Chapter 44 - Go and Die! (2/2)

Yusa looked puzzled

”But how do I do that?”

Krune then gave her his ideas, he couldn't dictate every single step, it would make things more difficult instead, everyone has their own way to do things, and he is just showing the door.

”As for Ao, your vacuum blade is very good, but I believe that the reason you haven't mastered it yet is due to the way you control your Sword Qi.”

Ao was even more puzzled than Yusa was before, but he waited for Krune to continue.

”The vacuum blade is a wind type skill, it uses the control over the wind element to get rid of the air around you, but air is also part of the wind after all, by eliminating everything you are also limiting your control over the wind element, at least that's what I feel when I look at you, today was the first time I saw the vacuum blade skill, but I still believe that as a wind element user, your power resides in the wind element itself, by eliminating the air around you, you are cutting your own flesh.”

Ao seemed like to understand.

”Does it mean that this skill isn't suitable for me?”

Krune shook his head.

”Not necessarily, if I'm not wrong, the vacuum around you is formed due to the Wind Element Sword Qi which can be shoot from anywhere around your body, correct?”

Ao nodded, that was the pre requisite for the vacuum blade, the user had to be able to use Sword Qi with focus on wind element, there are several types of Sword Qi, elemental ones are a few of them, and Ao Sulian is obviously using Wind Element Sword Qi, Elemental Sword Qi takes in consideration the users understand of the specific element plus his understand of the sword, it's not something easy to create, thankfully, Ao was a sword manic, his understand of the sword was already very high even before he came to know Krune, as for the wind element, with Krune by his side, it would be a joke if he didn't get to master it.

”This is just a guess, but when you use sword Qi around your body to create the vacuum area, you eliminate any contact with the real wind, but what if you only start eliminating the wind, let's say, 10 centimeters away from your body? The wind that stays inside will be trapped by the vacuum blade, you can use it to boost the power of all your abilities while using the vacuum to accelerate them. Of course, the air that stayed inside will still somehow hinder your speed a little, but the gains should overcome the losses.”

Ao's eyes were shining, he had never thought about using the vacuum blade like that, but he also knows that it is bound to be very difficult.

Krune then gave him a few ideas of how to practice to achieve that effect, but he remembered Ao that in the end, it was all just a guess, only by seeing the final product could the both of them know if it was worth the try or not.

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Days passed and finally a month went by, the Furiu Realm was still open, much for Shinja's displeasure, yes, she was jealous of the people inside, the danger didn't scary her.

Krune's group was still giving her the cold shoulder, of course, that's mainly because of how she acted every time she was with them, it made her even more upset, everywhere she goes people would idolize her, but Krune's group seemed to think about her as air now, they simply ignored the fact that she even exists. It started to even affect her emotional state.

One day, she finally couldn't take it anymore! Krune, Yusa and Ao were outside the city gates making a… barbecue! The group easy going attitude was making her crazy. She knows very well that Krune has a universe foundation, just like hers, but instead of training hard they would spend their time with things like a barbecue.

But that wasn't the worst of all, the worst of was that Krune's barbecue smelled too good! Even she was salivating, for the first time she had the thought of asking if she could get a piece, Shinja thought she was getting crazy already to think something like that.

Unfortunately for her, after an apocalyptic battle between her pride and her desires, her pride lost in the end, don't look down on Krune's culinary skills, he uses the same spiritual fire that he concocts his pills as an alchemist, not to mention the he himself loves to cook good food, it was capable to even crush the 'ice block' guard.

She gathered all the courage she had to say those words.

”Can I get a piece too?”

But to her surprise, Krune's group completely ignored her, she finally couldn't take it anymore and then… she fell on her knees and cried.

When Krune, Yusa and Ao saw that, their eyes almost popped out of their sockets! Is that really the worldly famous ice block Shinja Avril?

What they didn't know was that the world had a misconception about Shinja, she is, in the end, a girl! But because everyone had only seen her talents, beaut or Pure Yin Body and Universe Foundation, she had never got along with anyone, nor did she ever join a team afraid that she would only be used. She too doesn't like to keep her distance from the others, but in end no one wanted to know the real her, this led her true self to create a shield that kept everyone away, a shield to protect herself against other people's greediness.

But ever since she started following Krune's group, they didn't give a damn to her, Krune is one thing, he isn't human after all, Yusa could also be understandable since she too is a woman, but even Ao, a human male through and through, had never spared even a glance at her.

Krune asked through his Divine Sense, he was the one with the least understanding about humans after all, he didn't want to risk a guess.

”Why is she crying?”

Ao then answered through Divine Sense too.

”For a moment a few seconds ago, I thought I heard she asking for a piece of the barbecue, but then I remembered who she was, so I thought I had heard wrong.”

Yusa was surprised.

”You two are as dumb as mules, can't you see that she is still crying? Is it time to think about it? We won't die if we give her a piece anyway so give her some.”

Of course, as a woman, Yusa could see that there is much more behind those tears than simple desire to eat barbecue, she couldn't imagine what could have happened to make Shinja break down like that, she even felt some pity.

Krune, on the other hand, just nodded and cut a piece of their barbecue, but he was still puzzled, is it really necessary to cry over a piece of meat, sure, he is very confident in his culinary skill, but he doesn't think that people would cry over it.

It was then that he felt like he was enlightened! It immediately got him exited!

Krune crouched in front of her and presented the plate with a piece of his barbecue, he then put one of his hands on her shoulder and said

”Don't worry! I know what you are passing through.”

Shinja looked at him and was puzzled, how could he know what she is feeling? Could it be because of their connection through the universe foundation?

Ao Sulian turned away, he didn't know what Krune was going to say, but he is absolutely sure that it would be catastrophic!

”I read about it in the country's network, you are on your period, right?”

For some reason, he found himself flying away in the next instant, it felt like he had been kicked out of nowhere! He could only her Yusa's shout in the distance.

”Go and die!”