Journey Of A Legend

In the wooden house, Russ and Wayne were spiritedly chatting with each other while playing card games, when suddenly the whole building started to shake like crazy.

"What is happening?", asked Wayne with a frown as he looked around.

Looking at his device on his wrist Russ shook his head and answered, "I have no clue at all. The teleportation time will only happen 2 hours later, so it shouldn't be that. May-"

Just as he wanted to finish his sentence, suddenly he felt as a gentle breeze touched his neck from the staircase, making his frown to deepen even more.

Wayne looked in the direction where Russ stared and said, "Let's go and see what is going on up there."

However, the moment he said that the breeze started to grow even stronger, while from the second floor, a dim light started to shine suddenly.

"Let's hurry! Something is wrong here!", said Russ with a serious expression, and without hesitation, he teleported to the second floor.

Wayne followed suit and used his power to appear on the second floor, but the moment he saw what was happening his eyes widened in an instant.

Before him, Greg was sitting on a couch in a lotus-like position, while his whole body was inside a huge spinning whirlpool, which rotation speed was moving faster and faster with each second.

However, this wasn't the only reason why he was so surprised. The reason why he was so stunned was that on Greg's body, or to be more specific, under his skin, a thin line was pulsing gently while releasing a gentle white light without stopping.

"What is happening here? It doesn't feel like he is breaking through the 5th rank, so why is this like he is forming his Core Territory?"

Core Territory. An area, which only those on the Calamity rank can establish. Only those can escape from such an area if they are stronger than the Core Territory that the enemy has or simply they have stronger control over the same power that the Core Territory is made of.

For example, when Kuragari used his Core Territory to trap Greg, Greg could flee only because his power could control the darkness element and also because Kuragari was going easy on him.

However if it would have been a real fight that goes for blood, Greg would have been dead in an instant. He would have died without knowing what killed him.

Also Core Territories are nothing at all like those small areas that one created on the Creator rank. Those things were only useful to buff one's power and control, while a Core Territory could not only do that several times more but also could destroy the trapped person's creations.

For illustration let's say there is a person on the 4th rank with water powers, while his opponent is a fire user on the 5th rank.

Everyone knows that water is the nemesis of fire, but this fact is utter nonsense when water is inside the fire user's Core Territory. There will be only one result.

Instant destruction.

And this is why Russ and Wayne were so shocked at the moment.

The one who was before them was a boy whose presence was only on the 4th rank, but for some strange reason, right at this moment, he was creating his own Core Territory which was related to the wind element.

"This... This is simply ridiculous!", said Russ loudly, not believing his eyes at the moment.

And it wasn't just him, but Wayne too. He was also looking at Greg with a complicated expression, not understanding how could something like this happen.

While the two men were looking at Greg from the side with shock, Greg was relaxedly sitting in his position while he enjoyed the pleasant changes occurring inside his body.

He concentrated on the flow and felt as the First Flow started to turn into an independent cycle, while another cycle similar to the First Flow but with a different path started to appear inside his body.

"The First Flow finally starts to solidify. I can't switch to other elements even if I wanted to. The only thing I feel from it is the pure existence of the element of wind. Amazing!"

As he was enjoying this feeling, suddenly Alice's voice sounded in his ear.

"Hurry! Use the wind crystal now!"

Doing just as he was told, Greg took out the small shiny crystal from his shadow without hesitation and started to consume it.

The moment the crystal started to melt into his skin, Greg suddenly felt as around the First Flow a thin layer appeared, making the cycle's flow much greater than ever before.

"It really is working!", thought Greg with happiness, and without hesitation, he started to consume the crystal even faster.

The more time went by the more portion of the crystal disappeared from Greg's hand and the more layer appeared around the First Flow.

As this happened, the whirlpool around Greg started to spin even more crazily, making the books from the shelves and other objects in the room, start to fall to the ground one after another.

*Paff*

*Paff*

*Crack!*

Even a small vase that looked very ancient fell to the ground and broke to pieces in an instant, however, strangely Russ and Wayne didn't bother themselves with it and simply looked at Greg's progress with curious eyes.

After almost 15 minutes, when the crystal in Greg's hand finally disappeared, suddenly the whirlpool around Greg started to shrink smaller and smaller. 

When it was so small that it looked like Greg's body was about to be crushed even though it was just air, the whirlpool around him burst out without warning, blowing away everything in the surrounding. Even Russ and Wayne who were above the God rank needed to step back a step, because of the strong impact.

However other things weren't this lucky. Almost every book turned into pieces of paper, the walls and the floor had a huge crack on them and the chairs in the room all broke into chunks because of the impact they suffered as they were exploded onto the wall.

"Ahhh~! That was refreshing!"

Standing up from the couch, Greg started to stretch his arms up, but the moment he opened his eyes and saw the chaos around him with Russ and Wayne on the side he froze in an instant.

As the three looked at each other without saying a single word, suddenly the fairy, who was enjoying the wind until now, appeared before Greg and said, "Again!"

Greg looked at the little floating pet before his face and with a gentle move, he pushed her to the side and said with a wry smile, "Hi... Umm... Did something happened?"

"..."

***

"Boss, we found something!"

"What?"

A man with a robust body turned around and looked at three men before him. All of them were in a black suit, which covered their faces, making their identities hidden.

The one on the left turned toward his body and pointed in a direction.

"Those are our target's friends and master. Maybe they are looking for that boy too."

The man looked where his subordinate pointed at, and after seeing three teenagers with the Uncrowned King running toward a specific direction he smiled and said, "Let's follow them."

"Yes, Sir!"

Without any hesitation, the three men stood up and with their boss on the front, they started to follow Kuragari from a safe distance.

Kuragari was running at a fast speed, while Joe, Mila, and Emma were following him closely from behind.

Under this small amount of time that they spent to find Greg, they met with hundreds of different creatures that they needed to beat.

All of them improved rapidly in both combat and tactical way under these two days, making their presence to reach the 4th rank. Unfortunately, it was only the presence that was close to it for Mila and Emma, but somehow for Joe, it felt like he was on the verge of a breakthrough.

Kuragari noticed this too and that was why if there was no insanely strong creature he would always leave that to Joe and the two girls.

"Only intense fire can temper iron.", said Kuragari with a smile, but the next second his expression froze up in an instant and stopped moving.

Joe and the two girls seeing him act like this stopped two and looked around in an instant, looking for the source that made Kuragari this careful and serious.

Kuragari looked in a specific direction and shouted, "Come out! I know you are following us!"

Hearing this Joe, Mila and Emma raised up their guards in an instant and waited for the person that Kuragari shouted at.

And just as they thought, a robust-looking man with three hoodied people behind his back walked out with a smile and said, "Oh my... Look who we have here. Isn't it the legendary Puppet Master and the Uncrowned King, Kur-"

*TREMBLE!!!*

"?!"

Just as the man wanted to finish his sentence, suddenly the earth below them started to shake like crazy, while far away from them in the distance, a huge black light started to shine.

The man turned his head toward that direction and looked at the strange phenomenon with a frown, but the next second suddenly Kuragari's voice sounded in his left ear.

"Where do you think you are looking at?"

*Slash!*