Martial Arts Worlds - Chapter 389

Chapter 389: Together?
Kiernan looked blankly at the screen, rubbed his forehead, and cursed inside his mind.

‘This Old King is nothing but a pervert. Why can’t he give me a normal fucking potion to increase my rank?’

He quickly typed a response.

[Revenant: …I don’t have anyone to use the stick with. Can I change it into something I can use right away?]

[Old King: Don’t be shy, young one! Back in my day, Dual Cultivation was how every martial artist advanced! It is one of the most powerful ways to increase your strength, but unfortunately, it is currently associated with evil cults and forbidden practices]

Kiernan cursed under his breath and rubbed his forehead in deep contemplation.

‘I am sure there would be some willing to do this… Dual Cultivation with me. It doesn’t only help me but both parties enormously. I am sure this stick can’t be any ordinary Dual Cultivation stick, but very high-class stuff.’

At that moment, Aoi looked at him and impatiently made some inaudible sounds. She seemed like she wanted to scream at him to tell her what he found out.

‘She is good at reading faces. She knows that I found what this stick is used for.’

Kiernan thought.

She then grabbed his shoulder and started shaking him furiously, begging for him to tell her what it was used for.

“Fine, look!”

Kiernan turned the phone around and showed her the messages he had with Old King, hoping that it wasn’t enough for him to break the God’s Contract.

He made sure that there wasn’t any mention of Martial Order.

She slowly read it, and as she got further, her pale cheeks turned pink with warmth.

When she started reading it, she also didn’t quite understand what Dual Cultivation meant, but as she got to the last parts, she very much realized it.

Kiernan left the Martial Order app, wrote something on the notes app on his phone, and then showed it to her.

[You still want to split this? I am fine with it]

‘The effect of the Dual Cultivation stick won’t be as potent with only one half, but it still should be enough for me to reach Martial Master… if I am able to find a partner beforehand.’

She took his phone from his hand, typed slowly with her face turning redder by the second, and then showed the phone to him.

[The tournament is soon]

Kiernan looked at the phone, raised an eyebrow, and quickly replied.

[The tournament between dojos? Yes, and so?]

‘There is no way that she will suggest that, right? Sure, the tournament is extremely important to them, but is she really willing to do this for power?’

Kiernan thought and crossed his arms while Aoi slowly typed on the phone, looking clearly nervous as she kept deleting whatever she wrote because she mistyped.

[I am close to Middle Stage Martial Master. I want to advance before the tournament, and this seems to be the only way… We can do this Dual Cultivation together, can’t we?]

Kiernan massaged his temples, took the phone from her trembling hands, and typed quickly.

[Are you sure you want to do this for power? I am not sure how powerful this Dual Cultivation Stick is. Maybe it won’t even be able to help you advance. Do you know the severity of your actions?]

Aoi looked at the phone, pouted, took it, and typed, then showed it to him.

[I am not a kid. I am older than you! Yes, I know, and yes, this stick could be next to useless, but for some reason, I do believe the person you talked with… I think he is a powerful person, and this will help us enormously]

Kiernan looked at the phone, sighed, took it from her, and without writing another thing, he closed it.

He broke a piece from the stick, cut it into two tiny pieces, gave one to her, and swallowed another.

It tasted like dirt.

Aoi swallowed her own piece, furrowed her brows, and tried to hold back her nausea.

“I don’t want this stick to get wasted. I’ll go get the bath ready, and if you’re going to change your mind, do it now.”

Kiernan said, talking as clearly as possible so she could read her lips, and she did, understanding him perfectly.

She crossed her arms and then pointed towards the bathroom, as she was hurrying him to go there already.

Kiernan rolled his eyes, went to his bathroom, and turned on the warm water, watching it slowly fill the bathtub.

While he was busy getting it ready, Aoi touched her chest and felt the heartbeat go wild as she realized the gravity of what she was about to do.

It was something she never expected to do in her whole life, as it was something she wasn’t interested in, as all her time was spent on learning martial arts.

Now, she was about to do it with a man who she barely knew, and she couldn’t help but feel a mixture of nervousness and excitement coursing through her.

She jumped to her feet, not being able to sit still anymore, and paced back and forth

The sound of the sound of water rushing through the pipes into the bathtub sounded across the room, which she couldn’t hear but could feel.

It almost acted like a clock, and she could tell that the bathtub was almost filled to the brim.

Splosh~ Splash~ Splosh~

It was a sight that she often found relaxing, as she often had late night baths in all her lonesome, but now it made her very nervous.

Within the bathroom, Kiernan turned off the bathtub’s faucet, looked at the green stick in his hand, and then dropped it onto the bathtub.

It slowly sank to the bottom and began dissolving, its green hue changing the color of the water to a beautiful, light green shade.

It finished dissolving.

Kiernan walked to the doorway, saw Aoi standing nervously by the window, and she then saw him, her heart almost rising to her throat.

She knew it was time.