(Chapter 45)

'... Wow... Is he having an Insight?... Even today, Insight is hard to come by while training...'

"Ms. Yang?"

Yang Manli watched and decided to wait for Shyrveen to wake up from his lucky Insight, but only to look back hastily because she heard a familiar voice.

"Han Sen... What... How come you can reach this place?..."

"... Because of circumstances..."

Han Sen was stunned after seeing the familiar back after being curious of this place because the ice world can be seen from the mountain range from where he is hunting, and he thought that there's another power that related to Shyrveen and decided to check it before he will tell it to his sworn brother.

He reached this place just to see Yang Manli's back and decided to turn back and avoid her but only to see Shyrveen fifty feet away from his position and twenty feet away from Yang Manli, while having an Insight.

He knows what is Insight too because even if it's rare to happen, every people in the Alliance knows this. And that's the reason why he is hunting for a month or so, to have an Insight to his Ghosthaunt while searching for Mutant and if he is lucky, Sacred-Blood creature.

"We should go back to the shore of the lake..."

Yang Manli took one last glance at Shyrveen and gestured for Han Sen to follow her.

But Han Sen raised both his arms to decline.

"Err... If brother Shyr is with you, I'll continue with my things then-"

And only to be interrupted by Yang Manli and glance at him.

"No... Well, you can, but I want to ask you for my conclusions if its right or wrong."

"Didn't I already told you-"

Han Sen scratch his head for this woman's stubbornness and want to say it again but strongly this time, and only to be cut off again.

"I know, that I should talk this with darling... But I want to ask you as his friend with a promise to hide your identity..."

Yang Manli started to walk and was given no choice to use 'this' and thought.

'Will darling forgive me about this?... But Han Sen is the very person called 'Dollar'... Nah, I think he won't get angry at me doing this...'

"!!! W-What are you talking-"

Han Sen was shocked and raced his mind to think how, and tried to play an innocent act.

He can only think about his sworn brother Shyr but he knows that he won't tell this to anyone, then stared at the woman's back that he is following towards the lake.

'Unless...'

"No need to hide it, I realized it because I saw him wearing the armor of the Black Beetle's Beast Soul that has been evolved to a higher stage... You're his friend, another person always near the creek, the Black Beetles, then there's a person who has the similarity of armor of darling... These four things are pointing at you as 'him'..."

"..."

"And I already swore to my darling to hide and forget about your identity, but since you're that person... I want to use this as leverage to ask some things about my darling... Can't I?"

Han Sen saw Yang Manli turning her head again to meet his eyes and only to sighed and stated.

"How can I be sure about this? For all I know you're the best friend of Qin Xuan?..."

Yang Manli shrugs and elaborated while taking a seat to the mattress that she left alone earlier.

"I am his girlfriend... I don't care about some guys now and will be inclined to do so if darling says me so... And for your information, I'm here as his girl and not a member of the gang, I can separate the two but I know what I need to do..."

Han Sen's thought was confirmed but still not sure about this.

"... Oh!... So, you won't tell about this to anyone, more so to Qin Xuan, your best friend?"

"I already promised darling... Even if it's not informing my best friend, yes... So... What are you talking about?..."

Yang Manli explained then acted in the end, that she was confused about what they're talking about.

"Hahaha! Dammit!... I already thought this event to happen from the moment you appeared on the creek to wait for brother Shyr's arrival... Alright, so what's this thing you want to confirm?"

Han Sen shook his head after his prediction already happened.

'Well, if brother Shyr trusted her with this, maybe I can trust her too... But it will really be difficult if she's Qin Xuan... Haa...'

"Is he a time traveler?..."

Yang Manli asked on the spot while glancing at the calm waters of the lake.

Han Sen was confused for why this topic became like this, but realized in a second for why.

"... Wait! How you can think and conclude at the end?"

"Hints, he keeps giving me hints... In the military, there are records about the ancestral planet and a lot of cases of time travelers..."

Han Sen saw her sighing and looked at the ground while drawing unknown lines. He sighed and looked at the sky.

"... So are you worried that you won't see him anymore if he is one?"

Yang Manli was triggered and shout at him.

"Of course! Everyone knows that Time Traveling isn't a skill or Innate Ability, but a phenomenon of the universe itself in the first place!..."

Then stops speaking for several seconds while he waited for her to continue while scratching his cheeks.

"... Sooner or later, if he is one, the time disturbance will be fixed and he will be back to his own timeline..."

'Yeah, this girl is really obsessed with brother Shyr... No, it's love... There's a difference... Because somehow she is more calmer from the past...'

Han Sen thought and reminiscence the time where Shyrveen pull him to hide at the big boulder near the creek from incoming whip.

He sighed and massages his forehead and taps her shoulder, after seeing her teary eyes. He smiled to assure her.

"... Haa... With that kind of leverage, I can't deny you for queries about him... But fortunately for you, he is not... So don't worry about it... It's much bigger than that, but this is all I can say with this mouth..."

Before gesturing with his hand zipping his lips and shrugs, then he saw her smiling with joy.

"... Then I can be relieved now..."

They waited and chatted for another two minutes before they both heard Shyrveen's voice and they turned to look back to the forest.

"Sweety, can I know how long I was there? I got two Beast Souls... Oh. Brother Sen..."

Shyrveen blinks after seeing Han Sen here, that pointing at the mountain range with his thumb.

"Yeah, I saw an ice world from that mountain and decided to check and to tell you about it since it might be related to your powers again... But, I saw Ms. Yang watching you from afar and chatted a bit while waiting for you to wake up from your Insight."

Han Sen elaborated that made Shyrveen confused, he knows the word but he asked for where it is.

"... Insight?"

But he was answered by Yang Manli that stands up from the mattress and hugs him while sniffling and sneezing, using his clothes as her tissue.

"Yeah, you're breaking through from your bottleneck with your fighting style. It's hard to come by so we didn't disturb you, darling..."

"Ahh..."

Han Sen saw him nodded and asked for his lucky Insight.

"So, care to tell me what you got? Or give me some pointers on how to have Insights."

Shyrveen thought about this and tried to remember what he sensed back then for several minutes while caressing the back of Yang Manli to calm her down.

"... I don't know... Just let your instinct override your body... And I think you need something that can complement and will help your fighting style to have a higher chance triggering it?... I'm really not sure..."

Then he said his opinion from his two experiences about this Insight before glancing down at Yang Manli.

"By the way, sweety... Do you think we can face Xuan's anger? I decide for us to gain three pieces of these whips... This Insight gave me a hint to have nunchakus and chain blades to increase my proficiency again... So, I need sickles and try to merge the whips with it and with this short staves."

Yang Manli wipes her eyes and looked up to meet Shyrveen's eyes and stated what she thought.

"... If that will cost us another extra five days... Then protect me from her darling, okay?~"

"..."

"..."

Both men were speechless about this and Shryveen decided to deal and talk about the note that he put on Han Sen's room and offer something to him too.

"So, brother Sen. Since you're here, I want to inform you that you should find a way how to deal with the body of six-feet body of Obsidian Dragon..."

"Ah... Now that you mention it, I forgot about it after seeing the Azure-Tailed Eagle in the room..."

Han Sen thought of contacting Su Xiaoqiao to be his mediator to sell half of the body because the public knew that Dollar has only half its meat.

Then Shyrveen continued after seeing Han Sen nodded as his response to him.

Shyrveen summoned the (4 Stars) armor for Han Sen to see and the latter's eyes got widen and knocks on the armor, then Han Sen heard his sworn brother's offer.

"I know, you might decline if I just gift this to you, so I'll leave to you the decision for what you will do to trade with this armor. I can evolve another one for you or use the Beast Soul of yours to be upgraded to lessen the deal or whatever you can think of."

"Got it! I'll think about this first, brother Shyr... That armor looks sturdier than my golden armor though."

Han Sen massages his chin while staring at the armor.

"... And we can't eat the meat yet of that creature because it's really hard for me to break it into countless cubes even though it's already frozen."

"... Do those creatures are really out of the league?"

Han Sen scratches his head and sighed.

Yang Manli was confused about what creatures that they're talking about, she thoughts and looked at Shyrveen with

'Sacred-Bloods?... But Han Sen said, out of the league...'

"Darling?"

Shryveen meets her eyes and looked at Han Sen that shrugs at him, telling that it's up to him since he was the one who found those Super creatures.

"... I have thoughts of telling you about this after you maxed your four Geno Points because hunting this creature is very dangerous even for us... But... It will depend on what I will see later in that lake..."

Then he walks slowly to the lake but only to stop after hearing Han Sen.

"Wait, brother Shyr!... Are you telling me that the lake has one!?"

"... I'm not sure yet, because based on what sweety said, that lake has been left for a very long time... And its inhabitants consist of Primitive fishes and crabs and... The same creature that we saw back there..."

"!!! ... But based on what you said, there's no way for us to hurt it..."

Han Sen thought for several seconds and voice out his concerns.

"... If the fight is inevitable... I'll lend you this armor first, with its peak evolution, it should be the same of that creature..."

Shyrveen gave him the (4 Stars) armor to Han Sen, that doesn't know what to do.

Han Sen wants to decline but imagining the worst-case scenario while fighting that outrageous creature, so he accepted it.

"This... I'll agree with you but I don't have a weapon to hurt it..."

Shyrveen summoned the bow and arrow and gave it to Yang Manli before he summoned the short staff and handed it to Han Sen.

"I have here, but I'll assign sweety for the range role so I can focus at shattering its shell with ice with this short staff... I'll lend you one since I have two of them, you can use it to defend or whatever you can do with it..."

Yang Manli can't follow them and can only accept what her boyfriend is giving her, and the only thing that sinks in her mind was.

"Uhm... Darling... Are you guys hunting this dangerous creature while I'll be the main damager?..."

"Yes. With your wings and snake's ability, you can dodge to a farther place before you can snipe it again if it decided to aim at you..."

Shyrveen nodded to her and pats her head to assure that she will be fine after feeling the anxious feeling.

"... Alright, we have this chance, why we will make this slip? I'll try to tank it and make it angry so it will focus its malice on me... But... Are you sure this Beast Souls of yours can rival that creature, brother Shyr?... I don't want to die in one hit..."

"... It should be because that (4 Stars) consists of eight normal Sacred-Bloods... I'm going now... Be ready..."

Yang Manli and Han Sen nodded before Shyrveen disappeared in the waters.

"I'm really confused here, Han Sen... Care to tell me about this creature?..."

Han Sen glance at Yang Manli that is tilting her head to him, he sighed and decided to play safe.

"... This knowledge should be handle by brother Shyr, Ms. Yang... Even if I want to say this to you... Brother Shyr found it... So, he has the right to what to do about it..."

Shyrveen summoned the Mutant Arrow from Yang Manli because they exchanged Beast Soul Arrows, and his sight underwater became clear again.

But this time, much clearer because of his Geno Art, Super Gene, and his body that was enhanced by the Mana thrice.

So, he can say that, as if the surface of the lake was the sky, and he is flying above the ground of the lake.

But after looking around for several seconds.

He realized that this lake's name is not a joke, because after he estimated around four hundred meters below the surface, he saw a crack that looks like a Challenger's Deep from the Earth...