Challenge (1)

Elder May was informed that Horo had arrived. She was already on stage entertaining the crowd beyond their imagination. No one ever so much as heard her speak more than five sentences. 

Yet, today she was joking jubilantly, talking about all of the so-called scoundrels who attempted to become her disciple but were far from worthy. She even talked about her peers and their "terribly low" standards. She reminisced as she talked about how her and Eleanor's generation was the best in the kingdom, especially herself. 

She talked about how she once kicked the Azure Queen's ass while laughing the air out of her lungs, how the Empyrean Lord chased her for decades trying to woo her, and how she ran the Black Wind Lord off for trying to woo Eleanor without being worthy of her. 

The palace master couldn't help but facepalm hearing everything Elder May talked about, even she couldn't believe that May was acting this way. She hadn't seen her lifelong friend like this since they were young prodigies whose names rang bells across the entire continent and further. 

Still, she was happy to see her friend, who could be considered a sister, so excited on this occasion. 

The entire palace was present on this occasion. Elder May was truly expressing herself, but she was also doing so to lighten the mood because she was sensitive to emotions due to her powers. She could feel jealousy, resentment, and many other emotions present in many of the disciples. Mostly the core disciples and special disciples because they felt like they were actually worthy to be her personal disciple much more than Horo. 

Everyone had plenty of laughs, and many more faces of shock hearing everything Elder May said. They knew she would never lie about such things, even though she said it jokingly, she definitely wasn't joking. 

After feeling the mood of the entire crowd shift more positively, she got to the point. 

"My disciple Horo will now come to the stage to speak or show his majesty, whatever he likes. Any of you who are willing to challenge him and show me that I made that wrong decision by accepting him as my cherished disciple have the right to do so. But I will say this, all weaklings need to stay in their place because I will punish him for holding back, so he will absolutely be handing out ass whoopings. Never mind."

Every one was baffled by what she said. Some were even angry for her having the nerve to say something like this, even if it was the walking legend elder May herself speaking. 

This was because they all had recently seen Horo's power when he battled elder Bai's disciple. He was only at most in the expert stage after this little amount of time. She had to be out of her mind thinking he wouldn't be embarrassed by some of the core or personal disciples. 

The exception were those that had seen Horo on his way to meet the palace master. They were completely entranced by him, but some were still able to feel something different about him other than his looks. He seemed like a volcano, something that could erupt with ferocious power at any moment. 

There weren't that many of them that witness him then, but they were the ones that chose to warn their close friends about what they witness and to not provoke him. 

Everyone in the crowd were discussing, seething, scoffing, and more. So much so that they didn't notice elder May had disappeared from the stage and went high up in the seats with the core elders, high elders, and palace master. 

The entire crowd were in different sections of the stadium, and they all had different areas. All of the strongest disciples were towards the back, and the higher ups of the sect were above them. 

Everyone's suddenly snapped their heads so fast towards the stage that some even got whiplash. 

This was because they heard something coming up the stage, and it wasn't steps. 

It was Horo's sacred heart. He had all of his skills that pretty much made him nonexistent, and then he activated Ferocious heart. 

As he walked with each step his heart thumped ferociously, and it even made all of their heart attempt to match it's beat. The higher he got up the stairs the more he let the passive effects loose. All of the ones related to his aura, disposition and charm, this included some effects emperors regal aura. 

He also had absolute control active, and he had it going full throttle. He control all of these abilities and effects and formed them into a strange field. 

When he was all the way on the stage, he pressed this field on all of the disciples ferociously. 

And the result was something he hoped for, as well as something he absolutely wanted to avoid.

"You have created the skill [Mesmerization]"

"You have created the skill [Pure Fear]"

You have created the skill [Absolute Reverence]"