Chapter 51 - The Mysterious Herald (1/2)
The Dark forest
It was already noon, and the sun was already high up in the sky. In the northern part of the dark forest, there was a huge mountain. it was one of the highest mountain peaks within the northern part of the forest.
On top of the mountain, two men were standing facing one another without saying a word as though they were having a staring contest. One of them had a huge black cloak making it almost impossible to see his feature despite the heat.
The other person was middle-aged man in a green gown. He looked very happy, but his fiery-like eyebrows reaveled an extremely sharp aura. Unlike the other person, this men did not seem to give any sense of oppression. In fact, he looked like a scholar from the secular world.
If one looked closer, one might realize that this man looked almost exactly like the Emperor of the Djage Empire. However, despite not giving any noble aura, this man seemed carried a distinguish vigor that the Emperor of the Djage empire was not yet able to achieve.
” There's nowhere to run, you'd better tell me where you hid the girl.” Asked the men in a green gown in a commanding tone with a playful smile on his face. Nonetheless, the men wearing the black cloak could clearly feel a strong killing intent behind this playful smile.
” Haha, who said I was running Herald. It seemed like you haven't forgotten your days as the Emperor of the Djage Empire. You are talking to me as though as I was one of your subjects.” Answered the men with a sneer on his face.
” It seemed like you have no intention of telling me where you hid the girl.” the men in green gown also known as Herald seemed not to care about the other's man comment. The only thing that was on his mind was the girl.
” What girl?”
” Enough with the mindless talk 5th Eye. You clearly don't believe that your master was the only one that knew about Henry's identity as well as why he was able to accomplish all those things despite not being a mage or a true warrior.”
Just saying that name made sweat ran down Herald's spine. Henry was a mysterious person that appeared on the continent three hundred years ago. Nobody knew where he came from, he just popped out in the continent out of nowhere.
However, his knowledge of mana, magic spell, and weaponsmith, or potions were things out of this world. Despite not being able to use magic, There was no expert in the entire continent that would dare go against him and no nations would dare to antagonize him. Luckily he was a man of peace who only cared about his research and nothing more.
This man was so heaven-defying that he was able to create a potion that would give any regular mortal the power of a 3rd rank warrior. Even if that person had no aptitude for practicing a martial art or being a warrior. This was something that every empire and nation sought after but they did not dare to show their greed.
Imagine if one were able to mass produce that potions and create an army with it, they would able to storm the entire Egul continent with such an army. Most soldiers in the army are regular mortal that only practiced some swordsmanship etc. As for the ones that were able to use battle qi and breakthrough the warrior rank, they were considered an elite and were assigned to the special company.