New Chapter 2 : So Am I Leomon?
It took almost 10 minutes for the Blue Box to finish its processing and in that time William and Sheila got to work locking the doors before sliding down into a corner of the room as they both heard the sounds of fighting and the sound of people screaming erupted on this floor so it seemed that there were more Goblins around.
William quietly ignored Sheila's previous question along with her gaze as he waited for the processing to stop because he did not have much more information than her at this moment and He figured that new things would be revealed as soon as the Box finished processing.
Just as he was pondering this while holding Sheila he felt a small chill down his spine before the Blue Box finished processing and words began appearing in front of his face in a rapid manner in a script he couldn't read at all.
All he could do was try to read the rapidly advancing text to make some sense of what was being shown to him before, to his surprise, the Blue Box bursts into pieces as a bright light envelops the whole room blinding both him and Sheila before time seemed to slow to a crawl for every Beast and Human under the Restriction Dome.
As the white light blinded everyone in the room and anyone passing by, a silvery gash split the air only 2 feet above Williams head to reveal a golden orb revealed itself and spun in what could only be said to be happily.
A jovial voice both deep and profound echoed out from the the golden orb as it spun in the air faster and faster before landing on top of Williams head,"Hahahahahahah Who would have known that in my search was not baseless, A being of my bloodline existed on this world and survived the calamity that befell this world! The Heavens do smile upon me that I am able to pass on My families Legacy before My soul dissipates!"
The Golden Jewel spun faster and faster on top of Williams head but neither could he feel what was happening nor could he or Sheila hear the voice that came from the Jewel at all!
The spinning continued and miraculously the Golden Jewel actually opened its Golden outer layer like a lotus blossom as its milky white innards poured out into Williams head, sinking deep into his very being and fusing into body and consciousness.
The Milky white innards flowed continually into William until there was nothing left inside it and the Golden Lotus leaves closed itself back up and the once jovial voice sounded out again but this time it sounded tired and worn,
" Who could have known that in my death I could find a family member! I have left to him all the knowledge of our clan so we will not disappear. This youngster has inherited a great burden from me and I can only hope the heavens smile upon him much more than they did me......." The voice faded slowly as the Golden Jewel began to break and crack before bursting into Golden dust as the last words came from it, all of which was tinged with endless sadness.
The Golden flakes gently flowed downward, covering Sheila and William with itself causing the both of them to shiver before the flakes sank into their skin. As the Golden flakes sank into the skin of the two of them it melted into a golden Ki that washed through both of their bodies, gently seeping into the deepest parts of their bodies while marking impurities and imperfections in their bodies before power explodes out from the Ki.
The power of the Golden Ki Explosion rushes through their whole being once again and this time it forces the impurities from Sheila and William, causing a black foul mist to erupt from their pores and their bones to crack a bit to release the impurities held within them before the Golden Ki's power healed the cracks and break it created while also removing all the imperfections it found in each of their bodies.
As the last of the Golden Ki finished its job the light abruptly recedes and time returns to normal, William and Sheila blink rapidly as they try to regain the sight they lost from explosion of light earlier but as the two of them rub their eyes they begin to realize their bodies feel remarkably different than they did a moment ago.
William feels better than he had in his whole life, as if His injuries from the accident had never happened! He begins to stand up to realize he grew two inches to an impressive 6 foot 7 inches and his muscles feel like a strung bow, taunt and powerful.
"William what in the hell just happened?!" Sheila's voiced her surprise as she herself stands up to realize she grew almost 4 inches to 5 feet 11 inches. She runs her hands over her face to try and calm herself and feels that her skin has changed! Tough, sensitive, smooth, and unblemished ! She finishes around in her pocket for a moment before taking out her phone and opening the app to take a photo so she can see herself and see's the changes to which she can barely believe but before she can ask another question or before William can try to answer, The blue box returns and pops up in front of the both of them.
Ding!
Rewards have been Bestowed For Your Achievements William Reeves!
You have Received The Beast Kings Baptism!
You Have Received The Beast Kings Last Will and Testament!
You Have Received The White Tigers Memories!
You Have Unlocked The Blood Of The White Tiger!
The Skill ' Fist of the Beast King' has been rewarded for your defeat of the Hobgoblin exploratory Detachment!
Ding!
The White Tiger has blessed You Sheila Robinson!
You Have Received The Beast Kings Baptism
Sheila's face shows her confusion as she reads her short list on the Blue screen in front of her but it takes William a few moments more to fully digest what he was reading and as soon as the both of them were done the Blue Boxes disappear from their sight in the blink of an eye.
As soon as they are gone a tremor runs through Williams body and he can feel that his whole body has fundamentally changed and in his head their now resided a fierce presence that was never their before. He tried to concentrate on it for a moment and he felt himself get sucked inside something only to find himself in a grey barren wasteland that extended as far as the eye could see in every direction except for one Stone Tablet that Sat Directly in front of him. He was cautious to get closer to it because it could tell the Fierce energy he had felt before was wafting from this Stone Tablet but sense he had no Idea of how to get out of this place he could only walk closer to try and read it.
As William stood in front of the Stone Tablet he realized that it wasn't a Stone Tablet at all, It was a Massive Stone Book. On the front of the book There was nothing but weird symbols that William could not make out at all, the only thing he could understand was the side profile of a White Tiger Pouncing. The Image was so vivid and life-like William felt compelled to reach out and touch the beast out of a feeling of longing that had burst out from his very being.
When Williams hand touched the book the grey sky immediately turned black and thunder rolled fiercely in the sky above him, scaring him and making him try to take his hand off the book but to his horror he found out he could not retract his hand. The whole place started to shake and the book began to emit the sound of a tigers roar, low at first before quickly ramping up into ear splitting roar that reverberated through the whole of the barren landscape and through Williams body, causing the poor boy to begin to spit up blood. His vision began to swim as he was subjected to the full force of the roar as well as his legs finally giving out from underneath of him. Right as he began to black out the roar abruptly stopped and the whole of his Barren Landscape stopped shaking but the Thunder in the Sky remained. Under the sound of rolling thunder a sad voice rolled out from the book
"Your Blood has been verified! You, Of Pure Blood, have been selected to be the Successor of the Bai-Hu Clan. The Teachings of the Undefeated of the East fall down to you Successor! The Martial arts and Ki techniques have always been our most sacred and most well kept treasures and You must treat each of them as such. This Senior was not able to restore our Clan to the heights it once enjoyed, but I hope you can atleast grow strong enough to allow what happened to us befall you also. I don't have much left of this old soul but what is left This Senior will bestow on you, use it to get stronger so that injustices like this can never befall you and yours again, All this Senior asks of his Junior is to learn our Martial arts and Techniques so that they may not die off with this fool of a Senior............ "
A pause happens and a sigh escapes the voice that sounded so old and defeated that it broke Williams heart to hear it come the Stone Book. What pain had this being gone through to only die and now choose Him as his successor to some clan?
"I have little else to impart to you Successor but this Stone Book and the memories of my past battles as to help you on your journey. Watch them and see my triumphs, my glories, my weakness, my losses and learn from them all. I do not want the Successor of Our once Great Clan to Die a dogs death. HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
Beware the Seiryuu clan Successor. They have greedily stolen all of clans wealth and techniques while hunting us to obliteration. Do not reveal yourself to be of our blood until you get strong Successor, there is no telling who may or may not be agents of them............. It seems This is all the power I have left to brand this on the Stone Book. It is Now yours!"
The Old, sad voice echoed out before fading away while a grey stream flowed quickly and softly to Williams forehead, branding a Large White 'KING!' on to the flesh of his forehead before that too faded quickly into his skin. As it was doing this a large tremor once again when through Williams body as memories of battle and blood flooded into his mind, fight after fight after fight after fight flashed in his head to point that Williams head was burning as it felt like something was cracking in head. He yelled out in pain but couldn't move because his hand was stuck to the Stone Book, he could only endure and endure.
After sometime the cracking sensation left and it felt as if his mind was falling to pieces before a gentle energy flowed into his head and soothed him, picking up the pieces and putting together again each time expanding. Unbeknownst to William the Grey Sky above him reflected the changes in his own head!
Time seemed to go on forever in this Grey Skied, Barren Landscape as the cycle went on and on with no end in sight for William, he could Only endure with all his might. The Only kept him fighting through the pain was His family and Sheila who he had no idea if she was okay or not, but just the thought of her and his family carried through the pain and suffering he felt and had to watch unfold in front of his eyes.
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And One day the memories ended and William opened his eyes but those eyes were no longer the eyes of a boy in his last year of high school, no this was the sight of a man who had relived hundred of thousands of battles and had seen thousands, hundreds of thousands, and Millions of peoples lives be washed away as experts fought each other with the power of gods. His whole perspective had changed at the sight of these battles and he now understood atleast a bit of how his world was taken. These beings had almighty power, who can say what they can and can't do.
Watching these battles also filled him a deep seated anger at the senseless slaughter he saw, and that he Senior had tried to stop. His senior was a man of valor whom always enacted justice for the lives of innocents, but he could see that not everyone had those same Ideals. Those of Almighty power were just as shameless and corrupt as us powerless people but they continued to exploit and kill all those under them.
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Williams heart which was once weak was now strong from watching those fights, he had gained greatly from the experience and all he could do was stand and bow while offering a small prayer his dead senior and hoped that the good deeds he witnessed had helped sow good karma for him in the afterlife.
After he said his prayers he looked around at the place he was in a smirked to himself,"How could I get trapped in my own consciousness! HAHAHAHA! What A Fool I was when I came here!" his self deprecating laugh echoed in his vast consciousness. He then looked at the book his hand was stuck to and smirked to himself before focusing his consciousness from his mind to the book and branding them together to claim it as his own. The Stone Book shuddered for a moment before a happy twang echoed from it, releasing his hand from the book before happily opening its Cover to reveal its first page,
"Chapter 1 : Body forging is the backbone of our Clan!"
The symbols on the Tablet, as if to acknowledge its new owner, changed themselves to English to help William understand what was written and what was written inside of the first two pages William had access to was profound and eye opening to William. He had an Idea of what kind of world he stepped into with the Goblins but the knowledge he gained from watching almost 100 years of fights and the text of this book made it clear he was wrong in his first assumption. He thought the world had been turned into some type of Fantasy game world or Dungeons and Dragons type world but reading about Body Forging and thinking on the fights he saw from his Senior made him think back to a web-novel he read on recommendation from a friend on the wrestling team, Coiling Dragon. If he was reading correctly, his clan were basically Warriors from that Novel that used their bodies to cultivate Ki and advance and specialized in close combat techniques above everything else but it seemed that in Williams world cultivating the body was incredibly hard and If you didn't have a Body Cultivation Technique it was almost assured that you would die by exploding because of over filling your flesh with Ki without proper circulation.
William couldn't help but break out in sweat and shake his hid in disbelief at the thought of trying to do that and exploding, it sounded like a horribly painful death and he resolved himself to make sure Sheila didn't try to cultivate that way. He then continued to read and Found the Body Cultivation of The Bai Hu Clan on the last page he was able to access. The technique was called " The Inferno Fiend Technique" and was both simple in that it could be used quickly to advance up a realm but complicated in that it was incredibly painful in each and every layer of the technique from the Ki Gathering Realm to Origin Sea Realm! You had to consume the cores of magical beasts of atleast the 2nd rank and use their fiendish energy to condense 81 tattoos on the body before tempering in Normal fire after the 41st tattoo and then in Magical flames at the 81st tattoo to break through to the Origin Sea Realm ! The more Potent the flame the Better it was for tempering the Last Tattoo with the highest flames record in the Book being Hellfires and Heavenly Flames. It had Names of some the flames and William Memorized them but he did not hope to encounter any of them before he finished that Tattooing process since the process was more potent if it was finished before you fully made your Dantan at the End of the Ki condensation stage for regular Ki cultivation practitioners! And the end of the technique it noted that after you got the Origin Sea Realm you would be able to control flame techniques with increased proficiency and build up incredible resistances to flame techniques! Even to the point that you can consume a Heavenly Flame or Hellfire and then use that flame as the base of your techniques with a mysterious 82nd Tattoo! But sadly it didn't detail say where that Tattoo had to be placed because it had been lost to time as no other practitioners have been able to make the 82nd tattoo condense and the harder they tried they even lost all other Tattoos they had previously made and crippled themselves! So Dangerous!
Williams face twists in agony as he tried to visualize how painful this technique was, Tattooing flesh with just cores of beasts and bathing in all kinds of fire to stabilize the Tattoos? He could only sigh with regret that his ancestors were masochistic bastards to have made this technique for themselves to ascend a realm good god. The thought of bathing in flames for any amount of time unnerved him but he quickly resolved himself to do it because at the moment it was his only way to get strong fast and survive the what ever being would be coming for his life in the future.
After rereading and rereading the Inferno Fiend Technique he committed it to memory before he finally closed the Stone Book and focus his consciousness for a few moment before he was back outside in the actual world! He takes a few moments to look around to see Sheila standing next to him marveling at her stronger and taller body and Williams face breaks out in a wide grin as he watches her check over herself in an obsessive manner. It had felt as if a 100 years had passed for William as he was immersed in a first person view of battle and slaughter day in and day out but for her it had only been a few seconds outside. Without a second thought William turns and hugs Sheila tight to his chest and just holds her there, much to Sheila's surprise as the sudden gesture of affection from William flusters her as the two of them refrained from being anything but Student and Teacher when she first started her job at his High School to the point that he had been a bit cold towards her outside whenever she visited his parents or sisters when they were in town. It takes her a moment to melt a bit in his arms and return the hug, laying her head on his chest and hearing his heart beat. She could only chuckle to herself a bit as now he was so large the table had turned from last time he had hugged her he could only barely put his head near her heart. The stood their together in the room and tuned out almost everything in the world except the two of them in these precious moments and in these moment they reaffirmed their friendship with one another with nary a word spoken to each other.
Some time passes and the cries for help and sounds of fighting barely lessen when the two of them separate from each other and smile before Sheila smacks him on his solid chest with surprising strength, causing William to stumble back a few steps in amazement, "Next time don't wait till the end of the world to give out hugs dumbass." Sheila's tone was sharp and biting but she smirked at him at the end if it so he could tell she was just teasing him but she was right, he was a bit petty before because he didn't want a close family friend to be his teacher, that having a teacher as a friend could make it hard for him to make friends out of regular students, he had been cold towards her right until the accident after which he didn't know what to do around her because of his previous attitude so he tried to smile more towards her and be warmer but he had never hugged her since she had come back from college and taught at his high school. How could he not appreciate her loyalty to his family even after his cold shoulder.
"Don't worry Sheila, I have learned my lesson. It is better to enjoy friends who want to be with me than to worry myself with people I don't even know yet because I have no Idea how long we have left in this world. " William smile becomes so soft and sincere as he says these words to Sheila that she is stunned to see the brat that she played with could say something a bit profound. Her face scrunches in thought for a moment before she walks around William in a circle a few times before stopping at his side,"William what the hell is going on? You are standing different and the both of Us are now taller. I feel fitter than I ever have in my life. For Fucks sake the pudge on my stomach is all gone! Just fucking Gone! You killed Goblins and Hobgoblins a few minutes ago and now in the hallways who knows what else is out there is running around killing people! I am trying to process all this fast and keep my cool for your sake but as I look at you now, you barely seemed worried. William what do you know?" in this moment Sheila's tone took on her authoritative teacher tone as she steeled herself and stared into Williams eyes.
It impressed William to see Sheila picked up the little cues from his behavior but he wasted no time and filled in on everything he learned from the memories he saw for over a 100 years to being in his consciousness to the Stone Book and what he learned about the clan of his ancestor and the Technique that could only be used by blood descendants of the Clan. To her credit Sheila took almost all the information in stride and was almost always asked for clarification on specifics. At the end Sheila closed her eyes for a few minutes and calmed her breathing before opening them and within those eyes could see some clarity of purpose that did not exist within them before.
"So We are part of Ki Cultivation world like those old Wuxia movies and Novels? Well that sounds absolutely terrifying. And We grew Stronger and taller because a Senior of Cultivation clan you have vague blood linking you to blessed the two of us with dying breath? Well we have had shit luck by just having this mess drop in on us so I can't say I'm no happy for the help he granted us but damn this isn't going to be good at all. One 18 year Black kid and One 23 year old Latina against the world? We don't even have any Ki cultivation techniques to start off with so we already at a disadvantage. "
At her words William had to laugh before sweeping his body and Sheila's with his consciousness to confirm what he himself had been feeling all along,"Don't worry about that Sheia. Ki is being naturally absorbed by our bodies thanks to that Baptism from My Senior. All We need to do is find cultivation techniques later all we have to do is purify the Ki to our elemental type. It will be a bit rougher on our bodies but we are tougher than the next Joe Smoe anyway so why the hell not!"
Williams confidence was infectious with his reassuring laughter to calm Sheila's worries a bit before the two of them scavenged around the room and filled up a few bookbags with lunchboxes and snacks from the desks and bookbags strewn all over the room. Sheila carefully stepped around the corpses and tried to avert her eyes from them but William had already seen almost 100 years of nothing but fighting and slaughter and to him the sight of corpses was hardly the most shocking thing in his mind.
As they scavenged the sounds outside died down to almost nothing except the occasional scuffle and grunting sounds but it sounded like the Students over all won against the goblin horde that ran through alot of the 3rd floor!
There were even some students, steely eyed for danger roaming the halls with broken chair legs as if searching for Other Goblins!
The sight of these guys energized William and Sheila and after they packed up 4 backpacks full of lunches and snacks they unlocked the door and began to open it when the Blue Box showed up once again with a more Ominous message.
Ding!
Notice!
I hope everyone has enjoyed our brief tutorial !
We will now finish the Fusion of Your old fragmented dimension with the dimension your representatives happened to destroy!
I hope You all are prepared for the New World because we do sincerely hope that some of the intelligent life survives the transition!
Be-careful because your fellow residents of the new world are going to be coming in it droves So it might be helpful if you find somewhere to hold up during the transition!
-Council of Worlds
Ding!
Timer
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It takes a few seconds for the both of them to read the boxes and the hairs on the back of their neck as they realize that they needed to hide quickly !