Chapter 43 - Perses The Executioner (6)

Perses the Executioner, as he proceeded along with his desire to kill, suddenly stopped, and began to turn, moving in a different direction. After he got to where he wanted to, he took his axe that he plunged on the ground at the beginning of the fight, and then quickly went to where Asil was. As he made his way towards the Asil, a condescending and cruel expression had formed on his face, and his eyes glowed with a desire to kill.

Perses the Executioner, stood in front of the Asil and then spoke: "Brat, even though you were going to die, at least you made me use my weapon. You should be happy."

Perses the Executioner raised his axe after speaking and as he raised his axe, Asil was looking at him with his weary eyes. Asil spoke to himself at the time as he was almost too exhausted to do anything but think:

" So, this is where I die. Just when I had my profound power and I had a strong master. Even though I will die before I could thank my father for what he did for me. I should meet my doom with my eyes open and be brave in my last moments,  I hope, in my next life, I can be someone who is strong and able to protect his family with his power."

Asil apologized to his master, Sirius, after thinking to himself: "Master, you have tried to teach me things. Even though I had a terrible sense of perception, you did not give up on me, and you insisted on improving me. You even thought a lot about me. I would like to get stronger and get you out of there, but I do not think I can do that. I'm sorry, Master, I let you down."

Asil sincerely apologized, but the response from Sirius never came as he had expected, even his response greatly surprised Asil. "If you are going to apologize, don't apologize for it. What you should be apologizing for is disobeying my orders. I do not know if you are lucky or not, but you are not going to die this time. If my thoughts are correct, your opponent will be the one who dies. I found out what you lacked from this fight. I'm going to increase your workload and use my own power to make you a monster."

After Sirius's strange words, Asil asked him several questions about these words, but Sirius did not answer any of these questions and remained completely silent.

The moment Sirius fell silent; The Axe of the Perses the Executioner was only ten centimeters from Asil's neck, and as the axe continued to move towards his neck, suddenly something unexpected happened.

Suddenly a light wind blew through the entire fighting zone, accompanied by a faint sound. It sounded like the sound of a sword moving fast and cutting off the air. But it was quite a feeble state of it, and it was hard to even hear that voice. But the unexpected thing was not exactly the occurrence of that sound.

The unexpected thing was that the axe of Perses the Executioner, came to a halt after this sound had emerged. In fact, the axe of the Perses the Executioner was not the only thing that stopped. His expression and gaze had changed, and in addition, his breathing had weakened almost as if it were at a standstill.

As Asil looked at Perses the Executioner without any sense of what was going on, suddenly blood gushed out of the chest area of Perses the Executioner, and after the gushing blood, a gentle tone echoed across the fight zone: "They must have made the rules clear. This is not a fight to the death, so killing is forbidden. But you ignored it and wanted to kill your opponent. You know the penalty for not following the rules is death. If you have the nerve to break the rules, then you do not have to live anymore. Now die!"

The tone of that voice was kind, but the sound heard did not make Asil feel any kindness, but rather shudder. After that sound echoed for a short time, there was a brief total silence in the arena, which was broken when the body of Perses the Executioner slowly fell into the sandy ground. He was not moving, and his surroundings were getting wet due to the slowly flowing blood.

Perses the Executioner, who was in the fourth level of the elementary profound realm, unexpectedly died in an instant and Asil could even understand how it happened. He was only watching what was happening in front of him with his widened eyes which he struggled to keep them open.

Shortly afterwards, the gentle tone that he had just heard came to his ears. "Young man, you won this fight because your opponent failed to follow the rules and tried to kill you. Your moves against someone stronger than you were pretty good. I would be lying if I said that I am not impressed. I hope you'll show me better fights in the future."

After hearing these words, Asil tried not to reveal his astonishment, even though he was surprised, and after the presenter explained the unexpected outcome of the fight, he was able to get up after struggling for a while. He then slowly walked out of the fight area and went to a small treatment room with the middle-aged man who brought him here to make his condition better as a treatment, then headed to his cell. After entering his cell, the middle-aged man spoke kindly to him and said he expected such a fine performance from him in his other fight. His words made people in other cells understand the outcome of the fight, and therefore they began to be more kind to the Asil.

The only person whose attitude did not change was Bias Gerz, who was staying in the same cell together with him. He had only congratulated Asil and warned him not to unbind himself after this victory.

After a while, Asil could not resist more and talked Sirius in his mind: "Master, during the fight you have told me that I won. How did you know that?"

Sirius replied thoughtfully: "Brat, this fight was not to the death, and if there are certain rules in a place like this, the rulers will certainly not allow those rules to be broken. If that fool had killed you, it would have destroyed their rules and damaged their reputation. So naturally, they would not let him. When that fool came to kill you, this fight was over and your victory was, unfortunately, certain. He was the same person who killed him before you knew it; he was also the same person who watched you in the special section. You could not see his movements because his profound power was too high for you. Now you will ask me about the profound power of that person, so I will answer before you ask. He was someone who has the power of the first level of the Core Profound realm."

Asil could not hide his astonishment and immediately spoke: "The first level of the Core  Profound realm? Why is someone like that interested in someone like me? I just entered the first level of the elementary profound realm, there is no reason at all for someone like him to be interested in me."

"Brat, you're smart, but sometimes your head seems to just stop working. If you were him, wouldn't you be interested in someone who defeated a powerful profound monster and could do minor damage to a person three levels above him? He wonders about your future, and he thinks maybe you could be of use to him in the future. I do not know exactly for what he is interested in you for, but I do not think he would give up on someone as potential as you. He may even come to visit you soon to analyze your character."

Sirius paused for a while after speaking and then continued to speak: "But we have a more important issue right now. I have seen what you lack in this fight. So, I am going to make your training more intense to fix these. It is getting worse because that guy is interested in you. But before we talk about this training, tell me why you want to get stronger. After all, if you do not have enough motivation, you cannot get strong enough."

Asil thought briefly and then replied: "Master, my reason for wanting to be stronger is to make my father proud and to protect those I love. But while that is my main reason, it is something else that motivates me to get stronger right now. The senior who brought me here told me about a tournament that is going to happen in two years, and I have to attend that tournament for several reasons.. That's why I need to get stronger."