36 The Ruins Part-1 (1/2)

Ryuu or as he called himself now Long Yu, was sitting on a chair as he watched his teammates were busy with their last minute preparations, he watched closely as the shouted at each other checking then double checking and triple checking everything, before Bashista ordered in a rough voice troops assemble, all the members of team Shadow Wolves weather temporary or permanent stood in straight line, ”Squad I did like to welcome our newest member Long Yu, he will be in our care, but as we do not know his full skill set, I hope Yu would not mind giving me a summary of his skills.”, finished Bashista as he glanced at Long Yu.

Long Yu was highly excited, his eyes were sparkling, the others winced at that no matter how much genius the child was he had apparently read too much fantasy and now suddenly he will be thrust into the real world they just hoped Long Yu would never give up being cultivator.

Long Yu: ”Well I am a sword user, and I have already use level 5 sword force, I am an Zifu Disciple level arrayist, and Zifu Disciple level Alchemist.”, Yu was bit tensed as he heard the frustrated growl from others, he winced internally, 'when I go back I will double my training, I am already a burden on this kind people, I hope they do not suffer any mishap because of me.', completely unaware that the frustrated growl was not because of Ryuu's lack of skill but because of the shame they felt as a person less than a fourth of their age is more talented than them, this was utter humiliation, but the thought that the child is inexperienced brought up their spirits at least we would not look like an idiot in front of him.

Bashista cleared his throat bringing everyone's attention towards him, ”Well let us move out the registration will start soon, if we miss it the array surrounding the ruin will not allow us to enter.”

They reached in front of a large crowd, people were wearing different color cloths, most of them seemed to wear some form of uniform as they traveled in large group many stalls were set up as hawkers trying to sell their stuff, while many people running helter skelter to make last minute purchase, Tina who was closest to Ryuu whispered into his ears, ”Yu this hawkers selling here mostly are con artists and scammers, whenever you would go to such ruins you will be greeted by plethora of scum, although may be some of the article they posses be genuine but most are just masterful imitations just try to avoid them as much as possible.”

Ryuu nodded with disgust, 'why would people be so mean?'

Ruth: ”Captain there is still some time left so why don't we go and eat something, I am hungry.”

Bashista: ”Good idea brother let us finish our lunch, there is still some time before the registration starts.”

Jack: ”Well kid what do you think of this Nine Dragon village?”

Ryuu aka Long Yu: ”Sir, this place is nice and the people look friendly but also feels a bit tense, as if something major will happen.”

Jack laughed at him,” Oy oy what is this 'Sir' thing, we are teammates now just call us 'brothers' and 'sisters', but you are right the people are tensed, when so many cultivators gather in a place fights breaking out are very common, this village folk just do not want to get caught in the middle of it.”

The team was led to a restaurant a little bit further from the town centre where registration will take place. The restaurant was named 'The Laughing Dragon'; Ryuu cocked his left eyebrow he asked the person nearest to him, ”Big Sis Jessie, why is almost everything named after dragon here?”

Jessie answered with a smirk, ”Well kid since the main income of this village is from the ruins of the nine headed dragon school, everything is named after it.”

They entered the restaurant took over one of the table, which gave them complete view of the street as well as inside of the restaurant, as they sat, Ruth began speaking, ”Remember kid whenever you are trying to enter the ruins try to scout out as many of our competitors as possible, without drawing any attention to yourself. Like those idiots over there.”, motioning towards some people specially an arrogant looking smug richly dressed middle aged man who was busy harassing some woman, who looked half his age.

”You see that idiot, over there is currently harassing the daughter of Celestial mountain sect head's daughter, Rong Niu, a twenty year old super genius of the sect already at peak Zifu Disciple level.”

Suddenly Rong Niu vanished and reappeared a few feet away from the pig, as she walked away the clothes of the buffoon fell off from his body as if they were cut by something sharp, the man was stark naked as the day he was born in the middle of the street as the day he was born, everyone started laughing as the man who looked as if would grateful if the earth opened up and swallowed him whole, he ran with his hands covering his privates to save whatever dignity was left of him.