The Monk And The Beauty

Inas and Flash could see what Iwan was thinking, and they both agreed with him on this one.

"The destroyed world had a single society like an immovable fortress made of hundreds of thousands of those powerful Sects. And, of course, there were many powerful humans in that world too..."

Flash nodded as Inas talked about the people of the world. Inas continued, and Iwan was focused on what and how strong these people of the destroyed world were.

'If he is praising their strength and this guy is nodding at his words, then they must be extremely powerful.'

Iwan instantly believed it to be so as he watched the nodding head of the dwarf next to him.

'They still died.'

"But, even their ways and strength weren't enough to challenge the spawns of those devils from just one of these dark worlds."

Inas looked sadly at the vacant space on the right side where a world was floating a minute ago.

"Just how strong were the people from the destroyed world?"

Iwan couldn't hold back his curiosity as he asked Inas with a sincere look.

"Well, you have already tested the strength of the people from the destroyed world."

The sadness that was hanging on the face of Inas vanished as he looked at Iwan and remembered how his apostle had stayed firm during that harsh 'trial'.

"WHAT?"

Iwan was stunned as a few words connected in his mind.

'Society, Sects, Powerful people, and above all, I have tested their strengths.'

Iwan stood up and stared at Inas and the vacant space where the world was once.

In his mind, an old man with ragged clothes appeared. But then, that same old man changed into an unparalleled beauty.

Finally, to his aged appearance once more. At the same time, all the torture that Iwan had gone through at the hand of the old man stuck him like a wave of traumatic stress.

"Don't tell me the destroyed world was..."

"Indeed. You have guessed it."

"At least, let me complete my sentence."

Both Iwan and Inas suddenly started bickering with each other.

Subsequently, Flash was thrilled as he finally reunited with the leftover drops of his bepsi, and the crumbs of popcorn that Iwan had thrown to his side before standing up.

"How did the martial society connect with our world?"

Iwan wanted an answer as things were getting out of hand.

"Well, in that case, I will tell you what happened."

Inas looked at Flash, who had half of his face dumped into his jade glass.

"Ahem. A day before the destruction of the world happened, the main figures of the martial society, the guardians, had already died after fighting a losing battle with the demons."

Inas looked down at the space and then at Iwan.

"The guardians died?"

"Yes, the guardians met a ruthless end. The whole martial society was already on its way to extinction after the guardians died. The world was headed towards its certain doom. Just when the world needed him the most, he appeared."

"Avatar!?"

Iwan took a step forward with excited eyes. His inner fan had awakened. The words spoken by Inas were something that Iwan had heard more than a million times.

'Avatar? What's that?'

For the first time, Inas was speechless, but that didn't keep him silenced for too long.

"Because of a certain monk, the spaces containing the sects became independent of their world."

Iwan was unable to fathom the concept of a place in a world becoming independent of the world itself.

'Well, nothing has made any sense since I passed the door after using the key. But, sadly, it was a monk and not...'

Iwan shook his head since everything till now felt like a rollercoaster ride.

"Simply, think of each Sect as a small world on its own. These hundreds of thousands of small worlds were finally attached to Earth thanks to another individual. That is how the martial society survived while bringing a new wave of power to the people of Earth."

Inas explained to Iwan with a smile. Nothing was hidden from him, and there was nothing that he didn't understand, so it wasn't hard for him to teach Iwan.

"Another individual? Who?"

First was a monk who was able to affect space itself.

Then, someone else belonging to the martial society had the power to connect hundreds of thousands of worlds to Earth.

"You have already met that beauty."

'That beauty?'

Iwan shook in anger as he thought about the Crimson Raven from the Ice Raven Sect.

'The only her I have met in my whole life is either my mother or the fake beauty, that bastard old man of the freaking Raven Sect.'

Iwan was sure that the 'her' in question was the old man of the ice raven sect.

"Don't worry. You will meet her soon."

"I see."

'This time, I will definitely run away before that happens.'

Iwan had already come up with a foolproof escape plan in his head.

He was acquainted with a man whose presence would even cause the dancing of thunderbolts, so there was no way that he wouldn't be able to run away.

"But I still don't understand one thing."

"How did one monk do all that?"

Flash also took his mouth out of the jade glass and looked at Inas.

Even he, the King of Olympian Gods, had no idea about the monk's identity.

Looking at the two questioning faces, Inas could only shake his head.

"That monk is someone even I am not allowed to talk about."

The celestial body of Inas changed as the celestial bodies moving on his skin halted.

The starry eyes returned to normal.

This time Inas took on the shape of a teenager with golden hair. Even his eyebrows were golden.

He sat down on his seat, and the picture he had drawn with his power slowly disappeared as the hall returned to normal.

"Was the question too hard that you had to change your appearance again?"

Iwan shouted at Inas, who looked like a laid-back kid at the moment.

"Don't forget who I am. I, The Sixth Light of Nothingness, am not one to be scared of someone with a bald head."

Inas said with a confident yet childish voice.

"Then, why are you sweating?"

Iwan could see drops of sweat pouring from the head of Inas like a leaking fountain.