Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1474: Chapter 201: Young Man, Want to Join Us?

“King of the Huns… Is there something about my clumsy registered disciple that you are dissatisfied with?”

The newcomer was dressed like a wanderer, a blade of dog tail grass hanging from the corner of his mouth, with a full beard covering his face… At this moment, one of his hands still rested on the open lapel of his robe, his face smiles—Master Musashi.

Attila frowned, but at the same time noticed that the other end of the unmoved whip suddenly loosened. Instinctively, he retracted his whip, and shot Da Zhe a deep glance before making a throttling motion with his whip toward Da Zhe’s neck.

Da Zhe shrugged casually.

Attila let out a cold laugh, glanced again at Master Musashi, then left straight away.

As for Master Musashi, he didn’t attempt to stop this Hunnic King Attila… only after Attila had entered the Palace of Eternal Night did he approach Fish Ball Qiang, gave him a look, and said blandly, “Where’s the thing I asked for?”

Fish Ball Qiang struggled to get up from the ground, his head bowed, and quickly said, “Master, please wait a moment, I’ll fetch it right away.”

After speaking, Fish Ball Qiang staggered back inside.

Seeing this, Da Zhe couldn’t help frowning and said, “He’s hurt so badly, and you’re still making him work for you? At least you’re his mentor, aren’t you?”

From Fish Ball Qiang’s cry of delight, Da Zhe knew that this man dressed like a wanderer was the mentor Fish Ball Qiang spoke of.

“Mentor?”

Master Musashi looked at Da Zhe with a hint of surprise, seemingly indifferent to the appearance of this unfamiliar face in the square, instead curiously asking, “Young man, do you perhaps misunderstand the inheritance between mentor and disciple… I’ve only casually pointed out some basic training methods, I’ve never taught him any school’s swordsmanship, you know?”

Da Zhe fell into silence, instinctively looking at the stone hut, Fish Ball Qiang hadn’t come out yet… but one could imagine, heavily injured as he was, he was likely struggling inside, merely suppressing any cries.

“This is his way of life.” Musashi suddenly said coldly, “Whether it’s clinging to me to learn some skills or perhaps acting subserviently to curry favor with others for benefits, it’s all his own choice. Do you think there’s something wrong with that… the desire to grow strong doesn’t need pity.”

Da Zhe was silent for a moment… He wasn’t a reckless newcomer and had long passed the age of impulsive fervor. He could naturally understand the words spoken by this Master Musashi, “Well, since this is the path he’s chosen, I indeed have no right to say anything.”

“Right!” Master Musashi slightly smiled, suddenly asked, “By the way, what’s your name?”

“Da…”

Da Zhe instinctively responded but then frowned—because at the moment he asked the question, this smiling Master Musashi suddenly made a move toward him.

It was the longer of the two katana swords at his waist… from drawing the sword to striking, the movements were sharp and quick like lightning, even causing Da Zhe’s hair to stand on end, a sense of danger suddenly arose.

But Da Zhe didn’t move—the Bizen Kunai Ankoru in Musashi’s hand didn’t actually strike down. Bizen Kunai Ankoru stopped in front of Da Zhe’s shoulder… a reverse blade.

“Ah, suddenly lost interest.” Master Musashi then stepped back, straightened up, and slowly sheathed Bizen Kunai Ankoru along his finger.

He shook his head and asked again, “What’s your name?”

“Da Zhe.” Da Zhe answered casually, then curiously asked, “Why didn’t you strike down?”

“I would be in great danger, wouldn’t I?” Master Musashi squinted his eyes and smiled, “If I touched the scarf around your neck.”

He actually didn’t expect Da Zhe to say anything… maybe just imagined the other party would nod, then fall into silence—yet, danger, Master Musashi himself indeed felt it, and very clearly.

This unfamiliar young man with a scarf was far more dangerous than King Attila.

Da Zhe indeed nodded.

“If you really touched my scarf…” But he then looked at Master Musashi, speaking in an emotionless tone, “I would probably make sure you’re unable to take care of yourself.”

—This scarf was knitted for him personally by an elderly person he felt most guilty about in this life… Her eyes couldn’t see, so each stitch was tightly sewn, filled with day-and-night longing.

For transcendents like Master Musashi, being injured is a difficult thing… let alone unable to take care of oneself?

That’s much harder to accept than death.

Only…

“Is that so.” Master Musashi restrained his smile, nodded, and said, “I kind of believe you could achieve that, this look in your eyes is very much like a dear friend of mine from before, he was also very persistent… Kojiro, have you heard of this name?”

Da Zhe slowly shook his head.

Master Musashi didn’t really care, then started to inquire about Da Zhe’s background. Da Zhe responded promptly, still using the same rhetoric he used on Fish Ball Qiang.

However, Master Musashi was naturally not some half-baked person like Fish Ball Qiang, truly a powerful transcendent who had escaped from a certain sub-world, so he certainly wouldn’t believe that Da Zhe was thrown into this place by someone… the danger sensed from Da Zhe alone was enough for him to judge that Da Zhe had the ability to enter the dimensional rift on his own.

In fact, there was no concept of time within the dimensional rift, otherwise, there were successful transcendents breaking free from their original sub-world entering the dimensional rift every day, and not just one or two—a great number of sub-worlds as plentiful as river sand, each sub-world with different time flows and civilizations, given the large base quantity, such transcendents emerge not daily but actually every moment.

However, most of these transcendents perish upon entering the dimensional rift, becoming nourishment for the growth of Void Primordial Demons—breaking the constraints of their original sub-world is immensely difficult, these transcendents who successfully break through the walls of their sub-world must have paid a tremendous price.

Many of them are almost on the brink of death when they first arrive in the rift… That delicious yet powerlessly resistant food, how could Void Primordial Demons let it slip by.

Thus, very few actually survive in the dimensional rift.

And the dimensional rift has no boundaries to change, its vastness even the Thrones within the Transcender Organization find hard to fathom, so it’s not strange for the powerful beings breaking through the sub-world barriers never to have met each other.

Therefore, Musashi speculates that Da Zhe made up such remarks randomly… Da Zhe is probably a newly risen powerful being who successfully survived, but the sub-world he comes from is still unknown.

“Da Zhe, have you heard of the Transcender Organization?” Master Musashi asked with quite some enthusiasm.

Of course, he had heard of it—heard of it from the maid’s disdainful remarks… But clearly, this wasn’t something to mention outright, right?

“Not really sure.”

Da Zhe shook his head, obviously this statement sounded much better—Da Zhe originally wasn’t much of a talker, but later in prison, he encountered many who spoke nicely, so he learned a few tricks.

“Hahaha!” Master Musashi nodded, it’s unclear whether he truly believed it or was just casually listening, but he then said, “Da Zhe, I think after you came to the dimensional rift, you should realize this place isn’t as wonderful as you imagined. On the contrary, it’s barren and full of dangers everywhere. In your original world, perhaps you were an unrivaled powerful being, but here you are reduced to your original form… Does it give you a feeling of helplessness?”

—Nope… just leveling up was initially slow, then it was just slash, slash, slash to finish. Didn’t see anything too dangerous here?

—Void Primordial Demons or something… isn’t it just a matter of a single sword?

“So?”

Master Musashi stepped forward and said, “One person’s power is limited, but the combined power of two, three, or more people is different… that’s how the Transcender Organization was born. Above us are a group of ancient Transcendents, called the Throne, followed by candidates like me who emerged in this new era… Our goal is to explore the ultimate of this dimensional rift, seeking the true path to transcend everything.”

“Hmm…” Da Zhe thought for a moment and said, “So it’s essentially like a mutual aid society… One or several leaders gather a bunch of followers, it’s quite common, isn’t it? Just like at the docks or construction sites, it’s basically like Heisehui.”

Musashi was stunned for a moment, then burst into loud laughter, “I can’t even argue against your metaphor, you said it too damned well! Exactly, you can think of it as a syndicate in the dimensional rift, anyway… Are you interested in joining us?”

Da Zhe opened his mouth, hesitatingly asked, “So direct…”

Master Musashi shrugged and said, “We’ve all broken through the rules of our original world… Do we need to care about the so-called moral rules from before? So, have you made up your mind?”

Da Zhe shook his head straight away, “I don’t want to.”

“Hahaha, truly direct.” Master’s reaction was not displeased by being rejected, but rather he increasingly admired Da Zhe, “There’s no hurry for now, once you’ve spent more time with us and understand better, you can agree later… After all, time doesn’t exist here, we lack nothing but have plenty of time.”

“Alright… alright then.” Da Zhe nodded, “I’ll learn more about it before deciding.”

—You asked me to learn more… I didn’t force you…

“Let’s go, I’ll take you to stroll around the Palace of Eternal Night.” Master Musashi waved his hand at this moment, “By the way, I forgot to tell you, I’m the guard of the Palace of Eternal Night here… You can think of me as the protector of this place. Besides me, the Palace of Eternal Night also has a gatekeeper, a girl named Zang Jian, I’ll introduce you when you have the chance.”

“Isn’t she here?” Da Zhe couldn’t help but ask curiously.

Master Musashi said casually, “She went into seclusion, last time we had a fight with heaven, that girl said she had some new insights, and locked herself up as soon as she came back, throwing the gatekeeping duty over to me… Lately, I have to stay by the door a lot. Just now, it was because I took a nap in front of the door that some guys sneaked in… Speaking of which, more people have been roaming the plaza recently.”

Actually, regarding the incident of the Hunnic King Attila humiliating Fish Ball Qiang, it’s still a concern… But he’s stubbornly not saying it, didn’t he show up immediately after hearing the commotion just now?

Da Zhe secretly shook his head, this guy talks about not needing to care about former moral concepts… Totally a double standard!

“You… don’t know heaven?”

Unexpectedly, Master Musashi looked at Da Zhe in astonishment at this moment—normal people hearing about the Transcender Organization fighting with heaven would not be so calm… I said we had a bout with heaven last time! Heaven! Do you know heaven?

Da Zhe opened his mouth… Does knowing heaven seem so important, he had to curiously ask, “I do know about heaven, but apparently, where I come from it seems more common to believe in Buddha.”

“… No wonder, it turns out you’re from a sub-world occupied by Buddha.” Master Musashi shook his head rather tastelessly, “Forget it, come along, I’ll introduce you to the general situation of the Palace of Eternal Night.”

Looking at the rather uninterested expression of Master Musashi, Da Zhe couldn’t help but feel very puzzled… So, is knowing heaven really that crucial?

“Wait…” Seeing Musashi’s eagerness to leave, Da Zhe couldn’t help hesitating and called out, then glanced back at the stone hut… Gently reminding Master Musashi that Fish Ball Qiang seemed not to have come out yet.

“Oh, don’t worry about him, it’s not that important anyway.” Master Musashi waved his hand and said, “Let that guy stay calm for a while, saves me from looking at that unpleasant face.”

After saying that, Master Musashi took a step forward and had already advanced tens of meters… Probably some kind of rapid movement technique.

At this moment, seeing Master Musashi already walking far, Da Zhe could only shout towards the stone hut, “Brother Qiang, I’m following Master Musashi to take a look inside, come find us later?”

“Alright—!” From within the stone hut, Fish Ball Qiang’s voice responded, “I haven’t finished here yet, brother, you go ahead, don’t worry about me, I’ll be quick… very quick…”

After hearing it, Da Zhe glanced more at the doorway of the stone hut, then shook his head, turned around, and caught up with Master Musashi… He wasn’t adept at rapid movement techniques, but with one leap of his legs, he chased directly after him.

…

At the stone hut door, Fish Ball Qiang silently leaned on the inner door frame, his body only needed to move slightly to appear in the view of Da Zhe and Master Musashi… but he remained motionless.

“Very soon…” Fish Ball Qiang lowered his head at this moment, his voice bitter, “Very soon.”

Since arriving at this place, he had never gained entry into the Palace of Eternal Night—even this stone hut in the plaza was built stubbornly.

“Very soon…” He hit his back against the stone repeatedly, “Very soon…”