6 Chapter 25: Rank 3

He was too tired after he got poisoned and cured with lots of pain involved so he asked Thunder to carry him back to the town.

Luckily the town had a hotel for him to rest, he rented a room and slept like a log for at least 12 hours.

"Ok wake up Ape, there are some changes in your status so check it"

He checked the status after Ai.I told him, his strength increased again and only in 1 month short.

"When I was in his memory, the princess didn't have any of those pain or reaction to the cure that Death gave it to her"

"Of course it is different, Death's life force must be stronger as he got older so his life force effect also had different in the future."

His Ki increased by 150 and his muscles only increase 20 but based on A.I data, he had 50% chance to win against a rank 7 now. What he needed to do after this was to become a rank 3 cultivator.

His heart was strengthened during the curing process and his chance to rank up was guarantee to success.

"We need to go back to our house, the Ki here isn't suitable for a breakthrough"

"I know"

He left the hotel and returned to his world after looking at the sky filled with stars. One word to describe the sky same as the princess in his memory, Beautiful.

He took out Thunder from his normal bag and flew back to the school with ease. When he came back, the school disciples and teachers were busy preparing for the big tournament.

The stadium that the tournament would be held in, had been rebuilt with more seats for people to see and more battle platforms were built. The materials to build the platforms were very expensive to make because of its hardness and durability, the school wanted the officials to go all out without worrying about destroying the platforms like some years ago.

He could see commoner cultivators brought foods and all kind of stuffs into school to sell in order to get some extra money. And Lady Tara was their's Vip customer because she bought everything in their stalls without much bargaining.

She was still wearing veil and her new bodyguard quietly followed her then she saw Angus so she informed Tara.

"Angus!!! Good to see you are fine, how was your mission? Come here and eat this meat stuffed bread, it is delicious"

"Hi Lady Tara, seem like you are enjoying yourself very much"

"Of course, I can spend as much money I want during this season. Dad is busy enough to let his accountant to alone take care of the school money budget, I just come and borrow him anytime I want."

"..."

"You know I want to change my bodyguard, Mei ( the bodyguard ) here is very boring, she doesn't even respond to my joke or play with me. How can I have fun with her?"

"Young miss, my job is to support and protect you, not playing with you. Your father has specially ordered me not to follow any of your mischief prank and behavior"

"Well at lease you still let me take money"

She remembered Ben who still one of her favorite "tortured bodyguards"

*At Ben's house*

Ben was teaching with his one year-old son how to speak his and his wife's names.

"Morra, Morra,..."

"Mo..rra?"

"You are genius son, now my name is Ben. Ok, say Ben for your dad"

He lifted his son up and waited for this moment for a very long time.

"Be.. Be.."

"Yes? You almost there"

"Bell, Bell... Bell"

His son kept saying the name without stopping and his son's face was filled with bright smile. Ben on the other hand was motionless while holding his son, no smile or angry face on him. He then put down his son and left the room to the balcony.

"Ahhhhhhhh....." He screamed as his mind broken down.

*Back to Tara and Angus*

"I hope that Ben is having a great life. If he become my bodyguard again, I would call him Ben for a short times then back to Bell again."

Angus bid farewell to Tara after their conversation and he went to Lion Guard to cancel his mission. He knew the boy would die if he wasn't cured but he already drank the cure already, it wasn't his fault anyway so he didn't feel anything guilty, maybe worried about the boy but not much.

The sun was about to set, he went back to his house and saw Ling dusted the front gate, he said hi to her then asked what happened during his one month absence.

Nothing major happened during his leave and she didn't felt lonely because she was with Phoenix all the time and sometimes her brother called her from the long range communication stone.

Long didn't tell her anything about his mission but he wanted her to know that he was safe so she could stop worrying too much.

After done taking to her, he went into the house and called out Thunder and Hades. They went back to their branches on tree in the courtyard while Phoenix was sleeping peaceful under the tree.

A door opened from the tree then he went down, the secret room was still necessary because he needed his private space and used the Block without being spied. The room was filled with much purer Ki thanks to the codes he copied from the house, he then took out the Block and sat down in lotus position.

"Perfect, prepare to close the Ki storage when I absorbed enough Ki into my heart"

"The process will be perfectly executed but you need to remember that the Ki is unstable the moment its enter your heart so try to suppress it"

"Ok, the plan start now"

Angus absorbed the Ki surrounding him with a very fast rate and he directed the Ki flow into his heart. The process lasted for only 2 minutes then he stopped because his heart was filled full with Ki then his A.I started to contain the Ki inside his heart by closing the Ki storage in him.

The Ki gone wild the moment it entered, the blood flows also got interrupted and his face was pale. Blood started to dripped from eyes and mouth. The pain wasn't strong as the one he suffered last time but it was still pain.

"The Ki around the heart is stable enough, go for it"

The Ki storage expanded and his heart grew a little larger and more Ki flow into his heart. The heart beat faster as It was very greedy absorbed all the Ki inside and outside him.

When it done absorbed, it stopped and his heart was vibrating with immense life force. He could felt the Ki he had inside had reach a new level.

"Congratulation, the book said that when we reached rank 3, our life span increased and we could live up more than 200 years old."

Angus had reached rank 3 with his Ki increased to 1,000{K}. Yesterday he was 800, now it increased by 200.

His muscles didn't change because it only increase his Ki and life force. His blood flow were much faster so he didn't need to worry too much about his stamina when he battled.

The Block restriction lessen again. He could now coded up to 30th line, range increased to 32 meters and a new function he thought that he already had, Instant build. He remembered he didn't have the change to get build his house again but he did built the secret base.

"It is different, you built the secret base step-by-step while instant build can build with just one step only"

He checked to see his energy value changed to 7. His energy consumption on code lines increase when he reached a new two-digit line.

From 1st to 10th lines, cost him 1 Energy.

From 11th to 20th, cost 2 energy.

From 21th to 30th, cost 3 energy.

"Your chance of winning against a normal rank 7 is now guarantee to be succeeded. We can now have the chance to get the reward but that isn't enough, train harder this month."

"Max, Big Sis, Shiro and more, I can hardly wait to fight the officials"

*One month later*

Angus was in the courtyard and trained with 200kg shirt, he was so heavy that when he walked, his feet left a deep footprints on the ground.

His training was harsher than before, he didn't even take off the heavy shirt when he trained with the teacher. His reaction also improved to the point where he unconditionally dodged mosquitoes and flies during his walk.

There was only 1 day left before the tournament begin. All officials from rank 1 to rank 5 were all ready and trained very hard for this tournament.

At the school waterfall, Max was breathing slowly but the sound he breathed cause the small lake to had waves coming from him.

From a place not too far away from the school, people could see a small mountain being moved up and down, people was afraid that there was a monster but the cultivators assured them that they were safe and it wasn't a monster but worse than that, the one lifted the small mountain was Big Sis.

In a forest, Shiro was sitting calmly in the middle of a green field. He was just sitting there with his hand on the sword and after a while, he stood up and bowed for some reason. He then spoke sorry to no one around him then he took out his sword and he slashed his sword at the empty space. There wasn't anything happened but suddenly all the trees in front of him felt down with clean cuts, there were some wolfs inside the area and they were also killed.