The Shadow Dragon Warrior
chap 6 - Fire Pagoda
After ryuji recovered from his constipation, he hurriedly prepared to meet elder hong to begin the exercise. When ryuji reached the hong and sunmy elders were talking. It turned out that elder Hong was asking sunmy about the events in the demon forest. However, Sunmy also only replied that we were just lucky.
Elder Hong also tried to forget the events in the devil for a moment and focused on training them about magical animals. Elder Hong explained that the magical animal we had defeated was not necessarily going to make us his partner. For that, we both have to try to unite the heart with the magical animals that are owned by the new supernatural animals to help us fight, he said, but the magical animals obtained by sunmy water panda voluntarily merged into one with sunmy. However, he was still a child - a child so the power he could unleash was likely only 20% of his original strength.
It is different with ryuji. He defeated the black fire phoenix that even master-levels could not defeat the phoenix alone. Therefore elder hong was still curious as to what was happening there.
The hong elder explained that to unite and fight together with the magical beasts they must be able to understand each other. Usually, a swordsman can make a magical animal as a partner takes 1 - 2 years. If it goes smoothly in 6 months the swordsman can remove the spirit of the magical animal from his body to fight and the spirit power of the supernatural animal range of 40% - 60% depending on its development. The higher the uniting presentation, the more obvious the shape of the magical animal.
For 2 days they were told to meditate to enter into their consciousness and talk to their magical animals and try to unite their hearts so that they would be partners. Actually, the purpose of the hong elder was only so that they could get to know how to communicate with their magical animals. Elder Hong knew there was no way they could successfully conquer the hearts of magical beasts in 2 days. However, elder hong had not known if ryuji was meditating not to communicate but to perfect his third form that zee ling had given him.
After 2 days of meditating, elder hong approached them. Elder Hong wanted to know if he could already talk to their respective magical animals.
When he arrived at the training room elder hong saw sunmy and ryuji were sitting waiting for him. It was indeed as expected by the hong elder that sunmy had not managed to fuse the power with the water panda. It may take 7-9 months to succeed because the water panda cub is not yet mature.
"What have you accomplished by Sunmy in your consciousness?" ask elder hong.
"I just found out he was moody but I haven't managed to communicate with him, maybe he still needs time to adjust and develop because he's a child" Sunmy explained.
"It must have been what I expected. Actually my goal is only for you to learn to enter first into your consciousness, in order to be able to control and maintain consciousness in the conscious because many supernatural animals are still not willing to accept the presence of anyone nearby," said elder hong.
Sunmy feels lucky he wasn't rejected and attacked by the water panda cubs. This may be because Sunmy saved his life. However, he was still sad and his strength was not yet stable. Therefore, he was still unable to fuse with sunmy.
The hong elder who also saw the standard and boring face of ryuji, made the hong elder guess that he must have also failed like sunmy even worse.
"Ryuji how are you doing with your funny phoenix that you defeated?" asked elder hong flirting.
"Well, do I want to get out of here so that the teacher can say hello?" ryuji replied casually.
"Hahahaha.you want to make me laugh yes, there's no way you can get it out" said elder hong.
"All right, let me out. If I can bring out the black fire phoenix, teacher should give me one gift whatever I want!" challenge ryuji.
"Ok son of my disciple sayanggg.. hahahhaha..," said elder hong disdainfully.
Ryuji instantly closed his eyes and requested that the black fire phoenix come out. Without a trace - the stale phoenix black flames instantly shot out from within ryuji's body and even came into perfect form. Sunmy and elder hong were shocked. They do not believe what they see with their eyes. After the black fire phoenix came out he just remained silent like a tame little bird.
"You are so great that ryuji, a level 8 magical beast that is equivalent to a legend-level swordsman, is directly subject to you" said Sunmy amazed.
After taking it out, the black fire phoenix instantly reentered. Actually during these 2 days, in addition to practicing the third style of space dimension ryuji also learned to communicate and control the power of the black fire phoenix. Although the black fire phoenix was hard to control, but with the help of zee ling ryuji could control it easily. It turned out that zee ling had been training the black fire phoenix to have self-control over him and his strength.
The black fire phoenix for thousands of years lived with anger. He kept looking for a strong enemy and became the strongest. He lived with the desire to destroy and kill with his fire, but after receiving the upbringing of zee ling he became more conscious and could control both his anger and the power of his black fire.
Zee ling a few days ago always emphasized that the black fire phoenix tried to follow ryuji. Zee Ling tells her that following ryuji might change her life for the better. Therefore, when dealing with ryuji in the dimension of space he felt that something had changed from ryuji. All this time he could not judge anything. But, upon realizing it he knew that what zee ling said was true that ryuji could bring him better. Just as he was about to attack ryuji there was a light enveloping him, which astonished him and let his guard down. Therefore, ryuji took advantage of the opportunity to communicate and control it.
"Your black fire Phoenix is so great, maybe I can't beat you right now but trust me you won't be disappointed to make me your partner" Ryuji said.
"Well I will be your partner I also feel you are different, after all I owe that dragon a favor. He has awakened me to the meaning of life and made me control my black flames" replied the black fire phoenix receiving ryuji.
"Thank you I will become stronger in order to be on par with you," ryuji said reassuringly.
"Well I wait, don't get knocked out by my fire again huh," said the black fire phoenix.
So that's what happened. Therefore, ryuji was able to bring out the black fire phoenix in front of the elder and the sunmy.
"Teacher, keep your word!" ryuji.
"Alright you are beyond the expectations of ordinary humans. May you be a useful person for this college and boast of your family. So what do you want to ask for?" said elder hong.
"Let me and Sunmy pick out one book each in your book room!" ryuji.
"Alright 2 more days of special student competition.so, I will also give you one more science book to learn" said elder hong.
"Thank you teacher" said the two of them.
Their levels have also grown. Sunmy who has studied the style of ice flowers and has a water panda becomes a 1-star general level. However, ryuji hid his original level because he did not want to make the elder surprised again.Therefore, ryuji made himself look like a 1-star general.
Ryuji had already reached the level of a late 3-star general. His achievements because the three zee ling styles were perfect he learned and because of the black fire phoenix. Ryuji's third style is the pagoda style of fire. This stance is very strong but it takes a lot of energy because the style of this fire pagoda can kill in an instant. If trapped inside the pagoda style of fire will be immediately roasted and his soul will be destroyed. Therefore, this style can only be used 1x a day.