Elsewhere, underneath the Azure Dragon clan, the Azure Dragon King watches over the comatose elder.
The Azure Dragon King looks to the side indifferently.
"Glaze, are you sure there is no cure for the Spirit Devouring Blade?"
Glaze replies in fear. "Your majesty, it's not that there is no cure. The problem lays in the underlying Chaos energy."
Azure Dragon King clenches his fists tightly. "And just who the fuck did you teach the Spirit Devouring Blade to?"
Glaze diverts his focus of attention. "Do you remember that outsider I told you about? I do not want to believe it, but if Sin has only been here for 4 months time. He is truly a monster, it makes me wonder how many paths he has opened up."
"This outsider named Sin, you seem to know him well?" Azure Dragon King curiously asks.
"Yes your majesty I do. When I traveled to Earth, I came to know him when he joined my Blood Dragon Mercenary Group. He had incredible potential for a caged human, so I decided to teach him a thing of two."
Smashing his fist down, Azure Dragon King smashed the wooden table into pieces "And this is that punk the Demon Lord has ordered to kill on sight. How confident are you in killing him successfully?"
Thinking carefully about his answer, Glaze resolutely answers. "I am not even 10% confident I can take the current Sin now. However, with that girl in the laboratory. I am 99% sure of being able to kill Sin."
"Very well Glaze, here is your payment in advance." The Azure Dragon King tossed over a pouch full of gold coins.
"Thank you your majesty." Glaze catched the pouch of gold coins, bowing respectfully before disappearing in a flash.
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Glaze stands in front of a tub full of crystal clear solution. Inside is the body of a 15 year old girl. Glaze was staring at the girl intently.
"In 45 days from now, your job will be to kill your older brother when he arrives in the capital city."
The girls eyes opened, revealing one scarlet eye, and the other white as snow. Raising her left hand, rows of pink coloured blades surrounded Glaze forming a pagoda array.
Glaze hurriedly took out a flute, and blew an odd note. The girls eyes slowly closed, as her arm falls limp to her side.
Sweat began appearing on Glazes forehead. After wiping the sweat away, a stinging sensation is felt near his jugular. Raising his hand and placing it over top, blood started flowing like opened gates of a dam.
Glaze then noticed, the girls right hand was curved upwards. A mocking smile was plastered on her face as if taunting him.
"Stupid bitch just you wait. I will be the one who has the last laugh." Glaze hurriedly left the room in fear.
The girls eyes opened up, as her memories started coming back. "Big brother, please don't come to the capital city. I will not be in control of myself by that time." Tears streaked down the young girls face, then she had once again fallen asleep.
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Back at the Purgatory Boot Camp, Sin had prepared the wooden planks in the waterfall. As well as dragging out various equipment, machines, stone balls, and wooden swords. Haunting memories came back to him, as he patiently waited to see if Lans determination was worth teaching.
At 6 am sharp Lan had arrived. Sin was pleasantly surprised, after getting up and walking towards Lan, Sin patted Lan on the shoulder. "Yo kid, I'm glad you showed up. I would've been disappointed, if the first disciple I wanted to train didn't have it in himself to show up."
Lan got down on one knee respectfully. "Master I want to become a person who can protect his friends. I want to be strong, and protect the people of our clan like you do."
Sin appreciated the fire burning within Lans eyes. "Very good, I will guide you to become who you want to be." Throwing over a training vest to Lan, Sin starts to explain its purpose.
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"This weighs 65 kilograms, when you wear it. Cables made out of Mana will tighten around your muscles, forcing you to learn how to control and contract them at will."
Sin then pulled out 128 silver needles, they were 6 inches in length, and 2 inches in thickness. "Turn around Lan, when I count to three. I want you to stop your Mana flow immediately."
"One.... two... three!" Lan stopped his Mana flow immediately as directed. After that Sins hands blurred, all 128 silver needles were placed in Lans spine.
Feeling an intense itching feeling, Lan went to move his right arm to scratch his back. Before it had even been raised half way, his arm stopped in mid motion.
"These needles will help you to gain control over your spine. When you have full control of your spine, you will be able to exhibit bodily control, and power beyond belief."
"Now for your warm up, run three laps around the Purgatory Boot Camp. After each lap do 20 push ups, 20 crunches, 20 goblet squats, and then finish off with mountain climber for 3 minutes."
Lan nods his head in understanding. He then asked in a questioning tone. "Master, what are goblet squats and mountain climbers?"
Sin shows Lan a tutorial on how to do goblet squats, and mountain climber. After making sure Lan understood everything. "Well Lan my boy, this is the fun part for me. But not so much for you."
After hearing what Sin had to say, Lan got frightened by his masters tone. "Well master, I think I should start doing my laps."
Sin smiles knowingly "that's a good disciple, I'll see you shortly."
Confused by Sins words, Lan felt something was off. So he decided to skip asking, and got to doing his warm up. After running about 250 meters or so, Sin had appeared and whacked Lan on the back of the head with a wooden sword.
"What the hell was that for master!?" Lan yelled in irritation.
"Training." Sins wide smile was akin to the devil's smile in Lans eyes.
After finishing the 3 laps, Sin brought Lan to the waterfall Sirius, and Zenith tortured him at previously. "Your goal is to scale the waterfall, jumping from plank to plank scaling the waterfall. During the process, you will be dodging my attacks, fending me off with your [Blood Dragon Sword Methods] and controlling your bodies strength. Step down too hard on a plank and you will fall, step down too light and you'll also fall off."
The morning passed peacefully all the way through the evening. Lan was essentially beat senseless all throughout the day. Struggling as hard as he did, Sin was merciless and kept upping the difficulty. After all, diamonds are made under pressure.
Sin brought the unconscious Lan back to his house. After knocking on the door, Sin waited a minute before it opened up. Lans mother greeted Sin with a smile. After taking Lan off from his back, Sin had handed over ointment, and a list of meals for Lan to start eating. Given the difficulty of Lans upcoming training, improper nutrition will only work against him.
After leaving and going back to his house. Sin had bumped into Zenith along the way. He was shocked to see Zeniths eyes were just like a pandas.
"Zenith brother, did you fall down a flight of stairs?" Sin couldn't help laughing afterwards.
"Aie.... brother I really don't feel like talking about it right now."
Just as Zenith had finished saying that. Rein popped up out of nowhere.
"Greetings Wolf King. To answer on behalf of Zenith, he was hitting on elder Maya. Her wife didn't like that, and she took exception to that." A wide shit eating smile was already plastered on Reins face.
"Oh" Sin answered nonchalantly, then his eyes widened in realization.
"OH! You got your ass handed to you for chasing after the wrong 'tail' huh?" Sin was beyond himself in laughter mocking Zenith.
"Fuck you Rein! Suck a dick Sin! Both of you can go to hell and get fucked in the ass by Satan!" (1)
Zenith marched off with his broken pride held in hand. If it weren't a women, he would have fought back. But since he was in the wrong, he took the beating like a man.
Before Zenith had made it far, Sin had yelled out behind him. "Dont start shit, dont get shit!"
After chatting with Rein along the way home, Sin invited him to stay over for supper. Rein politely declined.
"Thank you for the offer Wolf King, but my wife is nearing her due date, and I don't want to leave her alone for long."
Sin happily congratulated Rein. "Make sure you invite me over when the baby has been born. Do you need some time off to take care of your wife Rein?"
"No that's quite okay Wolf King. My wife would kick my ass if I were home all day."
"Keep me posted about things okay? And when your child is born. I am ordering you to stay home and spend time with your family. You've done plenty for the Clan, and I appreciate that. Don't burn yourself out Rein, the little ones are also a handful. Your wife will be thankful when you're there helping."
"Thank you for your kindness Wolf King." Reins eyes lit up in excitement.
"Don't sweat it Rein, we are all family here. No need to worry about the little things."
After splitting paths, Sin entered his house filled with the enticing aroma of food. "Honey, I'm home!" Sin happily called out.
Merala shouted out from the kitchen. "Go wash up, supper will be ready shortly husband."
After washing up, Sin and Merala enjoyed supper together. During their meal, Sin had brought up something that was bothering him. "You've always been cooking for me, but you haven't had the chance to taste my cooking yet honey."
Merala blushed before saying with pride. "Well of course I would cook for you, your my husband. And are you even able to cook? I'm scared the house will go up in flames."
A sour taste was left in Sins mouth, Sin had always prided himself of his cooking skills back on Earth. Especially since he was being questioned back by his wife.
"Nonsense, of course I know how to cook!"
"Yet you haven't cooked me yet husband." Merala bit her lower lip provocatively.
Sin was left stunned before Merala laughed, bringing the dirty dishes to the kitchen.
Sin shouted out. "Hey, that doesn't fit into what we're talking about here!"
"Neither have you husband." Merala teasingly said.
"You damn, you know what fuck it!" Sin spoke under his breath. With nothing else to rebut, Merala had excitedly yelled out from the kitchen.
"One for wife, zero for husband!"