"I'm really sorry, this was my fault" said the man as he is looking between me, the elders and the burning sect building.
"But I still need that dagger"
He then looks at me and starts to raise his hand. Then out of nowhere , I heard a shout.
"STOP! THAT DAGGER WILL BE MINE!!"(??)
Someone with a luxurious clothing suddenly flew towards me. Hands, encase in golden light. Eyes that seems to be burning with greed.
"That's....!!"
"Ti-Tiger cliff Sect!!"
The man with the weird clothing looks at the newcomer and scoffs "You won't be able to control that, just so you know"
The luxurious man (last time i'm gonna use the word luxurious) stops, looks at the weird man "I'm the sect master of the strongest sect in the Kingdom, Tiger Cliff sect. My name is Tian Mu. Do not insult me for i am already at the pe----"
He was cut off. Literally. His body got sliced by the dagger in my hand whilst I'm holding it. The dagger controlled me to cut a man in half. Before his upper half falls, he looks at me with a horrified look. "How?" He spits blood. His upper body slips off his lower part.
"He killed the sect master!?!!" (Elder #1)
"I couldn't even see his speed. He is now faster than before." (Elder #2)
" Told you so. "(weird man)
I'm scared. How did i kill him? Why didn't he dodge?
"It was simple , master. He couldn't"(dagger)
I looked at the dagger and felt scared. Then I heard those words again 'You won't be able to control that, just so you know'. He wasn't warning Tian Yu, he was warning me. The dagger is so powerful that it can control me. I was even more scared than before. But at the back of my mind, i was thinking "What if i control this power? I would be so powerful"
" Stop right there, boy. This has gone too far and i still have to deliver that dagger. " I look at the weird man(weird is also my favorite word apparently) as he removes his hood. I was stiffened by what i saw. There is no face. Just darkness and a pair of red slits in the place where the eyes should have been, I also just noticed that his hands where not normal as well. Contrary to his face, his hands are all just white. Not emitting white light, but just white. He raised his white hand. At this moment, the elders rushed him but they were too late. The man snaps his fingers and everything stopped. The elders mid-rush hands raised, various auras coming out of them, stops or frozen more likely at the place they were in when the man snapped his fingers.
I looked around. There was no sound. Nothing at all. Even the fire at the burning building is not moving. Strangely, i can move. Unfortunately, so can the man.
He lowers his hands and walks towards me. I raised the dagger. Even i don't know why i did so. Maybe I would fight him or just kill myself. I don't know why but i raised it anyway.
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He must have seen something on my face that made him stop, smile and said "I won't kill you, I just need the dagger. I might even compensate you for it."
" Compensate? My sect is destroyed, the elders are blaming me because of YOUR DAGGER!! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA COMPENSATE FOR THAT?!?! "
He snaps his fingers. His figure changed. The blackness was replaced by a beautiful terrifying face. A face that you would think that belonged to a woman, but still able to say that he is a man. Then the eyes. There is no white part nor iris, instead it was black and red. The left is pure black and the right is pure red. His hands also changed. Smooth, like it wasn't used since birth. As I look at him, my anger, fear, frustration and confusion is slowly dissipating. He continued to walk towards me until we are face to face. He is taller than me by about a head.
"Now that you calmed down. I'm gonna show you something cool."
He pokes my forehead with his forefinger and thumb. He pulled something out. From my forehead, a golden thread was pulled. He opens his forefinger and thumb and the thread expanded.
There are paintings that came out. Each painting is moving, and for some reason, they are all familiar to me.
"Of course they're familiar. Those are your memories about what happened just moments ago"(weird man)
" So your name is Qin Yu, your father is the Sect Master of your sect. You just joined the sect, incognito for some reasons and you are in love with the sect's jewel, Liu Hao. So any questions? "
I froze. How did he know all of those? Is he really looking at my memories? WHY is he looking at them in the first place? AND WHO IS HE??
"Yes i am looking at your memories. I need to look at them to know what to change and no, I can't give you my name. Yes, I can read your mind. Think for a second, I'm already looking at you memories, reading a mind is just a piece of cake."
Can he read my mind? How--wait he just answered that. And what is cake? And why am I so calm even though so many things happened?
"Wha----"
"Stop. I have already read your mind. I won't or more like can't answer the cake thing. This figure is the reason. I can change my figure, face or even form, into whatever i like. I changed my form into " A human form that can calm anyone even if they are seeing the world end" form and it will work. "
Even if he just told me some impossible, I still believed him. Is it the effect of his form change?
"Found it. I'm gonna start now." (Man)
"What have you found? What are you even doing??"
" You have so many questions, you know that? I'm changing your memories. Even though you won't remember this, I'm explaining because this will hurt like hell"
"What will??"
" This!"
He thrust his hands in a painting. And i felt so much pain that I have passed out.
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(3rd person)
As Qin Yu falls down because of the pain. The man is reaching into one of Qin Yu's memories. In this one, Qin Yu is on the verge of grabbing the dagger. The man however prevented that by reaching in the memory and pulling the dagger out. As he is pulling it out, the scenery changes as well. The flames of the burning building, the wounded and rushing elders, the Tiger Cliff sect master and the dagger in Qin Yu's hand. All of it flickering between what is happening and what it is before the dagger was found. When the dagger was dragged all the way through. The one in Qin Yu's hand vanished and all went back to how it was before.
"All done. Now for the compensation."
He stored the dagger by making a black sphere and "feeding" the dagger into it. He then pulls out a Silver ring from the sphere.
The ring is shining silver. It has 8 gems embedded and all have a black color. The difference between each gem is that there is something drawn in each one. If one looks at it with focus each "something" will be seen. They will see a sword, a spear, a battle-axe, a war hammer, a bow and arrow, a chain, a shield and a full-body armor.
"Then to complete my compensation, i'll promise to make you one of my disciple. For fun and no further reason other than that." he thought.
Qin Yu's body then also vanished and the man then said
"Play"
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(Qin Yu's POV)
I was but an outer disciple from a small sect. Everything was fine if not for that one day. As I was gathering herbs for the sect as a mission, i found a cave covered by vines. In that cave I saw a ring.