Chapter 8: Chapter 8: First Battle
In a dilapidated village, there was barely any house still standing. Tall grass and rubble everywhere.
Four people were sitting on an old moldy chair inside a barely standing house. The four of them had unhealthy complexions, wearing tattered black robes on top of rags.
"Brother, how long do we need to stay in this dump?"
Luo Tao complained. They had hidden in this abandoned village for over a month, and they had enough of it.
"Next week, we will move. Karl already investigates the way, 1 kilometer to the west, there is a small village. We will have a feast then."
Zhang Han smiled hideously. When he said feast, he didn't mean human food but human as the food. The three were also excited, they hadn't tasted human flesh for a month.
"Hahaha, I finally can eat my fill! I call dibs on the babies!"
"Then I'll call dibs on the beautiful women!"
"I don't care as long as I can drink blood."
Unknown to them, their conversations were spied on by a small drone. As for where the drone came from, Vaiss created it as a toy and dumped it inside his space ring after he was bored.
Connected to the drone, Vaiss and the others heard what they said. They were angry, such things could no longer be called humans, just pests. Vaiss took back the drone and stood up.
"Vaiss, are you ready?"
Senet was still a bit worried, this was his real battle and the opponents were evil spirit masters.
"Senet, don't worry. Just watch as I kill these pests."
In his heart, Vaiss still had some apprehension about killing humans. But after knowing what these evil spirit masters had done to cultivate, he felt that they were not worthy to be treated as people and that any mercy and pity on them was an insult to their victims.
"Martial soul possessed!"
Turning to Ultraman Vaiss, he flew to the sky. Floating 100 meters on top of the house where the evil spirit masters were, Vaiss summoned all the weapons inside Myriad Aegis. A hundred golden weapons of all types hovered behind Vaiss, this was the current limit of Myriad Aegis.
Unlike before, the current golden weapon had some red lines on its body. There was incredible heat sealed inside the weapons, it could only be felt by touching the weapons. This was the effect of the lv1 [Blazing Sun Heart], Vaiss could control the heat of the energy freely.
Vaiss waved his hand and all the weapons shot at the old house. Zhang Han was the first to notice, his instinct was blaring with warnings.
"Run! martial soul possessed!"
Instantly finishing his possession, Zhang Han ran out of the house. The others also possessed or called their martial souls and ran out of the house.
Unfortunately for Luo Tao, the floor on his side was brittle and caused him to trip for a second, and this cost him his life.
The weapons demolished the house and Luo Tao used his martial soul, Blackrock Broadsword, to hit the weapons aimed at him.
"Fifth Soul skill, Rock Breaking Slash!"
He felt a great threat, unable to think, he used all his strength to hit the golden weapon. The moment his martial soul touched the golden weapon, he felt the heat.
He felt his martial soul melt a little and then nothing. He managed to hit one of the golden weapons but was impaled by the other golden weapons. He couldn't let out a scream as his body burned to ashes in an instant by the heat.
With the sound of steel beams hitting the ground, the old house was reduced to rubble and burning.
"What?!"
Zhang Han and the others were shocked by the sudden attack.
"Shit, is it the Spirit Hall? Those dogs have sharp noses."
Zhang Han cursed, his body was bigger and burlier, and his palms were twice as big. His arms were covered in blood-red fur with black stripes, tiger ears on top of his and his eyes changed to feline eyes. His martial soul was Blood Tiger.
Karl had his fingernails turned to talons and vulture wings came out from his back. Unlike Zhang Han, he didn't transform much. His martial soul was Nether Vulture.
Hans was holding a dim red pitchfork, there were many small holes in the tines. His martial soul was called Devil Pitchfork, he used this martial soul to drain the blood from his victims.
Vaiss dropped in front of the three evil spirit masters, the golden weapons were already recalled. Zhang Han and the others focused on Vaiss.
"Who the fuck are you?!"
"I'm here to kill you."
"Heh, since when did the Spirit Hall employ a midget like you?"
Zhang Han talked trash but his instinct was still blaring with warnings.
"I don't want to waste any more time with you pests, so just die."
Vaiss summoned the golden weapons and shot them at the three.
"Kill him!"
Zhang Han yelled and dodged the incoming golden weapons, he didn't dare to touch them. Karl rose to the sky and Hans was dodging while advancing.
"Third soul skill, Nether feathers!"
Karl flapped his wings and dark feathers shit out from his wings at Vaiss. It wasn't an attack soul skill, it didn't have any damage but if someone was hit by the feather, they would have their sense of sight and hearing sealed for 1 minute.
Karl used this soul skill to kill and torture people. Vaiss just wanted to solve these people fast, and frankly, he didn't want any of their attacks to touch him.
Vaiss held out his hand toward Karl and shot out a thick reddish-white beam at him. The dark feathers near the beam were burned, Karl immediately dodged but the beam was too fast.
"Aaaarghhh!"
His right arm disappeared from shoulder down, but there was no blood since the wound was burned to crips. Karl flew wobbly, Vaiss wanted to attack again but Hans already reached him.
"Fifth soul skill, Devil Skewer!"
The Devil Pitchfork in his hand spun crazily and thrust so fast it become a black shadow, but Vaiss was faster. The Myriad Aegis floated in front of the pitchfork.
Hans sneered at this, you think such a small and flimsy shield can take on my attack?, Hans already imagined the scene where he penetrated the small shield and skewered the midget behind it.
But his imagined scene didn't occur, with a loud screeching noise, the pitchfork hit the aegis but it was stopped, the aegis barely tremble. Hans looked at the undamaged aegis dumbfoundedly.
Hans couldn't believe it, he had even skewered a level 61 defense spirit master with this skill, how could he not destroy such a small aegis?
And Vaiss didn't let go of this moment of carelessness, Vaiss moved in front of him and caught his head. Before Hans could react, Vaiss electrocuted him with a million volts.
Hans's body was filled with dense thunder and twitched like a maggot but Vaiss didn't let go. After five seconds, Vaiss stopped. Hans's body was already blackened like coal.
Zhang Han and Karl watched in trepidation, such a method of killing was unheard of. Vaiss looked at them again, Zhang Han and Karl were terrified. Vaiss rushed to Karl, who just managed to stabilize himself in the air.
"Fi..fifth soul skill, Nether Dive!"
Under the threat of death, Karl chose to fight. His body was clad in black aura and nosedive, with his left-hand talons aimed at Vaiss.
Vaiss scoffed, he clad his hands in blazing sun energy in the form of claws. Karl left talon and Vaiss's right claw hit each other, but it only stalemates for 2 seconds before Vaiss's claw broke Karl's talon.
Karl was about to scream because of pain but Vaiss caught his head and dived down. With a loud bang, Vaiss slammed Karl down to the ground.
Karl's head cracked, leaking red blood and gray matter. Thanks to the energy coat, Vaiss's hand was not soiled. Vaiss looked disgusted and impaled Karl's corpse with five golden weapons, reducing it to ashes.
Vaiss then looked at Zhang Han.
"Wa..wait! I surrender! Don't kill me!"
Zhang Han kneeled, he was scared shitless by Vaiss. Now the idea of being captured was a lot better than dying. Vaiss sneered.
"Heh, did you ever spare the people you attack? Why should I spare you?"
Vaiss walked slowly to him. Knowing it was useless to surrender, Zhang Han gritted his teeth, he stood up and growled.
"Don't get cocky, midget! I'll tear you limb from limb! Third soul skill, Blood Tiger Transformation! Fifth soul skill, Burning Blood!"
His already big body became bigger and there was blood vapor coming from his body, his eyes became red.
"Hahahaha! I'll kill you!"
Zhang Han became manic and rushed toward Vaiss. Of the two buff soul skills, the fifth soul skill reduced his sanity in exchange for power and pain nullification.
"Fourth soul skill, Blood Tiger Rend!"
Zhang Han's claws glowed red, he waved his claw but the aegis already floated in front of him, taking the claw undamaged. But it didn't matter to the manic Zhang Han, he waved claw after claw.
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll eat you like the rest of them!"
Vaiss frowned, he called the golden weapons and attacked Zhang Han. Zhang Han stopped and jumped back, he took a deep breath.
"Sixth soul skill, Blood Tiger Roar!"
A loud tiger roar rang and a strong repulsion force came with it, the golden weapons were repelled and broken. Although manic, Zhang Han seemed to recognize the danger of the golden weapons. Zhang Han rushed toward Vaiss again.
"Fourth soul skill, Blood Tiger Rend!"
"Then, try this."
Vaiss clad himself in thunder and met Zhang Han head-on. Unlike before, Zhang Han didn't dodge. He didn't realize how foolish his action was.
Zhang Han's palm and Vaiss's fist met, it was stronger than Karl and the two were in a stalemate. Zhang Han put all his strength into this palm but Vaiss easily took it, this was the horror of [Tyrant Body] lv1.
"I'll kill you!"
"Noisy, just die."
Zhang Han was about to change to his other hand when Vaiss exploded his whole strength, Zhang Han's hand was crushed and the small fist hit his body. His back bulged instantly and burst, throwing pieces of intestines, skeleton shards, and blood everywhere.
"Y..you..monster…"
Zhang Han coughed blood and fell to the ground with a large hole in his torso.
"You don't have the right to call me a monster."
Vaiss looked cold and burned Zhang Han's body just like Karls.
Senet and the others were gobsmacked by what they saw. Such power and means were never shown in their sparring, and the decisive way of fighting. It was hard to believe it all came from a seven-year-old boy.
Senet and the others assumed that Vaiss was originally this strong but held back when they trained, to not hurt them. After all, the purpose of the sparring was to let Vaiss accumulate battle experience and learned how to control and use his power.
"This… Why did the young master never show his power when we were sparring?"
Xian Yan and Xian San were confused while the others looked at them like an idiot.
"You imagine, if the young master fights us with all his power, what will happen?"
Senet asked the two brothers and their faces paled after imagining, it would end up with them seriously injured.
"Now you know."
Senet nodded. Suddenly Mira ran out.
"Young master!"
The others looked at Vaiss, who dropped to the ground while vomiting. Senet and the others ran toward Vaiss.
"Young master, are you okay?"
Mira healed Vaiss first before handing her handkerchief and rubbing his back. Senet and the others were worried and let the experienced Mira take care of Vaiss.
"I...I'm fine, just a little uncomfortable."
Vaiss said before vomiting again. When he was fighting, Vaiss hold back his disgust and fear each time he killed, the adrenaline rush helped him quite a bit. Now the fight was over, he could no longer hold back. His face was pale and his body trembling.
No matter how he convinced himself that the evil spirit masters were just pests, that they were no longer human. Vaiss still felt uncomfortable after he killed them.
"Third soul skill, Warm Wind."
Mira felt distressed looking at pale Vaiss, let Vaiss sit up and leaned on her chest, the warm wind swept at Vaiss, making him feel eased and sleepy. Because of mental strain, Vaiss quickly fell asleep.
"What to do now?"
Mira wiped Vaiss's face with a warm towel from her space ring. And carried him in her arm.
"Take picture of the scene and quickly go back to Spirit City."
Senet said and the others nodded. They took a picture of the scene with their soul tool and went on their way.
...…
In Spirit City, pope's residence.
In her room, Bibi Dong's heart ached when she saw the pale face of Vaiss. She wiped Vaiss face with a warm towel, tears in her eyes.
After hearing the report from Senet and the others, she regretted giving Vaiss the test, she admit she was hasty and was blinded by her expectation for Vaiss.
She saw how fast and brilliantly Vaiss grew this year, and her pride and expectation for Vaiss grew with it. She felt Vaiss could accomplish everything she expected of him, and he did.
But she felt only heartache now.
"I'm sorry, Vaiss. Mom was wrong."
"...Mhm."
Maybe because he heard Bibi Dong's voice, Vaiss slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the surroundings and knew he was in Bibi Dong's room.
"Mom."
"Vaiss! How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?"
"No, just feel a little nauseous."
"Good, good. Do you want water?"
"Um."
"Here you go."
After drinking the water, Vaiss felt a little better. Bibi Dong was relieved, seeing Vaiss's face regain some color. Then she felt more pained.
"Vaiss, I'm sorry. Mom was wrong to send you on that trial."
Bibi Dong's voice was choked up as she was on the verge of crying. Vaiss panicked when he saw tears in Bibi Dong's eyes.
"No, mom! It is not your fault! It is something that I will have to experience, I just experience it sooner. And look, I wasn't injured! I was just uncomfortable, that's all."
The more Vaiss tried to comfort Bibi Dong, the more distressed Bibi Dong felt for Vaiss. Also, she felt more grateful that her son was such a good boy. Bibi Dong wiped the tears from her red eyes and smiled.
"Okay, you're tired. Rest for now, mom is going to cook some food for you."
"Okay!"
Vaiss eyes shined and shed tears from his mouth, Bibi Dong's cooking was not as tasty as his but it was delicious. And besides, a beautiful woman was cooking for you, what else do you want?
Vaiss lay down and thought about what happened. The four evil spirit masters may be weak for him but for others, they were stronger than the normal Spirit King and Spirit Emperor.
He couldn't imagine what it was like for the douluo 2 world where this kind of pest was everywhere.
Back then he didn't care what the reason for their fall to evil spirit masters but he remembered that except for Zhang Han and Karl that was a psychopath from the start, most became evil spirit master because of being bullied by noble or poor.
Vaiss felt that he was thinking too easily, even if the Spirit Empire were created and Tang San was killed, it was not enough. He needed to create a world where everyone could eat and be clothed well, only that way could evi spirit masters number be suppressed to the minimum.
As for eradicating evil spirit masters, it was impossible unless he purged human beings of their desire and will.
Vaiss decided to make a big move when he recovered, for now, he wanted to enjoy being spoiled by Bibi Dong.
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