The chief stared at the deputy with intense gaze as he moves closer to him.
"What do you care about my disciple that you suddenly asked of him, I swear if anything happens to him, you'll regret it."
He said as he walk out of the room, with his shoulder hitting the deputy.
The elders turned and stare at him as he walk through the hallway, meanwhile, a creepy smile formed on the deputy's charming face, his hand moves up and down with the metallic hand fan slowly blowing winds against his face.
'It seems that boy really has a secret and the chief is trying to hide it from us. Well, it doesn't matter anyway.'
He also walk out of the room with a creepy smile plastered across his charming face, the elder also stare at him as he walk out, leaving the seven of them in the room.
They weren't surprise, the chief is known for is do-what-I-like and hot tempered nature while his deputy is great in his skills to annoy people, the two don't get along for a minute, there's always a strange pressure between them whenever they're together, that's why the elders will always be around whenever the two are together.
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The chief had purposely left the room with the impression of getting annoyed by the deputy question, the question asked by the deputy is not enough to make the chief act like that, but because he had something else on mind that requires him to act fast, he needed to waste no time and answering their questions in the room will consume his precious time.
'Liu, Liu.'
He said in his mind as soon as he got out of the room.
'Huh Master?'
A voice resounded back in his head.
'Ask no question, this is a secret mission that needed to be accomplished before dawn tomorrow.'
The chief said as he continue walking on the hallway with his pace increasing.
'Okay.'
The same voice resounded back.
'Go to the edge of the black forest, get my new disciple - Sifeng under the cave close to the shore, you must return with him alive, safe and sound before tomorrow's morning.'
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A young man with an heavenly made face and alabaster skin could be seen in the Venom Sect hall in the midst of other disciples, his mask is shoved to the back of his head, resting on his raven black hair. Liu had a confused look on his face as he just received a telepathic message from the sect leader, his master.
"What's wrong with this man, go to the black forest now? And return before dawn tomorrow, can't he look at the sky, it's dusk already, how does he want him to return at the time when he said it's a secret mission."
If his master said it's secret mission, that means not even the elders should know about it, so he must be very careful to not get caught, but very careful means he must not act rashly, he must scout well before stepping out to make sure nobody is keeping an eye on him.
Which means, a lot of time would be wasted while during that.
"But wait, he said his new disciple - Sifeng, isn't that the kid I brought from the Nara Clan? Little Tiger, what has this man done sending that Cub into the black forest. Now I have no choice."
He look around a few times, trying to check if someone had spare him a quick glance but after making sure that everyone was busy talking about the clashing of powers they heard and felt some minutes ago, he smile then he was no more in the hall.
Because of the desperation to complete the secret mission his master had issued him and save the little tiger, he failed to notice someone smiling at him somewhere atop the large hall in the building.
"Now, I'm sure of it, for his dog to make a move, something is really up and it's because of his new disciple, well it still doesn't matter anyway."
The deputy chief said with smile, staring down at the large hall from the third floor of the building.
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Sifeng slowly opened his eyes and the first thing he could see was...well, he could see anything because it's completely black, he couldn't see anything.
'Where am I? Am I dead, did the chief killed me because I lose control?'
His heart sink as a sudden realization hit him right on the face, it's not the fact that he couldn't see or because it's completely black around him, nor is it the fact that he might have been killed by the chief.
No, it's the fact that he's still alive but he couldn't breathe, it's not that he couldn't really breath, but it's as if something is blocking his nose, stopping him from inhaling and exhaling, something very large is pressed against his nose and his chest.
Against his whole body.
'What's this?'
Trying to feel the thing on his body, he could see that it's like a fur of some sort, as if he had been buried under a great number of fur, not only that, but it seems as if the fur.....as if the fur is breathing slowly, like it's alive.
That's when it hit him so hard.
'A beast? A beast is sleeping on my body.'
His heart sink deeper that it fails to pulsate for a couple seconds.
Remembering how he had almost died encountering the Wretch Beast on the battle field, his heart starter beating faster that even he could hear the sound of his heartbeat, and the beast on his body could also feel the intense race of his heart.
The body of the beast moves a bit, and that movement provided him a breathing room, he could also move his head a little, and that's when he spotted a lilac shade of the sun at its horizon, the space he could see through is as large as two adult men so he could see the landscape below the horizon.
It's a thick forest.
'How the hell did a get here.'
Trying to calm himself down, he pull all the strength in his body to his right arm, then he clenched a fist and threw it straight at the beast neck, it snarled in anger but the punch didn't move it.
'Why am I so weak.'
Although, the punch didn't move the beast but the power behind it could be felt, so the beast started moving away from his body, trying to see the ant that had disturb its slumber.
Feeling that he could finally breathe and see clearly, the weight on him has been lifted off, he wasted no time pushing the rest of the beast body away from him, then he rose up in a sluggish motion, but still he was up before the beast could react, he run through the single space he could see.
He ran into the forest without looking back, he could hear the sound of heavy footsteps approaching him from behind, but Sifeng didn't even dare looking back to see his predator, he just kept running forward trying to find a safe place to hide in the jungle.
Running for about ten minutes with the beast not backing away, he came to a sudden halt,
Not because he decided to, but because he had no where to go again, what lay in front of him is a vast expanse of blue river.
The river is just as vast as the boundless river surrounding the lone mountain the Venom Academy is built on, but this one is blue while the boundless river is colorless.
"Damn, I can't go any further from here, this is insane, how the hell did I get trapped in this forest."
He look to his left and right, they're both designed with condensed leaves and thick branches.
"I guess I have no choice but to fight."
He turned around and could see the beast is just a couple dozen meters away from him, he could now see it clearly.
'A bear?'