"Who is it that dares to disturb the area this young master is residing in."
The Expert of the Riverflame family was stunned.
'Idiot. Fool. Can't you read the mood? And what's with acting so cool, do you think you're a Serving Realm expert, even I don't want to offend the man before me. Do you think you can do it?' He thought indignant.
Then, the person who talked was visible, he a young man 17 years old, had a somewhat handsome appearance. He walked with head held high, looked arrogant, as if the emperor of the world.
"Oh?" Hall Master piqued, but furrowed his brows and immediately smiled.
The young man looked at the Hall Master and pointed his finger at him.
"You... Who do you think you are, this is the Riverflame family base, do you dare cause trouble? Immediately leave, and this young master will forgive you." The young man ordered.
The Hall Master's face became grim.
The Riveflame family expert, when he saw this immediately sprung forth and caught the young man. The young master struggled but to no avail.
"Hahaha... Hall Master, Ignore the boy, he's not worth your time." The Riverflame family expert suggested.
Asta, who was surveying all of this was stunned.
"No talk is necessary as I'm here for revenge." Hall Master stated.
The Expert's face went grim.
"Do not go too far... " He went sullen.
"Hahahahahahah... I am going too far, who's going to stop me, you?" Hall Master mocked.
The Expert was infuriated.
"Hehehe... I don't want to bully you too much, so, how about a battle between your people and mine." Hall Master suggested.
"And what are the stakes?" The Expert asked.
"Nothing much, if your guy loses, then, we can take three items in your treasury, and if our guy loses, then we will leave." Hall Master smiled.
"YOU... " The Expert was furious.
"Of course, I will give you an advantage, you can send a Peak Spirit Awakening Realm expert, whereas we will send a Peak Accumulation Realm expert." Hall Master attracted.
The Expert was overjoyed, whatever they are plotting doesn't matter, as someone in Accumulation realm will never be able to contend against a Spirit Awakening Realm. Although, some geniuses can fight against Spirit Awakening Realm when in the peak of Accumulation, it is only against the Initial Stage Spirit Awakening Realm.
The Spirit Awakening Realm is divided further into three stages.
Initial Stage, Mid-Stage, Late Stage.
Those stages are, Spirit Opening, Spirit Expanding and Spirit Forming.
And the power difference between each is immense.
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After some time, a young man walked into the open. He looked 18 years old.
"Send your expert." The Riverflame family expert called out.
Asta walked into the open.
"Concentrate on improving your energy manipulation and solidify your body, energy and spirit sea, it will make it easier for you to refine your energy and convert it to Spirit Energy if you do that." The Manor Lord advised.
Asta nodded.
As both the young man and Asta stood before each other, a bang heard.
Bang!
"BEGIN." Shouted the Riverflame Elder.
"You make the first move." The young man said with disdain.
Asta did not say anything, gathering his energy, he sprinted towards his opponent. He used 'Boxing Martial Art' to rain a combination attack, first, a punch with his right hand. And followed it with his left arm, an uppercut right to the chin, all this imbued with his energy.
Asta continued raining down attacks from left and right, punches, hooks, cuts, he used every single martial art that he knew, not giving any advantage for his opponent to make a comeback.
Asta used only physical type attacks, simple technique that people learn in Body Refining Stage, but he enveloped his body in energy. Asta had only one purpose, to make sure he is on top.
He used kicks, elbows, hands to perform various moves, grapples, thrusts, and every martial art he had practised. He wanted to accumulate as much force as possible, build the momentum, make sure his energy is circulating to every part of his body and opened his spirit sea to connect it to his body and mind.
Before the Spirit Awakening Realm, an expert must equate his mind and body. So, he will not face any issue with his Spirit in the future. That is one of the reasons that Asta choose the 'Saint Spirit Divine Art'.
So, Asta operated his divine art. To connect his mind and body, for a better foundation.
The young man of Riverflame family had lost complete control, of the battle, he kept getting forced into the corner, while his opponent made sure he could not use his Spirit Energy. Pushed into this drastic situation, he became angry and roared.
ROAR!!!
An enormous amount of Spiritual Energy radiated off him, as Asta was blown away by this force, the Spirit Energy morphed into a bear. The Bear roared and swept its paw at Asta, creating a tremendous amount of Spirit Energy to rush at Asta.
Asta was surprised, but immediately calmed himself, as panicking would only hurt him. Using the force to propel him as he landed on his feet, dashed backwards while using his energy, created a shockwave, which not only would thrust him faster but also create a tiny opening where the Spiritual Energy from his opponent would slow down for a moment.
Everything happened instantly, other Spirit Awakening Realm experts, were only able to get a glimpse of the battle. Foundation Realm experts were able to see most of the fight and were amazed, but the Severing Realm experts were able to catch every minute details and were astounded.
Because the calmness and precision that Asta acted on was the reason he was unhurt, although he was fortunate, but his every effort gave him time and aided in avoiding the attack, if he had panicked, certainly would have been hurt.
So, the Elders were amazed. And had only one word come to mind.
Genius!
After Asta escaped the attack, he gasped for breath as he had used a lot of his energy, when the young man saw that his Spirit attack failed, felt indignant. Then immediately sprinted to attack and kill Asta, when Asta saw this, tried to avoid but he was out of energy.
*Snort*
Just as the young man reached Asta, a tremendous pressure enveloped him. He then spat out a mouthful of blood and kneeled.
Hall Master arrived before Asta, picked him up and immediately floated away, the Riverflame Elder saw and sighed as he could not do anything to stop them.
The Elder did know how to inform this to the family as they had lost a Foundation Realm expert and a Peak Spirit Awakening Realm expert had issues in dealing with an Accumulation Stage expert.
He sighed and walked away, looking desolate.
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As Asta and the 2 Severing Realm experts walked into the depths of the forest, a group of people were already there.
Seeing them, Asta and the 2 Elders smiled.
"So, Is it done?" Asta inquired.
"Hehehe... Yes, young lord." one of the elders smirked.
Asta and the 2 Main Elders, went and distracted the Severing Realm expert, the others had one job, create chaos, block their resources, burn their supplies and destroy the foundation of their base in Spring town.
Usually, heavily guarded, but due to the commotion that Asta and the elders created, they got the perfect opportunity to wreck everything to their desire.
Hahahahahaha !!!
This mission could be said, a success.
All of them departed back home.
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Ashflare Family, Greenview City.
A silhouette walked into the building, as he did, the guards recognised him.
"The Family Head is back!!!"
As the family head walked by, several other figures seen behind him.
There were the remaining Severing Realm experts of the family.
Inside, Asta's father seen sitting on a chair. With the elders standing below him.
He grew notified of the things that had happened in his absence.
He was surprised but did say anything as he had worries regarding the attack.
"The royal family is involved in this attack." He sighed.
The elders also sighed.
Asta's father is not weak what the family members did not know was, he is stronger than what people know. The only people that knew this were the 3 Main Elders, so, they were not worried at all about the attack.
The only reason that he got injured, because he wanted to draw out the main culprits so, he reduced his strength and got injured.
"It should be for the 'Flaring Secret Domain'." He sighed again.
All the Elders were silent.
Time passed on.
An exclamation heard.
"Father..." Asta blurted.
Although he looked tough, Asta was still worried about his father. So, when he saw his father, he could help but be happy, because he is still a 12-year old kid.
"I heard what you did." Asta's father smiled.
"Hehe.. Nothing Special." Asta also smiled.
As they chatted and some time had passed.
"Hm... I should go and breakthrough." Asta said and left the hall.
Time passed, silence rained.
"What should we do, milord." The Grand Elder inquired.
"Well, if the royal family is involved. Then we can only bow our heads, as they are not something that we can compete against, with our strength." Asta's father said.
Ruler of the Fire Empire, the von Jules Royal Family, founded by a peerless beauty, lead a force to drive out the Holy Chruch influence in the Emerald Continent.
Known as the Youthful Empress, created the House of Jules.
Her name is Joan Jules.
She was said to be an exceptional figure in the past, stopping the influence of the Holy Continent, but was afraid of them, so created what is called today the Fire Empire.
As the Ashflare family was discussing this matter, the family head spoke.
"The royal family only cares about their interests. So, once we provide them, they will not provoke us, but the Riverflame family must pay the price." He said grimly.
All the elders nodded reluctantly.
Because, this involved a secret for their family, a domain created by an ancestor of the family, something which would only open every twenty years and provide numerous benefits to the family.
Located in the depths, of the Green Wilderness, a domain, a dimension with trails and rewards for the worthy.
The Flaring Secret Domain.
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Notes -
I will further explain how the Spirit Awakening Realm works, but each stage a specific condition must be met, which provides a unique ability.