Two months had passed since he killed those elders from Dragon Soaring sect. Since then, he has been trying to look for new skills but they were pitiful. One day, he found a kill order on an old friend, Felix Sima. Seeing his picture on the town's gate was surprising because the crimes that he was accused of simply didn't match him. Like killing a third rank Disciple Level son of a city lord. Or stealing something called a Blood Soothing fruit from the same City Lord. What the hell is a Blood Soothing fruit? Does it sooth the blood? Who gave it such a name? So he just forgot about it and continued on with his journey. He did not know that he would bump into the same Felix just sometime later that day and it will be a bountiful harvest for him.
He soon reached a clearing where he saw trees smeared with blood and dead corpses. He looked for any loot but they had none. Kicking them angrily, he decided to go forward maybe he would get lucky. He found more corpses and they had no loot too. He got angry at the person taking all of it so he sped up ahead with his full speed. Two minutes later, he came upon a large crowd of people fighting against one person, a person he knew very well; Felix Sima. Felix saw him too and smiled like he just saw a well of water in hell.
"Klaus, old friend old pal. Why don't you come help me here a bit," he called out loud enough for everyone to look at Nicklaus. He was not angry Felix was using him as a shield, he would do that if he was in his position. But he was angry at something else.
"Which one of you bastards stole the loot off of those corpses I wanted to loot?" he roared angrily, stunning everyone there. "Which one?" Felix decided to add more oil into the fire. He knew Nicklaus was strong at Marquis Level, a level too high for any one here. Hell, the larger level any of them had was Master Lever at sixth Rank.
"It's the guy with the unibrows," Felix shouted, pointing at the fat man who was watching the fight from a distance.
"You, dumpling give me all the storage rings from the corpses. It's my loot," Nicklaus said so righteously that the men fighting looked at the Unibrows as if he had done an unspeakable crime, scaring the Unibrow.
"They were my men before this little bastard killed them so their rings belong to me," he shouted hesitantly at Nicklaus.
"They died so that makes it my loot. They finished being your men the moment they breathed their last. So, are you going to it to me or will I have to kill you?" Nicklaus said as a sword appeared on his hand. Felix laughed in delight. A man appeared between Nicklaus and Unibrow.
"Father, stay behind me, I shall protect you from this fiend," he said and Nicklaus's eyes shone in delight. The man just appeared from nowhere and Nicklaus copied it. A teleportation skill.
"Felix, good job. Next time I will treat you to the best wine in the shop," Nicklaus said as he teleported and appeared in front of the man, scaring him and his father. "You might be the biggest treasure trove ever."
Nicklaus started fighting without any hesitance. The man started to display an excuisite movement skill and a profound sword movement that Nicklaus's heart almost burst in joy.
"I am so happy I came over," he said as tears of joy ran down his cheeks. "Show me more!" Nicklaus attacked fiercely, putting the man in a position that he had to show even more skills.
"Wide evasion," he said as he saw Nicklaus's sword coming for his head. He floated away to safety and Nicklaus followed just as fast. "Force Push." The man struck Nicklaus's chest with his palm and Nicklaus was pushed back a couple of metres. The man followed with another skill.
"Demon Axe," An axe appeared in his hand and he brought it towards Nicklaus's head. He blocked it with his sword before kicking the man on his stomach and used Force Push, making him fly away like a broken kite with no string. Before he got up, Nicklaus was on him with a raised fist.
"Smash," he said as his fist enlarged and fell on the pooran who was embedded into a crater.
"Son!" Unibrow shouted. Nicklaus turned to him.
"You're next, dumpling," he said as he walked towards him. The man squirmed as he fell on his legs.
"Starlight Healing," Nicklaus heard a weak voice behind him so he turned towards him and saw starlight from the sky healing him.
"What's with you people and starlight?" Nicklaus asked with an amused voice as the man crawled out of the crater with bloodsoaked tattered clothes.
"Where did you learn Force Push? Only my teacher knows it and me," he asked Nicklaus.
"I learn everything by seeing. It has got me this far," Nicklaus said, pretending not to see Unibrows creeping towards him with a dagger.
"Keep lying, I will pry out the truth from your soul," he said before coughing out blood. Nicklaus's eyes shone even more.
"You have soul skills that you haven't used? Show them all to me" Nicklaus's aura suddenly flared and Unibrows was thrown far from him with injuries he did not even know can exist. Nicklaus rushed at the man, sword on hand was about to behead him when someone appeared in front of him. An invisible force pushed him away for ten of metres.
"You dare try to kill my disciple with your pitiful strength?" another man said, standing in front of the injured man. Felix and gang had now become spectators.
"That's Lee's master, a Legendary realm expert," one of the man said. Felix sweatdropped as he thought he just caused the death of Nicklaus. Suddenly, a chilling laughter came from the direction Nicklaus was thrown to. They saw him get up all fine and dandy.
"You just keep on giving, huh. If I am about to kill you, will your master try to kill me and his master before him? I surely hope so," Nicklaus said with a crazy look on his face. It suddenly dawned on Felix.
"Fuck, he's a battleminiac!" he declared and everyone looked at Nicklaus with wariness. His kind are known to be wreckless, fighting their opponents till they have exhausted every ounce of energy in their body. And when they get better, they are back with more energy and tactics than before. Although they are like that, none of them can get close to Nicklaus with his heaven defying abilities of literary getting stronger as he fights.
Nicklaus charged at the newcomer with raw power this time but the man stopped Nicklaus with one hand. Nicklaus started throwing barrages of fists and the man started feeling he was becoming stronger and stronger with each fist!
"Enough!" the man said and Nicklaus stopped moving. "I have had it with this. It's time for you to die." Nicklaus started feeling a pressure bearing down on him, a pressure that wanted to crush him into a meat paste.
"I want that!" Nicklaus said with a laugh and suddenly, the roles were reversed. The man tried to move but Nicklaus just laughed. "This is a great skill, good just like the teleportation."
"How are you doing this?" the man asked Nicklaus who laughed.
"I guess I am better than you," he said. "Star Bombardment." Starlight suddenly started boarding the place the man was as bloodcurdling screams followed and then there was silence. Everyone looked at the place the man was and saw a mangled corpse that cannot be identified as a man.
"Shit, they wanted to do this to me? Those evil bastards!" Nicklaus exclaimed when he saw the corpse. He looked at the younger man and saw him just disappearing. He turned to see if he was taking Unibrows but he was soon disappointed. "What a fight. I feel like I just walked out of a spar." He then turned towards the frightened men. "Still not scramming?" They all ran off as he went to Unibrows. He took off his storage ring and put it in his. He then turned towards Felix.
"Let's go get that drink and you tell me why I just killed this man," he said. Felix nodded.
Two hours later, they were both seated in a pub at a small town not far from the scene of the fight. Nicklaus had used Starlight Healing on Felix so his wounds had been healed but he was still weak because of exhaustion.
"Where do I begin? I guess when I found out that you killed my brother and father. By the way dick move for not telling me about that when we became drinking buddies. Well, I got a ring from an old man and the ring made me able to cultivate with world energy at a faster rate than others. In half a week, I had gathered more than enough energy to break into Disciple rank 1. I decided my old town had nothing to offer so I went on a quest to find somewhere I could be offered materials to cultivate. That's when I heard the City Lord of Highway was looking for talents.
"Thinking my luck was good, I went there and that was the worst dicision I ever made. Turns out he was making us dual cultivate with his daughter and son to become more powerful. I came to know of it before I was sent to the son." Here, Nicklaus looked stunned. "Yes, I was supposed to be sent to the son because he took a liking to me. Well, I killed him when I was sent to him by a dagger through his chest. I ran away after stealing a Blood Soothing fruit he had for breaking through into the third rank of Disciple Level. I found a stream and washed myself thoroughly everywhere he touched me. I swear I had nightmares for weeks. As I was escaping, unluckily, I bumped into some of his men and they have been chasing me since then. Yesterday they finally caught up and they surrounded me. If you had not arrived I would have been dead or worse, his sex toy."
"If I were you I would have raped his daughter in the ass before leaving," Nicklaus said and Felix sweatdropped at this. Nicklaus then sighed. "This world is going to shit though. Two months ago I met with a sect calling itself Dragon Soaring sect recruiting disciples. They had no balls to tell them the truth of how weak the new recruits were so I decided to kill the sect master's disciple. Later, four of their elders attacked me and I killed three of them. Just truly weak. If I had any inkling to lead a sect my disciples would be practising their skills in the Forbidden Forest like I did. That place can make an infant into a dragon."
"You trained in the Forbidden Forest?" Felix asked, amazed by the balls of this guy.
"Yep. I dare say I was reborn there. There's no scheming behind the scenes just strong beings waiting to kill and eat you. It's the perfect place for humans to grow stronger or die trying. I can to know that a level three beast there can match up to a Noble level human in this side of the wall. Truly disheartening."
"You are a monster of your own class, Klaus. You learn as you fight and getting stronger too."
"To each their own, right? You have a cheat too, don't you? What's your golden finger?"
"Umm, I can make any pill once I see it's recipe and have a good furnace," Felix said.
"Wow, the MC aura on you is strong. Say, did you find a cute girl in the way as you were fleeing and you got into an argument?" Felix was starting to get scared of the man in front of him.
"How did you know?"
"There are others like you I have seen. The girl will appear once again when you least expect her. She will have a disheartening backstory which you will try and make right. Then her father will matchmake and she will end up as the first wife among many others."
"Why would I want many wives for?"
"I don't know. Maybe you are weak willed and can't say no to a girl. Maybe you're overcompensating. Maybe you're trying to fill your machosism. There are a lot of reasons but know this, you won't have one wife because of this." The bar girl then came and dropped a bottle of wine.
"It's on the house," she said and winked at Felix before she catwalked away. Nicklaus smiled at Felix.
"So it begins," he said with a shit eating grin. Felix truly felt like beating him up. He took the wine bottle and followed the girl.
"Mate, leave the bottle. I swear I won't talk about it again," Nicklaus called out but Felix ignored him. "I won't tell you about the tsunderes you will acquire because of this." Felix almost stumbled as everyone turned to look at him. "Or the twin sisters who will fight to warm your bed if you save them from ice. Or the little girl who will swear to marry you because you saw her naked."
"Shut up!" Felix shouted and threw a bottle at him which hit Nicklaus squarely on his face.
"Throw the right bottle next and I will tell you about the princess that will try and sleep with you so that she can acquire a powerful husband!" Nicklaus continued. A tick mark appeared on Felix's face. "Or do you want to know about having sex with a beautiful Legendary Realm woman so that you can cure her from her poison?" This time Felix did throw the wine bottle with all his might but Nicklaus got it before it hit him.
"Alright, alright. Playing so hard to get. I will start with the little girl you saw naked," Nicklaus said as he opened the bottle. Felix stormed out of the pub before he heard more. Nicklaus chuckled. "Kids, so easy to anger. Now I have the bottle all to myself."