'Anyone that has a goldfinger is a cheat character, if I'm not even capable of this, why should I continue on living?' He thought.
Kommi arrives carrying a black cat with her, it looks quite cute but Sean's eyes widens when he sees the cat.
"Shadowraze Feline!" He exclaim causing Kommi and the person she came with to pause.
"Shadowraze Feline? That's quite a rare mystique creature that are known to reach at least silver rank and most of them would even reach gold rank." The vice principal was surprised when she heard his shout.
"I know, they're top predators that has dark element capable of blending into shadows, speed surpassing most silver rankers, claws capable of injuring even gold rankers, reaction outpacing gold rankers and keen sights comparable to hawks."
Hearing all of these, everyone unaware of the creature's origin were gobsmacked.
"An top tier excellent grade mystique creature." The vice principal added.
"I never expected that your knowledge about our family's pet beast would be so intensive." The man besides Kommi says in a rather quiet voice.
"I researched about mystique creatures that has cute appearance, especially fluffy ones, the Shadowraze Feline are known to be top predators but their appearance is quite cute." Everyone was speechless.
This was the reason for his intensive knowledge regarding the Shadowraze Feline? How absurd.
Jericho laughs out loud. "Yep! That Sean for you, he do things in his own way, picking his partners based on what he feels rather than how they function."
Everyone becomes thoughtful for this remark, they all turn to Sean with intrigued expressions.
"With such a initial pet beast, your martial path will be smoother than the rest, the only thing left for you is to find a technique that resonates with your soul or body."
Kommi nods her head, she looks at him with admiration, she has started to change her mindset, slow but gradual.
"I'm glad to hear those words from you, as expected of the prodigy and hero of our city, it's an honor to finally meet you face to face, I'm Masamyushi, Kommi's father." Sean raises his eyebrow.
"You're quite strong, probably even stronger than teacher Cherry, wait! That familiar sensation... An aura! No wonder, you manifested your aura." Sean looks at him with surprise.
"You can sense aura!?" The vice principal exclaim.
"Yes, probably because me and my partners had already started developing them." He nods his head before releasing his killing intent.
"Slaughter aura!" Kommi's father and the teachers exclaim, only the vice principal was frowning, she heard this from her sister already.
"No, mine is called killing intent, it's the manifestation of my own will to kill, I hadn't killed enough to develop such aura." He explains.
The others calm down, now that they feel it more clearly, it wasn't as overpowering as they heard.
"I wish the two of us can spar but with our strength, this home of mine wouldn't be able to endure it." Sean chuckles.
"I heard that you sparred with your teacher, you even won, I don't doubt that your current strength is actually equal to that of a silver rank." He praises.
"Perhaps but this doesn't mean that I'm invincible under the gold rank, once I manifest more aura, I can probably challenge anyone in the silver rank."
The vice principal chuckles, pinching his cheek, she says. "You're quite greedy, others are already happy to manifest an aura and yet you still think that it's not enough."
"To be young is to be ambitious, if I'm ever content with my current strength, why should I continue to strive." Clenching his fists, he was deep in thought.
He wasn't dreaming of becoming a saviour of humanity, he just wants to explore this world and it's wonders.
Such a large world and he hadn't even fully explored the forest, he wants to find out more about this world and the first thing he must do is secure the safety of his family.
Once they're safe, he can explore the forest for as long as he can.
The vice principal looks looks at him, she wants to see just how far he can go.
"Are you still thinking of becoming a super martial god?" Asks Jericho.
"My dream is not just to become an overpowered being but to explore this world of ours and it's great beyond, I wonder what secrets it hides, what will I discover?" Sean mutters absentmindedly.
Shaking his head, he turns to Masamyushi and asks. "By the way, I still haven't asked you yet but what is your purpose for coming here sir Masamyushi?"
"Right, I nearly forgot but I'm here to thank you for turning my beloved daughter into a martial artist, for the token of my gratitude-" Sean raises his hand.
"No need, I personally chose Kommi to be the main combatant of our school, it's my responsibility to raise her strength, with her talent and amazing physique, she will become one of our trump cards."
Masamyushi was about to say something when he feels Kommi grabbing his clothes.
He can only turn silent before bowing to Sean and leaving, with such a person, there's only a small thing he can do for him and that is to cheer for them.
"Kommi, I suggest that you train with your new partner in order to increase your combat strength since it's clear that you and that kitten had already bonded deeply." The kitten let out a cry.
"In fact, I think it's better that you guys train together with your pet beast, Missel, Blazing Emperor is currently too reliant on his fireballs, so what kind of path do you wish for it to take? A mage or a combatant?" He asks.
"Red Hawks are quite agile and they are one of the few mystique creature that can use elemental attacks but even this is the case, their size isn't opted to close combat." Cherry shares.
"So are you trying to let Blazing Emperor walks to path of a mage, fighting from afar, supporting you with it's element attacks?" He asks.
Missel thinks about it and remembers the time Sean fought with her and Blazing Emperor.
She nods her head, her pet beast isn't built for close combat but more so as arial support.
"From what I see, he only focuses in his fire element, train his usage on his wind element too, wind empowers fire and this will add variety on his attacks and increases his speed." Missel nods her head.
"Who knows about the basic information regarding wind blade?" He turns to the three teachers.
"Teacher Kien does, his pet beast is a Alexander Eagle." Cherry shares.
"Hmm, can you please let him write about the basic principles regarding Wind Blade and give it to me, I'll study it for now Blazing Emperor should use his wings to create a gust of wind when he's flying."
Missel listens to his instructions, she and her pet beast trains together.
"For Jericho, you two need to fight in a coordinated manner, smooth, sharp and quick, I'll have you fight Jasmine, don't worry, she can only use her claws."
"For Kommi, since your pet beast is clearly still at a juvenile stage, let it scratch a post, sharpening its claws."
Kommi was confused as to what kind of training was that but her belief towards her idol, the hero of their city is quite high.
Sean can see that she decided to create a scratching post for her kitten and smiles.
Going to his room, he takes out his clothes, tied it to a pole and continues to stack clothes into it.
"Wuk, can you use your Metal Element Imbue in this pole?" He asks.
Returning back to the field with Wuk, he puts the pole next to Kommi, the kitten immediately starts scratching it without even her command but since it's covered with Wuk's skill, the clothes aren't torn.
"Continue Wuk, if you're tired, just recover, we need to help you improve your control over that skill of yours." He states.
When noon came, Reina, Dorothy and Nima arrives, seeing more people in the mansion, they were startled but quickly recovers.
"By the way, Jericho, where's your cousin? I might not truly know her but she seems to be the type of person to work hard in her goals."
"Ganko? She decided to stream for the day and night to earn some money to support her path." Jericho shares.
Suddenly, the person they're talking about appears, she smiles and bows to Sean.
"Good, you're already sweating but I suggest that you stop streaming during the day, starting tomorrow, I'm going to increase your training load, don't worry about the expense for your resource, I'll just take it from my and your cousin's share."
Hearing this, Ganko was stunned, she quickly shakes her head causing Sean to hug her.
"After hearing about you from my sister, I know for a fact that you act as a shield for her and I can't thank you enough for that, please let me at least do this, you can repay me in the future when I hire you as my sister's guard."
Ganko becomes silent, she then wipes the tears in her and eyes and nods.
"Good, now join the others, before you guys are going home, I'll give a set of instructions to all of you."
The training resumes with more people now than ever.
Jasmine was having a great time, after Jericho and his pet beast to was exhausted, they were replaced by Kommi, Missel and Nima.
After the three girls, she would fight with Reina and Wild.
The entire day was spent with Sean giving them a clear instructions to what they want to achieve in the future.
"Okay, that's it for today, tomorrow, come by here during the dawn, we're going to run a couple of laps around the city to give you guys more overview and train your vital force."
Sean waves at them, letting them leave, they are clearly exhausted but are all happy with their progress.
Kommi, Missel and Jericho, together with their pet beasts had recovered already and they can hunt at the Outside once again but he decided not to hurry them.
"Well, I never throught I say this but you had opened my eyes, you managed to train a student into a martial artists and also trains multiple individuals at the same time, focusing in their speciality." The vice principal praises.
"I guess that's just how I teach my students but my way is clearly not suited for a classroom and more like a special program."
"Indeed, in such case, how many people can you simultaneously teach without distracting your own training?" She asks.
"With the presence of the teacher, I say about thirty max, I'll give half of that slots for the school to give."
The vice principal laughs, she was very happy with this.
The school can train the martial artists and they can use Sean to turn normal students into martial artist.
As long as they continue producing martial artists and they can train them to bronze rank at least, their school will become the most powerful organization under the Federation in this city.
"Thank you, you don't know how grateful I am to you, please call me by my name rather than my title, my name is Fabuki Tatsu." She smiles looking at him with grateful eyes.
"It's my honor, don't worry, I'm already considered as an honorary teacher, it's my duty to help the school."
The day was spent joyfully, everyone was building their foundation, increasing their strength.
In the evening, Sean and his family were having dinner.
"Aunt Tsu, I think that you can use this time to cook lunch for everyone, if you find it tedious, we should recruit some of your friends."
Tsu was very happy to hear this, she likes cooking and with the constant training and the nutritious drink Sean always gives her, she's growing stronger by the day.
"Eh? You're calling mom aunt once again?" Hina was a bit surprised.
"Do you want me to look rude to aunt Tsu in front of everyone?" He grabs her and rubs her head roughly.
She struggles and bites his hand causing him to complain.
"Okay, okay, that's enough, by the way, how's the progress with your training?" He asks.
"I always feel something seems to be calling to me and I had been in constant dream of a world full of glowing orbs laughing." Tsu shares.
"I feel more lightheaded and feels a power coursing through my body, it seems that I'm on the verge of something." Hina states.
"I feel the same with big sister, in fact, consuming meats from mystique creatures and drinking that medicine of yours, it's probably not going to be long before we reach our transformation." Yana explains.
"If only we can obtain spirit stones, we would improve much faster, too bad that only the Federation seems to have it." He sighs.
The girls smiles wryly when they heard him, he's still thinking of giving them more resources.
"No need, we're already content with how things are going." Tsu quickly shakes her head.
Their family of four is quite happy with how things are going on.
The girls sleeps at different room, each night, they sleep early because cultivation takes a toll in their mind.
Sean sneaks out once again, Jasmine was there to help him hide his secret.
Entering the Federation, all the workers quickly turns their head at him.
Confused, he looks behind him and doesn't see anyone, it basically confirms that they're looking at him.
Scratching his head, he didn't know what he did to garner such attention.
"BunnyLover69!" The clerk responsible for him shouts.
He was startled, then he feels everyone dashing towards him.
His expression changes, he immediately lowers his stance as everyone enters his territory.
CQC State!
If they try to attack him, he'll immediately retaliate, even if it's the Federation, he won't let them capture him that easily.
"Stop!" A loud voice descends from the inside, a gold ranker arrives.
Sean's expression turns ugly, no one might see what face he's making behind his mask but they can sense his emotion with just his eyes.
"What are you going to do?" He prepares to escape if needed.
"The city lord wants to meet you." Upon hearing this, he was stunned, he didn't think that he had done something to garner such attention from a powerful individual like the city lord.
He starts looking left and right as he deems the situation as too dangerous for him.
Lowering his stance, he looks at the gold rank with sharp eyes.
Sensing his intention, the eyes of the gold ranker narrows.
"I suggest that you come politely while we're still trying to be respectful towards you." He says.
Sean was too important for them to let go, even if this action will decrease the reputation of the city lord, he must bring him.
SWOOSH!
Without hesitation, Sean escapes in the disbelieving eyes of everyone.
He's too cautious, he doesn't want to be brought to someone he's unable to resist.
Berserk!
Jade Skin activate!
Dash!
His figure seems to become illusionary, leaving an afterimage behind him.
He runs to the direction of the black market, seeing his figure entering without permission, the guards were furious but before they can stop him, he weaves through them with ease.
CQC State!
He enters and starts to walk normally, blending in with the people, arriving at a place quite deserted, he starts breathing quickly.
That was close!
Looking around, he waits for an individual with a different outfit to arrive near the alleyway and without hesitation grabs him by his mouth and knocks him out.
Changing their two clothes, he looks at the person with apologetic smile before re-entering the market.
His body decreases in size, sure, this increases the consumption of vital force but he can only do this to hide.
Enlarging himself is actually more efficient use of Titan Body, the amount of vital force being consumed can be offset by his technique.
Just as he relaxes, the entrance for the black market was destroyed as multiple people from the city lord mansion arrives.
They start looking around, their eyes gleams with intensity.
Unbeknownst to them, their appearance instantly attracts the attention of everyone present.
Then, one by one, people starts escaping, many of them are criminals and if they're s ever recognized, they would be captured.
Suddenly, a powerful aura descends from the sky, causing the expression of the people from the city lord estate to change.
"Pray tell why is the city lord targeting my establishment?" Nightmare's cold voice was heard by everyone.
Meanwhile, Sean watching everything smiles inwardly, like him, the others are still escaping, using this chance to hide from the Federation.
He was following a silver ranker, many of them enters a different entrance rather than the main entrance.
They entered a shop, he blends with the group, such a small figure was often overlooked with a large figure in front of him.
Entering the shop, they move a cabinet and a hole appears.
"I never thought that the Federation would start purging this early and without any indications too, we should leave and stay at the Outside for a while." The man leading the group states.
Then, one by one, they entered the hole, Sean follows them.
They actually built a tunnel and it's connected with the sewer of the city.
Looking above, Sean's eyes gleams, leaving the group, he follows the direction of the contract between him and Jasmine.
He must escape, it seems that he can no longer show himself in his current identity after what happened to the Federation.
Coming out of the sewer hole, he had Jasmine creates an illusion about his figure running towards an alleyway while he returns home.
Cleaning himself, he sighs and decided to stay inside his room for the day.
Meanwhile, in the black market, Nightmare confronts the city lord and after hearing about what happened from his spies in the Federation, he became silent before deciding to not fight the city lord.
In a dark chamber, four gold rankers were discussing about something.
"I can't believe that the city lord was a fool! That person clearly hides his identity and doesn't want to tie himself with any power and yet blatantly try to recruit, only earning his vigilance!"
"Hahaha! After all, he's a young master from that family! He thinks his identity and reputation would make everyone bow before him."
"This is our chance, with what happened, it clearly tells us that the Federation doesn't have the method to force us into transforming!"
"We need to find that person before anyone else, we're going to rely on you, Nightmare." The three turns to the only person able to move freely inside the city.
Nightmare's eyes flashes coldly, he won't let anyone discover his secret, clenching his fist, his killing intent wildlu spreads, he might not had manifested an aura but it can still be felt by everyone inside the room.
"Leave this matter to me, that person can be easily identified, a large body with two pet beasts that are clearly a normal and a variant Fighting Bunny."
You can fake your appearance but not your pet beast, Fighting Bunnies are rare and finding someone with such a pet beast is more easy than searching for someone with a common one.
Back home, Sean only needs to meditate for three hours to recover, half of the spiritual energy he absorbs might flow inside Beast World but half is refined by him.
His foundation is clearly much stronger and he can even wilfully raise his level with pills but he doesn't.
Clenching his fist, he looks at Jasmine. "How's your accumulation?"
"Kyu!" She cries, clearly excited, with the fusions of her cultivation technique and the Basic Cultivation Technique, she's now absorbing more essence from the moon than before, she already accumulated two drops of lunar water, they're only waiting for the full moon.
Next week, the moon is definitely going to transition into full, this time, their family is going to have another bronze rank powerhouse.
When the sun starts to shine, Sean comes out of their home, everyone was already there.
Seeing this, he smiles and then tells them their training.
"We're going to run a few laps around the city, for Bones and Ganko, you two can run normally but for the iron rankers, you need to carry something heavy."
"Kommi, you're going to carry Golden, Missel, you're going to carry Wuk, Jericho, you're going to carry me, for Emirose, you're going to carry everyone else's pet beasts."
Dorothy raises her hand. "What about me?"
"You're going carry Priscel, buckle up, you know just how she can be." Dorothy's expression changes as he looks at him with pleading eyes which he ignores.
"Wait! I'm coming too! So does Nima and Reina." Suddenly, someone shouts inside the house and it was Hina.
Their group starts running around the city, the people that saw them were confused.
Jericho's expression was pale, he didn't expect his friend to be quite heavy.
"I'm doing this for your own good, what you feeling right now is me making my body heavier, in fact, you're not the one suffering the most, you should look at Missel." Sean states.
Their group were sweating heavily, Hina was even being carried by Reina after she can no longer continue.
Their group runs around until Sean signals that they can rest.
The next few days, Sean and the rest of the students trains in a scheduled regime, their strength increases day by day shocking the teachers.
Three days later, in the field inside Sean's home, everyone was now watching as one of them transforms from an ordinary person to a martial artist.
"Congratulations Bones, now that there are six of you are at iron rank, we can finally start my first test." Sean was happy to see this.
Bones' foundation is definitely stronger than Emirose, he's the perfect partner for Jericho.
"Pick a mystique creature to become your pet beast and two days later, we'll go to the Outside for your first experience." He states.
Jericho, Bones and Emirose, the three of them needs to cooperate with each other to hunt one mid tier iron rank mystique creature.
Dorothy, Missel and Kommi, unlike the first group, the three are all intelligent and efficient but they don't have the natural survival instinct as Jericho and Bones.
"Good, by the way, Dorothy, can you please bring Bones to the shop, let him choose his first pet beast there, the school will pay for it, right miss Fabuki?" He turns to the vice principal.
She nods her head, the date of the tournament is fast approaching making her feel excited and regretful.
Regretful because they left Sean to the Gold Family, with his talent, they should've nurtured them fully.
"Good, after my exam, you guys need to rest, the tournament is now approaching and we need to prepare for all cases." Sean shares before leaving.
Everyone continues on their training, except for Bones, who was now going to the Evergreen Shop with Dorothy.
"So, are the three of you already prepared?" Sean looks at his family and asks.
He's doing something unthinkable for him a couple of days ago.
He's bringing his family to the Outside, in fact, he's going to bring them some place dangerous.
It's all because of the system telling him that they need some place full of spiritual energy to complete their transformation.
The inner core, he's bringing them there, he's not going alone, someone is coming with him.
Someone strong, in fact, she's the strongest person he knows.
"I can't believe that you would bring them to the inner core, are you sure their bodies can endure such dense spiritual energy and not explode?" A voice appears.
The principal looks at the three with a calm expression.
"I won't joke around regarding my family's safety, I know that I can protect them but in the future, who can say what'll happen, so, I can only do the most surefire strategy to keep them safe, to make them stronger." He says with determination.
The principal believe his words and no longer complains, she did promise to come with him to protect the safety of his family.
Someone like him who rescues civilians during a portal break is extremely rare.
Sean doesn't know that his one action has cemented his reputation as a hero.
"By the way, I want to ask, why are you wearing a mask?" She asks.
Sean keeps silent, his Charm finally completes it's evolution and he's now attracting so much attention that he had to hide his appearance from others.
It was quite potent, calling him as the most handsome person in this city is no longer an exaggeration.
"Just a fashion of mine, don't worry, I'm still me, just burden with something." He states.
Charm (Intermediate): Appearance transforms into an object of beauty in the eyes of humanoid race.
Molded Beauty (Passive): increases the charm of the host to the extreme degree, body molded to absorb spiritual energy in air passively.
Active: Attracts the attention of everything in the area, stunning them for a short while. Has a chance to hypnotize humanoid creatures.
He's happy now that he can call himself handsome but to this degree, he can't help but feel helpless.
Too much of a good thing is sometimes bad, fortunately, he has the backing of two powerful organization.
"By the way, when will the tournament truly commenced? You stop updating me after I started training these fellows, we're strapped with time, if only we're given a month, I can even train the reserves to become martial artists."
The principal sighs. "Actually, the only reason for the fluctuating schedule is because of the amount of chaos happening throughout all the human territories."
Sean was surprised, knowing that he's not strong enough, he decided not to continue asking.
"Just inform me if we're truly going to leave, I'll have to talk to the Gold Family and the Black Ape Dojo about the security for my family."
"No need, I'll be bringing them, my sister and I are grateful for your help, with your current strength, we can aim for the top three or probably even the championship." She's serious about the first part but the matters regarding championship is just a jest.
She knows just how powerful the supreme geniuses from the core cities are, some of them have innate strength capable of harming even gold rankers!
Sean didn't argue with her, there's only one thought in his mind and that's to quickly increase his strength as stable as possible.
He's already at the sixth stage of the Muscle Tempering Realm!
"I forgot to ask, what about the weapon you promised?" He suddenly asks.
The principal freezes, she totally forgot to give the weapon to Sean.
She coughs slightly and says. "My little sister will give it to you tomorrow."
Who can blame her? Weapons are something only innate rankers use, after her request, she forgotten to take a look at it.
Blacksmith are an unpopular job for martial artists after all.
Unless one can reach innate realm or have a skill similar to Wuk, they wouldn't really care about using one.
Sean was speechless at her, this promise is very important for him, especially now that Wuk has reached fifth stage of bronze rank after hunting at the Outside alone and sparring with him and others.
The next day, everyone was given time to rest as tomorrow, they're going to take the exam.
In the Outside, specifically in Golden Paradise, Sean, Jasmine, Flare and Bun² were surrounding Wuk.
In his hand was an extremely thick and large staff, bigger than Wuk himself.
[Next Evolution: (-) Breakthrough to Bronze Tier; (-) Increase Vitality; (-) Reach 2nd tier of King Kong Punch
Special Evolution: Refine a weapon
Proceed with normal evolution? Proceed with special evolution?]
"Special evolution."
With his choice, Wuk's body starts shining with bright golden light.
ROAR! A loud roar comes out from his mouth as an apparition of a large monkey appears behind him.
Sean suddenly sense his body tempering technique starts to operate on its own.
It seems that Wuk's evolution is definitely going to be greater than he first expected.
ROAR! The commotion alarms every mystique creature in the area, one by one, they start traveling towards Wuk.
Sean's expression changes when he senses the vibration in the air.
"Oh come on!" He curses loudly before turning to Wuk who's now starting to be enveloped by a bright golden silk.
"We need to buy some time! Jasmine, with me!" He roars as the two of them activates their charm simultaneously.
Every mystique creature was drawn to them, Sean's charm is clearly at a different level compared to Jasmine but she has her tricks.
Rather than relying only at her Charm ability, she also uses Illusion to become shining golden orb similar to Wuk's transformation.
Meanwhile, Wuk's Monkey Body Tempering breaks through its bottleneck, Basic Cultivation Technique also starts operating.
The metal element in the surrounding starts to gather into his egg, even the tree they're on and the staff he's carrying melds into his egg.
The two bunnies starts free falling, Flare quickly reacts and let's out a cry for Sean.
Sean who was being chased by manic mystique creature hears the cry for help from the two bunnies and quickly changes direction.
Dash! Bypassing the silver ranks, he deactivates his charm and grabs the egg and the two bunnies.
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Wuk (Currently Evolving)
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Waving his hand, he lets the two bunnies inside Beast World before escaping with the egg.
More mystique creature starts chasing him, their eyes are on the egg who was greedily absorbing the metal element nearby.
A bull appears, upon seeing it's appearance, Sean's expression changes.
A gold rank!