Chapter 42
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Sweat began to drip down from Zan Fu's forehead as he tried to make sure that the mysterious man in front of him didn't see the soul crystals. The man never did answer Zan Fu's question, which gave him the impression that the man was hiding something.
The last drop of power was finally absorbed by Zan Fu. He felt the twenty fifth medium grade crystal shatter in his hand and disappear into the air. Now that he was at full strength, he held some confidence if the other person was an enemy.
"Are you done regaining your strength?" The cloaked man's question stopped Zan AFI in his tracks as he looked up in surprise, "While I don't know how you were able to recover so quickly, you don't really seem like much of a threat. Fourth realm first stage? Hmmm, you seem a little weak."
A mocking smile appeared on the man's face, "Makes me wonder how you were able to survive being swallowed by the Gaian Worm." Zan Fu felt the pressure of the air slowly rising as the situation became tensed, "Maybe I'll tell you later!"
He took a step back and quickly moved away. As his eyes sweeper around the man, Zan Fu noticed something right beside of him. A blood red rob that looked almost exactly like Drodon, although there isn't much to compare considering they were both just smooth balls.
The orb spun in place and used, What he assumed to be its eyes, to follow his movements. Zan Fu and the object's eyes met and a shock expression appeared on his face.
Without a second thought, he immediately fled the scene and ran back the way he came.
"He saw me!" The Divinity looked back to his partner and loud voice, "You mean that boy can-" the orb quickly cut him off, "Yes, now stop them!" The man picked up his orb and began to float in the air. He launched forward as he tried to figure out the direction Zan Fu traveled in.
"Damn! Even though it is a great hideout, this place is still sh*tty to navigate!" He thought about it carefully and had a bright idea, "Maybe he is acquainted with all of those fools tapped in the worm's stomach. If so then he should be there."
He turned around and found the path he needed to travel.
Zan Fu looked behind him to see that the mysterious stranger was out of sight. "Drodon, What was that..." he looked to his side at Drodon who answered, "that thing was a being similar to me. It found a master and now he is probably going to try to kill you."
"Why would he do that?" Zan Fu could accept that there were several orbs just like Drodon, but he didn't understand why the man and his orb would want to kill him.
"That is because he also wishes for his master to be a god candidate. A candidate is just that, a person who has a chance of becoming a deity. But what would happen if several other candidates appeared? They would fight each other for the power since only one person can obtain the title of Deity."
"In other words, if there are any other god candidates, I will have to fight them to the death. What kind of sick person made a game like this?"
Drodon didn't answer his question, "More importantly Zan Fu, we need to grab your friends and get out of here." He nodded at Drodon's words but thought to himself, "How can spew possibly get all of them out. If those two catch up to us, they will most likely kill any witnesses or use the others as hostages if I leave them behind."
"I need a way to bring them all out at once, Do you have any ideas?" While they began moving again Drodon carefully considered the question, "I have one, but we need the claw."
"Thx, the claw again. Why can't we do anything with our own strength?!" Zan Fu became irritated. Although he knew that the power belonged to him, he still felt as if he was asking for help from something else. It really did injure his pride.
"Don't worry about it, we were going to use the thing to help the others escape anyway." Drodon proceeded to explain his idea to Zan Fu.
While he rejected the plan at first due to how I possible it sounded, he convinced him to go through with it anyway. With his arm outstretch, Zan Fu summoned his bonded weapon into his hand.
He thought of the plan Drodon came up with and focused his mind carefully. The plan stated was not that easy but if he succeeded, then they would not only be able to save the others but maybe stand their ground against the mysterious man as well.
Zan Fu focused his mind completely into what he was doing. The blue energy started to leak out of his body and form into a strange shape. As the shape continued to build itself, a large blue lizard came out of the smoky energy.
This lizard looked at its surrounding and spotted the hand that was holding the claw. It scuttled over and crawled up Zan Fu's arm and wrapped around his weapon. The weapon began to disintegrate within his grasp.
Usually bonded weapons would develope a sort of consciousness when they become one with their user, but the claw never received one. Drodon explained that it was because the weapon was a part of him and the consciousness was transferred and absorbed by Drodon himself.
Now what he was doing, might've been the dumbest thing he had ever done. He used the blue energy to not to put the claw somewhere, but more like to exchange something.
Zan Fu felt his arms begin to tingle as a warm fleshy feeling took over. The lizard became a blue fog that covered his arm so that he couldn't see what was happening. After a few seconds, the smoke began to clear as what he did revealed for both him and Drodon to see.
His right warm was replaced by a giant lizard's claw. The sharp claws tingled when he touched his new arm. It felt like a fish's body except more sturdy, like a fish made of steel. He closed and opened his fist a few times while trying to determine how strong his arm was.
He punched the air lightly and a powerful force crashed into the side of the wall leaving behind a large dark empty invention that could easily fit one or two elephants.
"I think we are ready."
They started to move on again in order to find the others.
"Zan Fu, so what are you going to tell your parents when they see this?"
"Wait, you mean you didn't come up with a solution for this?"
"..." Drodon stayed silent as he really didn't have a solution.
Zan Fu gave off a sly smile as he spoke once more, "I'm just kidding. Even though it looks like it has replaced my arm, it is more like it has wrapped itself around me. The blue energy is connecting my nerves and senses to the claw. But as soon as I run out of energy or just concentrate on it, it will disappear like it usually does."
"Convenient"
"I know right! It's like some stupid plot device."
Zan Fu finally found the other survivors and used his new hand to cut the goo off of them.
"This is so gross, I can feel everything..." all of the people fell onto the ground lifelessly. He closed his eyes and felt the claw grow several times it's original size, "I'm starting to like this thing." With the enlarged arm, he was able to grab all of the people in the worm's belly.
He nodded in Drodon's direction, "Let's go quickly and this time, let's use a more...direct method."
Zan Fu ran to a random wall nearby. He placed all the people down once more as he swung his gigantic arm back and prepared himself, "HA!"
With a loud shout, he thrusted his arm into the worm's body and a large boom rang out.
The strange man heard this sound and looked in the direction that it came from. He charged up his power and launched himself toward the sound.
On the outside, the worm rose up into the air and screeched out with pain. A loud roar rang out as its center bursted open, like a jack-in-a-box. As it screeched out its dying breath, a blue light flew out of its body and onto the ground several dozen meters away.
Zan Fu dropped everyone onto the ground behind a building and immediately hopped off. He made sure that the place where he landed was nowhere near all of the people he saved all for one reason.
"I found you!"
Zan Fu looked up to see the man floating above him without the use of any treasure or weapon. A deep sigh escaped his lungs as Zan Fu's worst fear came true. His opponent was in the eighth realm.
Zan Fu didn't know what to do until Drodon's voice called out beside him, "Look at the way he is flying. His body is unsteady and the "heaven's force" that he is releasing is erratic. I think I now know why he was inside the Gaian Worm. He wa hiding, it looks like something attacked him and that he was in there to recuperate. Zan Fu, if we don't deal with this problem now, he return in the future to kill us at full power. This is our only chance to take him down!"
He couldn't believe what Drodon was saying. Him fighting with a Divinity, that sounded crazy. But as he looked at his arm and then back to the Divinity, a feeling of confidence rose inside of him. The thought, "Maybe I can take him down." Came up and Zan Fu gave off a small nod.
The Divinity stared down at Zan Fu with a strange expression. He had never seen such a strange technique that would transform one's limbs into something so horrifying. The blood red orb called out to him, "You need to be careful, that arm isn't simple at all. Make sure that when you strike, you use all of the power you have."
Without making a sound, the Divinity clenched his fist and tensed up his body. A surge of power completely enveloped the area and without a second thought, he flew down at high speed to Zan Fu ready to kill.
Zan Fu did not waver or shrink at the sight of his power. Instead he released his own aura and pointed his arm up at the person charging straight at him. His eyes showed no fear as he used his legs to push himself off the ground toward the raging comet that was his adversary.
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As the two insane forces collided, a large vision appeared inside of Phoen's mind, who was currently training his body. The image was of a lizard and a bird fighting each other to the death.
The vision ended with the lizard lying there motionless without its limb.
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Sweat began to drip down from Zan Fu's forehead as he tried to make sure that the mysterious man in front of him didn't see the soul crystals. The man never did answer Zan Fu's question, which gave him the impression that the man was hiding something.
The last drop of power was finally absorbed by Zan Fu. He felt the twenty fifth medium grade crystal shatter in his hand and disappear into the air. Now that he was at full strength, he held some confidence if the other person was an enemy.
"Are you done regaining your strength?" The cloaked man's question stopped Zan AFI in his tracks as he looked up in surprise, "While I don't know how you were able to recover so quickly, you don't really seem like much of a threat. Fourth realm first stage? Hmmm, you seem a little weak."
A mocking smile appeared on the man's face, "Makes me wonder how you were able to survive being swallowed by the Gaian Worm." Zan Fu felt the pressure of the air slowly rising as the situation became tensed, "Maybe I'll tell you later!"
He took a step back and quickly moved away. As his eyes sweeper around the man, Zan Fu noticed something right beside of him. A blood red rob that looked almost exactly like Drodon, although there isn't much to compare considering they were both just smooth balls.
The orb spun in place and used, What he assumed to be its eyes, to follow his movements. Zan Fu and the object's eyes met and a shock expression appeared on his face.
Without a second thought, he immediately fled the scene and ran back the way he came.
"He saw me!" The Divinity looked back to his partner and loud voice, "You mean that boy can-" the orb quickly cut him off, "Yes, now stop them!" The man picked up his orb and began to float in the air. He launched forward as he tried to figure out the direction Zan Fu traveled in.
"Damn! Even though it is a great hideout, this place is still sh*tty to navigate!" He thought about it carefully and had a bright idea, "Maybe he is acquainted with all of those fools tapped in the worm's stomach. If so then he should be there."
He turned around and found the path he needed to travel.
Zan Fu looked behind him to see that the mysterious stranger was out of sight. "Drodon, What was that..." he looked to his side at Drodon who answered, "that thing was a being similar to me. It found a master and now he is probably going to try to kill you."
"Why would he do that?" Zan Fu could accept that there were several orbs just like Drodon, but he didn't understand why the man and his orb would want to kill him.
"That is because he also wishes for his master to be a god candidate. A candidate is just that, a person who has a chance of becoming a deity. But what would happen if several other candidates appeared? They would fight each other for the power since only one person can obtain the title of Deity."
"In other words, if there are any other god candidates, I will have to fight them to the death. What kind of sick person made a game like this?"
Drodon didn't answer his question, "More importantly Zan Fu, we need to grab your friends and get out of here." He nodded at Drodon's words but thought to himself, "How can spew possibly get all of them out. If those two catch up to us, they will most likely kill any witnesses or use the others as hostages if I leave them behind."
"I need a way to bring them all out at once, Do you have any ideas?" While they began moving again Drodon carefully considered the question, "I have one, but we need the claw."
"Thx, the claw again. Why can't we do anything with our own strength?!" Zan Fu became irritated. Although he knew that the power belonged to him, he still felt as if he was asking for help from something else. It really did injure his pride.
"Don't worry about it, we were going to use the thing to help the others escape anyway." Drodon proceeded to explain his idea to Zan Fu.
While he rejected the plan at first due to how I possible it sounded, he convinced him to go through with it anyway. With his arm outstretch, Zan Fu summoned his bonded weapon into his hand.
He thought of the plan Drodon came up with and focused his mind carefully. The plan stated was not that easy but if he succeeded, then they would not only be able to save the others but maybe stand their ground against the mysterious man as well.
Zan Fu focused his mind completely into what he was doing. The blue energy started to leak out of his body and form into a strange shape. As the shape continued to build itself, a large blue lizard came out of the smoky energy.
This lizard looked at its surrounding and spotted the hand that was holding the claw. It scuttled over and crawled up Zan Fu's arm and wrapped around his weapon. The weapon began to disintegrate within his grasp.
Usually bonded weapons would develope a sort of consciousness when they become one with their user, but the claw never received one. Drodon explained that it was because the weapon was a part of him and the consciousness was transferred and absorbed by Drodon himself.
Now what he was doing, might've been the dumbest thing he had ever done. He used the blue energy to not to put the claw somewhere, but more like to exchange something.
Zan Fu felt his arms begin to tingle as a warm fleshy feeling took over. The lizard became a blue fog that covered his arm so that he couldn't see what was happening. After a few seconds, the smoke began to clear as what he did revealed for both him and Drodon to see.
His right warm was replaced by a giant lizard's claw. The sharp claws tingled when he touched his new arm. It felt like a fish's body except more sturdy, like a fish made of steel. He closed and opened his fist a few times while trying to determine how strong his arm was.
He punched the air lightly and a powerful force crashed into the side of the wall leaving behind a large dark empty invention that could easily fit one or two elephants.
"I think we are ready."
They started to move on again in order to find the others.
"Zan Fu, so what are you going to tell your parents when they see this?"
"Wait, you mean you didn't come up with a solution for this?"
"..." Drodon stayed silent as he really didn't have a solution.
Zan Fu gave off a sly smile as he spoke once more, "I'm just kidding. Even though it looks like it has replaced my arm, it is more like it has wrapped itself around me. The blue energy is connecting my nerves and senses to the claw. But as soon as I run out of energy or just concentrate on it, it will disappear like it usually does."
"Convenient"
"I know right! It's like some stupid plot device."
Zan Fu finally found the other survivors and used his new hand to cut the goo off of them.
"This is so gross, I can feel everything..." all of the people fell onto the ground lifelessly. He closed his eyes and felt the claw grow several times it's original size, "I'm starting to like this thing." With the enlarged arm, he was able to grab all of the people in the worm's belly.
He nodded in Drodon's direction, "Let's go quickly and this time, let's use a more...direct method."
Zan Fu ran to a random wall nearby. He placed all the people down once more as he swung his gigantic arm back and prepared himself, "HA!"
With a loud shout, he thrusted his arm into the worm's body and a large boom rang out.
The strange man heard this sound and looked in the direction that it came from. He charged up his power and launched himself toward the sound.
On the outside, the worm rose up into the air and screeched out with pain. A loud roar rang out as its center bursted open, like a jack-in-a-box. As it screeched out its dying breath, a blue light flew out of its body and onto the ground several dozen meters away.
Zan Fu dropped everyone onto the ground behind a building and immediately hopped off. He made sure that the place where he landed was nowhere near all of the people he saved all for one reason.
"I found you!"
Zan Fu looked up to see the man floating above him without the use of any treasure or weapon. A deep sigh escaped his lungs as Zan Fu's worst fear came true. His opponent was in the eighth realm.
Zan Fu didn't know what to do until Drodon's voice called out beside him, "Look at the way he is flying. His body is unsteady and the "heaven's force" that he is releasing is erratic. I think I now know why he was inside the Gaian Worm. He wa hiding, it looks like something attacked him and that he was in there to recuperate. Zan Fu, if we don't deal with this problem now, he return in the future to kill us at full power. This is our only chance to take him down!"
He couldn't believe what Drodon was saying. Him fighting with a Divinity, that sounded crazy. But as he looked at his arm and then back to the Divinity, a feeling of confidence rose inside of him. The thought, "Maybe I can take him down." Came up and Zan Fu gave off a small nod.
The Divinity stared down at Zan Fu with a strange expression. He had never seen such a strange technique that would transform one's limbs into something so horrifying. The blood red orb called out to him, "You need to be careful, that arm isn't simple at all. Make sure that when you strike, you use all of the power you have."
Without making a sound, the Divinity clenched his fist and tensed up his body. A surge of power completely enveloped the area and without a second thought, he flew down at high speed to Zan Fu ready to kill.
Zan Fu did not waver or shrink at the sight of his power. Instead he released his own aura and pointed his arm up at the person charging straight at him. His eyes showed no fear as he used his legs to push himself off the ground toward the raging comet that was his adversary.
~~~~~~~~~~
As the two insane forces collided, a large vision appeared inside of Phoen's mind, who was currently training his body. The image was of a lizard and a bird fighting each other to the death.
The vision ended with the lizard lying there motionless without its limb.
Sweat began to drip down from Zan Fu's forehead as he tried to make sure that the mysterious man in front of him didn't see the soul crystals. The man never did answer Zan Fu's question, which gave him the impression that the man was hiding something.The last drop of power was finally absorbed by Zan Fu. He felt the twenty fifth medium grade crystal shatter in his hand and disappear into the air. Now that he was at full strength, he held some confidence if the other person was an enemy."Are you done regaining your strength?" The cloaked man's question stopped Zan AFI in his tracks as he looked up in surprise, "While I don't know how you were able to recover so quickly, you don't really seem like much of a threat. Fourth realm first stage? Hmmm, you seem a little weak."A mocking smile appeared on the man's face, "Makes me wonder how you were able to survive being swallowed by the Gaian Worm." Zan Fu felt the pressure of the air slowly rising as the situation became tensed, "Maybe I'll tell you later!"He took a step back and quickly moved away. As his eyes sweeper around the man, Zan Fu noticed something right beside of him. A blood red rob that looked almost exactly like Drodon, although there isn't much to compare considering they were both just smooth balls.The orb spun in place and used, What he assumed to be its eyes, to follow his movements. Zan Fu and the object's eyes met and a shock expression appeared on his face.Without a second thought, he immediately fled the scene and ran back the way he came."He saw me!" The Divinity looked back to his partner and loud voice, "You mean that boy can-" the orb quickly cut him off, "Yes, now stop them!" The man picked up his orb and began to float in the air. He launched forward as he tried to figure out the direction Zan Fu traveled in."Damn! Even though it is a great hideout, this place is still sh*tty to navigate!" He thought about it carefully and had a bright idea, "Maybe he is acquainted with all of those fools tapped in the worm's stomach. If so then he should be there."He turned around and found the path he needed to travel.Zan Fu looked behind him to see that the mysterious stranger was out of sight. "Drodon, What was that..." he looked to his side at Drodon who answered, "that thing was a being similar to me. It found a master and now he is probably going to try to kill you.""Why would he do that?" Zan Fu could accept that there were several orbs just like Drodon, but he didn't understand why the man and his orb would want to kill him."That is because he also wishes for his master to be a god candidate. A candidate is just that, a person who has a chance of becoming a deity. But what would happen if several other candidates appeared? They would fight each other for the power since only one person can obtain the title of Deity.""In other words, if there are any other god candidates, I will have to fight them to the death. What kind of sick person made a game like this?"Drodon didn't answer his question, "More importantly Zan Fu, we need to grab your friends and get out of here." He nodded at Drodon's words but thought to himself, "How can spew possibly get all of them out. If those two catch up to us, they will most likely kill any witnesses or use the others as hostages if I leave them behind.""I need a way to bring them all out at once, Do you have any ideas?" While they began moving again Drodon carefully considered the question, "I have one, but we need the claw.""Thx, the claw again. Why can't we do anything with our own strength?!" Zan Fu became irritated. Although he knew that the power belonged to him, he still felt as if he was asking for help from something else. It really did injure his pride."Don't worry about it, we were going to use the thing to help the others escape anyway." Drodon proceeded to explain his idea to Zan Fu.While he rejected the plan at first due to how I possible it sounded, he convinced him to go through with it anyway. With his arm outstretch, Zan Fu summoned his bonded weapon into his hand.He thought of the plan Drodon came up with and focused his mind carefully. The plan stated was not that easy but if he succeeded, then they would not only be able to save the others but maybe stand their ground against the mysterious man as well.Zan Fu focused his mind completely into what he was doing. The blue energy started to leak out of his body and form into a strange shape. As the shape continued to build itself, a large blue lizard came out of the smoky energy.This lizard looked at its surrounding and spotted the hand that was holding the claw. It scuttled over and crawled up Zan Fu's arm and wrapped around his weapon. The weapon began to disintegrate within his grasp.Usually bonded weapons would develope a sort of consciousness when they become one with their user, but the claw never received one. Drodon explained that it was because the weapon was a part of him and the consciousness was transferred and absorbed by Drodon himself.Now what he was doing, might've been the dumbest thing he had ever done. He used the blue energy to not to put the claw somewhere, but more like to exchange something.Zan Fu felt his arms begin to tingle as a warm fleshy feeling took over. The lizard became a blue fog that covered his arm so that he couldn't see what was happening. After a few seconds, the smoke began to clear as what he did revealed for both him and Drodon to see.His right warm was replaced by a giant lizard's claw. The sharp claws tingled when he touched his new arm. It felt like a fish's body except more sturdy, like a fish made of steel. He closed and opened his fist a few times while trying to determine how strong his arm was.He punched the air lightly and a powerful force crashed into the side of the wall leaving behind a large dark empty invention that could easily fit one or two elephants."I think we are ready."They started to move on again in order to find the others."Zan Fu, so what are you going to tell your parents when they see this?""Wait, you mean you didn't come up with a solution for this?""..." Drodon stayed silent as he really didn't have a solution.Zan Fu gave off a sly smile as he spoke once more, "I'm just kidding. Even though it looks like it has replaced my arm, it is more like it has wrapped itself around me. The blue energy is connecting my nerves and senses to the claw. But as soon as I run out of energy or just concentrate on it, it will disappear like it usually does.""Convenient""I know right! It's like some stupid plot device."Zan Fu finally found the other survivors and used his new hand to cut the goo off of them."This is so gross, I can feel everything..." all of the people fell onto the ground lifelessly. He closed his eyes and felt the claw grow several times it's original size, "I'm starting to like this thing." With the enlarged arm, he was able to grab all of the people in the worm's belly.He nodded in Drodon's direction, "Let's go quickly and this time, let's use a more...direct method."Zan Fu ran to a random wall nearby. He placed all the people down once more as he swung his gigantic arm back and prepared himself, "HA!"With a loud shout, he thrusted his arm into the worm's body and a large boom rang out.The strange man heard this sound and looked in the direction that it came from. He charged up his power and launched himself toward the sound.On the outside, the worm rose up into the air and screeched out with pain. A loud roar rang out as its center bursted open, like a jack-in-a-box. As it screeched out its dying breath, a blue light flew out of its body and onto the ground several dozen meters away.Zan Fu dropped everyone onto the ground behind a building and immediately hopped off. He made sure that the place where he landed was nowhere near all of the people he saved all for one reason."I found you!"Zan Fu looked up to see the man floating above him without the use of any treasure or weapon. A deep sigh escaped his lungs as Zan Fu's worst fear came true. His opponent was in the eighth realm.Zan Fu didn't know what to do until Drodon's voice called out beside him, "Look at the way he is flying. His body is unsteady and the "heaven's force" that he is releasing is erratic. I think I now know why he was inside the Gaian Worm. He wa hiding, it looks like something attacked him and that he was in there to recuperate. Zan Fu, if we don't deal with this problem now, he return in the future to kill us at full power. This is our only chance to take him down!"He couldn't believe what Drodon was saying. Him fighting with a Divinity, that sounded crazy. But as he looked at his arm and then back to the Divinity, a feeling of confidence rose inside of him. The thought, "Maybe I can take him down." Came up and Zan Fu gave off a small nod.The Divinity stared down at Zan Fu with a strange expression. He had never seen such a strange technique that would transform one's limbs into something so horrifying. The blood red orb called out to him, "You need to be careful, that arm isn't simple at all. Make sure that when you strike, you use all of the power you have."Without making a sound, the Divinity clenched his fist and tensed up his body. A surge of power completely enveloped the area and without a second thought, he flew down at high speed to Zan Fu ready to kill.Zan Fu did not waver or shrink at the sight of his power. Instead he released his own aura and pointed his arm up at the person charging straight at him. His eyes showed no fear as he used his legs to push himself off the ground toward the raging comet that was his adversary.~~~~~~~~~~As the two insane forces collided, a large vision appeared inside of Phoen's mind, who was currently training his body. The image was of a lizard and a bird fighting each other to the death.The vision ended with the lizard lying there motionless without its limb.
