Chapter 376 - Being Nincompoop (Part-2)

Ryuu looked down at his palm as he closed and opened it few times before humming in satisfaction as he found his KI completely under his control, a pill found his way into his mouth as a slight tingling sensation came from his scalp, as he removed the turban luscious red locks fell to his shoulder he ran his hand into the soft silky hair of his as he let out a sigh of satisfaction he closed his eyes as his skill activated he counted to 10 before his mask was removed.

As Ryuu breathed a sigh of relief as he gazed around only for his attention to be drawn out by Dhaeq, "Brother Ryuu how have you been in this fine morning?"

Ryuu flashed him a smile as he spoke, "I have been fine Brother Dhaeq I was simply admiring the view around."

Dhaeq smirked at him before he turned towards the desert surrounding them, the yellow colored sand had been died red in color just the thought of that otherworldly 'rune' made Dhaeq shiver in fear, 'I am glad that they, especially brother Ryuu had found and arrived at my place first and I was able to strike friendship with him, otherwise we would not have survived it.'

Ryuu looked towards the sky as he spoke, "Thank you brother, you saved my life without your help.."

Dhaeq stopped him from speaking as he continued, "What are you saying brother Ryuu? We did nothing to you, you saved the lives of my people and it was more than we could ever do that to you.", with that he clasped Ryuu's hand as a show of gratitude.

Meanwhile others were looking towards them from a distance amongst them was True-Spear who frowned as he looked towards the duo, who gave each other a hug not before shaking their hands as they said each other goodbye, "He is good at making friends."

Zywia was taken aback at his words before following his gaze as she spoke with a smile, "It seems so, when he was younger he was a shy kid and it took a lot to warm up to others."

True-Spear was taken aback at that as he spoke, "Really he looks far cry from a shy kid."

Zywia nodded at that as she spoke with a sigh, "Well it can be because of his family could be quite demanding sometimes."

True-Spear looked curious but before he could speak Su-Min spoke, "Really? And why is it so?"

Zywia bit her lips before she began speaking with a sigh, "Well it was a long time ago, he was 15 years old and his eldest sister dragged him to a meeting despite his protest and a meeting where he had no business to be present and forced him to spend hours listening to reports about matters he had no idea about and he eventually got bored and dozed off a bit, the end result the scolding he got in public it was horrendous."

Both True-Spear and Su-Min winced at that as Su-Min spoke, "Ouch that must be hard on him."

Meanwhile Ryuu's left brow twitched as while speaking with Dhaeq with a smile on his face he currently standing in such a way that he was able to see Zywia's group and he read her lips and it made him angry, 'That stupid idiot who gave her the permission to speak like that and divulge information about me, whether my teachers' family was hard on me or not who gave you the permission to gossip on it with outsider who is no way linked with either of the families, and for the record I have never been shy yes a bit subdued during that time because of certain but never shy', with great self control he swallowed his anger.

Zywia suddenly felt a chill flow down her spine causing her to look around but found nothing out of place she immediately dismissed it as nothing before she returned to speak with her friends.

As Ryuu spoke with Dhaeq for a brief moment his mind went back to the first real adventure he had when he had assisted in battle against the spiders during the trials, he a child had helped the Monkey Queen and had earned their gratitude, 'Do they remember me? I hope so Dhaeq seems so happy and he treated me as his brother but after today I will never see him again just like so many others whom I have met before do they all miss me, do they remember me or I am just a story for them to tell others, who knows.', a small melancholic sigh escaped his lips.

"So this the portal to the other level.", Frost Flames spoke in cold tone as they looked at the giant portal that has appeared a few minutes prior, an earthquake followed by a giant gate made up of bones appeared followed by swirling portal that linked to the other side.

Chasing Winds grinned towards her as she spoke, "Well what are we waiting for? Let us venture forth."

With a roar of agreement they all decided to move forward Ryuu turned to look at the people he had the honor of knowing for almost a year waving at them shouting out their goodbyes he turned towards them as he gave them a small bow with a smile on his face which was promptly returned by many others, they were only half way through the portal when a group of voice came to their ears, "Hey wait up how dare you leave without us."

Every cultivators who were present had their jaws tighten at the sight of Josiah and his group of deserters they were returning as if nothing had happened and worse of all they gave a look as if they were at fault for leaving them behind.

Ryuu snarled as he watched them dash towards the portal and from the looks of it every cultivator were enraged at their action when they were busy putting life on the line this 6 people had abandoned them and had run away.

Then their anger turned to amus.e.m.e.nt as they upon reaching the portal were flung away with great force, as they landed on their back the people present laughed at their plight as they started moving again as one of them shouted out, "Serves you right you idiots you did not fulfill the challenge and ran away before the 300 day mark and now you all are stuck here, so have fun."

The laughter increased even Ryuu smirked at their misfortune as they moved to the next level, Ryuu stepped out of the portal as a vicious smell assaulted his nose as he stood waist deep inside a swamp as did many others.

Screeching and screaming of various insects and creatures filled his ears as he let out a sigh, 'Ugh it seems I will run out my clothes sooner than later.'