IDOLIZING CHAOS

Earl Kriegar

 Three days later.  

   Aeries tiredly woke up and saw himself on a spacious bed. He yawned and turned his head, and realized he was lying down on a king size mattress.

The bedroom he was in was bright and spacious. There was a red rug painted with stripes of white in the room, a desk and chair, large family sized closet and a cupboard with all his antiques the previous owner of the body had collected. The window facing the bed was opened, and Aeries could hear some noise coming from the streets with the wind binging in the aroma of bread from bakeries washed in with the summer season smell. he suddenly felt really hungry after getting a whiff of such redolence in.

  He had finally returned back to the mayor's mansion yesterday but was so tired after the long and lonely journey back home so he just fell asleep as soon as everyone greeted him. A good thing that his mother wasn't around to nag him about anything.

“Is anyone here?” Scorch called out. 

The door was opened with a squeaky sound.  A pretty woman in a nice ancient robe à la française wear and a choker came in with a serious face walked in quickly. She was holding a mini size tray with a bowl of something that looked like Beef broth in it, with a piece of golden brown bread cake and juice. 

 "Aeries, quickly tell me how the trip was, I came back last night and found you fast asleep. Did the mercenaries I hired offended you in any way or did there make you suffer, or....... " Aeries watched the woman rank off and felt something melt in his heart, he immediately reminded himself that he could not stay here... He had to leave soon.

 "Am fine Mom, the trip was very helpful but boring" He lied, he would almost never share his secrets about what happened in the Red Blood Forest. He knew somebody had planned that assassination attempt and won't stop until he is dead. 

"Don't lie to mother boy... How come I can feel that you have grown way stronger in just these 2 weeks you left home? Humph continue keeping secrets from me, when your father comes he would help me force them out from you. "

"Aiih. When is he coming?"

"Soon, maybe some few days later he would be back"

    Aeries knew the Earl's personality from his former memory. He was a strong cultivator at the peak of Martial General Realm, but that was when he was in the army no one knows how strong he really is, even now as a Earl when facing others; he was also cold-blooded and strict. Many people in the family had been ordered to be executed due to some small mistakes they committed.

       The Earl had also took many beautiful women into the family like his maids or maidens from his territory, although they weren't his main wives, they were still concubines and after he either got rid of his impotency or bought something that come aid his vitality  he has had many kids now.

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          Lots of rumors were circulated about how cold blooded the Earl was, he had ordered countless executions and destroyed the barons and houses that did not submit to him and all their whole family over night. They gossiped about his insidiousness and his cold-blooded heart. 

          However, Aeries had never seen the dark side of his father as he had always treated him well since he was his first boy. And now that he heard the news about how Aeries had started cultivating he had sent in all sorts of gifts and letters to the 'Genius Son' through the messenger, obviously Aeries had took another large step in the man's heart. 

" Aeries. No matter what, you would definitely be the head and future of the Kriegar Family, you should think twice before doing anything.” His mother solemnly warned, in her heart all she wanted was her only child to be save and be able to support himself in times of trouble, now that he had finally gotten a huge head start before his other brothers since he had found favor in the site of his father, what she thought he do was to stay low and cultivate. Becoming stronger would not only increase his reputation amongst the crowd but would also give him an assurance if anything goes wrong.

  But this her son just seemed to get into trouble every time. The guards she kept had caught and reported him multiple times that they saw him in the red light district many times. Behaving like a slick pants everywhere he goes. 

    "Okay I'll take my leave now, remember your Father would bring a teacher for you soon okay? Just ask for any material you want, I'll do my best to bring it" She talked to him some more and then left with the emptied bowl. .......

 Aeries then looked at himself in the mirror on his desk. Staring back at him was a good looking handsome boy with bright Azure hair... Again he felt somewhat good seeing his handsome features but also disappointed. 

   There wasn't an inch of muscles on him, no abs no large biceps.... Nothing, as a former village boy and also a hunter he had always prided himself on his large frame before, even though he had be malnourished he had still somehow gotten very muscled and hefty. But now... Aiiya this body looks like a doll, with well defined arms and legs.. 

  His eyes were a shade of glassy blue and face smooth, the Old Ancestor had really done his best to remold his body and achieve a scholar perfection but as he looked at his own dull and dead eyes he found himself to be disappointed in everything. 

He had grown taller and he knew his mother had surely noticed but he had ascribed it to his cultivation, nothing was impossible in this world and his mother nodded in acceptance.

      "Now, how should I meet my father. A high rank Martial General like him would surely notice my real cultivation realm with a glance. The reason why none of the people in the house noticed was either because they had low cultivation or their realms are still in the Warrior Stage. Either way I have to hide my strength by all means, I don't want any new rumors starting now". He sighed in his heart. 

   So many things he had to be careful of. The Old Ancestor memories may contain some harmful bugs or his soul was still hidden somewhere; he had to hide his strength from his father, he also had to hide from the site of the Rankers at least until he had judge their strength during the ranking competition that was coming up soon...  And then there was this powerful killer at his back, this was someone that gave out two medium ranked Space Rings to assassins just to kill him. 

 He rubbed his temples, a migraine was coming up just thinking about all of that. 

 "System show me my stats"

[Beep! 

  'RUIN'

Rank: Amateur 10%

Level!: 6th stage of Martial Warrior Realm. 

Strength: 30

Spirit: 6

Agility: 20

Martial Arts skill: Golden Sky fist (80% ) , Misty Steps (72%) , Air bending technique ( 30% ), Fused Unique Skill: Body Shattering War Axe technique ( 20% )

Auxiliary Skills: Corpse Breathing technique, Seth's Eyes, Qi gathering Technique......... 

Primary Professions:  None. 

EXP: 5000/7000

 Power Stats: 800 ]

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  Aeries nodded in response. Power stats was something he had made the system do, all the HP and EP stuffs were too confusing for him since he never played Video games or VRMMG things. This new power stats was shorten to just give him the rate of his total strength with Qi and everything else in comparison with normal adult male system. 

   . 

 "That's better than before, System show me all accessible skills that can hide ones Cultivation"

[Ding! Current assessable Techniques. 

 Void Martial: Let's every martial sense that comes near you to be sent to the void, making you elusive and hidden  restricted to the realm of the invader. 

 Flange seal: Locks your Qi in your body, not allowing any Consciousness to glance through, I restricted to the realm of the invader.

  A u r a shrink: Reduces your realm to any lower realm you want by shrinking the Qi and locking it in your meridians. Restricted to the realm of the invader. 

   Antagonizing Skill... Aura Rise let's you do vice versa 

  Aeries quickly bought the Aura Shrink skill and immediately activated it, reducing his Qi output to look like that of a 2nd level Body Foundation Martial Artist. He did not hesitate to leave the other two first skill because they were not what he wanted for this situation. He needed to act like a Pig to eat the Tiger (Idiom) not to behave like an introvert Hermit.

 ...... He chuckled and checked himself out again.. Finally he had cancelled all traces of his earth self and merged with the old Aeries, at least a more matured version of the old Aeries. Now what he needed was to settle everything quickly and move to the Empire Imperial Capital.. Or at least far from here,

 "The system gives out missions after putting in mind various factors, including; the Place, my current strength and the time. This city am in could be considered back wards and lack luster when compared to the kingdom's capital and even more of a Village if compared to the Empire. I need to leave this place if I want to get more missions. Huff!" he sighed.. So much work. 

   Several days past silently... Aeries was tied up in his house still meditating on the Way of Finesse manual and seldom went out of the mansion. Except maybe to order for new materials or faking a Slick Pants behavior as the former Aeries would do. 

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  This morning Aeries woke up earlier than usual to the sounding of large metallic drums

"Dong Dong" resounded throughout the entire mansion propping him up from his slumber. 

  "The Earl Returns! "