East Meet West

281- Escaping and remaining low-key until the breakthrough

Orochi was now driving the carriage, while Armelia and June were sitting in the cabin.

Oh yes, Alex Xavier and his family were also inside the carriage, locked in a hidden compartment.

Their situation could be said to be quite miserable since they have fallen into Orochi’s hands. From the day they have been caught, they didn’t have any chance to see the sunlight nor did they have the freedom to enjoy the open air.

Orochi would simply give them food to eat and some time to wash and clean themselves.

Since their cultivation has been locked with June’s technique, they cannot make any waves and no matter how they struggle or beg, they spend their time in the dark storage room.

The situation of Jack Xavier is still ok because he has a strong mentality. But the same could not be said about his wife and son.

Especially, Alex Xavier. His world has completely turned upside down. Nowadays, he can’t even sleep properly because every time he closes his eyes, nightmares make his whole-body cold in fear.

Such that, he could hardly get any sleep.

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After solving the guards, Orochi went back inside and told Armelia and June about the Beast Tide and Jaraal’s actions.

So, when the two women understood the cause and effect, they did not make any comment and got ready to leave the city for a few days.

That's what Orochi planned, at least until he can break through into the Transformation realm.

So, he transferred the Xavier family into the carriage, and Orochi’s group also boarded the carriage and made their way towards the gates of the city.

Of course, the direction they are heading in is opposite to the direction of Dark Forest and Beast tide.

When Orochi’s carriage reached near the city gates, he saw a densely packed crowd of people and carriages making their way out of the city gates.

Border City is a very large city and many people live in it.

But due to the city’s location being close to Dark Forest, many merchants and mercenaries come to the Border City to get their hands on the commodities of Dark Forest.

So, the population of Border City is very huge.

Even though almost everyone inside the city understood that an emergency is going on, and it would be safer to get out of the city, but many people’s whole life is based on the city’s infrastructure, so how could they abandon their livelihood.

But many temporary people who are not part of the city, have swarmed towards the city gates and are trying to make their way out of the city.

As for others, they have put their hopes on the city lord’s guards and soldiers guarding the city, with the hope that they can defend against the upcoming beast tide and save the city and its people.

Looking at the huge crowd of people that were trying to make their way out of the city, Orochi felt a headache.

It is already a great thing that guards are allowing people to leave the city when they should be restraining and forcing strong people present to fight against the beast tide. But contrarily, they are allowing the people to go out of the town.

Surprising.

But anyway, Orochi joined the line and waited for his turn to walk out of the city gates.

And it took almost an hour when Orochi’s carriage was allowed to pass through. Luckily, Orochi reacted quickly and was quickly able to arrive near the city gates, because the crowd just kept on increasing after Orochi arrived.

And Orochi estimates that if there were 1000 to 2000 people when he arrived, then when he got out of the town, the number simply increased by at least a dozen times.

Luckily, he arrived early and also got rid of Jaraal and City Lord’s people.

At least he thinks so, and by the time they find him missing and try to track him, it would be already late.

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And just like Orochi guessed, by the time Jaraal got the news of Orochi’s disappearance, it was already late.

Since Orochi injured the 3 guards, it took them some time to report it to the so-called ‘young master’, who is also the son of City Lord.

And due to the Beast Tide, this young master is helping his father, the City Lord, by handling things and sharing the burden so that they can save the city from this beast tide.

So, by the time the 3 guards reported the news of Orochi to the busy young master, some hours had already passed. And when the young master relayed the same news to Jaraal, Orochi was already inside another town close to the Border City.

Jaraal could not help but explode in anger and scolded the young master very badly. And with Jaraal’s identity, not to mention the young master, even his father ‘City Lord’ dare not fart.

The eldest son of the city lord and the city lord himself wanted to curry favor with Jaraal and his teacher, but now the situation has worsened.

But luckily, the beast tide saved their as*ses, and they were able to escape Jaraal’s anger. And after they escaped, they cursed Orochi numerous times and did not even spare his relatives.

They can curse all they want, but they have made a big mistake by taking action against Orochi.

Now, the price they will have to pay for getting themselves involved in this matter... will be very painful or... even death.

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Jaraal took 20 best city guards with him and set off to find Orochi’s whereabouts.

He has no interest and he feels neither any pity nor any responsibility to save the city from the beast tide.

His attitude is clear- I don’t care about what happens to ordinary people, what matters is I can gain my teacher’s appreciation.

There was already some shortage of people to defend against the beast tide but now Jaraal took 20 best and strongest guards with him, the city lord’s teeth were itching but he was helpless against this.

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4 days passed and Orochi’s group was now temporarily hidden in a small town.

Since Orochi wants to remain low-key until he steps into the Transformation realm, he rented a small home and lived in it with Armelia and June.

In these 4 days, his Free Stat Points have reached the 1 million points goal.

Of course, he did not waste these 4 days.

During this time, Orochi exercised regularly and practiced fighting techniques.

The fist technique – Stone Breaking Fist, a normal grade Level 8 technique; that Orochi used mostly before breaking through into the Demi-Human stage, its mastery had already reached the ‘Perfection stage’ but it was not 100%.

So, within a few hours of practice, Orochi was able to increase its proficiency to 100%.

This was the first technique that Orochi was able to raise it to 100% proficiency.

One must know that not many people can increase their mastery to the ‘Perfection’ stage. And even if some people could reach ‘Perfection’ stage mastery, they cannot raise it to 100% proficiency.

If such as example is further explained in a simple and easy way then:

Let’s say 10,000 people have learned the same fighting technique. So, in these 10,000 people, less than 1% people, that is, less than 100 people will be able to increase the mastery of fighting technique to ‘Perfection stage’.

And in these 100 people, only 1 would be able to increase the proficiency to 100%.

So, it can be imagined how difficult it is and how talented one needs to be to reach such a level.

But due to the system, Orochi can reach such a level. Of course, there is also the bonus of a ‘Martial Artist’ Job.

And other than the Stone Breaking fist, Orochi also mastered a few other fighting techniques which he bought from the Golden Chamber of Commerce and those he recorded using the ‘Recording Eye’ feature.

He mainly focused on improving the fighting techniques such as finger techniques, palm techniques, leg techniques, etc.

In simple words, he focused on mastering fighting techniques that are related to the above-mentioned types.

And luckily, he was able to get some of them from the Golden Chamber of commerce.

A few of them are:

Mantis Finger Technique: to strengthen and use his fingers efficiently during battle. [Successfully reached the Initial Stage mastery, with a proficiency of 31%]

Iron Rod Falling Kick- to strengthen and use his legs efficiently during battle. [Successfully reached the Initial Stage mastery, with a proficiency of 25%]

Wolf Claw- to strengthen and use his fingers efficiently during battle. [Successfully reached the Initial Stage mastery, with a proficiency of 28%]

And there are many other such kinds of techniques, that he has practiced to good mastery stages.

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Martial arts and Fighting techniques: Mastery stages and Proficiency Percentage

Entry stage 1-5% (barely able to execute)

Starting stage 6-20%

Initial stage 21-49%

Advanced stage 50-89%

Success stage 90-99%

Perfection 100%