Ten years

Someday in the morning -- IN front of a random cave in the Outer Beast Zone

Robin didn't know if today was Saturday or Wednesday, everything is the same for him now, but at least it was the best time of the day for Robin, the time when he meditated on the heavenly laws around him!

And meditating on the heavenly laws was not very difficult in fact, to say it clearly, it is not difficult to find a specific law to meditate on its details, because everything that happens around can be linked to a law!

Scenes of leaves falling, for example, captivate him for a moment while he thinks about what he sees... Can this be attributed to the laws of the path of the wind that carried the leaves and made them sway so lightly, or is it something had to do with the laws of the path of plants because the leaves dried up, and this is what made them weak and carried by the wind?

  And those small stones rolling from the top of the mountain, can they be attributed to the gravity low or to the paths of wind and water that loosened the soil and caused the stones to move in the first place?

  Wherever he looks, he finds a possible law... But what next?

Supposing that he settled on one of the minor laws found in nature and decided to focus on studying it completely, any random minor law from these scattered paths would take him dozens of years to complete a technique for using it, so even after months had passed since his arrival to the cave, he was not hasty in his decision, if he chooses to spend his life in pursuing a law, then at least it has to be the right one.

But what really baffled him was that throughout these months of meditation, he could not identify a single undiscovered path, all that he identified were minor laws of paths that already are well-known!

'I know it's hard to comprehend a minor law in any path, but just discovering them is that difficult!' Robin's thought and his eyebrows tremble

The previous generation of Sages weren't idiots, they already identified all the heavenly baths that can be seen or felt, they know that these entire paths are there but they can't get in touch with even a minor law in some of those paths...

Such as the path of Space, and Darkness, for example, although the existence of these paths cannot be denied and everyone knows that they are around them, all the sages who tried to ponder over them said it was impossible.

The current law extraction system relies entirely on meditating on the law and trying to copy its effects through internal energy, but who would meditate on something that has no clear features? 

For example, Robin now knows that everything around him is stuff that exists within a specific space, but with all these materials and living creatures inside the space, how can space be space anymore? It is already filled with stuff and the word lost its meaning! How is it possible to extract a law for something when you cannot find a pure body for it to look into?!

'Wait, maybe the key to that is--?!'

"Ah, if you come near me, you dirty tiger, I will kill you!!"

"..Is that a girl's voice? What is a girl doing here? ..heh~" Another scream from afar forced Robin to sigh and shake his head.

This wasn't the first time he was about to reach the tip of a thought string and was interrupted by a cry for help, but he didn't get angry this time either and got up and started moving toward the source of the sound.

As usual, he advanced quickly toward the person who was crying out for help, and as usual, he found himself in a good location to prepare an ambush and waited...

Only after a few seconds a skinny teenage girl appeared running with all her might, even with her annoyed features her beauty was visible even to the blind!

Right behind her, a huge tenth-level black tiger was running after her with his salvia splashing everywhere

Robin slightly furrowed his brows upon seeing this sight, a girl of this age shouldn't have enough strength to run away from a tenth-level beast!

But he wasted no time in thinking and remained focused on his task. 

The moment the black tiger approached a certain distance, Robin jumped out of his hiding place and sent a powerful kick to the tiger's back foot, after which he quickly climbed on top of it and with one punch smashed the back of its head!

Those in the Energy Foundation Realm -under level 11- couldn't send long-range attacks, fighting huge fanged, and clawed beasts face-to-face was not wise at all…

"You.. who told you to save me? Who said I needed saving?!"

Robin looked beside his eyes at the young lady whose features turned from annoyance to anger, but he only smiled and shook his head, then began slashing the front thigh of the black tiger...

During the past months, he did not speak to anyone but himself, even the ones whom he saved, he left them with a smile on his face and without saying a word so as not to build anything personal with those people and so that no one would ask them to accompany him or anything like that, so whether if this girl is grateful or not it does not matter, Black tiger meat isn't bad either...

"Oh..?!" The girl hit her foot on the ground when she saw Robin's reaction, then looked up and yelled, "Uncle Brown, you have seen that I didn't ask for help, this is just an external factor, if you mention this in the report I will be angry at you!!"

The knife in Robin's hand stopped when he heard those words and his eyes opened wide, he didn't dare to breathe loudly at that moment, 'There's someone else around? How did I not notice it?!'

"I know, I know, you brat can continue towards Jura City, we have wasted enough time on the way…"

*Ba-dum*

Sweat began pouring out from Robin's head profusely, although that person did not show any killing intent towards him, the sound coming from every direction was sufficient to reveal a strength, even now after hearing him he couldn't detect his location! He is not someone whose shoes the current Robin can wipe!!

If he really interfered with something he shouldn't have and that girl decided he had to die, then that person would...

"Hey, you! I, Mila Bradley, didn't ask for your help." Robin's thoughts were interrupted by a female voice coming from behind, "...But your intention was good, and at least now Uncle Brown won't step in to save me. Whether I needed it or not, I now owe you one. If you need anything, come find me in Bradley Pearl Cit."

*swoosh*

*swoosh*

*BAA*

"Haa... Haa.." Just after the girl and her guard left, Robin knelt on both hands and let out loud gasps, he had come to save a weak girl being attacked by a beast, but he ended up being at the mercy of a word from that girl…

"Hoo~ There was such an expert with her watching in silence, no wonder her features were showing annoyance rather than terror…" Robin rubbed his forehead gently, but he suddenly stopped and looked toward the direction the girl had disappeared in, "Wait… Mila Bradley?! "

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In Jura, the situation settled faster than he thought. Because he was already living in isolation, his absence haven't really affected the lives of many.. Rather, most of them did not know that he had left until an eccentric young girl came to announce that she was challenging him, but he didn't answer the call!

Many called him a coward and a shame to the city and.. and..~ driving Earl Brian Burton to personally appear and announce that Robin has left the city for an open training period and he does not know when he will return, maybe he would never return.

The news broke like a storm across the city and found its way to the entire Duchy of Alton, not every day such a genius appears, but this one disappeared just as fast.

But even this was only circulated among talented of the younger generation, and soon the name of Robin Burton subsided and disappeared...

A mere tenth-level teenager doesn't affect the big picture of a grand duchy inhabited by millions of people.

The Patriarch tried to search for him, but he hadn't found a trace. Robin didn't tell anyone about his destination, so no one tried to search for him in the outer beast zone, even if someone did go to search there he wouldn't find him in his small cave within such a vast area.

eventually, Patriarch Brian sighed and tried to forget the beautiful dream he painted for the family one day...' this boy was as stupid as he was a genius!'

As for his father, he pressured the family to increase his allowance in order to *increase his contributions and bring more geniuses to the world*, and he had what he wanted~

Robin's mother was the only one who was really saddened by his absence, but she consoled herself that he's now in a better place doing whatever he wants.

As for his only friend, or more accurately, the person who used to sit with him for an hour every few months, Billy Burton, stayed for a while looking at the road which his friend had left from. He stayed like this for a few weeks until the last time when he closed his fists tightly, clenched his teeth, and turned around to leave. no one knew what he was thinking, but this young man looked as he had made a fateful decision.

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Ten years passed in a flash...

Robin was still sitting in front of the same cave, but his surroundings had changed. It was covered with the hides of the beasts he had killed while their heads decorating the walls. He himself grew a thick beard on his face.

and he has been sitting like that for quite some time now... a few screams and yelling resounded in his ear but he didn't move a muscle

seeing that his rescuing duties would never end, and after the dangerous incident with Mila Bradley, he decided that these people need to bear the consequences from deciding to enter the Outer Beast Zone on their own.

the first few months after his decision were the hardest, ignoring them then hear chew noises, always send a shiver to his spine...

He couldn't handle the feeling of guilt sometimes and would go on a frenzy, kicking and punching the stones of his cave until he passed out.

He even give up a few times and raced to rescue them, but these weak moments got less and less until it vanished completely...

Now, a human shouting, was nothing different to him than the chirping of birds to his ears, can never distract him.

Maybe he would help when he is out hunting himself or when his bored, but it's not nearly as an intense obligatory job for him as it was when he first came

During this period Robin hasn't mastered anything yet, his destination is still unclear and overcast... Ever since he hadn't discovered evidence of any new path during the first year of meditation.

eventually, he concluded that just sitting and meditating was a dead end.

So he decided on checking random minor laws until he finds something worth pursuing.

Currently, he has several theories and knows some truths about more than one undiscovered minor heavenly law, coupled with his harsh living conditions over the past decade, had made him much more stronger and experienced, he wasn't just the energy container he was in the past..

his current strength is already above the tenth level boundary.