10 Tale of the Silver Monster
A rush of anger and humiliation contorted Ortus's face and he ignored his missing ear.
"You actually.....!!!!"
Ortus shouted in anger, so angry he didn't even finish his sentence. He channeled his astral energies into his right fist and lunged angrily towards Verathragna.
At the same moment, within Verathragna's thoughts: I can't outrun him and he is stronger. I didn't kill him earlier as the academy forbids killing, what an annoying academy.
Seeing Ortus's fist covered with fierce astral energies and the spearhead of his anger and humiliation. Verathragna smiled: If that hits a vital spot it could be bad....but only a vital spot and....you are neglecting your legs!!!!
Verathragna rushed with a mental shout, towards the fist that wanted his life and positioned his body, letting it hit.
Simultaneously, he focused a part of his power around his body's predicted impact area while focusing his strength in his legs and fiercely striking Ortus's leg joints. It was with much self control he avoided ripping the arteries in Ortus's lower joints which would have guaranteed him dying from blood loss and if lucky, just being a cripple.
Clush.
That was the sound of Ortus's fist penetrating his upper torso with zero resistance from the inside. V had made sure that Ortus's did not hit any of his organs, bones, arteries or any vital points. Though, Ortus's skill of using that fist technique was quite smooth and profound, truly commendable, he's evidently fought a few battles himself ironically this helped V instead.
Ortus's control of his fist technique reduced the rough unfocused parts of astral energy, his power was concentrated on his fists with little energy around it to injure the area around the impact on V's body, further reducing the damage to V's vital points or lack thereof.
Skiddddd!!!!!!
The force of impact passed straight through V with the remnant force pushing him back a few steps but in the moment of impact, V stared at the vague image of nerves and flesh; maybe even brain matter; visible from the small geyser of blood splurting from Ortus's missing ear's previous position.
Sigh.
V lamented, " I can't kill him in front of a witness unless I killed her after but she doesn't look stupid and probably would be on guard, she is as strong as this fool too... Sigh...too bad. If only I had a slow acting poison to feed his brain through his missing ear...sigh"
V didn't like not finishing off opponents but while under the Academy's roof he had to play by their rules unless there were no witnesses. That and he didn't carry along with him a slow acting poison.
All of this happened in a few seconds. The scene of V being pushed back slightly with a hand through him and Ortus being kicked off his feet and landing on the ground face first occurred before the eyes of a shocked young lady.
"Pu!"
V held one hand above the hole in his torso and the other covered his mouth as he coughed a mouthful of blood. Despite all this he still had a smile on his handsome face as if this was but a trivial matter.
Ortus tasted dirt in shock and pain. V didn't give him time to rest as he kicked him in the pond water.
"Aghhhh!!!!!"
Ortus screamed in pain- Why other than the blood spilled from the missing ear, bruised face, missing tissue(ear), dirt filled mouth , you asked- the pond has special properties, the Salt grain algae present gave the water, sea water properties for the benefit of salt water fish. A fun idea by one of the Academy's previous vice-deans .
"Huhu"
V couldn't help but chuckle looking at the spectacle. He turned to the jaw dropped girl.
"Hey, take care of him would you. If he gets back up, I'll have to kill him."
The salt like water entering his head through his missing air was giving Ortus one hell of an agonizing head ache. The taste of dirt, hurt to his pride, pain, blood loss and all the other painful factors had him occupied at the moment. Thankfully in his agony, he was wasting his astral energies thoughtlessly so even if his will allowed him to pursue V, he'd still lose despite him, V, being injured as well.
What a joke. If kills were age Ortus would be a newborn baby and V a near 20 000 year old man.
"Hm"
V's smile faded upon hearing the wind change- someone was coming. They weren't slow either- Swish. A middle-aged man appeared from the south and closed in on them.
"What's all the commotion?"
He questioned strictly. Just Noting the enforcer uniform he was wearing, V pointed to the bubbles in the pond from the drowning Ortus. Actually V had no idea the man was an enforcer, well yes an idea, but just that. The uniform he had been wearing and his age were what spurred the thought, he had skipped that part of the procedure after all.
The man jumped into the pond while the bubbles creation and destruction slowed.
A few seconds later a Ortus fish was fished from the pong in the hands of the middle-aged man.
"All three of you are coming with me."
..........
"Hhhhm."
The morning sunshine gently caressed V's face with its warm hands. He was bathing in a bath of water with a blazing source of heat beneath it. He had procured some herbs and materials for his body's refinement by exchanging a few things that he lifted off Ortus in their fight. He exchanged the Arterial Circulation level items for several tens of Body Refinement materials even getting a discount. He had also gotten a few violent arterial circulation materials which he was boiling along with himself in the bath currently.
He would submerge himself in the boiling water for a while every 5 minutes. He absorbed the astral energies from his constellation and the yuan meteor stones (That Ortus was such a giver). The vast amounts of calm astral energies from his constellation with the tad of tyrannical power from its origin layer and the energy from the second layer yuan meteor stone, were rushing about his energy channels and seeping within his bones accompanied by the warm herbal water.
A small tower soaked up his perspiration on his forehead as his neck rested on the edge of the barrel like bath tub. He sighed thinking of what the value of items he lifted off Ortus were worth. This meant that Ortus evidently had strong backing. Nonetheless, he was the one jumping into the beast's mouth by attacking him, Verathragna.
"Ahh...besides I get to enjoy this type of bath for awhile thanks to him. What a charming fellow though I'll have to kill him."
V inhaled deeply and ducked under the greenish black water surface. Circulating the vast amounts of energy to refine his energy channels and bones while thinking of how he should go about fusing the qi of his constellation with his blood. The searing pain felt like acid touching his innards with tiny ants within taking a bite out of his bones and energy channels.
A normal man would have long fainted. But he endured. Suppressing his cultivation to the limit, where it showed signs of breaking unless it could continue. His energy channels widened and thickened under the torture. His bones were purged and grew increasingly crystalline.
......
Shin Wen was also cultivating, surpassing V's cultivation and consolidating his cultivation base at the sixth layer of the Body Refinement realm while V was still at the fourth level. Of course, this was due to the technique he received from Uncle Shen and the fact that V was intentionally suppressing himself.
Emerging from his cultivation, he was met by his Senior Sister, Ling'er who was a student of Geroff along with himself and two others who were his seniors as well.
"You are truly hard working little junior brother. You have quite the abnormal friend as well."
Shin Wen smiled embarrassingly in response before answer,
"Not at all Senior Sister, this is only what I must do."
He clenched his fist as his eyes burned with ambit. Su Ling'er smiled looking at his expression- this junior brother of mine surely has his own story as well- she pinched his cheeks like a baby while he protested half-heartedly, Su Ling'er was quite the beauty after all. She was admired by many in the Academy, a wet dream of many youths.
"Wait, What do you mean abnormal friends senior sister?"
Recalling those words, he asked with a puzzled expression.
"That Silver haired young man you entered the Academy with sliced off the ear of a third year 7th level Arterial Circulation practitioner despite being in the middle stages of the Body Refinement realm."
"!!!"
Shin's eyes widened in shock. Reading his expression, Su Ling'er continued,
"He down right abused him, I heard Ortus had his ear sliced off and was beaten badly and later thrown in the Central pond last night. His family was informed and picked him up from the medical area. Many witnessed his sorry state and our academy's chief beauty, Luo Shen witnessed his beating personally. She was annoyed by Ortus and shocked as well thereby spilling the beans. She said that silver haired called himself Verathragna during the enforcer's questioning, he toyed with Ortus like an adult fighting a baby."
"I find it hard to believe as well. Despite it not being a direct contest of strength a middle stage body refinement or practitioner defeated and near killed a upper stage arterial circulation practitioner. Everyone is talking about it currently, even the Academy's upper levels."
"As Ortus wasn't killed and Luo Shen bearing witness, he miraculously avoided punishment. Though I heard he has a severe injury himself, no one knows how severe but he could still walk with a hole in his torso. The experienced teachers simulated that he intentionally got hit and avoided his vital spots being hit. He is a God like fighter with God like fighting skills!!!!"
Is Verathragna in that Semi pool of death and torture, with a hole in his torso. Yes. Yes he is. With the properties of his astral energies and stimulation from his «Ethereal Time Constellation» ,his wounds were slowly healing. He actually welcomed the hole. The herbal bath permeated his energy channels and bones with ease and efficiency from entering through it. He had a hard time suppressing his advance to the fifth level of Body Refinement and would probably advance before the day's end.
...
Ren naturally stood guarding from the outside of his room. But left, after being enlightened on a rule of the Academy. Students and even Teachers could not enter a Student's room.
He explored The vast grounds of the Academy getting familiar with its environment. In his journey around the grounds all were unanimously talking about his monstrous leader, calling him just that "Monster". People reacted differently to the news, some with disbelief calling it a fairytale, others with awe upon listening to the witnesses of Ortus's body, others with anger from being related to him and others with schadenfreude and interest.
Ren ignored them and went to the Battle arena. Fighting against the weak and injured beasts. He was literally the weakest person in the Academy, with cultivation of the second level of Body Refinement. With his astral soul from the 4th heavenly layer he survived the onslaught of beast's threatening to tear him to shreds.
The Battle Arena was a location within the Academy where students battle against themselves to gain experience and temper their techniques. They also engaged in life and death battles with captured beasts. It was a great method to earn Star points. Star points were the Academy currency and all could be bought with it. Medicinal pills, Herbs, cultivation techniques, innate techniques, equipment, and much more.
"Damnit"
Ren cursed and gritted his teeth after being flung into a wall by a horned bull like beast. Even after selecting the weakest beasts, he was still having trouble. His eyes focused on the beast before stepping up and adopting a defense stance with his shield as the core.
Minutes later, he exited.
"Hey you, you are pretty weak aren't you. Would you like to be this fatty's subordinate? I'm super strong. A genius of the era."
Ren looked up to find a black haired, decently dressed fat ass with jiggly flesh. His face was well defined and round but his big fat belly was jiggling.
"Who are you?"
"Why I'm the genius Gil of course."
Ren humoured him a bit, he was slightly more open in the short time accompanying V. He judged it necessary to hear out Gil to learn more about the Academy and the Royal Capital.
"You want this fatty to be your guide, since you aren't going to follow me, it's going to cost you."
The fatty's eyes shone brightly as he kicked his lips and looked to the corner of his eyes in happy anticipation, even patting his belly a few times. Ren sighed.
....
"Nom Nom nom"
"Nom Nom nom"
Two bottomless pits gourged themselves within a restaurant within the Royal Capital city. A fat one and a slim one.
The fatty glared at Ren.
"I refuse to be defeated. A slim stick like you can't possibly eat more than me!!!!"
30 minutes later.
"..."
The fatty looked at his hill of empty dishes and shifted his gaze to the larger mountain of dishes belonging to Ren.
He slopped to the floor.
"This fatty admits defeat....Damn You are a bottomless pit!"
Ren cleaned his teeth, with a tooth pick.
"I don't want to hear that from you."
"Now, talk"
