Chapter 280 - Irregular Thinking

"Who... are you?" a calm voice asked as it whispered into Julius' ears which was quite odd and he didn't sense anyone was around him yet someone had managed to sneak up on him which cause Julius to jump out from the waterfall and land on a grassy area which was near the waterfall as the waterfall only affected a small section of the forest which he was training.

"Why the harsh reaction?" the voice asked with a confused tone which was when Julius had gotten a chance to look at the figure he was talking to. That being a rather average height young man the same age as Julius who gave an innocent look. He had baggy clothes and carried a single unsheathed blade at his waist.

"Why do you not have a stealth for your blade?" Julius asked to which the figure looked down at his waist before replying.

"What do you mean? I don't believe in sheaths. They should exist as it is restraining a blade. Why should a blade be stopped from doing what it was intended to do? If the blades are willing to cut someone down, let it do so. A blade is living. It is not just a mere object for you to control," said the young man before slowly approaching Julius who had started to get up from the ground.

"Who are you? You seem rather strong," said the figure with a smile on his face as if he was excited to take part in battle with Julius even though they didn't agree to battle. That was when someone intruded on their conversation.

"Back away Seven, he's a student of mine. Stop reaching for your blade," said King as he appeared from the shadows which was rather odd as he was indeed right in the Julius' opponent was indeed slowly lifting his blade as if he was ready to cut Julius down however Julius hadn't even noticed it which was starting to worry him as he didn't understand why he couldn't sense the movements of his opponent.

"Don't stress too much about him Julius, he's just here to mess with you. He does this often to people he seems interesting or those with potential to surpass him so that he cut them down before they're too strong," said King to which Seven which was the young man that was planning on killing Julius looked upset by the fact that his plan to kill Julius had been ruined by a former friend.

"Come on King, can't you let me have some fun for once?" Seven asked as he still had the intention to kill Julius.

"No, like I told you already, he's my student, I can't allow you to kill him," King explained with a harsher tone as he wasn't sure if Seven was fully understanding what he had said.

"Whatever, I'll just look for someone else to kill then," said Seven as he prepared to leapt away from the forest and go elsewhere so that he could find others with great potential so that he could kill them.

"Wait hold on, I'm sorry," said King who had caught both Julius but more than him, Seven off guard.

"Wait, did you actually apologise to me right now? You're an imposter!" said Seven as he leapt towards King and tried to kill him with his blade, however King swiftly blocked the attack and kicked him back so that he would know it was the real King.

"So it is really you, even so, why did you apologise? It's almost weird, please don't do that again, it's degrading to your title," said Seven which King was almost insulted by but listened anyway as Seven did actually make a good point.

"Anyway, I'm just wondering if you could train my student. You see, I know how to train my own body since I'm used to everything and I can tell what needs work by just the feeling of it but I don't know about him. He's a total mystery to me," said King to which Seven looked annoyed.

"You really are an idiot, it actually surprises me how you've managed to attain the title of the strongest creature in heaven," said Seven before turning towards Julius and then turning back towards King while making a puking expression.

"Come on, don't be so harsh on him. You can train him," said King as he tried to convince Seven since he was completely confused on how to train Julius.

"Fine, but you owe me. Next time I see someone I want to kill, don't get in my way and if you do, I'll come after every single person you've stopped me from killing and kill them all," said Seven before not even letting King get the chance to reply before turning towards Julius.

"Anyway, my name is Seven. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was interested in you, I'm really not. You're not special. You lack power, durability. You've been treated too well during your life, you don't have enough scars on your body. You lack experience in battle as well. Your legs are slim so you're probably lacking in the speed department as well," said Seven while continuing to list out a whole bunch of flaws that Julius had which made him feel horrible but Seven didn't care in the least.

"Anyway, I'll be trying you so please get ready," said Seven as he pulled out his blade and took a stance as if he was going to attack Julius.

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Instantly, Seven teleported behind Julius and tapped him on the back of his head.

"Too slow. Let's keep doing this until you can actually block or even see me move. If you even dare to sleep or even take a break while doing this, I'll cut off one of your limbs. I am not so generous as to take only a finger or two. If you can't bother to train, you might as well be dead," said Seven and before Julius could even agree to the conditions, Seven began the attack from all directions like tapping Julius' head each and every time as if he could kill him at any moment which was in fact true.

As for King, he decided to simply watch at a distance as he didn't want to get in the way of the training but he also didn't eat Seven to go nuts and accidentally kill Julius.

"Wow, it's actually rather impressive how much Julius is moving per second. I doubt Seven notices it due to his hateful nature but Julius is really growing extremely quickly. It's only annoter of time before-" and just as King was about to finish his sentence, the u thinkable happened. Julius's eyes somehow managed to track the exact location that Seven was at and loomed him dead in the eyes which seemed to have caught his attention which caused him to stop attacking Julius to take a break for a moment.

"Nicely done, perhaps I underestimated you. Even so, don't get too cocky, there is much for you to learn. And even in this exercise, just because your eyes managed to catch up to my speed doesn't mean your body did. There's a lot for you to work on so don't start getting lazy. In Fact I expect you to work several times harder now that you've managed to reach the first goal that I've set and make sure you understand that as time passes, the less patient I will get with you so try not to kake

I'm mad. And to do that, all you need to do is accomplish the tasks I give to you in a short period of time," said Seven as he began to set unrealistic standards upon Julius which Julius didn't even seem fazed by which both Seven and King seemed to have been confused by.

"Are you not scared of dying?" Seven asked with a rather confused tone as he didn't understand why Julius seemed to be so calm even though he was being threatened with his own life as hostage.

"Huh? Of course I'm terrified of that. Why wouldn't I be? Do you think I'm insane or something?" Julius asked which even further confused both the King who was listening for afar as well as Seven who was the one that was directly speaking to Julius.

"If you're so scared of dying, why do you look so calm then?! This isn't the face of someone scared to die," said Seven as he tried to express his concerns to Julius which just caused more confusion between the two.

"Just because I'm scared of dying doesn't mean I have to overreact when the concept is mentioned you know," said Julius, which caught Seven by surprise but he simply stayed silent after hearing what Julius had said before taking some time to think and then finally saying something back to Julius.

"I have a question for you Julius, have you ever been faced by death before?" Seven asked as he wasn't sure why Julius was so calm.

"Ya of course, I've been face to face with it multiple times," said Julius as if it was own normal thing.

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