Chapter 5: Masked Champion
"Who the hell are you!? That's our hostage!" Thunders the leader bandit as salvia wildly flew out from his mouth. His yells were as loud and beastly as a forest black bear when it fights for its territory.
"She's my hostage now. If you lot of three moves a damn inch then I won't hesitate to cut her pretty little throat." Kaze Zao's eyes gave out a fearsome aura of predatory instincts. Even in his new 16-year-old body, he still had a frightening deadly face.
"Haha! Get a load of this little punk! You got some guts on you! But that won't save you! Now hand over our hostage!" The leader bandit pointed his battle-ax head towards Kaze Zao head.
"Don't think so. How about we make an exchange. Your spirit stones and experience credits for the girl." Kaze Zao pushes the white hair vixen closer against his toned chest and aims his sword vertically at her neck.
"You know you're going to be severely punished for this once my family finds you!" The white-haired girl snarls as her bright blue eyes look up at Kaze Zao. "I Don't care. Your in no position to talk." He replied in a monotone voice as he pressed his sword closer to her neck.
The leader of the bandit's eyes widen when heard Kaze Zao's bold request, "Are you out of your fucking mind kid! Don't you know where you are? The forest of Hollows, a place were no one will he hear your cries for mercy. Only the foolish travel here and never return. I am surprised someone as young as you have survived this long!" He lifted up his battle-ax and spat, "But that's about to change if you don't hand over the young lady."
It seemed that bandits made some round trips into this 'Hollows Forest' to rob and kill weaker travels who are dumb enough to enter here. The tall trees and rocky high hills made a perfect sound repellant so that no one's screams could be heard from afar unless someone was close around the surrounding area like Kaze Zao was.
Kaze Zao had a feeling that these bandits had no clue where he had come from. He had basically fallen from the skies and was teleported into Xiaeros. If his secret of being from another world was revealed then they would surely try to capture him for his knowledge and cultivation powers. Kaze Zao looked around his surroundings, nothing but a vast vow of blacken forest trees. He could have easily hidden from the bandits, but deep down in his blood and soul, he wanted to test out his new powers of the slayer system.
Without a moment's hesitation, he chose his main class 'Cultivator' just by tapping the air. "I have to gain as much power as I can in a short amount of time. These bandits don't look like much of a threat, but at my state, it's going to be a little harder to fight them off. That's why I took this girl as a hostage." Kaze Zao stepped back a bit and gripped the white-haired girl tighter.
"Maybe I am not making myself clear! Hand over the girl!" The leader bandit swung his battle-ax at Kaze's Zao head, at this point the bandit had become so annoyed that he just wanted to kill both of them. "Well so much for my plan" He sighed to himself.
Kaze Zao rudely tossed away the girl into the forest and blocked the head of the battle-ax with the base of his katana, sparks ignited by the friction impact of steel rubbing against each other. This was exactly what he wanted. He figured he can kill these three idiots and take their spirit stones and experience credits. He knew that experience credits must have been some sort of credit points that makes him gain his levels. While spirt stones were used in his past world as a type of currency. The similarities between Xiaeros and Daoron were almost on pare, except for two factors. The slayer system and the surge of environmental aura energy which was actually stronger than his previous world. Of course, there may be more differences once he enters the sects and villages of Xiaeros.
Kaze Zao barley held back the leader bandits attack, his hands were shaking wildly by holding back his heavy battle-ax with his gunmetal katana.
"You really have a death wish don't you boy!" Shouts out the leader as his presses down harder on his ax's wooden handle.
"Wait! Tai Chang! I remember the eyes of that boy! The one who would always fight against the Sect Champions!" Said a bandit called Lin Sho, he was the youngest of the group.
"You mean to tell me that this is the boy who was the masked champion who defeated the strongest warriors and champions at the battle arena? Don't make me laugh!" Tai Chang quickly roundhouse kicked Kaze Zao in the stomach his strike was to fast to dodge. The air was knocked right out Kaze Zao's lungs, his legs slide back as he still held on to his katana with a piercing glare. "What the hell are they talking about? Do I look like some masked champion? I did use to fight in random sect tournaments back on Daoron, does this mean both worlds are connected?" He thought about Tai Chang's statement.
Tai Chang lifted up his heavy battle-ax and strikes again at a sideways angle, Kaze Zao nonchalantly tilts his head to the side and the ax barely scathed his hair. "A weapon of that size is useless if you can't hold it properly and swing it with one hand." Kaze Zao slashed down his katana and cut off two of Tai Chang's finger's, ruby blood sprayed everywhere, "Raaargh! You little shit!" He dropped his massive battle-ax in pain, Kaze Zao went for another slash but was blocked by the other two smaller bandits who used their earth Ki to create a rock wall barrier to protect Tai Chang. Rain continued to pour over the forest.
"You should escape. This is your only chance." Kaze Zao turned to face the girl who was wet and soaked on the muddy ground, her eyes widened with amazement of how fast his sword strikes were. "W-what is your name?" She muttered under her breath. "Why should I tell you? Now scram." Kaze Zao wipes the fresh blood off from his katana blade with his jacket sleeve.
"If you truly are the mask champion! Then I will take your head to our clan leader!" Tai Chang barked out as grabbed his ax and charged forward.
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GhostyGodZ This chapter needs an edit. Next chapters are when the story picks up.
I want to say a few things. The MC is ruthless for a reason, his past life will attest to that and you will soon see what happened. Chapters 1-2 were more of hype chapters if anything. If you expect the MC to grow in two chapters then that's some time travel shit. This story is for fun. So expect a lot of crazy stuff.
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