Conquering the Thousand Worlds

Chapter 22- Shameless General

Ace consciousness was wondering around the eternal darkness were void of light.

He was wondering blankly and aimlessly.

"This is it? I didn't expect for my life to end here just like that. Despite those near death situations, I managed to overcome them but this time to die in such pathetic way" Ace uttered slowly without any emotions into it as if he was a dead man.

"I can't accept it! I'd rather died in a battle than dying because of carelessness!" A very faint light lit up in his Ace as his determination grow stronger and stronger.

Boom!

The eternal darkness where in Ace was suddenly turned bright and the cold and gloominess aura changed into a warmth and lively feeling!

This is the feeling of being reborn again. It gave Ace an indescribable feelings and even his body started to feel relaxed and a new sensation that he never encountered once.

He was foreign to this feeling and yet he doesn't feel any resistance towards it.
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A quarter of an hour passed.

A blurry figure appeared before him. His appearance can't be recognized due to the bright surroundings. Strangely enough, the place where the figure is brighter to the point that he can barely recognize that it is a human figure. Anything than that is simply hard to discern.

The blurry figure laughs heartily when he appeared in front of Ace. The laugh clearly defined that this blurry figure was an old man. In fact, it gives the feeling of being a wise sage or an experienced general.

"To think that an unknown would appear in front of this old man instead those descendants of mine." There is a tinged of disappointment in those words uttered by the old man.

Ace was startled at first because of this old man appearing out of nowhere. He became cautious when he realized that this old man was no push over. Specially the aura that he was emitting, it was as if an invincible general appeared in front of him.

"Who are you?" Ace asked cautiously.

"Don't be overly cautious over me. I can kill you a hundred times over if I really had that intention but currently I am just a nothing but an small wisp of my original soul." He looked at Ace as if he was observing this man and said in casual manner.

"....." Ace was literally speechless. He didn't know what to say at all.

"You're not from this kingdom and not also a cultivator of this continent. You are wielding powers but not a mage nor cultivator. So you must be one of those manipulator of elements who are gifted or trained. The space in your surroundings seems to running abnormal. You must be manipulator of space right?" The old man asked in somewhat certain voice.

He was deeply shocked when this old man revealed what type of power he wields, "You're right my power was to manipulate space."

'Right now, I can't control time because it only be freely used when I can exert my full power of space for me to be able to utilize the power of time. Although I didn't reach the mastery of time where I can control the past and the future itself, I can still slow down the time or fasten it in a limited area. After all, intervening with the past and the future is like defying the heavens itself!'

"Not bad. In my time, such people who can control space is very few compared to others." He nodded his head.

'Not bad? Am I barely acceptable in your eyes?' Ace didn't know whether to laugh or cry right now.

"How will I call you senior? And who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in front of me?" He let out a load of questions to this old man who suddenly come out of nowhere.

"First, I am called Mountain General and call me in this name." The General smiled unconsciously as he began to remember those glory days of his.

"You are asking why I appeared of you right? Well, it is because you are the one who obtained my treasures so I appeared to you as to say somethings and to burden you some of my responsibilities in exchange of those great treasures." He explained in a mysterious manner.

"Great treasure? You are talking about the vulnerable armor right? Besides that, there's no other treasure and you even call that great treasure?" He sneered.

"Brat, you don't know how to appreciate treasures and you can't even recognize which is great treasure or not! And you even eat such wonderful fruit which is coveted in this world!" The General was clearly furious because Ace called his great treasures vulnerable as if not worth anything.

"Fruit? That rotten-like fruit? I am amaze that it has been well preserve but that has been god knows what era it has been plucked from the tree." Ace sneered and didn't even hold back his words in humiliating the General.

"You! Good brat. You're a good damn brat. You eat that legendary fruit and proclaim that it is nothing but an ordinary fruit? Hahaha. The armor was vulnerable you say?" The General laughed crazily as if he lost his mind now.

"You bastard! You have nearly died because of my armor and had been saved by my precious fruit. This near life and death situation of yours will have a great benefits towards you. And all you can say was my treasure is not worthy?" He stared at Ace disdainfully.

"...." Ace was literally unable to speak instead he was taken aback, 'That's right, I died from that heaviness of that armor and I could even destroyed it with all my might. Now that he said it, my body seems to be recovering at fastest speed. It is also the reason why I regain some consciousness although I still can't open my eyes right now, I can say that it will only take a while before I can.'

"So you are the reason why I am in this situation? Then, how come you are still bragging about it? You involved an innocent and outsider here and yet you still acting high and mighty?" Ace angrily retorted

"Ah?" The General stared blankly as if he had been caught off guard, "Wait, you are misunderstanding it! You choose to come here yourself so you are to blame of it!"

"You should give a warning placards for us to avoid being caught up in your mess!"

"I did!"

"No, you didn't!"

"I really put many warning in the wall above the table and in the table itself!"

It is indeed true that the General made a precautionary warning but the one he put in the wall later on fell down and had been hid in the back of the table and the warnings in the table was being covered by the armor itself so Ace will never find out except he goes and check the back of the table but he doesn't have time to do that because he was very hungry. Lifting the armor was out of the question because it weighs thousands of kilograms and with the current hungry state of Ace, it was simply impossible for him to think about it.

"Fine. You did but I didn't see it anywhere so it might have been removed or erased by time itself." Ace said in a way where the General couldn't retort any longer.

"That's right, that must be the case because I indeed put warnings but it is not present anymore so I can't be blame for this right?" The General was embarrassed because of this incident.

Ace almost spat a blood when he heard this, "I almost died and you said that that you cannot be blame for this? How shameless General you are?"