Alen waking up from his good rest that relieve his fatigue, he sat straight and finally pondered.
"Last night was messed up, who would have taught I will almost die thrice in a day, first the lion followed by the monkeys and finally the most dangerous one the group of sixth stage foundation establishing realm beasts, well I did learn many things.
"It's truly a pity i didn't get that fruit in the end, that was supposed to be my lucky encounter in this trip but it got sacrificed because of beasts" I thought aggrieved.
" Well is the opportunity has already been taken away I will just have to suppress the breakthrough,I will do that when am back home".alen decided.
"Sigh... What happened yesterday was truly not fair, but well there is no use complaining about what has already happened,so i guess I will just continue hunting and increase my battle sense".
Alen haven decided stood up and carried his sword heading off to hunt.
A week quickly passed since the moment alen entered the forest, although nothing off significance has happened apart from the first day, alen had undergone a massive improvement, battling different beast everyday bathing in their blood his battle awareness and powess improved a lot, now he no longer makes unnecessary movements, he dodges, attack and block appropriately. It could be said alen of now could insta-kill alen of a week ago.
On the last day, when the sun is about to set a bloodied young man with glowing purple eyes carrying a cloth sack on his back could be seen making his way out of the forest. The innocent and naive look he has before have completely disappeared what remains is a cold expressionless face with beast blood splattered across, his aura now contains a hint of bloodlust and killing intent.
Alen stood outside the forest looking at the setting sun as he stretched.
"It's has been a week huh... Time truly do move fast, it has been hectic and dangerous but the gains outweigh the risk", alen smirks as he looked at the cloth sack filled with beast cores.
"Although I gained beast cores which I can sell for money that I don't lack, my biggest gain was the experience, now am currently able to fight evenly with a third stage foundation establishing realm beast and can kill a second stage foundation establishing realm beast to easily, now I can return and make a breakthrough" I thought excited as I made my way towards the secret passage I made use of the first time.
Returning back home first entered my room and took a long relaxing bath, after that he looked at his bed as the guard he has been keeping up immediately crumble, without him noticing he eyes return back to their original colour. The moment his body touched the bed he fell into a deep sleep.
Waking up the next day morning feeling refreshed, stood up and walked out of the room going towards the his dad office were his dad should be.
Reaching there he stopped at the door to the office already hearing his dad's voice talking to some officers, reaching out he pushed the door open and stepped in. His dad's office which is a nice blend of tradition and luxury came into view.
John who seem to be both sad and angry was giving out commands when he heard someone opens his door without asking for permission, he was just about to shout at the person who intrude into his office rudely when he stop as the face of his son entered his view.
Surprised he asked " alen? When did you return"?,
"I smiled at my dad and replied" last night dad".
" That's good then, you should probably go and meet your mother,she has been seriously worried about you, we will talk later am busy right now".he said
" Sure thing dad" I replied as I smiled because I felt my dad's divine sense me, not wanting him to know about my ability i released the aura of a third stage body tempering realm and saw him nodded his head clearly pleased.
" Good then you can leave"
Closing the door behind me, my expression turned serious as recall my dad's sad and serious expression when I entered,
"Something must have happened while I was gone, I'm going to ask him about it when his free" I thought before tossing the matter at the back of my mind as I thought of my mom.
"Sighing... It's going to be troublesome" I mused thinking of how to quickly leave the clutches of my mom.
Half a day later, I found myself lying down on my bed feeling weak with a bloated stomach.
"Ugh... I can't continue like this", I thought to myself.
Recalling what happened I felt a shiver ran through my spine.
The moment she saw me before I was given the chance to saw anything she embraced me very happy I came back alive then next thanks to me for being able to react fast enough I was able to avoid being stripped on the account of injuries, seeing me adamant on refusing to strip she called different physicians to check me in case of any injuries, I had to agree on this which is way better than the first option.
It was only have the affirmation of different professional physicians did she finally calm down or so I thought, she dragged me to the dining hall forcing me to eat saying that I have lost weight, left with no other choice I could only eat to her satisfaction. After almost suffocating from her care I was only able to leave after lying to her that I wasn't in any danger, I was afraid of telling her that I almost died repeatedly, she would never let me leave her side again.
"Knock!"....
A knock sounded on the door as my dad voice came from behind it," alen are you free"
" Yes dad come in"
My dad entered inside and saw me lying down with a bloated stomach.
Chuckling he said " I guess you had a hard time uh"
"Tell me about it" I replied as I sat up straight.
" So tell me about your trip to the forest" John asked.
This time unlike my mom I told my dad everything from the lion to the monkeys the the sixth stage beasts and the rest well ofcourse hiding the part related to my cultivation technique and altering a few things like the cultivation realm of the beasts I faced. John silently listen without much change to his expression.
After I finish a few moments passed as we sat in silence before my dad said something," you have really been through a lot these past weeks uh... "He finally spoke
" Yeah but it's not without gains" I said.
Afterwards we engaged in small talks.
Minutes passed as I finally brought up the question I wanted to ask" dad what happened while I was gone" I asked with a serious expression,
My dad looked at me before sighing,
"The spring flow city lord has been assassinated with his family murdered " he said in one sentence
I sat rooted to my spot frozen as I processed the words I just heard, after sometime I wanted to say something, there is a lot of questions I wanted to ask but the only word that came out of my mouth was ," how" I asked
"No one knows, the person who did this knows how to cover up their tracks" John said with killing intent boiling in his eyes.
Michael was his only friend so it understandable.
"So we don't know who killed him or is their anyone you suspect" I asked.
" I believe it's the working of the the black sun cult" he replied
"Black sun cult, who are they" I asked curious.
"I've said enough, your current strength is to weak to know about them, when you become a fifth stage foundation establishing realm expert I will tell you about them"John said as he stood up and leave without waiting for me to say anything.
Curious and confused about the black sun cult I decided to push it at the back of my mind as I prepared to breakthrough.