Chapter 3 – Ling’s war (3)

     Ding Dong!

   Ghou Ling jerked off his sleep hearing the bell of the door, his eyes were still heavy and lazy.

Who is disturbing me in this early morning!

   Ghou Ling thought in his head still lying on his bed wearing a black pajama, his hair were all untidy since he was one who always had rough sleeps. Once again he heard the door-bell and immediately began to protest against who disturbed his sleep in this early dawn, just then it struck him that this was a new dawn, the day the Ling’s war was to take place.

He narrowed his eyes in resentment and hurriedly got up from his bed, he rushed out of the bedroom into the parlor and immediately opened the door.

“Eh, you’re still dressed in this.” Funji Ling Dou barged into the house while Xia followed him

“Hurry and take a bath Ghou, you and my brother don’t have all Dawn.” Xia Dou’s tired and soft voice muttered, she rushed to a small sofa at the side of the room and sat on it, she made a soft sigh wiping the sweat off her forehead while Funji made his way to the long couch in the center of the room. 

“Okay, excuse me.” Ghou Ling slammed the door shut and walked away from the parlor.

      After about thirty minutes, Ghou Fe Ling stepped into the parlor looking well organized and ready to go, his dark hair slide backwards with the help of the thick gel which suited his dark blue eyes. Ghou Ling wore a purple long and loosen garment fitted with a pair of black shoes.

“Lets get going, we already wasted enough time.” Funji grumbled and rushed toward the door “Xia are you coming or not.”

Xia who lazily dozed off opened her eyes frustrated and stood up from the chair, she walked lazily to the door which was already opened allowing the freezing breeze to pour in. Ghou Ling followed after and stepped out of the house igniting his teeth together as they shivered, Xia and Ling followed after him.

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    Ghou and Funji stood amidst the large crowd of people who gathered in the large field of the Ling Palace, the smell of the environment was pleasant and cool, the tiny whirlwind which blew around gave the atmosphere a cool temperature.

“Welcome children of Ling, I believe you all know what you are here for.”

   A loud voice filled the surrounding, the large crowd which could be around the population of two-hundred to one thousand immediately gave a loud cheer which vibrated all through the environment.

The field was currently filled with the participants of the Ling’s war and the supposed announcer could not be found anywhere. However, it was possible that the announcer was using an echo magic that could transfer his voice to the field. Soon after the cheering stopped, the voice continued

“The Ling war will begin immediately after the brief explanation. You all will be transported into the Wall of tempest, a deceased land where the war will take place, please take note that the area of land in the wall of tempest is not large giving a ninety percent of encountering each other, if you encounter each other you have the choice to fight or ignore, you will all spend two-hundred and ten Dawns in the wall of tempest where triple-threat wars will be automatically organized by the wall three times in a Dawn for a short fight and two for long fight. Request to quit from the war will be allowed only for the maximum of sixty-five people, on the last day, all remaining survival will be transported to the General war ground where a fight till death will be done, if not the past three competitors will be automatically brought together for a triple threat, if request to quit is still available then you will be allowed to leave the war, death in the wall of tempest is real so beware. And by the way, two-hundred and ten Dawn in the wall of tempest is only four Dawns in the real world. Transportation will begin now.”

     Saying its last word, a large dark hole appeared underneath all the participants sucking them into the wall of tempest.

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      Wall Of Tempest

      Dawn 1,                        Participants 551

      2 death found,    5 seconds ago

      [Ghou Fe Ling]        Nō of kill - 0

      [Fire magic]

      Request to quit, Yes/No [Tap one] 

      [0/65 quit] 

      [Blink once to close] [Blink twice to open] 

Ghou  Ling opened his eyes to see a swarm of text, he knitted his eyebrow as he read the content, this had to be a collection of information or guide set up for all the participants. Ghou Ling instantly blinked his eyes and the text disappeared, he just noticed he was in a new place and did not wait the next second to begin exploring.

     Almost everything in the wall of tempest was similar to reality except some parts of the ground which held dark green sand and the dark red sky, the surrounding was dead silent and cool, no birds or even living things could be found in the area, the tall trees and bushes were all thick brown in color, this really was a deceased world. Though, with every breath Ghou Ling took he felt a great surge of energy flow into him, this feeling he had was known as ‘Mana nature’ but it seemed unnatural since mana nature could only be derived from life-forces but everything he could currently find was dead. 

     Thwack!

   Ghou Ling tripped on a skeletal figure and fell, he began to roll downward since that area slopped downwards. Moreover he was shocked seeing a skeleton lying on the ground.

     Thud!

   Ghou head rang upon landing on a small boulder, he immediately stood up placing his palm on the back of his head, the surrounding was a little blurry but he could clearly see himself standing about 6 meters away from a boy

“Hum, I can see you want a triple-threat hun,” A soft feminine voice scoffed behind him. Ghou Ling’s vision instantly got more clear making him to comfortably see the boy who wore a free trouser and an oversized T-shirt, he got confused at first hearing the feminine word from the boy

“Hey, behind you.”

  Ghou Ling turned his head backwards to see a muscular female who wore a body-tight shirt and a short trouser

   Eh, how is this girl even fit to be an empress, she is so shapeless!

    Ghou’s eyebrows raised in opposite direction as he stared at the girl, he instantly snapped out of it and stepped to the left ready to accept their invitation

“Why don’t you just make a request to quit than dying here.” Ghou said with a smirk on his face, he flung his eyes from the girl to the boy in other to see their reaction

“Eh, you are going to die here.” The boy who seemed to be around eighteen rushed toward Ghou puffing ice spikes out of his hands.

Ghou Ling ducked the moves manually avoiding all the spikes which landed in different position. 

     Ice ball!

    The boy shouted waving both of his hands shooting large balls of ice toward Ghou who jumped into the air thereby avoiding it. The boy continued attacking not giving Ghou any space to make an attack, his actions were all prompted from the words of Ghou making it vivid that a was a very cold person who had anger issues.

   Stomp! Stomp!

    As soon as Ghou landed on the ground, a large part of the earth pulled away attempting to crash on him, he immediately jumped backward dodging the crash which left a large crack on the ground.

“Ahh, you are such a violent killer.” Ghou Ling murmured staring at the girl who smiled mischievously, he looked behind and saw another huge boulder which was covered in blood.

    Ahh, she just gave that guy a dirty death!

Ghou Fe Ling body shivered with irritation, he turned back toward the girl who still had the dirty smile on her face

     Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!

    Multiple boulders uprooted from the ground and vastly began to fly towards Ghou Ling

   Fire shurikens!

 Ghou instantly made several fire shurikens on his palm and rapidly began to throw them towards the rock which shattered into dust as soon as they made contact with each other, this was the only option he had since the boulders were too much and fast for him to dodge.