46 A high jump. (1/2)
”Come out! I don't want to come looking for you now!”
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”What a nice looking town...”
Su Min, staring into the distance, sighed as he grabbed a dark cloak and draped himself in it. A corpse laid beneath his feet, one whose eyes shone with unwillingness and shock.
In the distance, a sprawling town pierced his view. It was surrounded by a stone wall, one that shone with a bright white that exuded a faint majesty onto all creation.
Nonetheless, confronted with the wall that Su Min soared over, this is but a trivial speck in his eyes. One that, although mighty to mortals, was something he could topple with a simple palm...
”I hope they have hotels...”
Sighing on his lack of rest, Su Min walked down a narrow dirt path and headed toward the gate of the town. His face was covered in a dark cloak, and so was his body, making him blend into the background.
He didn't rush, he didn't run, he just walked the pace of a mortal...
*WHIP* *NEYYY*
”Quick! We can't be late for the opening ceremony!”
Just as Su Min began his walk toward the town a couple of kilometres away, a crazed carriage getting tugged by two white horses blitzed behind him. The horses had one horn atop their head, and their eyes shone with a strange intelligence.
”Hm?”
Su Min paused as he took a glance at the carriage soaring right at him. At the rate it was moving, it would collide with him within seconds. Of course, Su Min wasn't worried about that.
'Guess I'll ride that.'
Instead, a strange idea surfaced as Su Min retreated off the road and watched it close in on him. A cloud of dirt spewed out of the road as the two horses darted past him, accompanied by the incessant commands of a fat driver.
*WOOSH*
Su Min didn't care, though, as he blurred through the air and jumped atop the golden encrusted carriage that was being tugged by the two fierce horses.
*Creeeak*
”I really ain't made for stealth am I...”
A sudden creak titled the floorboards as Su Min stumbled to prevent any further noise. Nevertheless, it didn't seem anyone heard him as the carriage continued to drive right towards the town at a supernatural pace.
Minutes passed and Su Min lazed on the carriage, yet his eyes seemed to glimmer as he watched the carriage arrive. The walls looked like giants to him as they stood tens of meters high, though it was still trivial.
”Madam! Quick!”
The driver jumped off the reigns and ushered whoever was inside the carriage to get out. It seemed that something important was occurring, though Su Min didn't know what.
”Mhm.”
A feminine voice whispered out of the carriage as a woman dressed in simple clothes walked out. However, her face was pale and her gait weak, yet she seemed to contain an ethereal beauty not seen often. She was young, having skin fair like jade and a figure men would drool over.
”We have to win this no matter what, miss! Otherwise...”
The fat man's eyes tightened with sorrow as he looked at the struggling girl, yet he shook himself out of it and shuffled to her. The girl's eyes shone with a deathly white, and with a dry whisper, she spoke with a sad smile.
”You shouldn't do this for me... I'm a lost cause anyway. Right?So stop that idiot from fighting in the duel... Please...”
The fat man shook even more as heard that, but he gritted his teeth and remained silent as he escorted her towards the gate. Su Min, watching this with a yawn, remained unchanged to it all. The only thing he felt was curiosity.
”I wonder why she doesn't have any of those stupid circles on her head...”
Scratching his cloak Su Min's eyes shimmered as he jumped off the carriage like he does it on a daily basis. He watched as the two got questioned by a couple guards, where they handed in a strange metal and walked in.
”A fee?”
Su Min grumbled as he proceeded to wander up to the gate, where three guards bearing white armour stood. Two circles swirled on each of their foreheads, glimmering with a radiance that pressured the air around them.
They caught sight of Su Min walking toward the gate, where one of them took a step forward and blocked his path.
”Stop. Hand in 200 Heaven Stones.”
He gazed at Su Min contempt as he gestured for a currency Su Min had never heard of. Su Min, hiding under the black cloak, pondered. He obviously needs to pay, but he cannot do such a thing...