The Poor Vase... [C123]

The day before. Late evening.

Four figures could be seen walking, advancing toward a door.

"Here is the first room, we only have one bed here… I'll show you another room next." Opening the door, the commander unraveled before the eyes of Shu Himo, Aura Azusa and Phylia a luxurious room full of decorations, however in the eyes of Shu Himo and Aura Azusa existed only one thing, located in the middle of the room: the bed.

Aura Azusa, seeing the bed only took the most reasonable choice, and started chanting, "Space Shift."

Completing the chant, she vanished for a moment and reappeared afterward on top of the bed, about to fall on it.

Shu Himo was startled, was she trying to take the bed? Immediately using a stacked [Hopper_x4], he vanished from the view of everyone and also appeared on top of the bed.

This startled Aura Azusa, was he planning to sleep here? Too tired to take another choice, she chanted, "Air Bomb."

In front of her, a small sphere of air quickly formed, and an instant later abruptly exploded, throwing far from the bed both Aura Azusa and Shu Himo,

*BOOM*

Crushing the walls, they both looked at each other and knew that it was not going to be easy to go to sleep.

Shu Himo quickly took out both the Essence Qi Clock and the Scythe, he was serious about this fight.

The commander seeing the scythe was shocked, a cursed weapon? But why does he have an Essence Qi Clock in his hand?

Seeing that Shu Himo held the Essence Qi Clock, how could Aura Azusa not know what he planned? Aiming her hand toward him, she quickly chanted, "Darkball."

Seeing the Darkball forming in front of her, Shu Himo did not move at all and calmly looked the Essence Qi Clock, discerning the flow of the Essence Qi in the room.

A moment later, Aura Azusa threw her ball toward Shu Himo, but frowned seeing that its speed was lower than usual, was this because she was tired?

Noticing a chance, Shu Himo quickly used a stacked [Hopper_x2], dashing toward the ceiling and used subsequently a stacked [Hopper_x4] on the ceiling, destroying it and rushing toward Aura Azusa.

"Space Shift."

*Boom!*

Crushing to the place where Aura Azusa was, Shu Himo noticed that she teleported again to the other side of the room and frowned, 'If I wasn't so tired I would've caught her!'

Meanwhile, the Darkball exploded in the corner of the room, making vanish in the nothingness everything in a radius of 1.5m from it.

Knowing that there was no other way to defeat him, Aura Azusa promptly chanted, "Solar Orb."

On her hands appeared a small ball of fire, which quickly became twenty centimeters in diameter. Throwing it toward Shu Himo, she then rushed toward the bed, wanting to take it for first.

But how could Shu Himo let her take the bed? Taking out 15 formation rods, Shu Himo waited for a single instant and then threw all the rods on the ground, based on the points he already checked before.

*Tud!* *Tud!* *Tud!*

With multiple sounds resounding from the rods being impaled in the ground, Shu Himo suddenly clapped his hands at the moment the Solar Orb entered in the formation.

The formation abruptly activated, trapping the Solar Orb within: it was an explosion seal formation!

Conceived to absorb an explosion from within, the explosion seal formation was the best way to prevent the explosion from the Solar Orb to destroy everything.

*BOOM!*

The Solar Orb, exploding, even if limited by the inverted shield formation, generated an earthquake, which abruptly woke up everyone in the city in shock. The commander was shivering in fright, wouldn't he be already dead if Shu Himo didn't stop the Solar Orb with the formation?

Using immediately a stacked [Hopper_x4], Shu Himo vanished from view and appeared in front of the bed, however, he noticed that Aura Azusa was on the other side of it.

With half-grim, half-sleepy looks they both knew that this fight would never end, the five years of training together proved that.

Suddenly, the voice of Phylia resounded in the area, "What about sleeping together?"

Not even having the strength left to think of giving her an answer, they collapsed on the bed and immediately fell asleep.

Laughing, Phylia closed the door and went on the bed, acting as a lap pillow for Shu Himo.

Outside of the room, the commander could not move a single finger, completely paralyzed in fright, with eyes staring straight, in the void.

The only thing that could enter his mind were thoughts about how they could wield such power, did they come from some strong organization? There was no way they could become this strong simply living in the Shu Kingdom. Yet, even with such thoughts, he dared not try anything to find out the truth.

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"...and that's all that happened." Having explained everything, he turned toward the guard only to see a furious look from her.

Her reaction dumbfounded him, usually, wouldn't someone be scared hearing such things?

Suddenly, he heard the guard muttering to herself in disbelief, "Damn… so the earthquake was their fault? A precious vase I bought time ago broke by falling on the ground due to the vibrations…"

Hearing her, the commander spurted blood, how was that the problem? Be a bit more serious!