It had even a couple days since Alex left home, and he had created a passable movement technique called [serpents dance] based off nuwas movement.
it increased his dexterity, speed and balance while also alowing him to move very fluidly. He was also working on the good ol' flash step, but it was a bit tricky to got how he wanted. What he was trying to get was a sudden burst of movement that would shoot him faward to fast to see, but the movement and energy manipulation was more complex then he expected.
Turns out instant acceleration to a speed to fast to see along with a sudden stop, all without damaging his body permantly and with a reasonable energy cost was hard to do, who would have guessed? If he could actually practice instead of theory craft with a coupe dozen brains he would be able to do this much fatser, be he had no excuse to leave the carriage so far-
"Stop right their! You're in the territory of the red mountain bandits! A nice bird told us their where some spoiled brats and pretty girls going this way. Hand em over, or stuffs gonna get ugly!"
Alex hoped out of the carriage as fats as he could before the guards killed all the bandits, this was his perfect chance to get some practice. He also wanted to feed nuwa some people to see what would happen. Walking to the leader of the small guard squad he said "I'm going to test some techniques against these bandits. I do not want you to interfere unless I am in danger."
The guard captain was about to say something but Alex was already rushing towards the bandits with his sword in hand.
There where 5 bandits, where they got their confidence to attack the children of a noble, and his father nonetheless, he didn't know. There was ome in a tree with a bow about 70 meters away, two with swords 20 meters meters ahead, one with a rather large shield in front to the sword welders. And a rather large man with a equally large axe behind in-between the bow man and three close range bandits.
'Time for some exorcise.' Once he was 15 meters away fro, the bandit trio he made his first attempt at a flash step, which failed horribly. He had a short burst of speed, but it was onky about a 50% increace, which was nice sure, but not what he was looking for, this put him at ten meters away from the bandits.
Attempt two, much better, more soeed and distance with lower strain. He was now infront of the shield user, raising his sword he sent a couple whisps of qi to his arm and down the swords blade befor cutting through the shield, and the man.
Dashing between the falling half's he was now right behind the sword duo, no need for qi this time as he did a wirlwind slash decapitating both of them as he once again dashed. This time towards the archer who had just aimed their arrow at him. A second dash and his sword was through the archers chest.
'Should have it this time.'
The bandit leader turned around to see the bloodsoaked demon who had just murder his entire crew look at him and smile, the little shit fucking smiled as it disappeared, reappearing infront of him a moment later, and then the world was dark.
Cleaning his sword with the bandit leaders shirt, Alex sent a message to nuwa to eat the corpses after they left before returning to him, she was curently waiting in some bushes nearby which he sent her to once he left to 'practice'.
As he walked back to his carrige he cast clean onhimself as he thought 'Any second now.'
[Congratulations host for creating the technique [flash step: tier 1] this technique allows the host to suddenly eccelerate before decelerating at a point a set distance away. Effectively allowing them to 'vanish' to anything with less then three times hosts dexterity. Modifier can be changed by useing movement techniques.]
'There it it. Glad i exchanged most of my morals in the womb, otherwise I would probably be having a panic attack after killing some people then feeding their corpses to my let monster to see if she gets anything from them.'
Meanwhile in the eyes of the guards and alexs siblings, they watched as their four year old young master/brother rushed towards a group of bandits of unknown cultivation level. Before he boosted fawerd twice, sliced a man in half, baithed in his blood, decapitated two more, stabed the fourth in the heart after dashing fawards at a speed much to fast for his curent stage, then suddenly vanishing and reappearing infront of the bandit leader before cutting his head in half.
All within 15 seconds mind you, then walk back to his carrige as if nothing had happend, without even breaking a sweat at his first murders. And they knew alex understood what he had done, they where well aware that despite his age, he was much to intelligent to be called 'naive'. Every ome their had full understanding that Alex was fully aware he had killed five people, and didn't show even the slightest hint of regret. He was even smiling and damn near whistling a toon. All the guards and a few of his siblings shared the exact same thought then, 'he is a demon.'
Meanwhile the demon in question was reviewing what he could have done better in the battle, how he could improve, and the new insights from his skill. 'Hey system, could you please add a 'qi' stat to show my curent percentage of qi?'
[Adding stat. Curent qi: 100%]
'100%? Actually, makes sence. I did only use 5 strands, three on the shield guy and two fir the [flash step], which is 0.0000000001% of my total qi, which may as well be nothing.'
Five minutes after the carriges left Alex got the notification [pet: [nuwa] has eaten bandit defender*1, bandit swordsmen*2, Bandit archer*1, bandit leader*1. Nuwa has gained the techniques [bandit defence: tier 1], [bandit swordsmanship: tier 1], [bandit archery: tier 1], [bandit axe welding: tier 1], [stealth: tier 1] and [unsavoury acts: tier 1]. Nuwa has gained the traits [sharp eyes: tier 1] and [good musculature: tier 1] nuwa has entered body forging stage 4.]
'Exchange everything exept for the traits, stealth, and cultivation.'
[Host has gained 300 exchange points.]
A couple minutes later nuwa was once again laying in alexs lap, enjoying his pets. Her scales where a slightly richer red, and seemed more crystal like. Her horns had also grown about a centermeter in size. 'They tasted rather bad. If it wasen't for the benefits I wouldn't even atempt to eat those rotten piles of meat.'
'Calm down, yoy went up a stage and where able to collect a decent amount of blood. I promise your next meal will taste better.'
Davin looked over at the snake with suspicion. He had noticed its changes, and that it had been missing for a while. But he chise to say nothing, after all, it seemed rather attached to Alex, and didn't seem like a threat for now.