《Countless Minds》 Prologue I don''t know how this story will end up , i marked two content warning but maybe i will mark the other 2 as well . It is a short prologue but prologue don''t have to be that long . ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In a city somewhere in the world , a white haired old man caressed his pet in his mansion . The pet crouched on all fours while wearing an iron collar . After caressing it for a while , the old man commanded : " Come sit on my laps . " The pet crawled towards the old man and did as the man commanded . Blood dripped on the ground while the pet moved up and down . Two soft mountains movedon the pets body . Grabbing one of the mountains the old man praised : " Truly worth the price . " After leaning back and looking at space he sighed . He enjoyed the moment for a while . While commanding the pet to hug him he stood up and walked down to his basement . While walking one could hear the moaning of the pet . What awaited him in the basement is circle full of complicated runes , emitting a mysterious aura . On each direction , east , west , north and south stands an iron pole with a naked woman binded on top of it . The old man looked at his pet . He grabbed her nack and broke it . Blood trickled down from her mouth while entering the cycle full of runes . Soon the surrounding got filled with murderous and dark intent .This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. Slowly but surely the poles on each direction sunk into the ground while the air in the basement grew heavier and heavier . Soon one could hear the cry and sobbing louds from the womans . " AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! GO AWAYYYA AAAA ! " " Mother of all gods , please protect me- me ...... and may- y the dar--- dark looo--rd be banished ! " In the end everything blurred while smoke gathered in the middle of the cycle . " Kuukakakakakaakka , it has been so long since somebody summoned me ? What do you want ? Power ? Women ? Talent ? Riches ? Give me more sacrifices and i can give you everything you desire ! " a deep voice sounded through the basement . " What i want , is that you send my ______ from now into my 10 year old body from the past . " " Then give me more sacrifices ! I can give you every .......... ! " " No , you once was a strong archdemon . Now you are a mere bug , I know in the last millenia nobody summoned you or sacrificed anything to you . If you don''t accept my demand , I will take back my four sacrifices . If you don''t do what i say , you cease to exist in a few days to weeks . " " KUKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK ! YOU DARE TO THREATEN ME ? I A THE GREAT DEMON ******** AM A MERE BUG ? AS I SEE YOU WILL DIE SOON , MAYBE ONE YEAR OR TWO ? I LIVED FOR COUNTLESS YEARS . EVEN THE ANCIENTS BOWED TOWARDS ME ! " the deep voice growled with anger . " So what ? I already lived for 500 years . Compared to you it may seem small . However you will cease to exist in this moment and the only one who can rescue you is me . Everybody already forget your name , your existence . I will die , that is true . But people die every single day . People way stronger than me get killed like annoying flies . Do you think i will lose in this trade ? No , I ask you again , do you accept my contract and send me back to time ? Or do you want me and you to die ? I know time time traveling will cost you your entire power . But I will add in the contract that i will sacrifice 100 human beings to you . Do you want to sign the contract ? Yes or no , this is your last chance . " said the old man calmly while holding a floating piece of paper in his hands . " MAKE IT 1000 HUMAN SOULS ! AND YOU SHALL SACRIFICE IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR ! " shouted the voice , causing the basement to vibrate . The old man scrimbled something on his floating paper while turning . " Sign now . " Just at this moment the smoke appeared in front of the contract agreeing to it . The old man laughed inwardly . Every beings doesn''t wants to die , especially those who neared the end of their life span . They are greedy for every single chance to survive . Demons are only one example . Grinning he could only see the ground coming closer and closer , in the end his face smashed the ground . Blood dripped out of his nose and he lost conciouness while grinning . Chapter 1 Back in Time At a resting caravan , a single skinny boy at the age of 10 sat on the ground while leaning on a rock to rest . His face couldn''t be called handsome , it resembled more a rat . His heigh certainly small for his age . Just as he closed his dull brown eyes to rest , he opened them again . Now the dark brown eye looked mysterious and evil . Gripping his hands as if he test a new body he looked around . No other person surrounds him , no wonder when his face looked like a disgusting rat . If one would imagine him in a movie then he would be the a sly and evil traitor . Suddenly he grinned while giggling for himself . It looked creepy for a kid , but he didn''t cared about it . He looked at his stomach which now has a thin layer of fat . It didn''t changed much but the boy grinned even more . Naturally the boy is the old man in younger version , he maked a contract with a godly demon which everyone already forgot . The ancient demon is even a league higher than belzebub and lucifer who seemed to be the leader of the demons . But since he was too evil and too murderous the ''good'' side sealed him and destroyed every single document about him . It worked , nobody joined his cult anymore and after countless of years nobody nourished his hunger with sacrifices anymore . Thus the old man used the demon to travel back in time to change his future . To make it attractive for the dying demon it only needed the sentence : "I will give you sacrifices for it" . Strong beings still have some power despite being on the verge of death , especially for those godly beings . How he knew of the demon ? He discovered it at a ancient site with ''monsters'' which mothers used to scare their child . If you don''t behave * will come and punish you ! After painstacking research he found out that the demon was an extremely strong demon capable of threating ancient gods and godly beings . Not only that , his research lasted for his entire life . Searching for clues on fairy tales to forbidden documents . His ''friends'' tried to convince him to stop , but in the back they laughed how foolish he is . "I wonder how they would feel if they knew that i got a new chance with my whole knowdledge ? laughed the skinny boy inwardly . Looking down his ''clothes'' which are nothing more than used rags he schemed his future path . Suddenly a bell ring sounded from the centre of the caravan . Thinking for a while the skinny boy rushed to the sound source . What awaited him was a grim man holding a bell while shouting they should be faster . Groups of children hurried towards him . He kicked one kid after it walked past him causing it to fall . "GARBAGE MOVE !" The skinny boy ignored the other children and walked with the other children towards a tent . "STAND IN A ROW YOU FILTHY THINGS !" yelled the man . In a second a proper row appeared . The man bowed towards the tent and spoke courteous : "Everyone is here , my great lord ." Silence filled the air as the man ended his speech . Unexpectedly some armored mans walked towards the tend while holding a child . It was a boy at the age of 10 like the skinny boy . "Sir , he tried to escape . Normally we would kill him but the decision are made by you great lord ." one of the mans spoke while bowing . The grim man with the bell moved towards the child , still bowing towards the tent . "I will punish him for the disrespect of the lord , may i great lord ?" A hoarse voice talked : "You may ." Delight appeared on the great man while he walked towards the child . Lifting the bell as a weapon he slam it on the face of the child .Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. *Ding* *Ding* With every slam the bell sounded . "TRASH ! WHY DIDN''T YOU APPEAR WITH THE BELL ? CAUSING THE GREAT LORD TO WAIT !" Blood splattered all over the ground , it is certain that the child will be a face cripple for the rest of his life . The lips open from bloody wounds and the teeths shattered . The forehead bend into a small debt . "I- i ------ ii " the child tried to say something . "HUH ?" "I---- ii------ b--bbeeg master -ff---oor mmmee--ercy ." it finished its sentence while kowtowing towards the tent . The grim man stopped while looking at the tent . "Continue ." the hoarse voice sounded . Blood splattered everywhere as the child continues to beg while the grim man pounded the face of the child . Every other child looked at the hard beating . Mostly with fear , but not a single thing of pity could be seen in their eyes . The skinny boy too , only watched as if it is normal for the child to die . Remaining of the child was only a bloody meat paste . As if disgusted by the blood , grim man wiped the now red bell with a rag . Then he commanded the guards to clean up . Soon black dogs appeared , well nourished with dark shiny fur . They ate the former child while the guards spoiled them . After that the grim man took out some small flask . He walked towards the first of the row with a needle and one flash . He stinged with the needle and collected the blood with the small flasks . Afterwards the flasks is taken to the tent inside . Then the hoarse voice divided the children in two groups . Soon it is the turn of skinny boy , the grim man collected the drop of blood till the hoarse voice sounded . "Left ." The grim man pointed to skinny boy while indicating that he should move to the group with the most people . In the end everyone got seperated . One small group and a big group of children . The grim man announced with a big smile that the small group has talent to be mages and warriors while the bigger group can only be their slaves . Then he turned towards the smaller group and started flattering them . After the announcement the ''talent'' group will be guided by the lord in the tent and the new slaves will have their free time . Most children seemed to be disappointed about the fact that they don''t have talent but skinny boy just moved to the outer caravane side while sitting down . In his past life he would be one of the talented , after confirming his talent was grade 13 . Now , he changed his talent with the demons power . Not higher but lower , excactly grade one . He transformed his remaining talent into a small powerful layer of fat which seemed not be worth of it however skinny boy planned it all . Who said talent will decide everything ? As long as there are no factors like luck it isn''t certain that talent will make one stronger . Sitting on the ground the skinny boy looked at his spiritual force . Normally one would absorb spiritual force from the surrounding or treasures to rank up and get stronger . The grade of the talent will decide how fast a person can rank up . Thus talent grade 1 or 2 was in no way better than 0 talent since the accumulated spiritual force is only useful for a healthier body and a sharper mind . This is the reason why the man in the tent didn''t called out for skinny boy. Even if he trained in magic , with his talent being 1 he has to train for years to be able to cast a normal fireball or any other basic spell . But since skinny boy or old man already planned his future he naturally searched for a way to get better talent . After all grade 13 may seemed higher than 0 or 1 i, but it is still a very low talent in this world . It only meant that the talent is 13x higher than 1 . For talentless humans even talent 1 may already seem like a godly being but in the magic world it is only some lower slave who is able to cast a fireball or ice shard after years of training . Sweat poured out of his body as skinny boy concentrated on his spiritual force . Skinny boy could saw a tiny ball of light in his abdomen . Without any hesitate skinny boy moved the tiny spiritual ball into his head region . Abruptly pain caused skinny boy to sweat even more . Blue veins appeared on the head of skinny boy . He closed his eyes . Slowly the small layer of fat which he traded for his talent seemed to vanish into nothing . As well as the spiritual ball which he moved to his head region . Skinny boy slowly breathed out while sweat dripped down from his head like a waterfall . Opening his eyes the surrounding seemed unrealistic clear , he felt as if he have two pairs of eyes . Smiling the skinny boy stood up . He didn''t looked at his arms or legs which almost looked like bones with skin over them . Neither did he look at his rippy ribs . Suprisingly he stretched his arms and maked signs with his hands . Signs with means to it . Numbers from 0 to 5 . He controlled both hands perfectly , every single number he thought of appeared in a split of a second . As if he have split his mind in two to achieve it . To ''split'' is not the word to describe it , however what he did was to ''copy'' it . Resulting in one minion-mind being excactly the same as the original mind . Wiping the dripping sweat away skinny boy walked towards a certain location of the carvan . It was more a slave transport caravan since nothing is transported except childrens . Either bought by slave merchants or found in the streets of citys . Not a single child is restricted by any chains or any magical spell . After all there are many children and who cares if one or two disappear ? Besides not many children dare to escape , at least they get food and a warm shelter if they work for the lord . Although many value their freedom more than food , most escapees end up in monster stomaches . The kids who got beaten up by the guards is one of the unlucky ones . Why did he tried to escape when the guards wanted to please their master ? Chapter 2 Escape After the cool wind vapored the sweat away , skinny boy walked towards the tents of the guards . Slowly breathing in a mysterious order he harked if any people are in the tents . Confirming that nobody is in it, skinny boy sneaked in and looked for some useful objects . His plan is to run away , but with bare hands his chance of surviving is almost zero . Especially in the forest where fierce beasts and monsters live . However with survival tools like a knife or a bag his survival odds will greatly increase . Since it is possible to sharpen sticks with a knife to build traps for small game or carry healing herbs in emergency situations . Looking around the tent skinny boy could see a normal straw bed , a wooden desks and wooden barrels to store food . Without any sound skinny boy crept around the tent . Even if the tent isn''t spacious there are many places to hide . Because skinny boy didn''t know if the guard will return he only moved near hiding places . Grabbing a single knife from the table skinny boy rushed out of the tent in direction forest . Nobody stopped him , a single guard looked towards the direction where the boy left the tent formation . "Shouldn''t we stop him ?" asked the guard while putting down his cards . "If you want to have more work to do newbie then go for it , nobody will stop you . Maybe you will be the next living target when you disturb the lord . Hahahahaha !" said an old looking guard . While shaking his head one guard said : "Sooner or later he will get killed by monsters , the nearest human settling from this place is 3 horse riding weeks away . " One guard casually smiled while putting five cards down : "Haha , five pikas !" All of the guards groaned while one lamented : "Why do you have such luck today john ? Gimme some so i can visit a beautfiul lady !" "Hehe , secret ." laughed the guard called john . While running skinny boy didn''t looked back , it would only slow him down . Besides if a guard really wanted to chase him then he would die anyways . Running past huge trees and dark green bushes , jumping over tree roots and small bushes , skinny boy rushed till his legs felt sore . Stopping his run skinny boy looked for a place to recover his energy . He found a suitable place under the roots of a huge tree , thicket covering the sides causing it to be an isolated place . It is the perfect hiding location . But since nobody could look into it nobody can look for danger once in it . However since skinny boy only wanted to recover it is the perfect place . Sitting in a meditating position skinny boy could feel the cool forest air . Chirping sounds from birds and rays of sunlight shining through the tree crown created a peaceful atmosphere . After recovering skinny boy collected sticks for his future plans , he carved portable throwing spears and builded mobile traps for hunting . Supressing his thirst for water skinny boy carried his entire belonging on his back with a improvised bag and walked out of his hiding place . After looking to the direction of the caravan for a while , skinny boy walked towards the opposite . He quenched his thirst with water mushrooms he found on tree roots . Since water mushrooms are created by the tree for cleaning and absorbing water , no shortage existed in a healthy forest . But many creatures use these mushrooms to breed or to hunt other creatures causing skinny boy to fight against these creatures . However most are weak insects , squashing them with feets or wood logs are enough to cause their deaths . After defeating the x insect skinny boy collected the water mushroom and mashed it while holding it above his mouth . Clean water dripped down into the throat of skinny boy , the impurities remained in the mushroom . While escpaping and resting , the noon became midnight . The now dark forest looked like a forest of horror , but skinny boy didn''t seemed to be afraid . Only the howls of some monsters produced a reaction on the face of the skinny boy . Since skinny boy has two "Minds" he only needed to joggle between them to rest one mind . So skinny boy didn''t needed to sleep . It wouldn''t be necessary to sleep after a certain magician or warrior level , but under the level sleep is necessary for every single organism .If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Walking for hours skinny boy stopped walking and started to spread his prepared traps out . After the traps were ready skinny boy searched for useful herbs he might needed to defend himself like poison plants or healing plants . It is quite easy for him to identifiy them , after all he didn''t wasted his previous life . While smearing poison on his wooden throwing spears skinny boy saw weak layer of light shining through the forest identicating the sunrise . Sitting in the shade of a tree skinny boy smeared himself with the fertile forest earth . Since skinny boy only wore rags he didn''t needed to care about his clothes anyways . After the whole body reeked of forest earth skinny boy changed his tree to avoid enemys who smelled his "human" smell . Closing his eyes skinny boy lied next to a tree , his body now covered with an earth blanked . He slept for hours with one mind keeping an eye on the surrounding . Awaken with an empty stomach skinny boy wiped his earth blanked away and stood up . His body emitted the smell of forest now , it would be hard for any predator to smell him as long as he doesn''t leak any blood or any obvious signals like shouting . After eating the small animals he caught within his traps , a small rabbit , two lizards and many insects he kept walking in a certain direction . Naturally he ate every animal raw . To satisfy his hunger he even looked for bird eggs and slurped every single egg he found in nests . Carefully avoiding the stronger beasts like monster boars or giant hawks he walked for about half a year . His skinny body gained a little bit of weight , but wasn''t much . One day skinny boy encountered first signs of civilization , a rotten sign with a warning symbol painted on it . The sign should prevent people from entering the forest , since the warning symbol is painted on the side where skinny boy emerged . Glancing at the sign for a little while skinny boy looked at the weed surrounding the sign . Nobody maintained the sign for a long time . Looking at it for a last glance skinny boy continued to walk . After walking for a few minutes he found a field road . Thus he stopped to roam on forest soil and stepped on the solid earth path . Walking along the path for a while , skinny boy could see a small village with a little more than 100 houses . Ducks and chickens runned around while pillars of smoke ascended to the sky . Nearing the village skinny boy could see an old man casually sitting on an bench . With white hair and wrinkled face he looked like an harmless old man enjoying his last year of life . But skinny boy didn''t walked past him , he grabbed his knife and walked in front of the old man . He stood there with a distance , preparing to strike . "So , why do you visit this little village ?" asked the old man . "Food , clothes and water ." replied the skinny boy with a childish voice . "I will ask someone to bring you one cloth set as well as one bottle of water and some food . Please leave after that ." said old man . The old man stood up and shouted towards the village : "One set of clothing , a bottle of water and some food . Bring everything in a bag !" After waiting for a while a middle aged man with brown hair walked out . On his side a longsword . He carried a small bag and threw it towards the old man . Turning towards skinny boy the old man said : "Here , and now leave ." *Thonk* The bag landed in front of skinny boy . Touching the bag skinny boy pulled out a set of cloth , a piece of bread and a bottle of water . After putting on the cloth and eating the piece of bread skinny boy nodded towards the observing old man and left the village . This happened quite often as skinny boy traveled through the lands , sometimes the villages would give him an apple or a small piece of bread , sometimes the people would even drive him away with throwing stones or using sticks . But the major food source for skinny boy is the small game he would hunt with his traps or wooden spears . It wasn''t much but skinny boy slowly accumulated fat . His former skinny arms and legs appeared to be more healthy , his visible rips changed to invisible rips . One day , 3 months after escaping skinny boy arrived at a small city . The population wasn''t much , maybe around 1 or 2 million . Nobody stopped him walking through the city gate , mostly because he looked like a child with dirty clothes . Why should the guards stop him ? If he does annoy anyone just kill him to get a good image . Else just ignore him . Skinny boy walked towards the small city alleys , sitting in a remote corner he closed his eyes . It is true that humans are sometimes way scarier than beasts , but only if they desired something . Nobody would desire a dirty male child . Maybe some weirdos , but there are enough male childrens for them to choose , so the chance isn''t high for skinny boy to get caugh . Skinny boy looked at his now two spiritual power balls . (AN: I know kinda weird , but just imagine two light balls of magicial power , mana or spiritual energy. ) Guiding one of the two balls into his head skinny boy could feel the pain of his entire body splitting . Sweat poured out of his body . However skinny boy didn''t cried or shouted . He endured the pain . Soon a third mind of skinny boy appeared . But one of the two spiritual light balls disappeared . Repeating this with the second spiritual power skinny boy now has 4 minds . But no spiritual power left . Out of breath skinny boy leaned on the alley walls . After taking a short nap skinny boy converted his fat into spiritual power . It would be easier to absorb the surrouding spiritual power but the splitting won''t work with external power , it has to come fom the inside . Like Fat or the slow regenerated spiritual power . But skinny boy knew from the start that he will be extremely weak in the beginning , even normal talent 1 would be growing faster than him . However after a certain amount of minds it would be possible to "clean" the external spiritual power , thus making the creation of new "minds" way easier . (AN: Imagine toilet water . Would you drink it after one time cleaning ? Most of you won''t , but i think many of you would be willing to drink it if it is cleaned 100x or 1000x . Same principle with the "minds") Chapter 3 Hunted The fat from his body slowly turned into spiritual energy . His invisible rips turned visible , his arms and legs looked like bones . After exchanging the fat to spiritual power skinny boy guided the spiritual power to his head again . Thus creating more minds . After creating his seventh mind skinny boy stopped . He slowly walked out of the alley , his body full of sweat . He looked like a normal beggar , tattered clothes and a smelly body odor . Slowly walking through the city skinny boy searched for food , maybe some leftover from dishes . Passing by an alley where two beggar fought for a burnt bread he walked in search for a leftovers with no competitor . Skinny bod didn''t walked on the main road , after all he looked like a beggar . It would "disgrace" the city if a beggar dared to walk on it . At the City Entrance : "Hahah , it is an honor to meet you ." laughed a fat middle aged man . "I would like to .... " a female voice wanted to say something . "I know , i know . You are in search of your protectors right ? We have quite good guards here if you .... " said the fat man with a big smile . "It is true that i search life long guards , but i am not here to find one . What i do is to pick up some child beggars to give them a better life and talents for our sect ." replied the female voice with a forced smile . "Don''t overstep your border ." interrupted a male . "Haha , how would i dare young lord ." answered the fat man with a courteous voice . Another male just "Hmpf-ed" and walked into the city . No guard stopped him , as the group of males and one female walked into the city . Back to skinny boy : He didn''t found anything nutrious to eat . Every trash is infested by rats or protected by adult beggars . Sighing skinny boy strolled through the city maze . Walking for a while he suddenly saw a teenage male looking at him . Ignoring him skinny boy casually walked past him . Since who would care for a beggar .... All of sudden the teenage male rushed towards him . With a surprised face skinny boy dashed into another alley . Without any hesitation the youth followed him . Taking out the knife skinny boy smeared something on it . Waiting on the edge of an intersection he waited . His breath seemed to be nonexistent . The youth rushed past , as skinny boy jumped out and stabbed the youth . Without any preparation the knife penetrated deep into the body . Blood gushed out as skinny boy jumped into another alley and escaped . With a shocked face the youth looked at his wound . Skinny boy dashed towards the city gate , cursing his faith into believing that nobody would care for a little dirty beggar he spurted the entire way . On the way he witnessed how other youths collected young beggars . Sneaking around skinny boy hoped that the youths wouldn''t collect every single beggar . Else he would be doomed . Nearing the city gate he sighed , the gate is blocked by guards . Turning around in hope for a hiding place he could see how the wounded youth chased him the entire way . "Now i got you ." laughed the youth while dashing towards him . ''Dammit , he is at least a mid warrior .'' thought skinny boy while preparing his knife . "You are pretty daring for a little boy aren''t you ? How about that , i will give you food and shelter if you join my sect ." suggested the youth . "Why should i trust a guy who hunts young beggars with other guys ?" asked skinny boy . "How about that : I swear on **** if you join my sect you will get the same treatment as other disciple . But you have to work for it ." laughed the youth . "What sect ?" asked skinny boy . He knew some factions in his previous life , naturally as enemy .The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "My sect is called the Falling Leave sect ." replied youth with a smile . "Is it part of the alliance ?" asked skinny boy . "Oh , you know the alliance ?" asked the youth with a suprised look . "..." skinny boy didn''t answered . With confident look the youth pulled out a medallion and a sharp sword . Cutting himself to let some blood drop on it , a symbol of a leave appeared on it . On the leave appeared a white wing . "Convinced ?" asked the youth . Pulling out a white stone he throw it towards skinny boy . Dodging skinny boy waited for a while before picking up a pebble and throwing it on the stone . *donk* Nothing happened . Picking up the stone skinny boy looked at the youth . "I will accept ." said skinny boy while the stone in his hands turned into dust . As if the youth succeeded he grinned . The wound skinny boy inflicted on the youth was already healed a while ago . While the poison remained it is only a weak paralyzing poison , thus making it no thread to the youth . Both of them walked side on side while the youth talked : "My name is called Daniu , but you can call me senior or big bro ." Skinny boy just ignored him , since he accepted the contract he''s sure that Daniu won''t kill or hurt him . However it is a fact though that Daniu tried to trick skinny boy into his sect faction , but it didn''t mattered for Skinny boy . After all there are so much advantages ! Maybe Daniu got a guilty consience that he tricked him , but the contract doesn''t say anything about working . It only meant "work" for improvement of the faction . Perhaps Daniu is new to such contracts , thusly getting him tricked . Since Skinny boy just walked alongside Daniu just like a wooden block , Bubu stopped talking . Arriving at the opposite city gate . They stopped . Skinny boy looked at the different youths holding many young beggars with a cord . The beggars didn''t moved though , since each of them is holding a big loaf of white bread . "Hahahah , Daniu , you only got one little beggar ? Can''t your teacher bring more beggars into his house than one ?" laughed a handsome male . Skinny boy could see how Daniu clenched his hands into fists . Seeing that nobody reacted to his joke the handsome male stopped harassing him . Else it would seem like he would be bullying him . Another youth walked next to Daniu , whispering : "Why do you only bring one child ? We can''t fall behind the others houses . Didn''t i reminded you that we are less collectors than every other house ?" Skinny boy face didn''t changed , but he could guess the reason why Daniu wanted to rope him in by a contract . His Sect house or faction where he belongs to declined . Thus meeting a child who is able to hurt a mid warrior he wanted to rope him in as fast as possible . It wasn''t a bad decision , but since many people guess that the "work" in the contract is physical and not only "trying" to work hard it will be decided the moment the contact will be written . Daniu replied with a whispering voice : "Don''t be so harsh .... the boy i brought back is able to attack me ! I couldn''t even detected him as i chased him ." "Oh ! Really ? If that happened then ok . Did you make a contract with him ?" the youth sounded happier . "Yes , but he asked me if my sect is part of the alliance . Do you think he is a spy ?" Danius whispering sounded doubtful . "No , it isn''t a rarity for young slaves of the dark side to escape causing them to live a life as a beggar . Mostlikely it was because of this he was able to attack you . Do you remember how eldest brother talked about his experience with the dark side ? He described it as a society where the strong rules and the only chance for weak people to survive is to serve or to hide ." explained the youth . "Besides master wrote the part of betraying thus making is foolproof . I don''t know why he chuckled as he read the contract though ." "Okay , lets bribe some other children with food so they will come to our house ." laughed Daniu . "Stop , don''t even think of it . I already lost more than half of my children because they got bribed by food . Besides do you truly think the children will support our house ? They will betray us once they knew our situation . It would be better to gain fewer but more loyal people . Not only that , feed your caught chidren well or else if they got talent we have to hand them out if they want to chance houses ." sighed the youth . "But didn''t you say that i brough too few ... " asked Daniu . "You only brought one , how high is the chance that he won''t get taken by other houses ?" interrupted the youth . "Well , we got no time to spare . The other sect started the same time so we have to walk through citys as fast as possible . Last year we could collect the children with more time . But since blood five conquered the west we have to hurry . Maybe this region will be destroyed sooner or later . See you in the sect Daniu ." "Yes , good luck !" answered Daniu . Skinny boy looked how most of the youths rushed out of the city . They dumped their kids on one youth . The youth who talked to Daniu is no exception , he dumped his kids to Daniu . The only remarkable thing to look at is the amount of children surrounding each youth . On each youth are at least 50 children . However in the group of Daniu less than 20 children grouped around him . On the other hand the sole female convinced more than 80 children to follow her house member. "Please group now , i will give each of you a loaf of bread . Don''t fight for it . You will all get enough ." shouted Daniu while distributing bread . He added : "Follow me , we will walk to the sect !" Slowly about 15 children walked behind Daniu . One of them is skinny boy . Daniu walked as if he wanted to escape from something . At first Skinny boy felt cautious , but he soon relaxed as he discovered that only the other houses bribed Daniu childrens with pieces of meat or more bread . Since the time where Daniu left the city half a year passed . Skinny boy ate more and more while becoming rounder and rounder . Now almost looking like a ball of fat . Each step he took caused his fat to jiggle . The reason why he was able to eat so much is because the group of 15 dwindled to a single member . Skinny boy . Thus Daniu gave him as much food as he wanted . The fact that skinny boy took every single bribe like meat of bread of caused Daniu to felt unwell . But he discovered that skinny boy ate the bribe without any idears to change house . However the rest of children got bribed with sweets and meat . Thus making it impossible for them to resist . As the last child except Skinny boy got bribed Daniu packed Skinny boy and carried him with full speed towards the sect . Soon another half year passed . It would take shorter if Daniu would take more teleport arrays . But he decided to save the spirit stones . Skinny boy asked Daniu for two spirit stones , which is meager compared to one teleport cost . Naturally Daniu gave Skinny boy two stones . Skinny boy didn''t created more mind this year . Since he got enough to eat why don''t save up till he got enough fat for exchanging everything at once ? One day Daniu dashed through the forest while talking to Skinny boy : "Tomorrow we will get to my Fallen Leave sect . Chapter 4 Fallen Leave Sect Hearing that they will soon arrive at the fallen leave sect skinny boy replied : "Thank you , but i have a small curse on my body ." "WHAT ? A CURSE ?" shouted Daniu with a shocked face . "Not a major curse , once i stole something to eat and a magician captured me . Thus he cursed me with the fact that all of my fat vanish . This year will be the last since i got this curse for 3 years ." replied skinny boy with a forced smile . Seeing how skinny boy suffered all these years Daniu touched the fat cheeks of skinny boy while sighing : "Since this will be the last time you suffer from this curse we will rest here for a day ." Stopping under a tree Daniu said to skinny boy : "We will rest here , i will meditate for the whole day so don''t disturb me ." Since sitting on Daniu back is quite comfortable skinny boy stretched himself while replying : "Ok !" Rushing towards the back of a tree skinny boy , or fat boy prepared to create more minds . Sweat poured out of his entire body . His fat body visually melted and fat boy turned into a bony and lean boy . The two spirit stone he got from daniu turned into dust . Thus hours passed by , his fat turned into more and more minds . From seven to twenty six . Without wiping his sweat skinny boy walked back to Daniu . Daniu meditated while skinny boy created his minds , feeling someone nearing he opened his closed eyes and said shocked : "WUT ?" Scratching his head as if emberassed skinny boy smiled : "This is the last time where i will have this curse so don''t worry !" Coughing Daniu stood up while ordering skinny boy to wipe his body with a rag that Daniu pulled out of his dimensional ring . After a while a youth carrying a little child could be seen at the entrance of the fallen leave sect . Behind the entrance one could see entire citys floating around a giant mountain with flatted top . With an amazed face skinny boy looked at the citys . "Hahah , amazing isn''t it ? This is fallen leave sect !" said Daniu with pride . A row of stone statues could be seen in front of the entrance . Each depicting a warrior with shield and spear . The height would be around 3 meters . Bowing in front of the statue Daniu said : "Disciple Daniu from the misty peak is bringing future disciple for our peak !" One stone statue nodded . Then Daniu carried skinny boy through the sect . Plazas with handsome males and beautiful females . Places where young people dueled for fame and glory . Pavilions with knowdledge of martial skills , alchemy , runes , blacksmiths , beasts , history etc. passed by while Daniu carried skinny boy towards a certain direction . Arriving in front of a huge plaza with nine disks , each a transporting array capable of transporting people a wide distance Daniu ignored the humans running around , he walked forward and inserted some spirit stones . Transported to another disk Daniu stepped out of it . The surrounding a serene scene . Putting skinny boy down Daniu said : "Follow me , we will get your disciple badge and visit your future housing ." Soon they arrived in front of a small hut . They met not a single being on the way . Cupping his hands Daniu started to talk : "I am here to get disciple badges and the dorm number for new disciples ." An old man opened the windows , looking at Daniu he smiled : "You are quite early . Did you find some talents ?" Looking around in search for the new disciple the old man frowned . Finally spotting skinny boy the old man looked at Daniu with a sad expression : "You rushed ?" With an ashamed expression Daniu nodded . "Don''t be sad Daniu , the more people they have the more they have to divide ." said the old man with a sad face . Then he turned towards skinny boy with a smile : "Don''t be afraid even if our peak is weaker we get the same ressources as other peaks thus you will get more than disciples of the other peaks ."Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. "What do i get for ressources ?" asked skinny boy with a childish voice . "Oh , you will get a pill each month . You can eat food at the canteen and you can visit pavilions ." answered Daniu with a smile . "But you have to work every second day since you are only an formal disciple ." "This badge is for your contribution points . Just drip some blood on it . You can exchange distribution points for almost everything ." explained the old man as he handed over a badge . "For the dorm room he will sleep in .... " "He signed a contract ." interrupted Daniu . "Oh ! Then he will sleep in the dorm room 17 879 ." said the old man while snatching back the sect badge from skinny boy . Taking up another badge the old man said : "Drip your blood on this badge ." Skinny boy did as the old man told and a drop of blood appeared on the badge . With a magical shine the badge lighted up . Just as Daniu wanted to lead skinny boy towards his dorm the old man shouted : "WAIT !" With a questioned face Daniu looked at the old man : "What is ?" Pointing at skinny boy the old man said with a stern voice : "Follow me !" Gulping down Daniu whispered to skinny boy : "Follow him , this elder is mostly a good friend but if he is angry then he can be a demon !" With care skinny boy followed the old man into his house . Walking down the basement skinny boy could see a transport array . Slowly following the old man skinny boy stepped ont he transport array . Light shone and they were gone from the disks . Daniu didn''t know that the old man which he casually described as an elder friend is in true one of the direct subordinates of the patriarch of misty peak ! In an immortal cave somewhere in fallen leave sect a middle aged man meditated . Surrounding him are white spirit stones the size of humans . Suddenly a transport array lightened up , two figures stepping out of it . Both of them are naturally the old man and skinny boy . Opening his eyes the middle aged man asked in a friendly voice : "Who are you ?" The old man pushed skinny boy forward while cupping his hands and bowing towards the middle aged man . Looking at the old man the middle aged man smiled and nodded . Thus the old man retreated towards the transport array and disappeared . Turning towards skinny boy he casually asked : "So whom have we here ? A friend ? Or a foe ?" "What do you mean ?" the crispy voice of a normal 10 year echoed through the cave . "I ASKED YOU WHO YOU ARE !" the smiling face of the middle aged turned into an angry one . His former non existend aura turned into that of a murderous killer . The body of skinny boy trembled . Sweat poured of his body . "I- I am --- only a poor --- boy .. . Ma-y Gggg-reat elder have mercy !" "So you are from the dark side ?" Sighing the middle aged man withdrawed his killing intent and looked at skinny boy . Shaking his head he said : "I''ve never encountered such a young lad who is able to indifferent between working physical and mental . Even if you got teached by your mother or father that working can mean mental , but only spoiled childrens would think working as mental and not physical ." Closing his eyes the middle aged man added : "I am at the 100 million stage , you can forget it to escape . And to make it easier for you to decide : I am hereby swearing that as long as the boy in front me talks the truth i will give him a quick death , if i decide to kill him . " Skinny boy said nothing , his legs still trembled . With a bigger sigh the middle aged man added : "And as long as he is not thinking of hurting fallen leave sect in an active , i won''t kill him and will treat his as every normal disciple of fallen leave sect ." Abruptly the legs of skinny boy stopped to tremble . "I am quite suprised , i always believed that the alliance would only be a bunch of waste sitting around the circle waiting to be exploited ." Raising his eyebrows the middle aged man looked at skinny boy . "Yes , you are right . I am from the dark side . But i am not here to harm fallen leave sect . To ensure you i will make an oath too . I am not here in case of anything prepared to destroy this branch of fallen leave sect . Neither am i here in preparation of an attack . I am here to strengthen myself ." With a smile the middle aged man laughed and said : "Good , i doesn''t care what you do and what you ..... " "Are you someone known as the "Loyal Baron" ?" interrupted skinny boy . With a terrified look the middle aged man looked at skinny boy saying with suprise : "I am indeed a Baron . But i have no secondary title ." "Since i think i know your identity it doesn''t matter if i talk about my secrets , so how about we make the oath of silence ?" suggested skinny boy . Nodding the middle aged man and skinny boy sweared that nothing will leak out from this room , only the source is allowed to spread the thing . The audience can''t . "Are you the baron of an empire called rising sun ?" asked skinny boy . "Yes i am ." answered the middle aged man . "Then is your ultimate technique a flame technique where your form a sun around your body to burn your enemies ?" asked skinny boy . After a time of silence the middle aged man nodded . Suddenly skinny boy laughed : "I can''t believe it ! If you don''t kill me i will probably save your small life ! Hahahaahah !" Looking at skinny boy without any face reaction the loyal baron asked : "Who are you ?" Stopping his laugh skinny boy casually sat down and answered : "A mage with the age of a little bit more than 500 years traveled back in time ." Looking at skinny boy the middle aged man thinked : ''Either the child lied , but if he lied then i can give him a slow death . But he didn''t lie what for a backing does he have ?" "I don''t have a backing . And for case why i trust you , it is because at the time where you died and afterwards got the secondary title i was there , witnessing your death . It was quite an amazing sight ." said skinny boy while looking at the middle aged man . "Besides , i heard your last words : "I am sick of this slaughtering and killing , these past years were so peaceful . Why does war have to arrive so soon ?" added skinny boy with a huge smile . "Oh , to ensure you : What i said these past five minutes are true !" laughed skinny boy while walking over to these human sized spirit stones . Chapter 5 In the Sect Touching one of those spirit stones skinny boy sat down while meditating . In his mind skinny boy could feel a gigantic source of spiritual force in front of him . Slowly absorbing the source through his arms he created more minds . Sweat poured of his body , the veins on his head bulged . One , two , four , ten , fifty . Panting skinny boy lifted his hand from the spirit stone away and looked at the "Loyal Baron" . "Are you done ?" asked the middle aged man . "Seems like i will stay here for a while ." sighed skinny boy while sitting in front of the middle aged man . The following seven days they talked about the future , the conditions of skinny boy and stuff about the sect , like why mysty peaks is bullied by the other peaks . Mostly about skinny boy condition in the sect though . "So you are saying in twenty years there will be a giant war between the alliance and the dark side ?" asked the middle aged man with a serious face . "Yeah , not between these lowly branch sects . I think it was between a level 3 country against the devils ." explained skinny boy while chewing on the meat he asked for . Living as a patriarch is so comfortable ! These past days skinny boy asked for meat and soon someone will bring it . He aske for wine , someone will bring it . He asked for womans , nah the middle aged man stopped it . But skinny boy wasn''t pissed , after all he only tested if calling a woman would be possible in an alliance sect . Living in comfort changed the look of skinny boy drastically , now he looked like a chubby and fat child . Almost like a ball . "Okay we have 5 grades of disciple in the fallen leave sect . Formal , outer , inner , true and core . Where do you want to go ?" asked the patriarch . "My backstory is that of a spoiled child , who doesn''t like to go out and lives at home . What disciple will get an own housing ?" asked the body with a grin . "An inner disciple . Seach your place on mysty peak and build your own cave . Here is your badge ." replied the patriarch while throwing a badge and a ring to the boy . "It would be the best if you don''t go out too often . People will envy you , besides as a former old monster i think you already know which path you will follow ." Nodding the boy stepped onto the transforming array and disappeared . Sighing the patriarch looked at the back of the boy . He wanted to kill the boy since he was a former dark magus . However he didn''t do it . After all he is done with all this killing .... Arriving under the small hut the body walked outside , Daniu long disappeared while the old man looked at the boy with a strange gaze . "I am already an inner disciple . I don''t want to build my own immortal cave , are there any caves where no one will disturb me ?" asked the boy while holding the badge to the old man . Surprise flashed in the eyes of the old man for a moment but he stopped and said : "If you want a cave where no people lives you can go to the outskirt of the sect , near the beast mountain range . It is not even a cave anymore if you want to build one , an entire mountain can belong to you ." "Good , i will take one of those ." answered the boy . After the exchange of a guiding stone the boy walked away . Without even asking for Daniu who brought him here the boy moved towards his future operation base . Looking into the space ring he got from the patriarch he found giant spirit stones , a huge amount of monster meat as well as ressources like water plant or fire vine . After a long walk till the evening the boy arrived in front of his future "house" . A mountain with one cave which could be closed with a stone . Walking into it the boy took out some spirit stones and started to absork while creating more minds . Two years passed by in a blink of an eye . The boy didn''t do anything great in these years , only absorbing the spirit stones to create more minds . He now has about 7 thousands minds without even starting his journey to a great magus . While stretching the boy looked into a water pond , his face looked meanier with every single year he grew . Sighing the boy continued to create more minds . Days passed as the boy should be around the age of 14 . In the cave of the outskirt sect a young teenager stretched his palm towards the sky . After concentrating for a while a fire ball with the radius of an arm appeared on his palms . (AN: Circle one of your arms , that''s the size of the fireball .) . "Why didn''t the patriarch of mysty peak send any spy to find out my true identity ? Even if i swore that i haven''t any bad intention towards fallen leave sect he shouldn''t be this naive , right ?" mumbled the boy while searching his cave for any small detector . But the boy accepted the fact that the patriarch didn''t even tried to find out the secrets of the boy . However the boy still continued to search for anything that may harm him . After confirming that nothing is in his cave the boy started to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy . His 7001 minds started to absork the spiritual energy around him . Everything went into one "mind" . The Amount of the spiritual energy in this mind started to change .You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. At first it was only a tiny spiritual light ball since his innate talent only was 1 . However everything absorbed by the 7001 individual talent grade 1 flowed towards this one mind . 1....23......69 ......... 9999 . Stopping at exactly 9999 spiritual energy mind he stopped . (AN: 1 is the amount of Spiritual energy which a people with the innate talent 1 is born with , it is the starting capacity ) A smile appeared on the face of the boy , more like a grin . Clenching his fists the boy shouted a roar of youth . Remembering how much time he needed in his former life he smiled , it was like comparing a snail and a hawk ! Stopping his emotional outburst the boy stretched a single palm out of it , a fire ball with the radius of an arm appear in the split of a second . The only thing the boy changed is using one mind and not gathering the spirit energy out of his 7000+ minds . Smiling the boy moved towards the outside of the cave . The dazzling sun shined upon his pale skin . With his tattered clothes and a ring on his fingers the boy walked towards the inner region of the sect . After a while he could see youths walking on the way holding scrolls or things on their hands while running around . Each of them wore long robes made out of silk or precious fur of beasts . Looking at the tattered clothes as well as the mean face of the boy everyone looked at him and whispered about him . "Hey , look at him . What does a beggar wants from our sect ? Does he believes the sect will feed him through his entire life if he ask nicely ?" whispered a youth at the age of 15 . "Stop it ! Look at his fingers , there''s a space ring on it . He is from our sect . What if he is one of those guys who likes to play the "good" guy while walking around in poor clothes waiting for victims ?" interrupted the guy next to him , clearly older than the youth . Just as the two youths walked past the boy , the boy suddenly asked : "Are you two outer disciples ?" "Yeah , who do you think ..... " said the younger youth while the older interrupted him . "How can we help you ?" Taking out the inner disciple badge the boy commanded : "Tomorrow i want stones , each with a size of a round pig in front of my cave . At least hundreds , and if you are asking for the reason since you are offending me , doesn''t that means you are questioning the pride of our sect ?" Sweat poured out of their body as the youths bowed while shouting : "Naturally we will do the task for senior . May i ask , where is the cave of senior brother ?" Giving them the excact place both of them inhaled a deep breath of air . Holy f*ck , even if we offended you why does your cave have to be almost in front of the beast mountain range ? Walking past both of them the boy laughed , what for a good feeling . He commanded two guys who are stronger than him with a useless badge . Stepping on to a small plaza which is the place for normal lessons the boy could hear the end part of the lessons . It is a guide for magicians on how to create a fire ball . The teacher is an old man with white hair and a white beard . "A fire ball is one of the easiest way to attack , one just have to "ignite" the flame with your imagination and use the spirit as fuel . But the fire created can harm the creator , thus it would be best if you isolate your flame . It will cost way more energy , but even if the fireball is deflected the ball won''t hurt you . For how much spirit is needed , the whole capacity of a rank 1 ." explained the old man while demonstrating a fireball . Noise sounded as the man explained that they only are able to cast a single fireball with their entire amount . Doesn''t that maked them almost nothing different from exhausted humans after casting a single fireball ? Sneering the boy watched how the old man ended his lessons and run away from all the noice made by the boys and girls who watched the lesson . The boy stood out from the rest , the only wearing tattered clothes . Some girls even sneered while pointing out at him . To make things even worse some guys have a brilliant idear , making fun of this "beggar" to get a laughter from the girls . "Hahah , look at this guy . Using tattered clothes while silk clothes are for free , maybe he has a sense of being unique ? Like all of those beggars out in the world ! Hahahah ." joked a guy with a handsome face . The girls around him started to giggle . Turning his look towards the youth who probably wasn''t older than 12 the guy started to get angry : "How dare he even look at me , doesn''t he know that my brother is a true disciple ?" The boy couldn''t but smile at this comment . Some of the girls started to feel bad for this youth with tattered clothes , he angered a disciple who has the backing of an true disciple . Suddenly the guy saw something which maked his eyes sparkled : "Big brother !" Every gaze turned towards a teenager with the height of an giant . His broad muscles let the young girls imagine how would it be to lean on his chest . Turning towards the boy he began to talk : "You got guts huh ? I''m a true disciple of the warrior rank , name is bruno ." Without even saying anything the boy walked towards bruno , everyone believed he wanted to apogolize . However the boy pulled something out of his space ring . Nobody could see it clearly , but it looked like the sect badge . With a sneer the guy got impatient : "WHY don''t you apogolize ? Don''t you know the sect rules state that ............... " "SHUT UP !" a roar sounded through the plaza . Bruno kneeled . Sweat poured out of his body . He identified the badge as the inner disciple identity . Even though he is a true disciple of the warrior branch , but such a young inner disciple either is one of the monster talents or mostlikely has a huge backing which could afford a lazy youth getting the inner disciple rank . Not only that , magicians are way more important than warriors . Since everyone could become warriors by training their body , and every single person is born with a body , every single person could be graded by the warrior ranking . Even those without talent like magicians . However if a warrior could reach the later stages magicians and warrior are equal . But the destrucitve power of a magus can only be achived with warriors with higher ranking thatn the magus . After all one of the basic spells , fire ball has the size of a human rolling into a ball . A little bit bigger than a human ball . Patting the shoulder of bruno the boy said casually : "No problem senior brother , we are from the same ranking . Why don''t we become friends ?" One could see how bruno face began to lighten up . "However ..... i don''t think it is proper to end this situation with only an apogolize ." the boy started to say . "Naturally , what does little brother wants ? I will buy it for you !" brunos said with a happy smile , but in true he cursed his little brother for offending an inner disciple ! "No , nothing expensive . I think squeezed stones are sufficient , about 1000 of them . Each the size of a pig or bigger . I already told some outer disciple that they should transport some stones to my cave , but with the help of senior brother squeezed stone can be transported . It can be seen as training for a warrior ." smiled the boy while indicating that bruno shouldn''t kneel anymore . Gulping bruno said with a sweet voice : "Naturally , everything will be done in a week ." "Oh in a week ? Then increase the amount to 5000 . You can ask your warrior brothers to help you carrying them , it''s good training . Before i forget it here is the place of my cave ." smiled the boy while walking away . The people watching looked at the boy with surprise , at first the true disciple kneeled and now he has to carry stones to his cave ? Why does he say it is only for training ? After the boy walked away bruno shouted towards his younger brother with anger . Naturally without any spectator or else the younger brother would like to disappear into the ground . Naturally this arrogance play didn''t only happen in this plaza , many people announced their backing indirectly . Sometimes new disciple got beaten by other because their backing is pretty much shit , and sometimes the new disciples even got praised by some teachers . Beautiful girls started to flock around these guys . (AN : I am talking about the general timeline of fallen leave sect , not everything is announced on the very same day .) Even some girls created a male harem in fallen leave sect . Either they are powerful , or their backing is enough to have face in the sect . Chapter 6 Plans for the Future With nothing but a void look in his eyes a boy clothed with a silk robe looked how three youths carried stones the size of pigs while panting . Naturally one of them was bruno who could carry a squeezed stone at once . Compared to the two outer disciple who worked together to carry one stone he is twice as fast . Their once beautiful clothes are now nothing more than tatterns . After watching for a while the boy walked away in search of some librarys . Once he left people could hear curses from the three teenagers . "Why do i have to be so unlucky ? I will never talk any bullshit anymore !" wailed a youth while wiping his sweat away . "Well it is good training . Even though it is extremely hard ." smiled an older youth . *Pant* *Pant* "Stop talking and carry faster !" shouted Bruno while kicking them . Walking past some disciples the boy walked into one of the many librarys in the sect in search of some useful information . Nobody stopped him from entering , after all the precious scrolls are only for the true sect members . How could a little inner disciple get access to it ? Especially one that the patriach of mysty peaks looks after . Looking through the books the boy could find out the inner structure of fallen leave sect . Nine branches , each named after a different peak . Every peak has a different patriarch , together they form the council of fallen leave sect . One would believe that fallen leave sect is an independent sect , however the boy knew more information : it is only a branch of a way bigger sect . Just as he wanted to look for some useful informations he saw how a young man impressed a girl with his power while talking with pride : "I''m already at the peak first grade !" The mouth of the boy formed a sneer , peak first grade ? Does the youth truly believe he will get any better second or even third grade ? For common people who will never pass the path towards a new power realm numbers of the amount are a way better index of power . 0 grade are normal humans . Once a people reached 1000 one will arrive at the first grade . 10 000 and one will be one the second grade . 100 000 , third grade . 1 million , fourth grade . 10 million , fifth grade . 100 million , sixth grade . 1 billion , seventh grade . 10 billion , eight grade . 100 billion , ninth grade . Past these 100 billions amount of spiritual energy even the boy doesn''t know what for path awaits . In his past life he lived for about 500 years , combining that with ruthless robbing for ressources as well as his daily cultivation with a talent of 13 he only reached about 5 million spiritual power . So about middle 4th grade . 4th grade doesn''t seemed high , however people who lived long enough got strong cards in case of emergencys . Thus it wouldn''t be suprised if a 4th or 5th grade would be able to kill a 6th or 7th grade . Naturally the weaker side needed a lot of preparation , for example exhausting the opponent with puppets , or fighting in situation where the opponent is supressed . After the young man received a slap by the girl the boy turned towards some of the basic magic scrolls . Looking through the scrolls the boy could only come to the conclusion that these skills are pretty much useless for him . They pay way too much for safety . A single safe fireball need triple the amount compared to a normal fireball . Even then , the safe fireball only got the advantage that the caster won''t get burned by his own fire or get a rebound . If you are wondering how much a fireball with the radius of an arm costs , it would be around 333 spirit units . A safe fireball would cost about 1000 , the same amount of a new 1th grade . Coming to the conclusion that all these books follow the principle "safety first !" , the boy stopped his search for any useful books . Thinking that his 3 helpers should already carried a good amount of stones towards his cave the boy smiled . Finally he will get some real protection ! Meanwhile at the place where the 3 helpers carry stones :The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. "Wuhaahahahah , what are you doing Bruno ? Doing some basic stone carry training ?" laughed an elegant youth with a fan . Around him is a group of disciples who all tried to fawn over the youth . The face of Bruno started to become red like a tomato , however he didn''t cursed back . Instead he continued to carry the stones while sweat drenched his entire body . One of the outer disciple wanted to help Bruno and wanted to curse bad , however the older one stopped him while whispering : "Stop it Yun Che , even if your Yun Family is quite a force in Fallen leave sect you can''t compare to one of the three major familys !" Sweat poured of Yun Che''s head while whispering : "Thanks for the reminder Leylin ." After this conversation both continued to carry one stone together . More and more disciples gathered to watch Bruno , a true warrior disciple carrying stones . Not only that , he seemed to suffer and sweat like he carried some dead weight with him . "Is he truly a true disciple ? Even i as from the magus branch would be able to carry pig sized stones , and he is a true warrior ? Pff hahahah , then my sister is an inner warrior disciple !" laughed one disciple . "Yeah , who even guided him ? Can''t even carry stones , why do we have such useless teachers ?" sighed a disciple who got unlucky with his own teacher . Just as the count numbered thousands , an elder of the warrior branch rushed towards the place where Bruno and the two outer disciple carried stones . It wasn''t a coincidence that the elder dashed towards the place with full speed , he is the supervisor of the true warrior disciples . Not only that , one of his personal disciple is Bruno ! "Why does this little boy carry stones from one place to another ? And then even dare to sweat ! Do you want to drag your reputation down ?" cursed the elder while running so fast that his legs almost became blurry . Arriving in front of the scene everyone bowed while shouting : "We greet elder !" Normally the elder would nod happily and respond with one or two comment , this time however he rushed towards Bruno as soon as he saw him . Arriving in front of Bruno he could see that Bruno really only carried pig sized stones . Not only that , even two outer disciple carried a single stone together without even sweating ! That''s a disgrace for the whole warrior branch ! However Bruno didn''t even noticed the elder , people get immersed once they only do one thing and Bruno is a one the macho warriors who liked to train for days and admire their muscles in front of the mirror or in water ponds . Thus Brunos brain only send out one message towards his body : "CARRY !" "CARRY!" "CARRY!" Red veins could be seen on the elders face . Just as the anger wanted to explode Leylin began to talk : "Greet elder ! What do you want from senior brother Bruno ?" Remembering the fact that thousands of disciple watched him the elder lightly coughed : "Since you two are carrying stones you certainly know why Bruno is drenched in sweat right now . Did he fight before or did he do a training regim before that ?" For a short moment a smile could be seen on Leylins face , however he responded : "No elder , Bruno started carrying stones this morning . Now he is drenched with sweat because the stones are too heavy ." The eyes of the elder twitched while looking at Leyling , now he couldn''t shift Brunos exhaust towards some other reasons . "However Bruno carried more than 50 squeezed stones from the sect quarry towards the outskirt of the city where an inner disciples lives who wanted Bruno to carry the stones ." added Leylin . ''What ? How dare an inner disciple command our warrior branch ?'' thought the elder while turning towards Leyling : "... You mean squeezed stone from the sect quarry towards the outskirt , and that for 50 times today ?" "Yes great elder , the inner disciple commanded both of us to help senior Brother since we said something against him . However he tried to reason it as training for senior brother Bruno so the materials will be send in front of his cave !" smiled Yun Che while hoping to witness how the elder would punish this little cocky bastard . But the elder didn''t cursed the inner disciple , instead he smiled . Grabbing Bruno in front of him , causing him to awake from his stance and saying : "Greetings teacher !" Realizing that thousands of disciple looked at the group of 4 battle cause him to feel emberassed . "All students who dare to laugh over Bruno follow me !" shouted the elder while adding : "I won''t punish those , however they have to do the same training for Bruno . After all it seems like they envy him !" Arriving in front of the sect quarry Bruno didn''t know what to do . However the elder said : "Continue your task from the inner disciple , it will be your training for now ." At first Bruno believed that the inner disciple would lie about how carrying the stones would train him , however he experienced the exhaust , thus he saluted towards his teacher while taking a new squeezed stone and carrying it towards the outskirts . The elder turned towards the other disciples and said : "Each one of you take a pig sized stone like Bruno and follow him ." Everyone followed the command , however rejoiced inside : "What for an easy task , will we get true disciple if we finish it ?" But their dreams shattered , as the elder said : "Search for a squeezed stone , after all Bruno carried more than 50 this day already ." Wut the f*ck ? Do you believe that squeezed stones are light ? They are stones with way higher density . More than 30x the weight of a normal stone , do you want to kill us ? Now many disciple wailed , however they only could follow and take a stone while following Bruno . Many of the unluckys wondered why the outer disciples who should carried a squeezed stone didn''t sweat , maybe the distance is short and they only did it once or twice ? The answer is the pair of outer disciples only carried a single squeezed stone the entire day ! At first many disciples could hold a squeezed stone , after all holding one for a short while was in no way a problem for inner disciple or even outer disciples . But after a while they only could panting look how the distance they had to walk got longer and longer . One hundred meters , two hundred meters , one kilometer . Soon the first disciple started to ask question like : "When are we there ? Why is it so far away ?" In the end many people started to sweat , the elegant youth with the fan long stopped to look elegant . Sweat drenched his clothes as he only could curse himself for being a speed type warrior ! The elder looked how the disciples cursed their heavy stones and the long way they have to walk . "Not bad , maybe i should talk with this inner disciple . With a good chance he is from the magus branch if he need materials . It''s not a bad idear getting the warriors to carry heavy materials . It will be their training while helping the one who needs the ressources ." mumbled the teacher while looking at the long train of youths carrying stones . This is one day got written down in the sects history , the creation of the so called "Hell Path" the training units which caused many disciple to tremble in fear ! Chapter 7 Cultivation Problems Mean while at the cave of patriarch misty peak , or other known as "Loyal Baron" : A female disciple which certainly could be descriped as beautiful looked at the patriarch . Clear eyes , long black hair as well as a S-curve . If placed on earth she would certainly look asian . (AN: Sry , i need to mention it since i realise that literally the only one described is the mc : A face like those typical traitors and sly persons . Like rats ) "Why does Master need disciple ?" bowed the female . "Meihua , soon Li Xue will visit this old man for a while before going to another sect as a disciple . I hope you start forgive her , she wanted to help your family but she .... ." sighed the patriarch . As soon as the patriarch mentioned Li Mao the eyes of Chu Mei became void of any emotion . Bowing she replied : "Yes Master!" Stepping onto the transport array she vanished . Looking how she vanished the patriarch sighed . As a man who experienced so many things in his life , why can''t he fix a broken friendship easily ? Looking at the surrounding spirit stones he could only find one answer : To be able to fix anything one need a certain amount of power . It doesn''t matter whether it is brute force of intelligence . Sighing for a while he started to meditate , around him the spirit stones . "So you are the inner disciple who need squeezed stones ?" asked the warrior branch elder with a suprised face . After all if one is bringing materials to a location and the one who made the order is a young teenager who wouldn''t be surprised ? Cupping his hands together he boy replied : "Yes elder , my name is Shen !" Clearly feeling that Shen isn''t his real name the warrior didn''t said anything . He turned towards the countless youths who carried the stones and arrived in front of his cave . "Good , i think ten each day is enough . For inner disciple twenty !" Shen was surprised as the elder asked him about the squeezed stone , after all he did nothing wrong . However as one of the disciple whispered to his friend : "Why does Ma Fan has to ridicule the legacy disciple of Elder Bo , not only that why did we joined in ?" "Yeah , that bald elder shouldn''t come out to meddle in our generation . I didn''t even witnessed him fighting . Even some older elder battle once in a while against monsters who invade !" replied another one in a low tone . Suddenly the voice of Bruno sounded through the air : "HOW DARE YOU SAY ANYTHING TO MASTER !" Veins popped out of his head as he wanted to hit these disciples . However a hand stopped his fist . Precisely it was Elder Bo . Smiling at these two disciple he turned towards Shen : "I think a young mage like you need some strong warriors to organize the amount of squeezed stones right ? I believe these two young disciples are perfect for you . Since they seem to have enough time to complain about their training ." Cupping his hands and bowing Shen replied : "Naturally i need manpower ." Laughing Elder Bo grabbed both disciple and looked at them with a wide grin . Their face turned pale , however they subdued their souls to the elder . "Here my friend , do you need more stones ? Since Bruno needs to be trained for a while i will take him away . But if you really need more stones i can ask the other disciple to help you ." smiled Elder Bo while handing over two souls . Receiving the souls Shen stored both of them away while thanking Elder Bo : "No problem , no problem . Bruno don''t have to carry more stones , however since i indeed need more stones i hope that each disciple will carry around 50 stones in the end of the month towards my cave ." Nodding Elder Bo turned and walked towards the disciples who carried the stones . Both of the cursing disciples looked at Shen with a hopeful look , after all a kid is way easier to manipulate . Say some honey words and maybe they won''t treat you like shit .If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Looking at the two disciples Shen coldly said : "Move to my cave and take your entire belongings in it , from now on you two live with me ." Bowing both of them withdrawed , after all the rule is never say anything to a kid who holds your life in the hand . Thinking for a while Shen moved to his cave , he already achieved his goal . Although faster than the planned . Now the only thing left is to get stronger . Sitting in his cave he started to create more minds , each with the size of one spiritual ball . Suddenly he could sense how his soul with 9999 spiritual energy started to devour the other souls which looked tiny compared to the 9999 soul . Sharp pain flashed through his body . However nothing else happened except sweat poured out of his pores . He could feel how the souls started to devour the other souls . With each souls being eaten he could feel how he got pierced with ten thousand swords and afterwards salty rainwater poured out of the cloud . Concentrating his tiny souls he started to control them . Because he couldn''t stop the rampage of the biggest soul he went to war with his own mind . Blow upon blow the tiny spiritual balls split and opened in variant battle formations . However the other started to calm down from his rampage and defended the attacks of the small minds . In the end he could feel how the giant mind crumbled . However with no short sacrifice . Of his ca. 7000 souls only about 600 remained . Closing his eyes he began to think , why did this happen ? Does that mean that i can''t nourish one soul with the absorb power of many ? After all the mind nourished couldn''t control himself causing it to destroy more than 90% of my fighting power . If he would follow his former cultivation path nothing would went wrong . However in his 500 years of life he read many cultivation methods . After all knowdledge is power , and reading through the countless abilitys one would gain from a single cultivation was quite interesting . So how could he follow his former path which was build by countless parts of different cultivations arts ? Since it caused his cultivation to stop he decided to follow an unknown foundation building cultivation art with useful abilitys . Naturally he chosed his most complete cultivation art . And that was the art of dividing his soul . After confirming that nothing worse happened he started to cultivate again , this time only creating more souls . Reaching 1000 he stood up and looked at the mountain of stones in front of his cave . Two shades of people appeared , holding a little bag . "We are done with packing shen , what should we do now ?" asked one of the people after arriving in front of Shen . "Don''t call me Shen , call me master ." replied Shen in a cold tone , while adding : "Build a golem out of these stones , i need them as practice targets ." Both of the disciple cursed inside : "We are inner disciple the same grade as you , so why should we call a little brat master ?" However they didn''t complain , after all their lives are in Shen hands . "Yes Master ." Both of them started to build golems out of the transported stones , though they didn''t believed that Shen would use them as practice targets . It seemed to be a waste of energy to build a golem and then destroy him . However it seemed quite logical since there is a mountain of stones and controlling one or two golems is already an amazing feat . Watching the disciples carrying stones while sweating and panting like their lives depent on it Shen slowly moved back and cultivated . Pondering about his future Shen decided only to create single souls without nuturing one soul more than the others . After all it seemed quite dangerous if one soul ate the rest . The years of youth passed in the blink of an eye , the former skinny boy with the code name Shen sat in his cave . Naturally he cultivated more souls . He only reached 5 thousands though , way less than his former 7000 . However he tried to connect every single soul with each other , causing his mind to be like a puzzle . Looking whole if looked from far , however close it would be small pieces creating the whole . Investing this year to connect all souls as well as creating more was a successfull year for Shen , now he could gather the needed spiritual energy for a spell as fast as one soul . (AN: If somebody missed it , he could cast a spell with his souls , however it took a long time to gather it . Now with the "connections" the gathering process is as fast as one would normally with only one soul .) Supressing his urge to copulate with females he tried to create more souls . However it was impossible to win against his own desires , especially in ones adolescence . Walking out of his cave which in no way resembled a housing for a mighty mage he shielded his eyes from the sun . About 60 Golems appeared in front of him , build by his two servants as well as Leylin and Yun Che . After drinking some water he changed into clean clothes . Calling out for his two servants he shouted : "One , Two ! Come !" It seemed like a spoiled kid calling out for his servants one or two . Both of them stopped their work and arrived in front of Shen . At first they believed that their duty would it be to flatter Shen , however both of them only build the golems while daily things like food , water etc. got send to them automatically . Not only that , Shen didn''t disturb them , neither did he expect them to flatter him or beat anyone who oppose him . Instead they got to train , eat , sleep and repeat that for a whole year . Shen did the same , his daily necessarys got send by the sect . After all a sect care about their inner wizard disciples , or else some of the crazier ones would starve because they got too absorbed in their experiments . Naturally his only happened in youth . However if somebody experienced that they almost starved to death would they see the sect in a good light ? Everybody would answer with no . This system created some sort of dependence , which was good for the sect . "I will take a mission from the sect board . You two follow me ." commanded Shen while turning towards Leyling and Yun Che : "You two continue to build golems ." Unhappyness was written over the face of Yun Che , even though he was part of the Yun Family , which was one of the 3 influent Familys in the Fallen leave Sect he is only a small fry . Who cares if a small fry die ? And now he forced to do labor for an inner disciple . Leylin just replied : "Yes ." Following the path of one could see three figues walking towards the sect centre . A youth with a hideous face , and two young adults following him from behind .