Chapter 6: Chapter 5 : Thunder Circus
They had returned to the village without Nova and sensei Primal left to the meeting. Zankoku was left with Satoru and they walked around the village, going to grab a bite to eat before going to do some training, when suddenly they bumped into the squad of Zankoku's broter and Satoru's half-brother.
"Oy Zankoku, how you been?" asked his brother Jinn as they dapped each other up.
"Good good, just been doing some missions with my teammate here" he said as he pointed at Satoru.
"I think they get it..." he said in an annoyed tone and formally introduced himself to Jinn, despite each parties knowing of each other but only the names.
Jinn and Aza left with their sensei as Kazumi, Satoru's half-brother, remained to speak to him.
"Hey so Satoru, father wants us at the clan meeting in 2 days, are you going to at-" not finishing his sentence, he replied instantly and without hesitation with a "No." which left Kazumi wondering why.
"But why? He even asked for you to come."
"I don't care. I don't have the eyes, so I don't intend on going. Plain and simple."
Kazumi sighed as he closed his eyes for a brief moment and began to walk away while slightly yelling out : "Let me know if ya change your mind!"
Knowing damn well he won't, Satoru and Zankoku headed inside of the food place and grabbed a to-go quick small meal. Eating it quite quickly, they then made their way to the training field inside of the village. It was almost night time but that didn't stop them as the lamps inside of the village shone, allowing them to see.
"I did a little digging and it turns out that Gods do in fact exist but most just stay out of site and have a low profile." said Zankoku. "Though, let's get this training in first." "Though I do gotta ask.."
"Here we go..." murmured Satoru
"Has your power increased after becoming a God? I mean, absorbing Thor's energy surely made you stronger, right?" Zankoku asked.
"I definitely feel stronger, so I'll say that it has." he replied confidently.
[Name : Satoru]
[Species : God]
[Strength : Large building level at least]
[Speed : Subsonic, 119.5m/s, faster with thunder feet imbuement]
[IQ : Genius]
[Abilities : Simple white thunder manipulation, thunder, fire and earth manipulation, imbuement, single clone technique, thunder axe]
Zankoku knew how to train for speed and he did just that by performing explosive calisthenic movements as well as just running. Deciding to do just that and learn how to compress air into a sphere to add onto his arsenal, he firstly began by meditating after sitting onto the grass and closing his eyes.
Satoru on the other hand performed physical attacks including his axe, most of which aimed for the head or heart. After a solid 5 minutes of that, he went on to attempt mastering his other abilities such as thunder manipulation. Knowing how to perform a beam and make lightning senbons, he attempted to surround himself entirely with a lightning orb but failed numerous times.
"Relax, meditate, become one with the flow. Let the flow become one with you. Allow the wind to gra-" Zankoku started saying with a slight smile on his face.
"Shut up."
With an idea popping up in his head, Satoru put his hands together and altered his own energy by understanding his energy and visualizing it, allowing it to take a different shape. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and opened them up again. Adding a hand seal onto the regular beam, he placed both of his hands up and a lightning circle began to rotate around them as he poured more energy into it, allowing the beam to instantaneously form another 3 beams alongside the one, making it 4 in total and they fired out each in a corner, but at the place of impact swerving to collide and exploding, releasing lightning everywhere. Since it's a newly learnt technique, the output of it is quite low so it didn't accidentally destroy anything.
(Thunder Circus - 12% energy required at his current state)
Zankoku too figured out how to perform his technique as he was able to perform it after 4 tries and he hit a tree with it, but just like in Satoru's case, it had a very low output the first time it's used, but despite that it made a large hole in the tree.
(Wind Vortex - 10% energy required at Zankoku's current state)
"Not as good as I thought but I'll definitely master it"
They went to move onto another ability. Satoru had placed his hands together into a seal but from the street, walking by, appeared a man who had an elder voice. At first he was covered in what seemed the darkness of the night, but as he got closer to them and the lamps, he was wearing some plain clothing of a pedestrian. "Excuse me, but do you mind helping me?"
Zankoku immediately went to the old man asking him what seems to be the issue.
"Well.. My nephew, Umon, was given the assignment to go to the outskirts of Ember nation I think to assist the Swordsmanship Village with something. If you two could kindly go there and check up on him, I will pay a hefty price."
Instantly, Zankoku turned to Satoru for the nod of approval and after a few seconds got it.
"We accept!"
The two picked up their stuff and left that same night, not fearing who or what may be behind the trees and bushes.
"Hey, I couldn't help but wonder.. But did we defeat Thor more easily than Tomiji?"
"Now that you mention it, you do have a point." said Satoru, also questioning it and thinking about it as they both walked towards the given location.
"Nah cuz think about it, sensei and him were on par with their speed, strength and technique so how did we win without him dealing the final blow? Truly makes you wonder how strong sensei is..."
The further they went, the more tired Zankoku was. Satoru's stamina didn't seem to fluctuate much as he seemed fine. They took a small break, with Zan drinking a bottle of water and continuing on after 5 minutes of sitting on some tree trunks.
A couple of minutes passed and they jumped up onto a large tree by going from branch to branch and saw their destination was very close now. Easily jumping down from the tree into a safe tucked landing on the grass, they continued on walking.
A lot of trees surrounded the village, and it's fence was 4 meters tall. It had atleast 2 dozen houses, with a blade store and a blacksmith alongside other requirements such as an armory, clothing stand, mask stand, food stands...
It wasn't particularly anything special as most of the things were made out of wood, but it looked pretty well defended and aesthetic to say the least.
Two guards were stationed at the entrance, wearing some plated armor on their shoulders and quads with sheathed blades hanging on their hip belts.
Going to enter, they were stopped and approached by the two guards.
"What business do you have here?" asked the one with blonde hair.
"We were sent here to check up on a boy our age, his name is Umon."
The guard's eyes widened for a brief moment, with a pink sparkle appearing for that moment and vanishing. "No one named Umon has come here."
Zankoku was confused and scratched his head, thinking at first that maybe they've got the wrong village, even checking the name of the village 'Bladewood'. He moved back and went to speak to the guards again, but the one with the brown hair spoke now.
"I suggest that you get out of here, you're not welcome."
Satoru thought to himself why they would say such thing, even seeing and recognizing the pink glow that reflected in his eye.
Zankoku went to say something, but Satoru grabbed his arm and pulled him away.
He was even more confused now, wondering why he did that. "Hey what gives?"
"Their eyes. They've been placed under an illusion from an oni eye wielder."
Satoru seemed calm and collected, as his expression didn't suddenly change like he was speaking about the most normal thing. Zankoku however... Well, he was always doing some weird and funny faces, except now since he was confused.
He thought for a second, with his friend facing the other direction and Zan looking at the direction of the entrance gate.
"Can they escape out of it?"
"No. Though the one that put them in the illusion or another demon eye wielder can break them out."
"So, Satoru, what is our plan here exactly? Are we going to infiltrate inside and find the wielder or are we going to return to Ember village?"
He gave it a good thought, looking at the pros and cons of both actions and ended up deciding
"We'll free this village from whoever is behind this. I can't become a powerful warrior and prove my clan wrong without taking up dangerous missions, am I right?" he said while slightly smiling too.
"Alrighty then! Let's do this."
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone