Chapter 17: What Is Right What Is Wrong

"A third realm expert?!" Zax exclaimed. "Girl ... Susuya, you are just an Earth's Core Holder, how can you so casually call someone a third realm expert? Are you even aware what a being in the third realm signifies? Please tell me that you simply heard the term 'Realm' from someone and trying to play a prank on me!" Zax refuted her statement the instant her words sunk to his mind.

That she is his granddaughter and that superintendent Ten is a third level Core Master Zax could accept. Even saying that he was the first principal of the number one Martial school in El-Eden, Zax was willing to believe, after all, he did perceive a tremendous level of strength from the old man. But for Susuya that was not enough. She actually, calmly and without batting an eyelash, claimed that her own grandfather is one of the very few, most likely less than ten beasts and people put together, in all of New Earth that surpassed the Core Master realm!

The maintenance building was concealed behind a layer of trees. Susuya led Zax on a path from the remote office of her grandfather that encircled the cement court Zax and Don fought on. The court was large, eight times the size of a regular sport court and a few classes of students were peacefully and diligently practicing cultivation techniques and low class formations.

One class, close to the edges of the court, was of Beginner grade students who, naturally, wore the same shade uniforms as Susuya and seemed to be around the same age. This one Beginner grade class practiced a very low class formation that was also a very important formation due to it being a Foundation formation that meant to strengthen the comprehensive abilities of those who practiced it.

Of course, Zax was not proficient in formations and could not tell much of what the Beginner grade class was doing, only that their teacher instructed the young students to repeat the formation until they can manipulate their mist energy and create ten Foundation formations under one minute, which by the look of things, no one would be able to accomplish it even under one hour.

Susuya turned her bored gaze to the close by Beginner grade class and raised her hand. Brown mist energy emanated from the palm of her hand like a smoke.

"You..." Zax looked at Susuya and guessed what she was about to do, yet was not convinced that she will succeed.

SWISH!

Susuya moved her right hand as if it was a brush's handle and her five fingers as if they were the bristles.

One ... Two ... Three...

One after another she perfectly completed Foundation formations.

Four ... Five ... Six...

Unlike the other students she did not show signs of fatigue.

Seven ... Eight ... Nine ... Ten!

Susuya lowered her right hand and turned her gaze from the Beginner grade class to Zax.

Between him and her floated round and similar to the tiniest of details, ten Foundation formations, and not twenty seconds have passed.

"If I say that grandpa Ten is in the third realm, then grandpa Ten is in the third realm! If I say that I will also reach the third realm, then you should not look down on me just because now I'm in the Earth's Core Holder level!" She said and sulked. This young and feisty girl actually had quite of a competitive spirit and was not afraid to loudly claim her aspirations.

Turning her back to Zax, Susuya kept going, leading the way to Don's office in the two storey faculty building.

'She was serious!' Zax realized. Partly, because of her outstanding display, which if connecting the dots could be explained as hereditary talent, partly, because of the earnest and noble fluctuations in the air this little girl gave.

Rubbing his short and spiky hair, Zax sighed with a smile. Did he interact with a third realm expert couple of minutes ago and now a third realm expert in the making? He wanted to laugh, but refrains from doing so. Susuya's completion of the ten Foundation formations already caused ruckus in the small Beginner grade class and the teacher was scolding the students while staring at Susuya's back with both complementing and complicated expression.

With his blood boiling, Zax followed Susuya.

...

'So I ended up going to her office anyway... ' Zax thought to himself, remembering how Don tried to convince him to come to her in her office the first time he had been to Eden Formation.

Back then he was not willing to listen and insisted on doing things his way. Eventually, he ended up running away with missing arm. Thinking carefully to that day, Zax could not help but release a relief sigh and thank the Supreme Rulers that with his bad temperament at the time he did not encounter superintendent Ten, otherwise, with the old man's equally bad temperament...

"Aunty Don", Susuya did not bother to knock and open the door to Don's office with her voice first announcing her arrival.

"Susuya, Zax..." Don was sitting behind her desk with a pile of document to one side and a large touch Screen on the other.

"Big sis!" At first, Zax was about to humbly greet the woman he gave so much trouble to, but when he entered Don's office and his eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar figure that sat in a meditative position on a small carpet in the left corner of the room, his mouth opened and he gasped in surprise.

As for why Zax did not noticed his big sister before entering Don's office, it was because that even inside the faculty building, possibly in every building on school's grounds, was a formation that confined his Soul Sense to the current room that he was in. Much like how it has been in the Rehabilitation Room. The reason Zax was surprised to see his big sister, was because he simply did not expect for her to be waiting ... training in the office of Eden Formation's school principal.

Hearing her little brother voice, Zetsa eyes opened gradually. She got up from the carpet with solemn expression on her face and walked forward to meet Zax.

"Big sis?" Zax asked quizzically.

Zetsa did not respond with words.

FUFUFUFU!

Dark golden aura burst from her body and a strong whirlwind swirled around her.

'She ... is mad!' It was the first time he felt such a baleful aura emerging for his big sister and it was actually directed at him.

Being in her presence for the last couple of days, Don was aware of Zetsa's present mood. When her guest got up and was about to release her aura, she did not hesitated and formed a protective formation around Susuya and her desk.

Zetsa stood face to face with Zax. Her palm slightly turned bluish and exuded cold air, while her fingernails slightly turned red and exuded hot air.

"Big sis ... I'm-"

SLAP!

Zetsa did not let him finish the sentence. Concentrating all of her mist energy to her right palm, she raised it and slammed it against Zax's face with ears piercing sound.

Zax's head turned ninety degrees to his right. He saw the mist energy swirling and swallowing to Zetsa's body. He saw her hand going up and her skin shining in olive, gold, blue and red. His saw the trajectory of the swing and he saw that his big sister and the room turning to a blur as the vibration of the strike passed through his brain.

Throughout this course of events, Zax did not even dream to resist. At the beginning he simply was not sure what will happen, he never saw Zetsa so angry before. His soul was stronger than hers; his body was tougher than hers. He had no reasons to fear her. Nevertheless, when his eyes followed her actions, which he could so easily avoid, a sudden pinch in his heart made him perceive his big sister from the eyes of his former self as the eight years old child she promised to start training and made so happy.