Sky Fall Legend 109 Monstrous

"Apprentice greets teacher and gramps!" called out Jodye Trill in a calm manner, without showing any sort of humility. However, he was actually quite excited. Now no matter how this batty youth reacted once Jodye removed his source energy from the other's soul, he wouldn't be murdered thanks to Sigma's presence, "Teacher, could it be that you wanted this student to die?"

"I beg your pardon?" Sigma Octanis was flabbergasted. When had he ever done anything but dote on this brat heavily? They had been worried sick for hours over him!

"Did you not witness this madman attacking me, hoping to murder me in cold blood? I could have lost my little life if my destiny wasn't so great," Jodye Trill felt indignant as he grumbled.

"What?!" both Sigma and Ca.s.san exclaimed in shock. These two had tussled just now? The fog and mist were so thick that it was almost impossible to see for more than a dozen feet ahead. They could sense Neofrost's battle power fluctuation, but they didn't believe it was anything serious.

Boy were they wrong.

"Neofrost, what is the meaning of this?" barked Sigma angrily after obtaining the facts.

However, the Neofrost Master himself had a lost and distraught expression on his face. Once he recovered from the feeling of his soul functionality ceasing and starting again, Joovee Nile immediately bowed deeply towards Jodye and spoke in deep tones, "I, Joovee Nile, swore to never bow to any man in this life. However you, young Jupiter, are worthy of this bow. I can not serve you, for the weight on my shoulders is far too heavy. None the less, I vow to the heavens today to never purposely go against you, your wishes, or your well-being. Instead, these are things I will protect if and when I am able."

After speaking Joovoo pinched a drop of blood essence from his finger which flew up in the sky, followed by nine booming claps of thunder, that seemed to strangely resonate with Jodye's bloodline. This caught Jodye off guard, but made him curious and temporarily distracted him from realizing the weight of this heavenly oath!

"Weird… is it somehow because of the heavenly judgment?" Jodye Trill pondered to himself, "have I a.s.similated some tribulation qi by surviving it?"

"Ahem…" Sigma Octanis cleared his throat because Jodye was pondering in a daze for several breaths, while everyone awaited his reaction to Joovee.

"Ah!" Jodye suddenly snapped out of it. He waved it off casually, "Less of this, now. What's done is done, I am alive after all. So you swore an oath to protect me? That's as sincere an apology as one could ever make. I guess I can consider you as my big brother now too, right?"

River Nile blushed unconsciously when she heard this. At this point, not even ghosts knew what this child was thinking.

"Big brother? Kid, you're already close to being a man. Do you want a big brother so bad? Besides, don't let my looks fool you. I know I've been told I look 18-years-old, but I'm actually only 15-years-old. Does that sound like a big bro to you? " asked Joovee Nile a little surprised. This big dummy actually called him a big brother...

"Actually, Master Neofrost…" Ca.s.san then explained in detail that Jodye Trill was the very apprentice they had been looking for. Thus, ill.u.s.trating the fact that this was also that freaky little six-year-old genius that they talked about so frequently when they first met up.

Joovee had been so impressed with the description of this kid that he considered him a potential match for his sister one day. However, how was this boy in front of him a six-year-old child? He looked like a young man, not a little boy!

Those carved muscles.

That handsome and cold face.

Those peerlessly deep sapphire eyes that looked like the ocean on a bright day!

Jodye's current height was even above 177 cm!

What part of this was a little kid his sister's age?

Knowing he had just sold his protection to a brat, Joovee suddenly felt a tinge of regret. A man would not require much a.s.sistance from a child, as he had his own pride. Joovee had been banking on this. A child, on the other hand, would never mind asking for help from his 'big brother.' In fact, he would do so at every chance. However, Joovee swiftly accepted his fate. After all, this brat survived being hit by his most vigorous attack head-on and even managed to render Joovee immobile through some unknown method. Thinking about it clearly, for this youth Jupiter to have located and saved his family only meant that he was lucky or capable on a level that Joovee himself was not.

After all, Joovee had made no progress in doing so even with his various connections and Sigma Octanis' help. Instead, White Serpent Cove was using his family to continually threaten and manipulate them.

"Well, I don't mind being the big brother to freak like you," Joovee Nile wore a cold countenance, but his earlier intimidating aura had somehow vanished.

"Big bro, are you called the Neofrost Master?" Jodye Trill replied, shamelessly referring to Joovee as big bro as if he had done it hundreds of times. As he spoke, Jodye deactivated [Pharaoh's Law] because he was low on origin qi. He continued speaking after his crown had evaporated into thin air like a specter, "Let me guess, you are… a Master Gear Refiner, a Blacksmith!"

[Source Artifact Detected]

Joovee Nile was still looking at Jodye's headwear [Pharaoh's Law] as it vanished. 'I seem to have never seen such a source artifact?' Had the boy not deactivated it, Joovee wouldn't have even realized what it was. When he realized his ident.i.ty had been exposed, he was startled and reacted late, "Out of every profession you could have said, you know with certainty I'm a Blacksmith. How is that?"

"Well at first I thought alchemy… you smell faintly of medicinal herbs and explosions. However, from the sweet and hypnotizing smell, it's likely poisonous herbs rather than medicinal herbs. However, even if you're a poison master, you can't be one of very high rank, otherwise, the smell wouldn't be so obvious. Therefore, the only conclusion left was a Gear Refiner," explained Jodye Trill matter-of-factly.

"Why is that?" asked Joovee Nile truly curious. He was sitting with his legs crossed one meter in front of Jodye who did the same, as Lily Nile tended to the minor injury he received after cras.h.i.+ng.

"Well, if I had the spiritual qi and a combat soul called Shura's Gavel that worked as a huge hammer, I would definitely become a Gear Refiner," replied Jodye Trill like it was simple to deduce.

In fact, it was.

"Ah!" Joovee slapped his palm on his forehead, "Of course, you've already seen my Shura's Gavel. In that case, it's truly reasonable for you to figure it out. Merely, how can you possibly know so much about masters? Unless..."

Joovee's eyes flashed with the light of understanding. No wonder he had been brought to his knees before! Before Joovee Nile could finish his sentence, Jodye reached out with his divine awareness and tapped Joovee's shoulder, making him whip his head around and send out his spirit qi. However, right after sending out his spirit power, Joovee's body shook slightly, "You… you… you have spiritual power as well? Not only that, but I can't even detect it at all? So strong?"

Spirit power was the ability to make one's spiritual qi move independently.

Even though Jodye's divine power could never be detected by spirit level power, Jodye had allowed himself to be discovered.

Jodye Trill simply nodded in response. This was his plan the entire time, to gauge the reaction of this Young Master who was meeting a younger master. This would tell Jodye the risks of showing off this talent.

Sigma had strongly advised Jodye against doing what he did when they first met, as it was considered incredibly rude to scan someone stronger than yourself with spiritual force. Not only that, but Sigma felt Jodye was underestimating the greed and evil in the hearts of man. Jodye Trill was totally ignorant of certain etiquette so Sigma couldn't be comfortable with him yet.

"Master, if we do not return soon we will not make it to the start of the auction. Should we continue to pursue the treasure?" asked Ca.s.san.

Upon hearing the word treasure, Lily and River Nile exchanged strange looks, before turning to stare at Jodye, whose eyebrow was raised in curiosity, "Old man Ca.s.san, what treasure? Your treasure is right here!"

"Indeed, my good apprentice. I came partly for the treasure, but mainly to support Neofrost in his quest. Meeting you was truly an unexpected boon," replied Sigma Octanis.

"Wait, so if you two weren't being attacked by Jupiter… then what caused you to send the two distress runes?" asked Joovee Nile suddenly.

"Well…" Lily Nile instinctively glanced at Jodye before speaking, only to see him paying rapt attention to her as if it was story time. She sighed and continued, "We ran to escape the judgment of the ninth heaven, a three by three lesser lightning penalty. After that, we were ambushed by some disciples of White Serpent Cove."

"Oh yeah?! So it really was the judgment of the ninth heaven… what heaven-defying creature angered the skies? You must have seen this right?" asked Sigma Octanis excited. His act before was obviously just to appease Jodye, as he was far too excited right now.

"Well…" Lily Nile looked at Jodye again. River Nile was also staring at Jodye like her remote control was broken and she was stuck on the channel. The first person to notice the significance of this was Joovee Nile.

"Wait, wait… Mom are you saying… that the one who angered the will of heaven... was him?!" Joovee Nile simply couldn't believe this. Sigma and Ca.s.san were wide-eyed and speechless as they finally turned to Jodye Trill, who wore a detached expression like none of this even affected him at all.

It was as if they were all talking about someone he didn't know.

Lily Nile sighed once more and sat down close to this handsome child Jodye. A trace of appreciation and apprehension could be seen in her deep eyes, but only by the Jodye Trill who gazed into her eyes when she approached. Jodye was very curious about this woman who knew a name that had been kept secret his entire life. Lily parted her lips and whispered to the group, "River and I were right next to him when it first started. I only fled to protect my daughter. To think he would actually survive such a thing…"

Shock!

All three men were speechless as they subconsciously turned their heads to look at Jodye. They all had only one word in mind to describe this kid.

Monstrous!