Chapter 8: smile that brings down kingdoms
In three months Sechs was full to the point of feeling blots from pure energy he stored inside his body. Having reached the bottleneck for entering the five rune realm, in terms of raw power he was much stronger than Nixie was before she entered the five rune realm.
Nixie’s real strength was in her speed and precision were as Sechs focused on raw power and durability. Over time Nixie also reached an astonishing level in her sword play, Sechs wasn't partial to any weapon and slightly preferred to fight bare handed.
Although he didn’t have any hand to hand fighting manuals his experience in his past life was plentiful. Sitting on a fur rug Sechs began to circulate the pure energy around the whole of his body as instructed by the [Undead King] technique as well as into his consciousness according to the [Six Winged Angel] technique.
As he did so his body didn’t feel any progression in strength but the surrounding started to pulsate according to his heart’s rhythm. As the atmosphere began to pulsate with stronger beats every second as massive amounts of pure energy were released from inside Sechs’ body joining the pulsating growing larger and larger.
Sechs felt horrible though out this process as all the energy drained from his body, the pain far exceeded that of his organs melting slowly. But regardless of what he felt the only option Sechs had was to endure. In all the pain Sechs found a strange sort of clarity in his mind but didn’t explore the feeling further as relief came just as fast as the pain.
Looking around Sechs found every thing inside his tent in a state of disorder. The various furs were thrown to the edges of the tent and the one he sat on was torn in every direction with his as the center.
That however wasn’t the most important thing to have changed, Sechs could feel an obvious change in his body. Normally he would be somewhat stronger than an early mortal realm aura warrior being able to pick up a 300 pound boulder but now he felt like his strength was at least doubled.
If his estimations were correct then he could match a mid mortal realm aura warrior and if he used all his fighting techniques he could possibly fend off a top mortal realm aura warrior. While examining himself he focused on both his body and soul.
While he focused on his soul he discovered that it strengthened considerably, with his strengthened soul he was now able to use an ability that Tekone spoke to him about, inner sight.
Inner sight was something that generally only strong aura realm warriors possessed due to the influence that cultivating aura had on the soul. With his inner sight Sechs began a detailed examination of his body. Inside his body his heart moved from it’s original position to make room for an invisible face that pulsated pure energy through his body following his various arteries and veins.
Focusing on this second energy heart that barely seemed to have any substance Sechs smiled thinking that now gathering energy and feeding his body with it would be much more efficient now compared to when he did it following instructions and his gut feeling.
The second most notable thing was the runes on his back, his runes didn't stop at just five instead he had six. Three were perfect black feathers with an elegance to them that made on think or a refined bird from the most noble of bloodlines on the left side of his back.
On the right side were three golden bones with cracks running through them, any who saw these would think that they belonged to the most savage of beasts. This was a stark contrast between the two types of runes, focusing closer on the bone rune it seemed to resemble the bone of a bird’s wing.
This was the results of combining the technique [Six Winged Angel], [Undead King], [Devouring Hearts] with the three of them stimulating his growth in different aspects their combination into a single complete technique was inevitable.
Tekone felt the pulsation going on in her young master’s tent but the force was to great for her to rush in and make sure about his safety, now that it was gone she called out to him but received no response.
Worrying about her young master all sorts of thoughts about him having some failure during his cultivation surfaced. Her young master was only nine and she never felt the flow of elemental energy around him, in her eyes this was her young master’s first attempt at cultivation.
Rushing inside she saw her young master sitting in a room full of disorder and chaos, most of the fur rugs were torn or thrown to the ends of the small two person tent in which she and her young master lived. Seeing her young master’s body Tekone couldn’t help but feel delighted in seeing the six tattoo like markings on his back.
She was a rune warrior but her runes were closer to letters while Nixie and her young master’s were closer to intricate designs.
But a slight frown also appeared on her face as she realized that his body did not change much on the outside. This was something that always worried her, as he always looked extremely frail with pasty white skill and was generally shorter than most children his age by at least a head.
“Tekone could you get me some clothes.” Sechs’ words brought her out of her thoughts and he watched her as she left to get him something to wear. Standing up he looked around himself and noted that he would also need a bath as breaking through to the five rune warrior realm was accompanied by a cleansing of the impurities in his body.
The impurities weren’t many as most of them had been removed prior to his breakthrough. Once Tekone returned he also requested some water and a rag to was himself with. But his thoughts were elsewhere during his bath.
Reaching a higher realm would be easy so long it was within the mortal realm, but he truly didn’t understand the aura realm and above. In order to reach his goal of living freely and unchained he would need strength.
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If a book in the savage land spoke about realms much higher than anyone in the tribe had ever reached it only stood to reason that others would have reached it there could even be some at the artifact realm in these savage lands without anyone’s knowledge.
And to further his growth he would need to reach at least the fifteen rune realm and leave the savage lands to obtain cultivation techniques and further his growth. He would also need some techniques for Nixie as he didn’t possess any ice aura cultivation techniques.
Now able to fight with those of the top mortal realm Sechs resolved himself to show his power to the tribe and be allowed to join the guard were he would encounter savage beasts and obtain their hearts.
But the problem would be his appearance and the fact that he would not be fully recognized as a member of the tribe until he reached the age of ten and chose his name. when he chose his name he would be able to take the tribe's name as a sort of surname and would instantly be recognized as a full member of the clan.
Walking out of his tent now dressed in new fur clothing Sechs began to feel a sense of wonder looking around at the scattered tents. His body had truly become a marble all his senses were much greater than they had been just a few moments ago.
Even from a distance he could make out the various people walking around and going about their work. From afar he also caught sight of Nixie being pestered by various children some of them much older than her.
Sechs could only smile at how loyal she was in following his words not to reveal her true strength, moving closer he thought that she had endured enough and revealing her strength would not cause to many problems.
“Haha Nixie this mater has already been decided by my grandfather as he is an elder in the tribe it’s impossible for your parents to decline giving you to me. Humph, your father’s position is under his authority so come with me and you'll help him.” This kid was as big as a robust sixteen year olds on earth but he was only about fourteen.
“Ha your grandfather’s an elder, so what to me that isn’t much.” The older kid and his little followers seemed to know what she meant. Recently the fact that she was always around the son of Shaman Lumi was well known, on top of that the fact that he beat a large group of children his age had also gotten around.
But most didn’t believe that second part thinking that it was something made up by those trying to gain favor from Shaman Lumi of the tribe head’s younger brother who some began to believe should become the tribe head seeing as he took over most of the responsibilities of the tribe head.
“That weakling can’t protect you from an elder even Shaman Lumi wouldn’t be so blind as to allow you to go to her waste of a son.” Hearing this Nixie’s anger seemed to explode, to others it was just a slight scowl but Sechs knew that after training in the techniques he gave her, her reactions showed a lot less.
Her heart had not frozen over nut her mind was incomparably stronger than those of her age and she was capable of keeping things inside rather than ragging about in a tantrum like a child.
“Yea that your wasting your time with that trash, boss here will be an elder after he reaches the aura realm, you can't cultivate so you would be lucky to even be his third wife!”
“Yea show some gratitude!”
“You should show respect to those showing you pity!” The boy who had presented himself as the grandson of an elder let his lackeys talk for him as a way of showing his might.
As they continued to speak harshly about her and Sechs, Nixie spotted him at a small distance gesturing her to beat them and show her strength. Seeing his gestures Nixie showed a radiant smile, with her change of expression all the jeers stopped.
That radiant smile to them was the same as a goddess coming down and reaching out to those lowly people, this was a smile that radiated enough charm to bring down kingdoms. After the initial stun of such a lovely sight the leader of the kids spoke.
“Haha, have you finally seen my greatness. Good now you can make up your rude behavior by following me to have some fun.” Hearing this Nixie’s smile didn’t lessen one bit as she walked towards the group of boys.
Her every step caused the boys to feel a ting of fright as she grew closer to them. That fear was instinct brought up while living in these savage lands were man was not the dominant figure. In a flash before any one of the boys could see her move they felt a chill as they landed on the ground unable to move.
“You held back nicely non of them are dead.” Receiving praise from Sechs made her elected and her smiling face lasted a while longer before she controlled herself and returned to her usual expressionless self.
“Does this mean we can openly exert our strength , and what realm are you in? I haven't asked but although you look the same when you beat those children before your movements were comparable to mine with a sword.”
Sechs just laughed looking at the face that even he was slightly taken with a small while ago, the practice of those techniques truly did have a monstrous affect on her body.
“Yes and when we are ten we will join the guard and fight savage beasts, without any experience real combat skill will not raise.”
“Don't ignore the second question what realm are you in ?” Sechs smiled at the question, noting that she was clearly excited to be able to show her strength and for him to have reached a higher realm.
“I have six runes for now I'm about as strong as a mid mortal realm aura warrior and if I put in all my effort I can fight a top mortal realm aura warrior so fighting the savage beasts will be fun.”