It was now the tenth year since Kai came to this world. He was minding his business training his swordsmanship untill he felt an energy drawing him toward the cliff behind the house.
He decided to follow this energy and eventually got up the cliff, where he saw a cave.
The cave emitted a strong aura, and somehow this made Kai think of the mysterious book.
He decided to enter the cave and as he reached the middle the aura became stronger, suddenly it exploded.
Luckily Kai braced himself and as he got up he saw a set of ancient ruins Infront of him.
He turned around to make sure it's safe to exit, but to his misfortune, the entrance was blocked.
He had no choice but to focus on the ruins ahead of him, as he saw that there were runes inscribed on them.
As he was well versed in rune language which was written similarly to some of the languages on Earth, he deciphered that this ruins belonged to the ancient Swordsmen clan born from the abyss, who feeds on the darkness- The VoidGaurd.
As he made his way closer to the center of the ruins, he read of the tales of the VoidGaurd, how the served the VoidLord, and won countless battles against the other races.
When he finally arrived in the middle there were two pages on a stone carved table, which seemed to be used for banquets.
The pages correlated to the pages of the mysterious book. As he touched them he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey boy! How do you like this world?"
'This.... Is the old man's voice?!'
Indeed it was the old man from chapter 1.
"Now listen, I don't have much time to talk to you, so I will implant some techniques that may be of use to you. Now Kai! Take my symbol, the symbol of the Abyss! For with your right hand, you won't only beat your meat, but also your enemies!!"
'Wait wtf is this old man talking about?'
Suddenly a beam of light shot down from the sky, and enveloped Kai. His eyes began to glow, as his body started levitating. After a few minutes it finally stopped.
"Those are the techniques of the VoidGaurd, though, you will only gain access to all the techniques when you reach the realm of True Void Aura. You will have to train a lot with the available techniques. Now go! Entertain me! Bwahahaha!"
All of a sudden Kai experienced a splitting headache, and woke up in his bed.
"Huh? How... Did I get here? Was it a dream?" Kai asked confused still looking at his bandaged arm, when he sneaked a peak underneath to see a tattoo made from abyss on his arm, then he recalled the old man's words: "Now Kai! Take my symbol, the symbol of the Abyss! For with your right hand, you won't only beat your meat, but also your enemies!!"
'What the hell is wrong with that old man?' he thought as he took one final glance at the tattoo on his arm, 'So this is the symbol of the VoidGaurd, eh?'
Suddenly the door burst open. And Loriell came rushing in.
"Kai what happened! Why were you bleeding on top of the cliff?" She asked worriedly.
"Wait, I was on the cliff?" Kai asked bewildered.
"Yeah, we found you on the cliff, with your clothes torn, what happened?"
And so, after explaining the half truth, Kai got rest, and wasn't allowed to train for three months.
Although through the VoidGaurd techniques he could do mental training.
Mental training, is the concept of creating a space in-between the dream realm and the conscious realm. In this space you are omnipotent and can manipulate it to your desires.
Kai used this ability to repeat the sparring match between him and Hanzo, and then got in low spirits as he only won once out of ten. And saw that this was Hanzo on easy difficulty. This meant that he won by luck.
But what was the most disturbing fact, was that the old man held authority over this world, just who is he? What is his real identity? What does he want with me? These questions echoed through his head, distracting him from the real world.