Words of Wisdom

"Coach, wake up its morning already," Zhao Yun nudged Coach. The three sacks of monster materials were already placed near the door.

"Hmmmmm, is it already?" Coach mumbled, he then left his bed and started stretching.

The two went down after some stretchings. They first ate their free breakfast then went to their cart and loaded the three sacks of monster materials. Coach whipped the horses and started driving towards the Trader`s Guild. Before they reach the guild, a knife was thrown towards them and hit the area beside Zhao Yun, a paper was stringed in the knife. Zhao Yun took the paper and read it.

"If you want no trouble to come to your driver friend right there, come along on the next alley, remember, ALONE. Not going means death for you driver," Zhao Yun read through his mind. He decided to do what the paper told him since he doesn`t want to risk Coach`s life.

"What`s in the paper?" Coach heard the hitting of the knife so he looked back. "Is it trouble?"

"Ah no, it`s just someone inviting me. Coach can you drop me off towards the next alley, I`m really sorry about this but I`ll be troubling you to go alone the guild," Zhao Yun was sorry

"Don`t worry about it, I can handle the selling just fine. Btw, where should I meet you after?" Coach agreed.

"Thanks, Coach. I`ll finish this quickly and head towards the guild, so you just wait for me at the guild," Zhao Yun instructed.

"if that`s what you say then," Coach replied. Zhao Yun bid farewell and left after arriving at the next alley, Coach then drove towards the guild.

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"Follow me," A voice echoed and Zhao Yun followed it. Zhao Yun had to turn left and right more than once before reaching an abandoned house.

"Enter," Zhao Yun followed the voice and entered the house. Inside the abandoned house was a large space filled with darkness. Surprisingly, the floor seems sturdy and clean for an abandoned house. Zhao Yun carefully treaded the house, examining if some traps or people are hiding preparing an ambush. He stopped walking when a silhouette appeared.

"Good that you came alone, we won`t harm your friend and maybe you as well if you just hand us over your storage ring," the silhouette said

"So I took all that trouble just for you to rob me? haha," Zhao Yun smiled, "I don`t know where you got that crazy information, but I`m sorry to disappoint you, I don`t have a storage ring." he shrugged.

"Bullshit, my eyes won`t trick me. Last night you definitely used a storage ring. Hand it to me now and we can leave in peace. Non-cooperation means death." the silhouette stressed the last part.

"So a robbery plus attempted murder," Zhao Yun calmly said

"Kid, I really don`t want to do this, but you forced me to," the silhouette vanished and knives came flying towards Zhao Yun. He dodged every knife that was thrown, he ducked, he jumped, he sidestepped to the left, sidestepped to the right, he dodged and dodge while slowly but steadily moving forward. Knives started coming from all over his directions and he became serious and his movements became faster. This time Zhao Yun tried catching the knives by the handle, at first he was failing, but as the more he tried, the more he got good at catching it. Just a moment ago, he was just dodging, now he was throwing the knives back to where they came from. Every time a knife cames at Zhao Yun, he catches by the tip with his two fingers and throws them back where they came from. This continued for more than a minute.

"Hey, how long is this throwing contest going to last? I`m getting bored you know," Zhao Yun mocked, he wanted the silhouette to respond so that he can learn his location, but they never responded and just continued throwing knives.

"Sh*t, if this continued, I might collapse," Zhao Yun thought, but he has no way of going out of this stalemate that`s when he lost focus and a knife hit him in the cheek.

"Thud," that was what sounded after the knife hit Zhao Yun`s cheeks, it was as if the knife hit a wall.

"Argh, shit," Zhao Yun felt a slight pain then it fade away instantly. Zhao Yun was intrigued and touched his cheeks, surprisingly there was no blood dropping and no wounds were visible. Realizing that he has the passive called tough skin, he was delighted.

"I see, Hey! looks like your unsharpened knife doesn`t hurt me," Zhao Yun shouted, mocking the guy. There was still no response but the knives stopped coming, knowing the knives were useless.

"I completely forgot my passive skills since they don`t sound op after all," Zhao Yun thought, "looks like I was wrong."

"Who the hell are you kid? How the hell did you not get wounded by my knives?" a male voice was heard.

"Just a wandering swordsman," Zhao Yun blurted nonchalantly.

"Bullshit," the silhouette riposte. "You`re definitely not just a simple wanderer, you have some kind of skill that toughens your body that only those from a prestigious group have the capability to learn body strengthening skills," he chattered and paused for a moment. "I see, this all makes sense now, you`re a spy from the Han family!" the silhouette assumed.

"Bruhh, I`m so confused right now I don`t know what to say. Let me remind you that you were the reason why I`m here in the first place. Now, who the hell is the Han family, I`ve never heard of them nor met them before so how could I be a spy from them? And why are you even expecting someone to spy you? You`re seriously overestimating yourself," Zhao Yun voiced out what was coming from his mind.

"..." there was no response. A man appeared in front of Zhao Yun, he has a short brown hair compared to Zhao Yun`s long black hair. "Even if you`re not a spy, I still need your storage ring. So I need to go serious now kid," he said. The man then draws a sword from his waist and attacked Zhao Yun, the moment the sword hit Zhao Yun, it broke into pieces.

"..." Zhao Yun

"..." The man

"..." The broken sword

"Uhhhh, is that it?" Zhao Yun was dumbfounded

"Ha, of course not. I`m just making you lower down your guard," The man exclaimed as he jumps away from Zhao Yun. "Guess I need to use my secret technique just for you," The man threw away his broken sword. He stood straight, his left foot one step back, knees slightly bent, then the man started arms rotating alternately, and chanted, "Haaaaaaa, Doooooooo, Keogh" but before he can finish his chant he was smacked by Zhao Yun in the face.

"WTF are you doing?" the man exclaimed

"I should be the one asking you that. The f*ck are you doing?" Zhao Yun retort.

"That`s my ultimate move, why would you stop me from finishing it. That`s very rude," The man cried out.

"..." Zhao Yun was speechless by the idiot in front of him.

"Okay let`s try this one more time, I`ll charge my ultimate move and you wait for me to finish," The man instructed. He started channeling his "ultimate move" once more, and once again Zhao Yun slapped him in the face.

"Stop doing that!" The man cried out.

"Doing what?" Zhao Yun acted innocent.

"Don`t stop me, when I`m channeling my move! Didn`t your father taught you about manners?" The man exclaimed.

Zhao Yun was taken aback by what he said since his father left him and his mom when he was just a child. "I`m so sorry for being a fatherless child. I`ve never met my father ever since I was born, my mother singlehandedly raised me, alone," Zhao Yun said in a melancholic tone.

"I..is that so? I`m sorry for saying something that made you remember something unpleasant," The man was sorry.

"So can I leave now? My lonely mother should be waiting for his son to come home right now," Zhao Yun was sad.

"Sure, of course. You can leave anytime," The man happily said since he was hit by guilt.

"Thank you very much," Zhao Yun gratefully said. Inside his mind, he was happy since he doesn`t have to deal with this idiot anymore.

Just before Zhao Yun left the place, the man realized that something was amiss, "Hold it right there! As if I would just let you go like that... give me all your belongings and I`ll let you leave," The man announced.

"Shit, and here I thought I can get out of this easily," Zhao Yun whispered. "Okay, how about this, I`ll take your ultimate move if I can still stand after receiving it then I win, if I can`t stand then you win. Simple right?" Zhao Yun proposed.

"Heh, now we're talking. This move was personally taught by my boss, this is his killer move so be prepared. You were the one who said this so don`t chicken out now, Hehehe. I`m so excited about this, this is actually my first time using it against an opponent," The man talked non-stop.

"Can you just do it already?" Zhao Yun stopped the man from chatting mindlessly.

"Ah yes, hehe. I`m sorry I got carried away, here it goes," The man started channeling his ultimate, he was so serious and composed the wind was starting to spin around the man. The man`s hair started to flutter, this made Zhao Yun think that he might have made the wrong decision right now.

"F*ck, is this move really legit? I`m sweating right now, should I run for it? no, he did say he has a boss, so let`s end this right now," Zhao Yun contemplated.

The man finished his chanting then he quickly extended his two open hands in front and roared, "KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN," aside from some gust of wind cooling Zhao Yun`s sweat, nothing happened.

"..." Zhao Yun

"..." The man

"..." The wind

"..." The broken sword

"..." Ryu

"Hey, kind brother can we forget everything that happened here and start anew?" The man quickly changed his attitude towards Zhao Yun.

"..." Zhao Yun couldn`t take the man`s bullshittery anymore, he took the sheath of his sword and used it to hit the man several times. He wanted to let loose some irritation he had.

"Brother please, I`m really sorry. Please forgive my ignorant self for trying to rob you. Brother, haven`t you heard of the saying, He who does forget, shall be swallowed by beasts, but he who does forgive shall be swallowed by breasts" The man quoted weakly, this made Zhao Yun stop beating the man.

"Stand up, I have already forgiven you a long time ago," Zhao Yun declared, as a benevolent person would do.

"Thank you kindly, brother," The man stood up and bowed.

"I may have forgiven you but I`ll never forget this incident, so you better stop robbing people or else I`ll beat you up once more," Zhao Yun announced with a dignified aura.

"Yes brother, I`ll never rob people again," The man promised.

"That`s good to hear!" Zhao Yun nodded. Zhao Yun and the man left the place and went their separate ways.

*Ding* You two were a nice pair, just add another one like you and I can call you the Three Idiots.

"F*ck off, you`re just a system so you wouldn`t know how deep those words were," Zhao Yun retorted to his system.

*Ding* How deep? deep as a throat? Hehe

"Sometimes, you make me wonder if you really are a system or just a person behind a computer," Zhao Yun contemplated

*Ding* Who knows?

"Wait, I should have asked that man what his name was," Zhao Yun realized, "Nevermind, I should head over to the guild," he shrugged and continued his pace.

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Zhao Yun`s status window

Age: 21

Mana Pool: 290

Job: Swordsman

Title: Hero of the Mushroom village

Stamina-(73) 146

Strength-25

Agility-(25) 50

Intelligence-(25) 50

Charisma-19

Available Experience Points-0