41 First Form! (1/2)
”The records did say that these races were mad...”
The figure materialised in the air as a simple tattooed man shone into view. His skin was dark with a dense accumulation of tattoos that wreathed with vigorous depictions of celestial beasts that seemed holy and majestic.
”H-holy one!”
Though, just as appeared before the village, a simultaneous exclamation rang out as everyone kneeled down face first. Their expressions shone with fervour, fear and awe...
”Mhm. Stand.”
The man nodded a tad as he motioned for them to stand up. He gazed at each of them, where the faint suppression of his four circles made the villagers lower their heads.
”Did you speak to that man over there?”
Pausing a bit, the man spoke with a soft voice as he pointed toward the uncaring figure who continued to pummel the ground with logs upon logs.
The group of villages tensed a bit as they heard the question, then with a nudge, a boy popped out with shaky legs. He was the same boy Su Min talked to, though his eyes were riddled with fear.
”I-I talked to him.”
The boy stuttered out a sentence as he kicked the ground out of nervousness, twiddling his thumbs and gazing at his feet. The man, showing interest, asked once more.
”What'd he ask?”
The boy paused, then with a gulp, spoke some quite strange words.
”He asked where he was, and about a race known as 'Humanity'... Nothing more, holy one.”
The man's eyes seemed to glimmer with a mysterious nature as his face broke into a smile; it was as if he was confirming some suspicions.
”You did well facing that man, now, I'll try doing so.”
Patting the kids head, the man grinned as he stared at the run-down forest in the distance. The boy's face became frightened at the sudden action, though he didn't dare move.
”Now, please my children, shelter yourselves.”
Speaking, a light wind fluttered around the man as his existence hazed with a frizzly blur, and, in the time it took to blink, he had disappeared. Everyone felt their legs weaken out of pure stress, but the kid was different. He gazed, with intent, at the forest a kilometre away!
...
...
”Hm... This should do.”
Standing atop a piece of rubble, Su Min nodded as he stared at a simple wooden house in front of him. It was made out logs, large logs in fact, and exuded a faint gold from the dissipating strands that manoeuvred them.
It was simple, but it was enough for Su Min to get some shut-eye. Too much has happened, and he needs some rest... He needs to sleep away the worries he has back at home, all of them, commingling onto his emotionless self.
*Wooosh*
However, just as he was about to step in, a faint wind sprung beside him. His face glistened with the same expression, but his body reacted differently...
*BANG*
Like he was swatting a fly, his still hand seethed as he slapped at the empty air with an intense boom. The sky trembled and the logs beside and under him shattered into dust, all from a simple thrust...
”Good!”
A man, revealing himself in the wind, roared as he stood before Su Min in the newly formed crater. Su Min frowned as he stared at the house he had just built, one which was now nothing but sawdust.
”My house...”
Su Min frowned, then looked at the man who had disrupted his sleep. It annoyed him, so he with a raspy rumble spoke at the grinning man. He needed to teach this annoying bastard a lesson!
”You're the reinforcements those two spoke of?”
The man's smile widened and spoke with an ignited excitement.
”Yep! Now, you who came from the ancient realm, would you like to duel? Don't worry, our race originates from a real heaven's race, so I assure you that you may be surprised!”
Su Min's eyes shined as he heard the comment.
'Originates from one of the heaven's races? So that's why I felt such disgust! Although it's so faint...'
Feeling enlightened, Su Min felt obliged to follow the commandment of his race. He is THE Ancient Race. The true, one and only, Ancient Race! Above all, the pride of the entire Ancient Realm!
”Heh? You originate from a heaven's race? Guess I have to clean this filthy realm up, as it is my mission, you see.”
Su Min, lifting with a terrifying smile, laughed as he glared right back at the man. It was a glare of gold, and it made the mans bloodline shiver out of pure eeriness and unscrupulous warning. It was as if it was trying to make him stop; like he was about to rouse a beast he should never rouse!
”Alright! Then achieve such a mission! Ancient Scum!”