In Theo's house.
" Did you find anything related to Theo," chief Lan asks his men. He himself was in deep thought when he ask guards about Theo. There was fear in his eyes for Theo, if anything happen, he won't forgive himself. Because chief Lan thinks that everything happen because of his incompetence in his job. He promised Theo that everything would be fine, if he stay in the forest, but who would think that because of that cultivator was send to kill him.
As for Theo being cultivator, he didn't even think twice, but there was little doubt, because of Theo's mind. Each and everyone that Theo work with or for it knew that Theo has good comprehensive power. he can learn fast. As for what was stopping him to believe was that cultivators need way more resource and good talent. That which Theo doesn't have.
" no, we didn't find anything, what to do now.?" mark replied.
" as for the stuff, Theo didn't take anything, judging by that Theo didn't get to take his stuff or he wasn't able to run away,". Mark said again.
" hmmm, lets say Theo got captured by Ben Audi, how will we ask him to give back Theo," Mark ask chief Lan.
" we can't ask him for Theo directly but we can use the things happen here as an alliable and force him to give Theo back," chief Lan answer mark.
" that's a good plan chief," everyone agreed with chief Lan, as they collect the body and readied their mind for internal conflicts of the town. As for why they didn't heard the sound of fighting between Gunther and Theo, its because the distance between inner layer and central layer are miles apart.
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Theo doesn't know a thing about this, or knew how much of a trouble it might cause because of this in the Town.
For now, he was meditating, but he didn't feel any difference between doing nothing and meditating. so he took out the sword technique to practice it and get familiar with it. The technique was what he lack now, he got good movement technique and was in advance level of it.
mastery of technique is divided in five stage,:- beginner, advance, master, grandmaster and perfect. and Theo was in advance stage of flickering movement technique. this technique mostly used stamina rather than qi. but when used with qi, the speed increase 2 fold. because of this Theo was able to travel so fast that Gunther can even see it, when used during the fight where he got push to the bush. But it's also because of that, the movement technique mostly depend on stamina the skill rating was low it was just common high level technique.
Theo's one slash was at advance stage too, it took him long time to reach advance because he wasn't able to grasp sword qi, from the book he learn, sword qi and sword intent. but he got a gut feeling that there was higher form of sword qi and intent. "one slash" is a good sword technique if learn sword qi, it can be used as ultimate move. not only that while fighting he doesn't have any form of fighting style he lack experience and fighting techniques.
if Theo got a fighting technique he might able to go toe to toe with Gunther previously. He learn many things because of today experience. Theo start reading the books again, this time carefully memorizing everything. Before reading he check the techniques title, it was written," formless sword techniques".