Chapter 18. Dream Awakening (18)

Chapter 18. Dream Awakening (18)

"What the he—"

The nameless man suddenly took the lead and ran to the far side of the road, opposite where the guild was. Eventually, they arrived at the highest mountain in the vicinity.

"Come on, we have to go up there!"

"Why the hell do we have to go up there?"

"Nuh-huh! Ask fewer questions, take more steps. It's really important. If you don't listen to me right now, you'll definitely regret it."

Woo-Moon certainly felt like he was being tricked, but he nevertheless decided to follow the man up the mountain. However, the nameless man's climbing speed was simply too great. He didn't appear to be moving that quickly, but Woo-Moon had to run at full speed just to keep up with him, and he was certainly not a slow runner.

After about half an hour of climbing, they arrived at a small cave in an isolated, wild location.

Woo-Moon's eyes widened in surprise upon seeing the beast inside it. A tiger bigger than a house, covered in shiny white fur with silver stripes, was leaning against a huge boulder.

'Is it dead?'

Even though they had approached this much, the tiger didn't react. It was definitely strange.

"It's as I expected. That's a silver tiger. It's one of the rare beasts, an animal with innate spirituality. Actually, it is said that it's close to becoming a spiritual beast. Unfortunately, it seems that it hasn't reached that stage yet, since it doesn't have an inner core. It's probably been a while since the mother died...."

With these words, the nameless man walked toward the dead Silver White Tiger. Woo-Moon followed.

Silver tigers were legendary rare beasts. Their fur and hide were tougher than steel, and their teeth were hard enough to crack diamonds.

They had just taken a few steps forward when something small suddenly jumped from under the Silver White Tiger's corpse and attacked the nameless man.

Grawwwwr!

"Ah, you're finally out."

Woo-Moon looked at the creature—a baby white tiger the size of his fist.

The nameless man just swung his right hand at it as if driving fly away, and the white tiger cub was smacked to the ground.

Woo-Moon wondered if the nameless man had attacked with too much force, considering the beast was just a baby. Just as he frowned and was about to say something, the baby tiger jumped up as if it was nothing, then stood in front of the dead silver tiger and stared at the nameless man and Woo-Moon.

Kyaaaan!

"Haha! Despite being so young, the beast is quite amazing. It's thinking of fighting us to protect its mother's body."

The nameless man suddenly looked at Woo-Moon with a playful expression. "Why don't you raise it, Woo-Moon? Even if it's a rare beast, it'll die if you leave it here alone. After all, it's still too young."

The baby silver tiger was certainly cute, but raising it was an entirely different matter. It was a wild beast. From the perspective of Woo-Moon, who lived with his parents, it was impossible to raise such a dangerous creature. Besides, it was a bit annoying.

"You mean me? No, you'd better raise it. Wouldn't it be a pleasure for you to live a restless life?"

"I can't be bound to a place or take responsibility for anything. The purpose of my life is to live freely with the wind and clouds, so I can't. You raise it."

"Absolutely not!"

As he looked at Woo-Moon, the nameless man took action with the hand that he was holding behind his back, not visible to Woo-Moon. Four streams of colorless qi materialized from four of his fingers, crawled along the ground, and dug into the giant rock behind the baby silver white tiger. Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

A minute cracking sound came out.

"Huh? Did you hear that?"

Woo-Moon noticed the sound and tensed up, but the nameless man shrugged and smiled nonchalantly. "What are you talking about?"

In the meantime, the four colorless qi streams that had dug into the rock turned and cut through it diagonally, causing a massive boulder to fall toward the silver white tiger.

Kyaaaa!

"..."

Woo-Moon walked again, and the baby silver tiger glanced at him and followed.

After a while, the nameless man returned to the female silver tiger.

"Don't worry. I entrusted your baby to someone I can trust."

He looked at the female silver tiger, who had been with him since he was a child, with a complicated expression on his face. He then dug a hole and buried her.

Though the soil was hard, with his martial arts mastery, this was an easy job.

* * *

A man and a baby tiger walked down a narrow road.

As Woo-Moon continued forward, he noticed the nameless man in the distance. When he passed by him, the nameless man said, "I guess you've decided to raise it, after all, so let me tell you a few things about a silver tiger. First of all, it won't attack the people around you for no reason. As I said before, it's born with innate spirituality."

The best way to deal with the nameless man was silence.

"And while it is a wild beast, it's omnivorous. So you don't have to feel pressured to just keep buying meat and feeding it. Haha. You can give it any food. Convenient, isn't it?"

"..."

Fortunately, Woo-Moon managed to return just before the guild departed. When he turned around, the baby silver tiger was still timidly following him. It was pretty cute.

"Whoew..." Woo-Moon sighed, looking at the nameless man. "Hey, No-name. Let's get some rice for now."

"Rice?"

"We need to feed this guy. Ah, but can we just feed it rice instead of milk?"

"Hahaha. It's a rare beast. Despite being so young, it can eat rice or meat."

"Is that true?"

"Maybe."

"Is that really true?"

"Maybe..."

"Let's go."

"You're a nasty young hero driving an old man to work hard."

Even while saying that, the nameless man went to the place where the guild distributed food.

The cook of the guild was busy organizing things. While he was hurriedly cleaning the tableware and packing up, a random guy approached him.

"Hey, can I have any leftover rice? My colleague and I didn't get to eat dinner earlier."

The cook thought this was the first time he had seen this guy despite having been at the guild for quite some time. Taking that into consideration, he was definitely a porter.

Reaching this conclusion, the cook couldn't be bothered about what the man wanted. Instead, he decided to relieve the irritation he had accumulated from washing dishes and packing up all by himself. He yelled, "Do you think this is a restaurant? I'm busy, so get out of my way!"

In an instant, the nameless man's face darkened. 'Haha. When was the last time I was treated like this? I can't even remember.'

On the other hand, this was also a fresh experience, in a way. He decided to think positively.

Just then, the disciple of the Kunlun Sect, Yu Mun-Gwang, was passing by together with the young men from the guild.

"What's going on?"