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Chapter 4 - Crimson

I waited the whole night but nobody came

Breathing a sigh of relief I relaxed

'I guess they either don't have a martial school here or it is weak'

'But I still should prepare to defend myself'

'The previous owner of the body was a prodigy I wonder if I got the same talent'

'I guess this could be another test to make my own martial arts'

Examining my body I noticed all my extremities had the crimson steel like material and they were sharp

'I should take advantage of that'

After some contemplation I had my right arm above my head with the hand open as if to scratch someone, my left arm was bent in front of me with the hand being the same as the other. Over all I was leaning forward and I had one leg behind me with one in front of me

'This feels right'

I went into the stance in front of the tree and practiced

Each strike that hit the tree would remove a chunk of it.

Training day in and day out to correct any issues with the stance until I thought it was good.

'What should I call it…'

And before I had time to think my mouth already spoke

"Crimson Mutilation Arts"

Overall it comprised of punches? Scratching? Using my fingers sharpened to a point to tear away flesh so even if they tried to block it would still heavily injure them. I also used kicks mainly aiming for hitting them with my toes. But instead of tearing it would slice through flesh… at least I'm assuming so have not tested it yet.

'I really shouldn't try to test it. It would just cause a commotion'

But still better to be safe then sorry

'Only thing I'm missing is a special move of sorts, something to instantly end a fight'

'I need speed for that so what if I put my qi into my legs?'

Trying it I ran twice as fast but it wasn't good enough

'Maybe I should use some knowledge from my previous life'

This time trying to put my qi into my legs I molded it into a spring

I realeased it and

I had gone from one tree to another faster then I could think.

But the downside of using my qi like a spring is that it ejected it all out of me leaving me almost drained

And if I wanna attack while doing so I'm doing to need to reinforce my arm with qi

Leaving me with no qi to defend myself

'It's truly a finishing move…for me, I'll have to test it on another tree when I get my qi back'

While waiting for the qi to come back I trained relentlessly to improve the crimson mutilation arts when i finnaly regained my qi I though it fit to try the move on the biggest tree I could find

The one I found was 3 meters wide and so I prepared to test it.

Coiling my qi into a spring and sending the rest of my qi to my arm I let go and… I was behind the tree

thinking I had missed I looked behind me just to almost get crushed by the giant tree falling.

After regaining my composure I checked where I had apparently hit and it was chopped up into 6 pieces in total, the roots, 4 disc like pieces of wood, and the rest of the tree

'I didn't expect it to be so damn powerful'

'I think I'll call it'

"Flash Rend"