CHAPTER 3: GREAT APE CLAN.

Ye Shan woke up with a start, then suddenly grabbed his head, as images and letters flashed in his head, forcing him to move about, he ultimately falling flat on his face after missing a step. After his fall, he just decided to remain there until the pain subsided.

After sometime, "Ouch", the pain in his head stopped, then came the pain on his body for falling so suddenly.

Ye Shan managed to sit against a tree behind him, that he realized he fell from as he woke up.

"That's right, after leaving the village, I was so drained from using the system and left in a hurry", Ye Shan sighed, "this is gonna draw attention to me, when the whole point was to leave without any trace."

Ye Shan thought for a moment and hearing a roar deep within the forest, decided to push those thoughts to the back of his mind.

"At the very least, I won't be in danger for the time being, so I have to accumulate some strength before those guys come knocking".

Having settled that, Ye Shan stood up and taking his Sheath with him and the remaining stuff, already in his storage ring, he set off in the forest. Only, he didn't notice that the handle of the sword he took with him on his back had turned from black to crimson and seemed to glow as if it were alive.

Ye Shan quickly moved through the forest, approaching the place where the sounds were coming from. Not for anything other than curiosity, having heard so much about how scary the Demonic beasts of this forest are.

Ye Shan had even heard that places like this is like a domain of the strongest Demonic beasts, the farther they are from the capital the stronger they.

Apparently the Villagers situated around the areas, are like animals in the zoo, caged in their villages; and that for a village to be situated in these areas, the ruling powers must approve, otherwise those villages would have long been overrun by hordes of Demonic beasts.

While Ye Shan was fascinated by the Stories heard, he was also excited when he noticed Demonic beasts closing off his path of return.

'This shows that they are either very intelligent or the boss is directing them,' Ye Shan thought as he smiled. Ye kept going in till the Forest began opening up to give a vast clearing, where he suddenly stiffened.

A cold chill passed through his spine after seeing what was in front him. A huge arena appeared in his eyes, the size of Four football stadiums combined, made of stone and filled to the brim with Monkeys and Apes. But that wasn't what made Ye Shan freeze in his tracks.

Five huge Shadows of overwhelming auras were sitting behind the arena overlooking it like shadows and watching him. Three of the shadows didn't even glance at Ye Shan but the other two were staring at him.

One of these two which Ye Shan took to be male by his silhouette was Staring at him blood-red eyes while the other which had a skinny shape had eyes that showed amusement more than curiosity.

Inwardly, Ye Shan was cursing himself.

' You idiot, you let your guard down, how can you be so overconfident, idiot, idiot. I'm probably going to die here just because I want a fight '

As Ye Shan stood there not daring to move, the shadow with the red eyes turned away from him, relieving the pressure on him. After Ye Shan calmed down, noticing that he wasn't about to be killed, he decided to look at the beasts around him and if possible escape. But the more he looked, the more his face turned ugly.

After reading all the books in library so many times over, he was familiar with many times of this world, including the Demonic beasts of particular interests. The Great Ape Clan was ones of those.

' Shit, is this what they call karma, I just messed with the timeline and now I'm bearing the consequences'

Earlier Ye Shan used the System's power to reverse time in which he avoided fighting grey by leaving earlier and leaving the village. He knew that there'd be a ripple effect, such as the guards and their names being different, but it was to be expected. He could bear with that, but he realized that action of his had drastic effect and he hadn't sat down to confirm what was new with this timeline before moving carelessly.

' Shit, Shit, Shit. In this timeline my meeting the Great Clan wasn't supposed to happen at this time and the five shadows were supposed to be one. Fuck, I've screwed up badly this time. The damn system didn't even give so much as a warning. Now that I think about it, it was the one who reacted to the fight with grey and set on this path, Arggh.'

Meanwhile a battle was going on within the Stone arena. It battle between a Muscular ape close to 4 meters tall and a skinny but muscular looking monkey.

The huge ape was pretty normal looking except for his bright silver fur and bronze fists. He roared and hammered his huge fists into the ground generating shock waves and slight cracks. Ye Shan was slightly surprised by his strength, knowing in terms of raw power, he was no match for the ape.

Ye Shan turned his eyes to the skinny ape, he stood straight and tall, with his tail moving sideways from time to time. Looking at him gave Ye Shan, the impression of a proud prince or noble. You could see it in his eyes.

Surprisingly enough, all the noise were coming from the apes and some other Demonic beasts who came to spectate the battles. The other monkeys which I noticed were similar to the noble monkey were all silent like they were mute or something.

A monkey wearing clothes similar to mage with a short staff at his waist , walked up to an elevated platform and give a scream which shook my ears and made me dizzy. I realized that was the signal for them to start the match.

Meanwhile, while Ye Shan was observing these the shadows huddled together with the skinny figure telling the other four something but it's voice seemed so small compared to the others. At first there were only occasionally growls with the skinny figure whispering and pointing at the human who wandered into their midst, but when the skinny figure mistakingly let out human words "It's for his own good", the biggest shadow let out an angry growl at the skinny figure interrupting the whispering figure.

But somehow all that noise didn't seem to be have been heard by anyone. Ye Shan obviously didn't know he was the subject of discussion of some persons. At this point, he was fully fascinated by the fight going on before him.

The silver ape rushed to attack first. Waving his fists he swung them both at once from the sides to capture the noble monkey. Perhaps already expecting that move, the noble monkey kicked his feet off the ground lightly to meet the raging ape. Before the ape could realize, the noble monkey was stepping on his moving fists and out right on top of him.

The noble monkey while lightly landing, with the arrogant smile on his face turned around, expecting the silver ape to crash onto the ground, was stunned to find the ape flying right at him. The ape slammed into the noble monkey headlong falling over him, but suddenly there was an explosion.

"Boom"

There was a bit of smoke but was quickly cleared showing the Silver ape basically unharmed due to his thick skin but the noble monkey was nowhere to be found.

But some apes quickly growled and pointed at the platform where the mage monkey was scared half to death to see the noble monkey beside him. The whispering monkeys quickly clapped and banged their tails but no sounds were heard from their mouth.

This was just the warm-up and the two fighters were testing each other. But a lot of the spectators were lost as to what actually happened. Naturally, Ye Shan understood instantly.

"I see, interesting, these Demonic beasts must be their geniuses and their battle talents are top-notch.

"The noble monkey is more agile and dexterous than the silver ape but in top-speed

the latter was clearly better.

"The noble monkey used his natural lightness and inscription skills to detonate a air around them just enough for him to escape grasp using a switch, leaving the silver ape blinded temporarily and destroying the

"Come to think of it, the use of spirit qi by demonic beasts should not be possible at all, especially in this world. Demonic beasts should not be able to use spirit qi except for demonic qi"

"You're wrong about that"

Ye Shan stiffened as as voice as soft as a whisper floated into his ear. The voice was so soft, Ye Shan couldn't tell if he was hearing the voice in his mind or through his ear.

Inwardly calming himself down, he decided to answer the voice.

"What do you mean?"

A skinny shadow appeared before Ye Shan. It was a bit taller than him but it made Ye shan's heart rate speed up, as he quickly glanced at the five shadows only to find to his horror that the shadow with the red eyes were looking over and the skinny shadow with golden eyes was no where to be found.

Turning back to the skinny shadow, it was already up in his face staring at him, and as Ye Shan stared back into the golden eyes of the creature before he felt his heart leaping out of his mouth