Chapter 2 – Ling’s war (2)

        The Ling’s war is one of the most recognized and special custom that the ‘Ling Empire’ ever had, it is an event done after the death of the Emperor or Empress if he or she had no heir, it is also consider as many name referred to as ‘Death of Ling’, ‘Battle of death’ and many others since it was placed on one theme, all the people in the empire who goes by the name ‘Ling’ are sent into a deceased world to fight themselves until the last man or woman standing.

“Eh, I didn’t know about any of this until now,” Ghou Ling worst moment had suddenly befallen, the Ling war, he dreaded it since it involved killing the other competitors until he was the last but it was a difficult task since it involved people he knows such as Funji and some other people who he couldn’t harm due to his relationship with them.

       And for Ghou Ling’s ability it was a regular fire magic which he inherited from his late father. Before the birth of his dad, fire magic was not regarded by anyone but all these changed after he displayed the amazing power of the flame dragon, an ability of making the shape of a dragon through fire and controlling it.

Ghou Ling learnt a lot from his father before he passed away but it didn’t reach maximum, he got devastated after his father’s death and stopped fire training especially after the Emperor devoured all the riches

“But sometimes it can be very hard thinking about how I’m going to attack those innocent participants.”

   Funji gave a death glare to Ghou Ling’s words, he shook his head and made a naughty smile on his face

“Well as for me, I’m ready, I was born ready, so if you are not going to kill anyone, you will be killed and I just pray we should never encounter each other because I will not be the Funji you’re seeing now.”

“Eh, you mean you’ll attack me without thinking twice.”

   Ghou Ling began to eat his noodle since it was slowly going cold

“Anything to become Emperor.”

“Don’t mind him Ghou Ling.” Xia’s thin voice retorted to Funji’s words “I and my brother will be coming to your house tomorrow by early dawn to pick you up, hope you are ready to become Emperor Ghou Ling.”

“Ha-ha, your brother might become the next Emperor, it could even be a next Empress.”

“Eh, better not be an Empress else it will be a shame to both of your butt, especially you Ghou Ling, remember the title of your late father, won’t you want to get it upgraded.”

Xia blabbered with a total disagreement to Ghou Ling’s word, Pengfei upon hearing her last words got very angry while staring at her with a cold and narrowed eyes

“Xia, don’t say something so sensitive, don’t you know it’s wrong to-.”

“Don’t be harsh Peng, we both have parents issues so, after all being able to say this means she will grow into a strong and powerful girl.”

       Ghou Ling smiled at Xia as he said all his words, and yes he was right about them having parents issues, their mother and father and business people and always travelled from country to country and continent to continents, they were rich people but always failed to provide a penny for their children leaving Pengfei to do all the work. He swallowed his last draw of noodles from the bowl and gulped the cup of water down his throat, he made a small burp and immediately closed his mouth, he stared at the siblings who began to chuckle.

“Excuse me?”

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      Ghou Ling continuously puffed fireballs out of his hands to the human shaped rock that stood on the ground, the balls were thick red in color as the flew rapidly toward the rock which had slowly began to crack.

Not long after, the rock shattered into pieces creating a loud thud on the surrounding. Ghou Ling who was shirtless sighed lightly as trails of sweat felled freely from his forehead down to his thick abs and muscles while his long light hair drenched with sweat.

“Ahh, Ling , why did my parent ever name me that.” Ghou Ling murmured with a deep sigh.

    Ghou Ling was standing bare-footed on an open field, this was a free training zone where people with fire ability could train. The ground of the field was made of sand and mud in order to avoid fire problems.

Ghou Ling turned toward another rock which had similar shape as the first one

“Shuriken, whip and vein.”

      These were the only fire techniques he learned from his dad, though he went to mage school but they didn’t teach in practical so the only thing he managed to learn was fireball and how to use mana.

      Sinking his eyes on the rock Ghou Ling made a deep breathe and raised both of his hands into mid-air, his palms were left wide opened slowly forming a shuriken which was made entirely out of fire.

     Whoosh! Whoosh!

   Ghou Ling hurled his hands toward the rock discharging a vibrant energy which sent the fiery shurikens flying toward the rock which made deep burning cracks as the shurikens made contact with it.

    Fire whip slash!

    Ghou Ling jumped up into the air placing both of his hand in a posture that seemed like he was holding an object. Gravity seemed very slow giving him an advantage on staying mid-air, he was currently consuming a large amount of mana by using the ability of the fire whip slash.

Ahhhhh!

    Ghou Ling screamed as he felt himself losing energy. A long thin fiery rope immediately formed in his palm, he gripped on it tighter and hurled it to the rock

      Crack!

    The rock instantly shattered into pieces as soon as the whip slashed toward it. Ghou Ling landed abruptly on the ground immediately after the trauma, he looked at the shattered rock and raised his eyebrows while his eyes widened with satisfaction.

The last time he used his fire whip slash was about six months ago and it totally was not as powerful as this, the only thing the slash left were deep cuts on the rock, this was the exact reason why he set up the fire vein which will automatically burn up the rock, and yeah the flame from the fire vein was even powerful enough to burn sand so it would not be found difficult to damage the rock, but though, this skill was a mana drinker.

    He was already exhausted , he wore back his shirt and black sandals ready to go back home