"Eh! Those are wild— berries!?"

“No, you fool, take a good look! Levis, did you call me here to make me eat, “Red Fat Berries”!?”

“ “Red Fat Berries”?”

“No, no, they look like “Red Fat Berries”, but they are not! If you eat them, you will become more healthy, and powerful, believe me.”

As the three men were looking at the boy, that was smiling, while he was extending his hand for them to eat the fruits, he was presenting, his words though, were not remarkably trustworthy or confidence-inducing, because all three of them, had the same impression of the boy trying to prank them, one way or another.

“Here, take them and you will see!”

Nevertheless, the insistence made by the boy was strange, while he was moving very close to them, as though waiting to feed them even if they were not inclined to accept the fruits.

“Sigh—, give one to me then!”

“Father—.”

“Whoa, whoa, what are you doing? Have you—!”

Even as the Hunter and the young man tried to speak at the sudden decision made by the Chief, they were silenced as the man gave them both a hard-knowing-looking gaze, while nodding his head towards them.

“Bloody hell, if this is what I know it is, you are in for a beating boy.”

“Ahhh-, Levis, give me one of those fruits.”

Yet, at the positive response from the three men, the face of the boy lighten a bit, with a bit of confusion, as he was not sure if he had such great skills in deceiving others, while they were accepting and consuming the berries.

“Alright, one each, and then lower your head towards me, I will do a special technique of grandpa to make you strong.”

“Special technique of your grandpa!”

Though, at the mention of his relative, the eyelids of the Hunter and village chief started to twitch at no end.

Even so, it was far too late as the three of them had already eaten the fruits, and were lowering their heads to him.

[So do I just do it the way you said.]

[Yes, with full confidence, but not too hard, just a small portion.]

[I got it!]

“Now what—? Eh, what are you—!”

“Slap!”

“You little bastard—!”

“Slap!!”

“Levis what are you do—!”

“Slap!!!”

However, as they were with their heads down for some time and nothing was happening, they were on the verge of raising back, when slap after slap resounded inside the tent, as Levis moved to each one of them as fast as he could, not giving them any time to react, while slapping their heads.

[Is this enoug—! W-w-what is happening?]

“Arghhh”

But, as the deed was done and he was asking Urger for assurance, if he had been adequate at what he had done, he was scared, and shocked to see their faces twisting in pain, with their hands on their heads. As they were trembling nonstop, and the color of their faces was a bright red, though unable to make any sound of pain.

[What-what is happening!!?]

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[Aha-aha, kid what did you aspected, when you decided to help them form a dantian? You just used your own consciousness to rip a part of theirs. Now imagine what would be the pain if someone would rip your flesh into pieces at random. This will not make them stupid, but it will take a while to recover, this is because they had never trained their own consciousness to be more flexible, while they have a more unified and solid mass.]

[But they will recover?]

[Ah, yes. If you can observe well, you can see their dantian form, from the collision of their consciousness, and the dense energy from the fruits. Now do some breathing while you wait.]

[Alryght.]

Breath after breath, passed as Levis was trying to calm himself from the guilt that his action might have caused something worse than he could imagine, as he looked at the three men that were still in pain. Hunter and Nired, who were on their knees on the ground, while the Chief was in his bed struggling constantly.

[Are they going to stop?]

[Wait.]

However, as he was waiting, his eyes were turning red from staring, while breathing heavily as he himself was starting to panic, though a moment later, before he could really lose it, the expressions on the three’s faces started to ease up, as eventually, they all calmed down while sweat was forming like mad drops of rain, drenching their clothes, while they were breathing in ragged breaths.

“L-levis, w-w-what was that?”

“Village Chief, do you sense something in your chest next to your heart!!?”

“Eh? I feel something fuzzy, but the headache is still making me– argh!”

“Damn brat your slap made my head ring like mad, you better prepare yourself!”

“What you did to me, Levis?”

“Hunter, brother Ni do you feel something in your chest?”

“My chest? I am not sure but something feels different, what did you do, you brat?”

“I feel something strange, what is this?”

“AHhhhh!!! It worked, you formed your dantian!”

“Dantian? Levis, what are you talking about?”

As Levis's face was brightening at their words, the three men that were recovering from the strange head pain, after the boy had slapped them, began to look at him with questioning gazes towards the boy, as they had no idea, what he had done to them.

“You have become cultivators!”

“Boy, what are you saying?”

“You have formed a dantian, that can make you strong like the guards—.”

As Levis began to explain in more detail, the notions, and his knowledge of a cultivator, that he had been able to gather, from everyone that he had heard or talked with, the three men were starting to bear strange expressions that were switching extremely fast at the words of the boy.

“Father had once talked about something similar onetime. Though, you—!”

However at this moment as Levis was sporting a somewhat happy and elated face, the three men did not know what to make of this, as he had made all the decisions on his account, not caring about their wills at all, while at the same time he seemed all of a sudden somewhat distant, as though he was no longer part of the same world they came from.

“Now, I understand why he had come to me.”

“Eh?”

“Father?”

“Village Chief?”

Although the one to have the biggest and most drastic change, was the village Chief, as he seemed to be saddened and dispirited.

“You are leaving us!”

“Fool, what are you saying—!”

Though the Hunter was surprised to hear the words of the Chief that was looking directly at the boy, even so, he was more surprised at the guilty appearance of the boy, as he was averting his eyes so as to not meet his.

“Levis, you brat, is that true?”

As he was pressed by Hunter's question, while he was looked upon by the village Chief with a somewhat saddend gaze, and by the shocked brother Nider, Levis was finding it hard to look at them. As he had known them all his life, the pressure of facing them at this moment, felt stronger than when he was in the crossfire of the Kings that were hunting the strange old man, a few days ago.

Even as he was clenching and unclenching his hand, his resolve was wavering, while his eyes were looking up and down.

[Disciple, a genuine man does not waver when is time to say goodbye, decisiveness is what you must have if you truly want to become a great man.]

With the final push from “Urger”, Levis’s hands relaxed as he face them while hardening his gaze and posture.

“Because of me, you were injured and put in danger, this is the gift that I have prepared before I will leave the village. However, because of me, Grandpa, and everybody else died, when they could have still lived. When the bandits attacked all I could do, was to watch and cause problems. However, now I have a way to make things right, a way to protect and get revenge on those that caused us to reach this situation. I want to become strong and live as a strong man like Grandpa, I will never yield to anything, as I am going to stay above and beyond everybody in this world. That is why I will leave the village and go with the captain of the guards.”

At this moment, however, the three listeners were shocked, as this was the first time seeing the small boy, so serious and adamant about something, furthering his image as he truly seemed to be even more distant, as though the Levis that they had once known had been replaced with someone that they did not know.

“So this is your resolve! I can not say much to change your opinion if this is the case. In this matter, all I can say is if you want to go, go in full force so that you do not regret your decision, and if you think it is too hard, well, you can come back here at any time, “little Levis”.”

“Ahaahaha, you brat do you think yourself a man now, come and say that when you have experienced life, though if you have something you really want to do, do not hesitate and just go!”

“Village Chief, uncle Hunter.”

“Grrrrrrrr”

“Brother Ni?”

Though as Levis had his spirits uplifted, out of nowhere he turned to look at the young man next to the village Chief, clenching his stomach, as he seemed out of sorts, yet it did not take long before he was not the only one, as the two other men had a somewhat similar change in their looks.

“Levis, I was wondering those berries they were—?”

“Ahhhh, yes. Sorry? They were “Fat Red Berries”.”

“Eh!? They really were “Fat—.”

“Grrrrrrr”

“You, damn brat, what gifts-, gifts my ass. You actually made me eat those things, you better wait till I will come back!!!”

However, it was only a moment later, that the first to leave was the Chief, followed by the young man, and by the Hunter that was cursing at him while storming out.

“Ahhh—, this might be bad.”