38 Two Pitiful People. (1/2)
”Gold is bland, to be honest.”
Crackling his fists, Su Min sighed as he stared ahead. His eyes glistened with a primal gold, pinpointed the fading aura of the dead tattooed man, so he, with a leap, darted toward such a location.
*SHHH*
The surroundings, as if he had teleported, blurred at a surreal motion as within a literal split second he appeared before such a corpse. The unwilling eyes and strange circled symbol displayed itself on the dirt floor.
”Hm...”
Su Min found that a sliver of the corpses aura strung before him, leading towards the north, or behind the corpse. It was like he had caught the scent of the man, and could now follow the tracks of where he had been.
”Guess I'll follow this.”
Making up his mind, Su Min once again trod on the ground with a muffled boom and whistled off into the distance. A visible sonic boom shuddered around him as a piercing line cut the forest.
...
...
Two males, covered head to toe in what seemed like tattoos of prehistoric creatures stood atop a stone gate. The gate, towering so high that it pierced the clouds, seemed to exude a majestic presence and a pressuring atmosphere.
The two beings sighed as they, with a language that felt ancient and inconceivable, spoke to each other.
”You heard, the juniors have been sent out to hunt some beasts.”
”Hm? Where?”
”The south forest. It seems that it has become quite lively in the last couple of years. Tribes left and right keep starting camp, so we, of course, have to exterminate them.”
”Mhm. There are way too many of those pests...”
However, just as they were speaking, an infitisimal boom reverberated far in the horizon.
”Hm? Hey, you hear something?”
”Aye. Start the defensive measures, must be some madman.”
Not even panicking, the two looked with attention toward the horizon. A shimmering glow erupted from their foreheads, where 3 circles shone!
”Mhm, notified the engineers.”
”Sure, though this one may be a little troublesome.”
Speaking with a strange formality, the two frowned as that distant boom become a thundering echo that blasted an ear-splitting sound wave far, far in the distance...
”This being must have a considerable battle prowess, get prepared.”
”Mhm.”
*BANG*
Emerging from a peaked horizon, a sundering shockwave swelled as it swept and continued to pursue a trail that travelled for hundreds of miles.
”Gold?”
The two became perplexed as they saw a faint gold shroud the shockwaves, in fact, the sky had shifted a faint golden above the looming figure, although it spread for only a couple of meters.
”A race that uses the ancient energy? Never thought I'd see one in the heaven's region...”
*BOOOOM*
Just after that mumble, the figure at a hair-raising speed transformed from a dot into a figure draped in black. He was only a couple meters away from such a massive wall, and, he felt like an ant.
”Ah. I found it.”
Gazing, Su Min found it hard to imagine how such a structure was constructed. It reached right into the heavens, and with its pure white stone and majestic atmosphere, it made him truly feel tiny.
”How on earth do I get passed this thing.”
Su Min mumbled as he leapt toward it, however, just as he got halfway there, a white cone of energy materialised right in front of him.
”Uh.?”
*BANG*
Although he wasn't going at a speed that he considered 'fast', a dull crash smacked as, with a sudden thud, he thrashed right into the white barrier. He rebounded back a couple meters, where, with a crystalline shimmer, the barrier dissipated into nothingness.
”This is going to be difficult.”
Still not wanting to give up, Su Min's eyes glistened with something inconceivable as his chest which circled with one figure thumped.
The sky seemed to darken as his fists crackled, and with a stream of ancient strands counting in the hundreds, a mighty glow lit up the sky for hundreds of meters.
”Take my fist!”
Throwing his fist back, Su Min glared at the air as his grip, reifying with a gold, threw itself outwards. The punch, as if it had enveloped the world, forced a shadow to loom and tremble over the entire ground for kilometres.
*SHIIIING*
Not even caring, the same white wall emerged from space it expanded and thickened. Though, Su Min's gaze shone with a resoluteness as he swivelled his chest and propelled his fist right into it!
*BANNNNNGGGGGGG*
Enveloping the world and everything in such a world, a crazed force entered the white barrier as a shockwave so massive that it defied description thundered around Su Min.
*CRACK*
Trembling, the barrier loosened as Su Min's fist dug into it without reserve! Though, even as he continued, the barrier continued to thicken with him.
”Hmph.”