"It looks really expensive! What did you do to get this?!", asked Yuno in distress, as she worried for what the teen might have done. The teen looking at her distressed expression, gently smiled as he said, "Don't worry, I didn't do anything bad. And that bracelet isn't as expensive as you think, it barely costs three coppers." Hearing the teen, although she was a little troubled she calmed down and went to get him something to eat.
After a little while, she came back with three steamed potatoes. She lightly gave it to the teen before saying, "This is all we have, I'll go bring back something to eat from the shelter later."
The teen hearing this nodded his head as he took a bite, but his face quickly turned sorry as he quickly chewed the potatoes while breathing loudly before eventually swallowing, "Damn they're hot!!!"
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[Reader]
: . . .
[Author]
: What...
[Reader]
: It's just weird no one interrupted the story...
[BOB THE CREATOR]
: But you just did you fucking dumbass!!!
[Reader]
: Yeah I know but it's usually you guys who interrupt the story to say something stupid, and yet you didn't.
[Author]
: Do you want the damn story or not?!!!!
[Reader]
: Nevermind then, just continue the story...
[Author]
: . . .
[Reader]
: What...
[Author]
: Just waiting if there are any other things you'd like to say before I start the story.
[Reader]
: . . .
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The teen quickly ate his meal as Yuno meditated. After he finished, he bid his goodbyes to Yuno before he went out of the rundown apartment. As he was wandering through the sandy streets, something caught his eye.
"What's going on? Why are there more guards and servants than usual? Even more strangely, why are they cleaning the town as if their lives depended on it?" After walking for a little while he overheard a group of people talking.
"Did you hear? One of the royals is going to pass through our town."
"Are you serious?!"
"Yeah! I heard from my friend who is a guard of the town chief. He said that the royal would pass through the village tomorrow. Thats why he has the guards and servants cleaning this place spotless!"
"No wonder they're cleaning! If a speck of dust landed on the royals, I fear we won't be able to face the consequences!"
With that said the people started helping with the cleaning. The teen hearing this was confused as he thought why a royal would bother passing through an insignificant town. They could have just flown past the planet without giving it a second look. So why would they bother passing through an insignificant town on an insignificant planet?
"Could there be something special this shitty planet could offer? And special enough to get a royal to personally come for it? Somethings going on here!"
Although the teen didn't know what it was, he had a bad premonition!
"Well, no royal could ever match the might of me! The Primal God!!!"
The teen let out a hearty laugh as he walked through the streets.
. . .
Just then, far away outside the small town, a great sandstorm was raging! The sandstorm raged as it ravaged any and all that were in its path! In the middle of the storm, a young man sat cross-legged as he constantly absorbed Celestial energy. His body was covered with injuries as blood had stained his once yellow robe! His long white hair was also stained with blood, dying it red, making him look vicious. His features seemed fair but they were obscured by all the blood and injuries he had.
The young man slowly opened his eyes as a profound light flashed through them. His injuries had finally stopped bleeding. He slowly stood atop the air, making him look like a mystical sage. He held out his hands as a golden compass appeared out of thin air. The pin of the compass rapidly spun before slowing down and pointing to the north. The young man lifted his gaze from the compass and looked towards the northern direction, as hate and anger flashed through his seemingly calm eyes!
"I swear by the lord and creator of the cosmos, I will get my revenge!"
Just as he said that lightning flashed and thunder sounded as if the Heavens themselves bore witness to his oath!
. . .
The sky had gradually turned dark as the sun slowly sank into the horizon, the moon and the stars taking its place. The teen got back to the apartment where he was met with the sight of Yuno meditating.
"She never rests does she..." The teen looked at Yuno warmly as he had thoughts of the future. Although Yuno wasn't considered a genius, she did have a moderate amount of aptitude for cultivation. With hard work and diligence, she was sure to break through to the body attunement realm. If she had ample resources she might even have a shot at reaching the spiritual awakening realm! Any higher than that they would need the backing of a sect as the resources could rival the town's annual income a hundred if not a thousand times!
But fate was a petty thing as they were now as broke as ever. If not for the poverty reduction made by the chief, they would have been homeless and starved to death long ago. The teen not wanting to disturb Yuno quietly made his way toward his room, which was occupied by an almost dead mattress and a set of clean clothes neatly folded beside it.
The teen laid on the mattress as his thoughts wandered.
"The Atlas is calling out to me once again... If only I had the luck to have it on my person!"
The teen sighed as his mind slowly entered into a deep sleep.
. . .
The young man stood at the gates of a prosperous clan. But there seemed to be an eerie atmosphere as you could see black smoke rising in the distance. The gate was also in bad shape as the name of the clan had been utterly destroyed and the gate itself was webbed with cracks. Some parts of it had already fallen to the ground becoming rubble! His long bloody hair swayed along with his blood-stained robe as he stood in front of the gate. In his eyes, there was an unquenchable hatred as he shivered at the thought of the atrocities inflicted on his clan.
He clenched his hands into fists as blood trickled from them! After steeling his resolve, he walked through the gates, but at that moment something happened! The sky turned dark and storms raged as lightning flashed through the dark sky! The young man observing this change had even more hatred in his eyes as he firmly marched toward the clan.
After a little while the sight of a dead body came into view. The young man's eyes stared intently at the body before continuing to move. But his path was filled with bloodshed and corpses! Countless mutilated corpses lay tattered and bloody all across the road. But the young man never stopped as he continued walking towards the clan center. As he continued walking, the corpse increased! Among them, there were men, women, children, young and old! All of them were their own persons, but they had two things in common, they were all his clan members! And they were all undeniably dead!
The young man continued to walk forward emotionless as if it wasn't his concern. But that was only on the surface, on the inside there was a storm raging. The sight would have shaken the strongest of wills, but the young man never stopped walking. That is until he reached the clan center! At the center, there was a once magnificent palace, now in ruins.
Not just the palace every structure was now in ruins! A great calamity had talked place here without a single soul left to tell the tale. The young man calmly entered the palace, but what he saw shook him to the core! The floor was filled with blood as five bodies could be seen nailed to a wall adorned with dragons and blood! Lots of blood!
The young man seeing the five bodies was standing as still as a statue. His eyes gradually turned red as tears of blood trickled down his cheeks!
"I am sorry, Father! Mother! Sister! Brothers!", his voice growing louder and more thunderous with each word!
"I SWEAR TO THE HEAVENS, I WILL DESTROY THEM! I WILL AVENGE MY FAMILY AND MY CLAN, WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE EVIL SCUM!!!"
The young man having made his oath gritted his teeth and sat down cross-legged on the blood-filled floor as he began chanting in an ancient language. As he chanted the sky turned even darker and more violent as if predicting the calamity to come! An eerie atmosphere emerged and suddenly from the blood floor below a bloody hand reached out. But as if there was a barrier the hand couldn't go further than the elbow. There wasn't just one either, there were five. Making the scene look as if it came from the most horrendous horror film!
The young man seeing this smiled evilly as he held out his hand. Suddenly a dark metallic plate appeared, floating in mid-air! The plate had ancient and ominous carvings as if to accentuate the unnerving aura it continuously let out. But the young man wasn't affected as he proceeded to cut his palm! His blood dropped onto the bloody floor making a *BLUP* sound.
After that, as if time had stopped, all around the clan an eerie silence descended. Not even the wind dare to make a sound!
On the grounds of the clan, the bloody corpse of a young woman in her early twenties suddenly rose into the air! Then slowly, the blood on and in her body floated up into the air before flying towards the clan center, leaving her as a dried and shriveled corpse! Similar happenings continued all throughout the clan.
The sight was truly gruesome as rivers of blood flew through the sky! Inside the central palace, the same thing was happening! The blood on the floor suddenly rose into the air before flying towards the plate, and upon contact, it was absorbed! Suddenly from every corner of the room rivers of blood came gushing, being fed to the plate. As the amount of blood absorbed by the plate increased, the shape of the plate started changing!
It slowly expanded forming a bowl. It slowly spread into four directions, making it look like four petals joined at one end. The inside of the bowl looked liquid as ripples appeared on it, from the ripples came four more new petal-like shapings. This process continued until a perfect lotus flower was formed! A blood-red lotus flower at that!
Golden demonic runes adorned its surface as it radiated a disturbing aura. The young man seeing this revealed a sinister smile before saying,
"The Demonic Lotus is complete! Nine Dragon Sect! Not even the gods can save you now!!!"
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[Reader]
: What the actual fuck!
[Author]
: What...
[BOB THE CREATOR]
: What in the actual FUCK!!!
[Author]
: What? Was it not a good chapter?
[Reader]
: Did you write that? Cuz the story went from zero to a hundred real quick!
[Author]
: Of course, I wrote it! And what were you expecting? The story to not develop? Tf?!!!
[BOB THE CREATOR]
: And btw WHO THE FUCK IS THE MC?!?!?!? Cuz I can't tell anymore!
[Reader]
: reply to [BOB.C]: Dude I'm sorry but I think that dude just stole your mc title!
[BOB THE CREATOR]
: NO! NO! It can't be!!!
[Author]
: Hold your horses will ya, his just a main side character...
[Reader]
: WOW... That's even worse! Bet this is gonna be one of those books where the main side character is more popular than the mc!!!
[BOB THE CREATOR]
: I won't let that happen! I swear on my name as the Primal God, I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!
[Author]
: Pipe down will ya, as the Han's shall rise again!
[Reader]
: The fuck you sayyyyyyyy!!!!