Chapter 65 Mortal Mind

After a short 5 minutes, the boat quickly slow down and the altitude start getting lower and lower.

"hey, what's happening?" Shuzan asked. He can feel that the boat is losing power.

"that's the thing. This thing consuming massive energy." Lucis said then he scan his storage and take out a few more magic stone. His storage is piling up with weapons, magic stone and the boat part.

"can we just drive this thing manually using our own energy?" Shuzan asked with a frown. The sound earlier start bothering him.

"Sure but why?"

"we're attracting too many attention with that loud sound. It wouldn't be weird if someone actually chasing after us now." Shuzan said as he look behind them.

Lucis went quite for a moment then he nod and channel his energy from his feet activate the boat just like flying tool. It didn't flew as fast but it's a lot more quieter now.

Everyone behind Lucis finally breath a sigh of relieve. They're actually frightened by how fast and loud the boat earlier that they hold their breath and stop moving like a statue.

"This is Astura model 1 so it's still have so many flaw. In the future, I'll made something that easy to control and can flew to galaxy and beyond." Lucis said proudly.

Everyone look at Lucis in silence refused to add any comments. They have no idea where the name come from nor what is this galaxy but they're already used to how Lucis always say something they don't understand.

Just as Lucis want to brag more, everyone suddenly shift their gaze at different direction. It a smoke that can be seen from afar.

"that's a pretty big fire." Nanji said but he's not actually have any idea what's burning since there's just too many hills and mountain in the area.

"that's a village burning." Lucis said with serious expression and slow down the boat.

"should we take detour?" Shuzan asked, he's not feeling comfortable going somewhere that have people with the luxurious boat they ride.

"goblin." Lucis said calmly. He scan the burning area and saw a raided village.he suddenly no longer have any mood to play around.

"Goblin in this winter?" Shuzan frown. Winter is the time when the demon beast most active, even goblin wouldn't survive with something like that roaming the land.

Lucis put magic stone on the boat power source and put it on standby.

"what's wrong?" Suyi asked worried.

Lucis stay quiet and just when Muzin want to ask him something, Lucis suddenly disappeared.

Shuzan and Muzin quickly expand their sense and roughly saw the village and the dead people in it.

"is he going to the village?" Muzin turn around and asked Shuzan. A scene like this is normal for both of them, they don't usually pay much attention to it and just look the other way unless the raid is actually happening as they pass by.

"maybe he just curious." Shuzan stroke his beard. In the end, Lucis is still young brat after all.

The village is just a couple kilometer away from the boat, it almost exactly the same as DragonFort Village with mud house filling the area but the village size is way smaller.

When Lucis appear at the center of the village, all he saw was mutilated body scattered around.

He look around and his gaze finally landed on a baby corpse that has been cut into two part. The goblin that usually eat human especially the young one didn't eat this baby but just kill it for the sake of killing?

Lucis frown and scan the whole village again.

"as I thought, only the straggler left." Lucis saw some goblin that still hacking some of the dead body or the house just for fun. Goblin is pretty easy to recognize with their small body like a monkey without fur but pretty intelligent and like to steal from the weak. Their long and sharp ear allowed them to sense their surrounding like a bat with their sonar. Even though they're weak compare to normal adult people, they're fast with their feet which cause quite a trouble even for cultivator.

Lucis teleport just right beside the goblin and with swift swing of his Solidus sword, the goblin is cut into two part like a leaf.

The three other goblin was surprised and quickly ran away but just like a light flickering, Lucis appear beside them and disappear as quickly turning the goblin into a corpse in a split second. This is his shadow dash skill he use against Diner previously.

Muzin and Shuzan has been looking at Lucis since he start killing the goblin and they're more surprised than they ever been before. Even as the bystander, they can't catch up with Lucis movement at all.

Muzin drive the boat above the village and surprised again to see Lucis walking around the village burning the dead body. They don't usually do that for a mere mortal especially one like this villagers since scene like this always happened for small village all around the endless mountains.

"uncle, can you bring this boat down? I want to help." Suyi said with a sobbing voice. Her eyes was red and a drop of tears can be seen forming in her eyes. This is exactly how her father died and if not because of some help from the nearby village, the whole DragonFort Village would be the same as this village.

Muzin just nod and didn't say anything while Shuzan holding back from opening his mouth, he really want to remind Suyi that as a cultivator, she shouldn't follow how Lucis behave. Cultivating have a lot to do with their mind and thing like this would slow down their cultivation having an attachment toward mortal world. Slow down doesn't really sounds like a problem since cultivator have a long lifespan but attachment toward the mortal world usually would end their cultivation journey. Most cultivator doesn't even realize that they have wasted so much time with mortal world that they no longer can progress their cultivation. This is exactly how he is, he's too busy running around instead of going into seclusion and before he knew it, hundred year passed and his core barely half formed.

After they burn all the dead bodies, they continue their journey but this time it's a lot more quiet with Lucis staying silent looking at the horizon.

'its good that the south doesn't really have strong energy because goblin grew fast in this kind of environment.."

'maybe I should unite this entire south region so things like this can be controlled, human population is too small and weak.."

'is it hard to just send their disciple to put the monster under control regularly? What's wrong with these clan? Did they forgot where they came from?'

"In the future, I will unite this entire south region and no more incident like this should ever happened." Lucis said calmly but his voice is clear to the entire group behind him.

"let's think about it when we have proper organization or we just wasting our precious cultivating time for mortal." Shuzan said understand what Lucis trying to do.

Lucis fix his gaze at the horizon without saying anything.

"This place should be under RedMoon clan territory, they never bother about small village like this in fact, all clan usually don't meddle with stuff like this."

Lucis look at Muzin then shift his gaze back at the front of the boat.

The cold wind start blowing at their face without the shield and snow start falling slowly blocking everyone sight of the distance mountain.

Suyi look at Muzin then shift her gaze at Lucis. She want to say something but the word just stuck at her tongue. She's not used to Lucis acting like this and to be honest, she almost can't recognized this version of Lucis and it made her uncomfortable.

"i... Set my goal...." it's like the heaven trying to listen, the wind instantly stop blowing and the surrounding noise went quite that one can hear their heart beat. "i will unite the south and the whole endless mountain region, I will end the current era and create a new one, my era.. my way!"

Boom! Broom!

Suddenly a storm brewing and lightnings start falling from the sky. Even with the snow and rain blocking everyone sight at the distance, the lightning rain can be seen clearly flashing through the whole area leaving a loud shockwave and noise.

Shuzan look at Lucis with a wide eyes and cold sweat on his back. Did he just did something that anger the heaven? The storm come as soon as he announced his goal and the heaven response with rage.

'did he just say he will end the current era and create his own?' Shuzan gulping down his saliva feeling amaze and scare at the same time.

'The whole endless mountains is huge but compare to the whole world, it's just a tiny piece of land at the corner of the great continent. Conquering this whole region still something one can say casually but ending an era would effect the whole world. No wonder the heaven response with anger, this is their era.'

Shuzan look at the raining lightning and snow and gulp his saliva again frightened.

"brother, careful what you said. The god is listening." Muzin said in a low voice while keep glancing at the sky.

"Fuck the god! I worship nothing and bow to no one. They want me to submit? Come down here and make me. Huh!" Lucis shout and slap his chest looking at the sky with anger. He never believe of god existence and whoever this god Muzin talking about, he's sure that they're just self proclaimed god.

Everyone feel like there's electric running through their body, they unconsciously shivering as they stare at Lucis with heart beating fast. That was a challenge, he was challenging the heaven! A tiny core cultivator from the corner of the world is cursing the god and mocking the heaven authority!

Suddenly, this time it's like the universe itself responding, the lightning disappeared and the sky instantly brightening stopping the rain and snow. The powerful wind turn into gently and the sun start shining warmly. It like the world saying "sure, go ahead. Sorry about the weather, have this gentle weather instead buddy."

Everyone was transfixed looking at Lucis. They start to wonder what Lucis real origin and how he did this phenomena.

Of course Lucis didn't pay attention to the weather. In his head, he's already start laying out the plan for his conquest. He's not particularly angry at anything or anyone but his thirst for peace and calm life slowly changing his mind and the sight of massacre further strengthen his resolution.