Chapter 57 - One Vs. One

"That's not funny master Jun. You shouldn't be joking about something like this," said Julius as he began to laugh.

"Julius, I'm not treating you like a friend right now. I am your teacher and it's my duty that you know everything which you need to know," Jun told his student in a stern tone.

"But come on, my father wouldn't do something like that. I've known him for

my whole life," said Julius as tears began to flow out of his eyes while he continued to smile, trying to laugh in disbelief.

Seeing his student in this state, Jun placed his palm on his student's shoulder as he tried to calm him down. Jun expected a full blown out tantrum from his student and even thought that Julius would try to run away from the mountain. However, instead of that, Julius wiped away his tears as he looked at Jun with eyes of determination.

"I understand, thank you for informing me. Master Jun, please give me the cloning secret art scroll, I would like to learn it," Julius said in a serious tone.

"Well Julius, i don't have any of the scrolls since we were robbed… but there might be a way which I would be able to obtain the scroll," said Jun as he wanted to make anything which would cheer his student up happen.

"You just try to go to sleep, I'll go visit an old friend which has the scroll, I'll be back by morning," said Jun as he walked out the door of his house while Julius went to lay on the hard floor in an attempt to sleep and cultivate. Luckily for him, he had exhausted himself from a whole day of running while carrying the augmented pebbles.

…

Jun called out to his jade dragon which came flying back to him before allowing his owner to ride on its back before taking off into the distance at speeds which he hadn't gone at before.

After only a couple minutes, Jun had arrived at a large kingdom which was a magnificent structural area which housed many rich and influential people. It was surrounded by an uneven circular wall which separated it from the dark distract. At the centre of the kingdom was a large multi building castle which was mesmerizing in the night sky.

"You should be preparing to fight Henry so why? Why do you keep concerning yourselves with that boy," said Jun as he brought down his dragon from the sky into the large castle like structure without a care in the world as to how much damage he caused.

Startled by the sudden appearance of a large jade dragon in the room, many people which looked like servants and butlers began to run away from the scene. After only a few minutes of waiting around, Jun was completely surrounded by the royal guards and other guards which were gathered to take down an unknown person who dared to attack a great kingdom in the dead of night.

"It does not matter who you are, I as the captain of the royal guards of the sickle kingdom shall present your head before my king," said a man which carried dual sickle blades before charging at Jun as fast he possibly could.

<<Secret Art: Divine Blessing>>

Using this secret art, Jun would be able to drastically increase his status points in all his aspects as he could have the physical capabilities to stand his own in the battle.

"A cultivator through meditation? You don't see those that often. This will be easy as long as I go for the kill first," said the captain of the royal guards from the sickle kingdom as he rushed towards Jun.

However as he grinned while expecting to slice Jun's head off clean, a sudden interruption occurred. For some reason, the captain wasn't moving anymore and he didn't see any blood on the ground. As he looked up, he saw Jun who had caught the sickle with his finger tips before it reaches his neck.

"Is that all?" Jun said as he looked down at the captain as if he was nothing but trash before twisting and bending the sickle until it was completely useless.

"Do you see your sickle? It's completely useless, just like you in this battle. Now, tell me where the real Steward is before this entire castle takes a trip to hell," said Jun as he stared menacingly at the captain and then the rest of the guards.

"Like hell I would tell you that. I would rather die here than give you such information," said the captain of the royal guards before moving away from Jun with a single leap.

<<Secret Art: Detailed Search>>

"Oh is that so? Don't worry, I won't be killing you but you said that you would present my head to your king right? So how about I present the heads of your wife and two daughters in front of you," said Jun as he scared the captain of the royal guards to a point where he didn't even know if his heart was beating.

"How do you know about them?" the captain asked in a trembling tone as he tried to ignore that Jun had just used a secret art which allowed to find every detain about a person.

"Just tell me where Steward is and no one has to get hurt," said Jun which caused the captain to break and change at Jun once again with the sickle in his other hand. Unfortunately for the captain, Jun caught the blade once again before bending it to the point where is was unrecognizable. Once he had done that, Jun took the bent sickle out of the captain's hand before holding the captain by the head and continuously punching him in the chest.

"Just tell me where he is," Jun said as he continued to beat the captain while the other guards watched in fear.

"N-never," the captain replied as he spewed up blood.

"Let go of him Jun, this is a matter between me and you alone!"