Book 6: Chapter 43 – Harsh Truths

  Whilst everyone found themselves mesmerised by Aiden’s givesmanship, Fain, as the one fag it, was too busy fighting for his life to really get the ce to take irue profundities of Aiden’s givesmanship in all its glory.

  Still, aside from Ad Aiden himself, he better than anyone uood just hhtening each strike was. Although only subtle, he had this feeling that going against Aiden was like going against the wind in all its might.

  Ge swift, elega sharp, everywhere yet nowhere, but above all, urained and uered.

  ‘HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!’ The blue-haired prime saint roared in his mind.

  His boundless fury had long since been doused by the ever-nearing feeling of death. Right now, like his junior brother, all he wao do was flee with his tail between his legs, but with how deadly each of Aiden’s strikes was, he khat the momeurned his back to try and flee, he would suffer a potentially life-threatening injury.

  The worst part was that he felt that, although Aiden’s strength remai the peak of the saint realm, his givesmanship actually seemed to be improving at a slow but still noticeable pace. A fact that only served to make him more and more restless.

  It wasn’t long before wounds started accumuting on the formerly overfident swordsman.

  ‘If I stay here any longer, I’ll die,’ Fain thought to himself franticly as a deep gash appeared across his chest. “FUCK OFFF!”

  Fain roared as he willed a torrent of lightning te out of his sword, trying to force Aiden back long enough for him to escape. Unfortunately, as incredibly quick as he was, Aiden’s give seemed to be twice as fast.

  “ARGGGHHHH!” Fain howled in agony as his body turned into a streamer, fleeing faster than most could follow.

  “Haha, he fled pretty quickly.” Wukong ughed, taking no small amount of pleasure in the man’s pain. “He eve an arm as a parting gift.”

  That’s right, by Aiden’s feet was Fain’s arm, ly severed from the shoulder down. Lucky for him, it was his non-sword-wielding arm.

  Still, unless he were to find a saint-level healer who specialised in the ws of light or Edict of Life or broke through to the deity realm, he would remain a one-armed swordsman for the rest of his life.

  Aiden didn’t seem that phased by the severed limb, or the fact that his oppo had gotten away. He merely rubbed his temples as his eyes sed the remaining saints.

  His eyes had lost their former sharpness, nor was he emitting any killing i, but as the High Priest’s sed disciple – Felicia – and the others saw him looking over, their bodies involuntarily trembled.

  “We’ll be on our way then, Lord Aiden,” Felecia said mildly, trying her best to suppress her fear.

  In response, all she got was a dismissive grunt, but that grunt was like music to their ears. None of them hesitated for a sed as all of the enemy saints turned into streamers as they flew into the dista breakneck speeds.

  Seeing their leaders leaving, what was left of the enemy’s army desperately wao flee, but they didn’t dare move. As ridiculous as it souhey all hoped that if they simply stayed still and quiet, the group of monsters in front of them would fet about their existence. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite work out that way.

  Ace’s eyes swept over them, causing their legs to weaken suddenly. With his current level of strength, Ace was very much capable of destroying this battalion with a mere wave of his hand. Fortunately for them, he had no i in mindless sughter, especially of those who were so much weaker than him.

  Still, he wouldn’t just let them go without making his enemies suffer slightly.

  “All of you,” Ace addressed the special battalion from the Yun Empire. “Drop your ons and remove your armour, then you may go.”

  Some of those soldiers, he anders, were equipped with top-tier ons and armours, something they’d be heartbroken to lose on any other day, but today, as they heard Ace’s words, they couldn’t be any happier.

  Uhe circumstances, despite losing their belongings, they felt as though they had just gotten their hands on a supreme treasure, and in a sehey weren’t wrong; after all, what was more valuable than life itself?

  But when they heard Aiden’s voice, they couldn’t help but feel as though the grim reaper was standing right behind them, the cold, hard bde of his merciless scythe pressed against their necks.

  “Hold on,” Aiden said slowly, his voice causing each of them to pale. “Before you go, I need you to pass on a message to your leaders.”

  “Uh… Ye… Yes, milord… An… Anything…” The general leading this group muttered fearfully, not daring to meet the gaze of the man who just bullied one of the most powerful saints on the ti.

  “Tell them they are free to tinue fighting against this foolish disciple of mine,” Aiden expined casually, paying no attention to the gre he was receiving from Ace. “Even if he were to die at their hands, they would fao retaliation from either myself or a the Pavilion.”

  His words came as a shoost everyone listening, including Linley and Bebe. The only ones not shocked by his words were those who knew him.

  This was just how he was. Even if the Pavilioen times stronger and had the power to pletely suppress every single for the ti several times over, Aiden would still make the same decision.

  He better than anyone khat for a young talent to truly turn into a peerless expert, they needed copious amounts of pressure, and for a talent on the level of this disciple of his to really excavate his potential, a mere O’Brien Empire and Dark Alliance was far from enough. It would take the bined might of all the major forces to put enough pressure on him.

  Aside from when he was referred to as foolish, Ace didn’t so much as bat an eyelid at his master’s words. His train of thought aligned perfectly with his master. In fact, after disc the secret pocket dimension, he doubted whether even all of them bined would be able to create enough pressure for him, sidering his rate of growth.

  “Okay,” Aiden said, waking the Yun General from his daze. “Now you go.”

  “Than… Thank you, Milord,” The general said, scurrying away in nothing but his underwear. “I’ll make sure my leaders receive your message.”

  “Mmh,” Aiden grunted dismissively before turning to his disciple with a smirk on his face. “What do you think? Not bad, right?”

  “It’s incredible!” Ace agreed uantly, his eyes shining with anticipation.

  Ace’s words were what everyone else was thinking as they looked at the monstrous existehat was the invincible mortal – Aiden Rohault. Still, it made Aiden ugh boisterously, as he had never seen su expression of pure-hearted admiration on Ace.

  “Alright, e with me. I’ll expihod of utilising cepts,” Aiden chortled, clearly in a great mood. “Wukong, you e too. In fact, Jordy, go collect the rest of the brats and bring them. I’ll expin it to all of them at once.

  Even if they’re not ready to begin prehending cepts, at their rate of improvement, it’s only a matter of time.”

  As he said to there, he noticed the azure-coloured Dragonblood Warrior standing in the sky, looking down at him with a mix of longing and a hint of reverence.

  Thinking back to the talent of his disciple, like Ace, he k was only a matter of time before this ti cked the ability to provide him with any sort of pressure. The only one who had a ce at tinuing to pressure him would be Linley.

  He had seen a a multitude of experts from the families of the four supreme warriors, including the four supreme warriors themselves; still, none of theirs could even begin to pare to the purity of Linley’s bloodline.

  But the most impressive point about the young Patriarch of the Baru was that, uhe rest of his , who all had mediocre affio the elements, Linley’s were simply exceptional.

  Aside from his average affinity to the ws of fire, he had exceptional affio the ws of wih, and Water. The st of which had actually surpassed the exceptional grade, matg that of Ace’s affinity to the ws of fire, his niece’s affio the ws of light and wind – when she wasn’t using her newly awakened bloodline – and Killian’s affinity to the ws of earth after eating that Earth Root Fruit.

  He even had a slight affinity to the Edict of Destru, though it oor at best.

  Still, all things sidered, Linley’s talent was no weaker than Ad Amira’s in the slightest. Iure, he may well be the only person capable of rivalling Ace.

  As such, when he saw the look of longing on Linley’s face, he ughed calmly before nodding. “Brat, you e too.”

  “Errm, Lord Aiden,” Kaymin voiced hesitantly, uo hide his hope and anticipation. The allure of Aiden’s dispy was too much for him to stay quiet in the face of su opportunity. “May I e as well?”

  “You?” Aiden asked as he looked at the former duke befng towards his brother, who also looked at him in anticipation.

  “You may both listen in,” Aiden sighed. “But I suggest you don’t.”

  “But brother…”

  “Listen to me first,” Aiden said, cutting off his dejected younger brother. “Both of you be sidered geniuses in your ht; if you weren’t, you never would’ve reached your curres. Still, in terms of your affinities, her of you pare to these brats, all of whom have at least an exceptional affinity to at least one of the elements.”

  “You o uand, this path I’ve retly uhed is still in its embryonic stages. For these brats, walking down both paths at the same time would likely help them, but if the two of you, with your limited talents, were to bee distracted from prehending the profound mysteries of your respective ws, ces are, you wouldn’t walk very far oher path.”

  Aiden’s words were blunt and direct, but he had no iion of ming words. He was being ho for their own good. As his brother, and a talented expert of his home, he didn’t waher of them to walk down the wrong path because they were blinded by greed. Still, at the end of the day, the decision was theirs to make.

  Thankfully, though he wasn’t around much, the position Aiden held in the hearts of the Rohault Empire’s experts was above all and sed to none, even more so after his ret dispy.

  “I uand,” Emperor Jordon said helplessly, uanding his brother would never do anything that wasn’t for his own be. “I’ll follow your advice.”

  “Me too,” Kaymin sighed, uo hide his disappoi.

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