The Martial Master - 71 A speck.

“Well, I’ll lend you some of my dwindling power so that you can finish… your enlightenment? Pfft.”

*SHIIINGGG*

“G-G…AGHHH!!”

A vision encompassed in gold shined in Su Min’s eyes. Confusing riddles were confirmed, yet he had no time to even ponder on such confirmations as more branded comprehensions rammed right into his mind.

*Step* *Step*

The black figure’s blurred existence hazed as he took a stride and appeared before Su Min. His white spherical eyes narrowed; his forever implanted smile twitching.

“G-G…”

Su Min’s, with his mind in a mess, could barely realise the presence of the black figure. Yet, the hoarse and familiar voice resounded just as loudly as it used to.

“Hm… It seems that the souls are reawakening…”

It was unknown whether the figure was speaking to himself or Su Min, but a strange light was brewing within those deep eyes.

“All those from old, thrown into new…”

The figure dazedly stared at Su Min as a strange light shone.

“Now all those in the new, the descendants of your old self…”

His smile hung high as he gazed at Su Min.

“Heh, ‘Descendents’… Time isn’t fair, especially when those monsters bred from your very hands are released…”

“…”

*Step*

He removed his gaze, deciding to stare at the fogged sky that blew a cold air every now and then…

“Each a split soul from a powerhouse, each locked in your old bloodline. Now, pertaining with an eternity of dwelling, these souls will be relit and thrash the world’s ‘harmonious’ state!”

“… Heh..!”

“And I shall be the one that will watch each and every one get collected like chickens by your new hands! In and out, these souls that were once beasts, now strewn to a paste!!”

His eyes shook, where a gruesome smile widened until it etched his entire being.

“I, the one who was once the smallest, will now laugh at their appalled faces! Their faces when this Martial here finds them; devours them… And become even stronger than them!”

“…Hahaha!! Devils they are, but I’ll return a smile wider than those devils! That incessant torture that flung this boy around as he walked in a mortal’s body, no more..!!”

His face grew grimmer, yet his smile wider…

Su Min, though, was still clenching his fists and biting his lips, roaring in agony!

“GAHHHH!!!”

*STEP*

“Ah yes, delightful! I brought him the Martial Book from the highest realm, and when I am no longer needed, that terrifying book shall take my place! But… I shall be the one to guide him until that time comes, guide him until every fucking wisp of his bloodline is returned. Unplagued with those souls!!”

*STEP*

He grasped the chair he made and relaxed, but a bloodthirsty aura soon shrouded his entire being.

“For they are now twigs, and even if they tried to regroup, I made that especially difficult to do.!!”

“…”

“Ah… I’ve only got a taste of their agony, that tiny wisp wasn’t enough.!!”

His gruesome eyes beamed as he flicked his finger. A tiny vortex formed in the space, where a pale snake-like creature got flung onto the floor. It was transparent, in fact, it resembled that of a soul…

The figure didn’t even look at the creature. Instead, he lifted his right leg and smashed it down!

*CRUNCH* *SQUEAL*

“Gah..! You corrupt beasts are the reason… I want one that can at least speak, it is maddening!! Even now the fresh one is burning its soul, how aggravating!”

“GUH..!!”

Su Min, whilst the figure was speaking, coughed out a dark gloop of blood. His trembling muscles subsided, and his breathing began to return.

“Ah… He’s finally out of that episode…”

The figure froze as he watched Su Min, drenched in blood, clench his fists and lift himself off the floor.

*SHIIINGGG*

His right eye was that of a swishing gold, one that seemed to resemble that of a sun. It would pulse, writhe, and every time it did so, a monstrous feeling would echo.

Its light was blinding, and it was mighty.

“Yes… Those eyes! They’re starting to mature!”

Su Min eyed the black figure, where a multitude of questions sprung. In fact, even through all that pain, he heard nearly all of what the figure had said…

So, with a slight tremble, that gold eye hummed. Its light dwindled, and that originally intense feeling renounced.

It became an ordinary eye, that of the colour gold… A dull gold.

“Who… are you?”

Su Min’s abrupt voice entered the silent world, but the figure didn’t seem to hear it as that smile widened.

“Ah, Su Min that isn’t important! Well. I have already helped you break through that rather wild action! So, go and collect the bloodline, oh and also make sure that it is at least remains somewhat alive!”

*CRACK*

A thunderous rumble echoed in Su Min’s mind. Then, as a confusing feeling washed over his body, he found himself standing in a world brimming with destruction…

*CA-TCHAAA!!*

*thud* *THUD*

“…”

“A split soul, huh…”

…

…

With a gasp, Su Min eyes refocused. He, gazing at the pit that was brimming with flames and even deeper craters, found that pair of lonely eyes.

‘I really don’t like the idea, but I guess I have no choice.’

He sighed, then taking a couple steps forward, he emerged before the two eyes submerged in black flames. They were hovering and seemed defenceless, but he felt a dangerous power shroud it.

‘It seems to have lost any ability to think… Sorry.’

Su Min pondered for a second, then redirecting his gaze to the chasm in the sky, he lifted his hand.

‘I have been suppressing this energy speck from combusting for long enough… Now, to destroy this chasm.’

His golden eye blazed like a sun as a sudden blast of great power escaped from the clouds seething above. The chasm that was beginning to take full form shuddered, then in a disconcerting pop, a finite speck of gold fell from the heavens.

It resembled that of a fallen star, but as it grew closer and closer to Su Min, an unbridled tremor rammed the atmosphere and the clouds away from the area.

*GRASP*

Su Min, not caring the least, grabbed the speck as it fluttered down before him.

“I can’t use any techniques to control this speck, so a simple punch is all I can muster… Even then, I may be pushing it.”

A dark light sparked on Su Min’s chest as that single symbol riggled with strain. A searing pain thus insued, warning him that if he were to go too far, consequences beyond redemption would be certain.

“Yes… I am already a crippled man…”

Su Min grumbled as he took a simple punching stance toward the sky.

*CRACKLE*

The chasm, finally breathing life, exuded a disturbing atmosphere as those two eyes shrouded in a flame flickered.

“I have to destroy it before it summons any energy, otherwise it is a simple game of who has the most… And I’m pretty sure that whatever is contained within it is a lot more than this speck I stole…”

Determination sprung. So, with a clenched fist and a single mighty speck, Su Min bit his lips and drew his arm back! That strange red haze around him trembled, and in a stupifying view, Su Min’s height grew!

Visible muscle tissue grew on his body, seething in red!

A set of torn clothes scattered into dust!

*RUMMMBLLEEEE*

The entire world shook!

“Ancient Energy, Heed my command!”

His legs crackled and his abs wriggled, where he soon took the ample disposition of a red giant! His nude body was that of a brutal stature, and each muscle vibrant and destructive!

A head that clouded over anyone; a fist the size of a boulder ball! His feet brought two craters from the sheer weight, and his eyes although more dilute, sprung with a deadly light!

“Blast!”

A simple movement of his shot a dense array of shockwaves, and with a swivel and a tumble, he propelled his mighty fist right towards the sky!

*GAHHH!!!”

The world cried out a desolate chime, but Su Min didn’t even hear such a gruesome screech and hurdled his fist right into the chasm!

His stature was large enough to directly punch the sky!

*SHIIIIINGGGGG*

*…*

*POOWWWWW*

A tremor beyond description erupted out of Su Min’s fist as it collided with the pitch black chasm!

*PSSST*

The entire world suddenly got revoked of colour as a blackness beyond any darkness invaded! Yet, within this nothingness known as night, a twilight from a speck replaced all colour!

It glowed a sun-like light, invoking awe as if it were the sun!

*CRACK*

Nevertheless, that sun soon withstood a strenuous crack as a burst of even more remarkable daylight blasted outward!

*CRACK CRACK….*

It grew brighter and brighter, more dazzling!

“A sun in a speck, the second energy, BLAST THIS CHASM!!”

A hoarse voice erupted out as a swift gigantic figure slapped that cracking speck!

*BANGGGG*

*…CRACK*