"So what do you mean by her being your te... Puff, puff" Williams wanted to know more about the old woman when suddenly he coughed out a black liquid.
At the same time, his consciousness started drifting away slowly. Opening his eyes wide, he tried to stay awake nevertheless all his effort were futile.
He opened his eyes abruptly when he suddenly felt a change in temperature, he found himself in a void space with no stars or planets around him, seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to hours, and hours turned into days.
He felt like he had been here for almost a week when suddenly a white light appeared before him, straining his eyes he tried to make out the scenery infront of him when a sharp light pierced.
"Listen kid, you mustn't travel back in time. We have been bound together the moment you were transmigrated to earth, nothing can separate us let alone your little plan. WE ARE ONE!!!"
All he heard was a shout as his conscious return back to his body.
"Hey, hey are you okay?," he heard Bella's voice as he saw her holding his hands with a concerned look.
Williams cleared his mind of the event he had just experienced, he didn't know much about the strange thing that had been happening to him. All he was aware of was that he found himself waking up in a strange body and strange world, it took a lot for him to familiarize himself with the new Earth he found himself in.
What was confusing about it was that the home he came from was also called Earth but a little bit different. The later seems more ancient and magical than the former. Anyway all he knew about the strange thing happening to him was that the vile and ominous entity inside him was called Nova a.k.a the messenger of death.
He didn't know why but there was a hunger for power deep in his heart, it was as if the power was the key to the mystery locked within him.
'if only I could go back and merge with it... Sigh, I made a vow that I would never have anything to do with it'
Only he could understand what he was thinking as it was one of his darkest secrets.
Pa!
A sharp pain jolted him awake from his thoughts.
"You!... You Slapped me"
He pointed at Bella with broad eyes, he found it hard to believe that she just slapped him. What a joke! Where was his dignity as a man.
"So who is this old woman you call teacher?"although he was furious about the slap, his curiosity about the withered old woman who slain a young man before him. He marked the old woman as a maniac who would kill without battling an eye, he needed to avoid her at all cost.
"Sigh" Bella sat down cross legged, resting her chin on her hand she said, "I don't really know much about her, she just appeared out of nowhere and taught me how to bring out my potential."
"How?"
"Follow me, let me show you"
Williams followed after her, walking through the passage the maids and servants greeted him respectfully.
As for the reason of this, Williams deduced that his face has being shown to the people.
"Maids and servants? Tell me Bella, are you planning on making this place into a primitive era?" Williams chuckled as he found her mentality ridiculous.
Caressing her silky hair, Bella replied playfully, "I like the feeling of domination and yes, I am planning on turning this entire world back into the ancient era. I dream of standing on top of the world, reaching the apex of all power." Bella demonstrated her domination with her hand, then she ask Williams who had a dead expression on his face, "My dream is the best, isn't it?".
"Well, that great dream of yours is going to cost you something priceless"
"Hmm, what is that?"
"Your head" Williams replied blankly to her who was ready to jump on him at any moment, with a creepy smile he continued "There can only be one king, I may consider you as my queen if you feel cheated."
"You impudent twit!" Her face twitched in anger as she couldn't even imagine the scene in her head. Suddenly she let out a soft chuckle, "Ask around Williams, you will realize whose authority matters in this place"
"You mean you made yourself stand higher than I. Damnit, so many interesting thing happened in my absence"
He really felt like pulling out his hair in fraustration, he couldn't even remember why he was unconscious in the first place.
"Do you think that the people will respect a leader who was busy sleeping when they were suffering huh?" Bella asked with a straight face.
"Bu.. but they were being respective towards me on our way, some were even giving me smiles"
"Hmph" Bella snorted, then she opened the large brownish colour door beside her, "They were just flattering you on the outside, deep down there they hate you to the core."
She entered leaving the dazed young man outside.
"Hey, are you entering or not!" She shouted in annoyance.
Entering behind her he noticed that they were now in a training room.
He saw Bella getting into a fighting position, he also place his left leg forward allowing some gap between both legs.
Cracking his head, he rolled up his sleeve as he signalled the start of the duel.
Bella closed her eyes for a second before reopening it. A purple light now glowed in her iris.
A dark gaseous matter started emerging around her. Standing in the middle of the darkness, her aura started skyrocketing as the black gas spreads out.
"Woah, what is this. It looks totally harmless" Williams opened his mouth wide that a swarm of bees could easily invade it.
The idiot forgot that he was in a duel when he touched the black gas gently.
"It feels like I am high on drugs when I am high on drugs as I am touching it, you definitely have to keep this around Bella" Williams said with a serious face before walking away.
"Hey where are you going idiot?"
"I thought you were done with your demonstration"
"This is just the beginning" Bella smiled.
Bang!
The black gas matter unexpectedly materialized into a large solid human shaped fist as it hit Williams face sending him flying away.
"Damnit!" Williams cursed furiously, he touched his nose to see if it was bleeding, "Oh, you have no idea what you have just done"
His head almost exploded in exasperation as he felt the bones in his nose shattering due to the impact, it seems that she wasn't going easy on him which he also appreciated as he now had no reason to go easy on her.
Bringing out his golden sword, he jumped up and hacked at the black matter.
But who would have thought that his sword would pass through it as if it were nothing.
"If I can't hurt this black thing then i'm going for it controller"
Lightning surrounded him as he shoot forward. His legs moved quick as lightning and he started powering up the sword with a dense lightning.
The sword lit up when it reached it limit, it started vibrating as if it wanted to fly out of Williams hand.
Getting into the thirty metres radius around Bella, he jumped up and slashed his sword at her. The sword for a seconds seems to belong out of this world as the space around it cracked from the overwhelming power.
Boooooooom!
The black gas turned into a shield protecting Bella from the attack.
The impact of the sword and the shield shaked the palace, Williams arm felt numb as he suffered the reverberation of the attack.
Although he was hurt a little, he was still mindful of his environment as he would get alerted over any changes.
Whoosh
As expected, the black gas turned into a sword as it attacked him again. But Williams wasn't falling for it this time, he evaded it skillfully and retreated ten metres back.
"You have no idea how much my space territory has grown, infact it evolved into a space domain" Bella showed a rare smile as she released her domain.