Weaving through trees, Ran Kree would often see a sharpened log, dropping down from a tree and every drop always landed on its target.
Ran Kree muttered under his breath, "Shouldn't they at least try to dodge?"
001 had heard Ran Kree's mutter but didn't pay it much heed, after all, what was Ran Kree to do about it, the probability of him finding out about his ability was more preposterous than pushing a camel through the eye of a needle.
Out of the corner of 001's eyes, he saw a person, instantly he caught on to the design of the clothes, a white uniform with a light blue pop to it, blue is the primary color of the Gu Yue clan, and the Xiong clan's main color is brown.
[What is a Gu Yue clan's gu master in the Xiong clan's forest doing? Did they get wind of my deal with the Xiong clan's leader? That would imply there's a Gu Yue clan spy high up in the Xiong clan, It's unlikely for the spy to be Ran Kree because I would have probably sensed killing intent from him if that was the case. Then who?] ~ 001 shook his head. ~ [I can find out who the spy is on a later date, for now, I must find out how deep in the water I've already sunk]
Both 001 and Ran Kree made it to a clearing where three very large metal-tipped logs lay, prepped beforehand by himself.
He stopped at the last tree before the clearing, not taking another step forward, standing there watching carefully for any movement.
"Why did we stop?" ~ Naturally Ran Kree was unaware of what 001 noticed earlier, leaving him oblivious to the possible traps set by the Gu Yue clan.
Suddenly a heavy presence filled the area, even the air started to condense a little.
001 is spreading the smallest amount of fear within a small area around himself, leaving nothing untouched, so that he would smell their fear like a predator trying to find its prey.
He then muttered, "Spreading fear is a bit taxing. Since I can already push my will onto others would it not be better to simply spread my will and see wherever it sticks, inconsequential of whether or not my will holds fear."
001 began opening up his will, sensing all the wills in the area, like dings on radar, till he stopped when he noticed three wills that had killing intent directed at him.
Over the span of a month, 001 had not only been studying about this world but also many new ways to use his ability, the Blood Heart Gu had given him an immense amount of energy, allowing him to experiment with his ability unrestrained.
[3 gu masters, ranks are unknown, but it can be assumed none of them are rank-4. . .], 001's eyes widened, when looking back to when he saw the blue uniform, he remembered that build, while he's never personally seen the person, he made it a point to get a description of every gu master in this mountain range.
[Shouldn't he be protecting his village? What is a rank-4 gu master doing here!? Am I that much of a threat to the future of your clan? Gu Yue Bo!]
⸻1 hour ago: Gu Yue village's head chamber⸻
"We've received info on that fellow, he's peak rank-2, and he has a rank-3 Relic Gu!" ~ Chi Lian was relaying information he had received from his informants.
"He's fallen for their scheme hook line and sinker, and once he's theirs, they can fully invest into him, and make him stay as a peak-rank 4 gu master. I had thought they would do it slowly, giving us plenty of time to make a plan to deal with it." ~ Gu Yue Bo was rubbing his forehead, they had planned to leave the demonic gu master alone, but never did they agree to leave 001 alone.
A message gu came flying in and landed in Mo Chen's hands, ~ "It would seem he's accepted a bet with the Xiong clan leader, they pretty much plan on owning him this month!"
"What's the bet?" ~ [When did Mo Chen get better informants than me?]
"He must hunt at least one thousand beast king within this month or he'll do away with all his current funds. Also, it would seem he's already started the bet, entering the jungle." ~ Mo Chen.
They were all left a little baffled, to their knowledge, 001 had only been a gu master for what, 1 month, and now he was hunting something only seasoned rank-3 gu masters would take on, as a rank-2 no less.
"I can assume he has backup just in case something wrong happens, but the question is how much?" ~ Gu Yue Bo
Mo Chen was scanning through his message gu, ~ "It's a guy called Ran Kree."
"Only one! Do they think we won't do anything to them, just like how we didn't do anything to the Bai clan?" ~ Chi Lian was confused, was the Xiong clan this low on manpower?
"The reason we did nothing about the Bai clan was that it was obviously bait. We had confirmed that they had people watching the village waiting for us to do something, in hopes to get us to pay compensation if we tried anything." ~ Mo Chen
Gu Yue Bo lowered his head going deep in thought, after a while, a grin suddenly grew on his face. ~ "When an opportunity is handed down to you, you take it! We leave now!"
"Just us three?" ~ Chi Lian didn't feel too comfortable going into Xiong clan territory so abruptly, if something were to happen to him it would be major if not the tipping point for the destruction of the Chi family.
"We'll wait for a moment when he's alone, and when Ran Kree isn't paying attention, we will kill 001, then leave, bringing no harm to Ran Kree." ~ Gu Yue Bo knew of Chi Lian's weak nature, and even though he had said they wouldn't kill Ran Kree, to appease Chi Lian. If Ran Kree made things difficult, essentially taking away their opportunity, he is 100% going to kill Ran Kree.