The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch42 Deal

At this time Flares decided not to leave Asta training alone, fearing he would go back to sleep and laze.

"How can I still want to after the teacher hits my ass like that!" Asta said when Zaru said that he might go back to sleep if Flares left him again.

"Rightly what Zaru said maybe teachers should really pay attention to you in full without the slightest gap" said Flares.

Asta narrowed his eyes in annoyance, for Zaru he got the punishment again, had he not come to ruin his composure he might have already quietly fallen asleep.

"Get up now, don't you know how much I want to see you blow up the furnace, hurry up" Zaru hunted down.

"Silence you jerk! You think I'm gonna think you blew up the furnace, you shut up and look at the prowess of your great young master" Asta replied.

"Haha..!!! All right, how about we make a deal, if after this you don't blow up the furnace I'll call you young master, but if you blow it up I'll hit your ass a hundred times" he said.

"Good, deal!" Asta agreed.

Flares smiled faintly looking at him, he really did not understand why Zaru was so fond of bothering him to date.

Asta begins the forging process by inserting the iron into the furnace and begins smelting. Little by little Asta tried to raise the temperature of the fire so as not to blow up the furnace again.

The fire looks calm and controlled for a while, it looks sweat pouring profusely, Asta does not deny controlling the fire will be that difficult. His soul power was almost depleted but Asta remained optimistic maintaining his concentration.

Seen a face full of a sly smile on Zaru's face, "It seems I've misjudged you, you're quite great just in this experiment," Zaru said watching him more closely, but Asta ignores him because he knows Zaru's only goal is to disrupt his concentration.

"Plakkk....!!!"

"Akh...!!! You...!!!!"

"Booommm....!!!!"

Flares and Zaru laughed at the look on Asta's annoyed face filled with charcoal, who would have thought Zaru would hit his ass when he was in full concentration.

"Looks like you shouldn't be what I think, you're still not enough to make me call you young master. Hurry up here, you don't forget the deal, do you" Zaru said.

"What did you say?! After bothering me you still dare to ask for the deal, aren't you ashamed of your own words..?!" Asta refused, of course he refused because his own failure was not his fault but because Zaru was disturbing him.

"Deal is still a deal, after all, there was no agreement before where I should not bother you so whether it is okay to keep it your defeat" Zaru said with a sly smile.

"You-you?!" Asta was silent to close his teeth, although there was no agreement prohibited to interfere but still it was an act of shame in his opinion.

Zaru walked closer to him with a triumphant smile, "Let's get this deal done" he said.

Without a second thought, Asta quickly left the forging room, leaving Zaru and his teacher there.

"You..?!!! Don't run..!!!" Shouted Zaru then followed after him while Flares just stared at them in surprise while sighing slowly.

"Zaru seems to be a little more jovial and nosy than he used to be, perhaps because the loneliness he felt when he was sealed made it like this" Flares murmured as he walked away from the room.

The Association Hall looked crowded as Asta came out of the Forging Hall, there were many guests who came to visit the Association, there was also Yuan who was looking through the Association's collection.

"Who is that little boy, what is he doing playing around in the Association,"

"Hey, son what are you doing running around here and there in association,"

Said the people who saw him running with gasps from Zaru's pursuit, the men began to wonder who the boy really was and why the Manager did not come immediately to stop him from running around in the association, people began to think whether the child was his grandson or perhaps his youngest son.

Seeing that there was a slight commotion Yuan Tiandu walked towards there to see it, he opened his eyes wide to see Asta running from someone's pursuit. Shortly behind him Zaru caught up with him while constantly yelling at him to stop and turn himself in.

"Stop right there, kid..!!! You won't be able to escape from me, leave yourself to me...!!!" Shouted Zaru who of course made a misunderstanding in the ears of those people who thought that Asta might be killed at the hands of the little bear, he said, because everyone was already who he was because the Manager himself had announced it at the time at the auction event.

"Quick call Manager...!!! The kid's in danger..!!"

"Quick find Manager...!!!"

Everyone was panicking not playing especially Zaru said it very, very clearly in their ears, of course they would panic when they saw a young boy who would be killed just for accidentally bothering him.

Seeing the panic of the people making Yuan only able to pat his eel, he himself wondered why Asta could disappear and had not returned when the Manager was about to start the auction, he didn't even see her at all after he left her in the city.

"Gentlemen please calm down, he is Young Master Asta, someone who will fight to represent the Red Dawn Association in the Martial Arts Tournament. Gentlemen please calm down, your Highness Zaru will not be able to hurt him, because the one who came to the Red Dawn Association with his highness Zaru is he, Asta," Yuan Tiandu said trying to calm them down.

Of course everyone would not believe the words if someone else said it, how could a young person seem to be able to subdue a great figure who also has dark legends in the past. But this was different if the one who said it was the Young Master of the Tiandu family, Yuan Tiandu. One of the great families in Arkhan Empire.

Everyone sighed calmly, fortunately if the child would not be killed in his hand but a new question arose in the minds of the people from where the child came from.

Some people who had seen Asta at Wan Xeng's restaurant certainly knew him as a figure who had surprised them.

"I've seen him he's that young boy at Wan Xeng's restaurant,"

"After I looked around he was indeed similar to him, he was that True Cultivator, it was only fitting that he had great strength at such a young age plus the Red Dawn Association helped him,"

"It looks like our faction will have a great power addition in the future, the choice of taking shelter under the Association is indeed a wise thing or else the Sinners will definitely pursue it after this,"

"But what True Spirit does he have?"

Now the identity of Asta as a True Cultivator has been revealed but only about his Spirit Essence is still not revealed, at least even though those people know that he is a True Cultivator, but only about his Spirit Essence, but at the Wan Xeng Asta restaurant did not show his spirit tattoo clearly enough to make people identify him.

Yuan Tiandu was surprised to hear that he himself did not know that the incident at Wan Xeng restaurant had anything to do with Asta.

"Master!! Yerper!! What are you guys doing are you having fun..?!!" Shouted Yuan Tiandu wondering what the two of them were up to by running around here and there within the Association.

"Senior can you help me to stop him...?!!" Shouted Asta asking for his help.

"You think you he can help you, a hundred people like him won't be able to hold me back!!! Quick stop, are you so ignorant of the shame of avoiding a deal!!!!" Shouted Zaru.

"Seniors....!!!!"

"Stop..!!! Quickly hand over your ass, you owe me a hundred slaps for your ass..!!! You can't escape the deal after you lose..!!!" Shouted Zaru continuously chasing after him until the two of them came out of the association and ran in the city.

"Don't joke...!!!! If you don't cheat me by hitting my ass that's already sore from the teacher's punishment, where I might fail and blow up the furnace, you just don't want to lose...!!" Asta's reply still won't stop.

"Ehhhh?!"

"Buffed?! Hundred slaps?!"

"Ahh, haha, it looks like the youngster will be fine. It was only a hundred slaps right?"

"Hey, what's okay is a hundred slaps in the ass are you kidding me,"

People laughed stiffly at the behavior of the two of them who were so ridiculous in making a deal, he said, of course more precisely they laughed at Asta who had so innocently made a deal with an Ancient Animal Spirit that would certainly never want to budge.

"Ehhh, I think what is it is that Asta just doesn't want to run away from the deal" muttered Yuan Tiandu with a faint smile, smiling, not expecting that behind the dark story of a Zaru in the past turned out to be a figure who likes to joke.

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On the other hand, Asta, who was fleeing from Zaru, continued to run around Tiandu until the afternoon, Zaru was finally able to catch him after he was not strong enough to keep running.

Zaru again resizes to the size of an adult male and bears Asta back to the Association.

At the Association people were surprised by his coming back to the Association while shouldering Asta, occasionally he punched his butt while shouting how many times he had hit him.

Yuan and the others just smiled stiffly looking at Zaru who kept laughing while doing it, on the other hand Asta continued to curse him with all kinds of swearing that he was throwing.

After finishing with Zaru, it was so late that he returned to his room to rest while healing the wound on his butt.

"Damn, who would have thought he was actually cheating just because he didn't want to lose" Asta muttered softly.

After he finished healing his buttocks state by eating the healing pills as well by relying on the healing from his body mastery, the recovery ended quickly in only about 10 minutes.

This time he did not want to stay all night like yesterday because he was quite deterred by the punishment of his unreasonable teacher.

The next day early in the morning, earlier than before, Flares came to Asta's room. He saw the student was still sound asleep, fortunately this time he came with a bucket of water in his hand.

"Wake up my beloved disciple, it's time to go practice..."

"Byuuurrf..."

And for the second time Asta was made a fool of by his teacher, he really did not expect his teacher would come earlier than before, he thought his teacher really was like he was working on it.

"Let's get up, here's the teacher already prepared the ingredients. Go practice in the Forging Hall with this, don't go back before turning it into an Artifact," he said while giving the Level 1 Iron Material to him.

"Is this not too early teacher, yesterday we started not so early, it's still dawn how about a little more..?" Asta pleaded with his teacher.

"No. Because yesterday you wasted all day playing with Zaru then today you have to train harder" he replied.

"What is playing around is obviously torture, how can the teacher call it as playful, the teacher even looks very enjoy it!!" Asta said.

"Today make an Artifact from the material, at least you should be able to create 10 Artifacts today or there will be a punishment from the teacher," he said, turning his eyes to hold back laughter.

"Look, what a teacher's laugh! And also how could I create 10 Artifacts with just these 7 Materials, it looks so obvious that the teacher just wants to torture me!!" Answer Asta.

"It is up to you to say what to the teacher but there will definitely be punishment if until night there are no 10 Artifacts, you are free to make anything. Zaru too today will go with Master maybe we both will go home a little night," he said as he passed away.

"Ohh yes, you must not ask for additional material to the Association or anyone else if not the teacher will still give you punishment. Believe that there's someone watching you all the time" he said, then closed the door.

Flares left him there with a look on his face that looked upset.

"Teacher really just wants to prank me, I'd better start practicing now, I don't want that to happen again. This material shortage problem I'll think about it later,"

Asta went to clean himself and changed his wet clothes before going to the Forging Hall.

Today the Forging Hall looks very crowded filled with Forging Masters employed by the Association, even Manager Row himself is there and is doing the forging process.

Actually Asta also knows that Manager Row himself is a Forger also behind his cultivation is so high, but now only thought of where the fire that Manager Row controlled to forge, but now it comes from, whereas from some previous events Asta knew for sure that Spirit Essence Manager Row itself had nothing to do with fire, more precisely Spirit Tool, Space Scope.

He also approached her to see the Forging process as well as to eliminate her curiosity.

"What's wrong, do you need anything here?" Ask the manager to be aware of his arrival.

"Teacher asked me to practice forging Artifacts, he asked me to create 10 Artifacts with these 7 materials, does the Manager think it is possible to do so?" Ask Asta.

"If he doesn't ask you to make something specific or you're free to make anything from 10 Artifacts, of course you can" replied the Manager.

While working on the Forging Artifacts Manager explained that it was possible to create multiple Artifacts with just one material, but the process is a little difficult because it has to divide the material into how many parts according to the amount you want to make when in the smelting process.

In addition to the need for a soul force strong enough to be able to maintain the temperature and stability of the fire was also a very high failure. If it had been like that then the material would have been useless and unusable, because its Material Spirit was dead.

"Then is there a Forging Master who carries out the Forging process like this right now..?"ask Asta.

Manager Row nodded his head slowly, "there are many who use it, but almost all forgers only do it when making Level 4 Artifacts down because it can save material and time. But almost no one does it on Artifacts of level 5 and 6 because the Material used is also very valuable so that as much as possible forging avoids very large failures. As for Level 7 Artifacts, no one dared to do it on a level 7 material that has a failure rate of 95 percent. The only person who did it was just the Master," explained the Manager.

Asta just silently watched the story of the Manager, who thought his teacher who looks more often and likes to joke turned out to be really the person who is at the top of everything. Asta had even thought about it now, actually what kind of figure could kill a person as great as his teacher.

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Heavenly Note

In performing the purification of Spirit Artifacts there were several steps to take. That is melting, Forging, Core Forming, Unification, and Cleaning.

However Ordinary Artifact Refining her process was just Smelting, Forging, and Cleaning alone