Chapter 67

-In Clover Kingdom-

As all the captains and other magic knights fight Conrad, the latter kept on shooting out different magic all at once. Because of this, Yami and the others were stuck on being defensive except for Julius, who was defending and attacking at the same time.

"Every one of you! Why are you getting in my way!?" Conrad roars to them. Using his Key Magic and the Imperial Sword Elsdocia, countless different magic flew out destroying parts of the arena.

"Sis-goleon! Mr. Hubris! Give me some time! I'll give Julius an opening!" Yami shouts to the two higher rank magic knights. Before they can argue, Julius, who was flying speaks.

"Follow Yami's plan! Don't let him get interrupted. We'll finish this before he gets even stronger!" He commands to everyone, making Nozel click his tongue.

"Make sure that your plan will work, foreigner!" Nozel said as he conjures many mercury shields, blocking all the magic spells aimed at Yami who is now preparing for something. He takes out his katana and raises it above his head. He closes his eyes and focuses only on his Ki-sensing, looking for Conrad's presence.

With every millisecond feeling like an hour, and a second feeling like a year, Yami relaxes himself, breathing in and out. Conrad detects this condensing mana and seeing Julius' magic knight preparing an attack unsettles him. So, he raises his sword and puts all the mana into it. Just then, Yami quickly but precisely slashes down the air, doing absolutely nothing.

Everyone saw it and almost face-palmed if not for the predicament they are in. But Mereoleona who was fighting more than any of the magic knights and captains do, merely smirked. With her animal-like instinct, she didn't need to detect the condensation of mana to predict what the foreigner has in store.

[Dark Magic: Dark Void Slash]

Yami opens his eyes and everyone hears a grunt. Looking up, they saw Conrad spewing copious amounts of blood along his chest.

"Wha- What happened?" He asks himself as he tries to prevent himself from passing out, gripping the sword harder to not lose it. Just then, Conrad feels a mana signature behind him.

"Ju-Julius! You too! Don't think that this will stop me-" Layers and layers of Chrono Stasis envelops Conrad and his sword as Julius thinks about Conrad's ideology. A world with no discrimination, a world of peace, a world where everyone respects one another. It was the same world that he wants to create.

This causes him to look at the former in pity. The sealing spell starts to levitate as the magic knights got some breathing room. On the other hand, Yami supports himself with his Masamune, recovering his tired breath.

"Oi! Yami! What was that spell? I didn't know you had that!" Mereoleona hits him in the back.

"That's just another spell." "Why have you only used it now?"

"Nothing. I just don't like it." Yami counters before returning the sword to its sheathe.

…

--Two Months Later--

The sky is dark and lightning is surging in the sky. Strong gusts of wind and large drops of rain were showering from the sky.

A surge of a waterfall was cut clean into two. Seconds later, it returns to its normal flow. Seeing this, Hisashi grips his wooden sword even harder. In his thoughts, he kept on calming himself again and again and again. However, no matter how much he does, the worse his anger gets.

"ARGH!" He slashes the waterfall using his sword with full force. In comparison to before when he managed to successfully cut the water into two, this time, he was unsuccessful. That was because not only did he cut the water, but the 750-meter mountain it came from in half.

As for the reason for his anger, it was because he has yet to find any useful dungeon for the past months. For the whole day now, he has been sitting under the waterfall trying to meditate. But it was sort of not helpful.

*Boom!* The lightning and thunder strike again as the big droplets of rain hit Hisashi's skin. He sees a huge tree waiting to be cut down from afar, waiting to be cut down. He flashes to its trunk and was about to hit it with a slash when he stops.

He manages to contain his anger as he remembers the tree in the Goshu Dungeon. Not only that, but he also remembers Mai, who has Tree Sorcery.

'Should I ask for her help? Or her master's? Maybe I'll just go to the Qin. He probably knows a lot.' He thought to himself. Just then, something enters Hisashi's compressed Ki range. Using his already-out wooden sword, he flashes to the presence with lightning sorcery.

However, he was surprised not only when his attack was stopped, but also because the one facing him, is a blind old man with old gray hair. The old man was simply holding his sword cane, with opened eyes – except it's all white.

"I was told that you use wind sorcery. How are you using a different one? But it seems that you really have a strong Chi." The old man simply said as he stood on the muddy dirt. He sizes up the almost naked Hisashi from head to toe, which the latter finds weird.

Hisashi saw that the old man didn't take his attack effortlessly as his legs shook for a bit, but he jumped away needlessly. Usually, even when Hisashi detects someone sneaking behind his side, he wouldn't act on it immediately. But feeling the old man's strong Ki, he decided to strike first.

"Who are you, old man? What do you want from me?" He asks in a demanding tone. He even readies himself in case the old man engages him. On the contrary though, the latter simply sheathes back his blade inside the cane and used it as what it seems.

"Gozu of the Land of Sun. The 21st Qin of the United Han Country summons you. You are to come to the Capital, Xin Yan, in three days' time. Now, my job here is done." The old man said as he turns around.

"Huh? I'm being summoned? Who even are you? How did you find and know me? Why should I even listen to you?" Hisashi asks him, slightly irritated.

"I'm the Qin's third-in-command, Old Man Kai. As for how… if you want to learn how to blend with others, you shouldn't be masking your face or slicing some mountains apart, young man. Even a blind man can see from miles away. As for why, I don't know. Ask Mai when you reach the capital."