After another two days of straight walking, Xzaivier had killed about 50 Darkclaw using his spear blade before finally arriving at the forest village. He sheathes the spear blade before stopping by the forest village's local diner and grabbing himself a meal and some banana bread. After his meal he heads to the local Sword Saint village checkpoint (every village has a local Sword Saint checkpoint, this is because sword saints travel a lot so these checkpoints exist so they can get treated of any injuries, get some supplies, rest... Etc, before continuing their travels.)
Xzaivier heads to the reception.
Receptionist: licence please.
Xzaivier pulls out his F rank sword saint licence and hands it to the receptionist.
Receptionist: Thank you, how are you staying?
Xzaivier: One night.
The receptionist stamps a permission to stay slip before handing it to Xzaivier along with his licence and room key.
Receptionist: Please enjoy your stay Mr Ryunosuke, the med-bay's just to your right, Cafeteria's to your left and your room is upstairs and then the last room to the left. Oh and the uniform station is on the third floor.
Xzaivier: Thanks.
Xzaivier immediately heads to the med-bay to get his numerous amounts of wounds treated. After a bit of time the healer managed to clean out the wounds and use the Kanji for healing to instantly close up all of Xzaivier's wounds. Now as good as new Xzaivier heads to the uniform station where he has new uniform and a new Haori tailored for him. He waits a few hours for his new uniform and collects it when it's ready. He heads to his room and goes to sleep.
[21:48 o'clock, in Xzaivier's dream]
In Xzaivier's dream, he's in the Hollowlands after going through all of Gimori's forces with the flame blade and the spear blade facing both Zephyr who has the Wind, Shadow and Hydro blade as well as Gimori who's sitting on his throne, his black and purple armour brimming with darkness. Gimori has long hair that goes all the way down to his waist, a large bundle of hair that covers Gimori's left eye, (he hides the Aku no eye behind his large bundle of hair) and his skin is pale. He wears a black chest piece with purple patterns on it, purple Pauldrons with black edges, black sleeves that cover his arms, black bracers with purple patterns on it, black gloves, black pants, long black knee high boots with purple patterns and finally a purple belt that holds up his black waist cloak with purple patterns on it.
In front of them are Amai and Katherine, Xzaivier's mom on their knees, hands tied, mouths taped and scars from their severe beatings.
Gimori: I don't usually enjoy sacrificing women, which is why I'm willing to give you them a lifeline... If you can beat Zephyr in a fight to the death I might let them go... Depending on my satisfaction with your fight against Zephyr.
Xzaivier: What do you think I am, some type of shit for brains? Huh? I know even if I do kill Zephyr you'll kill both of them without hesitation.
Gimori: You know me all too well Xzaivier... Almost as much as your father did.
Xzaivier: keep my father's name out of your retched mouth, YOU PIECE OF TRASH!
Gimori: Or what? You'll kill me? I'd like to see you try.
Xzaivier scowls and throws the spear blade at Gimori, it lands Infront of Gimori and Xzaivier appears in front of Gimori (This is the spear step, wherever the user throws the spear blade, the user will teleport to where it lands) before putting the flame blade against Gimori's neck.
Xzaivier: You took the words right out of my mouth. Bastard.
Gimori crosses his arms and legs before smirking.
Gimori: Do it.
Xzaivier clenches his teeth as he raises his blade for a deadly strike.
Xzaivier: DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Gimori unsheathes his Demon Blade before switching his grip to reverse grip and stabbing Xzaivier in the stomach, all within the span of a millisecond.
Gimori: You are nothing but a child, I've been killing, terrorising, destroying, enslaving and raiding for all 374 of my years.
Gimori removes his blade from Xzaivier's stomach and then he uses his Aku no eye to telekinetically push (Gimori's Aku no eye grants him and all other Aku no eye users telekinesis) Xzaivier off of the platform his throne is placed on (Gimori's throne is platformed atop 3000 stairs) before grabbing the spear blade in front of him and throwing it at Xzaivier. Xzaivier's eyes widen as the spear blade makes it's way towards him.
[3:25 o'clock, Sword Saint checkpoint]
Xzaivier: AAAGH!
Xzaivier shouts as he jumps up from his bed.
Huff. Huff. Huff.
Xzaivier gets out of bed in the middle of the night, his fists balled up.
Xzaivier: Sleep is a luxury I simply can't afford while there's enemies like Gimori lurking around and people like Amai and my mother to save.
Xzaivier gets in the bathroom, showers, dresses into his uniform, grabs his katana and spear blade before exiting the sword saint checkpoint and seeing a band of cultists, Aku no eyes activated and weapons drawn.
Xzaivier: A village raid? Of course. Unlucky for them I'm here.
Xzaivier approaches them.
Cultist commander: Out of our way sword saint! We wouldn't want to hurt you.
Xzaivier: Leave this village, I wouldn't wanna kill you all.
Cultist commander: Don't make me laugh, 1 measly sword saint couldn't possibly hope to fight against let alone kill 250 cultists all with weapons and Aku no eyes.
Xzaivier: Welp, I tried playing nice.
Xzaivier unsheathes the spear blade before throwing it at the cultist commander in it's spear form and teleports to the cultist commander before taking the spear blade out of the commander.
Random Cultist: He just killed Melon! Get him!
Xzaivier: Melon? Surely his parents could've done better.
Xzaivier kicks a random attacker away before backstepping another attacking cultist. He then drives the spear into the back of the same cultist that he back stepped before using the barrier Kanji to deflect another incoming attack. Xzaivier then throws the spear at two of the cultists before appearing in front of them and driving their faces into the dirt with his Jika Tabi boots. A bystander begins to record the fight. Xzaivier dodges another attack by jumping into the air. He then front flips before drop kicking a random Cultist's face into the ground. He ducks as another cultist attempts to drop kick him before drilling the spear into the Cultist's heart before dragging him around in the dirt. Another random cultist charges at Xzaivier but stops and runs away when Xzaivier turns around and glares at him.
Xzaivier: Oh no no no no. There's no running away.
Xzaivier summons the chain Kanji on his right hand as a single chain sprouts from the ground and grabs the runaway's leg before raising him into the air and slamming him into the ground 26 times. All of the other cultists watch in horror before hundreds of other chains sprout from the ground before wrapping around all of the remaining cultists necks and suffocating them. Xzaivier looks at the bystander that was recording him before summoning a chain that grabs her camera and smashes it. Xzaivier then deactivates his chain Kanji as the spear blade returns to it's katana form before getting sheathed by Xzaivier. Xzaivier then walks away from the forest village, continuing his journey back home.