Understanding the rules

A beam of golden light pierced through a strange darkness on the branch of a tree as it shone on a face.Vather's golden blue eyes slowly opened as he immediately jumped up from the branch he was seating on his spear appearing in his hands.His eyes surveyed the the forest but everything around him was dark due to him already absorbing the light when using Origin tempering.

Lightly pressing his legs on the branch,he was thrown upward from the force as he turned his body mid-air and landed on another branch on the tree. Vather's spear slowly disappeared from his hands as he stood up properly looking at the forest where he was in.There were no beast around him as he saw many other trees around him with the same height.Everything was oddly quiet in the forest except for the slight chirping of some small birds and insects.

Sitting on the tree branch,he immersed himself into his body as he saw all his torn muscles and broken bone has been properly fixed.His almost shattered meridians has been repaired and it seems as if they have even enlarged to twice their former size while white light were slowly reflected of their surface.Vather sucked in a deep breath as he couldn't believe just how much his almost irreparable body has been fixed.Checking his holographic watch,he discovered that it's been three days since his last beating.Three days and he didn't even open his eyes since then,he can only thank his luck for no beast coming around the place but unknown to Vather,beasts came to the place but where scared away by the strange absence of light and the ghostly white flames they could barely see in it.

Remembering the tail smack he was given by the snake,Vather gnashed his teeth together as he swore to take his revenge as soon as possible but the cultivation of the snake to make him almost dead from a single smack must have surpassed the early core formation stages but that won't stop him from eating a good snake meat in the future.

But first he has to understand where he is now.Vather jumped down from the tree as he landed on the ground and slowly walked around the vicinity.He couldn't find any beast around a kilometer so he slowly marked the place as his territory,his new home was the huge tree branch now, well, until he could find a better one.

He slowly made his way out of his territory and moved round the forest,it wasn't long before Vather found a leopard-like beast with completely black skin and huge claws,An horrifying aura was emanating from it's body but it seems to be in slumber.An holographic image appeared in front of Vather.

//A beast with a special bloodline at the late meridian stage has been found//

//An impure bloodline of the silent night cat has been found//

//Defeat the beast to obtain +40EXP//

Vather clicked his tongue twice but he ignored the message as he kept moving round the forest coming across different beasts in the forest, which he made sure to ignore.

The sun slowly appeared in the distance as darkness slowly emerged in the forest.Vather climbed up the tree as he moved higher and higher before coming before a branch that he felt was high enough.He did this because If a beast was to try and climb up that high,he would have been easily notified and it offered some type of privacy for him as the huge tree flowers and branches obstructed the sights of his predators making Vather unnoticeable.

Lightning flared from his finger as he slowly carved a map on the tree.A small circle was drawn on the tree which he marked with a V representing his territory,A larger circle was drawn around his own small circle which Vather denoted with an L reprensenting the leopard-like creature.Nine more circles like that were drawn representing the different creatures Vather came across in the forest.A peculiar thing he noticed was that there was about a kilometer radius which separate the beast from each other making some type of harmony exist within the forest as he noticed the beast didn't infringe on one another's territory.With that he can easily guess that an infringement will lead to a life and death battle,with the loser being killed or repeled while the winner becomes the new territory owner.

Another thing he noticed is that each beast he came across had a special bloodline and their cultivation seems to increase the more deeper he goes into the forest.

He slowly drew a box around the circles. Outside of it he wrote an S mark which denoted the swamp where he was teleported into that leads to the forest itself.At the end of the forest was a mystery to him as the aura of the beast at the end sent Vather back.At the end of the forest, he saw beasts above the meridian forging stages and if he was noticed crossing their territory will lead to a big mistake as he would only be given another beating.

Vather stood up from the branches as he stared into the sky,he discovered the countless stars present that emits beautiful lights while also seeing the three moons hanging in the sky making the night less darker compared to the military base.

The wind blew past Vather,lifting his golden hair up as he watched the stars with his two hands resting in his pockets.Golden lights twinkling on his waste length haori as he took a deep breath,he removed his hands from the pockets as he slowly toched the crystal embedded in his forehead which pulses with green light in increasing intensity.A small smile appeared on his face as it was the only thing that was there with him, witnessing his nightmares, stopping him from collapsing from them and also giving him the greatest source of his power,the Supreme Blood system.

His left hand slowly trailed on the golden pattern on his haori as this was also one of the thing that mattered closely to his heart.Even though he wouldn't say he accepted to be the man's disciple as their relationship was more or less a business partnership.He was nonetheless grateful for his care as Vather knew the cloth mattered greatly to him but he gave it out to Vather,which shows the position he put Vather in his heart.

He slowly reminisce about his past as a tear drop slowly rolled down his eyes

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On top of a huge mansion,two moons could be seen high in the sky shining it's light on two people a middle aged man and a boy.

"Vather,since your birthday is today,tell me,I will fulfill a wish of yours today".The man said in a gentle voice a beautiful smile appeared on his as he tossed the golden hair of the boy sitting on his legs.

"A single wish to be granted,huh,".Then I'll use it to ask you a question, I wish you'll be honest with me".The young man replied his childish voice echoing in the air.

"A question,hehe,then ask away,the truth I promise you."The man replied his beautiful smile widening even more.

"Father,I was playing on your bed today when I accidentally hit my end on the ground but it sounds as if my head hit a metal,so I opened the rug and found a hole which contained some files.It says many things about you that I couldn't understand but I saw a place that said you don't have a wife and that you have an adopted child.Who am I father".The young man ask his hair covering his face as he tried to remove them from his face.

"You are my son,of course.When I found you,I was losing a war and at the point of my death,when suddenly I found myself standing before a man.He looked at me and said to me I won't survive, which I very well knew.So he said to me he will make me survive and even make us humans win the war if I accomplish a task for him.I can sense the confidence in his voice,the regal air around him making me believe in what he says without a single doubt.I said to him that I am willing to do anything if he can make us humans win the war with the devirs.He nodded his hand as I saw myself being carried into the air,He placed his hands on my eyes,as I could feel power course through me,a power unbelievable,a power I couldn't comprehend,I felt myself filled with strength,a strength so great I couldn't sense the limits of.

As I stood before him,He slowly brought out something from his hands behind his back.It was a baby with golden hair.He said the task he will give to me is to raise him up as my own son,if I do so the war will be won, and he also gave me a book before he slowly faded away as I found myself back in the battlefield."

"Oh,and where is the book",the naive child ask who can't even comprehend what the man was even saying.

"Oh the book, It's with me, I'm sorry I can't give it to you know as he told me to give it to you when you are 17."

"Oh,"the boy pouted his lips as he swallowed another huge chocolate bar into his mouth.

"And what did the strong man say again",he asked

"He said if you have fate with him,then you shall surely meet with him again."

The man said looking at the boy a serious expression on his face but Vather was busy stuffing chocolate bar in his mouth.

The man smiled as he looked at the boy before him,before standing up and carrying him on his shoulder as they both went back into the mansion.

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"I miss you all"A voice containing yearning said out like a gentle whisper in the forest as Vather slowly cleaned the tear drop on his face.Jumping back on one of the tree branches he lied on his back,as his golden blue eyes slowly closed,a small snore emerging from his lips a moment later.