Chapter 55 - 55 : Explanation and Rage (1/2)
Soon, all 7 of them entered the pagoda and headed to a room there, although it was very neat and beautiful there, Arthur didn't pay it much attention, his attention was focused on the black-clothed woman, he was still suspicious of her and had a feeling she may sneak attack them, so even with his injured body he still walked alone without the help of Lucy.
He was still using the Minor Healing on himself non-stop but that helped him only a bit, he was still feeling pain all over his body so he canceled his pain with [Pain immunity] he didn't want to use it but in a situation like this, the pain will only hinder him.
A passive skill like this may be useful for others but for him it's the opposite, once he canceled the pain and walked properly, the healing wounds will take longer and the blood flower faster than ever.
It didn't take them long to arrive at a somewhat large room, the style seemed really familiar to Arthur, it was similar to the Chinese style houses which dated from hundreds of years ago.
Anastassia, Mary, and the others sat around a long yet short table seemingly forgetting that Arthur and Lucy are staring at them angrily.
As for Arthur he only stood there waiting for them to talk, he doesn't want to chat happily with them, it's not like he can forget what they have done, so even with the insistence of Mary, he and Lucy stood there near the entrance, Saly was also next to Lucy starring at Arthur and the blood coming out from him.
After an unknown amount of silent, Anastassia finally spoke
”I don't know what you exactly want to know so I'll tell you the whole matter... You see, even though I'm master of the clan, it is only by name, there is an internal conflict between the two areas as you may have noticed...”
She then turned her head to look at Sonia for a second before continuing
”Actually... Sonia has also a twin sister who look exactly like her and that twin fell in love with someone from the male area and she would do anything for him... it was too late to warn you two as last year her sister replaced Sonia after you came to the academy and followed that man's order to kill you..”
Arthur was stunned for a couple of seconds as he didn't expect this, however, he didn't completely believe this.
”And where is her twin sister right now?”
”She's probably at the male area”
Arthur pondered for a bit before speaking again
”That man, who is he and why did he give that order?”
”He is... the son of the Grand Elder of the Clan”
”Is that so... well then, I'll go over and see if that's really true, and trust me when I say this, if you are lying then even you can't stop me from killing you sister”
Just as he said that, Arthur turned around to leave the room, he wanted to get done with this matter as soon as possible.
”What are you going to do?”
Hearing Anastassia say that, Arthur paused for a second before coldly replying
”What needs to be done.”
Then he exited the room along with Saly and Lucy.
As they quickly got out from the Pagoda, Arthur turned toward Lucy and softly said
”.. Stay here, It'll be done quickly.”
Surprised by what he just said, Lucy turned to look at the bloodied Arthur with a worried face and said hesitantly
”I-I can fight you know... besides you are injured..”
Arthur brought Lucy to his arms reassuring her
”Don't worry, if you come with me then who is going to protect little Saly?”
Lucy couldn't help but reluctantly nod her head as she watched Arthur disappeared from her view. Saly merely watched this as she knew she isn't strong enough now, deep in her heart she vowed to train harder so that one day she can fight with him too.
Arthur already transformed into his lightning form and headed to the male area, along with the way he coughed some mouthfuls of blood as his internal injuries are still not healed.
He stopped in a somewhat quiet place to possess the bodies of the hundred or so disciples he killed, he didn't know how strong the grand elder is and he didn't dare to be overconfident anymore, not after what that woman did to him, just thinking about how helpless he was made him depressed.
There were 124 disciples and Arthur took about 10 minutes to possess them all, he felt his strength increase by a lot, and a lot of information came to his mind, unexpectedly not even one notification came which confused him but he doesn't have time to thoroughly think about it now.
He knew the stats he must've gotten from the disciples are enormous but due to the heavy injuries, he has now he can't quite know how much his strength increased.
As he searched in his mind what skills he got, he was surprised to see a strange method, there were a lot of skills required using 'Qi' and apparently, these disciples would stay for hours to absorb the 'Qi' from the surroundings to strengthen themselves.
He tried condensing some Qi in his hand and it indeed worked, it was that strange green fog he saw it earlier when he fought Wuji and that section chief.
He could also use a lot of new skills, 'Buddha palm', 'Metal Finger', they all required 'Qi' to use and seemed strange for skills as Arthur never obtained something similar to this.
Albeit all the new skills and so on, he didn't dwell on them much, it's not like he would use them now, he would thoroughly test them later when things calmed down.
He transformed yet again into his lightning form and went to the male area.
In no time, he was already in the same yard as earlier, there were some disciples sitting cross-legged seemingly training, Arthur didn't pay them any attention and immediately entered the pagoda.
It was very similar to the one in the male area, with his godly speed, he searched in the pagoda but it was strangely empty, however, he stumbled into the section chief from earlier who seemed to be talking with another old man while calmly drinking some tea.
The appearance of Arthur startled the two old men, especially that section chief who was named Yuxi, when he saw Arthur appear out of nowhere, his face turned white as he thought he came back for him.
Arthur gazed at the old men and coldly said
”I'm only going to ask once, where is that twin sister of Sonia?”
The one with Yuxi was another section chief, he was just chatting with his friend on what happened earlier, and when he heard Arthur, he became irritated, he obviously didn't know it was the same man Yuxi was talking about, but even if he knew, he would not be scared as he is stronger than Yuxi and he thought his friend was exaggerating things.
He jumped on Arthur without replying intending to finish him off and get done with this intruder but to his surprise, just as he launched himself on Arthur, he vision darkened and he just died.
From the perspective of Yuxi, he only saw his friend jump on Arthur then his head rolled over the ground, he couldn't even see what killed him, then the corpse of old man disappeared along with his head.
Yuxi couldn't help but tremble at this sight, this man in front of him was literally a monster, he was a bit confused when he saw why such a monster is injured like this with blood all over so he had a bit of hope to get rid of him with the help of his friend but now all his hopes were crushed.
Arthur walked slowly toward the remaining old man intending to finish him off, whether he answered or not didn't matter, he would search the whole area for her.
”W-Wait! I'll tell you! Spare me!”
Hearing this, Arthur stopped and gazed at the old man waiting for his answer.
”She's most likely at the top of the pagoda, she never leaves that place as she is disliked by the female area!”
As he said that, Yuxi breathed a sigh of relief as he thought Arthur was going to spare him this time too, after all, earlier, although he slaughtered all the disciples, he didn't kill him but to his surprise, a sharp pain came from his chest and he looked down he saw a deep cut into his chest area where his heart is located.
Just like that, he dropped to the ground with eyes full of disbelief and unwillingness to die.
From the very beginning, Arthur wasn't planning to let him off, he didn't want him to go and inform all the others plus he had a good idea.