Journey Of A Legend

"You don't need to know who I am. I just simply came here to help you." 

Kuragari looked at the man with a frown and wanted to say something when suddenly the man on his side suddenly disappeared and appeared next to his subordinates.

Touching the whirlpool around the three men's face, the man used his power without hesitation, making the power to vanish in an instant.

"Aaagghh! Haaahh!! I... I can... finally breathe!"

Seeing as all of his subordinates breathed in a full mouth of fresh air, the man looked up Kuragari and said, "Maybe you won this time, but the next time..."

Without finishing his sentence, the man used his power and without further hesitation, he vanished from sight with the three subordinates.

Kuragari seeing as the man finally disappeared sighed up with relief, but the next second he looked at camouflaged Greg and said, "Thanks for the help. How can I repay you?"

"..."

Greg watched as Kuragari with his friends on his side looked at him with curiosity, so after thinking for a while he said, "With nothing."

"Don't be like this. You saved our lives, so it's only natural to repay your help. Even if it's something small, we won't complain and help you.", said Joe with a serious expression on the side.

To tell the truth, he was upset by the fact that he got by surprise not long ago by those three. If it wasn't because of Greg's help, he would have been dead long ago. And because of this, he wanted to repay Greg as much as he could, no matter what the request was.

Seeing their gazes, Greg sighed and said, "Okay, then I only need an energy crystal with a fire affinity. I hope you can help me find one."

Joe, Mila, and Emma looked at each other with surprise, while Kuragari frowned slightly.

Noticing their strange expression Greg sighed and said, "Forget it. I know it's hard to find such a crystal so I will find one myself. Anyw-"

"No, it's not at all.", said Mila hurriedly and after taking out a first sized crustal with crimson color, she continued, " In our way here we killed a few creatures and we only took the precious crystals from which we had one you asked."

As Mila handed over the crystal to Greg, Emma nodded and said, "That is from a 4th ranked Fire Lizard. It is a High-Class Blaze Crystal with fire affinity, so we hope it's what you are looking for."

Taking the crystal away from Mila's hand Greg started to examine it from a bit closer.

Its surface was just like any other energy crystal had, smooth like glass. The only difference it had that after touching it, Greg felt the hot temperature coming out of it, while small flames were burning inside it without stopping.

"Will it be good Alice?", asked Greg inside his head.

"Yes. It is perfect.", answered Alice after a small while.

Putting the crystal away, Greg nodded and said, "It will be perfect thank you. Now if you excuse me, I have other things to attend to, so..."

With a slight bow, Greg turned around and started to walk away slowly, leaving Kuragari and his friends behind without anything else to say.

Walking in the dark forest, Greg didn't walk back to the wooden house and started to walk in another direction on purpose. If somehow those four decided to follow him, he needed to make sure that they won't go any closer to the house and the bridge.

Especially Kuragari. If he somehow meets with the Alpha, just like Russ said, there will be only a miserable ending for him for sure.

"Let's make sure they think I go somewhere else and after that, I will go back to Russ and Wayne. Ahh... I should have told them to leave this place because it's too dangerous for them. I'm so stupid."

As he said that he raised his hand and looked around, while thinking, "By the way, the First Flow is really something else. Everything is totally different than before."

Since he activated the First Flow, Greg noticed that a lot of things changed around him.

The very first thing he noticed instantly was that the First Flow inside his body was all the time active, meaning that it won't deactivate on its own if he doesn't use another element with his Second Flow.

And because of this, when the First Flow was active, the air all around him was no longer an invisible substance, but instead, he could now see thousands of small and curvy threads with a half-transparent appearance.

The second thing he noticed was that since those small threads appearance that only he could see, everything around him became even more clearer.

And surprisingly it wasn't in sight but in noise. For some mysterious reason each noise that sounded in his 10 meters proximity, could be heard as clear as day and night. Even if a single leaf fell to the ground sounded like a plate falling down. It was simply an amazing feeling that Greg never felt before.

However, the best thing he noted was something even greater than these. The best thing about his First Flow activation was that no matter where he was until if he had an air around him, he could use them freely.

For example, just as he did with the three men, he could use the small threads in the air to make a small area around his enemy's body that could isolate the air, resulting in suffocation.

But this was only just one way that he could utilize this power.

"I wonder if all the other elements will be this shocking. I can't wait to find out.", said Greg quietly with a smile and started to fasten his steps.

However, only after going a few meters, suddenly the threads around him in the air started to move like crazy, making Greg to be on guard in an instant.

"Someone is coming!", thought Greg and looked toward where the movement of the threads was the craziest and said calmly, "I know you are there. Come out."

A few seconds later that he said this, suddenly a muscular looking figure with a cigarette in hand started to walk out of the shadow slowly.

"Interesting. You even noticed me even though I lowered my presence. Under such a small amount of time, you became even stronger... Brat.", said Kuragari.

Greg hearing this was instantly stunned, but on the outside, he was incredibly calm.

Looking at Kuragari with a frown, Greg, with his old-looking appearance started to frown and asked, "First of all, I'm not a brat and secondly, I don't remember meeting you, so how can you know how strong I was in the past?"

Kuragari looked at Greg with a smile and after taking out the cigarette from his mouth he said, "You can't fool me, kid. I don't know what power you use to hide your image, but you can't conceal your hidden talent for the weapons. Maybe you forget it, but I still have the ability to feel one's talent with weapons, so there is no way in hell I could forget a talent like yours."

Knowing that he couldn't hide anymore, Greg sighed and after turning off his camouflage he smiled wryly and said, "Well... I got busted."

Stepping closer to Greg, Kuragari looked at him from top to bottom and asked, "So? Why did you conceal your appearance?"

Greg looked at Kuragari and after thinking for a while he asked, "Before I tell you why, where are my friends? Are they okay?"

"I took them away from the Forbidden Lands the instant you went away. What happened not long ago, was too dangerous. I can't risk something like that again. So don't worry about them and just tell me why you acted like that."

Hearing that his friends were safe Greg sighed with relief.

"So?", asked Kuragari after seeing that Greg was a bit hesitant.

He was totally curious why Greg acted this mysterious even after meeting with him and his friends. 

Greg looked at his Master and after a while, he decided to tell everything.

He told him that Russ and Wayne didn't kidnap him, but just simply tried to help him. He told him the part where Russ told him that there is a way that people can break through the God rank and reach the Evolution step, while he also told him that there will be a war soon with beings much terrifying than the one tried to kill him in the Arena.

In the beginning, Kuragari listened to Greg's story with a smile, but as the conversation progressed his face started to turn to shock than to ice-cold seriousness.

"So these are the reasons why I acted that way. If not, I would have only put my friends' life in danger and that's the last thing I want. Instead, I decided to stay with Russ and Wayne until I can't reach the God rank. If there will be truly a war in the near future, then I don't want to stay this weak. I will do everything I can to reach the Evolution Step, no matter what!"