As Kane wipes the black goo like substance off his body ferociously, the others cautiously approach him covering their noses.
"FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!" Kane was fuming.
He heard the others approach him and he turns to see their pale and stunned faces looking at him as if he were a monster.
"DID ANY OF YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED?" Spit and black goo fly everywhere as Kane tries to wipe the stuff off himself.
"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON WHOEVER DID THIS, I'M GONNA KILL THEM!"
As Kane kept mumbling to himself, the others finally manage to surround him.
"Did he just go through a cleansing? Just like that he completed his fucking cleansing?"
Slack-jawed, the others standing around Kane cannot believe what they are seeing. Al, rubbing his eyes, couldn't help but tremble and stare at Kane like he was the reincarnation of some kind of Devil.
Knowing Kane a little better than the others and seeing the confusion on his face, Yoshi ventures a guess, "Sir.. Kane, do you not know what it is that you have accomplished?"
"Is it possible that even he himself is unaware of what he's done?" Yoshi thought to himself.
"IMPOSSIBLE! The cleansing process is extremely dangerous! That's why there are herbs, potions and other mystical things that are needed in order to safely pass this process! Even with all those materials, you would still need a King stage warrior over seeing the entire process in case things go wrong! You can't just fucking pick up a rope and skip your fucking way through it? That's FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE!" With a red face, Thor barely manages to stop himself from exploding at the absurdity of what he has just witnessed.
"What the fuck are you shouting about?" Kane, obviously still fuming, was a little annoyed at Thor's outburst.
Yoshi stares at Kane with an odd look on his face "Kane, how many times has this happened to you?"
"What? Being shat on? It's not like I go around scooping crap onto myself!" Kane spat.
Grabbing on to Kane's arms firmly, Yoshi had a wild look in his eyes, "How many times have you had the impurities removed from your body?"
"What do you mean impurities?" Clearly confused, Kane looks at Yoshi questioningly.
Exasperated, Yoshi face palms, "I knew it. You don't even know what it is you have accomplished."
Standing there with a stupid look on his face, Kane looks at everyone surrounding him, "What the heck is going on?" he thought.
Yoshi shakes his head and looks over to Thor. "Thor, do you mind?"
Still with a red face, the seemingly possessed Thor was jolted awake by Yoshi's words. He looks to Yoshi questioningly. Yoshi points at Kane and the black goo like substance around him. Slow on the uptake, Thor realises what he's getting at. He summoned a huge block of ice and placed it over the top of Kane.
Wyn, who was a lot smarter, moved before Yoshi even had to ask. Wyn used his flame arrows to melt the ice and create a sort of makeshift magic shower.
Kane quickly washed off the black goo. After he was done, his skin seemed to give off a light glow like the full moon on the darkest night.
Yoshi approached Kane and started looking at him up and down, inspecting every part of him. A cold shiver crept down Kane's spine. "Dude, I'm sorry but I don't swing that way. Plus I'm a married man, so you'll have to look elsewhere."
Yoshi ignores Kane's discomfort and continues inspecting him. But no matter how much he looked, he still couldn't figure out how Kane had done it.
"The black substance isn't shit. It is the impurities in your body that is excreted during the cleansing process. You said, 'shat on me again'... This means that this has happened to you before, am I right?"
Confused, Kane nods his head in agreement.
"So the first time this happened would have been your first cleansing process. How many times has this happened to you before? Including today, how many times have you gone through the cleansing process?"
"Just one other time I guess? Including today then that would be twice." Kane ponders as he thought back to when this happened. "It happened before the fight yesterday, and it took me ages to get that crap off me you know.."
As Kane kept babbling on about how inconvenient it was, the looks on the others faces was priceless. Hearing him say how inconvenient it was for him to have gone through his cleansing everyone wanted to strangle him, including Yoshi.
Suddenly, realising what Kane had said, Yoshi's head snapped over to him. "Wait, when did you say you went through your first cleansing?"
"Yesterday before the fight I was doing some light exercises and some shadow boxing when that black goo appeared on my body." Scratching his head Kane was a little bit embarrassed, "I thought a fat rat had shat on me while I was training and I didn't notice it. So a cleansing huh? So that would mean I'm a second stage mortal body warrior, right?"
A glob of black goo that had been washed off Kane's body flew at lightening speed towards Kane's smug looking face.
"Fuck you! You fucking freak! You're worse than a freak! You're a freakish Demon God who's come down to torment us mortals!" Fuming, Thor couldn't hold back his anger anymore.
Kane was caught off guard. As the black goo was flying towards him, time slowed down and it seemed to be moving in slow motion. Unused to the sudden change in speed, Kane just stood there stunned, unsure what to do.
Splat...
The whole training ground went silent. Everyone was frozen in place, though the others were mad at Kane's smug face as well, they didn't dare make a sound. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of Thor's heart beat.
Badump.. Badump.. Badump..
Thor's heart beat got louder and faster as he finally realised what it was he had done.
"Sir Kane.. I mean old comrade Kane, my brother.. My teacher! A man of your stature wouldn't mind the minor misdeeds of us lowly folk, right? I am sure that sir Kane is a merciful and forgiving man...."
As Thor was babbling incoherently, Kane who had finally realised what had happened, wiping the black stuff off his face he stared at it with an odd look.
Kane looks at the others with fire burning in his eyes and shouts, "Everyone, release your bloodline limits and attack me altogether with everything you've got."
The others were confused at the strange request but they were all warriors as well, so they knew what Kane was feeling. Wanting to test ones strength when he or she has reached a new stage was very common. The only problem here was that Kane was a second stage Mortal body warrior, while the rest were still trying to unlock their bloodline limits.
Al shoots a quick look over to Yoshi and the two nod at each other. Without a single word spoken between them, they both released their second bloodline limit and attacked Kane from different .
directions.
Al rushed head first and threw a devastating punch with all of his might straight towards Kane's face. Yoshi had split into two and attacked with blinding speed. He attacked Kanes back whilst making sure both he and his clone were outside of Kane's peripheral.
Just before the attacks from Al and Yoshi landed, flaming arrows suddenly appeared en mass and covered the sky above Kane's head. The arrows were so densely packed it seemed like a flaming boulder was falling towards Kane.
That wasn't all. Though Thor was always slow when it came to processing things, he was still a first class warrior. Ice, expanding from his feet, flew straight towards Kane's legs trying to lock him in place.
Grimm, who was a beat slower than the rest, just charged straight at Kane with his towering shield in hand.
Everything happened within a split second. The combined aura and pressure coming off the attacks of everyone was suffocating. Omega, standing on the side, was shaking from head to toe.
Earlier he thought he could take on the average warriors in the group without too much trouble, but looking at them attacking he knew he was completely mistaken. These guys were all monsters!
All of their attacks landed almost exactly at the same time, but there was no explosion of any kind.
Rubbing his eyes Omega couldn't believe what he just saw.
Kane, who was standing dead centre, simply jumped backward and tilted his head to the left. Because of his abrupt jump, Thor's ice couldn't reach his legs in time to hold him down and Yoshi and his clone missed him and collided together. Al's fist flew right past Kane's right shoulder missing his head completely and Grimm who came charging through crashed right on to Al's back and fell straight on his butt. Kane kicked down on one end of the shield and it flew right up over his head. He then lazily raised his arm up and held the shield still as the rain of arrows crashed down around him.
Omega blinked and he had almost missed this incredible scene.
All the attacks from these five monsters had been stopped with ease. Slack-jawed, Thor was about to charge up another attack but was stopped by Yoshi. "That's enough, this guy just wanted to get used to his powers, its not a real spar. Even if we all used our killing moves, I don't think we could even touch his shadow."
Wyn put his bow down and Grimm got up off the ground rubbing his butt.
"Arggggh!" Suddenly Al charged at Kane while throwing punches with all his might. Kane, who was just standing there, didn't even seem like he was moving but all of Al's punches seem to phase right through him.
After about thirty minutes, Al finally collapsed on the ground panting heavily.
"Your tenacity is admirable, but you still have a long way to go. Follow my training plan and I promise you.. you will get stronger." Reaching his hand out, Kane had a solemn look on his face.
When Al was throwing his barrage of punches, there was tears pouring out of Al's eyes. Kane saw frustration, anger, resentment and pain and he felt more respect towards this barbarian.
Wiping the tears and sweat from his face, Al reached up and was pulled to his feet. Standing across from Kane, Al was determined. "I will get stronger! The day I am able to best you is the day I will return to my people and have my vengeance" he promised himself.
"Let's get back to training everyone. Our first fight as a team will be a week from now. How strong you will become from now till then is dependant on how much you put in here. After we are done this wrecking crew will finally be able to cause some mayhem." Kane smiled at the rest of them.
Grimm looked at Thor questioningly, "Wrecking crew?"
Unbenownst to them, the name "Wrecking Crew" would later become a legendary name and go down the annals of history as the most devastating force of all of Ariya.