Aomi is wandering the deeper into the woods as he recalls the history of the western world and locates the place to find any potentially strong spirit.
He thinks how many spirit types are there.
Spirits are essence of earth and heaven into spiritual creatures mostly flowers,insects but some become animals.
First, there are for the mortals spiritual users from 10 to 6 rank use is called starting spirits.
then, comes the spirits from rank 5 to 3 called Stark spirits and at last immortal spirits which ranges from rank 1 to 2 only.
The winter white fox comes out of Aomi’s pouch and perches on his shoulder.
He stops letting it adjust and thinks that the winter white fox is a rank 4 stark spirit.
then he continues his expedition and stumbles upon a temple.
He looks around searching anything valuable and suddenly when he opens a chest, A bear emerges in the hallway.
Aomi turns around and sees a black bear and identifies it as a sila bear or in other words strength bear.
he thinks, A untamed spirit huh?
no wonder it’s an animal.
maybe, it’s made from the strong spiritual energy for the temple.
He stands facing the sila bear as he grips his white fall and thinks of a way.
He knows that this is a rank 5 stark spirit that embodies raw strength.
…
Then the bear lunges at him.
Aomi could barely react as it tackles him, slicing his chest with a fatal wound.
He flies through walls as he is stunned and question this new beast.
He slams into another room’s wall after breaking through 2 rooms.
He heals himself and barely dodged the bear’s another attack and remarks, ” this is a strength bear indeed.”
He rolls over dodging it again, ” It can be useful for a strength path user alot.
I guess I will take it for myself then.”
He grips his white fall then lunges at the bear as he slices it’s arm, the bear stumbles into a wall breaking it and falls.
He starts healing himself ” That was intense but not hard—.” He eyes freeze as the bear slowly rising as his healing continues.
The bear stands taller and bigger shadowing Aomi stares and questions himself, how did it get bigger, is it a strength bear or what?
or was it like this and I didn’t notice.
The bear lunges at him and he dodges barely as his eyes widen from a thin cut on his ribs.
He sees the bear from back and rethinks of what spirit is this.
Suddenly, the bear brutally spins slamming it paws into Aomi and he flies out of the temple breaking three walls.
Aomi crashes into the temple walls as heals himself and he stares at the bear coming for him, “No. It’s not a sila bear..” he mutters to himself still confused about the spirit.
He gets up and stretches his free hand out and his palm slowly create a blue circle.
then, a dozens of ice shards come out, aimed at the bear.
“What is this?” Aomi is still confused at what the spirit is this as it takes all of its shard and bolts through it towards him.
He swings his axe at the bear comeing close and blinds it.
He moves away as the bear roars in agony blinded without sight and stares at it trying to figure out what is it.
He looks at it for a moment it’s wounded it’s arm is missing it didn’t healed but how did it got bigger, but his eyes widen as it grows again and it’s arm regenerates.
“oh.” He gets hit by a sudden ephihany, it isn’t a sila bear , it’s an inured bear.
inured bear is a rank four stark spirit that endures pain and grows.
A cold grin crosses Aomi’s face as he stays far from the blind rampaging beast.
” So, I think I need to kill it at once.” he looks at his white fall.
Winter white fox leaps out of Aomi’s shoulder and runs around the bear to confuse it, while he charges a spiritual beam at it from his white fall.
…
after some moments of distracting the bear the beam goes but it misses as it blows off only it’s ear and the inured bear’s eyes regenerate.The winter white fox tackles it down then, quickly runs back quickly into Aomi’s pouch.
Aomi focuses again but,it’s late as the bear is standing and towering him as it’s wounds are healed except for its ear.
He tries to use his axe but, the bear sends him flying across the courtyard of the temple.
His vision is dark he can’t see the black bear not because he is going to die but, because the bear is black and it’s night time.
for a some moments He gets overwhelmed by the inured bear and his vision starts fading out as he fights his consciousness.
“Aww my baby boy~”A female voice echoes as he’s eyes open to somewhere else as he is a kid.
It’s when he was 4 or 5 years old and in front of him is a young adult women dotting him.
” Look at you dear~”
her expression changes slightly worried ” are you tried?”
But, before anything he snaps out and realizes realise that he is laying on the ground and the bear is above him.
His eyes widen as he takes the fatal wound through his stomach but, latches onto the bear arm and chops it’s head off.
Both fall and the bear is decapitated,it’s ear regenerates.
The bear’s body vanished to ashes as its head reaminds and Aomi is healing himself and refining the inured bear.
Under the night sky Aomi rests after refining the inured bear.
He thinks what excuse can he make to Goff about his disappearence.
He looks up at the moon high in the mid night sky, sometimes hiding behind the clouds like a kid just to appear again, it shines as the only light in the dark black world of sleeping people before the sun rises again.
He also closes his eyes, ” night is to sleep.
tomorrow may not come but, even if I won’t see the day sun light.” he chuckles silently, ” I will climb out to see it.”
He looks up at the moon again like remembering something seeing it and a the female vocie rings in his head, ” Your a sweet boy Aomi~” He huffs as he fully rest under the tree in the ruined temple’s courtyard.” Big sis Seo, you always bother me, don’t you?”
His eyes starts to flutter shut as exhaustion takes over and his body goes to dreams.
In his dream, he is back to his ascending ceremony.
He is back to the kuroyama sect back in his past.
He sees his brother Ishiki 20 steps ahead getting showing his potential of an A-rank proclivity.meanwhile, he is at C-rank proclivity.
the dream goes on as it shifts to his tournament he lost with bloody knuckles.
The kuroyama had given Ishimi a special spirit called Jade turtle a rank 5 stark spirit.
the dream shifts again as Aomi is framed by a girl.
She was hired by his uncle to take his dead parents inheritance.
He is surrounded by the sect members but, he wakes up as the morning sun rise rays reflects to his eyes, ” oh it’s morning.”
He thinks of the fight yesterday, Quite impressing.
I thought I had to run but, figure out that it only heals it’s previous injury if gotten any strikes.
I had severed it’s arm then it got bigger but didn’t grew it’s and but when I striked it, it regenerated it, ha!
figured that out.
He gets up and slowly walks way looking at the ruins but sees the Continental border shining from the sun rise light.
“Big sis, Your annoying.” He rememebrs yesterday sight when he fainted for a moment and comments with no fire to it.
He turns to the gate of the ruined temple and takes the road back to Goff’s blacksmith but, thinks of an excuse of why he didn’t came home after the festival.
But, when he enters the market he realises he has slept for a week and his face freezes and eyes widen as he sweats as he realises the exhaustion made him sleep for a week but,he worries about an excuse now.
what will I say to Goff?