Chapter 32: Sneak Attack

After sending Suyi to her house, Lucis quickly leave the village with a complicated feeling.

There's a lot of people looking at him but no one bothered to greet him. He even saw Kuji walking with someone but she quickly avoid her gaze after looking at him for some time.

A lot of young men he didn't recognize looking at him with unwelcome gaze too.

After walking for a couple of minutes away from the village, Lucis ride his solidus sword and flew towards the Murky town.

After about half an hour, Lucis start seeing some village.

He pass a couple of village on the way but the reaction of the villager is more of terrified at him than respectful.

'it seems the RedMoon clan influence has reached this place.'

He continue flying and soon saw some place that have been burn down or destroy from battle between cultivator.

"this is bad than I thought. This battlefield look new" Lucis quickly raise his vigilant to the extreme and fly slower.

Suddenly an explosion not far away exploded and destroying the area.

Lucis quickly landed on the ground and hide his aura completely.

He stand in the tree branches and use his devine sense to look for any dangerous elements that might hurt him.

The surrounding animal and beast ran away from the area nearby after the explosion.

Lucis jump to the nearby tree and hide in the tree using spell. The tree expand a bit and make a hole inside itself where Lucis sat down.

After using his devine sense, he saw 5 cultivator fighting each other on the nearby cliff.

4 of them wearing red clothes and one look about Kunan age. The last person wearing simple clothes covered with black armor. He look like about 30 years old and full of injury.

"why are you doing this? I'm not your enemy!" the man in black armor yell as he coughed a blood. He wield a spear that look like magic weapon. It's glowing but it look like it's damaged by the recent battle.

"hah, don't try to bluff. You're from SpearSpell clan." the middle age women shout.

"either submit or die." one of the red clothes man say calmly. His beard spike wildly around.

"I'm a rough cultivator, I don't belong to any clan. You people from RedMoon clan is being unreasonable!" the man in black armor shout furiously. He's been chased by them for 6 hour without giving him any chance to breathe.

As they keep arguing, Lucis teleport back to the cave and continue observing them using the eyes of green star. One of the feature he can do is he can move the eye but it as slow as walking.

"it's 2 kilometer from here." he set the direction and move the eye before leaving the array formation.

He come outside the room and look at the door. There's a word "control room" carved on top of the round door.

Lucis turn around and look at the water that lead to the surface. Recently there's more and more fish in the water. If not for the cave being too dark, he'd stay here often and fishing some fish as a hobby.

He catch a few fish and return to the control room, set up a fire and start grilling some fish.

He check the eye again and see the group of people start fighting again hundreds of meter from the eyes.

He move the eyes closer and just right in the mood for some grill fish as he eat and watch the battle.

"this armor dude clearly stronger than the 4 red people but they work perfectly to fight this armor dude." he said as he take a bite of the freshly grilled fish and shake his head. Apparently the fish is not salty enough for his taste.

The battle slowly moving away as they keep destroying the environment with their spell and weapons. Tree and stone flying in the air like it's a weed and pebbles.

"respect the environment." Lucis shake his head and spread some salt on his fish.

"that.. That's horrible!" he frown when he see one of the red dude hand is chopped by the armored guy with his spear. His spear is envelope by a blue fire.

After looking at the severed arm and the blood, Lucis shake his head again and take another bite of grill fish. His shake head turn into nod. He's satisfied with the taste after adding some seasoning apparently.

"they no longer want to force the guy to join them, they want to kill him now.. should I help him?" Lucis start weighting the risk and look at his newly made black iron katana hanging on the wall. He's been melting the iron ore into iron ingot recently and make some weapon whenever he's in the mood. The solidus sword now is couple times harder and the surface is more smoothly, He even add some decorations while he at it.

After a couple more minutes, they stop fighting and staring at each other fiercely. Apparently, this is this world trend of fighting. When you fighting someone similar strength with you, both will have some unspoken understanding and stop once in a while revising their battle tactic before continuing.

Not only they're fighting with spell and weapons, they also fighting with their mouths provoking each other trying to seek some hint of weakness.

After some fighting words, Lucis realize that the man in black armor really are rough cultivator. He come from the west endless mountains and came here after hearing some news about some rare treasure that appeared near murky town. Unfortunately, this region is in war between SpearSpell clan and RedMoon clan for some unknown reason. Maybe because the rumor treasure.

The SpearSpell clan is known as monster hunter as they hunt demon beast in their territory.

"I can get a lot of information from this dude." Lucis said and quickly finishing his grill fish.

When he's only ten meters away, the fight continue more intensely filled with murderous aura.

Trump card start appear like they want to finish the fight quickly.

The armor men landed on the top tree and look at his hand where the red group cut him earlier. Its poisoned.

"you.. You RedMoon so wicked!" his strength quickly escaping him and he fall from the tree to the ground.

All the red group look at each other with an evil smile. They quickly change directions and ran towards the black armor man.

While the group start running toward the armor men, a hand holding a katana suddenly appeared out of nowhere and cut the old man in red at the back of the group.

Arrgh!

The old man shout attract everyone attention. The black armor guy quick shove his hand inside his armor and take out some white bottle and drink the liquid in it. He's as surprised as everyone but he's more concerned about the poison.

"truly an expert." Lucis nod when he see the armor man quick thinking. A split second decision is extremely important during the fight.

"what happened!?" the old women in lead look at the old man kneeling on the ground as he look around furiously.

"I.. I was attacked by someone."

The other 3 in red stand close the old man and saw the long line of slash on his back.

"I'm too soft. I still can't kill people." Lucis sweating on his forehead. While he's used to a gore scene, he never kill people by himself.

"you! Spear guy, what did you do?" one of the men in red point his saber at the black armor man that also kneeling under the tree. His breathing is heavy. Apparently his medicine is not really effective.

When everyone looking at the armor man, suddenly the black katana appear again and stab the young men in red from the back.

Lucis didn't manage to pull back in time and left the sword in the young men body. His expression is calm as he observed with the eyes arrays.

"they deserve to die, they kill people indiscriminately." Lucis eyes is red and wide open as he convince himself. His body shaking and trembling as the feeling of the him piercings the young men body lingering in his mind.

The young man in red look at the katana that pierced through his chest feeling disbelief. They scan their surroundings to the extreme but they can't feel anything out of the ordinary. Just in a split second, he can feel some energy appeared out if nowhere behind him and he's piercings by a sword.

"Damnit! Who is it?"

"come out if you dare. We are RedMoon clan disciples. We will hunt you to the end of the world."

Their reaction calm Lucis mind quickly. He smile faintly but his hand still shaking.

The old women pull the sword from behind the young men and give him some kind of pill to swallow.

"he didn't die even after that? " Lucis feel incredulous as he watched the young man sit down in meditation to he heal his body.