'where is this place?' Shōgo thought as he marveled at the greenery around him, it was a magnificent sight to behold. He could see a lot of green trees and slight chirping of birds around, however, he could see narrow paths leading to large Fields around the forest.
"Senshi!,Mei!,Mamushi!" Shōgo called out buh got no answer he then sighed and started to walk down the paths leading to the fields.
However as Shōgo moved, he suddenly heard slight movements among the bushes.
"Shit!" Shōgo mumbled and bent aside as he looked back, a claw suddenly passed his chin.
"What is this thing, I didn't even sense it coming" Shōgo cursed as he gave the beast distance and cleaned his bleeding cheek.
"Oh!, I think I stumbled on this thing in Senshi's book, damn it's the duskgold bear, it's definitely powerful" Shōgo looked at the shadow-like bear with red eyes emitting gold aura.
"I Guess it's time, let the journey begin" Shōgo smiled and bent until he was at one hundred degrees.
' wooosh! ' Shôgo charged at the bear.
' paa, boom , slash, tssh ' Shōgo continually exchanged blows with the bear, although he seemed to be at a disadvantage, but he kept trying to stand his ground against the bear.
'BOOOOM!!!' Shōgo was sent flying into the bushes and.
'BLACK OUT ' .
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After two unsuccessful attempts to open his eyes, Shōho finally succeeded on the third.
"Where am I?" Shōgo thought aloud as he took a look at the pitch black darkness around him.
"Welcome" a voice suddenly called out from inside the darkness.
"Who are you? And what am I doing here?" Shōgo inquired.
"Well you can call this your mind and as for me, I am just a record of your past memories" the voice replied.
"Show yourself" Shōho commanded and immediately everywhere lit up bright and he saw a figure with long beards afar, the surroundings seemed to look like a large hall.
" Here I am" the voice replied again.
" What's your name and what do you want from me?" Shōgo inquired.
"Rest assured, I'm not here to harm you" the figure assured and began to walk towards him.
"I'm here to give you what you need" the figure continued.
"You see, there's something inside of you that makes you unique, but you seem to not have discovered it yet" the figure reached Shōgo and stretched out his hand.
"Get up" the figure commanded. Shôgo obeyed and took his hand.
The figure seemed to be chanting an incantation as he mumbled, his body sparked with thunder, then suddenly forcefully connected his palms with Shōgo's chest.
'boom!'.
However Shōgo was shockingly still were he was but his eyes were closed, his breathing was rough and uncalculated, blue scales started to spread around his body and his eyes were shining bright blue and so also was his hair, he seemed to be meditating as he silently stood there doing nothing. Then suddenly everything began to fade as he was back at the battlefield.
"No, wait" Shōgo objected buh he was too late. He looked ahead and saw the bear ahead of him.
He then smiled as thunder sparked all over his body, he charged crazily at the bear and caused all his scales to converge at his hands he launched a punch.
'Boooom!!!' the bear landed limply ahead of him. Then gold light flowed out of it into his body. He felt power surging in relentlessly until it stopped at a point.
" Pheew, I would've died if I wasn't careful, thanks to that man, I wonder who he is" Shōgo mumbled and went in search of the others.
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'Boooom!'
" Mamushi launch an attack!" Senshi cried out as they fought a beast and immediately Mamushi leaped into the air and launched icicles at the spider.
'booom!' Mei's spiky metal crashed into the head of the beast.
'screach!' the spider screached and crashed on the ground.
"Pheeew" Senshi cleaned sweat of his forehead as green light flowed into the body of everyone.
" What level are you guys?" Senshi asked
"Considering the soul power I've received we've killed so far, I should be around level nine" Mamushi replied.
"Eight" Mei replied.
"Nice, I'm at a bottleneck, just a little more and I'll be a legitimate spirit master" Senshi smiled.
"Come on let's search for Shōgo" Senshi gestured and everyone started on their way out of this place they were.
However after crossing some distance Mei suddenly stopped as if she heard something.
"Guy, wait, I think I hear a voice" Mei alerted.
"Senshi!, Mei!, Mamushi!" Someone called out from afar.
" It's Shōgo" the trio smiled and charged at the direction of the voice, after some minutes, they found Shōgo.
" Guys" Shōgo smiled and rushed at them, giving Mei a tight hug.
" I missed you" Shōgo smiled.
" Me too" Mei smiled and hugged more tightly.
" Ahemmm!" Senshi cleared his throat
" I wonder why you were separated from us, we three appeared at the same location " Senshi fell into deep thought.
" Maybe a bug or something, let's not waste precious time" Shōgo suggested and led them out of the forest, they came out into a vast greenery, the lush was extraordinary and beautiful. It seemed to be a forgotten promise land, few trees were common sight.
" Wow, nice place " Mamushi commented.
" It's real nice " Mei smiled and took a good look around again.
" Hey what's that?" Mei pointed at a location far to their left.
" I can see a beast, let's head closer " Shōgo Suggested and they all approached.
" That's an orc!" Senshi suddenly exclaimed as they watched it from afar.
" What's an orc?" Mamushi asked.
"Well they're creatures from old times, they rank top hundred among assault beasts, they're really powerful,moreso, this one exudes a purple aura, I'm not sure it's for us" Senshi explained.
"Purple?, explain the hierarchy" Shōgo inquired.
"Well beasts have hierarchy, with a beast exuding white aura being ten year, yellow hundred years, purple a thousand year, read ten thousand years, ash a hundred thousand years, blue five hundred thousand years and lastly gold million years upwards" Senshi explained.
"I fought a beast earlier, it was exuding dark gold aura, it was a bear" Shōgo said.
"Oh!, I'm pretty sure that's the duskgold bear, it violates the rule because we'll, it's the duskgold bear, it's hard to tell their ranks, you'll only know if you exchange blows or your cultivation is high" Senshi explained again.
" Ok, let's com back for the beast" Shōgo announced and turned around.