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Getting off from the carriage, the two proceeds to enter the well decorated and high class Tea Shop, at the front of this shop lies a well painted sign board labeled name of the shop “Kruchea Ai Crox” build for more than 2 centuries, refinement of high caliber of serving of different cups and drinks, well shaped and style food of poise, a grandeur service that gives any one a good appreciation and well history of mastering the art of brewing hot drinks and patisserie.
The room was quiet enticing beauty and fragrance of brewing tea and coffee aroma flows freely in the whole room, so exquisite that it can calm one’s mind, that’s in the mind of Mhaxima, but for Rhei, this thing is far from enough, there are many places and shop that can surpass this said shop, well the world is quiet the big place to begin with.
The two find the first floor seem crowded by numerous high class customer of different families, well what can be expected to a high class end shop that serve a variety of brewing teas and coffees, not to tell the bread and other patisseries they serve is quite the beauty and taste, that almost gives everyone a thumbs up, the two moves to the second floor.
Mhaxima notice that the second floor was almost full, luckily, Rhei’s perception is strong and he points an empty table a the side, near to the windows, Mhaxima was delighted and she pulled Rhei to the empty seat and then they wait for the waiter to pass by, after a few minutes, the waiter arrives and give them the menu tablet to choose their respective order.
Mhaxima picked her order easily because she knows already her favored one drink, while Rhei take some time to decide due to never experience to enter the Tea Shop and make an order even back then, because he always live in his humble home, training with his master in the vast forest and being teleported by his master power to another different harsh region.
Mhaxima smiles at Rhei, Rhei then let a breath for a moment and then picked his first order, the waiter write the orders in his notepad and then move to the down stairs to give the received order, the two put down to the free space of the table the Menu Tablet and wait for the order to finish.
Mhaxima: “Rhei tell me, how do you feel today?”
Rhei: “……….”
Mhaxima: “Uhhh, ok never mind”
Rhei: “Little bored”
Mhaxima: “Oh, I see”
Rhei: How about you?”
Mhaxima: “Fine here”
Rhei: “That’s good”
A moment of silence, Rhei shifted his gaze away from Mhaxima and let her release the composure of awkwardness, Rhei think deeply on what will be his next move, a few moments, Mhaxima felt relieved and start to take courage to talk to Rhei again about the school they joined, Rhei, as for respecting manners and perspective fairness, he replied with valid response and answers.
They got a good time to known each other, until the order arrives and served by the waiter to the table with ease and flawless, they start to dig in the food and the drinks that they’ve orderd earlier, Rhei didn’t mind talking to Mhaxima at all, no doubts can be seen or traced anyway, but as the time pass, their talk comes to an end, they finish their eating of patisseries and drinking of tea, and now they move out of the shop.
Mhaxima: “It was fun Rhei, it was fun”
Rhei: “….”
Rhei wave a hand and make a fake smile that still lovely to see, even the passersby who notice his angelic face made them to blushed and smiled in a flash, Mhaxima was bewilderment and step aback at that surprising moment, this is her first time to saw Rhei smiling like that.
Suddenly Rhei blinks into the darkness, leaving no trace behind of him, the next time he appears is in the top of the tower of the city near to the Tea Shop where he and Mhaxima stayed for moment, he then stares to the skies as the whole horizon decorated with the dancing stars and the crescent moon shines.
Rhei: “Guess it’s time to begin”
Rhei takes a deep breath and take a last glance to the moon, and then he suddenly disappears in the wind, the flashes of breeze traces to every part of the city outskirts, from the vast deep forest to the mountains, until it reaches the peak of one mountain, there lies a ruined temple and there appears Rhei with his blade, he then release a percentage of his power, killing intent leaks and his aura become to emanates pure dark power.
Chapter Informatics:
The power core of monster is very important object and material, it can upgrade any weapon several folds than the ore shards can cover, the power core of the strong and mighty monsters and beast are also blessed with their innate ability, meaningfully, the weapon forge from this can give also additional abilities and powerful buffs without any rebound to the bearer and user of the weapon.
Suddenly, the temples tremble, the whole surroundings becomes dark, the wind become intense, but Rhei remain un-move as if he is waiting something to happen, the leaves starting to swirl as the trees sway, black mist cover the floors of the black temple, Rhei’s eyes shines brightly, his appearance become dark and deadly.
Rhei: “So you have come”
Suddenly in the dark mist appears a monstrous demonic figure, it’s head is like a lion with curve horns with a neck of a giraffe with body of a centaur of combination of a gorilla and rhinoceros, the limbs of an elephant and has a bony tail, at its back, numerous plate and spikes appear, the beast has a four arms, after its appearance reveal, a dark insignia appears below him, suddenly a dark and intense pressuring aura burst forth to the whole ground.
Demon: “Puny human, are you here to serve as my snack, very well, if you insist to die, I shall give it to you”
Rhei: “Many of your kin told me the same thing, but none of them survive to tell you my name, without any further ado, begone!”
Before the monster can talk back and react, Rhei suddenly vanish and make a flash slash mark appear everywhere to the demons whole body, as the demon felt that the time has stop around him, the slash mark suddenly shines, with a click from Rhei’s closing blade to its scabbard, the slash marks explodes and so the demon is.
Rhei: “No need to be shy and pile a queue, you can come to me at once”
From the shadows of the darkness appeared a numerous demons and powerful beast that exceeds up to Class D and few group of Class C demonic monster, all of them are fiercely staring like a hungry and deadly predator, mindless and relentless, they rushing and attack nonstop straight to Rhei.
Rhei: “This will be fun, all of you will be a sacrifice to my blade”
With a flash as Rhei’s appearance become dark and his eyes shine in chilling light, thousand of slash marks appears at the horizon, follow by multiple illusions and silhouettes of Rhei cutting down the enemies without holding back and enjoying the intensive killing spree and domination.
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Loud roar and squeals of the demon fallen can be heard around the mountain, flashes of lights and dark energy resonation appears everywhere, many demonic monster of lower levels keep appearing, while Rhei is still dancing with the blade, as he cut effortlessly the attackers, not letting them have a chance to land a hit on him.
There are also chance that there will be an ambush to be occurred so Rhei remain cautious and vigilant to his surroundings, enabling his perception to increase to sense dangers around, just in order to make a gap from him and the demonic beast that ganging him up in the abandon temple.
It was an intense fight and almost countless dead bodies piled up, whenever Rhei swing his thin yet deadly blade, 10 monsters die in a row, as the slash mark passing through to every demons and being cut before these monsters realize that they were already dead, the fight takes almost a hour and numerous dead disembodied and bodies piled on the ground and flood of blood flows to every floor and ground.
After the blood lusting onslaught, Rhei swung his blade once more to remove the blood stained in his blade and then he truen his blade into its scabbard and then move inside the abandon temple, although the temple looks cramped and desolate, the appearance is still majestic and honorable especially then ornaments and decorated painting murals can be seen in the walls.
Rhei entered the temple, as he walks silently, darkness appears, he already know and prepared his blade once gain in the battlefield, the battle ensues as the spawns of darkness appears and start to attack recklessly in every direction, before they sharp claws and bare razor tooth fangs about to land, they meet their demise in the silent yet deadly sharp blade that swing to every sides.
Rhei: “Not giving a greeting, such imbecile manners”
From afar a horde of another demonic beast that looks like a lion with numerous snakes attach to its back, they are rushing to Rhei’s direction, Rhei just give a emotionless glance and he return his blade to its scabbard and then he release his dark energy to his blade, when the demonic beast almost arrive a half distance to him, he release his blade that is full charge by his own dark energy.
Within that’s distance, a numerous slash marks appear from the void and start to suppress the enemies movement and momentum, slashing every bits of them and taking them down in one single blow, what comes next is their bodies fall, slice into tiny bits of flesh and the blood oozing out everywhere, Rhei, again swung his blade again to wipe off the blood out of his blade and return the blade to its scabbard flawlessly and clean.
He start to walk again deeper inside the temple and he then encounter numerous insectoid monsters of class D, and few class C rank type monsters, Rhei just give them a looking down glance and kill them without hesitation nor giving any mercy, he just keep blinking and blocking all of their attacks and while countering numerous void slash out of the horizon, cutting down easily his foes with ease.
Rhei: “Sigh, where is their master hiding, this start to become boring..”
He keeps walking to the dark alley and corridors of the temple, investigating the facilities and rooms, numerous things that been covered in dust that surprise him in every room, there are lot of scrolls, oracle bones and shells, books, parchment papers and etcs, Rhei continuously finding some hints and marks track the enemies main core for the showdown.
After a long walk and blood fest encounter with the hordes of demons and beast, he finally reach the center of the darkness power he sought to find all of the time he battle inside the ruined temple.
Rhei: “……”
At his front, there lies a huge spider with numerous eyes and some skull tattoos around to its numerous legs and it’s huge body, so much web that cannot be said to be normal as it shines into deep darkness, below that spider is a numerous dead corpse of the every expert died at its power, Rhei remain unmoved, but deep inside of him, he want to crush this huge demonic arachnid into thousand pieces.
The huge monster alarmed to Rhei’s presence as it faces Rhei with its venomous mouth and it’s numerous red eyes glows in the darkness, it start to crawled to its sticky web and release a killing intent and dark aura, Rhei, on the other hand prepare his battle stance and release a pressuring aura too.
Rhei: “A class B, interesting, I will not hold back!”
Rhei’s power become to surge and powered up, almost his power is equivalent to the power of the White Sage Tortoise rank power, believing he can beat anyone on this rank of power, but it is only the half of his power release, he can show more heaven defying power if must, but now he just taking measure of his enemy’s strength and power.
The Skull marked deadly arachnid then begins its move as it spew from hit’s body a numerous web shot at Rhei’s direction, Rhei just spin his blade scabbard and make a round shield that almost deflect all the web attacks and grind these sticky substances into dust.
Rhei: “My turn”
He then release a numerous horizon void slash at every direction of the spider, cutting down all the sticky connected webs and damaging the spider’s legs, the huge monster howls in pain and then its rushes to Rhei, Rhei then uses his dark energy, from his back numerous shadow figures of his form and align, both of them are have a shadow sword similar to Rhei’s O’Kilikulto blade.
Both of his shadows rushes to the enemy, making an impending all around attack of slashes and strike to every sides of the spider, the spider shrieks and start to counter by vomiting venomous bile substances to the shadows of rhei and yet, the shadows dodges all of its slow projectile.
Rhei: “It’s useless”
The spider continuously release an amount of web to hid itself from the attackers but the shadows are too fast as it cut down all the web connection with ease, now at the point of the end of the struggles, the spider changes it’s course of action, and start to dash to Rhei.
Rhei: “Courting death, I see”
He then return his blade to its scabbard and release again a huge amount of dark energy to his blade, as the spider approaches, everything around them is become to slow, all the shadows are returning to Rhei faster than the speed of the spider, when the spider is very near to Rhei’s weapon of range, Rhei release his blade with a powerful charge of violet static.
Rhei: “Void Cut”
The blade hit the legs and body of the spider, and penetrate through as if it cuts a butter, outside the temple a huge explosion of violent static blast occurred, the remains of the body of the spider was thrown away in the air as it lands outside the temple, one thing can be said to this, the end of the battle, the death of the most terrifying creature at the hands of the cold and merciless Rhei.
Rhei moves to the corpse of the fallen monster and retrieve from its head the core, after removing the core, the corpse of the arachnid start to melt and turned into a puddle of sticky substances.
Rhei: “I will take it, great fight it was, Mr. Spider”
His silhouette gone into the darkness, that night become silent again, and the dark mist start to disperse and disappear without a trace, only can hear in this area are the wind breeze, the grass sways and the walk of Rhei in the middle of the night, it was a long fight after all, he then take a last glance t the temple and then blink and disappears without a trace.