The Martial Master - 49 One Favour.

“I found another one…”

Staring at the kid, Su Min’s eyes jumped as they glimmered with a rare shimmer that exuded a blackened gold. It was as if two glowing orbs had just started to brighten, displaying a hidden profundity that would make any 4-star mage gasp.

However, this kid’s comprehension of the world’s energy was nowhere near the level to feel the terrifying depth of Su Min’s eyes, instead, he only saw the shining glimmer of a strange gold and a wizened black. It wasn’t eye-catching to him, and it didn’t force any sort of instinctual emotion.

No, instead all he felt was an artificial fear toward an unknown. It is similar to dreading darkness, where you cannot see, cannot guess what is lurking in it. Would it kill him? Is something prowling in that pitch black corner? These are stark scenarios, yet, a similar dread is still induced by an unknown. It is a dread created by his own questions, ones that, as ethereal as darkness is, cannot be answered.

Su Min remained unchanged as he saw the apprehensive expression of the kid, though, just as he was about to speak, a raging bellow of hot air scurried from behind him as an angered bang thumped the ground.

“Don’t ignore me!!”

The crowd held their breath as a silence started to echo from that sundering roar. Though, Su Min only frowned as he leaned back and took a glimpse at the fuming proud man.

His eyes shone without a tinge of emotion, not even a hint. It was as if these people were but lifeless things in his eyes, especially that proud man; a proud man seemed to be an ant so easily squished that he could do it with but a wave of his hand.

“One second.”

His simple words resounded within the silence as everyone went wide-eyed. But Su Min didn’t care as he swished his head around and stared at the kid again. His eyes continued to glimmer with that faint gold and black as an unknown tremble shook the air around him.

It was as if he was about to unsheath his sword, a sword of hidden might and shaking black. And when he does such a thing, the world will tremble and the skies will rumble with a newfound aura that could pierce the heavens.

An absent stare broke into his gaze as he continued to scan the kid’s Dantian; though, as the proud man was about to erupt with something vile, Su Min asked the boy a question.

“Hm… You remind me a little of someone, and considering what I may have to do soon, I’ll grant you a favour. What do you want? I can kill that guy behind me, or I can cure that girl over there… Anything.”

He spoke it slowly and calmly; as if what he said was but a simple matter. Though, to the ears of everyone else, it thundered in their reasoning with such a stupid notion. Was this man senile? How could such tasks be so simple?!

The vast majority sneered at him as they thought about. This cloaked man must have gone insane, so he doesn’t care about death… Surely? The proud man also thought such a thing, but he was also incensed. He has a pride, a pride as high as the heavens, so to have it blasted by such an insult really rubbed him the wrong way.

He, the son of the mighty lord that everyone feared, was spoken as if he were someone you could just kill. Someone you could just flick to oblivion? Bullshit! He’ll crush this cloaked man before everyone and set an example to those who dared think of opposing him!!

“You… Promise?”

However, contrary to everyone’s expectations of the kid thinking similarly and just giving up, he spoke with shocking words. Words that held a faint hope, a hope towards the strange man who saved his life.

The kid already knew that he would be dead without that saving palm, that saving grace, so he owes his life towards such a being. How he can just accept death when he had just escaped it? He couldn’t, he couldn’t! No! He had already gone with the mindset of death, so to have a chance, he will grasp it and throw himself to depths of its unknown future.

All for that glimmer, that dazzling speck, one that, even with such uncertain odds, may save his unfortunate fate.

“Heh? Of course!”

Su Min face shone with a faint smile as he glanced around him and at the proud man. Though, instead of taking this seriously, numerous audience members sniggered with contempt.

“He’s gone insane, and although I can’t see his face, it must be a pale white!”

“Haha! I never thought that I would see such a comical show!!”

Comments originating from copious sources sprang out as people laughed and watched the show with amused eyes. Of course, they were waiting for this cloaked man to get pummelled to death as the kid loses all exits of hope.

The proud man seemed to finally lose it as his veins bulged and his luxurious coat trembled. Then, like a shatter of glass, the haze that shrouded his forehead dispersed as 3 circles glimmered into view!

“You’re going to regret messing with me..!!”

His roaring might descended like a declaration of the heavens as an intense thrum of white enveloped the sky and the platform. The black robes swayed in the shrill wind as Su Min sighed and straightened his back with a simple disposition.

He watched as the white hummed then strung around the emerging proud man like he was a holy being, prodding the ground with its blinding light and encapsulating the sky in its severing might.

The ground crackled under its unending pressure and the crowd shuddered as those with weak dispositions got driven to their knees with pale faces.As this happened, an aura started to billow out of such a bright man that made the shuddering air slow and the bright sky dim.

It was one of a faint holiness, one that made any mortal, anyone below him, feel the need to prostrate themselves before him. It didn’t care whether you wanted to or not, it forced it upon you!

For its a will of the heavens, a will that you should never disregard, never ignore, never go against!

“Your race really bugs me, you know…”

Su Min, standing as the shrill winds fluttered beneath his dark robes, sighed as he muttered a sentence under a single breath. He glanced at the many fearful expressions of the weak; the excited expressions of those who could still watch, and the trembling legs of the kid behind him.

He thought for a second, then gazing back at the proud man who was getting ready to battle, he made up his mind and spoke to the kid.

“As he decided this on himself, I won’t count it as a favour.”

Leaving the dumbfounded kid, he redirected his concentration back onto the man who didn’t really make him feel anything.

“Pale in awe from my techniques prowess! Fire Hell!!”

The man, as he finished revelling at the power galloping through his veins, grasped his fists as a huge supply of heaven’s energy blasted out his forehead and around him. The already white light encompassing him blasted to an amazing proportion as the whole world seemed to be replaced by such a colour.

However, as this colour illuminated the heavens and the earth, it shivered and then dissipated at a rapid revolution. Before anyone even realised, the light was gone and was replaced by a still silence.

Though, as this silence overtook everyone, it was quickly disregarded once more. A blue, so hot and mystical, erupted out of nowhere and grew.

Su Min found the white to be annoying, so, considering this, as he watched the white get replaced by a blitzing blue fire, he found it to be much more pleasing.

It was a bright blue that seemed to sear the very clouds in the sky, causing a dense steam to waft out and replace the soft white collections of water vapour with a strange charred black. It was as if he just burnt the water to crisp, and it was a peculiar sight to behold.

This blue flame didn’t seem to be constricted by any simple boundary as it swiftly enveloped the whole sky and the podium Su Min stood on. The proud man’s eyes flashed as he uttered a resolute cry.

“Get burnt and cry in anguish!!”

It was a cry that, with a shrill emergence, caused the enormous flames enveloping the world to target Su Min. They blitzed with bangs and shrouded echoes, flying at terrible speeds toward the single small figure within the blue world.

Nevertheless, as Su Min watched the flames crawl and attempt to engulf him, his expression remained unchanged. In fact, as his eyes started to shine an even brighter light, a strange gold began to shroud him.

*PSSSSST*

In this single moment, that single split second, a sudden change occurred that made the proud man gasp and crowd tremble.

“How..?!”

A sight that seemed to etch in the very being of everyone presented itself before them, where a single man, facing the world of flames, glowed an otherwordly gold…

“Annoying…”