Chapter 11 - Teacher

The voice suddenly resounded — "Kowtow to your new teacher 3 times. Then light the incense to destroy all of your prior beliefs. Then put flowers into the vase to apologise for everything you have done." The voice shook the whole world. It was clearly coming from either the statue or the rotating azure pearl.

The voice was immensely powerful, but every time it spoke, it put protection just in front of Kyle to not kill him.

Kyle looked around him again, and all of the named tools appeared. There were a bamboo mat, an incense burner and a vase with flowers to the side.

Considering that Kyle was not from Asia in his previous life, he didn't know what any of this meant. He only had a basic understanding from the novels. This caused his head to hurt. He started thinking, 'I just hope that I don't lose…' as his thoughts started rolling, he stopped himself and blanked them out. The Catter that met him was able to read his thoughts, which clearly showed what powerful beings could achieve in this world.

Kyle kowtowed, lit the incense and put the flower heads into the vase that was full of clear water. He bowed last time and walked away from this ritual area. Just as he stepped away, the area completely disappeared.

"Now, you can be considered my last direct disciple. In all my life, I have only accepted 8 direct disciples; they have long left this minor world and went to the universe. Now you are going to be the weakest of them all, the 9th disciple. You already got the manual as well as the dominion key. As this is the last soul shard that I have left in the world, I will be giving you 2 ultimate gifts: my will, my soul and my memory and this gods pearl. But let me warn you, if you misuse it, my other disciples will know about it and destroy you. Train hard and make the name of Lin spread once again. Do not disappoint me." Kyle could only listen to the large statue speaking.

As the teacher said the last words, the statue started breaking off, and instead of rocks falling down, white streaks of energy started falling and entering directly into Kyle's body. As the first petal touched him, Kyle could feel an amazing and comfortable feeling. It was as if he was soaking in the medicine, and his whole body is being moulded. All of his weaknesses from the marrows and meridians were corrected and expelled from the body. As soon as the black goo was driven outside of his body by the pores, it got destroyed by the white light as well.

The pearl was still sky-high in the sky, rotating in the way, making it seem as if it was controlling the white streaks.

Just before the last white petal of energy got absorbed, Kyle heard the voice of the teacher. "My name was, is and will be [Seng Lin], from now on Kyle, you should be called [Kyle Lin]" with that, Kyles consciousness blanked out, and he appeared back in the same cave.

The situation was the same as the last time. He just killed the wolf, and the Lion was pouncing at him. As Kyle could feel the overbearing strength like he never felt before, the Lion seemed to be awfully slow. It was as if it was leaping in slow motion. Even the sound of its roar was distorted and was slow. This caused a great surprise to Kyle. Instead of just waiting for the Lion to arrive, Kyle rushed straight at Lion, flanking him to the side and making a huge wound with the wolfs fang knife.

After the Lion finally arrived at his initial leap target, he couldn't believe its eyes. What Lion attacked and killed was an afterimage, and a real human was standing not far from him. What was even worse, that there was a huge and very hard to heal the wound on his side. He knew that the weapon in humans hand could be the only reason for this.

The lion had to give his all into this last strike, and so he pounced, again, straight at the human with the fastest speed he could muster.

'I will finish it now!' Kyle crouched and, with all of his power, went straight at Lion, running just below his leap and slicing open his belly, making all of the organs of the lion to spill out and eventually end his life. 'This is payback. I was sure of my death, and now I am sure that you are dead.' Kyle spat onto the body of the dead lion.

The wolf fang dagger in Kyle's hand, now soaked in Lion's blood, was fully blood red, with the jeans fabric now after soaking in blood being bloody red as well. There was a quick notification in front of Kyle.

[ [Wolfs Fang Dagger] is tempered by the fight and is able to evolve]

[ Yes / No ]

'I don't see the point of asking!' Kyle pressed [Yes] straight away, and the dagger started changing. Now it was fully painted red with both a guard and the handle appearing, as well as a more well-defined edge. The purple crystal now has occupied more of the top area of the dagger and was pulsating purple from time to time.

'If this has taught me anything, it is never to underestimate the enemy and always be prepared for anything' Kyle finally could breathe out.

If this were the old Kyle, without the power that [Seng Lin] given him, and without a level indicator, he would have died straight away. But after all the upgrades, Kyle knew that his life has changed.

'Just as I predicted I have evolved, I am not at the bottom of the food chain at this forest anymore! Maybe I can even go and explore other areas outside of this forest.' As soon as Kyle got excited, he calmed himself down. He needed to adjust to everything that has happened. Ever since he left from the cave, he was in a dire situation from dehydration, the whirlpool and the constant assault of the beasts. Only now he could breathe out.

Kyle walked out of the cave to see if there were any leftovers of the beasts, and what he saw made his jaw drop. He saw a huge pool of blood with many item types from the beasts lying on the floor. There were bones of different colours, differently sized purple and purple-red crystals, hides, fangs, claws. It was as if this was a garbage disposal area of monster drops!

Then suddenly, an image flashed into Kyle's eyes. He was in the middle of the beast tide, and while everything looked as if it was time stopped, Kyle was slaughtering everything and anything that he could possibly see, absorbing all of the energy he was able to get into the whirlpool. His eyes were blood red, and his whole body was soaked in blood. The murderous aura alone from this vision gave Kyle a shiver.

Now Kyle understood what has happened here. He had to get as much energy as he could that is why he did what he had too. He didn't spare anything here. The result was him surviving. ' It is either I survive, or you survive beasts. Next time don't expect me to go easy on you either.'

Kyle went to collect all of the items he needed immediately. 'Maybe I can craft more things with these items with the help of the system.' As soon as Kyle touched the first hide that was left on the ground, instead of it feeling it physically, the hide disappeared completely. Kyle got worried as these items would boost his chances of survival immensely. He then noticed that there was something inside of him that he could access. It was the same pearl that was collecting the energy with the whirlpool before, now it was the size of a big apple and was blindingly azure in colour.

As Kyles consciousness touched it, there were a couple of spaces he could access. One of them had exactly the hide that he just touched.

'Oh, so this is similar to the inventory someone would have in a game, I see. This room is 4 by 4 metres. I can manage to store most of the things lying on the floor here.' Kyle checked that he could get items from the space just as easy as he could put them there. As he wished the hide appeared in his hand. 'Sweet, let's collect the loot!'