± I looked at her and make a perverted look on my face. ¡°Say how can you distinguish between a female and male Mosquito? Can I check? ¡°You want to die? Brat?¡± ¡°Well, sorry sorry¡± ¡°Arya get out here and accept your crime¡± someone shouted from my backyard. "Oh, trouble came faster than wind", I thought. These guys can¡¯t wait to suck it up, huh? They are not even regarding the rules. If they want to come here, they must inform my servant first. But the servant didn¡¯t come to me. Which means either they forcefully enter or my servants did not stop them. Even if they did, I understand their feelings. There is no point in following a valueless master after all.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. The look on my face hardened but I still stayed calm. Standing up I head for the yard. There were few boys out there, I still remember their faces quite well. In the past they tried to suck up to me. However their faces were not looking that friendly Now. ¡°Arya, you should Know, the elders decided to bestow brother Tatti this yard. Even after knowing this you still haven¡¯t left yet. Are you disregarding family rules and regulations?¡± How unreasonable, it hasn¡¯t been even one hour since awakening ceremony. This guys sure are fast and decisive. But I don¡¯t blame them. Resources of big clans are earned by people with ability. If you have ability you can hold out the biggest chunk, nobody will dare to complain. But if you don''t, then having resources will be problematic for you even if you are the son of the clan master. Well I understand their intentions though, they want to use this as an excuse to step on me and build a connection with Tatti. But was it that easy? ¡°Oh, I was about to leave this yard. If you are going to make a fuss here, it will be difficult for me to move out and when that happens you will need to give an explanation to brother Tatti.¡± Upon hearing me, they become dumbfounded. They wanted to spill dirty water on me but instead I wanted to move out on my own. They really thought, I will resist and they will fight me, huh? ¡°Hey what?? Don¡¯t try to spill dirty water on us. If you wanted to, you would have moved out long ago. Why would you wait for this long?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Brother Rivu is right. How dare you show this audacity. Let us teach you a lesson.¡± This guys are actually this unreasonable. They are not even looking for a reason to attack me. This bastards, do they think I can¡¯t take care of them? The look on my face hardened and I was ready to fight it out but before I tried to do something BOOM¡± The guy who attacked me was sent flying crashing into a wall and then sliding down like a paper. ¡°What audacious bastards! You think you can do whatever you want in my yard? Or you guys don¡¯t have me in your eyes.¡± In front of me was standing the newly emerged protagonist of the clan, Tatti Vihan. His eyes was burning with rage and his aura was giving a vibe of a beast that was eyeing a prey. Chapter: 7~ Things can be deceiving at times ¡°You guys sure have guts, don¡¯t you?¡±, Tatti said as he was fuming. ¡°Brother Tatti, this guy, even though he knew you were assigned to this yard, still shamelessly occupying it. So we were teaching him a lesson on your behalf.¡± ¡°On my behalf? Since when did you guys started to represent me?¡± ¡°Brother, don¡¯t talk like that, after all you are the new star of the clan. You will probably need some people to assist you in your rise. And will you have time to deal with small things like these?¡± ¡°Oh? So did I have assistance from the likes of you to be here? Or do you think, I myself is not enough to rise on the top?¡± ¡°No brother, we didn¡¯t mean it like that. You are viewing it in a wrong way.¡± ¡°Well you guys are right about one thing though. You did have some contributions in my rise. If you guys didn¡¯t wag around your dog tails in front of me again and again, how could have I become this strong?¡± The faces of those idiots were becoming more ugly as Tatti continued talking. ¡° Well, don¡¯t think I will forget your past contributions on my success this easily, sucking up to me is not enough to erase my memories.¡±, A ferocious expression was present on Tatti''s face as he said.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. Looking at him, the group shivered. The fear on their eyes were crystal clear. They were clearly unsettled as they said with a shaky voice, ¡°Brother Tatti, don¡¯t pursue things too far. Killing each other is prohibited in the clan¡± ¡°It is, it is. I am well aware of that rules. But let¡¯s say, I accidentally wasted you while sparring. Will the clan punish me? They will, but it will be like confining me within my room so that I can reflect on my action. Quite a small price to pay right?¡± ¡°You are joking, right brother? ¡° ¡° If you don¡¯t scram within three breaths ,you will know whether I am joking or not¡± ¡°Brother, we..¡± ¡°Three¡± As Tatti started counting, the looks on the group¡¯s face became more ugly. And without any hesitation, they ran away. After all who will take chances against a mad man. As they were gone, my yard become calm again. Tatti turned around and looked at me. ¡° I will pick up a few things and leave the yard within tonight ¡°, I said. ¡°Did you really get a basic martial spirit? ¡°, Tatti looked at me intensely. I was surprised by his sudden question but gathered myself quickly. ¡°You have seen it with your own eyes, right?¡± ¡°Our eyes are often deceiving and as a practitioner if you only believe in what your eyes are showing you, then you are bounded to be mediocre. My instinct are telling me, your case isn¡¯t simple. But I wouldn¡¯t pursue it.¡± I looked at the person in front of me and saw seriousness in his eyes. People with Such temperament will definitely succeed. Even if he didn¡¯t have a king grade martial spirit, this guy would have become someone powerful. This guy''s instinct are horribly dangerous. Well, I wouldn¡¯t tell him my secret even though I have a good impression of him. While numerous thoughts were runningin my head, I heard his voice once again. ¡° The people of the Shin clan came to visit.¡±, Tatti said with slight hesitation. The look on my face become hardened as I listened to him Chapter: 8 ~ You need to have a Dragon to pact a Phoenix Cold treatment from clan''s elder, young people of the clan, even from my own servants, are things that were within my expectations and something I was okay to deal with. But this is completely a different issue. I am not a person to hold into something forcefully but there are somethings which involves dignity of a person. Things like that can not be taken lightly. ¡°Are they here for annulling the marriage contact? ¡°, I asked and even though I tried, my voice was showing a hint of anger. ¡°Not quite, they want to swap the holder of the contact.¡± ¡°you mean?¡± ¡°Yes, me instead of you. The great elders summoned me and informed me about the matter.¡± ¡°Does Liz knows about it? Or it was the decision of her clan? ¡° ¡°It seems she does, I heard she said that our clan needed to have a Dragon in order to pact a Phoenix¡± ¡°Hahaha, such nice words, that hypocrite woman. I still remember her flattery from few days before. Hahaha, those words I will remember them¡±. I was angry this time, all those things that were happening right now, all those double faced bastards who wagged around their dog''s tail before me changing now, I didn¡¯t care about it. But this particular incident, seriously annoyed me. I calm myself down and looked at Tatti. ¡°So, you agreed?¡± ¡°No, I refused.¡± ¡°What? But why?¡± ¡°I will rather have a chameleon at my yard and watch it change it''s color. Who knows if she were to have a powerful suitors, she might stab me in the back. Such woman disgusts me.¡±This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. I looked at this guy again, although I always felt that he was special but I still end up underestimating him. No wonder, even after being bullied for so long, he didn¡¯t lost himself. ¡°The elders didn¡¯t agree with your decision, right?¡± ¡°Of course not, they told me to not think much about it and focus on my cultivation. I can rethink about it later. But I told them, no matter how much time goes by, my answer will be the same. They seemed pretty pissed off. After all they don¡¯t want to make an adverse relationship with Shin clan.¡± ¡°Even if they don¡¯t want to do it, they should have summoned me before summoning you. I am the one who is holding the contact. The marriage contact, although the clan plays a great role behind it, it¡¯s held by an individual. So, my worth has gone so low that they are not even considering before disrespecting me, huh? Well It¡¯s alright. ¡° ¡°You want to talk with them? It won''t change anything and forcefully holding that contact will harm you more. Besides that woman is not worth that attention.¡± ¡°No, I have my own plan regarding it. Don¡¯t worry, I am still the current clan master''s son after all. They will need to pay some price, if they want the contact.¡± I looked at Tatti with mixed feelings and said, ¡°Your life was quite miserable because of that thing, I said before. Why did you help me so much?¡± ¡°I am quite talented that much I know. But I am not good enough to handle assault from an entire clan''s younger generation. Surprisingly, I got more resources than people who were even stronger than me. The elders told me it was my compensation for getting bullied. But I am not a fool to think there are so much generosity in a clan such as this. You made my conditions miserable but you also gave me the opportunity to become who I am now.¡± ¡°So you knew, huh? Hey Tatti.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Three years from now, the grand practitioner''s hunt will be held. Prepare yourself, I will see you there.¡±, I looked at Tatti. The demeanor and the aura that was surrounding me completely changed and it was no where near the aura that a basic grade martial spirit holder should possess. It was the bearing of a ruler, of a conqueror, of a slaughterer. Tatti looked at me with surprise, he was clearly stupefied watching me like this but he soon picked himself up and nodded his head. ¡°I will wait for you brother Arya¡± This was the moment when a wonderful brotherhood was formed. Nobody imagined this little interaction between this two young masters that formed this bond will end up saving the entire Vihan clan in the future. Chapter: 9 ~ Father ¡°The silent waterfall yard¡±, one of the most gorgeous and desirous yard in the entire clan. It is also the yard of the clan master, in other words my father''s. I stepped inside and entered the yard. There was a man sitting near a pond in the backyard. He was wearing a cyan robe, his face was extremely handsome. The elegance, this man was carrying was enough to make him different from any random person. He was my father, Ayana Vihan. I looked at the face of my father and for the first time in my life I saw an unsettled and lost expression on his face. It was as if the cool and calm man I knew from the past, that indifferent person who was more of a clan elder to me than my father never existed. ¡°Father, I¡­.¡± ¡°I promised your mother that I would take care of you. In the past I hoped that you would live a normal life rather than being a genius. But from a young age, you showed your capabilities. You excelled at everything. In a practitioner clan like this, there are more wolfs than tigers. There are people who will hate you for your success, your authority. I am the clan master of the Vihan clan. Why do I occupy this position? It¡¯s obviously because, I am strong. But being strong, is it enoug? No, it isn¡¯t. When dealing with an enemy, whether it¡¯s an internal enemy or an external, you will have to be absolutely ruthless. And that is how I always have been from a young age. However, I didn¡¯t want you to become like myself. Your mother wanted you to live a simple life. I respected her wish. Unlike what other clan masters do with their offsprings, I never wanted to push you for this seat. However, you just showed too much promise and after that even if you didn¡¯t want to participate in this war of authority, you will be hunted. So, I didn¡¯t stop you. Since you can¡¯t live a simple life, you should rather have the throne. After all, even if you pull yourself out from this war, people will rather have a ferocious lion dead than gaining a promise that it won¡¯t bite. But all my thoughts and plan for you failed. Now, you are in a such a troublesome situation, I don¡¯t know how to handle it. You will be okay till I breathe but after that¡­¡± ¡°Father¡± I raised my voice to interrupt and looked at him to the eyes. ¡°All those time, I showed off my abilities, my capabilities to everyone, I had a motive behind it. It was not to be the next clan master neither it to be on the center of attention or gaining plenty of resources. All these time, I have worked hard and waited for a day. A day when I will get your approval. I don¡¯t even remember the face of my mother. Although ,you were there I couldn¡¯t get your love. But I was never a fool. I never took your indifference as your negligence but as your protection. After all the estimated clan master of Vihan clan, my father always hid himself in my backyard and watched me practice night after night.¡±This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. ¡°You noticed?¡±, my father had a surprised look on his face. ¡°I have sharp senses and you underestimated me completely. Quite poor judgement for a clan leader.¡± ¡°You got some guts brat¡± my father lips twitched but a rather rare carefree expression was present on his face, he sighed as he looked at me and said, ¡°how did someone like you got a basic grade martial spirit? ¡° ¡°I didn¡¯t ¡° ¡°what??? What are you talking about?¡± ¡°I said my spirit is not a basic grade martial spirit.¡± There was absolute silence in the backyard. My father was quiet and from the look of it he was thinking about something. And after a long while he said, ¡°Arya, if I am not mistaking, you got something powerful enough to break the shackles and fly from the continent, right?¡± This time it was my time to be shocked. I never planned to tell the exact range of my ability to my father. I simply wanted him to be more relaxed and carefree, so gave him a little information. But somehow he knew it. ¡°From the looks on your face, I was right. As expected, there is absolutely no way you can be someone normal. I am rather a normal practitioner but she was not. A tiger cannot breed a dog son after all.¡± ¡°You are implying about my mother? But how can it be? My mother was from a humble background. I heard she was not even a practitioner and died of mortal illness.¡±, I said with a shaky voice as my thoughts were a mess. For the first time in my life, I was feeling like things were out of my control and I was completely in dark regarding everything. ¡°If a person is powerful enough, they can even create their own world let alone making people fall for a simple trick. That much you should understand, right Arya?¡± ¡°Then who is my mother? Is she alive?¡±, I was hoping to get a positive reply from him, I can¡¯t describe how much I was desiring to hear that answer. ¡°Your mother, she was alive when she left, I don¡¯t have any idea about her current conditions though.¡± ¡°Surely, you know more than that, right?¡± ¡°I do. I will tell you all about it when you become strong enough to dominate this province alone. You must become strong enough to tackle the situation even if all the clan together became your enemies. Then I will tell you all about it.¡± ¡°Father, I¡­.¡± ¡°I won''t consider it. Don¡¯t be so impatient, my son. Maintaining your calm and having patience is a must for a practitioner, you know it too, right? ¡° I took a deep breath and calmed myself down. The look on my face became more composed and stable as I nodded. My father nodded with satisfaction and said, ¡° come here and sit. We never have a father and son meeting before, right?¡± ¡°Yes father¡±, I sat on the ground as I replied. This was probably the very first time I was having such a time with my father. Yes, my father not the estimated clan leader. Things rather quieted down as the dusk was approaching. This moment was something, I want to engrave within me. Chapter: 10 ~ Knight Grade Martial Spirit : Black Mamba The night was deepening, and as time went by, I was feeling more and more relaxed. All the turmoil that I had in my mind was vanishing and my mind was approaching a peaceful state. ¡°Emphusa, I want to have my first Martial spirit.¡±, I said. ¡°Is it your father''s?¡± ¡°Yes, It¡¯s a knight grade martial spirit, Black Mamba. It has a sharp movement skill and a fast fist strike as far as I know. There might be more hidden skills but I have never seen them. But that movement skill is something that I need, I am not strong enough right now. So if I came across an opponent who is stronger than me, I will run away. As long as they don¡¯t have same or higher level movement skills or have a tremendous higher cultivation, I will be able to flee.¡± ¡°You sure love your life, ensuring safety before everything, huh?¡± ¡°You can think of me as a scary cat if you want. But I know my priorities.¡± ¡°Well, you are not wrong in your particular approach. Besides after absorbing two martial spirits your cultivation speed will increase. And as you have multiple spirits, your cultivation speed will be faster and faster with times, so you will hardly reach any bottleneck. And in each level, you will have the ability to absorb more spirits, so ensuring your safety first is not a wrong approach.¡± ¡°Oh, so how to do it? I have not gained any instructions from you yet and I still need to practice.¡± ¡°Oh don¡¯t worry, this is not a battle skill that needs more and more practice. As long as you can activate it, you will be able to utilize it. Your control over it will get better with times. After all your opponent might resist and you might end up sucking someone dry.¡± ¡°That¡¯s rather a great problem, since the first person I want to use it on is my father.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, trust your instinct. It will work somehow. ¡° A few black line appeared on my forehead as I said, ¡°Anybody ever told you before how terrible of a teacher you are?¡± ¡°¡­.. No¡± ¡°¡­¡­..¡± I sighed and took a deep breath, asking her for help is not helping me at the moment, I will need to make it work myself. For some reason, I felt like, I would be able to execute this skill right now even if I never practiced it before. Is it because, the mental barrier I had with my father in the past vanished? May be, but one thing is true I am calm and focused than I ever was. My eyes became more determined as my thoughts proceeded.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. ¡°I will do it, so what should I do?¡± ¡°That¡¯s more like it. You don¡¯t have to do too much. The moment you made a contact with me, your body already transformed itself through the contract. You just need to run your spirit energy throughout the body and release it slowly. Every pores in your body will act like a pump and suck out spirit. Since it¡¯s your father, you need to have perfect focus and control over it. Otherwise, if you take too much, his foundation will be damaged. You need to absorb it, just like how a person absorbs natural spirit energy.¡± ¡°Alright¡±, I said and opened my eyes. The silent session between me and my father ended as I stand up. My father looked at me sensing my movements. ¡°You are leaving?, he asked. ¡°No, I want to talk about something. But before that, I want to see your martial spirit. Can you show it to me?¡± ¡°My martial spirit? Why do you want to see it?¡± my father frowned and said with confusion. ¡°I never checked it out from close. So, I just want to see how it looks like from the viewpoint of an opponent. I think, it will help me to maintain my composure against a powerful opponent.¡± ¡°Is it? Alright then.¡±, my father stood up as he said. And I could see tremendous spirit energy lurking around him. And just after a second a twelve to fifteen feet tall snake appeared behind him. As it open it''s mouth, I saw a pitch black surface. "Strong and dominant", these two words were running in my head as I saw my father in this state. I didn¡¯t waste my time and started releasing my own spirit energy. For some reason I was feeling like countless holes opened up in my body which were hungry for inhaling spirit. ¡°Stop absorbing and close your pores, when I told you to." , Emphusa said. I nodded and activated my martial skill and the absorption started. The sensation I was feeling right now can not be described with words. If possible I would want to indulge myself in this pleasure but I didn¡¯t lose my mind. I saw a frown appear on my father''s face. Although he was not affected, he was feeling that something was wrong. As more and more spirit energy flowed to my body, my desire to continue this process was increasing. ¡°Enough¡±, I suddenly heard Emphusa Shouting and discarding every other thought I had in my mind. I immediately closed off my pores. I started huffing as sweats were dripping from my forehead. ¡°You okay?¡±, My father came quickly to my side and asked. ¡°I am, father. Rest assured. Can I meditate in your place for a while?¡±, I asked. Although, more and more doubts were visible on his face, he still nodded and agreed to my request. I took a corner and started meditating . As I entered my martial domain, I saw a new blob like spirit energy lurking in front of Emphusa. ¡°You almost lost yourself there. That¡¯s why you need to have proper control over that skill. Or else you will become a bloodthirsty fiend.¡± ¡°I know. Now, what should I do about this blob?¡± ¡°Well just cultivate normally here and instead of your dantian compress the energy into this blob. During this period, your cultivation won''t improve though. These spirit energy you absorb, will be expanded in forming this spirit. But after you are done, your cultivation speed will increase.¡± I nodded as I started doing how she suggested. I forget how much time I spend in cultivation and finally a movement was visible in the blob in front of me. It was slowly taking a shape of a snake, and finally a tiny baby black mamba appeared in front of me. It was yawning as it blinked here and there. ¡°Congratulations, you finally formed your first spirit. It¡¯s in the basic grade and still an infant though. But it will grow strong with times.¡± I smiled and looked at the tiny playful creature in front of me. From here on, my martial journey started it¡¯s root. Chapter: 11~ Starting a new journey I opened my eyes and saw my father still sitting in front of me. It was no longer night, the sun was shinning brightly. I looked at my father as he was watching me. There were traces of confusion and astonishment in his eyes. ¡°Something wrong father?¡± ¡°Do you know how long it has been?¡± ¡°No¡± ¡°three days¡± ¡°¡­¡­..¡± ¡°Three days¡±, I muttered. For a practitioner it is usually considered a small time. Sometimes they cultivated for years gaining new understanding and shaping their martial ways. But that is for a higher level practitioner. For a person like me who has not yet reached muscle shaping realm, that is something really unusual. ¡°It¡¯s strange. You have been meditating for so long, yet you haven¡¯t reached muscle shaping realm. On the contrary, I can feel that your spirit powers haven¡¯t changed at all. How unusual. Your spirit channels broken or something? ¡° ¡°I am fine father. Don¡¯t worry about it. I have my own ways.¡± My father still wanted to say something but eventually just shook his head and said nothing. I smiled seeing him like this and didn¡¯t say anything either. ¡°Do you know the Shin clan has broken the contact? ¡° ¡°What are you talking about?¡±Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. ¡°They want to break the contact and substitute me with Tatti. And it seems the clan elders agreed.¡± ¡°They what? Good¡­ very good. It seems, the moment my son has failed to shine, those old farts have finally started revealing their fangs. They think, I can¡¯t do anything to them? Or they are really confident in their abilities? And that bloody Shin clan really think, they can get away smacking my face? Don¡¯t worry Arya, I will see how far they can go.¡± There was clear anger on my father''s face and as I thought he didn¡¯t even know. The clan master doesn¡¯t know the annulling of his son¡¯s marriage contact. That is some serious disrespect. My father was clearly ready to go all out but I don¡¯t. ¡°No need to father. Don¡¯t pursue it, instead tell them I am agreeing with it. But as a compensation I want to have full authority of our southern region businesses. From this point onward, they are my businesses and the clan won''t have any authority over them. That much is possible, right?¡± ¡°But why? And businesses of southern region? There are not anything special out there. Just some shops that buys and sells demonic beast''s skin and core and a gamble shop. And It¡¯s near the chaos forest, there are some nasty people out there too. ¡° ¡°It¡¯s okay I understand what I am doing.¡± ¡°Why don¡¯t you want me to pursue it though?¡± ¡°Those people, they are smacking your face openly. It¡¯s clear they want you to take action. So they might be having some serious scheme in their mind. They are making a trap and want us to fall in it. But just because they want us to play their game, doesn¡¯t mean we have to. Besides this is not the right time yet and I am not someone who forgets humiliations, my dear father.¡±, I looked at my father as a determined look was visible on my face. My father sighed and smiled at me, ¡°You sure had grown up before I noticed. Alright, as you wish I won''t pursue the matter and you will get what you wanted. If I take a step back, those old dogs won''t even dare to fart, unless they want direct confrontation.¡± ¡°I will count on you then. I will be leaving now, I still needs to move out my things from my yard.¡± ¡° Spend some time like today with your father in the future if you have opportunity.¡± ¡°Alright¡±, I chuckled as I started leaving. With this my task here will be complete. After the formalities are done, my journey to the southern region will officially begin