The Martial Master - 51 Anger!

The man, sighing as his son got thrown out of the way, gazed at the spark that was about to impact him. The billowing heat made his forehead sweat gallons and his face solemn, yet as a mysterious thought raced through his head, his expression turned into a grin!

“Town Array, activate!”

“?”

*PSST*

Su Min paused as he, with his all-seeing ability, felt a strange premonition from the words of man. It was one that, although not dangerous, induced a certain eeriness that he disliked.

“You dare?”

Just as he spoke such a sentence, Su Min’s expression changed and his eyes flashed as he looked around him. It was unknown what he was thinking, but his eyes began to blitz with a grim light as he gripped his hand without mercy.

As if it responding to his grip, the spark trembled with a fervent shiver that seemed to shake the sky. However, just as it trembled, the very ground the town stood on shuddered as a faint white revealed itself.

A mystical pattern emerged from such a white, where a massive symbol shined into view and replaced the terrain of the town. What it depicted was a rather horrific portrait of two people bathed in white gazing down from the heavens with dignified arrogance. One a man, one a woman. Both handsome beyond belief, both with indifferent gazes.

Those heavenly beings had hazed foreheads, yet just the depictions of them seemed to induce a pressure that shrouded the entire town. It was pressure, that although faint, far surpassed the 4 star’s aura Su Min knew. However, due to it just being a depiction, the pressure was far too faint to make Su Min react, and it only contained the profundity of the aura, not the intensity.

Beneath these two people laid an immeasurable number of trembling men and women with dull golden eyes. They were eyes of fear, unwillingness, and hatred. Chains, as thick as trees, as black as the night sky, wrapped around the entirety of the golden-eyed people like massive pillars that tied them down without mercy nor care.

Some had the chains hammered into their limbs, some even in their dead heads. Death and famine spread through such a precarious ground, where only a significant few remained standing beneath the mountain of corpses and rotting carcasses.

Those significant few were only two men and two women; a bloodied bearded man, and a young aspiring youth drenched in his own brethren. The bearded man wore a tarnished golden crown, and his eyes shown with a simple wisdom, yet right now his normally dignified self was overcome with despair!

He held his wife, his son, and his daughter. He held them with his firm and powerful grip, and with his seemingly last dregs, a golden forcefield sprouted around him and protected him and his family!

And thus, the depiction finalised, one of an arrogant couple killing a fallen king; like divine punishment.

They were, of course, an Ancient race! They may not be a great race of the Ancients but a race from the lower realm, they may not be that lofty compared to Su Min’s heritage, they may be hundreds if not thousands of times more insignificant to his bloodline, but that view touched a nerve that shouldn’t be touched for Su Min!

His hidden jacket hissed with a chilling creeping cold as the already red sky turned blood crimson. It was crimson that carried a anger, an anger towards not just the man, but the heaven’s races in general!

He is entering a new world, one that has revealed something that he could have never imagined! It is a world similar to one he used to live in that small apartment, one of cruelty, contempt, and conflict.

He knows that he is ignorant to the feud between the Heavens and Ancient races, and most wouldn’t even pay attention to such depictions because how could they know what those gold eyes represent? However, he knows what those golden eyes represent, and knowing this, even if he just has the body of an Ancient One and isn’t truly ‘one’, he will feel anger. Fury towards the Heaven’s who his race must fight; must kill!

And so…

“You think that you’ll be able to survive?”

Su Min’s expression turned, thus, with a newfound glare toward the man, he spoke once more. He didn’t know what an array was, but that goddamn white pattern on the ground didn’t bode well for him conserving strength.

The Lord’s eyes remained fixated on that spark as he continued to grin, but with the dense crimson that shrouded him, he did waver a bit.

“No! This array was made to defend against a 4-star power, maybe even a half step 5th… ”

However, he firmed his grip once more as he commenced the array.

Yet…

Su Min didn’t seem to want to wait for the spark to collide with the man, so as it was still a couple seconds away from impact, Su Min in an abrupt fashion clenched his fists even more and uttered a raging roar!

“Gold. Burn!”

The Lord was taken back, but he didn’t have time to consider this as the spark started to expand! Popping sounds echoed out like divine thunder as that tiny spark suddenly erupted into a blazing ball of flame the size of an elephant.

The flame glistened with a beautiful and mystifying gold. Yet it was nothing but that in the eyes of the everyone, in fact, it gave them a certain terror that they haven’t felt ever.

It was one that seemed to suggest that that ball of flame was specifically designed to slaughter their bloodline!

“Annihilate!!”

Su Min’s chest shined with a thrumming gold as the ball of flame, following his lawful command, shattered!

*BAAAAAAAAAAAAANGGGG*

It was a deafening shatter that crashed into the eardrums of everyone. Yet, this alone seemed to make their minds sear with the very pain of rage and suppression!

“W-what?!”

“GET THIS OUT OF MY HEAD!!”

“AGHHHH!!”

A collection of agonising screams rang out of the audience and the whole town as everyone’s mind tumbled into madness and agonising burning. Yet, this was but the start as a sudden blazing light splintered atop the stadium and right onto the Lord’s pained expression.

*SHING*

A strange chime echoed out of that light, one that made everyone shiver with even more fear. Some even found that their blood had shifted to a stop, even trying to escape their bodies!

“Pay the price for your ancestor’s sins!”

Su Min, watching the Lord and everyone around him, uttered a commanding call as that light suddenly shrouded the entire town and growled a subtle but soul-shaking roar in return.

It was a primal roar in fact, and, not even caring, the whole town was suddenly lit with a blazing golden flame that vaporised the very air.

*GA-”

*PSSSSST*

An instant went by, yet this instant was all that it took for the once bristling town to break into a flattened pit of ash that had been roasted many times over. The stadium Su Min stood on no longer existed, and the very audience no longer lived…

Except for a couple. A boy, a girl, a fat man, and…

“Huff. Huff.”

*RUMBLE*

A staggering Lord who was currently shrouded in a strange white light. The very same symbol remained etched on the terrain as if nothing had even happened.

The forcefield covering the man was flickering with a weakness, yet it still stood after such an attack…

“You… You’re like those slaves in the array…”

The man, gazing at the now non-existent town, spoke out as he looked at the golden eyes of the dead in the symbol on the ground and Su Min’s one, blazing golden eye.

Su Min remained silent as he sighed, then lifting his hood, he revealed his crystalline golden hair and simple face.

“Hah! So you really are from those bastards! I thought our ancestors slaughtered you lot in the war, but it seems that a couple got through! Even if I die, I can laugh at you in the heavens once our sect sends out the High Elder to torture you to oblivion!! HAHAHA!!”