The Legend Of Lyan 2

Mutation 2

It was a cold and quiet night. Occasionally there was the sound of wind gusts passing through the burly man who was still leaning his back on the tree while crossing his arms. The man, Light, had just focused his eyes on the black sun that was in the night sky without saying a word. His gaze was only sidetracked when he realized that Lyan had returned from the soul room.

“What's the problem?”

Time in the soul space did indeed travel slower than the real world. But Lyan's return was too fast, not even five minutes after Light rested his back on the tree. Light felt his student training was not going well.

Lyan who was still sitting cross-legged watched his right palm. “Teacher, have you heard of a worsening aura?”

Light was silent for a moment.

“What happened to you?”

Lyan nodded slowly.

“Aura that I have polluted the soul room lake even made the soul space fish undergo a mutation. Master Gyo said, I was just exhausted so my aura became this bad. Ah, it looks like I need to rest enough to get my strength back up and get back to training. Good night, Master!”

“….”

Light did not hold back Lyan who decided to go to sleep immediately. He can understand that his students are motivated to increase their strength and want to change tomorrow as soon as possible in order to return to practice.

Light turned his gaze back towards the black sun. Even though his conversation with Lyan was short, Lyan's words just now made him slightly disturbed.

‘Aura worsened due to fatigue? Is that possible?’

*****

When Lyan opened her eyes, the first sight she saw was Light's back sitting in front of the campfire. After stretching his body, Lyan rose from sleep and asked, “Teacher, are you not sleeping?”

“I've slept with enough.”

Lyan slightly scrunched his forehead. To be honest he never once saw his teacher sleeping during their time together. His teacher was always the one who looked the last time he decided to sleep from the others. And, his teacher was also always the first to be seen upon awakening.

What exactly does Light never sleep? Not likely. His teacher was not a hermit. Lyan knew that an ordinary human still needed sleep to rest his body. Maybe the burly man was used to waking up faster than others despite sleeping as late as possible.

After throwing his mind away, Lyan began to look at the dark sky. “Teacher, do we continue the journey now?”

The Continent of Light was arguably the continent of eternal night. The black sun that was in the sky never shifted from its throne so that the morning was not able to touch the continent. Lyan and Light also could not confirm whether it was morning or not. As long as they had woken up from sleep with a fresh body, they assumed the day had changed.

Hearing Lyan's words, Light immediately got up from his seat. “If you've been feeling well rested, then we continue now.”

Lyan and Light again continue the journey by taking the route that was considered safe by them. With the help of the crow's eyes, Lyan's gaze expanded to see anything a dozen kilometers away. So, if they found a settlement or a tribal society, they would immediately choose another route. As much as possible they wanted to reach the location of Master Gyo's soul pieces without having to deal with the tribes of this continent.

After a long journey, Lyan and Light accidentally discover a cave. Lyan checked the condition in the cave with her crow eyes. Although the cave was dark, the young man was still able to clearly see the whole inside the cave.

“Nobody. We rest here, Guru.”

Before entering the cave, they both look for twigs around which can be found to make a campfire and spend the night there.

When the bonfire was set and the darkness in the cave began to disappear, Lyan immediately sat cross-legged in front of the bonfire.

“Teacher, I'll go to the soul room now.”

Light nodded.

“I'll be waiting for you.”

Lyan then closed her eyes and not long after that she had been in the soul room.

“Master, let's continue the exercise.”

Master Gyo smiled. “Sure. And the exercise I gave you today is different from before.”

“What? So it's not like last night's workout?”

“Yes, because this exercise will be more effective for your development than the previous exercise. But if you still want to continue fishing practice I'm not masala—”

“No, Master! Let's do this exercise.” Lyan immediately interrupted after hearing the exercises today would speed up his development.

Master Gyo smiled. “Good. I've prepared the exercises for you.”

Master Gyo turned around, looking towards the lake of the soul pool.

“Stands in front there.”

Lyan immediately followed the instructions.

“Put his palm on the surface of the lake.”

Lyan nodded and went back to doing as Master Gyo had ordered.

After Lyan's hand started touching the surface of the lake. Suddenly, hot smoke came out of there. The heat level in the lake is increasing and giving rise to small bubbles that burst.

Seeing the lake water remain contaminated by its aura, Lyan began to turn her face towards Master Gyo. “Don't you think I just need enough rest to keep my aura from deteriorating, Master? But this ...”

“It's time.”

“What?” Lyan frowned. Instead of giving an answer, Master Gyo instead said something that was not understood.

“I mean, it's time for practice at start.”

CPLASH!

The mutated fish suddenly jumped out of the lake. Lyan was surprised instead of playing to see the fish was the size now became larger than before. The fish moved very quickly darting towards Lyan with its mouth wide open. Lyan managed to avoid an impromptu attack by moving sideways so the fish only managed to bite into the empty air with its cluttered pointy teeth.

“What do you mean I have to deal with him, Master?” Lyan noticed that the fish that had just failed to attack her started to look at her. In addition to its increasingly large size, Lyan did not expect the fish to be able to move freely in the air.

“Yes, and take out all your abilities.”

Lyan turned towards Master Gyo with astonishment. “What are you seriu—”

BLAARS!

Lyan had not finished his words, suddenly the fish attacked him by shooting a water ball.

Lyan was unharmed by the attack, but she still felt puzzled as to why Master Gyo had asked her to exert all her strength. ‘What is this fish really strong?’

Although the fish attack was ordinary, Lyan did not want to be too dismissive. It was possible that there was something he did not know yet so Master Gyo asked him to exert all his strength.

Lyan finally decided to use stage one transformation, Yesterday. After his transformation, the young man's body suddenly turned into a shadow.

“DEADLY STRIKE!”