11 Warning Shot
Chosen ones are those beings that are powerful seemingly without reasons. No matter how many times they could've died, they will always survive, one way or another. It looks like fate has given them a protective armor that helps them until they reached the pinnacle of their powers.
Fated ones, on the other hand, are much much more important than measly chosen ones. In fact, chosen ones can be killed or be produced by fated ones even with the protection of fate itself. Fated ones WILL survive until the fated day comes. On that day, they will be given a choice. These choices will not have a single right or wrong question, but what a fated one chooses on that day, at the very least, WILL effect a chaosverse. Depending on the choice it could even affect multiple realities. Fated ones are either born naturally or created by the interferences of higher powers such as godkings and up.
The mist-man is now contemplating in front of Razzeroth's body. If he revives him, Razzeroth will become a fated one and his choice will have a humongous effect. He waves his hands and covers Razzeroth's body with a cloak made from qi to at least cover the body, something he should've done earlier. The mist-man thinking on what to do mindlessly walked towards the body of Razzeroth. He didn't even take a couple of steps when he heard "STOP RIGHT THERE PEASANT!!". The mist-man looks up from where the voice came from and saw 3 men in knights armor standing on air. They were knights from an empire in the south that came to this place when heaven opened up earlier. Heaven opening up, at least for them, means that a treasure emerged and the heaven gave it its blessing or someone broke through and the heaven instead of giving a tribulation, gave it a blessing which is a very rare occasion. That is the reason why the countries sent some of their most powerful personnel to where the phenomenon happened.
As the head knight in front of the other 2 were about to say something else 3 more groups of 3 came flying in. Each in different kind of garbs. One group was wearing a traditional wizards` cloak that came from the west side, the group that came from the east were wearing fur as cloaks and boots, and the last group that came from the north were wearing blue armor that has a crest of a snowflake in front. "So you imperial scum already started the oppression of others huh?" said with disdain in his voice by the one in fur coatings. "Barbarians don't deserve to speak to me." said the Imperial Knight. "Hah! said by the muscle-heads from the empire." sneered by the people from the north "What did you say?!"
As the three parties were exchanging "pleasantries" the leader of the wizards just stares at the mist-man who was now wearing a curious look at the various groups. "Forgive my colleagues, they have a bad history with one another," said the old wizard as he closes into the mist-man.
The mist-man looked at the wizard and smiled. Unlike the other groups, this old man wasn't carrying any kind of greed nor hostility towards him, only curiosity and interests, the same as himself. Fortunately, he read Razzeroth's memories so he understood the wizard's words. "No worries, I wasn't angered or anything," He said with a smile. This earned the anger of the other group.
"Are you saying that you will do something if we did anger you?! Puny mortal!!" -Imperial Knight
"Who the fuck do you think you are, slave?!?!" - Northen Knight
"Better back up those words of yours!" -Barbarians
Each of those three groups was now releasing pressure towards the mist-man who was now looking at them with an expressionless face. The wizard with two apprentices was near him so they also felt the pressure that the three groups were releasing towards them. The old wizard merely looks up and smiled. The apprentices who were trying their hardest to even stand up from the pressure were now relieved from the pressure. The old wizard protected from the pressure. The others were now surprised and they start to tense. All three of the leaders from the groups were already in the sky immortal realm and their combined pressure was defended against by a single old man. This means that the old wizard in front of them has a higher cultivation than them.
"That is not very nice of you now, is it?" said the old wizard. He looked at the mist-man. The mist-man looks like he doesn't care for a single thing in the world. The wizard is now also intrigued. The old wizard didn't protect the other from the pressure but he was still standing like nothing is happening. "My name is Faust Digger, may I know your name, traveler?" if the groups flying above were tense, now, they were sweating bullets. Faust Digger, the man who was said to be the most powerful immortal on the planet. Who said to ascend and came back from the outer realms. Nobody knows how powerful he really is, but when there was a war between the countries 50 years ago, he single-handedly stopped it by freezing everyone in their places and pointed an earth spear to everyone`s head in the battlefield. He ordered for them to stop and made the rulers of each country sign a peace treaty.
Faust came to this place to investigate like the other countries. He noticed something wrong about this picture though. The nearest kingdom didn't send anyone even after seeing the heaven's open up. 'Why? They were the closest and they didn't notice? or did they already took the thing that opened the heavens? or --' his thought was cut off. " My name is Luan Shi(#1). And if you are curious about the phenomenon earlier, you don't have to worry about it anymore" said the man-mist. This further irked the people up above, but they couldn't move. They were all thinking that if they move, the legendary man below would blast them all to hell and back.
When Faust heard this, he wasn't surprised nor angered, he was actually relieved. Now even if a fight starts, it won't be between the countries anymore, it would be between them and Luan Shi. [Thank you, and sorry for the burden] Faust said through divine sense. He knows that the Luan Shi is at least at sky immortal realm as he wasn't affected by the pressure earlier. Faust also knows that Luan knows he just became a scapegoat. [No worries, You wanted to avoid a fight between them. I'll be the scapegoat for a favor though.] [What favor?] asks Faust. [Knowledge, your knowledge. Everything you know] said the Luan. Faust got confused with his answer, nevertheless, he still agreed. [I'll give you knowledge, as long as it is something that won't compromise my country.] [Thank you] Luan simply replied.
Faust reached out his hands and a jade slip appeared in it. He closed his eyes and the jade slip glowed green. The jade slip was then taken by Luan and crushed it immediately. After nodding to Luan, Faust looked up "Go back to your kingdoms, tell them that I'm watching all of them."
Faust flew away with the two apprentices of his. After a few minutes of flying one of his apprentices asked [Master, Why did you agree? We could've worked with them and attacked him even if he is powerful]. Faust looks at his apprentice with a smile. [I wouldn't dare to move against him, the nearest kingdom is full of seers and diviners but they didn't send even a scout to see what happened? That simple fact is already ominous for me but the appearance of Luan made me even sure of the fact that something will happen if we try to do something.] As he answered them, a bright light came from where they met Luan earlier.
They looked back and just saw 9 pillars of light charged with lightning energy. After the light disappeared, they heard a voice filled with coldness "That was a warning shot. Your move." The apprentice that asked the question earlier paled and sweat was now forming on his forehead. That pillar felt like it was powerful enough to kill an immortal. "Told you," said Faust with a chuckle.
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(A few minutes earlier back where Luan was)
Luan watched Faust and his group flying away with a smile. 'There really are kind and commendable people left.' He thought as he was sifting through the information held in the jade slip in his head.
He looked back at Razzeroth's body that was covered and started to walk to him. He was again stopped, not by one but by three different attacks from the three leaders. Those attacks created a deep singular line in front of his feet. "Don't dare move a muscle you plebian, whatever that is covering is mine" warned by the imperial knight. "Yours? Are you ignoring me?" said the northern knight. "Are we gonna fight or not?" asked the barbarian with an excited grin. Ignoring Luan they all started releasing pressure once more.
Luan seemed annoyed but he didn't do anything, he still continued on observing the tension that is appearing between the three. With a sigh, he starts going to the direction of the shadow wolf instead. He may not need to eat, but he still wants to see if he can make something "delicious" as he hasn't experienced the thing called "eating". For the third time this day he was once again stopped. Another sword mark appeared in front of him and embedded itself to the ground in front of him. "Fucking mortal!! How many times do my master has to say that you shouldn't move! Faust's warning can only hold us for so long," This time the man behind the Imperial Knight was shouting. He also began to release pressure. Maybe not as strong as the leader but he is also a sky immortal. "That will be my last warning shot. The next time it will be your head that will be hit."
Luan was now pissed. While looking down he raised his hands and brought it down. The next thing they know. Lightning so dense, powerful and heavy came down that they looked like pillars of light that fell down from the heavens. Each one fell down the vicinity of the nine people flying above. The leaders now have fear on their faces. As they were near that attack, they know that if even a sliver of that hit them, that part of their body will be burned to crisp. "That was a warning shot. Your move," Said Luan. He also made sure that his voice will be heard by all of the countries that surround the forest. He then looks at the leaders.
"If you have nothing to say anymore. You can go and scram the fuck away from here."
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Notes
#1. Luan Shi is two Chinese characters that I found. Luan being the character for random/chaotic then Shi being the character for reality. I don't know how right or wrong that is, I just experimented with the Chinese characters to make them sound cooler but at the same time have a meaning to the name.
