A spear and feather

Shocked by the sudden presence of Sun Wukong, I completely forgot my imminent free fall until the monkey king himself picked me up.

"Uh? You know me?"

Who the fuck doesn't?

I couldn't help but marvel, this was someone who reached godhood by sheer effort, how could anyone not be left in a daze upon meeting him?

"Either way, we can talk later, your battle is still going on."

As if a mental spell was broken with his words, i turned my attention back to the Raijin who had just noticed the presence of my incantation descending upon him.

Probably sensing the magic behind the attack of my 30 jade arrows, he lifted his drums to protect himself, only to be met with an unexplainable situation. Not all my arrows found their mark, clearly archery wasn't my forte, but those that did, completely destroyed the drums and the others were able to procure enough damage surrounding him that left the beast no space for action.

Realising the chance given by the incantation I took out my spear and blinked away. Freed from the worry of the thunderous drums, I engaged in close combat with the slightly injured monkey that was still fuming with rage by the fact that my butterflies had broken the bond with the thunderbird. I didn't have much leeway, my Archana was almost completely depleted and at most, I could fight for 30 more seconds giving my all.

Pushing my self to the limit, I concentrated a good portion of my remaining Archana on my bident.

Dance of Damocles, 1st form: Jeté.

My spear was thrown and the monkey got ready to deflect it with his martial arts, but just as it was about to make contact, I blinked and interrupted the attack to immediately follow up.

Dance of Damocles, 2nd form: Allegro.

My spear begun a blur of feints and real stabs confusing my enemy, I even lowered my presence through the stealth technique of my family. Like a phantom on the battlefield, my existence was flickering between reality and imagination, until finally, a deep violent stab pierced my enemy's chest.

The Raijin widened its eye looking at the spear impaling its heart, but i was not done yet and released all the accumulated Archana from my 1st form directly into the beast body.

BOOM.

A loud explosion followed my attack and lightning erupted from the mokey's body, I retrieved my spear and the lifeless body of the raisin fell to the ground.

As soon as the congratulations from the system appeared I also fell to the ground. I knew, there was another enemy to weary about, but if Odysseus, Hali and Aaron couldn't handle it, well. I guessed we'd all die.

But before anyone could react, the giant eagle spotted me and launched in my direction. The speed of an almost B rank creature was nothing to scoff at, but I didn't even have enough Archana to blink away, so I just waited for my imminent demise.

The other's screams reached me, but there really was nothing I'd be able to do even if I wanted. I did try to raise my spear, but the eagle snatched it away and started nuzzling its head at my chest.

What the fuck?

Yes, the giant eagle we were trying to hunt down for Odysseus' next spirit formula was cuddling on my chest, even going as far as reducing its own size to better snuggle and it was slowly filling me with electric Archana.

"It seems this little guy is fond of you, who are you really?"

Sun Wukong, the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal, stood before me with an amused look. Soon however, my companions were near us and looked at the monkey King with suspicion.

"Odysseus, don't even bother. This isn't possibly his real body, if that was the case, we'd already be dead anyway."

Aaron, who had my same level of knowledge, recognised the divine being in a heart beat, and just like me:

"HEAVEN'S EQUAL!!!!"

The man in question simply started laughing heartily and looking at me he innocently asked:

"Is he your brother or something?"

"…"

Silence fell at once, and the unease crept on everyone, especially Aaron who clearly considered me his brother, but wasn't sure of my feelings, which I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

"Sore spot?"

"It's complicated Great Sage-"

"Just Wukong."

"Yeah, sure… either way… how should I put it. My soul belongs to this dimension, and is indeed this guy's younger brother, but this body does not and we are completely unrelated."

"Ahhh, you transmigrated! I see why I can feel blood of 3 constellations that have no authority here now."

Of course Sun Wukong was a constellation himself, why didn't I even consider it?

"So… you're clearly from Poseidon and you are from Athena." He precisely pointed at Hali and Odysseus before turning my way.

"You however… never mind, not my business."

"What? What's wrong with me?"

I was speechless, this shameless bastard threw the stone and hid the hand!

"Oh? You're brave enough to curse me?"

"So what? You gonna kill me? Not much I can do against it either way."

Wukong clearly amazed by my antics, decided to indulge me.

"You're not gonna be able to understand either way. You are both Zeus' and ####'s son"

As the second name left his mouth, everyone present felt a terrible headache and shot our eyes wide open. The now smaller than my head eagle, feeling my distress, filled me with even more Archana to make me recuperate until I was able to breath again and without missing a beat I casted [garden of illusory flowers] to heal everyone present.

"Fucking bastard, just say we can't hear it instead of trying to kill us!"

"You're just too weak, not my problem."

The veins in my head popped. With the most unassuming smile I could muster, I faced the bastard monkey.

"Of course we are, after all I've been training for less then a year, how could we compare to the more than 500 years you spent in solitary training."

Electricity started to emit from my body, Sun Wukong's eyes, already red, intensified their color. Everyone here was shocked for a different reason.

Hali because she realised I've been training for less then a year, Aaron for the simple fact that Wukong existed and Odysseus because I seemed to be allergic to the concept of being respectful of constellations.

"Brat, sign a contract with me."

"No."

My answer came faster then he could blink. I was not, under any circumstances, signing a contract with a constellation. I didn't sign one with my parents, I wasn't going to sign one with him.

"I can give you Ruyj if you sign with me."

"As if I could possibly lift that staff."

Shock was clearly edged on this man face, my knowledge was clearly too well detailed for him.

"How do you even know?"

"Your story is basic knowledge in this world, almost everyone knows you."

"Haaa, that's why I've been receiving probability."

I left the man to his own affairs and turned to Odysseus. With the Thunderbird snuggling on my chest, nobody wanted to kill it anymore, but I knew he wanted its spirit essence. I lifted from the ground and walked to the Raijin's body under everyone's scrutiny, but when I touched its body, it dissolved into electricity that entered my body, leaving behind a set of drums and a book.

The set of drums was clearly an artefact, but the book was what really interested me.

"Ohhh you're quite the lucky bastard, even if Raijins are superior monsters, they seldom release skill books."

Sun Wukong's voice came from my left. This man was a persisten bastard.

"Sure, I'd be happier if the bastard dropped its spirit formula, at least our ordeal wouldn't be completely useless."

"But you don't have a wind circle, why bother? You only have nature affinity either way."

This fucking monkey.

"It's not for me! It's for Odysseus!"

The great sage was looking at me as if I was saying some blasphemy.

"You'd share your spoils when they did nothing?"

"What are you even talking about? They were fighting this little guy the whole time! Without them I would have never had any chance to begin with."

He seemed to ponder my words for sometime and with the brightest smile I could ever imagine just pointed at the eagle stil nuzzling on my chest.

"I'm not killing the little guy."

"Fucking bastard, don't jump to conclusions. Just ask him for the spirit feather, it'll grow back anyway."

This was my turn to be shocked and confused.

"You can do such a thing?"

"Well, he clearly likes you, I think he'll give it, but you should exchange it for something."

Odysseus then interjected.

"Wait! If it's for me, I'll be the one making the exchange!"

He then proceeded to take out a bag full of mana stones from his inventory and giving them to me I proceeded to make the request.

Shockingly enough, the eagle just stripped himself of his tail feather, snatched the mana stones and flew away.

During the entire exchange I was in a complete daze, unable to believe what was happening in front of my eyes.

Of course I myself had hit the jackpot with the Long spirit, but I still had to work hard before actually getting it, this however was… stupidly easy.

I gave the spirit formula to Odysseus who thanked me with a kiss. I was still in a daze and didn't realise what was happening before me.

Apparently, Sun Wukong asked everyone to leave us alone, and the traitors complied without thinking about it twice.

"Are you gonna wake up or should I kiss you as well."

I looked at Sun wukong's smirk and my nerves popped again.

"Well, you are hot enough, but I only top."

Blush crept on his face, while Odysseus' darkened. He clearly heard me.

That's what you get for leaving me alone with this psycho.

"Take out your spear!!!"

"Sure."

I started to undo my jeans, when Odysseus and Wukong screamed at the same time.

"YOUR BIDENT! YOUR BIDENT DIMITRIS! NOT THAT SPEAR!"

"Eh, figures."

Both of them exhaled with relief. But I still didn't take out my bident.

"What are you waiting for?"

"I'm honestly scared. The fuck do you want me to do?"

"Haaa, you think I wanna fightcha! Nahh just show me that spear art."

That left me even more confused, why would he need to see my spear art when he used a staff? However I decided to comply, he clearly had some ulterior motives for being here, but if I could get pointers I'd gladly take then. Learning from someone was clearly better than learning from a book.

I started with the basic footwork and style, my movement sharp and clean, yet elegant to then proceed with the 2 forms I was able to produce as of now.

When I was done, I watched Wukong expectant of judgment, but he frowned instead.

Am I that fucking bad?

"It's different. Why is it different?"

Oh…

I then realised what it was that he really wanted to see. I changed my breathing, my heartbeat almost dropping to 0. The air around me got cold and heavy, my emotions sealed behind a mask of nothingness. In that moment, I existed and at the same time I didn't. I was one with nature.

I repeated the showcase I did before, but now merged with my stealth technique and I felt it as well.

The entirety of the spear art changed drastically. Every step, every stab, every slash, it felt like I was and was not hitting at the same time. My spear a feather fluttering in the air, almost possessed. My presence a phantom shifting in and out of reality.

When I was done, a sonorous laughter erupted from Sun Wukong.

"You felt it too right?"

I nodded weakly, this revelation gave me a lot to think about. This first patriarch truly was an exceptional person.

"My spear art… is not complete…"

"That. Let's complete it!!!"