Kapitel 10: Mental damage
In one chair was an old lady sewing a coat that was so small it had to be for a very young child. Next to her on the carpet was a boy of about five or six and on the other side a girl younger than him.
"Grandma, are you going to make a coat like that for me too?" The boy asked his lovely grandmother.
"No, my dear. Yours will be blue, not pink." That sweet lady loved her grandchildren and cared for them with great affection.
As the two younger children watched their grandmother sew near the fireplace, the oldest granddaughter already about fifteen watched the full moon illuminating the sky of that cold night from the window of the cabin in the woods.
"Knock knock." that young girl at the window heard sounds of someone knocking on the door.
But who knocked on the door of a cabin in the woods at this time of night? It couldn't be a good thing.
"Wait!" The older sister screamed, but it was no good because the boy had already opened the door.
"Roarrrr!!!" A terrible giant humanoid wolf growled fiercely and grabbed the boy, and went out the door.
"Ahhhh!!!" Everyone in the cabin screamed in fright. The young girl has never been so afraid of her life. She was in shock from dread.
"AHHHH!!!!!!" Then a claw broke the window and caught her shoulder, giving her an even bigger scare than anyone else.
"Sister! What's your problem?" Xun Feng asked Xun Lan as she looked at a rabbit that had just emerged from the bushes. He could not believe that his sister, one of the most talented young Cultivators in town, was now afraid of a rabbit.
"Feng, I'm sorry I got carried away by my thoughts." Xun Lan apologized for imagining that behind those bushes would be the 'beast' she had heard in stories to scare children into the childhood of a maid of her family.
How if the 'beast' that Nero invented would be the same as in the classic history of the grandma and her little grandsons in the cabin in the woods? Perhaps since both were inventions of a wicked mind.
"You agreed to hunt this 'beast' so quickly before. Why are you now full of fears?" Xun Feng didn't want to think that his tough sister would fall in love so quickly, but he couldn't be more right.
"I didn't think straight then. If this 'beast' killed Nero's grandfather, who was stronger than him so easily, what will about us if we find it?"
Xun Lan had no idea of Nero's strength, but as she was already in love and considered him her man, he had to be the strongest of them all. If her man was the strongest, his grandfather had to be even stronger. But what about the beast that killed him then?
"Fucking passionate girls!!! To hell, with fucking love!" Xun Feng had many such thoughts, but he would not speak out loud because everyone knows what is good for them.
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Dai Zhi was running through the forest eager with his henchmen looking for the 'beast.'
"This beast can't run from me. Nothing gets in my way! He will be mine, and that cow Xun Lan will only be able to cry." Dai Zhi spoke in a loud tone as she ran. Now it was Dai Wen's turn to make Xun Lan's classic dead fish look.
"Shooo!" A strong wind passed right in front of Dai Zhi and her group. When she looked to the side, she saw Elder Xiong's assistant passing her. Dai Zhi stopped in contemplation of what to do.
"Go after assistant or 'beast'?" It was a tough decision for Dai Zhi.
"Why aren't we going to get him?" Dai Wen asked quickly full of wishes to catch the assistant and be chosen with Dai Zhi to go to the Black Sword Sect.
"But what about the beast..." Dai Zhi spoke in a soft tone as she knew to ignore the assistant was wrong.
"Huhh???" Zhu Tai, the Elder Xiong's assistant, almost fell when even away heard the Dai Zhi's reply. "Is she ignoring me to hunt a beast? What kind of beast is better than joining the Black Sword Sect?" Zhu Tai can't help but stop and look back, still afraid of being a trap.
So the scene was Dai Wen and the henchmen looking confused at an even more confused Zhu Tai while Dai Zhi blushed.
"BLUSHED??? My fucking god, why is she blushing now?!?!?" Thought them all confused except Dai Zhi, who, thinking about what would be best to hunt, eventually imagined the 'reward' that Nero would give her if she returned with the beast's body as a gift for him.
"Fucking passionate girls!!!" Would have said Xun Wen if he were here.
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While girls wreaked havoc on the minds of the boys in the woods, the cause of all this headache walked quietly with his jealous spirit-form wife looking for the damn fucking assistant.
"Ahem, do you already know about him?" Sarah falsely coughed and asked in her usual calm tone.
"The man in the tree? Yes, I can smell him." Nero answered honestly. It was a reasonable distance away that he could smell a man on a tree far away from him.
"To smell? It looks like smell and speed are your best attributes..." Even with all of Sarah's knowledge, she did not fully understand Nero's body. But watching him every day, she was beginning to understand more and more.
"I feel like I can never use my speed to maximum. Whenever I'm close to my limit, I start to lose control as if my mind can't process all the speed my body can handle." Nero had already tried to check the limits of his body and managed with almost everything, but speed was still a mystery to him as he starts to get dizzy when he passed a certain speedrunning.
"You have not had similar opponents in strength or speed so far. So it is normal for you not to have a full understanding of your limits, which prevents you from perfecting yourself in certain parts." Sometimes Sarah talked like a severe teacher. Anyway, Nero always listened carefully to everything she said.
"Can this man on the tree help me perfect myself like you said, Sarah?" Nero would not lose any chance of getting stronger.
"Qi Refinement third layer. It won't help much, but the blood will have much more Qi than the others." Once again, Sarah spoke as if someone were just a meal for Nero.
"I won't waste good food then." And Nero loved that way Sarah saw all humans as blood bags because he did it too.
"Are you some ape-man?!" Nero asked just as he reached under the tree that was so big as a five-story building.
"You bastard!!! Don't disturb me. I'm busy!" The man on the tree looked like he was looking for something or someone as he looked everywhere, even as he cursed Nero.
"Come down, and then I'll give you a 'banana.'" Nero knew how to use words as a weapon. The man jumped at the same time panting in anger.
"What the fuck! Do I look like an ape-man?" The man did not expect that as he searched for Elder Xiong's assistant looking down from the top of the trees, an idiot would appear to disturb him.
He wouldn't mind beating anyone who got in his way, but now was not the time for jokes he tried to send the stranger away, but who would think he would continue to insult him?
Insult him who reached the Qi Refinement third layer at just twenty-two? He who was considered a great talent even though not as good as 'the young ladies' but enough that ordinary people couldn't mess with him without suffering dire consequences.
That man had many thoughts of greatness in mind. Luckily, he didn't say everything. He thought otherwise Nero would die of boredom.
"I'll let you attack me ten times, and I'll dodge without leaving the spot. If you can hit me at least once, I give you a quick death." Nero was increasingly enjoying being theatrical. "It's not fair yet..." Sarah can't help but comment.
"Youuuu!!!" The furious man no longer tried to speak and punched in Nero's direction with only brute force, thinking that it would be enough to bring at least down this white-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere and only pissed him off.
"Whoosh!" "Crack" The man didn't understand how he hit a tree behind the white-haired stranger. When he was almost connecting his fist and the stranger's face, he passed him like a ghost. That was so weird, but he didn't think about it much as his anger only increased. He soon turned and tried to punch one more time.
"Whoosh!"
"That was the second chance," Nero spoke, laughing as if these blows were a joke to him. But it was far worse because he could see in slow motion the nervous man's movements and didn't even have to use half his speed to dodge without leaving the place easily.
After missing a second time, the man realized that this stranger was dodging and seeing how he remained calmly in the same place, and he feared himself was the weaker.
"Blue fist!" Realizing that the battle would be difficult, the man tried to use his martial technique 'Blue Fist' passed by his father and his grandfather. Cultivators who had Martial Techniques could easily win against those they didn't have and only used common weapons or fought with bare fists relying on strength and speed.
As the man threw his punch as he did the other times this time less than a second after starting the movement, the man's fist began to turn bright blue.
Nero could see a thin layer of what appeared to be a mist that appeared from his fingertips and was covering the man's entire fist, and soon, his whole arm was covered with that bright blue mist.
Nero understood that the man was transforming the Qi in that blue mist, and that increased the size of the man's arm by twice, and he knew that this attack would be many times stronger than the previous ones.
"Still too weak to penetrate your body's current resistance," Sarah warned him.
"Yes. But I made a deal of just dodging." Nero could see the man's technique and talk to Sarah because, with his senses activated, he could see the man's movements in slow motion at his much higher speed.
The man, this time, turned his arm in the air coming at Nero with his arm horizontal as a big blue bar.
The man wanted to increase the size of his attack so that it was much wider than the stranger, preventing him from dodging unless he moved aside.
He was pretty confident in this attack but ended up with a total disappointment. Unbelievably, the stranger vertically bent his body less than a few inches from his arm until he was close to the ground, dodging from his Blue Fist as if his body had no bones.
"Whoosh!" Yes, as expected.
"How is this possi-" The man could not stop after starting the movement, and after missing Nero, he was thrown with the force of the blow to that same tree that was already destroyed in the ground.
"Yoo-hoo, are you okay? There were only three movements. Do you think you can finish ten or..."
Nero stretched his body, making crackling sounds as he stood erect as if his bones broken and repaired at the same time. He regretted expecting so much from this poor man.
The man could not get up, but not because of the fall but because of the harm of seeing Nero bending the body like that. And the crackling sounds the stranger's bones made when they returned to the place would never leave his mind like an eternal nightmare.
"Whatever." When the man did not get up or answer, Nero left the place and went to him. Nero lifted the man in shock over his shoulder and pushed his head to the other shoulder side as he put his fangs to work.
The now no longer angry man fell into the vampire's mesmerizing venom and snuggled into the arms of death.
"I need to find female victims... Sucking only men, it's shit." Nero thought softly, afraid of Sarah knowing his thoughts even before it existed.
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