83 New skills in Making

But that bushy volcano old guy used his excess mana and control it to be an extension of him. Does this mean she can finally get the answer to her Devil Seeds prototype today?

She was ecstatic that she couldn't hold back her devilish smile from curving upward. Rolen and Arya saw it on her face and felt the chill that zapped through their bone marrow.

From the look of her face, she is planning something that would make one wish not to be part of it.

Iiana notice both of them looking.

"What?" Both of them shook their head but it was cut short since a pillar of fire suddenly shoot out from where they stood.

Luckily, Arya moved fast enough and grab Rolen away from it. Iiana also manage to jump away from it with Luka in tow. Just seeing it makes her adrenaline rush even faster. Just by watching how other fights and use their skills, she can gain a lot of informations to create more amazing skills that would definitely help her in the future. She was by no mean strong. At earth, she may survive with measly martial arts she got. but here? It'll just feel like a tickle to her enemy. Worse, it maybe feel like a fly landing on them.

Though, she did killed a-lot of assassins that was sent by the Ding family to kill Arya. She just used some strengthening skills and maximum 5 minutes booster.

She likes to prepare for everything as long as it is in her power, she would do anything to make sure that her family, including her, can be safe and sound. Since most of the novel and manga about reincarnation had at least one time where the character might temporarily lose their power, she need to make sure she is prepared for it. Since she didn't know when will she won't be able to use her power or if ever, physical strength should be her top priority, or any means to help her becoming strong.

Just for the fun of it, Iiana threw another set of wind slash toward the man but it was easily blocked by the manipulation aura.

'I need powerful power. Until I can even stop a giant ass space rock from killing us.' Yes, she NEED a power that rival the gods.

From Arya's perspective, he get to witness her bloodthirsty smile. He didnt know if she notice it, but her aura was leaking out, and it was sucking out the air around them. There were not any traces of people near the front door of the hall to the auction hall, only those two stupid fools, Iiana, Rolen, Luka and himself.

But judging from the boys faces, they were feeling the pressure worse than any of us. They were wet, pale and what's worrying was that they kept on gasping for air. Iiana, well , let's just say that her mind right now was completely on one way track to the hairy volcano guy. She didn't even realised those around her.

Iiana chuckled.

"Do you know? Fire need air and friction for it to successfully combustible. But what happened when there is no air?" She smiled and in a blink of an eye, she was in front of the hairy volcano guy and gave an uppercut. He was too slow to see it, and didn't manage to block her punch.

Iiana saw the weakness of it. It is activated only if he willed it to do so. It doesn't work automatically. It doesn't defend him not until he think of it.

'Weak' its a weak prototype. She was going to make her thorns better than that. Or maybe she can just invent a new skills that would serve as her best defensive mechanism ever. Even when she's sleeping, or unconscious.. it will protect her well.

It was then the fire aura around the old man become even bigger and prominent. Iiana jump backward, she was slight crouching near Arya.

"You do know that he's spending too much mana like that right? The explosions can annihilate this whole building, no maybe the whole town if he choose to let it run wild." Arya whispered closely to Iiana so that she would be cautious in handle the situation in front of them.

"And can you tamp down the oppressive dominance? Because the boys aren't handling it well." Iiana head turn toward Luka and Rolen. True enough, they are getting paler each minutes.

"Bring them back to the inn and leave this to me"

"You're kidding right? I am not going to face your husband anger for leaving you here alone."

"Well, we need to meet in the middle because I wont stop whatever I am doing right now."

Arya sighed and flicked his damp fan. In the end the left over water sprinkle on him and he made a funny face before snapping it close again.

"I really don't like this." And Arya bet that the shadow was already on his way reporting the situation to Kuro. Just imagining Kuro's wrath made Arya organs shrivels. He wish all of this could finish before he came or else there gonna be a hellish retribution scarier than dying.

It reminded him the first second years he'd been with Kuro. He knew Kuro appreciate his company but since he's too much of a headache, he made a big dark pit hall and shoved him inside it.

"I Hope this journey will be a lesson to you, Arya. Find me at the north continent, the third mountain peak of Hilge. "

And just like that he was pushed into the scary dark void, free falling for what it seems to be days to week. At the end of it, he reach a scary black land, with a bug as small as the size of his pinky could destroy a thousand years old tree. Mutants monster that had never been seen before, attack relentlessly with a big smile on their face.

The scary part was that, no matter how many time you kill them, they can resurrect themselves, over and over again. It was a Hellish nightmare, where Arya had to run like a cowardly chicken he was. And that was also the very place he had learned how to improve his martial arts to the max and developed his defensive frost. He still remembers the first thing Kuro had said when he went to meet Kuro with anger, torn clothes, and battered body.

'You're late' said Kuro cooly. 'Four weeks there and you only get to increase this much...' he sigh with his disappointed look. Arya slammed his fist on the boulder and it smashed into a dust. A dust!! He was internally shocked that time too but managed to school his look.

'Don't bullshit with me. I was there for four years!!! Are you trying to kill me??!!!'

Kuro glance at him with a slight smile on his face.

'You didn't. It was just a month. That place time flow is a little bit.. wrecked you see. And I know for sure, that place would do you good.' He pointed toward where the heap of dust from the crushed boulder was with his chin.

Arya was conflicted between whether to believe Kuro or not.

'Be sure not to annoy me anymore. Because I have few dimensional places to sack you in. Anywhere, anytime.' That promise was what keeping Arya from crossing the line with Kuro for the first century with him. But he had since then had forgotten about it.