"Eat more humans and I'll you more about it but one thing i can say though...they shouldn't have went against the world..." said Gula, before her voice faded.
This left Magnus with more questions than answers but since he can't get anything else from Gula, he decided to leave it be. He examined the ring he took and pricked himself as he allowed a drop of blood to fall onto it.
Magnus saw three scrolls with the contents, "Decapitating Sword", "Seven Elements Cultivation arts: Minor Series" and the "Seven Elements Physique arts: Minor Series". He also found a couple of knives, a flint and a bag full of gold.
He was about to devour all these when the woman with the Scarlet hair, rushed at him with tears, crying at him.
"Thank you...Thank you for saving...me." She cried.
Magnus was lost at what to do but as she continued to cry, he slightly felt irritated. He lightly raised his foot, at which the woman noticed that the hems of his clothes were wet from her tears.
The Scarlet woman slowly stood up and wiped her tears, she sniffles as she spoke. "I'm sorry...Thank for saving me from them. My name's Scarlet."
When the woman stood up, Magnus couldn't help but feel intimidated because she was much taller than him, that he could only reach her chest. What intimidated him was those two nicely shape mounds before him. A woman as sexy as her would definitely pressure a young nine year old boy as Magnus.
Though he heard what she said, he could only understood some parts of it, like he knew she was expressing her gratitude for saving her but that last part was a bit obscure for Magnus so he titled his head.
The woman, Scarlet, noticed this and asked. "You don't understand?"
And Magnus continued to tilt his head. Scarlet took this as a "Yes and she looked stunned, with her hand at her mouth she gasped. She then held her hair and said. "Scarlet...like my hair."
Magnus walked forward and tried to reach up her hair but couldn't quite reach it so Scarlet knelt down.
"Scarlet..." Magnus was quite interested in the scarlet color of her hair that he brushed it a couple of times.
Seeing the fierce savage kid who slaughtered those three knights easily, acting like this, Scarlet couldn't believe it at first but then she thought that maybe he went through things that made him like this.
She was lost in thought for a while before she smiled and giggled.
"Yes, Scarlet." She nodded.
Magnus then thought for a while and took the stance of one of the night. Then it was Scarlet's turn to tilt her head, not sure what Magnus was trying to convey. Though it took a while she did take a guess.
"You mean the Knights?" Scarlet asked.
"Knights..." Magnus repeated and committed it to memory.
Then he took out the knives out from the ring and he asked again, then Scarlet answered. They repeated this a couple of times as Magnus asked about many things.
"The Sun is setting, you'll plenty of time later..." Suddenly Gula's voice echoed again and this made him aware that the two of them have been sitting there in the middle of the road for quite a while now.
"Use the Carriage..." Gula said and with their mental connection, Magnus felt something pointing his attention at the object that resembled the caravan he road as a slaves so he felt a bit of apprehension about it.
But he knew Gula would not harm him so he got up which caught Scarlet's attention. He walked toward the "Carriage" and beckoned Scarlet.
"What's your name?" Scarlet asked.
Magnus seemed to remember what a 'name' was and he answered "Magnus..."
The two of them road in the front but sitting there made another problem pop out, how to drive a carriage?
Lucky enough, Scarlet knew how to. She took the reigns from his hands with a laugh and when she tugged the reigns, the horses neighed and moved forward.
Magnus continued to ask her about many things he was curious about and he didn't seem to run out of it. He was lucky Scarlet was patient to answer and explain the things he didn't know about. Along the way, Scarlet have gotten a deeper understanding of Magnus and his problem so she didn't mind to teach him what he didn't know.
When night fell, they settled on the side of the road. Strangely enough, the road they took was so freaking long even though it was only a straight line. Scarlet didn't need to hear Magnus ask about it and she explained it herself that this forest was between two cities called the "Red Sun City" and the "Blue Sky City", with some villages and the forts of the two cities in between.
Magnus hunted for the two of them of course and a someone who could be called a "Seasoned" hunter, he didn't need half an hour to come back with a tiger beast that had two horns on its head.
"Twin Horned Feral Tiger!" Scarlet exclaimed.
Magnus tilted his head for a bit before he placed the carcass down and began to skin it. Using the flint to lit up the twigs and and dried leaves he found around, they quickly had a fire to cook the meat.
Clearly, Scarlet was someone of nobility with how she seemed repulsed when Magnus offered her a piece of the meat on a stick. But with his insistence, she did took it and forced it down her throat. With great effort, Scarlet ate the meat without throwing up.
After dinner, Magnus took the opportunity to ask a couple of more questions and Scarlet gladly answered them. Though it took a while, Scarlet grew tired and polite asked if she could sleep. Magnus naturally knew that he took most of her time with his questions so he nodded and let Scarlet sleep.
Scarlet slept inside the carriage while Magnus opted to stay outside so he can practice his darkness and ask Gula to teach him how to train those "Martial arts" that he got.
"Mnmm...oh, it's night already?" With their mental connection, Magnus didn't need to call out to her verbally. Gula sounded as if she was woken from her sleep and was stretching before noticing that it was dark outside.
"Uh-huh." Magnus nodded.
"I guess you want me to teach you how to practice huh?" She asked.
To which Magnus nodded again. Gula then said "Hmm, alright then. But first let me teach you about the Stigmata and why they are important..."
Magnus sat under the tree and listened to Gula as she narrated the the story about the three realms, the Angels and Demons, how the Stigmata was first formed and how it impacted the path of Cultivation. Magnus took all this in and from it he was very interested with the connection between Stigmata and Cultivation.
Gula naturally answered his curiousity. "You can think of Stigmata as a helper or a Gateway towards cultivation. Of course, you can still cultivate without them but when you get to the upper levels, it becomes exponentially harder to proceed without a Stigmata. Since they more or less represent a certain [Concept] or [Rules] of the world they can help you connect with the [World] and gain small portions of it's strength."
She continued. "The Stigmata on your chest is very special one but more on that later, you just have to remember that it's not something that you should tell others, especially people that you don't trust."
After this she started to feel weakened, probably due to their long conversation so she decided to conclude their talk. "Oh, looks like i'm running out of time. Here, I'll directly send you the information on how to cultivate. There's also the Meridians in the body and where they're located, so here...Lastly, do me a favor and eat more. The more you do, the stronger i become and the stronger i get, the stronger you get."
With that, Gula giggled before her voice faded back into darkness. Magnus was left to analyze the entire information that was dumped into him. Luckily, it was still dead in the night so he had plenty of time.
He first decided to learn the body's Meridians and their location as this was the one thing he didn't know about when he tried to train the [Golden Monkey Fist] art.
Hours gone by before he properly memorized and understood how the meridians greatly affected the cultivation of a person.
Meridians or the important points in the human bodies are locked by nature and by using the great energy of the [World] they are able to forcefully unlock these meridians, allowing them smoother flow of energy and a great boost of strength.
Across history, many heroes have appeared and dominated an entire generation, even an entire era and that was because they had the strength to do. But they did not begin their life strong, no...they were weak. From the very moment of their birth, they were but weak little babies but as they grew up and begun their cultivation they became stronger. The meridians that they opened within their lifetimes became the measurement of their strength.
Because, they are many who in the same level of cultivation but the difference of how many meridians have they opened would often result in the defeat of the other who had lesser opened meridians.
Knowing this, Magnus now realized how important these meridians are had the ambition to open all of them. There were recorded heroes and legends who had opened all of their meridians and this allowed them to dominate an entire era and spawn the rise of their family.
Magnus wanted to be like those legends but like them, he must first start with one step. Not all legends were made overnight, they too began from the bottom.
Sitting cross-legged as the indicated from the three scrolls he obtained earlier, Magnus tried to perceive traces of the [World Energy] around him. What shook him was that as he closed his eyes and concentrated he could see tiny specks of light of different colors, floating and flying around.
Magnus didn't know what these actually are but he had a guess that they were the [World Energy]. Feeling extremely elated, Magnus couldn't help but count how many colors of lights there were and found seven colors.
Written on the scrolls, he learned that these colors correspond to their respective elements.
Red is for Fire, Blue is for Water, Green is for Earth, Gray is for Wind, Yellow is for Lightning, Violet is for Darkness and White is for Light.
Each element had their own basic cultivation and Physique cultivation arts that was written, refined and handed down from generations to generations. The "Seven Elements Cultivation arts: Minor Series" was a downgraded version of the actual original series, which many families would let their disciples to practice. Then they would reward the actual series to whoever performed better.
Magnus had a thought, maybe the Darkness could devour these scroll and refine them, the same way it refined the [Golden Monkey Fist] art. But sadly, it seemed like the darkness had a mind of it's own and had no interest in these two scrolls when he willed it to.
Just as he was lost at what to do, he heard the familiar woman's voice echoing inside of him.
"Hahaha...trying to devour that piece of junk? Forget it, I wouldn't even look at it. I forcefully woke myself up because i forgot to give you the actual arts to practice the Stigmata that you have and here you are, trying to learn an inferior art..." Gula's voice seemed disappointed and disgusted with the idea of devouring the "Seven Elements Cultivation arts: Minor Series"
Magnus felt a bit hurt and angry but then Gula sighed. "Hey, i'm not exactly mad at you. It's my fault to begin with. Here, this will cheer you up."
Gula definitely felt his emotion and felt like she said too much so she directly gave the cultivation art and the physique art that comes with the Stigmata.
[World Devouring Art: The power to devour the Essence, laws and everything in the world]
It had a very short description but it was straight to the point, devour the world...Magnus learned that it had ten levels and every level is harder to cultivate than the last. It's main focus was definitely faithful to the word "Devour" as this art requires you not only to consume large amount of energy, not just from the world but even from living beings as well. Next was the Physique art.
[Great Leviathan Body: Cultivate the body of the great beast that could devour the world whole.]
Same as the [World Devouring Art] it had a short description but straight to the point. He learned that this art could very well be cheating, this art allows you to cultivate your body by using the energy of the world to continuously refine the body till it becomes just as strong as the original Leviathan Beast.
Deciding that there is no more time to waste, Magnus followed the information sent to him by Gula to practice both arts at the same time as they complement each other very well.
Concentrating on guiding the energy that entered his body to the first Meridian he wanted to unlock, Magnus didn't notice the commotion he was causing. A huge influx of energy was gathering at their place, specifically at his position. He was lucky that there were no one there to see him practicing and Scarlet was soundly asleep.
Magnus didn't care for something he couldn't see so he concentrated and as he continued to cultivate, he felt some thing breaking again.
Crack...