15 years later.
On the blue planet in the Milky Way that was once called Earth, life went on normal, sects bickered amongst themselves, people died, people ascended in realms and so on.
Everything changed when the Earthborn Organization announced the opening of an academy to train special people for an unspecified role. The rules were simple 'The weak get lost, the Strong ascend in glory'
Even as the news was shaking the whole planet, certain individuals didn't particularly care about the news causing turmoil, these individuals mainly being the members of the top sects and members of the Earthborn Organization.
In an unexplored forest in the middle of nowhere, there was a clearing which was seemingly empty, but if one with a high cultivation level were to examine it closely, they would notice a veil of sorts covering a large distance.
Inside the veil, there was a magnificent building and outside the building, there was an elderly man and a teenager having a spar, the man was throwing out a flurry of punches while giving pointers. "I've told you countless times to use your other senses while fighting, I might be sparring with you now, but if you were to be fighting someone with intentions to kill,.you'll be dead in a jiffy".
"Ryu, your lack of sight may stop you from seeing, but you have the advantage of having an enhanced Mekra sensory ability. Use it or you'll die"
Even as he said this, he raised his hand and teleported to Ryu's back and made a chopping motion at his neck, Ryu dodged it with a backhand strike at him and he made a roll away after blocking the strike.
"Let's get serious now" David said even as he materialized a sword out of mekra.
"Sword of Cleaving Unto Earth". With these words, a thin line flashed on the ground, Ryu made a hand seal and a translucent shield appeared around him, a line similar to the one on the ground appeared on the shield, suddenly the line vanished and the shield broke.
"Oh, you know how to block that now, quite the shocking perception you have there, but can you block this?. As he spoke, he sped towards Ryu while materializing a second sword in his other hand and coated them in fire.
"Swords of mine, fly" as he said these words, the swords started floating around him and suddenly, the swords shot at Ryu while he was also following behind them.
At this, Ryu grimaced and materialized a sword, he parried the two flaming swords with elegant strikes and as he whirred around to face David, suddenly there was a big explosion from the house. They both froze and turned, almost immediately they ran towards the house.
Suddenly, David's wife ran out of the house with a panicked expression, David ran to get and held her while casting a healing spell. "Helen, What happened in there, is it the wishing stone" he asked
"Yes, it broke out, the inscriptions have finally run out of steam, we have to get out of here before it's too late" she said amidst gasps.
As she was speaking, the rock that was previously kept in the bottle came out of the house and almost immediately the veil surrounding the house was torn into pieces.
"I'm afraid it's too late, he's here" said David with a frown on his face. Even as he was talking, a large hole appeared in the sky and about 20 figures came out of the hole.
A few moments ago, at the Burning Lights Sect around the same time the explosion occured, the Sect Master who was meditating on the altar beneath the sect suddenly opened his eyes which had a strange light in them and on his back were now 3 black holes.
He stood up abruptly and said to the seemingly empty space "I can sense it once more, the stone is mine for the taking again you've lost, Father". He teleported to the main sect whilst sending mental transmissions to the Sect Elders asking them to join him at once.
As they teleported next to him, he made a tearing motion at the empty air and at once, space was ripped, he entered into the resulting hole and the elders followed him.
Back to the present, the Sect Master and the elders came out of the hole which closed in on itself afterwards and the Sect Master scanned the area and he looked down on his father and scoffed.
"Even after all your so called subterfuge, this day eventually came, now I shall claim your life and the stone" he said while chuckling. His eyes noticed the boy next to his father and his face contorted in surprise as he spoke again
"You even have one of my abandoned spawns with, just the last one I needed, it feels like the heavens made today for me".
At these words, David and Helen looked at Ryu in surprise, for they were surprised that the baby they saved in a whim was their own grandchild. Ryu also looked at them with surprise.
"I hate to cut this reunion of sorts short, but I have work to do here". Suddenly, Ryu vanished and appeared in The Sect Master's grasp, he was opening his mouth to speak when he got punched in the stomach, a blade appeared in the Sect Master's hand and he cut open Ryu's right hand and collected his blood in a container he brought out while he cut Ryu.
He looked at his parents while saying to the elders "Kill them". A barrage of spells were fired at the couple who attempted to retaliate but they were overpowered, as the elders were about to kill them, the Sect Master suddenly said " Wait, I'll do it myself, I haven't seen total despair in a while". He dropped Ryu's body which was more of a husk to the ground and approached his parents with a gentle smile on his face
At this, David looked at him with an horrible and expression and spoke in words dripping with hate.
To be continued in the next chapter