Chapter 8 - CHAPTER 8 HIDDEN LIFE

"Beggar, I am finished on my task, gather everyone, we will teach those bxstards from the Demon Triad a lesson that they will forever remember." He snorts.

The place that he was thinking was his base of operations.

Sure, this place is full of criminals, crooks and other low lives but because of this, the number of things that can be bought or stolen is also greater.

"Boss, I heard from the others that the Demon Triad were acting so arrogantly because they have a true martial artists amongst them." Hearing this, Sean frowns.

Sure, he started practicing martial arts much earlier than the others but he is still at the skin tempering realm, he can only be considered as a quasi martial artist.

"I will deal with him, tell the others to start preparing." Unfortunately, he can no longer retreat.

In this part of the city, everyone respects the strong and worship strength, he does not want to be seen as weak in front of his subordinates.

"Hopefully, he has no technique." He mumbles, what is the most terrifying part of facing a martial artist is not the difference between physique but the ability to use skills.

Only true martial artists are capable of using them as they have a strict requirements in terms of body and vitality.

If one also has a combat type ability to pair it up, then, you would be able to dish out attacks stronger than the majority of martial artists of the same realm in the other worlds.

In just a matter of minutes, a large group of men gathers in front of him, there are thirty overall members and all of them are loyal to their gang.

"Let's go, prepare the berserker pill just in case, I will not be joining you at fighting the demon triad, I might be too preoccupied fighting the true martial artist in their group."

Hearing that there is a true martial artist amongst their enemy, many of them becomes nervous.

"Let's go!" Without waiting for them to change their minds, he lead them outside of the city.

Their group is a unique gang as they are situated inside the city and the law enforcers just let them exist without any problem.

Not because of anything shady dealings but because their group is known for their contribution in helping the city safe.

They also only do harmless illegal things such as selling without.

That is what the law enforcers knows about them but their secrets are quite many.

Arriving at the dense forest, Sean starts searching for a good monster to sign a contract with but all he sees are low level ones and those that clearly has no future.

After walking for five minutes, they finally arrived at their destination, a gathering of bandits.

Seeing a large number of them appearing, the bandits were alarmed and they quickly sound the alarm.

He does not stop them, only signals his group to start.

Without hesitation, his subordinates starts pushing five large ballista, aiming directly towards the base.

Even though he knows that doing this would result in many people dying and probably even innocents getting harmed in the crossfire, he already steeled his heart and shouts.

"Fire!"

With his command, the ballistas all let out strong arrows towards the establishment in front of them.

As the arrows rain down upon the bandits, there were screams of fear, pain and anger from them.

"Who has the audacity to attack our base!?" A loud roar comes out of the establishment as a man packed with muscles comes out.

"Gondez, today is the day you will day! You will regret interfering with my business!" Sean coldly stated.

He then pulls out a long sword, its shape is that of a sharp thin sword but it's form is similar to that of a saber.

If someone from his original world sees what he is carrying, they would exclaim as it is a katana.

"Mad Alchemist!" Seeing the blade, Gondez immediately recognize his identity as he laughs out loud.

"To think that you would deliver yourself to me! This made my job a lot easier, lord Francis, please capture this person!" Gondez then kneels towards a certain direction.

A person carrying a woman comes out of the base, he looks at Sean and sneers.

The people under Sean starts swallowing nervously, this is the first time they encountered a true martial artist.

"Can't I just kill him?" Asks the man casually.

"Please don't! We still need something from him, if you can capture him, I will pay you three hundred gold coins!" Hearing this, the eyes of the man lights up.

Paper money is no longer useful in this world, now, everyone returns to the gold standard because minerals of this world contains certain types of energies that can be used.

Most of the people like them trade using golds and other stuffs while those that works with the body governing the alliance mostly used contribution points.

"Beggar, Rider, the two of you should start preparing soon, that guy is actually much stronger than I thought." He tells them as he looks at his opponent solemnly.

The man was packing a lot of muscles, and this was bad news for him.

To become a true martial artist, one should at least surpass the skin tempering realm and reach the muscle tempering realm.

Judging from the bursting vitality from this man, he is no simple character.

The man puts down the girl that he was carrying and leaps towards Sean with his hand wide open, clearly trying to capture him in one swoop.

Raising his sword, he takes a deep breath, his form is firm, just as the man was about to capture him, he takes a step forward and slash.

This happened in an instant, the two clashes before the others can react.

The man was forced to retreat as his hand was bleeding, he was surprised, then enraged.

"How dare an ant like you try to fight back!" He roars.

Sean was inwardly frowning, that attack was one of his best and yet his opponent was able to take it head on without any preparations.

"Bull Fist!" Hearing this, the expression of Gondez changes.

He did not expect that the person he hired did not follow his promise and is now attacking with intent to kill.

Sean quickly blocks, in front of him, a bull seems to appear, charging at him at an incredible speed.

BOOM! He was blown away, the man starts laughing.

"Now you know! The terror of Mad Bull!" The man bursts out laughing arrogantly.

Sean gets up, he looks at his opponent with dread while the latter looks at him with shock.

Sean was thinking 'That was close! If I did not diligently trained those movements nearly every morning, that attacked would have heavily injured and probably even killed me.'

Liquid Body, a set of movement in the body where your muscles turns limp, making the blows much softer for you.

Redirection, a move that redirects the attack towards other directions.

"I need to land a decisive blow." He quickly realizes this.

His opponent is able to receive his attack without any fancy technique to help him, only by pure muscle mass.

This is one terrifying trait that all true martial arts have.

This is also the reason why gunpowder has started to become obsolete as they do not have enough power to hurt strong monsters and powerful martial artists.

"Impossible! How can you survive my attack!" The man was both shocked and furious.

He then charges towards Sean, intending to finish the job.

Sean narrows his eyes behind his mask and sheaths his sword before lowering his back, positioning his entire body into a frontal charge.

'Now!' With a quick charge, he unsheaths his sword at a blinding speed and lets out an all out slash at his target.

SWISH! Blood splashes as he managed to cut his opponent but not deep enough as he was grabbed and slammed to the ground.

He coughs out saliva after the impact, he did not expect even his sword drawing art was unable to cut his opponent entirely.

"I got you now, you bxstard." The man looks at him with a crazed look.

BAM! Suddenly the expression of the man changes as his face turns beet red.

His family jewels were hit squarely, the intense pain made him lose his strength.

Sean will not let go of such opportunity as he grabs his hand and the two of them switches position on the ground.

He might not have mastered any form of jujitsu but he has watched and performed them multiple times to know a thing about it.

"I am going to break your f*cking hand!" He roars as he tries to break it but he underestimated just how tough the body of a true martial artist is.

The man roars as he grabs his clothes and throws him away, causing him to crash into one of the trees.