Talent

A figure jumped from one tree to the other and was approaching the hole, in which Han Jin had hidden himself, at an extremely fast speed. It was none other than Sunier, who had heard Han Jin's roaring.

The hole was hidden, but it was only hidden for holy animals. As for Sunier, she had figured out the exact location immediately and had appeared in front of the hole after several leaps. 

What she saw inside startled her. Though she still could recognize Han Jin's face, it was swollen with numerous worm-like blood streaks, and his cheeks were violently twitching. His eyes were tightly closed, and the veins in his forehead were popping out. He looked like a wild savage. 

Dozens of Yuan's of energy was not much, but if uncontrolled, it could cause unexpected damages. This was like a piece of an integrated motherboard. If the electric current from outside didn't flow according to specific routes, the motherboard would likely suffer great damages. 

Fortunately, Han Jin's body was much stronger than a lifeless motherboard; at least he could absorb some of the energy. The problem was that he could try to reduce some damages, but he couldn't resist all of them.

"What's wrong with you, Raphael?" Sunier pushed Han Jin worriedly.

Hearing the sound, Han Jin suddenly opened his eyes. His pupils turned blood red. His hand stretched out and grabbed Sunier's blond hair.

In fact, Sunier was the strongest professional among all of them, but after living together for several days, they had built trust in each other. She had always thought that Han Jin was just a prophet without any fighting capacity, thus she was caught off guard and her hair was tightly grabbed by him. Just as she was astonished and wishing to question Han Jin, he had already stretched out his other hand and put forth his strength to tear at the soft armour in front of her chest. Right now, Han Jin was totally out of his mind; the only thing in his mind was brutality.

Sunier's tears almost flowed out in pain. She shook her right fist instinctively and pounded Han Jin's chest.

Boom! The place pounded by Sunier left a huge mark. His body was knocked into the air and it left a big hole in the tree before rolling down involuntarily, but his hand still firmly grasped her hair. This proved that such a blackguardly tactic was very useful. In order to protect her hair, and to avoid the pain, Sunier was forced to fly through the hole and drop with him.

But in mid-air, she was not at leisure. Instead, her hands were violently punching Han Jin's chest. If it wasn't because she couldn't exert all her strength during mid-air, Han Jin would have been beaten to death already.

Plop! Both of them fell heavily onto the grass. A stream of blood shot out from Han Jin's mouth and onto Sunier's face. After being punched so fiercely and colliding heavily against the ground, his injury was severely aggravated.

Sunier gasped with astonishment. She thought that she had fallen into another plot again, thus she hurriedly drew out an arrow and stabbed Han Jin's forehead between his eyebrows. The intention of killing him occurred in her mind.

After being heavily mauled, sweat and blood rushed out from Han Jin's throat. The rampaging energy inside his body had finally found an outlet and released with a gush of blood. Then, he recovered his consciousness, but the severe injury had made him unable to even move a single finger. He could do nothing but helplessly stare at the sharp arrow that was coming toward him.

At this juncture, the wrathful eyesight of Sunier's came across Han Jin's desperate and helpless eyesight. She found that the blood red in his eyes had already faded. She was suddenly tenderhearted and tried to stop her arm, but it was too late. The arrow had already stabbed into Han Jin's forehead, blood dripping down.

"Raphael?" She cried tentatively.

"I..." Han Jin replied weakly. He did not dare nod because the arrow was still between his eyebrows.

"What was going on just now?" Sunier didn't relax her vigilance.

"My legs... they seem broken, and my ribs..." Han Jin murmured with pain all over his face. He tried to change the subject and gain Sunier's sympathy from his injuries.

"Tell me, what happened?" Sunier asked coldly. 

Seeing that his plan had failed, Han Jin fell into silence. He didn't know how to explain it. Sunier was a clever woman. She would easily see through his lie if he hastily made one up, which would make her more suspicious. 

"Tell me, my patience is limited!" Her hand moved.

Han Jin forced a bitter smile. Maybe he had no other choice but to tell her his secret this time.

 "Steelberg said you left with a magic crystal of the black raven." Sunier thought of the dark atmosphere Han Jin had just revealed, and suddenly understood something. "Where's the crystal?!"

 "I ate it," Han Jin said in a low voice.

 "Ate it?" Her eyebrows raised.

 "Because I can absorb the elements inside the magic crystal." Han Jin wanted to say energy, but he was afraid that Sunier wouldn't be able to understand.

 "What are you talking about? You can absorb the elements inside the magic crystal??" Sunier was dumbstruck, and her voice began to tremble.

 "Yes."

 "You can absorb all kinds of elements?"

 "Yes."

 "Eat this!" With a backhand, a fire-red magic crystal appeared in her palm.

Han Jin's eyes suddenly contracted a bit. It was a sixth-grade magic crystal, containing almost thousands of Jia's energy. If he ate this crystal, he would be a sixth grade professional in an instant.

 "I will die if I eat it."

 Sunier's lips curled. She tightened the tip of the arrow in her hand and asked, "Oh? Why?"

 "An ant can't drink up all the water in a river; it's the same with me. Presently, I can, at most, absorb the elements from a second grade magic crystal. After accumulating it for some time, then I can try a third-grade. I need to do this gradually."

 Sunier stopped her sneer and looked at Han Jin seriously. His face was quite magnanimous. Since he had told Sunier his most important secret, what more does he have to hide?

 Sunier gazed at him for a long time and then said it word by word, "If what you said is true, do you know what it means?"

 "What?" Han Jin asked curiously.

 "It means you have an unlimited future."

 "I don't care if my future is unlimited or not, but I know I nearly reached my limit of life just now," he forced a joke.

 But Sunier didn't find it funny. She kept silent for a long time and slowly said, "I've never heard of anyone with such a fearsome talent."

"You believe what I said?"

 "Yes," Sunier paused. "The dark atmosphere which you had released is fading now. There is only one reasonable explanation, which is that you really can absorb elements from the magic crystals."

 "Can you please lift your hand? I'm a bit dizzy." Han Jin gave a sour smile. In the terminology of the cultivation system, the place between the eyebrows was where the heavenly eye is located. Even pressing it with a finger or a pencil would make one feel very uncomfortable, let alone being stabbed by an arrow.

 "Do you know what your talent means?" Sunier kept saying in a condescending tone. She loathed the playful attitude Han Jin showed, as if he did not care about his talent at all, and that he would always change the topic to some indifferent trivial matters.

 "Of course I know, but I need magic crystals, and I need time." He had to force himself to wear a severe countenance and say, "Otherwise everything is just a fantasy." He meant it.

 "But why do you have you to absorb the elements from a magic crystal that belongs to the darkness?" Her expressions relaxed. "You can absorb all kinds of elements, can't you?"

 "I… I only have these kinds of magic crystals..."

 "Oh." Sunier nodded her head. Her eyes glanced at Han Jin's left leg, then she suddenly become somewhat unnatural and asked, "Your leg... does it hurt?"

 "Oh god! You finally remember that I am wounded." Han Jin thought to himself and was almost moved to tears, "It hurts..."

 "It's my fault. I thought you..."

 "No, don't blame yourself. It's all my fault. I never thought the dark elements would bring such a great impact that is even beyond my own control."

 "You'd better not absorb the dark elements any more, otherwise you will become a creature of the darkness sooner or later." Saying this, a trace of resentment appeared in her eyes. She didn't hate Han Jin, but she hated the dark atmosphere being released by him.

 "I know."

 "Ok, let me take you back." Sunier bent down, trying to hold up Han Jin.

 "No... You can ask Steelberg to come."

 "Can he take you back? Aren't you afraid that your injuries may become worse?" Sunier gave a faint smile. "Even I don't mind. Why are you still acting so shilly-shally?"