Elder looked toward like he asking me to explain the situation of why have stopped here. But this time, there is a tinge of surprised expression in his eyes that didn't go unnoticed by me.
"Elder, I should go and help." I said feeling the urge of helping my father growing stronger.
Just as I moved, a strong grip on my shoulder held me back from going and helping father. I thought it would someone else but this time my guess was wrong because it was elder who was holding my shoulder.
"What happened elder, why did you stopped me?" I asked urging and helplessness in my voice.
"As I would be your mentor, let me tell you a lesson. In this world, you can never be strong enough to help everyone on individual level. There will be time when you can only see the people in front of your eyes suffer. Always just focus on protecting close one to you. Trying to protect this stranger is not worth your efforts. No matter what you do these kind of things will always exist. Now, ignore this and guide me to the location of your father." Elder said.
I now understood that elder think I was trying to help a stranger but he did not know that this person is my father. So I said explaining, "I was in so much hurry, because that person out there is my father. So, elder I request please let me go and help him."
Just as I said, I felt that grip of elder had loosened on my shoulders and now it is free. Thinking it as the permission from the elder, I said, "thank you, elder." Before moving to help father.
"Hey, you burly man, stop right there, don't you dare touch that man, he is my father, and it would not be good for you if you do otherwise." I said while burning in anger.
Burly man looked toward me and seeing for a second he had the mocking look in his eyes and said, "Oh! So kid have come to save his papa, I have seen what your father can do. Now your turn cute child."
I tried to muster up the energy inside and boost physical strength. This is usage of energy even common people but I failed in using this energy to buff the physical strength because due to the awakening of subordinate talent, my energy was unstable.
But opposite side standing person can still use energy and he did just that and punched forward in my direction.
I have practiced a lot of martial arts in my this life till now, these martial arts are from previous words including king fu, taekwondo, tai chi and many more. Humans of this world have much more potential than of previous world and human limit of this world of physical capability can go up to destroying building in previous world.
So, using all my physical strength and tai chi technique, I turned the path of arriving punch to the other direction but still impact of that energy fused punch thrown me several steps back.
I can feel that my internal organs have suffered a big damage which forced me to cough out the blood from my mouth. I can think if I had faced that punch head on instead of implying force directional changing technique in tai chai then I would definitely be dead by now.
[ Ding! Main feature of Favourability system have activated ]
[ Ding! Favourability scale of elder- lightning celestial have activated ]
[ Ding! Favourability of Elder toward have risen up 0.5 % ]
[ Ding! Host have received the incomplete 'Mad Demon Technique' from the favourability scale of elder ]
[ Ding! To check the details regarding the Favourability scale and rewards can be checked in details section of system ]
Ignoring to check the details of newly activated feature of system. I instantly activated the newly received 'Incomplete Mad Demon Technique'.
[ Ding! Host have activated the 'Incomplete Mad Demon Technique'. ]
As I just activated the technique, view in front of me started to look like it is covered in haze of red colour. In my mind, all my bad memories started to emerge inside trying to burst a big anger. But rationality that I have till now started to fight back the indecisive emotions. But when this memories come to father being threatened and lashed out by this man, something inside me snapped and unleashed a flood of angry emotions that broke the dam of rationality.
I moved toward the burly man on its own without any regard of defending myself anymore.
This raised a tinge of vigilance in the heart of burly man. Because he had previously felt that I had used a very unusual and weird style of fighting.
Before I can reach to the man and hit him, my blood coloured red sight starting turning into darkness hinting me at that I am going faint. It was expected to faint after taking such a huge damage.
But I really badly wanted to hit this man and take revenge for my father. Before I fainted completely, I heard the voice that I am really familiar with, it was my father who was saying, "Son, why did you come back. Sorry, sorry I have failed you."
My sight turned completely dark taking me into the darkness dreams which are of nightmares than dreams.
In this dreams, that burly man is killing my father again and again in loop. This dream was too heart chilling for me even more than watching the army of rotting corpses running all over the earth.
It was until I saw a light entering my eyes when I woke up from being unconscious. I tried to get into sitting position and move but a surge of pain inside my stomach greeted me.
"Ahh, it hurt like hell.' I unwillingly muttered due to the pain.
"Son, have you Waken up already, you should a more rest because you have suffered very severe internal injuries." Father's voice from next to me said to me.