Domination System

chapter 73

Six years ago

In the towering mountain regions, a cluster of houses were built surrounding a large building with a fox's sigma on it. Walls were erected around those houses, offering great protection against any unforeseen circumstances.

Amongst those houses, one was more distinguished than the others. This particular house belonged to the lin family.

"I'm gonna get you" a young man spoke as he chased a child running from him. Speaking from his facial features, he was about twenty to twenty five while the child looked like a young teen, about thirteen years of age.

The two ran around the compound with the joyful air surrounding them. Smiles and laughter plastered heir faces as they seemed to have forgotten the troubles of the world.

"i've got you now, come here you litttle rascal" The older man finally caught up to the teen as both of them fell to the floor.

They wrestled for a minute before they stopped, tired from the day's play. Both of them just lying staring at the clear skies.

The smile on the older man's face disappeared as he thought of something. He turned his head to the side, facing his little brother. "Xue lin...." he said.

The boy had a headband holding up his ruffled hair. "Xiao lin" he responded stoll looking up at the skies.

Xiao lin's eyes warmed up looking at the smile on his brother's face. He would miss this.

"You know there comes a time when every male in the tang sect above the age of twenty is required to perform a pilgrimage" Xiao lin stated slowly.

"The movement?" Xue asked.

"Ah, so smart!" Xiao lin placed his had on his brother's head and ruffled his hair.

"Get off me" Xue lin frowned struggling to get his brother's big hands off his head.

"Yes, it is called the movement. And as you know, I will be turning twenty one in three days...."

"You're leaving?" Xue lin said in a grim voice. He had immediately picked up on his brother's insinuations.

"I have no choice" Xiao lin's eyes warmed up. He couldn't bear leaving his brother all alone, but for their sake he had to do so.

Xue lin was silent as he still faced up struggling to withhold his tears.

The two shared a moment of silence before the sound of sobs broke it. Soon Xue lin's face was drenched with tears as snot dripped from his nose.

....

Asmodieus had been knocked unconscious while Grindel faced off Xue lin.

Xue lin had succeeded in making Grindel retreat for now and he obviously had the upper hand.

As he contemplated on his course of actions, he weighed his chances. Avenging his brother's killer was pivotal, but dying in the process while the killer lived on would be meaningless. This wasn't the time to act out his emotions.

Xue lin walked closer to Grindel with his pocket knife glaring dangerously at him. Grindel, aware of the complications of the poison inflicted on him, backed away all the more forgetting all about Asmodieus in the fear of his life.

Seeing as Grindel had gotten far past Asmodieus, Xue lin picked up great speed activating hi silent steps to the limit. In a flash he had picked up Asmodieus and was gone.

Grindel was suprised by the action as he gradually realised that the lin sect member's intention wasn't to kill him or Asmodieus. It was to save Asmodieus! He had slipped up!

....

Xue lin travelled far away from the presence of people. When he was sure no one was nearby to perform any sthealthy actions, he set Asmodieus down and tapped the ring on his hand. A normal looking green leaf dropped on his palm which he fed to Asmodieus.

After a series of violent coughs and jerks, Asmodieus settled down reading peacefully.

Xue lin sat down by his side, removing the mask from his face. Still possessing that messy hair and the same handsome features from his teenage years. Nothing seemed to have changed for his except the scar that streched from his temple down to his lips.

He let out a sigh as pictures flooded his memory. Pictures of his brother, his doting brother.

Before a tear could drip down his face, Xue lin put his mask back on and clenched the knife. On this day, he swore to avenge his brother in the most gruesome way possible!

Looking down at asmodieus, xue lin involuntarily smiled. The man's features were top notch, even putting some beautiful women to shame.

He put his thumb on asmodieus' lips, slowly wiping away the blood on it.

....

Outside the dimension

Lord plato's eyes were fixed on the man with his son. What happened was a surprise to him. Presented with that golden opportunity, anyone would have taken his son's life right then and there but this man refused to do so. Which family did he belong to?

Subtle croaking sounds reverberated throughout the area. Justin was on his heels desperately searching for a light source other than the burning flames he held.

Running footsteps could be heard different from his own. That black figure was definitely still chasing him. He couldn't stop for a moment unless the figure would be caught up to him.

He was out of options now, the emperor's spirit had been scared shitless and was unwilling to come out. Worst that could happen to it was it'd be trapped in the emperor's chain again. But for Justin, his life was definitely on the line here.

The once flat surface he ran on suddenly rose making it impossible to run anymore as Justin slid down.

The black figure was waiting for him as it grabbed him by his ankle and slammed him on the other side.

The hit was next to nothing to Justin as he immediately recovered from it and threw his axe at the black figure.

A wall suddenly erected in front of the figure, protecting it fron the attack of the axe. After stopping the force of the axe, the wall then descended merging seamlessly with the flat surface.

Still surprised by the scene, just in was unaware of the coming hand of the black figure which dug into his sides. The hand was stained blood red as it dug in deeper drawing a moan from justin.

Justin's face scrunched up, breathing heavily from the pain he held the arm of the figure holding it steady. He then flattened his right palm and hit it directly on the figure's chest. His attack was imbued with mana so a vast amount of force was carried by the palm.

Responding accurately to the attack, the black figure was violently pushed back as it struggled to maintain contact with the ground. Looking at its shoulder it discovered its left arm was kissing.

The left arm lie in the rock steady grip of Justin. This was what he had targeted by learning that move, something tai chi taught him.

He lit his whole body on fire so he could properly see the figure.

The black figure didn't seem to feel the pain at all as it ignored it an refocused on Justin. It crouched and hit its good arm on the floor liquidifying its hand. the liquid spread from his hand in lines all around the place inching closer and closer to justin.

From each line came an exact replica of the black figure, about ten of them, all surrounding justin.

Justin clenched his chain, since he was still under the effects of the potions he could wield the chain to its fullest potential.

The chain, which had gone back to a portable size, enlarged reaching up to ten metres in length and visibly very thick. He swung it by supporting it with his two arms holding the chain to his chest, then he spun around.

Immediately kicking up momentum, the chain hit one of the black figures, splashing deep black liquid. The chain was hardly stopped as it kept going onto the next one.

The black figure immediately moved out of the way, leaving another to take the full brunt of the chain.

Justin was really straining himself by swinging the chain. He had never felt something as heavy as this chain. Even with the help of the potions it was still a big challenge swinging the chain as he did right now.

The black figures were not about to stand there and get bludgeoned by that monstrous chain. After the second death, the rest moved out of the way making Justin's further attacks useless.

White blocks appeared in the air like steps leading to Justin's standing. Immediately the black figures started running on the steps trying to get to justin. One, two, they all rushed at him. The good arms they had all hardened up, with a sharp edge and curls around the body. Like a massive drill that was attached to a body.

The drill arms rotated furiously, their edges looking sharper than ever.

Seeing the incoming attack, Justin let go of the chain while still spinning. "Elvian text: Sage of the Green!" he summoned the now completely green axe. He couldn't make use of any attacks that came in contact with the floor so he had to let the figures come closer in order to maximise the range of this attack.

Soon enough, the figures were as close as he needed. Then did the vines emerge from the axe, catching the figure in their grips. The vines smashed the figure into the others, slimming twos with one attack.

Splashing kept sounding as the black figure were eliminated one after the other.

Unbeknownst to justin, the real figure hadn't followed the rest in attacking. Instead it attacked from the back, where justin was unguarded.

It's drill like arm dug into Justin's chest, puncturing it to the point where the tip even showed on the other side.

Justin spat put a mouth full of blood, but high on potions he didn't feel the effects as bad as he could so retaliated while the temporary immunity lasted.

Swinging his head to the back, he delivered a headbutt with the back of his head to the forehead of the black figure.

The figure was shaken by the attack and retreated, taking away its arm from Justin's chest which in turn left a gaping hole.

Justin gritted his teeth from the pain but continued on. Dragons emerged from his arm and charged at the black figure. The dragon hit the black figure subsequently, one delivering more damage than the previous. After the attack only about half of the black figure survived only for it to meet its end at the spikes on Justin's chain.

Seeing as the battle was won, justin utterly collapsed to the floor spitting out another mouthful of blood.

His blurry vision could barely make out some word which newly appeared in the air.

*I look forward to our next meeting. For now, good luck in stage one* the words were white with a black outline so he could see them in the darkness.

Shortly after that light returned to the dimension and it looked like all was well again...well, except it wasn't.

Justin immediately lost consciousness after that.

*Analysing your health condition. Your health condition is critical. Automatically administering overall health condition replenishment potion to you. Overall health Condition replenishment potion administered. Your health condition has been stabilised. Time until You wake up: 3 hours 12 minutes 42 seconds remaining*

Lights out.