Desert of Desolation (3)

Leon walked under the moon light. The slaughter qi and the energy from the rune was continuously flowing through his body.

"I told mother that I wouldn't come back today so it should be fine. But it's a matter of If I can make it by tomorrow or not.

"Because of this rune my bodies stabilising. My soul space finally has elemental energy in it. I should be able to cultivate arts and higher now."

Leon then felt a little regretful. In his past life he knew many arts around the age of 400. He knew thousands if not tens of thousands. But it was then because of a special arts and technique he had gotten. It attracted attention of many clans. With his murderous personality and image as a criminal he was perfect for the picking.

Many clans had targeted him and trapped him. They had then used an art to steal most of his memories of the arts he knew. Luckily he had been prepared and sealed away all the useful arts behind runes.

It was then when his slaughter qi had completely formed. He had then killed everyone in the research center. Learned as much as he could then left.

He had learned many interesting things from their but he hadn't recovered the memory of the arts.

At the moment he only knew two arts- and . He had cultivated these two arts from then too the day he died.

But what the Clans wanted was his Soul Book design. These were techniques that helped cultivate the soul book. They were the basis of the soul book and dictated the amount of beasts a summoner would be able to contract. It also had additional effects gained when cultivated to certain levels.

So a good soul technique was something all clans were looking out for. At the moment a soul book was the highest known soul book design. It allowed the summoner to contract 7 beasts. It was called the . Leon knew that it was at the holy continent. He had known it but the memory for it was stolen.

But the book Leon had found was a Soul Book. Allowing him to contract 9 beasts. It was something all clans wanted. It was called . A truly heaven defying design. It was what he had cultivated and could be called his life and blood as to why he became such a strong cultivator.

Other then these he knew 2 soul techniques. These were techniques that used the soul to perform abilities. He had learned them both from the research center's library.

They were and . The former was a special way to contract beasts while the latter was the technique he had used earlier in the fight in the cave. It gave a boost in strength for a limited time.

These were all the techniques and arts Leon knew. At the moment he couldn't cultivate any of them.

Leon had walked a long way. Using his slaughter qi, he had been able to walk around all the beasts in his way. He still hadn't reached but he finally saw something he could recognise. It was a weirdly shaped rock. It was like a tall rock arch.

"I'll rest here for the night." Leon thought. He reached the rock. He then used his slaughter qi to climb up and sit on top of the arch. The wind was stronger but and it was less hotter since he don't have to feel the scorching ground.

On the arch he could see further now. In the distance he saw two silhouettes, one large on the ground the other small and in the sky. As his slaughter qi filled eyes focused he was ably to clearly see them.

One, a hundred meter long yellow centipede, the other a small purple flaming horse.

The flaming horse stood high in the air looking down on the centipede.

"Those wild beast are at least . They wouldn't bother about a human who hasn't even cultivated." Leon thought he sat down and got ready to watch a fight.

"That horse is a while the centipede is an . Both quite strong beast..."

Leon felt the energy flux and slaughter qi covered his body.

The raised its front hooves up and neighed. The sound wave pulsed out like a wave of wind.

The wave traveled all the way to Leon who was dozens of kilometres away.

"I remember there was an earthquake this time around in the town I didn't know what the cause was."

The horse had balls of purple flame, hundreds of meters in diameter, formed each moving at incredible speeds aiming for the Centipede. The Centipede screeched then dug into the ground.

Leon could feel the vibrations in the earth of the centipede digging as fast as it could. He also gripped the rock with his hands made sure he was ready for the shockwave.

A bright white light came out from behind it. It lit up the night and the desert.

BOOOMM!

The sound rang out like thunder.

The color changed to purple and eventually only dust remained in the air.

The wind pressure pushed on Leon pulling his hair back as he sat stuck to the rock. It finally passed and he let go.

In front of him was a colossal crater, of fire, ash and smoke.

He laid down and closed his eyes. He covered himself with slaughter qi and slept. But he was sure that he would wake up to the slightest change in the immediate surroundings.

He had lived most of his life on the run so something like this was normal to him. It was actually more comfortable to him.

...

At the same time Andrew and Tania were closer to the explosion.

"Why are the two Lord's of the desert fighting?"

Andrew summoned his beasts. The white tiger appeared. With it a red wolf was summoned.

Tania also summoned her beasts. She summoned two a Flaming fairy like beast and a Bird on fire. All four beasts formed a shield to protect them from the explosion.

The two held each other and grit their teeth.

BOOOMM!

The shock wave passed them and they held their ground under the white light. Their shadows long as they expanded.

The tiger had formed a dome of lightning around everyone. While the three fire beasts formed a combined wall of fire to protect everyone.

Soon the explosion ended. The beasts were tired so they unsummoned them to rest in his soul book.

"Did something happen? First that weird kid and now this. What's next?"

A beam of red light broke out from the ground and rose to the sky.

"What's that?" Andrew thought.

...

Leon who was happily sleeping woke up. He looked at the beam and got up. The fire energy in the area was going crazy.

"Why would this appear here and now? F###! I just wanted simple sleep." Leon jumped off the arch and started running towards the beam.

"This shouldn't have been found now, but since it has already been found i need to get it." Leon ran as fast as he could.

The object in question was something a traveler had found in his past life. It was an amazing material for helping fire beasts to grow. In a city of mainly fire Summoners this object was much sought out and sold for a ton of gold.

What Leon needed now was resources so he needed money. This was perfect for him.

As Leon ran from behind him a few beasts overcame him in speed and zoomed to the red light beam.

Beasts could also sense the immense energy in the object and were running after it as well. If they could get it they would grow stronger as well.

As for the two Lord beasts the and the didn't bother with such an object. It wouldn't help them so they had long since left.

From around the crater from all sides many beasts ran in and tried to get the object.

...

Andrew and Tania also could feel the strong energy so also moved to the crater. As they reached they saw waves of beasts running into the crater going after a shiny Gem.

"A ! It could evolve my !" Andrew said.

"It'll be hard to get, with so many beasts." Tania said as she started summoning beasts.

Andrew nodded. With the beasts summoned the beasts in the surrounding felt the will to fight of the summoned beasts and attacked.

...

As for Leon he continued to run. No beast bothered to attack him, maybe it was because of how weak he was, how he didn't show a Will to fight and they didn't want to waste time when the Gem was so close.

Just as Leon reached the edge of the crater the sky rumbled and a yellow beast appeared. It was a enormous floating beast. It had tentacles coming out from its body like a floating octopus.

Leon was sure it was the beast that had killed the centipede earlier.

The octopus like beast sent it's tentacles in and took the Gem from the beast that had gotten it. Many beasts didn't dare to fight it and retreated while a few attacked.

Leon didn't care he saw a large scorpion in the crater. He used his slaughter qi to empower his body as well as the .

He jumped onto the Scorpios tail. The scorpion reflexively threw him off. Leon used this momentum to reach higher into the sky. He landed on a that had dived lower and used it as a step to jump even higher.

He jumped onto a the back of a centipede similar to the one he had seen on the cavern it was fighting the octopus beast in the sky.

He used it as a ladder and ran up its body then launched him self off.

...

Andrew and Tania fought in the ocean of beasts. Andrew looked to the side he saw Leon running off the centipede towards the .

He rubbed his eyes and had his jaw drop, "What is that kid doing?!"

...

Leon went through that tentacles, he used one as support and launched himself at the face which had the Gem held in front of it with two tentacles.

Leon landed on its head. The sent to tentacles towards Leon. To it Leon was just a fly, it didn't take him like a serious opponent. It has been busy fighting the other beasts.

Leon struck his hand at the face it struck. and slaughter qi shot in and stopped it for a second.

To Leon that second was enough. He jumped back and cut the two tentacles holding the Gem. He grabbed the Gem as he started falling.

He then stepped on an Eagle charging at him and launched himself towards the direction of the town.

"Ha ha your grandfather here has been stealing for 500 years none of you can get me." Leon started enjoying the thrill.

Leon made landed on the desert. Seeing the beasts surround him. He didn't threw the Gem as far as he could and ran. It was hard to see but the Gem had a thin wire like string attached.

Leon laughed as the beasts changed target while he ran.

As he ran one of the beast attacked him. He gave a round house kick past the beasts neck. The slaughter qi had grown out and formed a blade and cut the beasts head off. He then contained continued to run through the chaos. His slaughter qi started growing in the chaos.

Leon just kept running against the current of beasts and killed any in his way. Finally he was free from the crowd and fighting, the had gotten the Gem again.

Leon pulled at the strong and Gem returned to him. He grabbed it and continued to run with activated.

The beasts turned to see Leon running. Their target changed.

Leon could finally see that town in the distance. He wanted to run to it for safety. He didn't want the barrier to protect him. That just stopped the weather. The main thing he wanted was the thing underneath the city.

The area around the city had less beasts not because of the town but because what was under it. It was known to be less dangerous but if the beast underneath it was counted it was easily the most dangerous place in the whole desert of desolation. This beast was currently sleeping. It had marked its domain so beasts above a certain level of strength wouldn't dare to travel in.

Leon wanted to use this intimidation for his benefit.

The beasts had caught up. Leon threw the Gem away again and the simple minded beasts changed direction. Leon used this chance to to get even more ahead.

Leon pulled the Gem back and continued the process until he was finally close. The beasts stopped like droves as if they had something blocking them from moving forward.

Leon didn't bother and continued to run. The beasts still launched ranged attacks which Leon dodged as he ran.

Finally, Leon ran into the town barrier and fell to the ground. He sat up next to the wall and started to heavily breath. He looked at the Gem in his hand and was satisfied.

As for the town no one had noticed a thing other then the clan head. He saw a person sitting on a beast fly out from the city.

...

The clan head furrowed his brow as he saw he the wall of beasts slowly retreating. He then saw Andrew and Tania running out from the beasts towards the clan.

He flew to them and turned as he sat in his Bird beast while they rode their own beasts.

"What happened?! Why did so many beasts chase until here?"

"A was reveled from the fight of two Lord beasts. It caused all the low and mid tier beasts to chase after it."

The clan head nodded and was then surprised, "You two got the Gem! How did you get it?!" he had seen some terrifyingly strong beasts like the , he knew how strong Andrew and Tania were, he wouldn't be able to deal with such beasts much less them.

"We didn't get it." Andrew said.

"If you didn't get it then why did the beasts chase so far in?"

Andrew looked at Tania for solace he didn't know how to explain what he saw. Seeing that Tania said that he should tell him he nodded.

"There was this kid, it used beasts as steps, stunned the and stole it from the beasts hand. He then continued to run into town while throwing it away and then having the Gem return to his hand like it was pulled by some type of psychic force."

"How old was this kid?" The clan head asked.

"Umm... he looked around 10 years old. He was quiet small."

Tania also nodded.

The clan head had his jaw drop.