It has been two weeks since Nicklaus murdered Cripke and since then, he had been trying not to cause so much attention wherever he went. But that was not an option when he had his Persius Draconic horse. It was simply too eye catching so he released the poor chap with a heavy heart and he was back to walking.
He reached a small town where he decided to spent the night. Once he was in, he found the town in the middle of celebration. He asked around what was going on and was told that the Sima Clan's young master was marrying a young mistress from their ally clan the Gahor clan. Everyone was welcome. Nicklaus was overjoyed, where there is a wedding there's free food and as a melenial, there's nothing he loved than free stuff.
Nicklaus joined them at their celebration. On the way, he saw the Suman clan's young master and he had to say he was handsome. Next to him was a very beautiful girl that was in the wedding gown of this world's tradition so he assumed she was the bride. Nicklaus was jealous of the boy, already young and having such a beautiful bride while he died a virgin even though he was fourteen years old. He knew boys who lost theirs at thirteen and slutty girls at twelve.
Then came the moment of eating. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time. When he was served, he quickly went to his spot, sat down and took a bite. Immediately, his expression changed and dropped the meat. He turned to the person next to him.
"Brother, do you mind exchanging meat? I feel like mine had no spice at all," he said. The man was a kind hearted man so he exchanged with one Nicklaus hadn't bitten before. Nicklaus bit into this meat and his expression was simply ashfallen! 'This is horrible!' he thought to himself.
Well, Nicklaus shouldn't blame the cooks. He had been eaten monster meat for two months and there's no better tasting meat than monster meat from high levelled monsters. In fact, if the people knew he had been eating such monster meat wantonly, they would have ganged up on him and beat him up. Monster meat from level 3 and above are quite on demand because of how nutritious and help the human body become powerful. He just sighed and ate all his food rather depressed.
He got up and was prepared to go when someone stopped him. He looked behind him and saw it was the young master. He thought to himself why he was being stopped but still stayed as the young man approached him.
"You have no cultivation energy. How did you get to my banquet?" he asked him. Nicklaus was stunned. If he had no energy how could he perform energy based attacks?
"Maybe your eyes are seeing wrong," Nicklaus answered and prepared to leave.
"If you dare leave I will cripple your legs," the youngman fiercely said. Nicklaus was stunned. He had lived with beasts for long so he had no idea how human system worked. Now he was getting a first class example of it. He looked at the arrogant young man in front of him. He had read about these kind of people from many novels but he did not know they existed until now.
"Trash people are not allowed into my banquet so you have to pay up for the food you have eaten," he said. Nicklaus was stunned then angry.
"The food I have eaten?" he asked to make sure he had not heard wrong. "The food I have eaten!" His energy suddenly flared making everyone here shiver as the aura of a Marquis Level expert pressured them all.
"That trashy food that has no taste? That bland meat that seem to have been cooked by apes? That tasteless rice that seemed to have been boiled by taste removing water? That's the food you want me to pay for?" The young master was on the ground, shivering in fright. "Get up you bastard or I will cripple your legs!" The young master struggled to get up with no avail.
"I have a sister who is in Greenland's Sect. If you harm me she will come after you for vengeance," the young master said. Nicklaus was stunned by this declaration that he missed to see the clan's elders face palm in defeat. Nicklaus then grabbed the young master's legs and dragged him to the door.
"Wait. Where are you taking me son?" a middle aged man shouted as he ran towards Nicklaus in a panic.
"To kill him, where else?" Nicklaus answered without missing a beat. The man quickly went in front of Nicklaus and knelt in front of him.
"Great Expert, please have e mercy on my son. He was brash and rude to you. Please kill me instead," the man said.
"Why should a little turd like him be forgiven and you be killed for his sake? If I were you I would have asked me to break his legs but spare his life so that he can learn to be humble. But you are clearly spoiling him or are you trying to give him enough time so that he can be strong enough to kill me for revenge?" The man sweated when he heard that. "I hate scheming bastards like you." In a flash, Nicklaus had unsheathed his sword an a second later, two heads rolled on the floor. Nicklaus then turned to look at the clan members of the two. He saw them holding resentment at him but trying to hold it in. He wanted to kill them all but then remembered this is why main characters were born and they had cheats to make themselves stronger. He sheathed his sword and walked away.
Suddenly, everyone let out a sigh of relief as if they just evaded a huge crisis. The bride looked at her husband a little lost while her family members looked as if they were about to blow a gasket. They knew what would happen next.
"According to tradition, since the bride's husband died before consummating her marriage, she has to wed the groom's brother. Someone, go bring Felix," an old man said. The bride then came to her senses as soon as she heard that.
"No, I am not marrying that piece of trash. He doesn't have any cultivation energy!" she screamt. Everyone had a sudden sense of de ja vu. They unconsciously looked at the groom's corpse at the sometime then back at the bride angrily. Her former husband just called someone trash and he almost destroyed the whole clan now she was saying she wouldn't marry a trash. What if that trash is some hidden expert? A man then ran in with a panicked expression.
"Great Elder, I just found Felix," he said as he panted.
"So, where is he? Why didn't you bring him here?" the old man asked.
"Felix is talking to the Marquis Level expert who was here. They seemed to have hit it off and are drinking at the bar," the man said making everyone there surprised.
Back to the moment Nicklaus was getting out of the compound, he bumped into a young boy his age. The boy looked imporvished and down.
"Sorry about that. Were you coming from my brother's wedding?" he asked Nicklaus who was stunned.
"Yeah. I have to say though your brother is quite rude," Nicklaus said
Something about this boy made him curious and cautious. He felt no energy from him so it might be he can hide it or he hasn't started cultivating.
"Oh, you're like me; you have no cultivation energy. That must be why he kicked you out. Don't worry though, I will treat you to some wine," the boy said and led him to a pub. He ordered the largest bottle in the house and two mugs. Two cups in, the boy was showing signs of drunkenness.
"I was supposed to marry Virginia, you know. But they said I am not good enough for her. I haven't started to cultivate yet because I simply can't feel the energy. So my clan called me an outcast and my jealous brother was told he was to marry her. He has been treating me like trash since then."
"I know how you feel. My parents took me to school early but they came to know I was not as bright as my sister so I they focused their attention at her. All the goodies were for her while I had hand me downs,"
"AHH, a brother at this messed up society. Let's drink to that," the boy said and down another mug. They went on talking about different things and Nicklaus got to know his name was Felix Sima. He told him to call him Klaus like all his friends. Felix quickly went to sleep after the eighth mug while Nicklaus was still sober. So he paid the bill and got a room in the town to stay for the night.
The next morning, news of how the Nicklaus killed the groom and his father for disrespecting him quickly spread all over the town. They also said that Felix Sima was the one who told Nicklaus to kill his brother so that he can marry Virginia Gohan. By then, Felix had already sobered up and went back home when he heard the news.
At first he was surprised to found out that his father and brother had been killed. Then his expression turned dramatically when he heard that the man he was drinking with was the one who killed them. However, when he came to know of how they died, he had a good laugh. His brother had called a Marquis Level expert trash and his father had even tried to scheme against the man! He was also perplexed of why Klaus did not kill him for he had told him his identity.
"Could it be I saved myself by offering him wine? Shit, I was digging my grave when I said he was trash like me, wasn't I? He looked young, though. Is he perhaps a young master of a huge family out to experience the world? But he was too young to be in Marquis Level. Haas, I don't want to think about this. Now that the two are dead and I can't even get revenge, perhaps the clan members might treat me better." As he got out of his room, he bumped into a clan servant.
"Trash, Great Elder said to give you this. Hurry up and thank me," the servant said arrogantly. Felix sighed as he was used to this servant's antics.
"Thank you great uncle," Felix said, trying not to mix his hatred in there. The servant hrmphed, gave him a ring and went away. Felix sighed then looked at the ring curiously.
"Maybe it is a blood bound ring," he said to himself then bit his finger and smeared blood on the ring. The ring suddenly shone and the light entered his body before he could register what happened. Suddenly, be felt something break in him and felt the energy all around him.
"Yees. I can feel the energy of the world. This little master can become an expert! Hahahaha. All those who laughed at me be prepared to eat dust. Those who thought they were better than me be prepared to lose some teeth. But before that, I must gather enough energy to break into Disciple Rank. Then ai can think about whether I want to revenge my brother and father." He went back into his room and locked the room behind him.
Nicklaus had no idea that his theory about an MC growing because of him was correct. Currently, he was still sleeping, dreaming about how powerful he would be once he got hold of enough heaven defying techniques to fight those big bosses he was afraid of.
When he woke up, the sun was already halfway through the sky. He ate his bland lunch as he thought of what to do. He heard from that pitiful youngman he killed yesterday of existence of sects. In sects, there was manuals that could help in attack power. He currently nodded that. Once he was done eating, he decided to get out of town and start searching for ways to get into sects.
Two days later, he found a relatively large town. There was activities all over the place and he swore if it was another wedding he wouldn't even dream of going there. Afraid of hearing the answer, he asked what's going on.
"New in town, huh? Well, the Dragon Soaring sect has decided to take on new disciples and all the young lads are already signing up. I would tell you to sign up but I do not detect any energy from you so this might be a little too difficult from you," the man kindly said. Nicklaus felt like giving this man a hug before face slapping him with his cultivation energy for how polite he was but refrained. He followed the man to the town square.
There, he saw an arena where young men and women had gathered with their weapons. He immediately knew it was a free for all. Some young men were half baked, showing their biceps to the recruiters were some young women showed their aloofness and cold temperate but he saw them trying very heard not to be seeing blushing when they looked at a handsome young man seated with the recruiters. Handsome young men had left a bad after taste so he decided to mess with this one. But first, it's time to put his sharing an like eyes to good use and this was a good opportunity.
When the arena was filled with the required amount of participants, the ref sounded the gong and the most pitiful fight he ever saw started. It was more like kindergarten brawling with how they were fighting. There was energy based attacks here and there but they were so pitiful he nearly slapped his eyes out so that he cannot copy them. But you can't blame him. He was used to fighting beasts that can level a medium town alone and winning so he saw this as just pitiful. When only ten of them were remaining (four boys six girls), the ref sounded the gong and the ten participants sighed in relief. The young man then stood up.
"You have proved yourselves to be experts in this small town so you are hereby disciple of Dragon Soaring sect," he said and flashed the girls on the stage a smile. Nicklaus had had it.
"Wait!" he cried out and jumped on stage. Everyone was surprised but the person who was shocked more was the man he was standing next to. He turned to the ten participants and shock his head in disappointment. "That was the most pitiful display of fighting I have ever seeing. Jeez, even the weakest creature in the Forbidden Forest can display more power than that. And you, Mr. Sparkles Sunshine, giving them such a disgusting comment. You should have said that they are pitifully weak and the sect will turn them strong if they forget how to fight like they did here. I have to say, what is your position in this sect of yours?" Everyone was stunned by his words.
"I am the disciple of the sect master," the young man said, fury shown in his eyes but a sunny smile on his face.
"I see. Okay then, I hereby demand a death battle against you," Nicklaus said. Everyone was stunned once more. This day just got interesting to the citizens that were present.
"Why should I agree to this match?" the young man asked.
"Because you would be a coward if you don't," Nicklaus taunted him. "When I kill you, I will take your position as then I will take your position as the disciple of the sect master."
"Propostrous!" an old man from the recruiters side said. "You can't be a disciple of sect master without his authority!"
"Does he want a strong disciple or a cowardly one?" Nicklaus asked him and the old man was trying to think of something to say. "Just sit down. You are a side character that is going to be forgotten after one chapter." Nicklaus then turned to the youngman. "Deal?"
"What do I get when I kill you?" he asked with unmasked killing intent.
"Nothing because you won't but let's say that you can. What do you want?"
"To cut you body to little pieces and hang your head on the sect's wall with a writing saying you are a bastard son of a prostitue slave!"
"That's the best you can come up with? Fine then. You better show me your best skills because if you don't I will torture you to death," Nicklaus said as he unsheathed his sword.