The Kheliphods [C13]

In a forest could be seen 10 armored beast-men with a beast-child walking toward the direction of the City of Arsia.

"So are you telling me that Arsia is at 3 days from here? It's pretty far it seems!" This voice was from Shu Himo, who now was walking for 8 hours together the Shu Family elite troop.

"Yes, this area is full of monsters from rank 1 to 3 so, please don't get too far from us." Fearing that the young master that looked everywhere with sparkling eyes would vanish the moment they looked away Hains felt the need to remind him.

Feeling treated like a child, Shu Himo felt the need to prove himself to change the attitude of the others toward him.

[Isn't User a child?]

Ignoring as always the sarcastic remarks from the system Shu Himo got reminded of when he got cheated as he was choosing the supposed plot in the dark dimension. But he immediately felt lucky thanks to what happened the next moment that made him forget his previous bothering though.

In fact, suddenly, twenty brown spiderlike monsters bigger than a big-sized dog walked in front of them, ready for a fight.

"It seems we just entered the territory of the Kheliphods." Hains said, but his voice did not express any anxiety. The Kheliphods in front of them were all rank 2 monsters, so they posed no threat at all to this troop.

The rank 1 monsters are at the same level of cultivators from Muscle Strengthening phase to Blood Strengthening phase, rank 2 monsters are at the same level of Meridians Strengthening phase to Acupoint Opening phase, rank 3 and higher are at least as strong as Dantian Core Forming realm cultivators.

The elites were all ready to exterminate the Kheliphods when they heard a phrase from their young master that shocked them. "Since you don't believe that I killed those three weaklings leave one of those spiders for me, I will kill it by myself." Knowing that this troop of elite seems to respect him on the surface only due to his father, Shu Himo decided to show them a part of his strength.

Hearing him, Hains was immediately against it: "Young Master, with all the respect you now are in the Muscle Strengthening phase, there is no way you can kill a rank 2 monster by yourself!" The captain just said what was going through the head of every person there, but Shu Himo did not pay heed to his words and using the sword that he stole from the nameless kidnapping leader, started walking towards the last surviving monster.

Since he was so stubborn about it, Hains decided to let him be, maybe he would calm down after some pain, but signaled to the others to be ready to help Shu Himo at any notice that he may die.

The Kheliphod was startled that all his team got killed almost instantly by the humans, about to give up in his life he saw a young child coming towards him, an extremely young child merely at Muscle Strengthening phase. He felt insulted! It was fine if those monsters at Dantian Core Formation realm killed him, but how could he let such a child win? It would be his biggest shame!

Seeing that the Kheliphod was getting angry due to his walk Shu Himo while ignoring that the monster was as big as himself he then smirked and readied himself for the fight.

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A couple of days ago, during the training with the old man Dark King Dragon.

"Hear me right now Little Himo! You are way too fixated with the image of jumping in mid-air! Consider more possible ways to use the Hopper skill! For example, you can recreate it on the ground and..." *Fiuuuu* "Dash tens of kilometers in a single instant!" While looking back toward Shu Himo he then added: "Well, obviously to use this speed you need to reach a high level of the skill with high cultivation level, but you always must remember many possible applications of the propulsion mode of the skill!"

Hearing him, Shu Himo immediately decided to try, he first formed a poorly made version of the hopper skill in the ground and then... *fiuu* dashed half a meter and then lost control hitting his head in the ground. 'It's so hard!' Exclaiming in his mind, he then heard a certain phrase from the old man that now he was used to hear.

"Awful! More 500 repetitions! Until you get it right!"

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Back at the fight against the Kheliphod.

Shu Himo using [Hopper] while in the ground, he used the propelling function, creating a little trick where it seemed like he was dashing: the result was perfect; Both the men and the spider were startled by his speed even if it wasn't remotely comparable to the one of the Dark King Dragon.

Once close enough to the Kheliphod Shu Himo immediately slashed toward it, cutting instantly one leg and making it scream in pain.

*Skeee*

Abusing the panic from the spider, he looked coldly towards it and with [Intimidation], he instantly made the Kheliphod shiver, who forgot to counterattack and jumped backward to escape. Or at least that's what he tried. Shu Himo noticing the Kheliphod's legs moving to escape instantly used again [Hopper] and dashed again toward the now in mid-air Kheliphod, slashing toward his abdomen, creating a cut multiple centimeters profound.

Now not only the Kheliphod but even the elite troop felt shivers for having underestimated Shu Himo.

Now sure that he would die if it did not escape immediately the Kheliphod suddenly turned around ready to flee, but how could Shu Himo permit it? Using again [Hopper] he dashed one last time toward where the Kheliphod was jumping and cut completely the monster in half with a slash from the sword.

Extremely impressed and surprised, the brains of the elite troops went again in a tilt. Waiting that their brain.exe started work again, Shu Himo restarted walk toward the City of Arsia, the troops then noticed him starting to walk again so they all followed suit. Unlike before, while it wasn't enough to make them look in awe, they now looked at him with true respect reflected in their eyes.