Information Requested: Akura Joy, Second Child of Akura Mercy and heir to the Akura Clan.
Beginning Report…
Akura Joy is the second child and first daughter of Akura Mercy. She excels in everything just as her mother once had; however, she is always one second behind her mother in completion time this drives Joy forward to try and beat her mother's records. Also, like her mother, this leads to jealousy within the clan however there is one friend with her throughout this time Akura Diligence.
When Joy reaches the peak of Jade she tries to bond with the Book of Unending Midnight, the path her mother created. She bonds with it and the Monarch is informed after which she decides to name Joy as the heir to the Akura clan but does not wish to burden her like she once had been.
Upon reaching lowgold she is asked by her mother if she would like to train in the Blackflame Empire in which she agrees as it would allow her to gain experience and hopefully some more friends. She signs up to the Skysworn in which she comes in first place in the trial however the person in second catches her eye, Wei Shi Kai. Kai and Joy become friends training together as well as being on the same team; she beats him to Highgold and Truegold before they are both placed on as team captains.
Upon reaching Truegold they are asked whether they wish to enter a tournament for all the Truegolds they agree in which Joy and Kai face each other in the final in which she defeats Kai to become the number one ranked Truegold in the Blackflame Empire.
Suggested Topic: Relationships between the Akura head family's children.
Denied, Report Complete.
Shadow madra flooded the area around them. Joy unleashes a volley of arrows around Diligence before Diligence can destroy all of the arrows one latches onto her. Joy has already prepared the technique from the shadows that spread around her striker technique rise up and grabs a hold of Diligence wrapping her tightly in a cocoon of shadow.
Joy walked up to the cocoon and destroyed it, her bow now returning to a staff. She held her hand out to Diligence who accepted it pulling her up. "Now should we go check on the others before someone gets killed."
"Well knowing Rage, Kai is probably sitting on him." Diligence said. They both laughed walking off.
Kang clashed spears with Fortitude once again. Something made Kang think that the Akura clan could see the future when they named their children as Kang was sweating; it looked as if Fortitude hadn't broken a sweat.
Kang had Stella Spear madra flowing through him as he forced more weight onto his spear to push back his opponent. Fortitude however did the same with his shadow madra covering his weapon forcing Kang backward. Kang poured madra into his Stella Spear iron body before kicking Fortitude in the chest as he jumped backward he followed up with his striker technique the beam of Stella Spear madra shot out towards Fortitude. Fortitude's spear was infused with soulfire as his enforcer technique went from black to black and grey. He took the striker technique head-on. He might have been Underlord but he couldn't take a Truegold attack too lightly but in the decision that he decided not to dodge Kang followed the technique whilst Fortitude guarded himself Kang was moving with the speed to close the distance. As soon as Fortitude thought of the attack it was too late Kang was behind him, spear raised. With the speed from his iron body Kang slashed down but he missed. Fortitude was covered in shadow madra before he charged. Kang prepared to block before he noticed something.
Although it didn't look like it, Fortitude was being pushed in his fight against Jai Kang. He had almost been caught off guard pushing his speed to its limits to dodge before charging forward however as he did Kang had shot a striker technique above him. As he began to look up he noticed that one of the thick branches that stuck out from the tree had started to fall forcing Fortitude to dodge to his left only for Kang to follow him directly. He enforced himself as Kang pushed down on him with all his strength. For Truegold his strength was incredible but it wouldn't be enough. Fortitude felt Kang's spirit flair as his spear began to glow with a white light, his striker technique. Before Fortitude could do anything, Kang had hit him in the legs with the striker technique then followed it up with slashes of his spear restricting his movement.
Fortitude gripped his spear tighter cycling for his striker technique at the end of the spear whilst Kang was still in close range he slashed forward with his spear. A wave of shadow madra came out of it in an arcing circle slashing at Kang. If he hadn't had his enforcer technique up this would have slashed straight through him. A cut opened up across Kang's chest as he spat blood out of his mouth. Kang steadied himself, preparing to fight more.
Fortitude ended up falling to the ground, his legs almost unable to keep him up from the amount of damage done to his body. 'A truegold cut through an underlords body; he truly is strong.' Fortitude thought. "I think we should call it a draw before one of us is too injured, your coughing up blood and I can barely walk."
"I hate losing but I'll take a draw considering I don't want to die here." As Kang had finished his expression changed on his face from a sturn angry man to what looked like a shock.
"Did I hurt you too badly?" Fortitude asked with sincerity.
"No. I just found out my revelation but Keya has all my sacred treasures so we should probably head back to where we started." As Kang finished his sentence he coughed up more blood. Fortitude walked over placing his spear on his back and picking up Kang who he helped carry over towards the field they had started in.
Keya wasn't on equal terms with Lust from what Joy had said about him; the man was obsessed with battle and right now she could see that. Lust was running towards Keya with a smile on his face and laughing the whole time. 'Skye, progress on the model of Lust' Keya asked her mind spirit.
[Well it's harder than the one of Shao Lila and Fune but it might be quicker because I don't have to make a model of two people. I would give it about 20% accuracy and the highest I think I will get is around 64%. Even then we will likely be playing to advance.] Skye replied. 'Good enough.' From Lust's words from before she despised the man, even more, he was a good-for-nothing bully as far as she could tell. All that mattered to her now was advancing and beating this man. Keya swapped to her pure core and thrust forward the empty palm. It struck Lust right where his core was. With that, she punched with her right remnant hand with as much strength as she had.
Lust had recovered from the empty palm and used an enforcer technique as Keya had swapped black to her blackflame core. From her flesh palm, a stream of blackflame came out Lust held out his hand to block it. The blackflame burned into his flesh but it didn't phase him as he still charged forward. Thanks to Skye though Keya's reaction speed was high so with a quick thought she was able to activate the burning cloak. The punch was powerful as it sent her flying back as she tumbled on the ground before picking herself up. As she stood up fully she thought about what pushed her to practice the Sacred Arts. Following her fears back to her core. What she feared now was losing her family and not being stronger. Ever since she was little her older siblings had protected her not once had she been able to protect them. The soulfire within her sturred. 'Skye, Let's advance.' [Good, Good. First, let's see if we can get this maniac to listen.] As Skye finished Lust had started hitting her again. Skye jumped backward swapping to her Pure core and using her ruler technique the Hollow Domain. As the domain expanded Lust's technique was washed away.
"Hey Lust, I know my Underlord revelation so are you going to let me advance?" As Keya finished her sentence she dropped her ruler technique and opened her void key taking out her treasures and pushing Kang's back in.
"Good Good, that will make this fight more entertaining." After he finished his grin grew wider before following it up with a laugh.
Keya ignored him as she sat in her cycling position with her treasures around her. Out of her soul space, she pulled out a white rock that her father had given her and placed it in her remnant hand. With her spiritual sense, she reached out to the unity of aura before sensing within herself for her soulfire. "I practice the Sacred Arts so that I feel like I'm needed." She hated the fact that she had to say it aloud. Now as soulfire washed over her and the transformation began she absorbed the stone that was radiating hunger madra into her arm. As she felt her body change she was able to mold the arm into what she wanted. She decided to make it look like her other arm. It wasn't muscular or weak-looking but it fit her fine. As her arm changed so did the rest of her body she grew slightly taller her hair grew longer so that the ponytail that she had grown down past her shoulders with her fringe now almost covering her eyes. She had no scars that had to be healed but she felt lighter but also tougher. She stood up as Skye spoke to her. [Ok I need you to focus now so you don't get distracted from what your revelation was. I think we can beat him quickly but he probably has some tricks. So you need to execute this easily.] 'Got it.'
Information Requested: Combat solution. Knocking Akura Lust out.
In the simulation, Keya uses the empty palm striking at Lust's chest with a little bit of her remaining Soulfire; it is enough to disrupt his madra for longer than before. Afterward, she uses the Soul cloak using the last remaining soulfire within her she punches Lust right in the ribs with the force of her Underlord body and enforcer technique he goes flying across the field slamming into an Orus wood tree. There is a loud crack before Lust falls to the ground unconscious.
Report complete.
As if being a piece in a puzzle she followed the movements that she had in the vision. Lust charges towards her as she finishes standing up but she is ready with an empty palm straight into his chest. The white of the soul cloak covers her before it turns a slight grey from the soulfire added to it. With her new right hunger madra arm, she punches straight into his ribs. As expected the man went flying into an orus wood tree behind him as he fell to the floor she noticed that the tree was almost split in half. 'Skye, do you think we overdid it?' [Maybe we did.] Skye replied.
Keya didn't know whether to leave him or take him with her but as she was walking over she noticed a purple fox walk over to him. From the purple fox, Wei Shi Kelsa formed. Her aunt looked at her then Lust on the floor before waving her hand and sending Lust away. Keya scratched her head nervously. "Did I overdo it?"
"No, He was unconscious and I sent him back to the Akura camp. You should return quickly to the field you started in as your friend needs to advance." Kelsa replied.
"My madra is low, could you teleport me there?"
"No, as I still need to get myself back. I don't have long to chat but I have some gifts for you once you start your training." As the sage had finished her sentence a pink mist formed around her and she disappeared with the wind
Keya sighed as she walked off in the direction she could sense the others.
Kai had just managed to put out the flames he had caused during his fight with Rage before he sat down exhausted. Rage was still collapsed on the floor groaning. Once Kai had advanced his fight with Rage had been one-sided better yet he had figured out his bloodline however he had little madra left so he wanted to wait before he tested its full capabilities. After waiting for a short while he heard voices come from the woods.
"Well, why not ask him. I'm sure he would."
"What are you two talking about?" Kai asked whilst standing up. It was Joy and Diligence talking about someone.
"Oh, we were just talking about how-" Before Diligence could say anymore Joy had her hand covering Diligence's mouth then whispering something in her ear that Kai couldn't hear.
"Nothing to worry about." Joy said with a nervous laugh. Kai knew something was up but he didn't bother to press them about it. Maybe they had been talking about Joy's Underlord revelation or even her transformation. She was taller although it was still hard to tell from the fact that he had also grown taller. Her hair now sat in a ponytail which she had tied with a purple ribbon in the shape of a bow. She looked more mature as well. He shook his head a bit before reaching out with his new Underlord senses he noticed two more people approaching. One Underlord and one Truegold that must be Kang and Fortitude as Kang didn't have his treasures on him since he didn't have a void key. In another direction, he could sense only one person and that was an Underlord. With a more in-depth scan of the person he noticed that they had pure madra, so Keya had won her fight as well.
"Has Keya still not got back yet." Out of the bushes Kang had spoken up himself and Fortitude using each other for balance. Kang had a cut across his chest whilst Fortitude had cuts all over his legs. Kai ran over to support Kang whilst Joy had run over to help out Fortitude.
"What happened to you two?" Joy asked.
"We were fighting and we decided to leave it as a draw since we were both injured and didn't want to kill the other," Fortitude replied. Joy opened her void key pulling out some medical supplies and gave them to Fortitude. Kang could probably advance but his treasures were in Keya's void key. From the bushes, Wei Shi Keya stepped out running and slightly panting.
"Keya over here quickly."
Keya ran over next to Kang before opening her void key helping Kang pull out his treasures. Kang sat in his cycling. "Kang, make sure to speak it aloud," Kai called out to him.
"I practice the sacred arts because I don't like the feeling of losing. Or lose." He seemed to add the last part after a short pause. The soulfire rushed around him and the treasures disappeared.
After a minute Kang had fully advanced to Underlord. As he stood up you could see the changes he looked older and his resting face had seemed to make him angrier. He was now taller than before although he was still shorter than Kai, he was taller than the other two in their squad. Suddenly from behind Kai, he felt something for a second turning around in an instant. Keya or Skye must have noticed it as well. Standing behind Rage who had picked himself up was Akura Charity the Heart sage.
Rage looked angry but he hadn't noticed behind him yet. He went to say something but the sage had tapped the back of his head and he passed out. "Firstly I would like to say congratulations to those that have just advanced you far exceeded my expectations in some cases." Before she continued she had looked towards Endless Sword mountain. "The other is that I would like to apologize on behalf of the Akura Herald for the way his children acted towards you, Wei Shi Kai." Kai looked on in shock.
"It's fine I'm used to it but give my thanks to the Herald." He bowed at the end of it to not be disrespectful. Suddenly he heard a crash as he looked up again he saw his father there holding Asuna as a child tucked under his waist. Kai burst out laughing. As soon as Asuna was placed on the ground she ran at Kai, two of her sword arms at his head with the other four poised. "Is that any way to congratulate your brother on advancing?" Asuna seemed to get angrier at the comment and added another two sword arms.
"If you don't stop right now. I'm sending you straight to your mother." Kai and Asuna both immediately stopped. In their family, the roles of their parents were almost reversed. Lindon was like the loving and caring mother and Yerin was the one to throw them into a pit full of remnants to get them to stop. However, both could play the opposite role.
"Is she that scary?" Joy whispered to Keya.
"A week before Kai was meant to go off to the Blackflame Empire Asuna had come home for a couple of days and they ended up fighting. Our mother threatened to feed Orthos everything in their room and not feed them for the rest of the day. When they didn't believe her threat and carried on they spent the rest of the day apologizing trying to get their bed back. So for the rest of that week before they both went off to the Blackflame Empire they slept on the floor. That's not even the worst, it's just the easiest one to think of."
"What about your father then?"
"Oh, he just swaps to Blackflame, freezes them, or tells them he's going to send them to their mother."
"Anyway, why are you here dad?" Kai asked. There must have been a family reason or something since he brought Asuna as well.
"Firstly I would like to apologize for Yerin's comments earlier to Pride." He said as he turned to Charity. Charity simply bowed to him before turning towards the Akura Underlords.
"It is time for us to leave. Joy, you will be doing this task with the others. After one month has passed you should return to the Akura camp to the north for training in Moongrave."
"Yes, Aunt Charity." Joy said whilst bowing.
"Jai Kang, you are currently chosen as 1 of the 3 from the vassal states; however, should you show weakness in the next two months before the selections, you will be replaced." The sage's face had turned cold.
"Thank you for the warning. I will not disappoint you." Kang's bow was lower than what Joy's was as if he would fall over.
The two remaining Underlords Diligence and Fortitude bowed to Lindon before picking up Rage and following behind the sage who went towards the Akura camp. When they were out of earshot Lindon spoke up. "This involves all five of you, you are going to play a game I like to call the points game." Kai, Keya, and Asuna all instantly got excited.
"I have a question. What's the points game?" Joy asked. Kang looked just as confused.
"I'm glad you asked. Inspired by a system that was made at Sky's Edge by Akura Fury. You will do missions for the Skysworn and earn points; those points will be used for rewards. Unfortunately, there isn't much choice as these are rewards tailored to you. If you reach 2000 points and if you double that and reach 4000 there will be an extra reward. Each mission will give you 20 points, however, if the mission takes longer or is of high difficulty the number of points you get will change. Any questions?"
"So we have to complete 200 missions in a month but won't we all be on the same squad." Joy was asking the question that was probably on all their minds. If they were all on the same squad then they could easily do almost every mission the skysworn had.
"You will all work as a separate squad. If you have to team up then the points will be split between how many of you there are. The final thing is this won't start until this evening so go back to your camp and rest. Saeya will know about this and she will be distributing missions." Before Lindon took off Kang spoke up.
"Thank you for this opportunity Monarch, we won't disappoint you." He bowed and the others decided to follow his lead. Lindon just smiled and in a gust of wind disappeared. They all took off towards the Blackflame camp. It was time to rest until this evening.