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The Martial Master - Chapter 8

Published at 5th of January 2019 10:12:57 PM


Chapter 8

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"Su Min?"

A soft but resolute voice resounded in this desolate area where most presumed a wild beast lay. This beast was, of course, Su Min. He remained expressionless as he glanced at her.

A layer of sweat was covering her voluptuous body already, and when Su Min's gaze landed on her that looming feeling on her soul shrieked with a destructive law, yet she still persisted. Su Min could feel that his eyes contained a concentration of the intent, thus making his gaze terrifying. Making him pause.

'I guess it is in my eyes as well...'

Seeing that he hasn't said anything, Yi Zan asked again in a hurry.

"You're Su Min right?"

Su Min could tell that she was in a lot of pain, and him looking at her seemed to catalyse it. He lamented before shifting his eyes to the book once more.

"Mhm."

Yi Zan felt the looming feeling dim the second his gaze left, allowing her to breathe. However, this was enough to tell her how terrifying this person is.

'His mere gaze can do so much..? He can't be from such a small sector, so...'

She sweated at the thought, nevertheless, instead of feeling down, a bright smile replaced her pained expression. A mysterious glint flickered in her expression when she looked at Su Min.

"Thank you..."

'Huh?'

Su Min felt confused at why she thanked him, so he could only cough it up to doing something unknowingly. Su Min decided to glance at her again, where he asked.

"What are you thanking me for?"

She didn't say anything and only looked at him with sincere gratitude. She smiled and turned around, shakily pacing away. Although it was obvious that she was having trouble persisting through the pain, making it rather comical.

Su Min looked down again as he realised that fact, however his normally expressionless face contained the trace of a confused smile.

'Although I don't know what I've done, I've never been thanked before...'

...

Riding on a strangely desolate highway, a black limousine sped through with a speed similar to a plane. Inside, 3 people sat around a wine table, where the last one sat in the corner, looking rather lonely...

They were the winners of the tournament in the sector, and the 3 on the wine table included Yi Zan, Qiu Jin and a youth carrying an engraved sword sheath.

The atmosphere seemed tense as they all glanced at the dazed boy in the corner of the car. The same book sat next to him, although he wasn't studying it.

The sword youth hesitated before coughing and asked.

"Uh, What made you guys join the tournament?"

Qiu Jin remained silent as he transitioned from looking fearfully at Su Min to snorting in contempt. On the other hand, Yi Zan smiled and spoke in a dreamy voice.

"To protect our sector, of course."

The sword youth pondered until nodding, then his hesitant expression followed to Su Min in the corner.

"S-Su Min?"

Su Min seemed to realise that he was part of the conversation, but he didn't bother to move his gaze to them, as that would just make the situation torturous for them.

However, a deep melancholy and hate erupted out of him, speaking.

"To find someone..."

"Eh?"

...

In a desolate field with no grass nor life, a group of people stared wide-eyed at something.

Accompanied by an ethereal atmosphere, an exquisite cloud floated next to a limousine. The group of 3 stared dumbfoundedly at it as it just floated there like it was from another world, although Su Min still didn't care.

"A... Floating cloud?"

As this was happening, a sudden voice broke the strange atmosphere as the same old man floated above them with a cane in his hand. Qiu Jin looked shocked as he saw someone flying before him, and so was the case for the sword youth and Yi Zan, although she seemed to know about something.

"Mhm. I'll keep it brief, but the world of martial arts and mortals are strictly controlled, meaning that I cannot show any of my true abilities in front of them, hence the reason I took you here with a car."

"...However, now that we're out of our mortal sector... Well, it doesn't matter as you'll find out soon enough."

He smirked before jumping onto the cloud. Though, Everyone just stared at him.

"Stop giving me that damn look and jump on!"

The group paused until they went up to the cloud and trudged on it with careful steps. Eventually, everyone was on the cloud, causing the old man to snort with a smirk. He pondered for a while until a terrifying grin lit up on him, where brought the cane up and patted the cloud twice. Su Min tensed as a strange feeling rang in him, especially due to that devilish grin.

*WOOOOSH*

"FU-!"

Su Min was about to say something when the sky suddenly blurred and an air pressure similar to breaking into the atmosphere enveloped everyone in the form of a white cone. However, the old man smiled and chanted a confusing word that immediately shrouded the cloud in an invisible field.

The cloud resembled a scintillating meteorite as it raced through the atmosphere and ascended into a terrifying altitude. The old man smiled with pride as he looked at the shocked expressions of everyone, although he frowned at how calm Su Min was.

Su Min sat in the very corner, mostly so that the energy that his intent emits doesn't touch the group.

"If you haven't guessed already, A part of Dojo Limitless is actually built on the clouds!"

As he spoke, the blurred surroundings churned and became clear as a sonic boom rang out in the air with a thunder-like smack. The surrounding clouds around them shifted away as they rose up, where sunlight that seemed to resemble the heavens shined on them in fantasmal rays. It looked like a new world as clouds replaced the ground for as far as the eye can see, making their floating cloud seem infinitely small.

The clouds seemed to be moving at a constant pace as streams of celestial sparks spat out whenever a cloud rubbed against another, making everyone's hearts flutter.

They could see that the clouds they were above seemed to be so corporal that you could practically stand on them. Everyone gasped at the sight, where the old man suddenly brought out a token as a strange field shrouded them, containing a light killing intent.

"I, Sector Lord of Sector D2, request a permit to the Mortal Tournament!"

The jade glowed a bright light until it shattered and left sparkling starlight in the sky, where the shrouding force field left silently. The old man then sat down onto the cloud, sighing.

"All of you come here and sit down!"

Everyone could tell that he was serious, so they just went and sat down around him. Su Min was the only one who felt strange, as he could tell that some unknown force was negating the aura he emitted, although the force seemed to be struggling.

'I really need to learn how to control this...'

When the old man saw that everyone was around him, he nodded and chanted something indiscernible as the falling starlight from that crushed jade lit up with a dazzling pillar of light around them.

A rainbow rumbled and intersected with the pillar that connected to a faraway realm, and with a loud snap, the pillar imploded with a screech and pierced the bright sky at a deafening speed, leaving an empty floating cloud.




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