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Joe Gordo please accept me as your disciple! "

"Joe Gordo I'm your fan! "

"Joe Gordo teach me to be like you! "

When Joe Gordo arrived at school the next day he was soon surrounded by a crowd of students who were shouting at him with enthusiasm, being someone almost invisible in the school environment, Joe Gordo was not very used to being the center of attention and being treated like a celebrity. As soon as he got a taste of fame, Joe Gordo adopted a smug look and looked at Nicolas and Jimmy with a smile.

Jimmy and Nicolas who were beside him almost wanted to spank that fat man when they saw the look on his face.

'O Gordo gains 15 minutes of fame and already thinks he is a star? I think we should teach this fat bastard a lesson! ' The thoughts of both were so similar that they even seemed telepathic.

While a part of the school was talking to Joe Gordo with an enthusiastic face Nicolas couldn't help noticing that some people looked at Joe Gordo with hostile faces, especially girls and some boys who secretly adored Ana. To be honest Nicolas wasn't surprised by this , what really worried him was the abrupt change in Joe Gordo's personality, it was like he was a totally different person.

The people who looked the most hateful at Joe Gordo were a group of girls looking at the crowd of people that surrounded Joe Gordo, among these girls was obviously Ana looking at him with her face red with anger. Ever since Fat Joe said those words to her, she felt extremely humiliated, she was the one who was used to saying those words to others and not the other way around.

Thinking about it Ana couldn't stop smoking. Who was she? She was one of the three beauties at school and an extremely elegant woman, all men would fight to date her, however this idiot Fatty really dared to offend her publicly. After some more thought she revealed a cold smile on her face before leaving the school yard with her group.

Nicolas didn't notice this change, in fact he was concentrating on a poster tacked to the school's walls. The poster had the photo of "King" Brutos with an execution notice below, obviously Brutos would not be the one that would be executed, in fact everyone already realized that Brutos' ego and vanity were huge, every commercial, poster or article talking about the stone men would have his picture no matter what the subject was.

'We inform you that on July 3rd, the execution of human rebels will be carried out at the Guillotine Palace, whoever does not attend the execution for any reason will also be executed! ' Nicolas read the contents of the poster carefully, it was usually quite common to have executions, but even so Nicolas could never get used to this kind of thing. Clenching his fists tightly, he decided in his heart that he would get stronger as soon as possible so that scenes like this wouldn't happen anymore.

After ignoring Joe who was showing off to his new "followers" Nicolas left the group and headed towards his classroom, upon arriving and sitting in a chair at the back of the classroom Nicolas couldn't help but feel that there was something very strange about that execution communiqué. Usually the notices of execution go out at least 1 month before they actually happen, however this time the notice of execution went out just 10 days before the execution. The reason they waited a month was because they didn't want the rebels to have an easy death, during that month they would be flogged and tortured before being publicly executed.

The Guillotine Palace, the place where the execution would take place, was the place within human territory most hated by the human race. This is due to the fact that the Guillotine Palace per year executed more than 1000 humans publicly and most of these executions were due to futile reasons like little complaints about the Stonemen.

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All Stonemen looked at the 40-story building with huge reverence in their eyes in their opinion the "King" of the city was the scariest existence they could have been able to witness, all the young Cultivators who were between 1st and 7th stage of Body Refinement dreamed of being like him, an expert in the 3rd stage of Soul Expansion.

"King Brutus… we recently found the corpse of Tenth Prince Doman in the dark forest of human territory…"

The man kneeling in front of the "King" of the city said in a low voice, but audible to anyone nearby. Brutos rested his elbows on the surface of the table and laced his fingers together in contemplation. Since the time Doman spent outside Stone Men's territory far exceeded his expectations, Brutus didn't feel too surprised or saddened by the news. In fact, what made him slightly uncomfortable was the fact that his assassin had killed Doman without even considering his status as the tenth prince.

"Besides…" The kneeling man's voice was slightly shaky. "We have received information that Sixth Prince Korg was attacked by masked growers and is now in serious condition. "

Brutus didn't move, however, the kneeling man could clearly feel the intention to kill and the cold aura emanating from his King, if he didn't know Brutus' temperament the man would definitely have the impulse to turn and flee as far away as possible. . The Sixth Prince's Talent Wasn't Much Better Than Doman's Talent The fact that he was 4 generations older than Doman didn't really mean he would be more exceptional or talented than himself.

Realizing that the two weakest members of his family had been attacked in a very short space of time, Brutus finally came to a conclusion that almost made him scream in rage.

"Erac, intensify the investigations and resolve this matter as soon as possible, I feel that…there is someone targeting the royal family. "

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Hours later Nicolas found himself wandering the dark forest with his Stoneman bloodline activated, although he hated feeling like one of those assholes, Nicolas unfortunately had to swallow his pride and disguise himself as a Stoneman to avoid arousing suspicion. Nicolas didn't even approach the spot where he'd killed Doman, bearing in mind that Doman was the Tenth Prince of the city, Nicolas knew there would be a huge mass of Stonemen soldiers investigating the spot.

At that moment Nicolas was concentrating on finding a vacant lot to continue training his skills and leveling up, bearing in mind that he might suddenly run into a magical beast, Nicolas became more cautious and kept moving forward. Despite being confident in his current strength Nicolas knew that magical beasts were scary existences and that if he wasn't careful he could lose his life without even noticing.

10 minutes later Nicolas stopped and accessed his inventory. Now that he was far enough out of town Nicolas could finally train with a little more confidence. He had long been anxious to see what that sword was in his inventory, yet only at that moment did he feel safe to use the weapon. With a thought, the sword floating in the gray space suddenly disappeared and with a bluish glow reappeared in Nicolas's hands.

The sword was thick, had a circular tip and both sides were extremely sharp, the surface of the sword was white in addition to displaying a black mark similar to a 4-leaf clover, in addition the sword hilt was slightly thin and black making anyone who wields it extremely comfortable. While inspecting the sword a description of the weapon suddenly appeared in his hands.

[Ruin of a Thousand Armies: This sword was used by many known and unknown experts, this sword was responsible for starting and ending wars, over time the sword developed an enormous thirst for blood to the point of consuming the blood of allies and enemies to increase your strength. ]

'Ruin of a Thousand Armies... What a domineering name! ' If this weapon really had the ability to consume people's blood and strengthen itself then it would undoubtedly be a terrifying weapon in anyone's hands. What Nicolas did not understand was why this weapon was in his inventory, after all whenever he received a reward from the system he was notified by it, however he did not see any notification that mentioned the receipt of a weapon.

Despite being very curious Nicolas still threw that thought to the back of his mind and got the sword in his hands. She was definitely strong, so he would be an idiot not to accept such a nice gift even though he didn't know where it came from.

With an awkward position Nicolas cut through the void toward a tree using all his strength. When the blade of the sword collided with the tree, it was like a hot knife coming into contact with butter, in just one second the tree's trunk was split in two causing the upper trunk to fall with a loud thud.

Nicolas continued to cut some trees for approximately 30 minutes, if any woodcutter witnessed this scene he could even give up his life at that moment and Nicolas was sure that if the trees were aware they were probably cursing him to death, at that moment he was like the enemy number 1 of all tree trunks.

[Sword Mastery +1]

[Host achieved "Apprentice" rank in the path of the sword. ]

Nicolas was not very surprised by this notification. This system was very similar with some systems of some games that his grandfather hid in the basement and playing some Nicolas realized that several had mastery systems with skills and techniques, it was already within his expectation that the system be able to increase his mastery with weapons.

Just as he was feeling overjoyed by this discovery a notification that made Nicolas's whole body shiver suddenly appeared before his eyes.

[New mission! ]

[Survive! ]