Munding - Legend of the Wolf Fighter

Chapter 178 - Half-step

“Has Izrail-san already entered the manifestation stage?” hiro asked in a soft voice towards Pak Yai.

Hiro's three comrades also watched the old man standing in front of them closely. All initiatory stage fighters always dream of entering the next stage. That way, they could only be considered to have reached the peak of their long journey.

Chaos, an organization that can be considered as a mob****** international and has been operating in various countries, can exist until this second because of rumors that Chaos is backed up by a wolf fighter stage manifestation.

A manifestation-stage fighting wolf is described as very strong and can dominate any number of initiating or crewed fighting wolves even if they gang up at the same time.

They are in a different league.

Therefore, a manifestation-stage fighting wolf is considered to have a threat capacity that is more or less equivalent to the military strength of a country. They are often referred to as ‘one man army’. In any country, provided that a fighter has been confirmed as a fighter of the stage of manifestation legitimately, it will always be accepted with open arms and welcomed kindly.

Because there is one important principle when facing a wolf fighting manifestation stage.

Only the manifestation fighter can fight the other manifestation fighter.

If a country does not have a single fighter who reaches the manifestation stage, it is conceivable what their country will be like after being ruffled by the mob******opportunis like Chaos. And Chaos is not the only organization of its kind that exists around the world.

Many wolf fighters stage manifestations who do not want to be bound by the rules of law of a country. From the beginning, the fighting wolves were a bunch of people who thought the norm was just a phony delusion of weak humans trying to curb them. Then, when they reach the highest stage in training and searching for their true identity, will they allow the weak humans to re-bind them to their pseudo-norms?

These highest caste fighters then formed and established their own herds. They do whatever they want, take what they want, kill who they choose. There are absolutely no rules and norms that limit them except the norms that they believe in and have been part of their identity from the beginning.

Therefore, the existence of the manfestation stage fighting wolves standing on the side of a country is both a necessity as well as a utopia.

“Do you think I have entered the stage of manifestation?” Pak Yai did not answer Hiro's question and instead asked back.

Hiro was seen thinking hard while still occasionally groaning in pain and holding his right hand. Choi and Yasin help Maria stand up from her position lying on the ground. They both shuddered in horror after seeing Maria's extremely strange left foot shape. The part of his shin towards the sole of the foot seemed to separate and just drooped limp down, as if it was only held together by the flesh and skin between the upper leg and the lower leg that was broken.

Yasin and Choi then took Maria to a place some distance away from Hiro and Pak Yai stood up.

After a while Hiro thought hard and concentrated, now he knew that the old man in front of him had not yet fully entered the stage of manifestation. The main feature of the manifestation stage fighting wolf is the condensed intent and can be seen in real, no longer in the form of ‘rasa’ or something invisible to the human eye.

A simple analogy can be used to explain this process.

The gas is put into a room and then the room temperature is lowered to the temperature where the liquid is formed. Unostentatious.

A second, more complicated way to conduct condensation is to apply compression or pressure to the gas. An example of gas that is commonly liquefied in this way is LPG, a type of gas that is already very familiar with Indonesian citizens and fills almost every kitchen of our homes.

LPG stands for Liquefied Petroleum Gas which means liquefied petroleum gas. As the name implies, at room temperature and pressure, LPG will be gaseous like air.

In order to be used for economical purposes, LPG must be liquefied and the most effective way to melt it is to compress it or compress it.

For comparison, 250 Liters of LPG in gaseous form after being compressed will yield only 1 Litre of liquid LPG.

Going back to the story, the intent possessed by the fighting wolf at the awakening and initiation stages initially resembles the gas that is around us. We know they exist, we can feel them, but we can't touch them or see them.

Then the fighting wolves try to improve the quality of their intent by compressing and compressing them to a point where their intent becomes ‘nyap’, they managed to manifest their intent into an object that could be touched and seen with all five senses even by ordinary people. This is the core and source of naming the stages of the fighting wolf with 'manifestation'.

Until this moment, Hiro was still trying to find loopholes and information about Pak Yai's attack. Although he did not want to see her again, but Hiro tried to recall the process where he fought a blow with Mr. Yai earlier.

Hiro tries to twist the bad memories slowly to capture the details he may have missed.

It all started from Hiro who first threw a punch, Mr. Yai who greeted him with a smile and then swung a reply. Hiro focused his memory and attention to the tip of Pak Yai's fist and that was when he saw it.

A small ripple resembling the surface of the pond was thrown with a small stone, mystically and amazingly visible a few centimeters in front of Pak Yai's punch. The ripples spread out like a wave and immediately disappeared, then all of Mr. Yai's intents that had been radiated in all directions, it was as if it was attracted to the point where the ripple had appeared and disappeared all of a sudden.

Little by little a thin transparent slab appeared in front of Pak Yai's fist with incredible speed and finally formed a small circle no more than 5 cm in diameter. Exactly the same as the manifestation of the intent that was used by Mr. Yai when replying to Maria's attack.

Hiro held his breath and returned to recall a moment after they clashed. Hiro ignored the pain in his hand and focused his attention towards Pak Yai's fist where the thin transparent circle of manifestation of Pak Yai's intent was located. No more than a second after they had clashed and Hiro was pushed back, the manifestation of Mr. Yai's intent seemed like an object that was denied existence by nature and its contents. Quickly, it faded in all directions and disappeared.

Hiro now knows that the manifestation of Pak Yai intent is not stable and that means, Pak Yai is not a true manifestation stage fighting wolf. However, Pak Yai also could not be considered an initiation stage fighting wolf, either, because there would be no initiation stage fighting wolf that would be able to defeat the old man and do what he just did.

Just one word appeared in Hiro's head after realizing all that.

“Half-step.”