Chapter 228 - Shadow Soldier "King"
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---Two days later---
Lost Forest,
In the forest which was deprived of humans, Lev could be found inside training seeing him sweating hard doing nothing but martial arts. Looking closely, all of his muscles were bulging as if they were being used to their fullest potential every time he made a move.
"Haff…Haff…Haff." Not before long, Lev finally put a stop to what he was doing as he catch up his breath while looking in the direction from which the Shorukin Temple was located after hearing a loud noise.
"Doing this really is effective." Lev said as he looked at the bracelets on both his hands and feet. What he was doing until now was to train his martial arts while wearing Weight Bracelets that he bought from the system store. Each one of them cost 100,000,000 True God Coins which was very expensive, but he deemed it necessary as they were capable of adjusting to any weight that he wanted and also had the ability to immediately adjust to the highest possible scale that his current body could lift.
"Without using anything and just relying on my own body and current stats, I could only lift up to 12,500,000 tons of each bracelet with a total of 50,000,000 tons. Though I weighed that heavy, the item was made so that only I was the one who could feel it. What a convenient item." Lev followed while looking at his muscles. He came up with this idea after hearing about it from Chinchin in the temple and so he also wanted to try it out.
"Now that I remember, I think the Regal Mammoth was also about this heavy. But I think that this wasn't enough." Lev said. After entering the temple, he has come to realize that all of his winning battles up until now were due to the fact that he was using his trump cards specifically his bloodline. He never once won without using them and he felt like he became too dependent on the skill.
"I need to eat more." Lev lastly said before looking at the direction of the temple. He had already heard a commotion inside and so he thought that the attack had finally started. He, however, still wasn't in the mood to come over and see the place as Sia was there to protect the place like she was instructed.
After that, Lev then just stay in the place for a while wanting to calm himself down before heading back to the Disappearing Cuisine knowing that Chiru must have already worried about now.
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Disappearing Cuisine,
After entering the place, Lev immediately headed straight to his room while holding onto a letter. It was a letter from Chiru saying that something had happened at the temple and so she wanted to see what was happening.
"With Sia there, I bet the casualty would be minimized. Well, I will come and visit later. Let me have breakfast first." Lev said before heading to the kitchen. After staying in this place for two days, he has already familiarized himself with everything so he immediately calls for someone.
With that, Lev then started preparing breakfast together with the excited kitchen personnel in the restaurant upon hearing that he was cooking breakfast. It was something he liked to do together with Chiru as he taught and gave her pointers from time to time which became a special event even to the employees.
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---Thirty minutes later---
Shokurin Temple,
At this moment, Lev could now be found on the roof of one of the buildings inside the temple looking at the battle unfolding in front of him. Despite looking fine, he was actually surprised to see Sia had a toe-on-toe fighting Chiyo, a short, elderly woman with a hunched body, arms folded in front of her body, and visible wrinkles. She possesses a flat face with no visible nose and a light shade of purple tied into two large buns.
"Does the normal Sia's level could still not win against her? I don't know how powerful Chiyo is, but I bet she's quite powerful since she was someone who could survive in the Gourmet World." Lev couldn't help but mutter while looking at Sia's performance. After that, he just smiled before jumping down since there still wasn't a need for him to take action since he knew well how broken Sia was when she used all of her abilities.
"I need to find Chiyo's other companion. Now that I think about it, they have an interesting knife with them and that golem too." Lev said before he started walking around the place while concealing all his power through the item 'Universe Identity Token' as he passed through the commotion without getting caught.
….Boom….
"Old lady Chiyo!! How could you join a group like the Bishokukai!!!" Suddenly, a loud shout could be heard, and a man came down from the sky creating a small crate on the ground. He was none other than Chinchin, who had probably come from the Bubble Way.
"Shut the hell up!!! J-Just who the hell are you!!!??" On the other hand, Chiyo shouted, but she didn't even look at Chinchin as her attention was solely directed at the persistent woman in front of him. She never thought of getting tangled in this situation, however, she couldn't help it, especially seeing her constantly getting caught up with Sia's spearmanship and abnormal evasion techniques.
Hearing the shout, Chinchin, who came with great anger suddenly calmed down as he looked at the distance, and there, he saw Chiyo fighting against Sia whom he thought was silent and non-combatant, and just by looking at their fight, he could tell no one was gaining the upper hand.
Chinchin was about to help when suddenly he heard something that caught his attention and there he saw a headless monster flying before falling down to the ground. After that, he saw Lev walking closer to it before seeing something that was completely unscientific.
Meanwhile, as everyone was busy looking and mending the commotion, Lev could be found looking at the shadow soldier kneeling in front of him. He couldn't help but smile seeing that he was successful in one try. The shadow soldier he created was from the Golem that Chiyo brought with them, and he felt like he wanted to test it out since it was said that it was a creature that was created through many creatures.
"Well, then. Skill Transfer." Lev moved his hand toward the forehead of the shadow soldier. As it was a completely humanoid type of beast, it was very compatible with any human combat technique and so he wanted to make the most monstrous being in this world by giving it all the skills he acquired from Mansam, Jiro, Ichiryu, and most especially the Four Heavenly Kings.
As it was a shadow soldier, the skill transfer was done immediately without any complications. Lev looked at it with a smile before ordering it to stand. He then said, "Your name will be King from now on, and I will soon make you the strongest next to me and my summons."
"Sia, end it." Len then ordered which made everyone in the area immediately look at Sia.
On the other hand, Sia, upon hearing Lev's order, immediately falls back some distance before taking out another spear in her storage ring while closing her eyes. Not before long, she opened them up, but this time, she finally activated her trump card, the Shariggan.
Following that, Sia's speed suddenly burst out which was greater than what she had shown so far. Chiyo, who was caught off guard, still managed to raise her guard up by using Chopping Board Shield to block but it was immediately crumbled as it wasn't enough to stop Sia from seeing blue waves gathered onto her spear's tip and continued sending out to Chiyo.
Chiyo could only brace herself and successfully parried the attack. However, just when she thought it was the end, she saw Sia start bombarding her with a spear attack that left her no choice but to jump into the sky to retreat from her, or so she thought.
"Just perfect." Sia muttered before she raised the spears in both hands, and from there, lights gathered at the tip of her spears before transforming into a beam that struck the target above in the form of a dragon. It was a skill she had devised since she started using two spears, and it was also something that she had mastered just recently.
Chiyo looked at the dragons with dread before trying to parry them with her skills, but found it futile, and when she was about to give up, she found the two dragons pass her. She smiled triumphantly upon seeing that it missed. With that, she looked at Sia below and her kitchen knife then turned bright as if it was being imbued with lightning.
"No matter how I looked at it. This skill really was beautiful." Lev said, but surprisingly enough, almost everyone heard it. He couldn't help but think just how lucky Sia was to have such a job in the system.
Chiyo, who had finally taken notice of Lev, couldn't help but be taken aback as it was only until now did she realized that he was here, and from the looks of it, she felt like the woman she was fighting was probably his combo partner. She was about to attack when suddenly she saw the dragons that had passed her turn their heads back.
"Single Stroke Grill Cut." Suddenly, a voice echoed throughout the place before showing the dragons' heads severed and stopping their attacks from coming to Chiyo. Everyone felt greatly shocked seeing yet another person appear before a huge screeching sound echoed as a humongous flying shark beast appeared in the sky.
"So, you have come yet again, Starjun." Lev greeted as he appeared right next to Sia. He then looked at the GT Robot in the distance with a large sword-like kitchen knife engulfed in flames in his hand. Following that, he also looked in a different direction, and there he saw Toriko with his long blue hair while smiling at them.
Not long after that, Chiyo immediately retreated together with another person as they looked at Lev and the others while waiting for the GT Robot a.k.a. Starjun. They could not help but admit that their attack this time was a failure after the intervention of several variables like Sia.
"Chiyo, just why?!!" Chinchin also came closer to Lev as he looked at Chiyo beside the GT Robot. Though he was completely surprised by the sudden turn of events, he still needed to take priority over Chiyo, her wife, who had come to the side of Bishokukai.
"I'll tell yo—" Before Lev could say something, Starjun appeared in front of his face and initiated an attack. His hand covered in blue flame, however, such an attack looked like slow motion to Lev upon seeing him blocking it with his hand covered with Haki.
….Boom…..
The excess force took everyone by surprise, especially those who were close. They couldn't help but back off a little to see what was happening. Sia, however, wasn't that affected, but she still retreated, trying to take the people who may have caught up from the fight.
"I never read it in the script. So, you want a taste of me that badly huh?" Lev said before raising his hand from which a huge knife energy was created. Without holding back, he then brings it down, but unfortunately, Starjun gets away from his grasp, but still, due to how big it is, he still gets caught up with it.
As the knife energy touched the ground, it felt like the ground was being sliced in half upon seeing how a huge cut was made on it with Starjun on the other side protecting Chiyu and the other man. As there's no change in his expression due to the fact that he was only operating a GT Robot, there's no way to know what he felt after that attack.
"Kahhh. As much as I want to end this fight. The people behind your back still had a role to play in the story. So, I will let you go for now, but in exchange, I want this beast that you were using as a ride." Lev said before ordering King to make a move that gains everyone's attention.
King immediately moved, but it was being eaten by the beast instead. However, not long before that, the beast started wailing nonstop before finally falling down with its lifeless body.
"By the way, that is King. It was the creature that you created, but it was now mine." Lev said before seeing King get out of the beast's body and appear right beside him. He then just looked at Starjun before seeing him and his companions leaving without even saying anything.