Contract

From this revelation was it time for Fei Sun and Xiao Fan to be shocked, even Xiao Fan still stuck in the hole moved his head back from the surprise the Hag had told them 'Is she talking about raising this broken piece back into the higher world!' Xiao Fan had read the book, but he didn't believe that someone else knew of this, let alone knew a way to revert the change.

Meanwhile, as he thought Fei Sun acted ¨But that world isn't worth going back to!¨ On her mind was how the place she had visited for a brief moment with the aid of drugs was at a state that she didn't want to go there, no matter how much someone wanted or paid.

¨Then I'll kill him now!¨ The Hag was at the end of her rope, and so started making demands on how this should be handled. If she had the slightest chance to use Fei Sun to revert whatever had happened here back to normal, she would take it.

¨Don't¨ Fei Sun moved between the rising stick of the Hag and Xiao Fan, who was the target of that stick.

¨Then are you going to help me?¨ The Hag had wanted this to happen.

¨Of course, I will help, just leave him alive¨ Fei Sun didn't hesitate to continue her studies and to save her husband at the same time. In this, there was no problem for her.

¨Good¨ The Hag was pleased to hear this.

¨However, after that is done, you will not order me more. When that is done we are over¨ She would help, but she wouldn't stay with the Hag a second longer.

The Hag didn't care for this ¨At that point... Do you think that I can order you? Even the binds I'll perform on you hold to your part can't, at that point, restrain you. At that point, you might as we'll be my Master¨ The Hag seemed to only care for the operation of bringing this land back to the motherland she wanted to experience. Everything else was secondary to her.

¨Are you sure you want to do this? How long will this take?¨ On the ground, Xiao Fan didn't like the deal they were hatching too much.

Fei Sun turned to face him ¨There is no other choice, if I don't do this, you will die here¨

The Hag behind her nodded and added in ¨For the time? It will take a while, after all, we have to get her into the Qi Realm and everything to be ready. Fifty? A hundred? That is not for you to decide¨ Then as she spoke so, she came close to Xiao Fan, took something out of her bag and began to draw on Xiao Fan's forehead while Fei Sun simply watched, powerless to intervene, yet knowing what this was.

¨Hey boy... Oh, punching over your weight class again are we?¨ Cao Cao had felt a tingle indicating something was wrong here, but he hadn't expected something like this happening.

Xiao Fan stuck in the ground didn't squirm, and now hearing Cao Cao speak to him, he focussed on talking with him, letting the Hag do her thing.

'I was only beating her disciple, and for that, she did this. I was winning!' Xiao Fan wanted to note a second time how he had been winning.

¨What use is it to win if that victory brings you this much trouble?¨ Cao Cao saw things differently and in the correct way. Why would one win a battle, he can win if winning that battle brought him misery on a level that winning the first battle wasn't worth it?

'Of course' Xiao Fan's tone saying this was of a person realising his own fault and defeat 'I should have thought of the bigger picture' He cursed at his own stupidity.

¨It isn't so bad¨ And before he got to cut him off he shut his mind from talking ¨You learned a valuable lesson, and you even get to keep your life¨ Only when he had said everything did he let go of the mind he had taken hostage.

'Well, thank you for checking up on me' He said and forgot about Cao Cao, who after this peeked a little into the Hag's mind, finding some interesting things from there.

¨Someone's awake again¨ The Hag seeing Xiao Fan moving again said, her tone a little disappointed, for if he hadn't come back, she could have used her cane to wake him up.

¨Let him go¨ Fei Sun on the side spoke.

¨Sure thing, I have gained everything we wanted from here anyway¨ The Hag complied with her disciples wish and placed the walking stick back to the ground and begun to leave with Fei Sun.

However, the Hag didn't get far before Xiao Fan now thinking of the larger picture shouted while getting out of the pit that had now loosened enough for him to escape it.

¨You have something to talk to her? Make it fast¨ The Hag didn't turn around look at Xiao Fan when speaking this because she thought he was asking for this.

¨No I want to talk to you¨ Xiao Fan, to the surprisal of the Hag and to the disappointment of Fei Sun, spoke.

¨What do you have for me?¨ The Hag hearing that is was for her, turned her head enough that she could look at Xiao Fan with one eye.

¨Are you going to waste your men here?¨ He asked and pointed towards the battle raging on next to them, the very back line of the Holy Coalition was just some ten meters away from them.

¨We are here to destroy your kind, and if losing some men makes that happen, I'm willing to take any amount of losses¨ They were her people, but this was her land, one of those could be replaced the other wouldn't.

¨Aren't you some vice Shaman... Can't you see that this isn't everyone that will come in here¨ He noted to her stupid question ¨Fei Sun you haven't told her?¨

Fei Sun shook her head.

¨What haven't you told me?¨ The Hag could see Fei Sun shaking her head, indicating that she hadn't told her something, which should be something important.

¨This isn't even a per cent of the power they can send into here¨ He then pointed towards the forest wherefrom, he and anyone else, not focussing on the battle could see tens of banners flying a double-headed eagle on them.

Yi Family had finally arrived.

¨What is going on. Tell me!¨ The Hag seeing this demanded Xiao Fan to tell her what this was all about.

¨At least, you aren't a perfect Shaman, or you would have seen this happening. Those are the first reinforcements my side is going to gain, and they will not be the last¨ He was now walking towards the Hag, knowing that he had all the cards from now on.

Now was the time for the Second Prince to shine, and shine bright he would if it was up to Xiao Fan to polish the rough diamond.

The Shaman now understanding the situation knocked her staff a few times into the ground, performing some type of a ritual as a massive bedrock wall rose into the forest, right before the banners coming towards the sound of battle.

'Another song!' And if he wasn't wrong, the song type the Hag used was summoning, the one that had sounded so cool yet did something else than he had thought of when hearing about it from Meng Chin.

¨Ughh...¨ However, after making that wall come from the ground, the Hag felt weak and was about to fall to the ground. And she would have if Fei Sun didn't catch her and then throw the Hag to her back.

When the Hag was there ¨What do you want?¨ She asked this from Xiao Fan, who towards Fei Sun turned them to face while holding her Master up. The Hag had realised that this boy held a lot of power, after all, he was their diplomat, plus he knew who these new arrivals were as if he himself had called them.

¨For now? Nothing much, just keep in mind when the men of the Second Prince come that you will hear them. Oh, and don't hear anyone else¨ He had nothing he knew so far, so all he wanted was to be the only one to have a connection to this so-called Holy Alliance, who knows? They could be useful.

¨I'll keep in mind¨ She got the idea ¨Now let's go. We need to sound the retreat before they get around that wall¨

¨I'll come to see you soon!¨ Not having much time to talk with Fei Sun, who had begun to run as ordered, did Xiao Fan yell to her that he would come to see her. Then like the two of them, Xiao Fan grabbed his sword and begun to run around the tower. The meeting was over, and now he needed to get to the Yi Family reinforcements before anyone else did.

Running around the tower, he while hearing the retreat being called by the Holy Coalition swiped his forehead onto which the Hag should have done whatever she did.

¨You can't find it there¨ It was Cao Cao speaking to him again, and he knew what Xiao Fan was trying to see even if he didn't read his mind.

¨What is this?¨ Now being alone Xiao Fan instead of thinking spoke to Cao Cao's projection racing next to him.

¨A contract used in some lower worlds, elementary and easy to break, but it gets the job done against someone like you. A good slavery technique¨ Cao Cao explained.

¨Slavery technique?¨ Xiao Fan while running skipped one step instead of running when hearing Cao Cao say that the same spell was used by slavers to slave others.

¨It is a good slavery technique because people like you can't break it. I only noted the most used function, not what she did to you¨ Cao Cao reassured him that he hadn't been enslaved by anyone, except Meng Chin, but that wasn't upheld by a contract, that was upheld by her brute force.

¨Can't get rid of this?¨ Xiao Fan didn't like the idea.

¨Yep, yep, no one in the Body Realm can. And soon Fei Sun will have one performed on her by that Hag, though it will be a much stronger one. Nevertheless, it will be all because of your actions¨ He laughed.

¨Not funny!¨ Xiao Fan cut his laugh off. But knowing that no help would be coming from Cao Cao, he didn't focus on trying to save Fei Sun from the same fate. He might have a shot at it, but that plan might exhaust all the power the Bald Eagle Dynasty had in here, and that might not be enough. Furthermore, this plan wasn't even touching on how could he get everyone on board on assaulting whatever base the Holy Coalition was retreating to.

It was unlucky, even shameful for Xiao Fan to think that he couldn't be helping her, nonetheless, after a quick curse at his uselessness, he focused back to the current moment ¨Well what does this contract make me do?¨ The Hag hadn't told, so he asked the God next to him.

'Nothing, it failed due to our pre-existing conditions' Would have been the right thing to say, but Cao Cao being himself spoke what it should make Xiao Fan do ¨You can't harm either the Hag or Fei Sun¨ The contract the Hag had quickly made was that simple.

¨That's not too bad¨ the part where he couldn't hurt Fei Sun was weird, but there must be a reason for that, he figured.

¨Good luck¨ After him saying, so Cao Cao departed from his eyesight once again, though this time he did wish him good luck, which was weird.

But he did need that.