Heading back from the auction, Raze was attempting to calm down. He knew he was in a sour mood and it was best not to act on his emotion. It was something that he had problems dealing with his whole life.
Certain situations, scenarios that he would go through would remind him of his childhood, remind him of his past life. At times he didn't mind this, because it was what drove him to continue forward, but when it was unwanted the emotions would get too strong for him to deal with, and this was the best situation.
Heading back, Raze was going to stay in the inn and call it a night, but he had been walking around aimlessly not really knowing where he was heading for a while, he had just been staring forward, and that's when he could see that quite a large crowd had gathered just up ahead in the crossing of streets.
Walking ahead, Raze could then hear a mighty loud yell. A scream that sounded familiar and shook his core slightly. He continued to walk forward not knowing what he would see.
'Would they be out here, but why would there be a crowd around them?' Raze thought, his pace quickening as he hurried.
Once again, just like other times, images were flashing through his head, and instead of a past scene playing, it was one that he had imagined up. The image of those that he had recently gathered around him dead.
Safa lying on the floor covered in blood, Liam, Dame, Simyon all of them having been scorched by some type of magical power, and Raze's own hands covered in blood.
'This is not real.' Raze thought to himself as he continued walking forward. 'Stop imagining things with your stupid mind.'
It was a certain realization that was starting to dwell on him. It was the fact that he didn't want the same thing to happen again. Those that were close to him, Raze didn't want them to go like that.
Finally, he had reached the back of the crowd, and he slowly pushed his way through, until he had reached the front. He walked forward slowly, his footsteps light, as he stared at the entire scene in front of him.
"What…happened here?" Raze asked.
His eyes were glued to Safa, who was crying, and Simyon, who had blood coming out from his mouth and onto the floor.
Slowly Raze was taking one step forward at a time. Getting closer and closer to the others.
"Does…he know them?" Alba said, seeing the way the person was moving, it was clear that he was in a state of shock.
His eyes were glued to Simyon on the floor and the blood, the scene in front of him flashing back and forth to the image he had not too long ago.
"Hey!" One of the students that were standing close to Liam, took his foot off his chest, while the other still had him pinned down. There was another that was eyeing up Raze from the side as he walked closer as well. "No one is to get involved, we won this match fair and square, and everyone is a witness he could have stopped at any time."
Raze's head was still locked onto Simyon, he was kneeled over, his skin pale, it looked almost like he couldn't breathe, and Safa, couldn't stop her tears. She hadn't even noticed that something else was going on, that was until Raze spoke a few words.
"Do you know who you guys harmed?" Raze asked.
"Who?" The student asked. "We are all students from large Clans in the Demonic Faction, and you think you're someone special. Someone who doesn't even dare show his face! If you were someone important you would take down that stupid hood."
Raze took another step forward, and then for his next step, he raised his foot up higher than he had done before.
"These people, are from the Cromwell family, they are from my family!" Raze slammed his foot on the ground, and out from it, a strong Qi exploded out. The first descending step was used, and it immediately made those that were close by uneasy.
'Such powerful Qi, I could even feel it from here,' Alba thought to herself. 'But it doesn't seem like a large amount. How can he emit such strength from just a step?'
Right after the first step, immediately Raze performed the second descending step. The added Qi propelled him forward and before the student could react, Raze had already grabbed his face.
With his Qi, Raze then threw his face down into the ground, but he didn't just use his Qi.
"Push of the wind," Raze whispered through his clenched teeth.
The student's body and entire head struck the ground, breaking the floor beneath it, and his head bounced after hitting the floor.
Immediately, the others came right at him, forgetting about Liam. As they went to strike, Raze had performed the third step, jumping backward. Their attacks had completely missed, hitting nothing but
the air.
The fourth descending step activated, where Raze kicked off from both of his feet. When reaching his opponent, he swung his arm to the side.
'Silent strike.'
His fingers were closed together and using his wind powers, he caused a large cut right against the other student's chest, blood splattered out, going over Raze's clothes but he didn't slow down.
Doing onto the fifth step, he jumped to the side, and immediately grabbed onto the other student's arm. Due to all of the steps being performed one after the other, the Qi continued to build up. Raze had also just drained the energy from the man before.
His power, was much more like that of a third-stage Pagna warrior right now, rather than that of a second-stage warrior.
He lifted his hand up, and with no hesitation swung it down, hitting right on the elbow. A loud crack was heard as the arm was broken in half. Raze pulled the broken hand and then punched the man in the face, letting go, and allowing his body to be lifted in the air and thrown to the floor.
It was only then, that for that moment, had Raze stopped his continuous attack, because there was no longer anyone close to him. Rod was sweating buckets as he took a step back.
'Who is this guy…he just took out three of the top students at the academy like they were nothing! Are these three really from a respectable clan..but I've never even heard of the Cromwell family before,' Rod thought.
He knew in his mind after seeing what had happened, that he had no chance of winning, even though he was slightly stronger than the others.
Liam, had gotten up off the floor, and was looking at the trail of wounded that Raze had left behind him.
'This guy…how can he keep getting stronger?' Liam thought. 'All I know, is right now, I'm glad he's on our side.'
The crowd was stunned in silence as they saw what happened. It was a cruel display of power that usually they would only see if a Pagna warrior offended a clan head. It was unexpected after seeing the strength of the others being used as well.
Not only that, but those in the crowd, some of them were five-stage, and four-stage Pagna warriors, and they had noticed what the hooded person had used.
"That was the ten descending steps, and he was able to produce five of them in a row, is this a higher stage warrior?"
"If that's the case, then isn't his punishment too cruel?"
Cronker and Alba were thinking along the same lines.
"If he's a stage five warrior, then aren't those kids doomed?" Cronker asked. "I thought higher warriors would see this as a kid's scuffle. A simple beating would do, but not like this. Wouldn't a clan be looked down upon just for bullying."
"I don't think he is a stage five warrior," Alba replied. "From the first step, although it was ferocious, the amount of Qi, it was close to a stage three warrior at best."
"But then, how could he perform the five steps? Aren't years and years needed to perfect the Qi control?" Cornker asked.
Alba had a large smile on her face because that was exactly what was needed. The person in front of them could very well be a genius, a one-of-a-kind, but the real question was, which one was the bigger genius.
The mysterious hooded guest, or the Black Tiger.
"You've hurt my friends," Mantis said as he walked over, allowing Rod to move out of the way. He tensed his fist, gathering the energy in his hand again. "I…can't just let you go. Otherwise, what type of person would that make me?"
Safa was now aware of what was happening and Raze looked at her for a moment, he could see her eyes were swollen.n-/In
"You, hurt my family," Raze said as he stretched out his hand. In it, he had a blue Qi pill, as well as a green-colored one as well. He then lifted his head as he placed the two Qi pills into his mouth. The effects of both of the pills had entered and energized his body.
He was surging with power he didn't have before, his Qi and Mana had been restored on top of it. The green-colored pill, it was a buff pill that was made with the wind attribute magic, giving him an increased amount of speed.
"I won't let that happen again…and I'll get rid of anyone, who touches them so, it can never happen."
