Chapter 473: The Birth Of The Strongest Master [Part 2]
Northern, as he was about to deliberate on his next course of planning, suddenly paused.
His expression was stiff, his face contorting like he had just found out he had eaten something bad.
Northern's brows furrowed together in a detrimental realization of what had come for him. He knew what this was.
'Soul wrenching transformation. I dread it...'
His talent was complete, and he was due.
The system appeared before his eyes, confirming his thoughts.
[You have reached 3,000 talent fragments]
[Your soul is evolving...]
Rumble!
The entire room that Northern was staying in began to crack. Northern quickly glanced up, worried as to why the entire building suddenly felt like it was being threatened, and coincidentally at a moment when he was going to be vulnerable.
He tried to escape physically into the Limitless Void, but it was futile. He wouldn't move; it was like the entry point to the Limitless Void was suddenly unstable.
Each time he tried, his body glitched, and soon he gave up, falling to his knees as pain traveled across his entire body.
His muscles felt like they were being beaten and battered by an iron rod; his bones ached like they were forcibly stretching to something else.
In a matter of minutes, Northern began to sweat.
'Hell! This is Hell!'
He stifled his pain, groaned, and cried internally as the pain of evolution continued.
Shin stood up from his single bed. He had managed to get a few hours' rest after the meeting with the Commander, but there were a couple of things that still bothered him heavily.
Most of which had to do with the kind of person Northern had become.
After the meeting, several of the returnees came to him, still thanking him for raising Northern. He hadn't really considered it as a great deed.
In fact, Northern was so brilliant and easily digested knowledge at a young age that they deliberately hid a lot from him due to the fear of a bothersome fate-a decision Eisha had made, perhaps out of selfishness.
Because Northern's true identity bothered her so much in the days of their beginning with him.
Shin at a point felt like she was trying to make him hers completely.
He was a sauce that sweetened their lives, and raising him had indeed been an act of pride.
At the same time, it is Northern! A reckless, sometimes dumb kid that somehow has taken after him. Shin dreaded that part of his personality.
Northern was like a mixture of both of them. Sometimes innocently naive and dumb like him, other times kind-hearted and mean like his mother.
But overall, he felt like the praises were too good to be real.
'I guess I will know when I meet him...' A short-lived chuckle creased his tired face.
After which he stood up, about to leave his room when he suddenly stopped with squinted eyes.
He looked around the ceiling of his quarters; there was a subtle vibration that could go unnoticed but not with the likes of him around.
He closed his eyes and slowly raised his feet from the ground a little bit, then placed them on the ground again.
He frowned at that moment and pushed the door open, brisking through the passageway.
Protectors were here and there in casual clothing, doing their daily mundane chores.
The passageway was wide, and people had segments of space that they filled with their personal materials, adding a rural ambiance to the space.
Each time Shin passed, the ones that were outside would stand straight in composure-it was a way to greet a respected one when they were not in uniform.
Shin walked past hurriedly with a frown on his face; he wasn't exactly puzzled as to why they were not noticing the soft tremble of the ground.
The truth was that the kinds of drifters that were sent to the border to be protectors were the kind that had been rendered useless by their families.
Some even used it as a means of punishment for their child. That was Shin's case, in fact.
Of course, along the line, he made a life for himself in this place.
They were good; with enough guidance and training, they were useful in battle, but when true danger lurked, it was always up to the captains and officers to save the day.
The others were basically useless!
Shin finally reached outside the building. He stopped and looked down at his feet; his eyes narrowed. The vibration was still there, still subtle.
'What is wrong?' he wondered.
He then raised his head to examine his surroundings, lastly setting his eyes on the building structure that had been designated to the returnees.
Shin observed lights within the dark windows of the hall, which he suspected as someone or a group of people deliberately putting on the crystal-generated illumination that was installed
in the building.
'Did they also notice?'
If they did, then they certainly are no joke. Because certainly, none of the protectors have so
far.
Shin breathed for a second and then proceeded to go to the building, mostly worried because his son was there.
As Shin brisked towards the building, getting to half the distance between that building and the one he was coming from, a tremendous explosion suddenly erupted, drowning the entire atmosphere in a thunderous roar.
The ground shook violently, and the metal walls of the building were being ripped apart by the mere force of the explosion.
Shin had been sent tumbling by the force of the explosion even though he was quite far from
it.
He stood up in a hurry, eyes widened and set upon the building in front. His face slowly broke apart at the quick realization that Northern was in that building.
Without a thought, he blitzed forward, recklessly forcing his way through the violent gale of
metals.
Smaller pieces of metal flew across him, opening small tears all over his skin-as he was wearing only a shirt-necked shirt and his uniform pants and boots.
He didn't care about the injuries and just pushed himself forward, groaning.
The gale was like an invisible wall; not only was it stubbornly preventing Shin from getting
in, it had viciously sent every single drifter in the building out by a certain distance all around it, while the structure of metal was slowly being ripped apart by it.
Shin looked around and could see as several of them flew out of the building like weightless
dolls.
And then he saw Annette scream as she saved herself from the throw, twirling in the air and
landing, her feet ablaze with flames.
She screamed as her feet touched the ground.
"It's Northern! Something is happening to him!!"
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[A/N]
Sorry this came in late, today is my birthday and there was a lot of noise and fuss about it.
Thanks for the constant support.