He didn't know how he got here, well actually yes, he simply mistook his aim when he used the wind leaper jump and now here he was, Surrounded by a dozen of armored men and a heavily beaten man on the ground while he was holding a grocery bags filled with food.
Mujin looked around as he scanned everyone of the armored men in silence while squinting his eyes so much that they almost looked closed.
He didn't want to be in trouble with all these men who were wearing metal and holding 7 feet long spears, so he did the most logical, following his brain, thing at the moment...he tried to play along the moment and get out from there.
"Oh Silly Meteor me...I should've learned how to fall properly...well, it was a luck that nobody got hurt, Guess I'll return home and train more to be a..."
"Stop right here you weirdo"
And Mujin of course failed.
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"Just, who are you exactly?" said Iovos as he approached Mujin.
"Me? None of special, just a guy passing by" Answered Mujin as he tried to sound as calm and friendly as he could.
"A Guy passing by while moving like a falling star? Pretty much suspicious if you ask me Pal"
"...You have a point"
"I always have a point, Kiddo...take him back as well, I want to see if he is a danger for the kingdom or not" Ordered Iovos as the guards Nodded and headed towards Mujin "I suggest you to not make any funny move Kiddo, As the chief of the Royal Guards, and one of the Generals of the Human Kingdom, I pretty much have carte blanche on what to do with strangers...if I find them suspicious I can do anything...even executing them on the place...so, Again, I suggest you to not make any funny move"
Mujin felt one of the guards place handcuffs around his wrists as he then sighed in defeat.
As he was just about to follow the lead of the Guards he turned towards another Guard who was pulling up Kaelen from the air.
Kaelen groaned in pain as he looked up at the guards with hate and anger.
"Wait a second...but you..." Said Mujin as he pushed the guard in front of Kaelen Aside "...Aren't you Kaelen?" Asked then Mujin as he looked down at the red-haired boy with a raised eyebrow.
The eyes of the guards who were holding Mujin instantly went wide as he, not only moved faster than they could see, making him look like he teleported, but he also managed to break off the handcuffs in the same instant.
"What the...?" Muttered one of the guards.
"How did he...?" Said another.
Iovos turned towards Mujin yet again as his eyes widened as well for a moment before turning back into a relaxed and evil tone.
His grin returned.
"Well well well...Looks like that after all the "Just a guy passing by" actually knew the most wanted man of the moment...wonderful" Iovos sheated his blade as the guards did the same with their spears "I guess I just got a new toy for me to have fun with" He said while he kept grinning.
Mujin however was still looking at Kaelen in silence.
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"I'm honestly surprised Mujin" Said Aja as she was looking down at a breathing heavily Mujin that was sitting on a cold rocky ground. "It has been 3 years yet you already managed to get this strong"
Mujin's eyes quickly widened "3 YEARS HAVE ALREADY PASSED?!"
"Indeed...why so startled tho? I can see that you made incredible progresses" Continued Aja.
"Yeah, but It's still not enough compared to what this world can hit me with...I'm extremely tense...and I'm scared I won't be able to be fully prepared for it when the 5 years will be over" Answered Mujin.
"Oh, don't worry about that...from what I see now...You are doing surprisingly amazing for a chicked head like you" Said Aja as she looked up at the mountain with a massive image of his little brother now sculpted in the whole side of it.
The lines of the whole image where all a group of imprints...Imprints of fists...Fists that Mujin threw at the rocky side of the mountain to break it and carve the whole image of Avos.
"How does it feel to carve your Soon-to-be husband in a whole mountain" Asked Aja with her smug smile of always.
"I'm never going to marry him since I'm not into males...how many more times do I have to tell you?" Aswered back Mujin with a comically annoyed glare at Aja.
"Keep being in denial for all you want, we both know that you actually like him" Laughed Aja.
"In your dreams maybe"
"Anyway...don't worry about the 2 years who remained...You will be given a sign when they will end" Continued Aja.
"A sign?" Asked Mujin.
"Yes...You will meet the Main character...Kaelen"
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Mujin grinned as he then stood up and cracked his shoulders.
"Now I remember...This scene in the novel was pretty much shitty...when I read it the first time I almost dropped the story...but now It's gonna be different...wanna know why?...because now I, The Coolest Motherfucker in this world, am here to kick I'm here to kick y'all's asses" he said looking towards Iovos and the guards.
"But first" He added before giving his grocery bag to Kaelen "Could you hold onto this for me? If I don't take them back home an annoying brat will bother me" He said.
Somewhere else Aja sneezed.
"That bastard is talking ill of me, I can feel it" She said.
Iovos laughed "Looks like the guy passing by just grew some backbone uh?...well, let's see if he is actually really someone who can dare to talk like that and not just a fo-" Iovos couldn't finish his phrase that his whole body was suddendly launched at immense speed mid-air.
His Body spinned and flew 24 feet back before he landed hard face first on the ground and rolled till he crushed with his back into a wall.
The guards quickly turned towards Iovos' direction as they staring at his body.
Iovos coughed and spat some blood on the ground, or so he thought as when he spat the blood he saw a tooth coming out as well.
The clear bruise of a fist was now swelling on Iovos' cheek as he looked up with pure fury.
"you...You...YOU DAMN MAGGOT!" barked out Iovos "TURN HIM INTO A FUCKING INVERSED PORCUPINE!".
The guards embraced their weapons as they lunged towards Mujin with the clear intent to impale him...in the same moment, Mujin's hands blurred as each guard felt their wrists touched and their weight disappeared before finding themselves flipped off the ground 3 meters mid-air to then crash back on the ground to their defeat.
Kaelen looked at the scene with shocked eyes, that guy just defeated the royal guards and a general in a few seconds.
Mujin simply clapped his hands as if to take the dust off them.
"Is this all you can do? pretty much disappointing...I trained 5 years you know? at least give me a real challenge"
Iovos slowly stood up as he placed a finger on one of his nostrils to make sure that he breathed out all the blood inside it before he gripped back his sword, this time more firmly, and got in a proper fighting stance.
"You know, I recognize the fact that I understimated you...But such thing shall not repeat itself" Said Iovos as his sword started to glow with an white light "Because next time I will deliver your death!"
"if you say so" Answered Mujin.
Iovos lunged forward at immense speed while growling with fury as he slashed upward.
Mujin dodged the attack as he saw the slash cleave a massive chasm on the ground that went from the abandoned village to many forest-blocks, whose trees were either destroyed or violently ripped off the ground like as if they were feeble plants.
Mujin stared at Iovos "hey, didn't your mother ever tell you that you should respect nature?"
"You...You keep joking as if all of this is nothing but a mere game...I'm sick done of your insolence you damn brat...I don't even care if I might destroy anything around me...as now I just want to see you DEAD!" Said Iovos with clenched teeth as he unleashed an extremely powerful and fast barrage of slashes towards Mujin.
The Slashes were so fast that they created after images, making it look like as if there were more than one sword slashing at Mujin, and yet, Mujin was dodging them all as if they weren't a really big deal.
Everything in the abandoned village was getting turned into debris or perfectly slashed pieces.
The Ground was getting turned upside down as if an immense amount of excavators were getting ran by people in a frenzied state.
The Guards themselves started to feel fear for their own lives.
One of them tried to speak to Iovos. "Sir! please, don't use all that power! You could kill the traitor and even some of us if you don't be more cautious!"
But Iovos didn't listen nor he cared as he kept slashing at Mujin with frenzied rage.
Kaelen was holding himself for dear life at the grocery bag as his hair and his clothes moved as if they had their own life for the wind caused by the continuous attacks.
Then, as now the abandoned village barely existed anymore, Iovos finally stopped slashing.
Some of the guards were wounded during the attacks, some had deep cuts on their bodies, others had almost their limbs severed, and indeed one of them lost a leg.
Kaelen luckily didn't got harmed during the whole attack.
But the real thing was, Mujin was standing unscathed in front of a shocked and furious Iovos.
"how?...HOW?!" Asked Iovos.
"Simple" answered Mujin "I was faster than your slashing, It isn't so hard to understand...but if that isn't enough" Mujin opened his hand in front of himself as the fragments of Iovos' blade fell from it on the ruined ground "I also did some little modifications to your sword" Said Mujin smiling calmly at Iovos.
Iovos looked down at his sword as he saw that now it only remained a small piece of the blade attached to the hilt.
"This sword...was made by a master blacksmith with a rare metal and it was consecrated by the main church of the kingdom...and you, lowly worm, DARE TO SHATTER IT!" Said Iovos while crushing the hilt with his grip "DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he roared as he lashed at Mujin with pure fury to then punch him straight in the face.
The Impact was so powerful that it created such strong shockwave that blew everything around them away...Debris, Guards and Kaelen flew some meters back as the ground under Mujin's feet cracked.
"Not bad" Said Mujin as he was unscattered and with Iovos' fist firmly planted into his cheek "But Now It's my turn" Said then Mujin charging his right fist.
Iovos' eyes widened.
"you...you...YOU DAMN MONSTER!".
Mujin punched Iovos to the ground with so much strength that the force of the impact made the solid ground act like a liquid before completely shatter it and blowing it up towards the sky.
Massive cracks appeared all around the once abandoned village's ground as the force of the impact who instead traveled across the air blew away the clouds above them.
Then, as the destruction finally calmed down Mujin retreated his fist back from Iovos' face as now Iovos was laying on the ground with a clear broken nose and with the clear imprint of the punch on the front of his face.
He wasn't dead, but for sure he wouldn't have caused more trouble.
Mujin turned toward the guards.
"Take him back to the kingdom and give him aid...and leave Kaelen alone"
The Guards, who couldn't do anything else, did as Mujin told them as they lifted Iovos and the other guard who lost a leg to then return to the kingdom.
Kaelen was looking at Mujin from afar.
He had so many questions right now.
But His head was spinning to much, and before he could even realize it, He blacked out.