MATERO'S ADVANTAGE.
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The entire nation was in a state of emergency, the news about the attack on the imperial cultivation grounds had spread like wild fire, various cities had all received their own shares of rumors, the dreaded Red Rhino rebels had struck again, but that wasn't all.
A lot of important figures had sent representatives to the institution, luckily the imperial cultivation grounds had almost no loses, no one had any serious injuries.
The next day, Lord Saru called for an emergency meeting, they had to discuss the events that happened and find out who exactly Queen Jin was. Actually, a lot of places were attacked in Sun city at once, the imperial palace faced the biggest assault. Not just members of the Red Rhinos, virtually all factions that disliked the nation had men in the assault.
Those that were captured gave the same story, their band was approached by a strange woman, only a few groups like the Red Rhinos had their leaders against the move. They all had various descriptions of her actions, just two was constant. The fact that she was above the first three realms and that she betrayed them all. Just one thing was clear, she was merely getting started.
Matero was back in Kerepa's hidden hall, he was using the soul retrieve, this was what he spent most of his time doing. He didn't know why but he felt an urgency within himself, like he needed to get extremely powerful as quickly as possible, he sensed something was coming. Maybe it was Queen Jin, but whoever it might be, he must be ready for it.
While he meditated Kerepa walked in and sat before him, as usual Kerepa had no presence, no sign of life whatsoever.
"Disciple, I believe you are getting prepared for the forth coming event." Matero was startled by the sudden voice he heard in his head, he opened his eyes and Kerepa was seated right before him.
"Yes master, I am getting prepared." Matero had to reply audibly, he couldn't reply with his mind yet.
"The fifteen of you will still leave for the semi-continental event today. I might not be able to accompany you." Kerepa continued audibly. "Matero nodded in agreement, the nation needed it's strongest cultivators since anything could happen.
"I understand grand master." Matero gently replied. "We won't disappoint you." He quickly added.
"Wonderful." Kerepa was joyful. "Although, I must advice you to brace for failure." Kerepa stated the fact with obvious regret and he explained why.
The black nation was indeed a tiny one and it was secluded from heavenly blessings. The heavenly blessings were constantly released by the beings that sit above the heavens to make nations grow drastically in strength. It could be in the form of anything. Matero knew what heavenly blessings were, he had reached a height where he gave heavenly blessings.
The stronger factions and bigger nations retained the blessings for themselves, that way they grew drastically and remained on top of the continent. The black nation rarely received even residues of any blessings. Kerepa knew these factions would appear in both semi-continental and continental events.
"You will be terribly outmatched at some point." Kerepa sighed as he explained. He was slightly puzzled by Matero's calm demeanour and undisturbed expression. Was it that Matero didn't understand the things Kerepa said?
"I understand you perfectly." Like he heard Kerepa's thoughts, Matero replied with a very bright smile, he melted the gloomy atmosphere with the radiance he gave. Matero actually understood it all, everything Kerepa said was true. The levels that awaited were of peak occurrences, this was Kerepa's fear, it was what everyone else feared, but it was Matero's advantage, what he wanted.
The truth was that Matero subjected himself to specific boundaries, he limited the things he did to avoid trouble. This could be observed when he first discovered soul retrieve, in his matchup against core disciple Gao, he unleashed moves and techniques that broke the laws of nature. The 'thunder blossom', the 'instant step' and many more were already attracting rapt attention from the elders, imagine what he was capable of after so many sessions of soul retrieve. Revealing his true battle power would only turn him into something else, something more monstrous than being a child of heaven.
Showing what he could do without limits in the semi-continental and continental events would draw almost no attention at all, it was a level that a lot of monstrous talents.
This was why Matero was at peace, he just couldn't explain all this to the grand master, It was Kerepa who didn't understand.
"Well..." Kerepa sighed. "I believe in you." Seeing Matero's confidence, Kerepa found hope once more. "Xiao also said things about you, I believe you can do it." Kerepa smiled and left the hall after a while.
After Kerepa departed, Matero rose to his feet, his blue hair looked like it glittered, he gradually levitated and a flame engulfed him, the flame glittered like it was made of glass, this was a form of Matero's Chakra.
"Flames, wind and lightning." Matero stared at his palm and nodded. "The soul path too, all thanks to Kerepa." Matero gently returned to the ground and smiled. "I should cross into the realm of masters in no time." Matero made his way towards the exit of the hall.
Back on the surface, the entire grass covering the ground above where the hall was hidden had turned to ashes. A lot of the disciples around were gripped by fear, right before their eyes, the entire patch if grass burnt. The shocking aspect was that there was no fire, no traces of flames anywhere, it just burnt to ashes.
No one knew what caused the occurrence, no one could have suspected that at over a hundred feet under the ground, the flames that burnt it all had surged from a boy.
Later that day the selected fifteen met with Lord Saru, he addressed them and gave them equipments. He gave them a particular ring called storage ring, within it was a small inter dimensional room of about twelve feet. They could store non-living objects in the dimension enclosed within the ring.
They departed from Sun city afterwards, they were accompanied by four masters including General Xiao and young Elder Koi. The journey would take them weeks, first they would ride tamed giant eagles into a neighboring nation, that would take them about two days. They would then board a ship from the nation to another called 'Fourth stand'. The ship would take about five days to cross the huge water body that boiled without ceasing, the continent was referred to as the burning continent because of this phenomenon. All the massive water bodies in and around the continent was constantly boiling, they reached degrees that could kill a man easily, but somehow the animals in the water bodies lived just fine.
From the fourth stand, a mechanism would be prepared to teleport all participants to East star, a very great nation.
The East star is the greatest nation in the entire eastern region of the burning continent, it governed over scores of nations like the black nation. This was where the semi-continental event would hold.In the same manner, similar events would hold at five other places across the continent, the successful disciples at these positions would proceed to the continental event.
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