The Lost Samurai

Chapter 7 - Uninvited Guests

After that they stopped the fight, the mood now was far from one that suited a fight and Master Hori already knew she would lose from the start, she just went with it cause he wanted to fight. 

"Kenshin, why why are you still doing this? Running around and challenging masters in all the cities." Sipping some tea she asked the question that troubled her.

"Of course it's cause i need all of you to be strong, i need really strong persons and pressure is the best way to do this." Kenshin sighed thinking about this.

"So you still weren't able to do this? You still got that curse in you?" She had some tears rolling her face while waiting for his response, Hori couldn't think about how much pain Kenshin was going through.

"Yes, you saw the skeleton right? The spirit doesn't li... BOOM!" While he was talking an extremely high noise startled him and both Kenshin and Master Hori looked outside.

"What is this?!" Running towards the door Master Hori saw ten dragons flying over the city while destroying everything with their fiery breaths.

"Dad! Help! Those beasts appeared out of nowhere and they can't be stopped, everyone will die at this rate!" Jumping to Kenshin's hug Kyoko cried her eyes out once she felt the warmness of her father's body.

"Hey my dear, it's ok dad will protect everyone. Those violent dragons won't escape me but for now gather everyone near and enter the dojo, it has several barriers that make it a safe place." Holding his daughter he patted his head and gave her a kiss on the forehead. After she went to gather as many persons as possible he and Master Hori looked exchanged glances and ran towards the group of dragons.

"Identify yourselves, are you a part of the dragons empire army or are you just a group of hooligans?" Master Hori adopted a serious tone and used her aura to put pressure on the enemies as she interrogated them.

"Woman, if you want to know that much we are the 10th battalion of the dragon empire, under direct orders from our lord Emperor Secius II." Landing on the ground the dragon talking made it easier to see a symbol on his chest, and S with two diagonal cuts in it colored like silver was engraved right above the heart.

That was the symbol of the dragon army, no dragon would ever are trying to fake it cause death as certain doing this, and the silver color showed his position as a middle rank official, while all the others following him had copper marks marking them as low ranked soldiers.

"So why are you breaking our peace agreement? 50 years ago when we had our last war we signed it to stop the bloodshed but humans could have easily destroyed your empire, you aren't allowed to cause trouble here!" Not losing the least Hori stomped her feet and warned them in a grave tone, this group was frightening and would destroy the city if she was alone, but she had her Kenshin by her side and they had their agreement so they shouldn't dare start a war.

"Tsk tsk tsk, foolish human, do you really think this piece of paper still has any meaning? Your current emperor is just a weakling that probably isn't above the level of a normal master and your previous emperor is too old, he's almost a dead body now and can't do anything. Even so we were cautious of your strongest master, you probably know how strong he was, according to our estimates almost as strong as the previous emperor, but sadly he was cursed 2 years ago by the undead and has been losing his strength since then so he's currently useless. Do you really think we are in the same position as last war? You humans don't have the power to fight back." All the dragons were laughing without any regards to the persons standing in front of them, it was such a loud mockery that everyone in Red Sand city could hear, they were trembling in fear.

The dragons empire was an empire located north of Blue Phoenix kingdom, every single dragon there was at least close to the strength of a master and their army composed more than 50% of their population but luckily for Blue Phoenix kingdom dragons had huge problems reproducing and couldn't reach a population of more than a few thousands, even so without really strong warriors leading they had no chances facing them.

"Hahaha, you're killing me you're really killing me, if you don't stop joking around there will be no need for a fight, i will be dead just from laughing." Kenshin burst into laughing and tears covered his eyes but that only lasted a second before his face became dead serious and the aura coming out from him caused shivers in every single one of his enemies.

They couldn't understand, how was this human able to get such a reaction from just his aura? No matter how hard they racked their brains it was unconceivable, even the emperor didn't have such aura.

With a step Kenshin crossed all the distance and got to one of the enormous dragons, grabbing his mouth in an instant.

*Bam!* His arm's muscles all tensed up and he threw the gigantic body to the ground stepping on it, no matter how much  the dragon tried he couldn't lift him even a centimeter, this human had unparalleled strength.

"Hah, so you come here, call the old man a dead body and say i'm useless? Why didn't you bring the entire army? I would like to end this today exterminating every single one, but i will have to aim lower and just kill a bunch of idiots today. Hey Hori, i don't want you to feel left out so you and your disciples can fight those two at the right, i will fight the rest." He looked at her and then pointed towards two dragons, her mission.

Master Hori was dumbfounded by this but soon recovered and started giving orders and heading to her battle, she hadn't seen this in a long time but it was normal, even if he was weaker he was still Master Kenshin, guardian of Blue Phoenix empire.

Twenty of the strongest disciples in Red Sand city dojo positioned themselves in a complex formation and started directing their chi towards the center of the formation, soon a red fox really close to Hori's formed above their heads exuding enormous power.

Not losing to her disciples Master Hori also prepared her spirit manifestation and a beautiful red fox was formed.

Kenshin also powered up for the fight, he same skeleton from the previous fight formed above his head, but this time it kept growing til it had over 100 meters in height, almost twice the size of a dragon, and to complete it Kenshin's body turned into light and fused with the skeleton transforming it, no longer was the skeleton just a spirit, it was real, solid.

With a wave of his hand a blade made of purple flames was formed in his grasp, this was the strongest level of chi manifestation, from manifesting it to manifesting it's spirit to finally bring your chi spirit to life fusing with it, Kenshin was one of the two persons able to do it.