In an instant, a giant cloud appears in front of Wèilái, and stepping on it guides him up towards the Behemoth, where he grips his feet on and looks down at me, waving his hand, as my mouth drops and smashes against the floor of the tower.
"Amazing, isn't it?" I hear Fu's voice say.
Turning my head, while shaking, I point my finger at it, and say, "That's a Behemoth, a Behemoth. You know one of the rarest Wonderbeasts to ever exist in this world, not only that, but one that flies through the sky. Do you even understand how impossible it is to tame that, especially when you don't have a Legacy like Wèilái?"
With a bright and cheery aura bursting through his body, Fu looks up and says, "Of course, I know, it's a power that not in a hundred people have pulled off in our recorded history, yet he has managed to do it in the modern day, and its power is staggering."
Looking forward, I see lightning burst through the battlefield, disabling those who stand against our soldiers while causing as little damage as possible to the surrounding environment. "How can he order his steed to be so precise?"
"There are ways to bond far deeper with a Wonderbeast in this land, and for a Behemoth, the bar to accomplish such a feat is even steeper, yet he made it through all so that he could wield power to defeat his enemies, keeping casualties and damage to a minimum. Right now, we wage war against all the Ghost Countries that have appeared around our borders deceptively by the Guardians of the Lotus to rid us of our power, to reclaim the land that once was ours. Yet such actions can cause untold suffering, so we've enlisted your help for that, but you're nothing special. That man riding above the heavens, that man who makes his shoulders willing to throw away their lives for minor profits, that's the man you currently serve, Adrian, and I doubt you would be able to live up to this for even a mom-."
Slamming my fists against the walls of the Siege toward, I shout, "AMAZING! WONDERFUL! STUPENDOUS! BEYOND THIS EARTHLY REALM. He really is one of them, one of the people who bends reality to his will, that power, that glory, that strength built deep into one's soul with their own two hands. I am going to grasp it and make it mine."
Turning to face him, I say, "I won't lag behind even a tiny bit, I promise you that, Fu."
Taking out my pen and paper, I say, "Now watch the tale I will spin."
Seeing his words formed in my head in an instant. His images, his power, his smiles all brought forth a power from my soul that I didn't think was there before, something that could cause the world to shake and shudder, a power that was hiding within me and drawn out by the tasks and challenges laid ahead, and in front of it all. I could only smile and laugh more freely than I ever felt.
-Age 17-
Location: Ghost Country Wei, Southwestern Battlefront
Looking at the man dressed in regal robes standing in front of us all with all of his soldiers, we hear him say, "King of Dá, Tamer of the East, Dá Wèilái, I come to you as the ruler of Wei, to formally surrender to you, and ask that you please do not plunge my country into a war zone. I have heard of your benevolence and ask that you show it to my citizens and myself."
The army all around looks forward with shock, as their whispers sneak into my head.
"The king of Wei bowing? That arrogant bastard."
"He and his people are always willing to charge into a battle if they see a chance of winning."
"Did he fear our power that much? Have we become that strong?"
"Even then, it's still ridiculous to think he would stop fighting us without even losing a battle or two."
Turning my head over to Wèilái, I say, "Do you like my results?"
With sweat trickling down his forehead, he turns to me and says, "I think I might be in love with you after that."
Slapping my hand against his back as Fu watches me, prepared to disarm me if need be, I say, "I still embellished a bit, so I trust you'll be able to truly disarm them before things escalate."
He smiles at me and then walks forward saying, "Of course, who do you think I am?"
In that moment as I watched a man with far more power, pride, love, wealth, and wisdom than I had bow his head onto the ground due to my words, I felt my soul grow, my heart transform and my will burst out, but more than all of that, is was that the mean who I saw could break this world in two stared back at me, understand my power did it.
-Age 18-
Location: The Bastion Kingdom, Dá; Capital City Jīnyínqì, Golden Moon Palace; Training Barracks.
Feeling an impact against the sword in my hand, I fly backwards, as I feel my muscles shake, and there I hear the crowd shout, "Keep going!"
I glance over at the crowd of soldiers and say, "Don't make it sound easier than it is."
In an instant, a second blow smashes against the sword in my hand, and my body flies backwards as I stare at the fiendish ogre in front of me, and say, "FU MY ARMS ARE GOING TO FLY OFF!"
Smiling at me, he says, "What are you crying about? I am barely trying?"
He dashes forward, and his sword clashes against mine. I use all my strength to hold the blade, and with a single arm his pushes his body against mine with a fiendish expression, moving through the mass of bandages.
"You going to kill me!"
"This is your own fault, Wèilái asked me to train you after you almost let that assassin into your bed chambers because she was a girl, like a complete and utter moron."
"How was I supposed to know that she was an assassin?"
A kick from Fu slams into my stomach, sending me rolling back, as he says, "A good way to lower the risk of that is to not sleep with 3 woman a week."
Raising my head, I look at Fu, then say, "Are you sure you're not just jealous because you can't get any?"
Fu stops for a moment, then gives me a smile that makes my very skin crawl, right before his fist slams against my face, sending me flying back, yet my body strikes into a hard slam of flesh before it could hit any wall.
Turning my head, I see General Baji, who looks at me and says, "It seems Fu is rampaging a bit; whatever you've done to set that beast off, you should recine this."
"I didn't do anything; this is supposed to be some kind of training mandated by the emperor. Yet I can barely keep up."
Baji let's out a strong laugh, before saying, "Very few can keep up with Fu's sword's man ship, the man I serve knows this. So stop and think for a second as to why he would send Fu here towards you."
Fu's strength is terrifying; it's the kind of strength that would make an army turn around just by his being on the battlefield. But Wèilái sent him to fight me, knowing he could permanently damage me, the only reason for this is that he truly wishes to enhance my strength. After all, he sees me as just that precious.
Slamming his hand against my back, Baji says, "It seems you've come to a realisation about the true strength of our emperor, his love. Now get back in the fight, and know that if Fu wanted to kill you your already be pooling on the ground with your intestines hanging out from them."
A scary image, but a truth of this reality I face. Right now, I need to overcome this; I need to push myself far enough to protect this body and soul of mine, to build the flesh that will allow me to roam even around the most dangerous of battlefields.
Gripping my sword, I charge forward, sending my spirit energy through my body and swing against Fu rapidly, who blocks my attacks with one arm. Yet the force of my attack starts making him move back little by little, which causes him to say, "A little stronger it seems, now it seems I don't have to keep holding back if your mind and heart are fully in this."
Seeing the demonic smile emerge across Fu's face, a chill runs down my spine, as I say, "I am dead, aren't I?"
Fu pulls his sword back and prepares to slam it into my neck, yet a voice says, "General Fu, General Baji!"
The eyes of everyone in the area turn to the face of the man who has just run into the area, and, getting on one knee, he says, "The Guardian of the Lotus have joined with the other nations of Entotia under the guise of Wèilái being a danger to the land, and has made a coalition to stop and destroy us."
Fear moved through all of their hearts as the weight of the situation dawned on them, and for the first moment, I can tell that many of them felt the faith in Wèilái shake for the first time, yet across the faces of the generals, smiles could exist. For they wished to conquer the challenges set in front of them with their own hands, and I knew I had to as well.
-Age 19-
The war raged throughout the land, and in every single corner, on every single battlefront, armies filled with more soldiers than we could ever have imagined walked onto our lands, moving to strike us down. Yet we fought back, pushing each of them back with all our powers, and moved from battlefield to battlefield watching them, using the strength I had to best my pen and paper
Location: The Bastion Kingdom, Dá; Southern Battlefront
Standing in the middle of a war-torn battlefield, I see the giant rotund man, with a metal belt around his body and a cleaver greater than my body in his right arm, walk forward, and say, "I am the general sent by Di Mhoop, and the head of one of the 12 Ordinances, the leader of the Zhu family, Li Zhu! One of the 7 Generals of Dá Wèilái acts like a coward, constantly moving his forces around to evade a direct confrontation, only striking out at our weak points, so I challenge you to a duel, and whoever wins shall be crowned victorious on this battlefield."
In an instant, the fighting on the battlefield ends, and I stare at it as his figure walks through the land.
Dressed in a kasaya with the upper right side of his chest exposed, a man with a giant multi-layered shoulder mantle on his right side, and a large wooden basket-like helmet covering his face, walks forward.
He grips a single spear and points it at Li as she says, "As one of the 7 Generals of Dá Wèilái, but more than that as a former citizen of Di Mhoop, I Sovanant shall take great pleasure in ending the life of a tyrant Zhu no matter the occasion."
They both grip their weapons, and with a smile on his face li says, "Keep speaking, child, as I will crush that puny body of yours till it's nothing but paste. The only thing you're good at is running away, and you've lost that power."
Smiling under his helmet, Sovanant says, "It seems Captivant's stories really do enrapture the hearts, for you to be so willingly misinformed enough to do this."
"BE QUIET!" he shouts as he swings his cleaver towards Sovanant, and with the grace of the wind itself, Sovanant parries the large weapon away, then activates his Legacy on his spear, stabbing a single time through his opponent's stomach, causing him to fall onto his knees.
Turning to stare at the man, Sovanant says, "Because it's the only reason why someone as weak as you could think for a moment you'd beat me."