Let's recap what happened before the sea monster attacked " Did you see someone wearing a hood and dragged a boat today ? " " He went to that store " Kang flew to the store and rushed to the receptionist asking " Have you seen a hooded figure recently ? " " Yes , he sold a lot of monster parts and left as soon as we paid him "
Kang grumbled and asked again " Where did he go ? " he ran around asking people until there was an alarm but rushed to the shore thinking that Deamon might stay since the hotel booked for a minimum of one night but didn't expect to see the same child on the sea monster .
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Now back to Deamon , thanks to the speed that Tutri was going they arrived at a shore and Deamon pointed in a direction in which Tutri followed " We should arrive at the desert city with this speed "
Deamon eyes from a distance to see a large castle surrounded by cities and a lot of sandstorms approaching it " What no way " just when he was about to settle on someplace to stay for the night that was away from the tribes and clans he encounters a sandstorm on the kingdom .
" I guess I'll have to save it then " Deamon looked at Tutri under his feet and really didn't want to harm her ' She's a sea monster I need to at least let her sleep underwater ' he looked at the capital and nodded " Then I'll save that place " Deamon hopped lightly to not damage Tutri and kicked the air as he flies like a baseball being hit by a bat .
He was lacking momentum to continue so he kicked the air again consecutively to "run" to the first sand tornado and kicked right through it forming a giant circle of sand in response . His kick was heard as a force created a wave of wind ' I have to be careful or I might send the wind pressure to that city '
He kicked the air again as he turned his body to kick the tornado again repeating the process faster than the sound as his kick was loud like a drum in a concert . He was sending himself from one path to another to ricochet after the tornadoes and looked at the last one .
He embodies himself as the wind while allowing himself to have a physical body and pierced through wind resistance and gave the wind a kick from the back of his leg . And landed on the wide floor of the ground with the king wide-mouthed in front of him " Phew feels great "
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In the desert capital, king Lozes was arming his army to prepare to resist the climate . Even this kind of climate was normal to them as their structures are built using from the ground up and this ground-up building is serious it's not like building on the ground , it was in the ground so beams could be stuck to the ground to build up .
It sounds expensive but thanks to the economy and research they decreased the cost allowing all of them to be constructed cheaply but sturdy .
Except for historical pieces like the castle which would be fine if it weren't for the giant tornado and Lozes a master in fighting giant monsters was ready to weaken it until he saw the tornado behind the giant one kicked by a dot with the impact of an explosion .
" What " a traveler was looking at the impact of Deamon and saw his path " It looks like constellations " he watched Deamon dash through a straight line and then kick out of it as if the point where he left the trajectory was a star .
" Beautiful absolutely beautiful " he heard stomping from Tutri and saw her crawling menacingly " HOW !?!? " the camel he was riding quickened its pace to escape to the beast .
Lozes was watching Deamon approach and kicked through the giant tornado landing in front of him " What " " Phew feels great " Deamon turned to Lozes and then walks to the rails keeping people from falling .
" Ah she's coming " " Who ? " Lozes as king knows that this child was someone of a great caliber so he thinks it will be great to invite Deamon as a guest .
' But his description sounds familiar , where did I hear it from ' " Uhm little man what's your name " " Call me Colos since I saved you from that tornado can I stay in your place ? " the wind blew Deamon's hood back to his head and covered his eyes shocking Lozes ' What is a big shot doing in a desert like this ? '
Lozes heard rumors from people about the chaos master who is now revealed as Deamon in front of him ' I can't believe it ... He was a mysterious figure appearing from one place to another but to think he is here now '
" As gratitude for saving the lives who worked directly under me you may stay " Lozes hunched his back to lower his position a little ' I don't know how to take care of this unfamiliar situation '
Of course , this was uncommon even to Lozes . When a big shot comes to his kingdom he usually takes care of things from behind until the big shot is ready to meet with him . But now the big shot directly requested a stay at night . So how is he going to react ?
Like usual and quickly nodded at a royal guard to alert the presence of Deamon and his status " Please give us time your arrival was abrupt " " Okay but you have a big pool for her right ? " Deamon pointed at the giant sea monster and Lozes frowns .
" It's unfortunate that we don't have a big enough pool to accommodate such a sea beast but we do have an underground channel of water but we can only make a well for its supply "
Deamon's expression suddenly became sad as he didn't want Tutri sleeping out . While it will not kill her it is like sleeping in an uncomfortable bed " But do you know how big it is at least ? " " It is as big as the castle why ? " " Then where is the well ? " Lozes stood up higher releasing himself from the hunched position .
" It's a long walk from the capital but it is over there we usually transport water from there " Deamon covered the sun staring at the location and yelled " TUTRI STOP MOVING " his yell was like a sniper instead of a bomb so the yell reached Tutri but not nearby people .
Tutri didn't understand his words but for some reason , she told herself to stop " Will it be okay if I break the ground above ? " Lozes couldn't believe his words but his experience bought him back to measure the opportunities
" Certainly it would help us a lot if a giant well is too open it would attract monsters for our hunters to hunt "
The desert capital has many capable hunters the water can attract monsters for them to fight and loot " Okay " Deamon went back and started running to build up speed for the first wind step .
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No matter how fast they ran ! They could not escape the giant ! but they will not let themselves be taken by death today " Why is this thing following me !?!? " the traveler yelled trying his best to motivate his camel to run as quickly as it can until they heard Tutri stop " What ? " he turned to see Tutri stop and Iona took that as a sign that this was the location to stop .
' Master Colos doesn't like to teach so maybe he wants us to wait here rather than test me and those two beastkins ' Iona concluded and brought everything that they had done . The traveler witness Iona using the art of embodiment .
Dear travel log today has been so event full I encountered sand tornados , I saw a constellation and a giant beast chasing me . Now that giant beast had passengers I don't know what to do but the least is to not annoy these people .
As if all that event wasn't enough for the small village man , Deamon arrived and kicked down on the water source sparing Tutri and the traveler forming a giant "lake" but at a lower level which was just low enough for Tutri to crawl back up .
Of course , it was spacious for Tutri a giant sea beast but unlike the calculations made from the five wells the actual size was nearly as big as the desert capital " Tutri I got you bed for the night " Deamon waved his hands at Tutri who was distracted for water and dove right in " Ah you like it huh ? "
Deamon watched Tutri circle around the center and a question appeared in his head ' Is there something in there ? ' although Tutri was moving around the giant water body alright Deamon was concerned that Tutri was not going to have a proper sleeping posture or her usual sleeping posture .
He doesn't know much about sea beasts thanks to the weak civilizations he visited but he wants to make sure Tutri had a lot of space ' Hmm ' Deamon jumped above the water body to see the crystal clear water and saw some cone above it ' I can blow it out but what if there is a rock under it ' Deamon frowned and turned behind him .
" What if ? " Lozes gathered men to travel to the location of the water body after seeing sand blown away from the capital " Sir are you sure it is the man in the rumors ? " " Yes and it isn't a man but a young boy he is about my children's age his strength matches the rumors and so are his choice of clothes "
Lozes said while they were moving to the five wells until he saw an explosion resulting to rocks being kicked into the air and water from one place thrown to the other side . He was not the only one impressed , Eco and Arti were too shocked to even shake in excitement .
If you see something you want to happen you would be so excited . It's like a kid getting the toy they put on the top of their wishlist . But what if the toy was even better than the one at the top of their wishlist ? This is exactly what the two beastkins are shocked about when they saw Deamon shooting out the water out of the water body .
" Iosh know I need to clean " Deamon kicked down to blow the sand away to clean that out first " Huh " Deamon jumped back to the cliffside looking at the center where a structure like the one of the Maya civilization was situated at the center .
' Is that what she was avoiding ? ' Deamon went down to look at the structure and went to it while avoiding the platforms and road weathered down by time .
' But how did a civilization like this turn into a desert ' Deamon found the entrance which was at the top and walked inside to see something that wouldn't be part of the Maya civilization's temple . Instead , he found instructions for a rain dance and a weather dance ' So this civilization controls the weather by performing dances '
Deamon was intrigued and knew he had to learn the concept behind the dances " So fun " some of the dances were made to control a certain weather while holding a ceremonial treasure ' I should improvise '
He saw dance movements to see a stick attached to some beads and scratches on the rock wall which was etched for the rain .
" Is she dancing for the rain by imitating the sound ? " he observed the drawings with each movement to allow the beads to shake making waves of sounds drawn on the walls " Wow maybe part of the dances are just to please the crowd " he stared at each frames hoping to find any frames having some difference and similarities .
' Maybe some frames show the special technique while others are transitions from one technique to another ' Deamon tried to match any differences from the wall's etchings ' If I learn this it might be useful maybe I might remember something '
Deamon reach the end of the rain dance and under it was another different dancer finishing the end of the dance at their frame-like tutorial .
" mhm , maybe I can find the difference at under " he compared the frame to frame dance and assumed that the dancers were chosen only for a certain duration of time " That information was useless " Deamon only wants to learn the dances .
He figured out the dance by comparing the movements " But what is the technique of rain dance ? Hand movements and beads aren't enough to summon rain or else even children can easily do this " he sighed and walked away from the wall and looked at a platform which seems to be a practicing platform .
" Huh ? " Deamon walked to the situation and could feel the rain dance practices ingrained deep into the platform " This should be made by dancers while they trained for the rain dance " he stared at the platform and thanks to his unique sense it was as if he was staring at a silhouette of the dancer .
His advance senses were so great that when Lozes came down to inspect him he thought he was just staring at the wall behind the platform ' What is he doing ? ' Iona from behind was watching Deamon's eyes as she saw the reflection of a dancer ' What is he seeing ? '
Iona walked to the platform and touched it hoping to feel , see or at least hear something ' Rain it sounds like rain ' she looked at the paintings and then saw Deamon looking for something " It might be around here " he already knows what to do but only needed the needs and searched around feeling the walls and found at the frame of the last step of the dance of a dancer .
" found it " Deamon pulled noticeable brick at the corner and found old ceremonial beads all attached to separate strings and to one stick " Now to try " he ran to the platform like he found a cool stick and was heading home .
" MOVE !!! " he was excited to try to do the dance hoping he could use that dance to alter the weather to see Kitti's satisfied face .
No matter how soft the bed is or just right the temperature of the air was Kitti would only sleep as if she was sleeping normally . Plus it might be better if he can use it to provide comfort for Ururus ' He might like water massage ' Deamon thought of it and stood on the platform as Iona and Lozes had expectations for the rain .
He prepared by fixing the position and shutting his eyes since he assumed that the main driving force of the rain dance was the sound that imitates the rain and thought that his dance will be more effective if he concentrate his senses on his ears .
But of course , he intends to learn so he activated his mind's eye to watch the movement of the flow of nature .
Deamon held the stick and shook it down and moved his leg forward to give the beads momentum as he raised it up shaking the beads together and making them sound like rain as he started the main element of the dance . He lowered it to create a vision of water falling down to the ground .
This vision was seen by both Iona and Lozes as they looked at the ground like it was shallow water and rain dropped on the ground for it to ripple through the land they are standing on .
They heard another shake as Deamon shook the beads up behind him causing rain to condense above them .
' What a beautiful sight ' Deamon saw the flow of nature that started the rain and let go of the stick as he started to maintain the rain . He learned the rain dance and derived it into an accelerated rain cycle evaporating the water from the ground to mist .
Deamon opened his eyes watching the beauty of the rain feeling it soak his body and the excess dripping back down the ground while the rain continued by turning the water into a vague mist to condense rain again as water cycled between the mist and raindrops .
" So beautiful " he let the water fall on his cupped hands watching it go back through his flow " I got it " like a giant but with a force of a wind breeze a bomb set off around Deamon as he released the flow making Iona's hair untie and Lozes felt his cloak fly back like superman's cape .
Deamon quickly went to the lower floor and saw another kind of weather " Snow !? " Deamon excitedly reviewed the frame-by-frame dance on the walls and at the platform to watch the dance as the silhouettes let him see the difference between snowing and raining " I got it " Deamon taught of using the differences learned and thought he could make it rain fire .
But that thought was removed when he thought of how dangerous that would be " Yeah but what if someone had the same thought maybe that was the reason why the civilization was turned into a desert " Deamon tested if the difference he suspected was correct .
So he tested his theory and saw the snow form like he would expect " So it is connected to that technique " Deamon could feel some of his memories back and got the answers to his theory " NEXT FLOOR " he yelled out rushing down the stairs and caught wind of various other weather dances .
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Lozes and Iona were at the first floor they traversed into and tried to see how Deamon learned the dance so quickly ' I'm sure he has some special senses to be able to see the dance properly but how was he able to see it or what did he use to see the dance ? '
Iona looked at the platform trying to sense anything strange but her senses were only enhanced so she couldn't see the silhouette of rain dance that was ingrained into the platform . Lozes on the other hand was fixated on the beads ' I'm sure there is something strange about this treasure I need to get it studied by my researchers '
Lozes gave it away to his scholar hoping that he can find more and ran down to the lower floor . Something like this needs a king to watch it plus he has Deamon on the lower floor to clear out some dangers for him and he himself is already able to fight against monsters himself .
Plus what kind of king doesn't have the qualities of a knight ? Lozes needs to be strong himself to boost the army's morale and he needs to be great to show people he can be trusted , he needs to be reasonable and forgiving to allow people to be able to speak more opinions to him .
He didn't find any on the floor and thought back thinking it might be on the walls like on the previous floor .
Meanwhile Eco and Arti were watching Ururus and Kitti . Ururus was panting at the heat and was only able to rest once he was laid beside the water body Deamon made and Tutri stayed in the water body .
But the most noticeable one was Kitti strolling around the water body and walking on the ice she froze . Eco didn't want to get near since he hates the cold as all normal cats do and Arti was shivering following Kitti as the ice was still sturdy to support Kitti's stable footing .
Waves would try to hit her but it seems like a sphere prevented them from doing so . She didn't disturb Tutri or it might cause a change in the water levels . Arti can't get too close because it was colder the closer he was .
' So cold ' Arti heard cracks opening to see Kitti on land yawning finding the perfect spot " Uh oh " he quickly ran to the shore and slipped on the ice and knocked his head on the ice . He was lucky to not lose consciousness and swam to shore and gasped for air .
Arti let his tongue out and felt the heat on his face at the same time a breeze " Ugh " in addition to his tiredness and the idle place for sleep proclaimed by Kitti , Arti got sleepy and dozed off .
Ururus saw Kitti's ice near the shore and ran to her ' It's colder there ' Eco followed him watching Ururus run with his wings raised up and his four small feet running .
Because of the transformation rune , he is like a corgi with his short legs but has less fat looking more like a lizard or salamander with wings and his scales were big that rubbing him is not like rubbing a smooth surface ' Why is he running ? ' Eco kept following Ururus and felt the air colder and saw some sun and ran to it .
And after they all got to their spot they were all sleeping on the sand while Kitti was on a big rock at the shore . The traveler witness the actions and looked at the capital " This place is scary but it looks like even that giant beast is afraid of that baby tiger , is she a mutated monster ? "
You all know about mutation so I'll skip the introduction to that . Kitti was not exactly a mutated monster but rather learned Deamon's flow . This isn't strange since Deamon derives most of his technique from monsters as explained in chapter 2 meeting with the rune monster .
Kitti learned Deamon's unique sense and was bored so she sometimes takes a peek at Deamon's attacks she spotted the hint of the harmonious flow so she has also mastered it . Just because she is a monster doesn't mean she can't mimic human actions .
So she learned so much from Deamon and was able to overpower Ururus . She was obviously just lazy to even deal with any monsters since she was busy sending away Deamon's attack on her own it wasn't plenty since Deamon always pay attention but some stray attacks would get to her so she had to send them away .
The traveler walked to them and made settled on a tent clutching his legs under the tent watching Tutri , Ururus but most importantly Kitti ' a giant beast , a baby dragon and a tiger why are they even here ? And what about that person who flew through the tornadoes ? '
That was the strongest he could identify and then Iona who he still couldn't figure out her strength but that was a problem for later .
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Iona still couldn't figure out Deamon's unique senses to be able to see the dancer's practice trying her best whether it was to imitate Deamon's actions or to trust her own . So instead she chose to follow Deamon hoping to get a clue on how he did it .
She ran until she found Deamon sitting on the ground sighing ' I definitely can't use that in here ' Deamon looked at the demo where the dancer was able to someone little wind of course it was safe for that but not a tornado he might break the precious ruins ' I'll just go down '
Iona was slightly disappointed and turned into the wind to attempt to feel the technique of the wind dance " Huh " so she was stopped on that floor trying to learn the wind dance . Deamon was on the lower floor looking at the mural " Wow so this must be the war dances , to fight outsiders with the land , sky and sea "
This floor had every other dances and technique stored in this ancient temple . In there many platforms were built , each platform beside the wall where the frames are compressed to a single dancer performing it " Maybe someone got too powerful and clashed with someone of equal strength . "
... But there was no way Deamon could confirm that theory plus the best way to know was to dive deeper . Of course , he didn't like that and headed out meeting Iona on the wind dancer floor and then Lozes when he was close to the entrance . He suddenly stops as if he discovered a revelation " How come the entrance is at the top ? "
Usually when you go to a building the higher the building the better the office the building has just like a building residence so the higher floors are further away from the noise . And an underground prison would be more secure the deeper you go .
But for some reason , the temple's entrance is at the top so anyone can just break through the temple and reach to their lowest floor quicker " Is it the material ? " Deamon looked at the walls of the structure and knocked them to feel a difference in the vibrations produced by the knocking .
Sometimes it feels different to knock on something . Knocking on a wooden door makes the sound traveler much quicker so the residents of the house can hear it but knocking on a metal door makes a different sound of a different volume .
So Deamon made a tool in the shape of a thin cone and lightly formed a crack . He did the same two more times carving out a crooky triangle as it fell off the wall " I knew it " Deamon knocked on the material and judged it to be a very old but strong metal .
" It's made from a monster's hard parts " he means parts like scales , bones , horns or teeth " But if they can forge this metal or means I still have more I need to know . " Deamon ran around the ancient temple to sniff out the forge going through each structure and found it .
" I found it " he praised himself and searched for the forge and hoping that he can figure out how the metal was made . He tried to sense any residual flow of nature but all he could see was some man controlling the fire and bashing the metal to shape it .
" I have to look for it myself then " Deamon found a pile of rubble and cleaned it out to see a huge piece of amber with insects the size of an adult human palm " Isn't this a lophii ? " Deamon recognized the "fossil" in the amber .
The male lophii has a hard exoskeleton while a female is slightly bigger but has a much softer exoskeleton . This was the information he knew about the large insect " That must be what the female look like " he remembered seeing one female lophii in amber that was on the ground assuming it must've been treated a delicacy .
' Maybe they had the female lophii displayed to show her insides ' Deamon cut through a male lophii to check its exoskeleton ' I can't believe metal is forged from these things ' Deamon looked at the sac where the innards are in .
' How do you eat these ? ' he didn't figure it out and ran into the restaurant again ' If only people can cook with the flow of nature ' Deamon sighed looking at the breathless restaurant ' At least it means that I don't need to do anything special ' Deamon held the lophii on his hand wondering if he should just heat it up like barbeque .
" Lophiies don't really have poison anyways the worse is it tastes bad . " Deamon cut a thin piece of meat and cooked it by igniting fire on his palm with embodiment and took a bite " Mmhmm it is easy to stomach . " but right now he doesn't want to waste his time on food and threw away the rest of the lophii .
So Deamon looked at the forge to find any material that was mixed with the exoskeleton . Of course , he doesn't know all of them so he picked out some of the rubble that didn't look like it was supposed to be destroyed that way .
' Maybe that king can have people identify these ' he looked at the blue sky with orange color painting the sky around the sun " It's sunset " Deamon returned to the temple again to see Lozes looking for the treasures " Mister king Why don't you have scholars study this ? "
Deamon showed Lozes the chunk of amber with lophiies inside " What ? " " It will greatly benefit your materials if you can identify the forging " " But " Deamon pushed the insect to Lozes .
" Come on it's a unique kind of forging using the monster's hard parts if you identify it , it would benefit your country since it relies mostly on monster hunts . "
Lozes looked at it Deamon's star-bearing eyes and nodded dazed ' If he finds something that uses monster shells for forging then it might be useful to us ' he looks at the amber and realized one thing ' Wait but this is just a small monster how am I going to know about the forging ? '
Deamon jumped back as the king's army watched him from the higher and lower ground ' Since it's sunset I have to ready for the night ' Deamon arrived at where the four were sleeping and found that his cloth luggage was wet . It seems like Arti was carrying it while swimming .
' What you would expect from a beastkin ' Deamon opened the luggage and thought that maybe Iona has the luggage full of valuables ' That means I should go shop at the market ' he rummage into the soaked luggage to find his emergency funds in a pouch of gold coins '
" This should be enough " Deamon dashed back to the city and bought all the essentials ignoring the gossip he started while carrying his purchase ' This new mattress is soft so it will be good to sleep on . I'll just dry the old one for them to sleep on '
Deamon arrived at Kitti and saw her awake grooming herself " Hello Kitti I got you a new bed " Kitti looked at the giant tent where a lot of mattresses were piled ' It's fine to have this much since I already have Tutri to help carry my luggage '
Deamon told himself and look at the sky " Maybe I should start grilling something " Deamon threw logs on the ground and ignited a flame and cut the marinated meat to allow it to cook faster and hung it over the fire " Doesn't make any scent but "
He cut off a piece from it and chewed out the sweet yet savory steak smiling at the taste " So tasty " because there was no smell on the meat Ururus didn't wake up from his sleeping spot and neither did the two beastkins .
Kitti on the other hand had a fish for her dinner and ate it raw like sashimi meaning she sliced it . Deamon dropped onto the mattress and wondered ' Is that girl just going to stay at the temple ? '
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