Scarlet Mountain Dragon Range, Nura Headquarters
A handsome young man wearing red cloak over a black kimono and zōri, along with a three-eyed, three-tailed wolf hanging around his shoulders was sitting with his hand one hand under his sleeves while looking in far distance.
It's been 9 months 20 days since Hannya came to this world, even though he spent a lot of SP, summoning the Gyuuki Clan was definitely good investment. During this 9 months they had already cleared most of the profound beast near the headquarters.
Now that the plot is about to start so he started recalling the information about this world.
In this world cultivation allows people to increase their profound strength. Cultivation is the primary aim of all profound practitioners. A person's cultivation level can be separated into the 'Nine Mortal Realms' and 'Seven Divine Profound Realms'.
Each realm goes from level 1 to 10 before they can advance to the next one, the 10th level of a realm is considered the peak of that realm. Once someone goes past level 10 of a realm but does not enter the next realm it can be considered 'Half-step' into that realm.
When one's profound strength grows, it essentially means that the density of the profound energy in their profound veins is growing. It can also taken as profound energy being compressed. Every time one rises by a level, it means that their profound energy has become slightly more compressed. Once it reaches a certain level of compression, a fundamental change will occur, that is also when they enter a new realm.
Entering a new realm is normally a extremely difficult boundary for profound practitioners. This is why there are many who are stuck at the 10th level or Half-step level and never progress in their entire lifetime. This is also why medicine that can increase cultivation are highly prized.
After going through all the details he checked his status.
[Name: Hannya]
[Age: 18]
[Race:Nūrihyon]
[Uniqueness: Lord of the Night]
[Cultivation: True Profound Realm 10th stage]
[Active Skills: Kyōka Suigetsu Lv. Max, Ougi Meikyō Shisui Lv. Max]
[Passive Skills: Basic Elegant Swordsmaship Lv.Max(needs to upgrade)]
[Summons: Yuki-onna, Ningen no hibi, Onibi, Gyuki Clan]
Store points: 1000SP
With this amount of strength he should be considered a monstrous genius in this place.
He then turned his attention to his subordinates status.
[Name: Setsura]
[Age: 20]
[Race: Yuki-onna]
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[Uniqueness: Queen of the Ice]
[Cultivation: True Profound Realm 10th stage]
[Active Skills: Noroi no Fubuki/ Yukigeshō Lv. Max,
Noroi no Fubuki, Fūsei Kakurei Lv. 5/10 /Noroi no Fubuki, Yukiyama-goroshi Lv. Max]
[Passive Skills: Basic Elegant Swordsmaship Lv.Max(needs to upgrade)]
Two skills has been added in her sleeves during this 9 months of battle.
Noroi no Fubuki, Fūsei Kakurei is a skill that creates a strong blizzard and freezes the enemy.
Noroi no Fubuki, Yukiyama-goroshi is a skill where Setsura blows out cold air which makes her target sleepy.
[Name: Gyuuki]
[Age: 25]
[Race: Ushi-oni]
[Uniqueness: Gyuki of Mt. Nejireme]
[Cultivation: True Profound Realm 10th stage]
With 'Linking Fear Cultivation Technique' Hannya was able to share his cultivation but this overpowered ability is only limited to 10 people when it reaches max level. Right now, he can only share it with two.
And also..
"Gozumaru"
"Yes, Supreme Commander?"
A young man appeared beside the Sakura Tree, His dark brown hair that it is tied up at the back and covers half of his face. He has a katana hanging on his waist.
[Name: Gozumaru]
[Age: 14]
[Lv. 10(no cultivation)]
[Race: Ushi-oni]
[Uniqueness: Young Head of Gyuki Clan]
"Where is Mezumaru?" Asked Nurarihyon.
"He's currently in Cyan Town, he was ordered by Gyuki-sama to gather informations so we can be prepared at all times."
After knowing the details, Nurarihyon tilted his head upward to look at the sky.
"It's finally about to start."
His lips slowly formed a smirk, his eyes turned dark leaving only his golden iris shining with expectation and hunger for upcoming battles.
...
Cyan Forest Town is a small backwater town located between nearly two hundred kilometers west of Floating Cloud City. It is close to the Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range. This town could be considered a necessary route when traveling from Floating Cloud City to New Moon City. The distance from the town to New Moon City is three hundred fifty kilometers.
The moon illuminated the ground covered in cracks because of scorching heat every morning, The howling sound coming from Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range made people feel more agitated than usual.
At this time, a Group of six people appeared on the streets in town. The first and leading one had a big and intimidating build, carried an one and half meter long bronze machete while his other hand was holding a bloody corpse of wild wolf. His facial features were demonic, and his eyes emitted maliciousness. The ones behind him wearing jackets made of animal skin, wielding swords, knives, maces and various weapons.
Their appearance immediately tensed up the atmosphere on the street. Merchants who were about to close their store felt a chill on their necks. all lowered down their heads while staring at the ground, Only until these six people entered a small inn in town, were they finally able to feel relieved and closed their stores in haste.
...
Inside the inn
A "girl-looking" with twin-pig tails can be seen talking to some customers, 'she' is wearing a golden robe and an anti-smog mask.
Who else could it be other than the Mezumaru, he's currently not wearing his skull mask since he's collecting informations here.
While he was busy getting information, he noticed that the entire inn's atmosphere tensed. Tilting her head she saw 6 people emitting murderous vibe slowly move towards the biggest table.
Bang!!
The bulky man wearing silver armor slammed the huge machete that was almost as tall as a grown man into the biggest table at the center of the inn, and roared : "This table belongs to this granddaddy now, scram if you don't want to die!"
The customers who were enjoying on the table hurriedly left their table in fear.
Mezumaru turned to the customer he was talking with earlier.
"Who are they?" he whispered in low voice.
"Those six people belonged to Cyan Forest Town's infamous Silver Dragon Mercenary Group, and the bulky man wielding the huge machete is their leader Yin Long." Replied the main in low voice.
While exchanging details he learned that this Silver Dragon Mercenary Group is the strongest mercenary group in Cyan Forest Town, their leader has already reached the true profound realm 1st level.
'I need to relay this information to Gyuki-sama' with this thought he bid farewell to the customer he spoke with and slowly made his way out.
"Hey, young miss. Come here we need someone to accompany us."
He was about to step out when he heard this, he glance inside to see who the unlucky girl was but soon realized that 6 pair of eyes were looking at his direction. Their savage eyes shone with lust.
'Not good'