Shin; Infinite Forest
After walking around for the whole night Shin decided to stop and take protection on top of a tree branch not daring to move in the middle of the night as Demon beasts were more active during that time and not only that but he decided to not sleep today as even sleeping could be dangerous.
'I should take the opportunity and sort out what special technique I could use.'
Taking out a book at the time he started reading the various information on the first pages before changing the book the moment he found something that would not fit him. Special techniques were techniques that used Soul Force in a very unique and special way to create special phenomenons and unlike cultivation techniques a person didn't have a limit at how many he could learn.
'I should first learn a special movement technique, even if I try to learn an attack type before I master it I wouldn't be able to make real use of it and even after I do because of my low cultivation I wouldn't be able to gain much.'
Even if he thought of this he didn't have a way to simply differentiate between the different special techniques but he was willing to waste time in learning any type of movement technique as long as he would be able to use it in its most basic form tomorrow.
After going through a dozen of them he finally found one that was usable enough and without hesitation he started studying it.
'Skyfield Domain Movement Technique… In ancient times they really liked to name everything in such a long and useless way…'
After reading dozens of them the only similarity he found was that each one of them had long and difficult names like the Mountain Cutting Saber Technique or the Divine Lightning Bird Technique.
'Let's see, to use this technique one would later need to learn a thing called Law?'
Shin didn't know what these Laws were or how he would learn them but decided that he would simply postpone it for later.
'This special technique is divided into different layers for one to execute the full power one would learn all of the layers in order.'
After reading the basic explanation he immediately went onto the explanation of the first layer the 'Sky Step' stage, if one learnt the first player perfectly one would be able to step in the air at least one time giving a fake semblance of flight.
Till now Shin had to rely on his Crimson Wings to fly and they spent so much soul force that he could use them only for a small amount of time before having to stop to recover, it was just barely sufficient to cross the distance between the Holy Orchid Institute and the southern wall.
Shin started to read more and more about the explanation and it was only after thirty or so minutes that he stopped and started to meditate on the things he just read about. Apparently in the book there was an explanation of what a Law was and how to understand it and use it, Laws is an extremely pure type of soul force and there are several hundred different type of laws as every concept could become a law, in the book the power of law was divided into three stage; Inscription Law, Materialization of the Concept and True Control.
Time passed as the moon quickly made its way through the sky but before the night could be completely over Shin eyes opened, a strange light flashing through them, lifting his palm a strange construct of light was formed mid air as it shined in a light green light, this was the basest form of the Law of winds that Shin comprehended in this time. If any of the peak legend rank knew that the law that they spent dozens upon dozens of years trying to understand was so easily understood they would probably kill themselves from the shock.
Even though he was able to touch upon the basic inscription of the law it was still unstable and it couldn't really be used for much, at most he would be able to create a simple current of air.
'Now I just need to understand how to use it to step on the air…'
To comprehend the inscription law and to use it were completely different matters but for now it was more than sufficient.
Looking at the sky he saw the first light of the sun starting to appear.
'I should wait for a little longer just to be safe.'
Taking the opportunity he started to search for other useful special techniques.
…
In the middle of a ravine a red shadow could be seen jump high in the sky, the shadow flew upward before flashing once as it launched itself in one direction, the shadow was Shin as he jumped high in the sky in the hope to understand his position and the direction for the entrance of the ravine but has he did this he didn't notice two other shadow flying low to pursuing him but stopping after a little as if reluctant to leave the place.
Landing on the ground he could see the lake and the river where he probably landed the other day.
'Now I just need to fly out of this ravine and then make my way to Glory City.'
After meditating till dawn he was now able to use the first layer in its most basic form even though he would always waste tons of Soul force the consumption was still better than using the Crimson wings.
'Just for this movement technique all of this was worth it, I can't imagine what the other special techniques will be.'
Reaching the entrance of the ravine Shin sighed as he started to climb, while he had different way to fly up the ravine was a lot more high than he initially thought and if for some reason some demon beast is waiting he would need at least a little bit of Soul force to fight back or to escape.
Time passed like this as he climbed meter after meter and he was soon reaching the peak but as he was thinking whether to finish climbing or not he heard a high cry coming from behind him, turning he saw a brown feathered eagle fly toward him at high speed.
His expression turned sour but deciding that there was no way he could escape from this he traced his finger on his interspatial ring before jumping back right toward the eagle, the eagle looked faltered for a second but still decided to continue its attack.
"Die!"
A light flashed in his hands as a bright purple spears appeared in it with a quick movement the spear swept outwards toward the eagle.
'Flowing River!'
A red streak followed the spear tip as it increased in size, the eagle could do nothing more than stop and circulate its own soul force to resist the attack, its vision covered in red. As the eagle was able to resist the hit it became even more enraged and as it prepared to once again rush in front the red energy scattered showing nothing on the other side.
Right after the attack Shin used to spread open his wings and flew high above the eagle and after reaching a good angle he stepped on the air free falling right on top of the eagle head.
*Puff*
A single stab the eagle eyes glazed over before a small red line of blood started to flow from the top of its head to the beak, the eagle died before it could even understand where Shin went.
Shin used the eagle body as a stepping platform before storing it and as the body disappeared he stepped in the air once again, since it was already close to the peak of the ravine Shin didn't have problem reaching it.
'Finally, now that I'm out it will be easy to reach Glory City, I can just hope that Naoki has already returned. If not, I will gather all the guards and search for him.'
Right now, with his strength, he would only put himself in needless danger if he were to try to search for Naoki alone, it was a lot better to simply return to glory city and gather the guards of the Akagawa Clan and search for him, at the end Naoki was a Black Gold rank he would be easily able to return to the city even without the help of the clan so Shin wasn't that worried about him.
At that moment a deafening roar resounded in the distance and as he turned he saw a pillar of fire erupt from that direction at the same time he saw Eiko jump high in the sky along with Yang Xin right behind him, the two had scorched clothes and they had grim expressions.
He hesitated for a second before jumping towards them and as soon as he approached them he could hear footsteps and some screaming of people.
'How many people are here?'
As he arrived the place on one side he saw a giant size salamander with red skin emitting fire all around its body, at the side there were more smaller sized salamanders fighting together the giant one and looking a the other side he saw Eiko along with Yang Xi and other alchemist grand masters and masters there with their weapons draw ready to fight this small demon beast horde.
'The giant one is Black Gold rank but the smaller ones are only bronze and silver…'
While the members of the alchemist association were double the number of demon beasts they were still alchemists, only the high grandmaster that were gold rank would be helpful in battle as they could fight with their higher level cultivation.
'Still this type of demon beast is too troublesome, high defence along with their ability to emit fire all around their body.'
The fire Salamander was a troublesome demon beast in itself where even demon spiritualists on the same level would find it difficult to fight let alone some alchemists that weren't accustomed to fight.
'In the first place most of these alchemists became alchemists because they didn't have talent in cultivation or fighting…'
As he was thinking of that the giant salamander roared as the smaller one rushed forward, the alchemist all readied their weapon as even Eiko face became solemn, he could easily escape this place and even take Yang Xi with him but if were to do so he would probably later be suspected of associating with the dark guild to weaken the city or worst the Akagawa would be accused of killing the master of the alchemy association.
'If there are too many casualties it will be all the same.'
As he thought of that he saw in the corner of his eyes a group of alchemist apprentices that were in the early Bronze rank that were about to be trampled by a peak bronze salamander but as he was to act and save them he saw a red shadow flash from the forest, Shin appeared like a ghost right above the salamander in between the demon beast and the apprentice.
"Flowing river!"
With a swing of his weapon the already familiar weapon art of the Akagawa clan was reflected in Eiko's eyes as he saw the salamander actually retreat while screaming in pain.
"Young Master!"
Shin didn't turn around he didn't even stop and as he landed he rushed forward quickly passing at the salamander side before thrusting a deep blue halberd. Under the surprised gaze of everyone the halberd seemed to launch like an arrow carrying a mysterious put powerful wind with it and stabbing deep in the salamander side.
*Roar!*
Seeing one of its own brethren being injured like that one of the nearest salamanders roared before spitting a fireball the size of a human head.
"Watch out!"
One of the alchemist said that but no one was near enough to help Shin and Eiko heart raced as he saw Shin's weapon still embed deep in the other salamander, and just as everyone was expecting him to be hit by the fireball Shin actually abandoned his weapon stepping backwards, a single step and his figure blurred as he appeared right in front of the apprentice alchemist that were in danger moments before.
With an explosion the fireball exploded right at the salamander side but it didn't actually injure it, the fire from the explosion quickly spread and rushed forward toward Shin but he waved his hand in front of him as a strange inscription pattern appeared in front of him.
With a woosh a gust of wind erupted from Shin feet carrying the fire upward where it dispersed.
At this moment Shin was already panting exhausted from his soul force consumptions but before the salamanders could make any other moves two shadows moved, A water torrent appeared as it quickly struck the salamanders dealing tons of damage.
"Here, this will help to recover your soul force."
A fragrant smell invaded Shin's nose as he saw a light blue sleeve appeared in front of Shin carrying a small red pill feeding it to him.
The familiar sensation of a recovery pill spread through his body as he looked up and saw Yang Xi smiling at him, and right behind her Eiko quickly dealing with the two salamanders by launching torrents of water.
"Young Master, what happened? Naoki barged in the alchemy association only saying you were in danger and that we needed to come as soon as possible."
Eiko pushed away Yang Xi who could only squeak as she almost fell down, Shin looked at Eiko with a deadpan expression as he saw he clearly didn't care that he almost pushed away the head of the association under the gaze of most of the alchemist grandmasters.
'Mh.. actually this could be bad…'
It was at that moment that he realized how bad the situation could be, let alone the Akagawa reputation would suffer if they realized that most of the grand masters of the association had to come and save his sorry ass.
'Let alone the debt we will be in with the association but the other noble clans will take us as a joke in the future.'
While he didn't care about his reputation right now it wasn't only his reputation that would fall but the reputation of the whole clan that they all worked hard to raise.
Looking at the giant salamander his eyes widened as an idea came into his mind.
"We went out to kill train but as we venture a little deeper we noticed this horde of demon beast that were heading toward Glory city so I decided to stay and be the bait to gain some time for Naoki to escape and alert the city about this, only we were attacked by other demon beast as we were making our plan of action and we ended up separated, I'm relieved that he was able to send the message."
Obviously 90% percent of that was a lie but the alchemy association didn't need to know and if out of this they could come out as a noble family that risked their life to have Glory city gain a little more time to prepare then they could kill multiple birds with a stone.
Eiko noticed that this was and while Yang Xi decided to believe it she also thought that something was strange but the rest of the master believed it and were instantly moved.
"Take this, while escaping I also found this and it could be helpful to fight it."
Saying so, Shin gave Eiko one of the interspatial rings that contained a bunch of Black Gold rank swords. Eiko's mind stirred at the sheer amount of high grade weapons inside the ring but decided to leave the question for later.
"Then how do you plan on fighting this demon beast?"
While they were speaking all of the salamanders retreated a little looking cautiously at Eiko and Shin, they didn't attack but they were obviously preparing themselves for the imminent battle.
"Did you alert some of the guards?"
Shin asked in a low voice as he took out another gold rank halberd, while he could use the almost Legend rank spear it would attract too much attention so he had to limit himself with a simple gold rank weapon. While most of the equipment of these alchemist were in the silver rank there were some gold rank as it wasn't that difficult to buy one at worst one would need to use an enormous amount of demon spirit coins but it wasn't that strange for the head of a clan like the Akagawa, to have a gold rank weapon.
'If my cultivation was a little higher I would simply use a Black Gold rank.'
Using a Gold rank was already pushing it; if he were to use a Black Gold rank weapon, something that only the strongest demon spiritualist had, then people would only see him as someone using his family power to get everything he wants.
'It's too troublesome to be the clan head.'
"Some of our guards are coming here but they will take at least another day to completely get ready…"
"Send a message to the captain of the guard to alert the southern wall guards of a demon beast horde."
Something that was exclusive for the Akagawa clan was a special technique that would let someone send a message using soul force, the message would take only a couple of minutes to reach its destination and it could only be seen by someone that knew that technique.
Eiko's lips moved but no sound came out and before Yang Xi could ask what he was doing a small orb of light was formed right in front of him before it scattered away. The drawback of using this technique was that one could send it only in one direction and they wouldn't know if the message was actually delivered or something happened that blocked the message to get through.
'Now we can only hope that at least one of the guards sees this…'
Shin's plan was that of stalling for time before attracting the demon beast to the southern wall at that time Glory city hopefully would have already gathered experts to deal with this.
'If we take the previous demon beast hordes then this could be called small but the salamanders are tricky to deal with unless one has a water or ice attribute.
"Let's stall for time! If you are injured, quickly retreat, we don't have to kill them, we will only gain time for Glory city guards to prepare themselves."
Eiko screamed that so that everyone could hear but the salamanders may have taken that as a battle scream as they roared before rushing forward again.
Like this the battles between humans and beast started, Eiko took on the giant size salamander himself while Yang Xi and the other Gold rank took on the more powerful ones, the apprentice could only steady themselves before rushing toward the weaker one and Shin took this opportunity to train his Skyfield Domain Movement Technique by doing a hit and run tactic helping the apprentice that seemed to be hit, his attack at most were able to distract the salamanders and sometime cause small injuries but nothing that the salamanders could easily take but his objective was simply to distract them so that the other apprentice could escape safely, his figure flashed across the battlefield as unknowingly his soul force started to move on its own around his body.
An alchemist screamed as he was hit straight in the chest by a fireball and as another was about to help him up another fireball was about to hit the two Shin's eyes flashed, he rushed forward slamming his halberd on the fireball sending it back toward the sender but as if premeditated two other peak bronze salamanders appeared left and right ready to scorch him until only ashes would remain.
'Sky step!'
He jumped high in the sky and under the gaze of both humans and beast he actually stepped on air and rushed toward the salamander that first launched the fireball, taking it by surprise.
The halberd fell down at incredible speed accompanied by a strong wind as Shin felt all of the muscle in his arm start to burn from the pain, with a crack the halberd smashed against the hard skull of the salamander as a loud crack was heard, the salamander opened and closed its mouth before falling on the ground it's four limb spread out without life in its eyes.
The battle has been going on for already fifteen minutes but this was actually the first kill on either side, obviously not counting the other two that Eiko killed before, the alchemist persisted thanks to their medicines while the salamanders thanks to their strong bodies but at this moment some of the weaker salamanders falter while the gold rank quickly took the chance to finish off some of the weaker ones while the strong ones were still stunned and looking right at Shin.
To win a battle between equals the winner would always be the one with the highest morale, a single strike caused the battle to go from a stalemate to a one sided slaughter, it was at this moment that the salamanders finally started to take Shin like a real threat.
He didn't have time to adjust his breathing as he felt the air around him heat up, looking up he saw two salamanders rushing to him with their mouth open wide and fire dancing inside, these were different than the previous one these were some gold rank demon beast Shin was definitely not their match, his heart sunk as he saw the fire approach.
'Wind Law!'
A gale of wind started to revolt around his body and as the fire came in contact with it it started to rotated around him creating a massive fire tornado all around, it was a single move but he now was completely trapped inside, if he stopped revolting the Wind law then the fire would collapse on him and turn him to dust but if he continued he would soon consume all of the remaining Soul force, at this moment Shin couldn't step back so he decided to push forward!
Clapping his palms together an inscription started to be formed in front of him as the wind started to grow stronger and faster.
'I just need an opening!'
He gritted his teeth as he felt the reserve of his soul force depleting at a rapid pace, this was surely not something that a 4-Star Bronze rank could do, he himself was already pushing his limit and giving his all to maintain the wind law from collapsing.
*Roar!*
As he felt his body falter he heard a primal roar coming from his chest as a warm refreshing energy washed through his body, azure energy covered his body and started to stabilize the wind law even further as an ever growing soul force gushed forth from his chest.
'This… Is this that small jade token?'
He couldn't check right now but he felt the warm energy coming right from the place where the jade token was hanging on his neck. Taking the opportunity he started to move the wind law as an opening slowly formed right above him.
With a jump he soared to the sky as his body swam through the fire, the strange soul force getting burned by the fire but immediately getting replaced by double of the amount.
With a whoosh Shin body shot out of the sea of flame but he couldn't bring himself to smile as what he saw made his heart go cold, right in front of him behind the giant salamander he could see an even bigger demon beast horde approach from the distance and this time it wasn't only salamanders but even Golden Skin ape, Azure Heavenly eagles, shadow flying leopard and other smalls and big animals. The only relief was that from the size and the distance they would at least take a day to arrive but if they continued this fight any longer he didn't know whenever they would be able to have time to recover to return or worse they may not be able to want Glory City.
"Eiko! A bigger demon beast horde is coming! We have to retreat and want Glory City!"
Saying so he turned toward the giant salamander who was looking right at him with his mouth wide open just waiting for the moment Shin fell from the skies to eat him.
A normal demon spiritualist would not be able to fly unless they integrated with a winged demon beast or soul formed, especially a bronze rank would definitely not be able to move after they jumped in the air but Shin was different from normal bronze rank.
Turning his whole body he started to fall headfirst toward the salamander as the giant beast emitted a smug aura but soon widened its eyes as Shinn took out a purple spear, normal humans wouldn't be able to determine a weapon rank with a single glance but demon beast were different, they had a better perception than human so the giant salamander immediately understood how dangerous that weapon was and because of that he changed its plan as a sea of fire sprouted from its body surrounding everything in bright red flames, even Eiko could only create a water shield as he stepped back.
'Like I'll be scared of some little flames!'
Integrating with the Blood Ba serpent Shin immediately felt the high vitality curse through his body. The Blood Ba serpent was currently too weak to use in combat but its most useful ability was its high control of the blood attribute giving it a high vitality.
Shin's clothes burned off as even his skin started to change to black but he still pushed through the pain as he stepped on the air once more.
The wind law pushed the fire out of Shin way accelerating his fall so as the spear reached the salamander right eyes it brought forth the strength of a gold rank, this normally wouldn't be enough to even injure it but the place Shin aimed was the eyes, the weakest spot on all of its body plus he didn't attack with a normal spear but a Half-Step Legend rank and the salamander was already injured from its earlier battle with Eiko a water attribute demon spiritualist.
All of this factor combined gave Shin the only possibility to ever land a wound to this giant beast.
*Roar!*
Unlike the majestic roar that started the battle this one was full of pain and rage, Shin didn't linger he didn't even dare to try to attack more as he knew it would only put him in danger so he put the spear in the interspatial ring before jumping backward to Eiko who received him with a cushion made of water.
"Let's go! This should slow them down!"
Eiko nodded as everyone soon escaped in the direction toward glory city, the smaller salamander wanted to give chase but they also couldn't leave their leader here especially in this frail state so their retreat was successful, from start to finish their side haven't lost a single life, at most some apprentice alchemist were gravely injured but could still walk and would need at most a week of recovery to reach their peak state.
This was probably one of the best battles the Alchemy association ever had.
"If we go with full force we may arrive in almost a day to the city from there we would have only a day to prepare… While we already warned they wouldn't expect such a large demon horde to come…"
As Eiko said that Shin mood fell, even if they prepare this battle would be hard especially if they can't prepare the beast Black gold rank, while Glory city is treated as a single city it's territory is so big that even a Black gold would need at least a day to go from one side to the other so even if they had a day to want them then it would be cutting it close.
'If I take a blood burst pill and burn through everything then I may make it in time but even then it would be cutting it close..'
A blood burst pill was a pill that would burst one own blood vitality and soul force to give the demon spiritualist a burst of power for a limited period of time, if Shin took one of this and use his Law of Wind along with his Crimson wings he may be able to make it just barely to the city in just half a day but he already took tons of recovery pills if he took another then he would probably jeopardize his cultivation for a week as he would need that time to expel all of the pill toxin from his body or they would damage him in the long run.
'What are just a week of progress if I may not have a place to cultivate in the future.'
The single thought of losing Glory City was terrifying to Shin, not only his clan would perish but probably even humanity itself would lose all possibilities of retaking their world.
'One day I'm going to purge these Demon beasts from this world but to do that I need to cultivate and a place to grow…'
At that moment Shin made up his mind, a week was nothing in comparison to what he would lose, at this moment it was the second time he lost to the pressure of demon beasts and had to sacrifice something to survive, the first time was when he had to abandon his previous home.
"I'm going ahead and warn the city lord, I'll even send someone to help you guys so don't stop."
Finishing saying so he took first a recovery pill along with integrating again with the Blood Ba serpent, it took just a couple of seconds to reach the best condition he could reach at his state.
'This will be barely enough.'
Taking out a Blood Burst pill he hesitated, meanwhile Eiko looked at all of his movement with curiosity as he didn't understand what he wanted to do but as he saw take out the pill he couldn't help but gasp loudly attracting the attention of others.
"Young master, if you take that you may need at least a week to fully recover, you may even be unable to cultivate for more than a week!"
Shin shook his head before putting the pill in his mouth.
"I'm faster as I'm the only one that is able to fly right now, I'll warn Glory city of the demon horde so that they can prepare and I've already decided! Please pass me the ring I passed you before they will need it more."
The ring he was talking about was obviously the ring holding the Black Gold rank weapon, Shin planned on giving this to the guards of the Akagawa clan so that they had more chance to defeat the horde, he even knew who to give the Half-Step Legend rank weapon.
Eiko hesitated for half a second before giving the ring, Shin already took the pill so he couldn't stop this no matter what he did.
"I'll wait for you guys at the walls, don't take too long!"
With those words he jumped high in the sky as the veins in his body started to flash red, his entire body was warm as he felt his soul force almost double in quantity.
'Wind Law!'
Stepping on the air a small sonic boom was heard as he was launched forward, the people on the ground could only look at the place where he was before.
Shin continued to fly at high speed with his wings as he used the Wind law to push himself forward and in just a couple of hours he was able to reach the southern walls, as he approached he saw some people already stationed there and was overjoyed as he saw a familiar face.
The people on the wall immediately became wary of the red bolt coming toward them at high speed but before they could even start to voice their question the bolt slowed down as they recognized the figure of a human with blood red wings.
The City lord, Ye Zong immediately recognized this figure as he lifted his hand to stop the people who were about to attack. Shin cancelled his wings some meter before the walls before surprising everyone as he stepped on the air and landed on the wall.
"*Huff* *Huff* City lord…The Demon horde is larger than expected, there are not only fire salamanders but even other sort of demon beast like Golden skin ape and azure heavenly eagles ..."
As Shin continued to speak, the people's faces turned sour, the salamanders were already troublesome enough but now they needed to prepare to fight even other types of demon beasts. Shin continued to explain the situation as he narrated everything that happened then flopped on the floor but at that moment a demon spiritualist wearing a black armor with crimson lines stepped forward helping Shin up, this soldier was the captain of the first squad of the Akagawa clan, he was just half step from reaching the Black Gold rank, Shin seeing this person smiled as he passed him a interspatial ring.
"Take this weapon and prepare for war, Eiko and the alchemy association should arrive in another half a day, in the meantime call back the other great elders and if possible the rest of the guards."
Seeing Shin give such orders in front of the other people they finally took his soty seriously as every patriarch present started to delegate work to their own people.
"Well I'll be going out first…"
Saying so, fatigue finally overwhelmed him as his eyes closed, even the hand that previously held the ring fell flat at his side, after using everything he got and more he finally couldn't withstand the pain and the drawbacks of the pill as he fainted.
The other patriarch seeing his figure being carried down the wall couldn't help a very small amount of respect for such a young kid, thinking of their sons and daughter they couldn't help but compare the two and sigh in regret at how they wouldn't be able to have such outstanding youth in their own family and clans.
A couple of you may have noticed the change I made on what is a law and for my explanation I changed it because I wanted to implement the 'Concept' of martial world with the 'Power of Law' of tales of demons and gods, and I even have a valid reason for why i was able to implement it one that unfortunately I can have the story explain since there are things the mc doesn't know about.
The power of law at the end is just a flow of inscription pattern that were formed around the tiny world and in the story it isn't clear if they are connected with the mysterious rule that prevent people from crossing into the Heavenly fate realm but because of that it mean that these power of laws are fully naturals or at least they should have a more pure and natural form plus there's nothing that say that they are the peak of this type of energy, in the novel the Spiritual God of death(spgd) even after being the spiritual god for who know how much time he was easily overthrown by Nie Li as soon as he understood more laws than him showing how even an old spiritual god hasn't reached the peak understanding of this type of energy giving me a lot of space to work with, so I decided to make this more pure and natural form taking inspiration from the Concepts of Martial World, not only it kinda work but with this I will be able to have the mc use it in the higher realms in contrast of laws that because of the restrain in the tiny world should not be usable in other realms just like how Nie Li was able to break through the heavenly fate thank to him cultivating inside the Space and time book.
Sorry for the rant but I wanted to explain it and hopefully it made sense.
That was it for today, hopefully see you on Thursday with a new chapter or maybe even sooner who knows. Thank you for the support and see you soon!