Chapter 399 Venture

?Theta stayed until Raith had finished the food he brought for her. The excuse she gave was that she needed to stay in order to return the plates. But she just stayed and wouldn't peel her eyes off the young lad while he ate. At some point he almost choke on the porridge because of her unwavering stare.

In a few minutes Raith was done with his food. Even though he had something good in his stomach after a long while, he had a forlorn expression on his face.

He sighed, 'I really wish I can catch a little sleep'

But the asura had insisted that they move immediately. He couldn't even exactly tell him what he was up to all night. Raith had deducted that there is a high chance that the asura does not know of any other thing that has happened to him except from the physical changes.

Which means, he'd love to keep [force] a secret, so he would have a trump card when fighting Thard - Harl one day. Raith gleamed at the thought of wiping that nasty grin off his face, then walked closer to him in haste.

"So, are you planning to teach me anything today?"

Thard - Harl with a frown on his face glanced at him and continued without answering a word.

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A few minutes later, they had gone deeper into the village and even left the premises of the village, they were now in the enormous forest that parted the Mutata village from the next village. It was also the same road that lead to the place they call capital.

But that was not where Thard - Harl and Raith were going. They were walking in the middle of the forest. No matter how much Raith tried to ask the asura for information, he received no answer.

In fact, he was begin to boil inside. Wondering how long he would last before he bests the shit out of this guy. Of course, he was immediately careful with his thoughts. But either Thard - Harl wasn't paying attention, decided not to react or didn't hear at all.

Actually, Raith had been pondering on the asura's ability for a while now and he thinks it's very possible that there is a rule to how the asura is able to hear thoughts.

That was a matter for another day. Figuring it out will help him during their battle though so Raith was low-key on the lookout.

Finally, the asura came to a stop in front of a bamboo siege wall.

Raith looked up at the tall walls. The bamboo sticks were very tall, it would have taken someone very tall and powerful to aid with building this thing. Usually a wall of this height should be made of stone.. but it was of bamboo.

Like the sticks had been uprooted from the ground and rooted into the soil at this point without any changes made to it. The tops however, were trimmed together and in the middle of the wall was a siege tower, also made of bamboo sticks.

"State your name!" A voice rang out from the tower in the middle of the stick wall.

Raith leaned closer to Thard - Harl and whispered: This chapter was first shared on the N0v3l-B1n platform.

"What the hell are we doing here?"

The asura raised his chin a little, observing the man in the tower, then gave Raith a response without looking at him.

"The people say Farngs joined this organization before leaving the village."

Raith raised a brow and sized up the place with a demeaning stare.

"This is an organization.. perhaps for bandits?"

Thard - Harl looked at him with no emotion whatsoever and turned to his face to the front. "I guess we'll find out."

"Are you deaf?! I said identify yourself!!" The man shouted, these time he nocked an arrow and drew it. Ready to shoot at any slight movement.

"Do you think we should enter peacefully or something?"

"I don't really care how you do it."

Raith stared at the asura with contempt. He calmed himself the next second and walked forward with his hands in the air.

'This should signify that I don't mean any harm right?'

But immediately Raith stepped forward with his hands in the air, an arrow blew past his ear, whistling into it.

Raith's eyes froze, then he looked up slowly and clenched his teeth.

'You darn bastards. And here I was trying to be nice!!'

He bolted and streaked forward. As he arrived in front of the bamboo wall and swung his hand back – his fist hardened and practically became stoned, as if it had been petrified.

Raith plunged a terrific blow into the wall, exploding the clusters of bamboo sticks. Following it, everywhere trembled, even the tower where that man stood lost balance for a second.

A large hole had been haphazardly plummeted into the wall, with ragged bamboo sticks hanging in between it.

Raith squinted his eyes.

'I was trying to hold back.. I guess I held back too much?'

The petrification on his fist slowly faded till it was back to his pale skin. Normally, that blow should have injured his knuckle but currently his hand was clean.

Unfortunately, the [Unbreakable] effect didn't necessarily add to offense but it made his hand strong enough for defense and to break through other defense. Raith wondered what would happen if he used it with [force].

It'll probably be explosive. But he couldn't afford to bring it out now. Not when Thard - Harl was behind him.

Raith took steady steps back as he began to hear numerous footsteps. Men began to align themselves on the other side of the wall.

"I repeat! Identify yourself!" The man shouted once again, aiming his arrow downward at Raith.

"What the hell?!! Didn't I try doing that?!! When you shot me?!"

The man in the tower looked at the person behind him with a confused expression.

"What's he saying?" That one said to him.

"I don't understand but clearly he is speaking. But he seems to be speaking another language. What should we do?" The man responded.

"Hm.." the other man rubbed his chin as he thought of an answer.

Raith looked up, the man had been silent since he spoke, he also noticed he had withdrawn the arrow.

The man came back pointing his arrow at Raith. But this time Raith felt like he wasn't going to shoot.

Slowly, the bamboo wall Raith was standing in front of slowly began to creak and open.

'Oh? So, this part is the gate huh'