20 Preliminaries Part 4 (1/2)

Fei Lei woke up the next morning realizing that the cog had vanished he began searching the room like a mad man, he suddenly noticed that there was a Roman Numeral 1 number on the cog birth mark around his wrist.

”What happened?” Fei Lei scratched his head as he realized he could do nothing about it, Fei Lei sighed, ”Well this sucks!”

Fei Lei had no idea what the cog was for, and now he had a tattoo appear on him over night, Fei Lei walked out and was greeted by the girls, after eating breakfast Fei Lei did his usual morning practices.

This time he was joined by Hina, Yan Mei watched on with a bit of jealousy when Hina asked, ”That doesn't look like any of the breaths Teacher taught us. What is it?”

Fei Lei opened an eye and said, ”Do you have a way to contact master? I know I'm still on my warrior's pilgrimage and I can't ask for help, but I want to give master something.”

Fei Lei tossed over a leather scroll, Hina caught it and began to read through it, as a fellow practitioner of the 4 Season Breaths, Hina could truly see the value in what he handed over she quickly memorized the content and said, ”I'll send this out immediately.”

The girl whistled as a large falcon came in through the window, she held her arm out and handed the scroll off to it. Hina tied a note to the falcon's leg as took the scroll and flew away.

”Trained bird, huh?” Fei Lei said when Yan Mei sat next to Fei Lei and puffed her cheeks, ”No fair!”

Fei Lei laughed and said, ”You can read it too.”

”Really?” Yan Mei asked with stars in her eyes.

”Sure! You just have to get Teacher to agree to take you in as your pupil!” Fei Lei teased her, getting her revenge, Yan Mei jumped on his back and bit his ear.

Fei Lei's hairs stood on end as he felt a shock run though his body, ”I'm sorry! Call the bird back, I'll ask for Teacher's permission!”

Hina giggled at their lovey-dovey attitude and started to practice the Nature God's Breath, she felt her body grow lighter and was slowly being improved.

Hina looked to Fei Lei and smiled and thought, ”I guess I have to keep my promise.”

After their morning exercises they left to go back to the tournament grounds, many people had already gathered, but they still had a few hours until it got started.

Seeing several strong Mages in the crowd stood side by side preparing for their upcoming match, Fei Lei, Yan Mei, and Hina stood out quite a bit.

A group of men wearing waved pattered robes, walked up to them and a man with long green hair and the complexion of a maiden walked up to them, he was a standard thin lady killer, and was around the same age as Fei Lei, there were a few dozen girls swooning over him and moving around as crowd as he stopped in front of Hina.

”Hina, so good to see you here, and who is your lovely friend?” The man said staring and Yan Mei's body with a perverse look, even though he couldn't see her face because of the hood she wore, the curves outlined on her cloak was enough to make him lust after her.

Fei Lei frowned and stood in front of her, the man reeked of sex and blood, Fei Lei activated his Danger Sense Spell discovering a new use for it, using the spell to feel out the guy Fei Lei suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head and released the spell.

He didn't know if this was a warning for his level of threat or what he was trying to direct his senses towards, but only by repeatedly using and experimenting with the spell would come to understand how useful this spell was.

Hina scowled at the man that had approached and said, ”Ugh, I thought I smelled trash.”

The girls standing around the man Hina insulted frowned, ”Don't you talk about Sheng Lu like that!”

”Just because you're the headmaster's favorite doesn't mean you're better than my Sheng Lu!”

Hina rolled her eyes and said, ”You girls are blind, you don't even know what a real man should look like!”

Hina then pulled up Fei Lei's shirt and shouted, ”See these abs, this is what a real man should look like! Not like the tooth pick mages being babied at school, and especially not some girl boy like Sheng Lu!”

Many of the girls shied away and covered their faces, a few of them peeking through them. ”If you want catch my attention you should at least build a strong body,” Hina said in a playful tone.

Fei Lei pulled his shirt down and both Yan Mei and he gave Hina an angry stare, Sheng Lu stared daggers at Fei Lei, ”You're that Non-Elemental cheater from yesterday.”

Fei Lei frowned and replied, ”I am a Non-Elemental user, but I never cheated.”

Sheng Lu ignored Fei Lei like he wasn't there and said, ”Hina, I hope to see you join my party someday.” Sheng Lu didn't actually have a party, it was more like his cronies and his harem, Hina wrapped her arm around Fei Lei and Hina, then smiled before saying, ”How many time do I have to tell you, no? Besides I've already joined a team.”

Everyone gasped, ”That Hina joined a team?”

”No way she must be bluffing! My Hina would never!” One of the males from her Mage School laughed like he was losing his mind.

The crowd from her school gossiped around them, Fei Lei turned to Hina and asked, ”Can you make him leave, he smells like he doesn't know how to bath, and he has a habit for killing, his last kill smells like a young woman.”

”How dare you slander me! You look like a work slave with all those disgusting muscles, Hina you should keep better control over your servants!” Sheng Lu's eyes widened as he went on the defense, he had suddenly smelt the scent of death, he stared over to see Yan Mei pointing a flame arrow between his eyes, as she fired the shot Sheng Lu chanted a verse of an ancient language when a shield of water surrounded his body.

As the arrow made contact it evaporated the water canceling out their spells, Yan Mei's hood had blown back and showed her gorgeous appearance, the crowd was gasping at her beauty, while they gawked, Yan Mei had already drawn back her bow and aimed another shot at him.

Fei Lei placed his hand up and stopped her, he looked to Sheng Lu and smiled, ”Call me a slave again and I will kill you.”

As he warned Sheng Lu the crowd began erupting into laughter.

”Some shitty Non-Elementalist thinks he can beat our school's prodigy.”