The Seven Deadly Child
Arthur's?
"Very dark!"
"It's quiet!"
"Am I dead?" Arthur's Mumbling.
At this moment he felt like he was falling into endless darkness. I don't know how long he's been in this fallen position. It may be a few hours, a few days, a few months, or even years.
When he first opened his eyes, he was already inside this place, in an endless falling state. Only in total darkness.
Arthur still opened his eyes, hoping to find something he could see or achieve in this darkness, until a strange aura was felt enveloping his body, making his eyes heavy again. Unable to hold the weight in his eyes, Arthur fell asleep again.
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*Buuugg…..!!!!
*Buuugg….!!!!
*Buugg…..!!!!
"Wake up! Don't pretend to faint!"
*Byuuurr…!
Arthur did not know how long he had been asleep, until suddenly several kicks, as well as a loud crack that ended with his body thrown into a river, made him wake up instantly.
"Hahhh….!!! What's going on!" Arthur exclaimed in shock, feeling the chill from the river water piercing his bones.
"You're finally awake! As a child! You're sleeping too much!" Snapped one from the river to Arthur.
"Slave?"
Hearing the snapping, Arthur immediately looked up at the man who was snapping at him.
"Well, slave! Are you still lulled into a good dream from your sleep just now? Until you forget who you are?"
"Then I will gladly return to wake you up! You are the slave of the Divine Beetle Tiger family that has just been exterminated! Huhhahah…!!!"
"Now do you remember?"
*Buuggg….!
Shouted the man who was on the river, ending all his sentences by giving a hard kick back toward Arthur's head.
However, unlike the man's expectations, who hoped to get a satisfactory hard kick in Arthur's head, with one hand, Arthur caught the man's leg, just before it hit his head.
"What did you just say? What slave? What kind of Divine Beetle Family? I am Arthur Wild! Young master of the House of Wildbear!" Jerky Arthur. Pulling the man's leg. Throw it hard towards the cliff on the side of the river.
*Braa….!!!
In one throw, the man's body immediately hit the cliff wall hard, making many cracks in the landing location. Instantly he lost consciousness.
"Hmmm.. Why does my body feel different?" Arthur murmured, seemingly indifferent to the man he threw just now. Focus tries to channel his Mana of darkness.
"Why is it like this?" Arthur muttered again, growing more astonished as he felt his control over the darkness within his body became limited.
When Arthur was still thinking about what happened, he accidentally saw his own reflection in the puddle of the river in front of him.
"What the fuck! What's going on?" This time Arthur no longer muttered, but shouted in surprise when he saw a foreign face in the reflection of the river water.
"Yahihui…!"
In Arthur's confusion, the sudden sound of an old woman's laughter rang out inside his head.
"Who else? I am the soul of darkness in your body! Didn't you previously agree to give your soul to me?"
Hearing that, Arthur finally recalled the last event shortly before he was unconscious.
"Hmmm... Am I dead? Am I in the afterlife?" Ask Arthur.
"So stupid! You're not dead!"
"Emmm, but you could say you're dead! Ahh... How do I explain it so that your little brain can digest it so easily?"
"That's it! Let's just say you're dead! But I made you get a new life! A new body, and in a new world too!"
"The place you are now, is not the afterlife! But neither is Gaia Land where you lived before!" Said the voice of the old woman inside Arthur's head. With a cold tone intonation that sounds creepy.
"This world is called Tartarus Land!"
Tartarus Land is a hellish place for mankind. Because this place is filled with ferocious beasts called Demonic Beasts.
The human population living in Tartarus Land, gradually began to decrease, constantly hunted and fed by the Demonic Beasts who were relentlessly moving in groups around Tartarus Land. Seeking human colonies.
Hearing that explanation, Arthur reflexively asked, why the Dark Soul made himself reborn in such a dangerous place. And Arthur's question, quickly answered by the Soul of Darkness, where he explained that Arthur who has the power of darkness, will more easily develop into strong in this place.
"Hmmm... So do you think, since this place is dominated by Demonic Beasts, creatures that have the aura of pitch-black darkness in their bodies, will make me who has the attribute of darkness, able to develop even more powerful?" Ask Arthur. Trying to draw conclusions from the long explanation of the Dark Soul.
"Fright! This place is heaven for you!" Answer the Dark Soul.
"Hmmmm... I don't care at all about the reason why you want me to keep getting stronger, but answer my question, if I keep getting stronger, can I go back to my old world?" Ask Arthur.
"Theoretically, of course, it can. By becoming stronger, you can leave the low-grade Realm, ascend to the middle-class Realm, so if it only moves to the Realm in the same class, it will be quite easy!"
"But of course with the record, you must be the strongest creature first in this Tartarus Land!" The Dark Soul.
"Hmmm... All righty! That's enough if there's a way to get me back to the old world!" Answer Arthur.
"Good! Now that you've decided, it's better to start your training soon! After all, the body you are currently using, is just an empty container. So that you should re-start from the beginning of your cultivation path!" The Dark Soul.
"Hmmm.. start over!" Arthur's Mumbling.
"No need to worry too much, I told you, that this place is heaven for you! You just need to continue killing Demonic Beasts, then absorb the Demonic Core, that way, you will be able to grow stronger!" The Spirit of Darkness, as soon as he saw the expression on Arthur's face that seemed a bit annoyed at having to repeat from the beginning of his cultivation path.
"Hmmm... alright, since now I haven't even entered the Pioneer class, how many Demonic Cores do I have to absorb in order for me to become an early stage Pioneer?" Ask Arthur.
"Before I answer, I want to give you a little information!"
"First, stop using the cultivation level size of your old world! Because it's gonna be different here!"
"Your body will adapt and follow the natural energy flow of Tartarus Land. If in the old place you live the natural energy called Mana, here it will be called Chi. And within the cultivation level, the quality of Chi was divided into five. The so-called five Chi gates!"
"The lowest gate is the white Gate, then followed by the yellow Gate, Green Gate, Red Gate, and the highest is the Black Gate!"
"In the five gates, there are six doors, and you must be able to open these six doors in order to ascend to the higher gate!" The Dark Soul said, explaining unhurriedly to Arthur.
"Hmmm..that's pretty easy to remember!" Said Arthur.
"So, I have to absorb how many Demonic Cores to be able to open the white Gate?" Ask Arthur later.
"You're lucky enough because the body you're currently wearing, is on a mountain filled with low-grade Demonic Beasts!"
"So, for now, just look for a low-grade Demonic Beast that has also not opened its lowest gate, absorb 1000 Cores of theirs, I guess it will be enough to open your white gate!" Answer the Dark Soul.