273. Causing A Ruckus

Inside the vast wilderness a young man moved with immense speed. He wore white clothes with black lining, his body wasn't large but just at the right proportions. Eyes gleaming brightly the young man swung his right arm.

He held a long slender Black staff with blue engravings. Along with his arm the staff crushed everything around it and fell several hundred meters before him. It dug deep into the ground cracking the earth.

Kkkiiiiiiii....

A disturbing shreak echoed through the forest. The ground beneath the staff started to tremble, a second later it was completely upturned revealing a huge body covered in scales. Numerous eyes which seemed like black holes stared at the youth in anger.

" Hehe, finally decided to crawl out eh? "

Grabbing forward with his arm the staff flew back to him. Taking a battle stance the young man grinned.

" Come! "

The hug beast before him howled loudly and rushed towards the young man. It's huge mouth filled with innumerable teeth which could crush steel as if tofu was upon the young man in a split second.

The young man used the staff as a pole and jumped up. His feet kicked one of the Beast's eyes along the way. Howling in pain the beast continued to bite at the young man.

Like an agile monkey the young man moved around the beast. The staff in his hand trembled and kept colliding with the Beast's scales causing the air to shake. Slowly cracks were forming on the thick scales of the beast.

Two men were watching this scene from far away.

" Not bad~ "

" Indeed. He didn't lose face for us."

The two were of course Ryu and Hisoka. The young man before them was obviously Mael. It's been two years since Ryu took in Mael as his disciple, with his talent and the resources Ryu had he jumped realms way too quickly.

When it was time Ryu even forged him a Zanpakuto. Surprisingly Mael had an innate talent towards Staff Arts. For confirmation Ryu even had him train in sword and spears for couple of months and the results were shocking in a completely different manner.

Mael had zero talent for any other weapon. Hell, if not for Ryu knowing what kind of person Mael was he would have thought Mael was talentless.

" He is finishing up."

Ryu focused and saw Mael slam his staff right into the huge beast's skull. A large depression appeared above its skull, those innumerable eyes slowly lost their light and it fell down creating a large cloud of smoke.

Mael cracked open its skull and took out it's beast core. Finishing up he flew towards Ryu and Hisoka.

" Master, if i pass the next test can I now take part in that competition."

Ryu rubbed his chin and looked at Hisoka.

" Alright."

Mael breathed in deeply. His heart was racing and stared at Hisoka with battle Intent. Hisoka however had a vague smile on his face.

Ryu backed up and raised his hand.

" Go."

As soon as that word came out Mael disappeared and got behind Hisoka. His staff was already in motion of striking Hisoka's head. His opponent however smiled.

Ducking his head Hisoka made a flip and kicked out. Using his staff Mael barely negated the power behind that strike. His palms were slightly cracked from the aftershock.

Taking the momentum to his advantage Mael pushed on. Hisoka spread out his arms and made a swipe downward. Mael felt his scalp go numb. Rotating his staff to defend Mael felt as if he was being smothered by mountains.

Sweat trickled down his face. He knew what kind of man stood before him, two years made Mael understood what kind of people his Master's friends were. All of them were crazy strong, strong to the point of being an oddity within the world. And most of them had weird characters.

" Awaken! Heaven Crusher! "

Mael held out his staff which glowed brightly. The blue engravings on it pulsed with power before covering the entire staff with blue light.

" Heh~~ "

Hisoka smiled widely. He took out a card and tossed it at Mael. Seeing the incoming attack Mael turned grave, holding the staff pulsing with power Mael went for broke.

The staff started to grow. It left his hand and floated above him still growing in size. Vast amounts of energy was churning within him, pushing with all he had Mael roared and made a swing at the incoming attack.

BOOOMMMM!

The staff as huge as an insurmountable mountain crashed into the card. The resulting explosion rippled for hundreds of miles destroyed earth and the sky.

Mael stood above breathing heavily. Sweat rolled down his cheeks falling down to earth. Hisoka stood perfectly alright before him, he still had that weird smile on his face.

Calming his breathing Mael looked at Ryu. Laughing out loud Ryu said to Mael.

" You can go but be careful."

A smile found its way towards Mael's face. He called back his Staff and bowed to Ryu before flying away. He quickly returned after some time and said.

" Master, you sure you don't want to come? "

" Nope. I have some business to take care of. I will meet you as soon as I finish them or sooner if you find trouble."

Smiling wryly Mael bowed to Ryu and then to Hisoka and left.

" Those guys raised the bounty for us~ "

Ryu shrugged.

" It doesn't matter anymore. They can jump around all they want but by no means can they avoid what's coming for them. All we have to do now is to wait for him to cause a ruckus and we can enter. It's time this realm knew of our terror."