Chapter 7: Koto's Reminisce

In his hotel, Koto reminisce about his first few memories of the imperial academy, it was a little complicated for him to join at first. It was well known the academy only accept noble born students, but his talent and somehow support from Spirit Hall, he was allowed in.

He assumed it was his teachers doing, about the Spirit Hall help, his teacher was after all an elder. He was thankful but did not think much of it after. His first few days were interesting with many of the students challenging him for his birth, that was quickly fixed.

His body might as well be called invincible, at least no one has been able to so much as put a scratch on his king, this earned him a title among the school " The Invincible Warlock" His martial soul giving him access to the elements and the flexibility of weapons he had truly made him live up to his title.

There were many more titles given to him, his favorite " The Genius" as it was the most simple with a very nice ring to it. He made many new talented friends, and even more fangirls to that. Koto enjoyed the attention, the love from the crowd allowed him to recruit many of the gifted students. Some of his more important catch being a girl called dugu yan, she was the granddaughter of the poison douluo.

She was destined to die by the poison inside her, luckily Koto had discovered it in one of their secret date. Koto, growing up with abnormal amounts of hormones was what many parents feared for their daughter, a truly bad example of a gentlemen.

Who knows how many girls he has laid with or how many girls he has promised to marry, he truly imatted the kings of the story he read about, accepting many wives not thinking of how the girls would feel.

Influenced by their young minds, seeing Koto's clout and him living up to it all, it was easy for them to fall hard in love for this young man. Only the future will tell what kinds of trouble Koto will get into by accepting all of these young maiden hearts.

He was now 17, standing 185cms with his white hair now past his shoulders. Leaned and muscled, he was truly looking the part of a god swordsman. Sitting beside him was a woman 167cms tall, black hair with purple tints towards the end of her bangs. A katana with rose petals like handle laid beside her as she peeled the grapes in the bowl in front of her.

She was a reincarnated spirit beast, one he found when he was making his way to the academy. She was the second to get in the imperial academy without 'noble' blood through his insistence and overall pull. Luckily he had a treasure hair comb, capable of masking her and making her completely seem human to any spirit master. The treasure was strong enough to even affect titled douluos.

He imagined her original body being a butterfly as her ki took the shape of purple butterflies. They have already graduated, instead of just waiting for their friends to do the same, they decided to figure something that would massively affect their plans.

Koto had made friends with Qian Renxue, the princess of Spirit Hall. There, he learned Bibi Dong somehow knows of him which made him wary of spirit halls already. Later that night, he chanced upon an attack on the Princess, the attackers were no randoms. Their cloak were exactly the same as Spirit hall's yet black.

He of course helped the princess in defending, revealing his astonishing talent to Renxue, who at that time watched in a daze with a slightly rose cheek. It was just like in the stories of Knights and Princess, she thought to herself, heating her body a little more in bliss.

Unmasking the assassins, he learned some of them were from spirit halls. This meant, not only was there a secret organization, it had its root in The Spirit Hall as well, such an unknown factor was extremely dangerous.

Before that though, he would make his way to this school named Shrek. It is the school his new junior brother would be going to, and if things follow the trend 'he' would too.

At that thought, koto slowly pressed his fingers together absent mindedly. Although Tang San was his junior brother, he wouldn't allow anyone to threaten his teacher like that. Kyoka sensing his distress, fed him a rather plump grape, " don't worry about it too much" she said, almost reading his mind, " we still have to hunt for my 6th ring, why don't we go to bed early for extra rest?" she asked sweetly.

Anyone looking at such a scene would be creeped out to no extreme. Kyoka beautiful flower robe made her figure even more beautiful and full, but her dark purple eyes were dead, lifeless, life-sucking, and anything that has to do with death. Her spirit had put on a constant illusion over her eyes, making them appear as such to anyone but those strong enough to resist the effects.

Koto was one of them. " yeah… you're right" koto said, agreeing to sleep. He quickly went to jump into the bed, covering himself with the soft blanket and leaving the clean up to kyoka.

With the lights turned off, koto did not fall asleep easily, instead he fell back into deep thought. Kyoka silently laid besides him and covered herself with a different blanket. Although they were sharing beds and pretty much done anything a couple would have done, this thought brought a smile to kyoka's face, they used different blankets when going to sleep.

The reason wasn't because they were shy, on the contrary, they had already tried plenty of times to share blankets. Kyoka sleeping habits were just too awful! even sharing a bed was already hard, sometimes koto would wake up on the ground and her somehow upside down with her right leg curled and her left split as far as possible.

One could only imagine what would happen to the shared blanket if the partner happened to be this horrible sleep monster. although she blames it on being too tired whenever she is caught in such a position, which made no sense, koto always thought it was because of her spirit forcing her body to move for physical energy.

Kyoka had a variant spirit of the body type which consumes high amounts of mental energy, the "soul" enabling her to to embed her ki into objects of her choosing, those objects would then, when used by her, by capable of directly affecting the soul of those they come into contact with. This allowed her to be able to kill any of her opponents effortlessly, such an overpowered spirit of course came with its downside.

She had to continuously be applying her ki into the object for it to activate her ability, weapons capable of withholding a constant stream of ki were few and far between. She also had to be wary of the opponents soul power, if hers happen to be lower than theirs, she'd be the one damaged instead.

For this reason, she carries with her the katana gifted by Koto, one capable of holding her ki without a problem. Her spirit abilities also many focus on illusions and posions to disrupt the enemies to lower their soul awareness and strength. This increased her chances of winning the battle of soul powers.

Koto remembered hearing of a water dragon in the forest surrounding Jailong Pass, the age unknown but apparently clever enough to not been killed for its ring. Water dragons typically gave powerful abilities including ones revolving around illusion. Such a beast was perfect for Kyoka, hopefully it was at least ten thousand years old or it would truly be a waste.

Jailong Pass was in the direction of shrek academy, if he were to spend the day flying, he'd surely reach it before sunset. That was exactly what he planned to do, camping in that forest tomorrow and spending a week to find the dragon would also allow them to arrive relatively at the same time as his junior brother to shrek academy.

Having made up his mind koto closed his to finally sleep, kyoka already been asleep.

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Once again koto dreamt the same dream. He was in a world of water and in front of him were bodies of him in different ages from youngest to oldest. He could not see to the end of the line which was seemingly endless, he noticed he wouldn't change much after a certain period of time.

What didn't make sense was although his bodies were in order of age, there were spots where certain bodies were out of position, at one point his body even reverted back to a baby! Behind the backs of some of the bodies were also different bodies similar to his own, somewhere just his hair color changed.

Before he could ponder what was going on, Koto heard a cry of misery " iiitss not faaiirr!!!!!" a voice cried. The voice sounded extremely sinister and as if pained. " ittss not faairr!!" the voice continued, completely blocking Koto's mind, " Gua! You cheated! The fates actually cheated!!" it cried, its voice still loud, one would barely be able to tell the decrease in volume. Nevertheless the voice continued, this time addressing Koto himself.

The voice croaked, its voice deeper and with more snarls "you damned bastard!!" koto somehow knew it was talking to him, " Who are you???" he called out, looking around for anything in this morrid place. An opponent he can't sense, see, nor understand was something he wasn't ready for. Chills went down his spine, he quickly thought of many scenarios and ways to get out of this… whatever this is..

" YOU DAMNED TRAVLlER RUINED EVERYTHING!!!" it cried furiously, the world of water shooked with waves forming inside. Powerless and confused, koto was carried by the torrents of water, into the sky of pure darkness, nothing existed outside the water.

"A MEASLY MORTAL DARE MESS WITH THE WORKINGS OF THE GODS??"more torrents of jet water flew out the water forming massive hurricanes ripping through space itself. The darkness absorbed by the rotations, all of it slowly closing in on koto who was held up by a geyser of water. "DIEEEEEEEE" The voice cried with wrathful vengeance, the hurricanes ready to shred koto to pieces.

Just before the hurricanes got close enough, a blinding gold light shone from his chest, forming an aura around him.

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Koto would not remember the result when he wakes up, nor will he remember the dream at all. Unbeknownst to him, he has already dreamt of this very same dream 5 times after meeting the princess of Spirit Hall, Renxue, and everytime he would rise from his sleep feeling a little more tired then he should.

This night was not an exception...