It happened the next day when I arrived in the city.
It was early morning, birds were chirping, somehow my eyes opened themselves.
I searched through every room, finding no one to be awake, I decided to go back to sleep.
I returned to my room and saw Ivar sleeping without making any sound just like the way he always does.
I went back to my bed, was about to cover myself with a blanket.
"Henry, you lazy disciple stop sleeping, come and help this Master ".
I heard the voice of Master Khush, the voice was not loud, it was well pitched in a low tone with the intention of not disturbing others.
I pulled myself up and went to the Master's room.
When I arrived there, I saw that the Master was not alone, there was someone with him.
Master sat on his bed while the other guy sat on a chair.
"Henry, bring tea for our guest" Master ordered.
I didn't know who this guy was, but he looked to be some big shot.
He wore a green cloak which had big erected collars on his shirt and was light cream in colour, his pants were black.
I was a little bit surprised finding the existence of shirts and pants in this world.
I was lost in my thoughts.
"Henry"
Master's voice brought me back to reality.
I hurried to the kitchen.
Making tea was not any big deal, as a bachelor on earth I even knew cooking.
I made the tea, put them in cups.
Brought them to Master's room and served the guest.
I thought I should not disturb them, so I wanted to go out, I took steps forward to go out.
"Henry come here, and join us."
Master called out. I was forced to stay, I didn't stand on the ceremony, went ahead and sat beside my Master."
"Henry, this is Juan Ling, the current captain of team Rewlong"
Master introduced the man to me.
Hearing team Rewlong, I got curious as I thought it was disbanded.
There was a man of high standing in society in front of me.
So, I did not dare to delay with my reply as I said: "Hello, sir I am Mark Henry, Nice to meet you".
He did not reply, he looked at my face.
He stared at me quite for a while, it gave me an uncomfortable feeling.
"Haha"
All of a sudden he laughed,
"Brother Henry, you don't need to be too polite, since you are the brother of Rewlong, you are my brother too."
I was confused since I did not remember being Rewlong's brother.
I wanted to confirm what does it mean,
"Sir Juan you might have blundered, I am not Rewlong's brother, Rewlong's brother is Zen"
So I asked him for the clarity in my own way.
"Brother Henry, What does Zen call you? and you call grandpa Luo as grandpa, don't you ?"I nodded.
And grandpa Luo trained you, did not he? "He threw another question.
"How did you know?"
I stood up with a shock.
Grandpa Luo did not just spar with me every day when he asked me to farm his land, he also taught me various ways of countering different types of attacks.
He also explained to me the way of building body muscles, there were also some weird postures as the punishment he gave me.
All of these things were only known to me and grandpa Luo, there was not any third person.
"Hahahaha...looks like I was right on point, he chose you "
"I guess no one is more qualified to wield these more than you"
When Juan Ling said that, I saw him taking out a pair of sharp knives.
The length of the knives was a little more than normal knives, their top edges were sharp as crocodile's tooth with more carved in structure.
Their handle was white with few black patterns on it.
When the light fell on them, they shined brightly, I was captivated to them.
They looked so good, I had an urge to claim them.
"
These are Rewlong's battle relics, also named as the invisible knives" Juan ling introduced them.
He did not stop speaking, he looked at me and said
"These can be yours, including whole team Rewlong, and you can command over 300 battle masters"
When I listened to him, at first I thought something was not right. The offer was too tempting, but I knew it would not be simple, there must be a reason behind it."
"Haha brother take them"
He threw the knives in my hands, catching the knives, I inspected them, they were the real deal.
I still could not believe that I got something which I always wanted just like that.
"I know you are shocked, but this is not placed where we should discuss things, let's go somewhere else, "Juan ling said as he looked towards the master.
The master nodded in approval. All of us stood up and walked out of the building.
I don't know where we were going, I did not bother to ask either as sooner or later I would know that place.
I followed behind the master, we left the city in no time. We were moving towards a particular mountain on the east of the city, it's easy to climb it, we soon reached its peak. I saw a group of houses made up of wood, there were people here. I thought it as some kind of village until Juan ling explained
"It's our base, after the battle of woods team Rewlong was given two choices either to disband themselves or leave the city"
"I chose the formal one, everyone here is a new member joined after the battle"
"Most of them are either are brother or sister of the people who died during the battle of woods"
"They still chose team Rewlong instead of other teams, the relationship between the team and them run much deeper than you can think"
"And all of this was possible because of Rewlong"
"I am not compatible with the position of captain of the team, so I would like you to take over "
Hearing the words of Juan ling I was moved, I was happy to get such an offer, I wanted to go ahead and accept it.
I thought of various dialogues I could use, but when I was to about to open mouth, I felt danger.
I jumped back.
"Red Zone"
Juan ling said.
"boom"
the place where I was standing exploded.
"boom"
"boom"
"boom"
I saw continuous explosions,
I did not realize that master was long separated from us.
"boom"
Another explosion took place next to me,
the explosions were random that's what I concluded.
the only safe place is either outside of Juan's attack range or next to juan himself
Somehow I should get closer to him.
I dashed towards Juan ling,
"boom"
"boom"
"boom"
Here and there random explosions were taking place.
"boom"
"Fuc.."
I got hit by an explosion, It sent me flying a little to the side, It was not fatal but injured my elbow.
The elbow was in pain, but I refused to give up.
I stood up, tried to charge again at Juan.
"boom"
"boom"
Explosions were taking place.
Yes! I did it.
I felt joy as none of the explosion hit me as I almost reached Juan
"boom"
Another explosion sounded, it almost hit me as I dodged.
I felt relieved.
Finally, I was standing in front of Juan ling.
I punched straight at his head.
but it was caught by Juan.
Juan punched back on my face at the same time he released my other hand.
"Is that all you have learnt from grandpa Luo?"
Juan ling shouted.
I felt that punch, It pissed me up.
I launched continuous punches an occasional kick.
But none of my attacks did heavy damage to Juan.
He defended himself with small movements of his limbs.
He stayed defensive all the time.
All of a sudden I remembered grandpa Luo's words
"You brat, when an enemy stays defensive all the time, he is trying to exhaust you "
"There are two ways to handle these situations, one of them is to break the defence or to stop the offence and get into defence"
Knowing my punches were not powerful enough to break his defence, I stopped the offence.
"Oh.."
"You think you can take my offence"
He pushed me immediately,
His punch neared my face again, I used my two hands near the face to take it.
"Aaaaaa"
I yelled in pain as the punch broke through my hands and landed on my nose.
My nose began to bleed, he did not give me any time as his straight fingered palm landed on my injured elbow.
"Aaaa"
I yelled in pain again as I dropped on my knees.
"Too weak"
Juan said as he lifted his leg to kick my head,
No no, I can't lose.
The leg almost reached my head, I moved my head a little barely dodging it.
I stood up making a small distance between us.
He punched me again, instead of defending I tried to avoid it.
It was a success.
He launched a series of punches, each and every punch hit nothing.
I was astonished at my own capabilities.
Now I realized the importance of those weird postures.
"You are pretty good, but not at his level"
Juan ling said.
As if he drank some energy juice, his attacks became faster and faster.
I went back to struggle again.
Zip
Zip
I was barely able to dodge them.
I was slowing down
"Puch"
A punch landed on my chest, flew me back to some extent.
I was about to fall on my back, I controlled my legs and avoided the fall.
"Use the knives"
Juan ling said.
I kept those knives inside my spatial pocket which was gifted by Big sister.
I took em out and held them.
I felt nothing.
"Do you think that they are kitchen knives?
Hold them in reverse "
Following Juan ling's advice, I shifted the head to the bottom.
Instantly I found new memories in my mind.
The skills of the knives and way to use them
were appeared in my brain.
With a thought from me, the knives became invisible.
" Speechless Activation"
Juan ling opened his mouth widely.
Something that can give a shock to experienced battle master like Juan ling might not be small.
I got curious so I asked
"What's that".
Juan ling replied
"Usually battle masters need to say the name of the skill to activate it, but some can do it without speaking out"
"We named it as Speechless Activation as it does not need any command"
"That's only possible when a battle relic is perfectly in sync with you"
"It only happens with experience, but can also possible if you are compatible with it by birth, that's quite rare"
"Hit me with everything you have got, our fight hasn't finished yet".
I threw one of my knives at his forehead.
"child's play"
He caught the invisible knife.
I lifted another knife somehow I knew how to control one knife with the other.
I pulled the knife out of his hand, but his grip was firm.
I tried again and ended up with failure as the knife in my hand was slipped.
It probably ended up with Juan ling.
Next moment, I felt something pushing me.
I was propelled back a little
"Booooooom"
A very big explosion sent me flying.
"Meow"
On the other side, I saw a familiar cat flying back.
"You were lucky brother, that cat saved you"
"I just overestimated you, sorry for that one"
Juan ling said.
I could not move, I indebted to that cat many times already, I have to stand up, and check whether it is ok or not.
But my legs were not supporting me.
Stand up Henry
Stand up
I cheered myself as I tried to stand.
"Phat"
I dropped.
"Brother Henry, don't worry about your cat my brothers caught it when it was sent flying"
" I know you are exhausted, you can gladly close your eyes, and let us carry you"
I was assured, I didn't continue to be stubborn as I closed my eyes
When I opened my eyes I was lying on a bed in a wooden home.
I was feeling energetic, I checked my wounds, shockingly there were not even scars.
"Haha brother Henry, you must be hungry let's have lunch"
A voice came from outside.
I did a few push-ups to check the present status of my body.
Finding nothing abnormal I went out of the room.
I saw a dinner table, there were many non-veg dishes were there on it.
Currently, Master and Juan ling were taking lunch.
I was hungry too, I went ahead and joined them.
Yummy
The dishes were tasty after I completed the dinner.
"Brother Henry, At first I would like to congratulate you for passing test-1"
"You have to pass test-2 within 3 days"
"Oops I forgot to tell you about tests"
"Don't you want to be captain of team Rewlong? Then you have to pass a total of four tests of mine"
As expected it was not easy.
I wanted to shout why the hell did not you tell it earlier? At least before attacking me.
"Sir Juan, what as that last explosion, it was completely different "
I asked him.
"Haha, you still refer me as sir, refer me as a brother first"
Juan ling said as he looked at me.
"Yes brother"
I went with the flow.
"That was my secondary skill Explosion, allowing me to have a large explosion wherever I point my ring "
"Oh..I remember you did not even identify my battle relic, this ring is my relic"
He showed me the red coloured ring on his forefinger in the right hand.
"And let's talk about your test-2"
He said enthusiastically.
"What's so special about it?"
I asked him.
"Nothing...Nothing... Just you got to rob something "
He said it as it was not a crime at all.
"Robbing something? What the heck is that?"
I said out.
"A skill stone, assume it as a type of stone which can be used to add one more skill to your existing battle relic"
He took out a cylindrical object, there was a button on top it.
When Juan ling pressed it, a virtual screen appeared in front of us,
Juan ling moved his hand, a map appeared on the screen.
"This is an internal map of the palace of the Prince, then he put his finger at a particular room, and said our target is here"
"The skill stone belongs to team Righteousness.
To keep it safe until it was transferred to some other city, they temporarily put it in the palace of the prince,
but it was protected heavily by battle masters from team Righteousness"
"Brother Henry, I want you to get it within 3 days, it will be transferred somewhere on the fourth day according to my intel"
"I want you to present your plan by tomorrow"
"Good luck"
Tomorrow? , it was already afternoon, I got very less time.
"Master I am taking my leave"
Saying farewell,
I went back to the city, I searched the street did some research
I had very less time, a lot to plan.
I did not sleep, I put my brain to work.
I made many plans, but I found them flawed every time.
This is not right, nor this.
The night passed, just before the early morning
my wisdom kicked in.
I was brimming with confidence as I left to the mountain where the team Rewlong resides.