Chapter 997 - Level 5 Appears (2/2)
”Calm down. This one has already promised. Five bottles it is.”
”Thank you, great one!” cried the Knight, smiling happily. The head of the Church had informed the Knight about rewarding him. If the business goes smoothly, the Knight will be awarded with one bottle of the potion if he managed to get five or more bottles from Zhuge Shanzhen.
The Knight was only a the Advanced stage of Level 4, there was still one barrier he absolutely wishes to achieve.
The hierarchy structure of the Church was almost the same as the martial artist alliance. To become stronger, they would have to train their mind and body to the brink of fainting. This goes on a daily basis until they could achieve the strength they wanted. The temptation of reaching a higher level of strength was undeniably powerful for Knights and even Priests of the Church.
When Zhuge Shanzhen had agreed to offer five bottle of potion, the man nearly jumped into the air with delight. The impression of being a Knight must be uphold. That and the fact that he was dealing with the legendary Zhuge Shanzhen. One mustn't lose one's compose when dealing with a person of higher status.
”Here are the potions. This one will take the artifact now,” said Jiang Fei, handing out five bottle of potions. He then ordered everyone to step out of the laboratory before waving his hands out.
A faint bluish white light envelopes the entire laboratory and in just a flick of Jiang Fei's finger, the three-stories size structure vanished from their very eyes.
”He really is the almighty one…” said one of the Knights who thought he stood out of earshot. Jiang Fei heard it and smiled regally before nodding at the head of the Knights.
”This one has completed what he came to do. One must now leave and wishes the best for you. Farewell!” said Jiang Fei before throwing the sword to the ground and leaped onto it. He soaring into the sky with Isabella behind him.
”He is as mysterious as the rumors said,” said the Knight.
In the sky, before Jiang Fei wanted to remove his disguise, Isabella nudged Jiang Fei's back and whispered, ”someone's here.”
Two seconds later, 0542 blared loudly in his mind, ”Captain, I have detected an Omega level being approaching our location!”
Jiang Fei immediately stopped flying and hovered in the air, preparing for the worse. 0542 will only give a warning to Jiang Fei if it had detected a Level 5 Metahuman. Even though the flying sword was fast, it would not outrun a Level 5 Metahuman that could teleport.
”Peace be with us all. How do this one address a friend that came to seek an audience?” said Jiang Fei, still pretending to be Zhuge Shanzhen. Even though he was nervous as hell, it was not the first time him pretending to be someone he was not. He calmed himself quick and found his breathing immediately.
A white orb flashed in front of Jiang Fei and a man appeared out of it. He looked like someone from the west and was floating in the air with an unknown energy surrounding his entire body. Surprisingly, the man was bald and looked scrawny.
”Could this be Master Zhuge?”
”One is indeed! Who might you be?” Jiang Fei said calmly and started to analyse the person that was floating next to him. That person was using Mandarin to converse and was not doing to well. He was stuttering, which states that the man was terrified of Zhuge Shanzhen.
”I'm nothing but a lucky person…” said the man before telling Jiang Fei his story.
The man looked like he was in his forties but he was fast approaching 1,000 years old. He was born in the last century, in the center of Europe. Back then, Europe was not as advanced as they were now. War, famine, pestiline, and death was all but common during that period of time. He was one of those unfortunate one that was born during the dark ages. At the brink of death, the man crawled up to the beach and managed to find an unknown, egg-like object. The man was famished for several days and since he was about to die, he ate the egg-like object without caring much whether it was poisonous.
That egg was not what it seems. As soon as he swallowed it, the man was assaulted with waves of excruciating pain throughout his body. After suffering like that for several months alone, in that desolate beach, the man was able to reach Level 5 and in turn, managed to obtained an unaging body.
Unlike other Level 5 Metahumans, this man was one of the rare, unaffiliated Level 5 Metahuman that does not side with any country or group.