BXBX NOVEL Chapter 19 A Generous Opponent
Fahren could never have seen this coming, the enemy had gotten troublesome for them, but they were confident in eventually defeating him.
Fahren had made the now dead skinny man stay out of the fight and prepare his most powerful attack.
The attack had successfully been released with the skinny man even going the extra mile by releasing another very powerful move, yet this seemed to have awakened the beast in the enemy as the next thing he heard was a powerful roar and then everything went dark for him.
He had woken up to a severe ringing in his head, several bone fractures all around his body especially his legs, and extensive internal damage done to his qi pathways, he was practically a sitting duck for any enemy.
Inspecting the surroundings, he saw the dead bodies of some of the members of his gang all around him, and then he heard the sound of heavy breathing, his eyes moved toward its source and fell on the back of a panting figure in the middle of the room.
Just staring at the figure's back sent danger signals flying all through Fahren's head and before he knew it, he was pathetically crawling away in a hopeless attempt to save his life.
Fahren's survival instincts had kicked in and escaping from the panting monster in human form was the only thought circulating through his mind, and just when he had crawled some distance away, he heard the voice of that dreadful figure speak.
"hey ehhh am sorry about going all ballistic, I had no idea I would release such a powerful attack, you guys weren't supposed to lose this quickly you know" Seth bitterly complained as he moved toward Fahren.
Fahren had expected Seth to mock him, laugh at him, or try to extort information out of him, but when he heard Seth's words, he flew into rage and with all the energy he could muster flipped himself over and face Seth while using his trembling arms to prop his upper body up.
The love between Fahren and his teammates might not be close enough to be called brotherly, but they were still people whom he had led for a year, people who had fought with him against enemies for years, and now he couldn't just bear to hear their deaths being talked about like it was an arranged animal slaughter.
"Who the hell are you? Was this battle nothing but a joke to you" Fahren asked in anger and frustration.
Hearing his question, Seth moved and squatted in front of him and then said,
"Well, my name is Evary Seth, and no this battle wasn't a joke to me, it was meant to satisfy my battle craving,"
"You mean no one sent you on a mission to hunt us?" Fahren asked with a look of disbelief on his face, while Seth replied with a simple nod.
"So you simply broke into this base and massacred my men all because you were bored and wanted to fight," Fahren asked with even more disbelief on his face.
"I guess so" Seth replied while nodding his head, Seth then stood up and said, "don't worry, while our battle was unfortunately cut short, you guys did provide me with quite the entertainment, so am going to make sure the deaths of you and your teammates a short and painless death".
"Just one last question," Fahren said as he puked out some blood, "was there ever a chance of us defeating you," Fahren asked, hoping for at least a consolation that he had a chance against this monster.
"Unless a really really incredible miracle occurred, you had absolutely no chance of defeating me" Seth replied, ruthlessly destroying his faint hopes at a consolation before death.
Seth then raised his hand up and a small cloud of lightning began gathering in the air, just as Seth was prepared to release his techniques, he heard Fahren desperately cry out,
"Pleases spare me, I have a lot of money and resources, I can offer them to you".
Fahren had always had thoughts of showing bravado when he finally faced death, yet now that he faced it, he realized that he didn't want to die and decided to offer Seth his wealth with very little hope that this would save his life.
Despite shouting out a plea for his life, Fahren had closed his eyes he had little hope of the madman before him sparing his life, but when a few seconds went by and he could still think and feel his body, he slowly opened his eyes to the sight of the monster looking at him with an expectant gaze.
"Well, I'm waiting" Seth replied with some impatience, the lightning cloud still floating above him, in his disappointment of prematurely ending the battle, he had forgotten to extort this man's wealth, but thankfully the enemy was a generous giver.
Fahren was in disbelief that there was actually a chance that he would survive his encounter with this monster, he quickly gained a hold over himself and reached for his neck, he took off a necklace that was buried deep under his clothes and showed it to Seth.
Seth seeing the necklace stretched out his hand toward Fahren, and Fahren knowing his volatile position threw the necklace over to Seth without a word.
Seth caught the necklace and then observed it, more specifically he looked at the ring attached to it.
"A space ring,' Seth thought with a smile, cultivators below the general stage usually had a hard time using a space ring, they could easily put things in it but when they wanted to retrieve them, they had to takeout everything within it, but general level cultivators had spirit sense and could use it to scan and retrieve what they wanted from a space ring.
With his soul sense, Seth easily scanned the space ring and he immediately liked what he saw, the space within the space ring could be compared with that of a transport truck's trunk, inside it he could see a few bottles containing unknown pills, stacks of Ergand dollars occupied almost half of it, and to the side occupying the smallest area, he could see around 100 qi stones.
Qi stones were very rare resources on earth, even new general level cultivators had to put in considerable effort to get their hands on them, qi stones were stones that contained qi gotten from the earth, the qi within these stones could be absorbed and used by cultivators for cultivation.
Qi stones were divided into low, middle, and high grades with respect to their quantitate and most especially their quality which referred to how refined the qi within it was, qi stones could speed up one's cultivation from 50 to a 100 times.
It wasn't a stretch to say that half of grade D city was worth destroying for 100 low grade qi stones, yet here he was with a 100 low grade qi stones and they were all his.
With a wide smile on his face, Seth separated the ring from the necklace and then wore it on his finger, the thought of all the incredible things he could buy with this many qi stones flowed through his head for a moment before he came back to reality with the realization that it would be best to use the qi stones for his cultivation.
Deciding to think about how to use it later, Seth turned to his benefactor with a cheerful smile and then said, "you and your gang are free to go".
After Fahren had thrown the ring to Seth, he had immediately became filled with despair and his chances of survival had plummeted to an absolute Zero, he just remembered that there were qi stones in the space ring,
Qi stones, a resource any cultivator would kill for and now he had just given a bunch of them to this madman, "why was death so hard to escape he thought", yet the next moment after the man observed the ring, he looked at him with a smile and told him he was free.
"You're really going to let me go despite seeing the things that are in that ring", Fahren asked in complete disbelief.
"Yep," Seth said with a smile as he walked away.
"what this guy so stupid that he couldn't understand what it meant for him to spare his life after seeing the content of the space ring, or perhaps he is just playing with me and will kill me later" Fahren thought in confusion.
The Hammer gang might be infamous, but they were nowhere near having the ability to possess 100 qi stones and still survive to this day, this could only mean that these qi stones belong to a higher power, a power whom the hammer gang obeyed and letting Fahren go was the same as announcing to his power that he was the one who took their stones.
Seth understood this danger, and it was exactly because he understood this danger that he was more willing to let Fahren go, the thought of the battles to come thrilled him, and he was looking forward to battling with this unknown power.
With a whistle, Seth left behind the still-shocked Fahren, thoughts of spending those Ergand dollars in a luxurious brothel swimming through his head as moved to the room he was teleported into when he came to this place.
"You can take down the barrier, am sure I don't look that hideous" Seth called out when he arrived at the door of the room but found it blocked by a barrier seal.
"Ehhhm actually you do", a soft voice sounded out as the barrier became transparent and Mira appeared behind it but showed no signs of taking it down.
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