"Ke Ke Ke Ke, You don't have to worry about that. Because if you die, so do I." said the voice laughingly.

Then a brilliant white light suddenly appeared few distance away from s.h.i.+n. The voice sounded once again after that. "Did you see that light? All you have to do is walk towards it until you reach that light. Quite easy, isn't it?"

s.h.i.+n is still quite suspicious, especially that he can't completely trust an inner demon. "Of course I can see that, I'm not blind after all. But how about you show yourself first, before I do what you want me to do."

"I already told you that I will do no harm to you. And if you really want to see me, then pa.s.s through that light and you will reach where I am." replied the voice before disappearing completely.

s.h.i.+n still want to say something, but no matter what he do, the voice didn't reply at him at all. It is as if that voice didn't exist in the first place.

Left with no choice and since he don't have anything better to do, s.h.i.+n walk towards the light. 'Tsk, Why do I feel like this is something that a dead soul will do. Walking towards the light to get on the afterlife? Am I going to die once again?'

Then s.h.i.+n walk and walk and walk and walk towards the brilliant white light. But as the time goes by, he started to feel that there is something amiss. No matter how long he walk or how many step he take, he still can't reach the white light.

But even though that was the case, s.h.i.+n still persevere on walking forward. He don't know why, but he keep having a feeling that he need to continue doing this.

Hours turned days, days turned weeks, weeks become months, then months become years, all the way until s.h.i.+n forgot how much time have pa.s.sed.

During the process, s.h.i.+n felt a lot of things. Hunger, thirst, loneliness, dullness and many other things. s.h.i.+n almost gone crazy during this time. He even forgot why he needs to reach the s.h.i.+ning light.

Some more time have pa.s.sed, s.h.i.+n started to feel that he is getting near at the s.h.i.+ning light. But at the same time, another light appeared not far from the previous one. And this new light is much more brighter than the one that s.h.i.+n was 'chasing'. The previous light looks like a small firefly beside the brilliant white lamp when it is compared at the new one.

But even though that was the case, s.h.i.+n ignored the new light and continue walking towards the previous one. And when he do, a lot of brilliant white lights started to appeared everywhere. Some are near, some are far but a lot more brilliant than the others, some are attractive and seducing as if they are calling him.

But s.h.i.+n didn't get blinded and confused by them. He continue walking towards the first light that looks too dull compared the others. A moment later, s.h.i.+n finally reached the light that he was chasing from the start.

When his right foot stepped on that light, everything around s.h.i.+n started to change. The previously world of endless darkness suddenly transformed into a world of a never ending light.

s.h.i.+n close his eyes as he raise his right hand, blocking the sudden appearance of the blinding light. Then he suddenly heard the familiar voice once again.

"You are finally here."

s.h.i.+n took some time to adjust himself at the sudden change of the environment. And when finally adjusted himself, he tried to look for the owner of the voice.

"You are looking for me?" said the owner of the voice.

s.h.i.+n immediately turn his head at the source, and when he do, what he saw is a floating ma.s.s of black smoke. s.h.i.+n knitted his brows and asked. "Is that your real form?"

"Maybe or maybe not." replied by the voice as it started to form an outline of a person."So what are you going to teach me now?" asked s.h.i.+n.

"There is no need for that. You already pa.s.sed the test after all." said the smokey figure in a nonchalant manner. Then he continue after the slight pause. "But I'm going to tell you are pair of good and bad news."

s.h.i.+n didn't say anything and just wait for the smokey figure to continue.

"Tsk, Tsk, I knew that you are such a boring person, but still can you at least keep up with the suspense on the atmosphere? At least ask me what you want to hear first." said the smokey figure with an irritated tone.

"But you didn't ask me about it earlier." said s.h.i.+n while shrugging his shoulders. "Alright, let's go with the good one first."

The smokey figure touch his smokey chin with his smokey right hand while saying. "Hmm... Well that was not really a good news now that I think about it."

The corner of s.h.i.+n's mouth twitch after hearing that, but he didn't interrupt the smokey figure and wait for it to continue.

"Since you already already pa.s.sed my test, you already conquered your first inner demon which is me. And that also means you can now use the power of my 'Seed of Hatred'." The smokey figure pause a little to take a look a s.h.i.+n's reaction before continuing. "Unfortunately, your Internal Qi conflicts with the Demonic Qi that are coming from my 'seed'."

"So if you want to use my powers properly, you only have two choices. First is to give up with the Internal Qi produced by your Martial-Arts. The second is to look for a way to make them compliment with each other, so that you can use both of them in battle, but that was close to impossible."

s.h.i.+n is gotten confused at some points that the smokey figure have said, but he don't have enough time to point them out because the later continue talking without caring about what's running on s.h.i.+n's mind.

"Meanwhile, the bad news is that I'm the weakness and the easiest to conquer among your inner demons. I am an implanted one after all. The other two are much more harder to deal with, and not as friendly as me."

"Alright, that's all. Your time is already up, and you need to go back to the outside world now." After saying that, the smokey figure suddenly exploded and fuse with s.h.i.+n's body.

Bwoos.h.!.+

"Wait!"

Swoos.h.!.+

Then s.h.i.+n felt that his body suddenly shot upwards with an incredible speed and unstoppable force. It is as if he is being pulled by a powerful hand that is coming from the the heaven.

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In Real World, Military Laboratory.

s.h.i.+n who is currently inside the cylindrical container suddenly start convulsing.

Tut! Tut! Tut! Tut!

Then a sudden alarm alerted the personnels monitoring s.h.i.+n. "Sir! Young Master s.h.i.+n's vitals suddenly become unstable! Especially his pulse rate! It keeps rising at incredible speed."

The doctor that injected the blue colored liquid at s.h.i.+n arrived beside the person in front of the monitor and asked. "What happened? Did something went wrong? Are there some problems with our equipments."

The person replied almost instantly. "I don't know, Sir. Everything is going smoothly just recently, and our equipments are running without problem since we have started, but it suddenly become like this."

And when the people in the Lab are panicking, a powerful force suddenly exploded from s.h.i.+n's body.

BANG!!!

Then the gla.s.s wall of the cylindrical container were broken by the impact of the sudden burst of the power that came from s.h.i.+n's body.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Immediately after that, all of the apparatuses that are connected on s.h.i.+n's body suddenly become broken one by one.

"What the h.e.l.l is happening!?"

Because of the sudden chaos on the Lab, no one notice the bunch of black smoke that are being emitted by s.h.i.+n's body. The black smoke only appeared very briefly, before disappearing once again and sunk down at s.h.i.+n's body.

s.h.i.+n removed the oxygen mask that is covering the lower half of his face. Then stood up and removed the wires-with-patches on his body. After that, he tried to feel the changes on his body.

s.h.i.+n knitted his brows when felt that there is nothing wrong. "Huh? Strange, nothing changed at all, aside from my body regaining its peak state. Then what kind of power did...."

But before s.h.i.+n managed to complete his thoughts, Nathan suddenly arrived at the scene while radiating with a powerful aura.

He appeared beside s.h.i.+n and put his right hand index and middle finger at later's pulse to check the state of s.h.i.+n's body.

Nathan release a sigh of relief when he confirmed that there are nothing wrong at it. Then throw some military clothes at s.h.i.+n, before appearing beside the doctor in charge at monitoring s.h.i.+n.

"What happened? Didn't you said that everything is alright?" asked Nathan while still releasing his aura.

"I don't know, Sir. We are currently investigating what really happened." replied by the doctor while lowering his head.Nathan suddenly squinted his eyes as he look at the doctor.

"You don't know what happened? Are you playing a joke with me?"The doctor don't know to reply at that, especially with Nathan's current mood. He just continue lowering his head, not daring to look at Nathan at all.

s.h.i.+n just finished putting on the military clothes and walk towards Nathan and the doctor. "Uncle, what's happening?"

Nathan take a quick glance at s.h.i.+n as he remember about something. He turned his attention back to the doctor while saying. "Clean up this mess for now. But remember, I'm still not done with you."

After that, Nathan grab the back of s.h.i.+n's clothes before disappearing at the Military Lab. Then they reappeared at the Military Training Ground.

Nathan throw s.h.i.+n on the ground while saying. "Do some training here for few minutes to readjust yourself at your newly regained strength."

"But do it quick. Some guys from the Military Force of Dark Continent are looking for a suitable 'sparring' partner for their younglings, and they are about to arrived."

"There are no available young ones on our ranks since the Top Military School are currently in exam season, and the students there are too busy to accept this 'sparring match'."

"Arthur on the other hand is currently in his special training. Same goes for Leonard who is in Eastern Sea Region. All in all, you are the only one that is available for this. So you have no other choice but beat those guys up."

After saying all of that, Nathan disappeared once again not giving s.h.i.+n any time to react. s.h.i.+n stared blankly at Nathan's previous location for quite some time before he finally regain himself."What the heck! Are my feelings not important? Tsk, I still have some things that I need to do inside the game, so I can't waste my time on these unimportant guys!"

"They better brace themselves for I'm about to break some of their bones for destroying my work schedule." muttered s.h.i.+n to himself as he clench and unclench his hands to create some cracking sounds.

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