27 Escape

"Are we doing this or not, I've said this too many times already, let's go!"

Lard shouted. He was starting to get annoyed that the guards were still getting hyped about their newfound strength when he had already repeated 'let's go' too many times.

"Chill down Lard, we're ready."

"Right, I was just a bit excited about this cool technique you did. I've seen other's pull it off too... Now, where do I remember that?"

"..."

The guards started to get noisy due to Lard's technique.

"Ah! I remember! Kelal also used such a technique when the lord was in danger!"

The guard who shouted that out had quite a shocked face.

"Kelal? Impossible!"

"Was that what he used? Didn't his look more yellow?"

Many started to debate about such a thing.

"Do your work! Do you think that your families would be fine without you?"

I spat. I really didn't want to sound like I was holding their families hostage, but the beast had already started moving. I couldn't help it.

"Let's go! I don't want to have to repeat this more than once! We have to get ready to hold back this beast!"

Lard hissed. I could tell that his face was taking a turn for the dark when they talked about Kelal. I couldn't help but laugh in my mind. Though Kelal was father's left-hand man, he never really agreed with anything I proposed. He was like Lard but used to be more about politics than him. He was less of a muscle brain and more of a bookworm.

The two, Lard and Kelal used to have the highest Realms in the Rox family, but due to the Rox family having a war with the Dorial and Ji family, the main warriors of the Rox family: Lard and Kelal had almost lost most of their cultivation, dropping from the Sixth layer to the Third.

Kelal, who used to be as mighty as an Ox, was now stuck being my butler. He was too suggestive and still retained his pride. He always phrased it as 'I have no need for might, only words are needed to change the world!'

The guards had begun charging towards the beast. The beast only batted an eye once before he waved one of his paws, which created a massive avalanche.

The guards didn't hesitate to jump into the avalanche, which caused the beast to look back. Its eyes, which were blood-red had become a bit clearer.

Lard, who had jumped in with the guards had already come out of the avalanche. Lard's clothes were in tatters, but his body was as clean and spotless as it could be. His face was radiating a murderous glare as if running into the avalanche did no harm. He brushed off his shoulders and once again started to run towards the beast. He had a smug smile on his face.

The other guards had also started to come out of the avalanche with their clothes in tatters and their bodies fine. Carrying smug smiles, they had also begun to run towards the beast.

The distance between the beast and the guards before was around a few kilometres, but now, they had closed into a distance of around a kilometre.

The beast's face seemed to show it all. He had a red face and his stick was still rising, but the smug smiles that Lard and the others had shown had really put him into a bad mood. He had a blushing yet lustful expression. Blushing was normal if he, a half-step Warrior, couldn't take out a bunch of ants that were below even a single percentage of his strength with a single attack.

The beast had started to pay more attention to Lard and the other guards, who seemed to be crazily joyed about their increase in strength. Their smug smiles almost made the beast feel a sense of mocking, only making him angrier.

"Come at me you fat Lion! I will be sure to spank your ass whenever I turn you into a Eunuch!"

Lard loudly glowered, causing the beast to wrinkle his brows.

"Hahaha! Lard you call that thing a lion? I thought it was a pig!"

"Right! I think that this is the meatiest pig I've ever seen, I need to hunt it down!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

The comments went on and on. The beast's expression went from lust to rage. It seemed that its fury had overwhelmed its lust.

It lifted it's head into the air and started to roar.

"ROOAAAAAAAR"

The ground shook and the nature surrounding the beast had already started to turn lifeless.

"Hahaha! We sure are lucky this time! Most of my cultivation is dependant on light, I can easily slice through the dark!"

A guard laughed.

The beast shot out a large wave of darkness from its mouth.

"Get behind me!"

The guard yelled.

"Don't be too cocky, Kumen! The beast is at least seven and a half layers higher than you, it could kill you with its pinky if it had one, hahaha!"

Lard laughed.

He and the other guards had already begun to get behind Kumen. Some elements were weak or strong towards each other. The light beat the darkness, just like the sun chased the moon.

{Author: This is fiction, please don't correct me, I'm not believing B.S like Flat Earth}

Kumen started to wave his spear in a spherical motion.

"Light!"

A shield of light appeared in front of Kumen. There was no chanting that came with Kumen's words, it was as straight up as it could be. He was a practitioner in the way of fast and quick reactions would always win the fight. If you attacked before the opponent had the chance to cast a Qi technique, then you would win, no?

When the darkness struck the light, the darkness started to evaporate!

"HAHAHA! I feel so young again! I feel even stronger than I was before, at the Fifth Layer!"

Kumen declared.

"I can tell that this is the same move that Kelal used! Does it also decrease our cultivation by a few layers?"

Kumen questioned.

"It does, after this, we will all probably become below the realm of Mortal."

Lard spoke while he shook his head.

"It's fine, we would die anyway after we run out of this strength..."

Another spoke with a dull tone.

"Let's get miss out of this first!"

Lard nodded.

He looked towards me and shouted even louder than before... I could already hear his voice before, but now, it just felt as if my ears were bleeding.

"Miss, you must start running! There isn't enough time for us to protect you and hold the beast. I think that we are still weaker than it by a whole lot. You must escape."

He sounded diligent and caring... I clicked my tongue and started running again, this time, without turning back.

Running for about a couple of minutes, I had already escaped many kilometres from the beast, Lard and the others. I was breathing quite hard. Even if I was a Third Layer Human Realm, the best I could do was merely run a couple of kilometres in this rainforest. The ground was currently wet, affecting my speed and there was also the confusing paths that I had to avoid. I could probably run more than a hundred kilometres if this was flat and dry ground.

Seeing a flash of dark green light, I started to look for a place to hide. After all, It could be a vicious beast. Even if this place was quite normal when I first came here, I wasn't taking the risk of losing my life. I had already become wary since I had encountered the beast.

Other's may say that I'm insane, but I really had no feeling when confronting that beast... Many say that if you're born as a noble, you would never go through pain... That was a complete lie! There was never pleasure without pain! I had already gone through much pain and suffering to get to where I am now! I may not have been here without father, but my name would still be out there, even if father disappears!

Two figures had started to appear out of the dark green light. One was wearing quite the heavy robe, while the other seemed to have liquid coming out of every pore of his body...