Way of the Knights

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A few days passed by…

During this time, Raven didn't go out of his room. He felt slightly lazy so he decided to sleep most of the time and eat a plenty. While he might looked relaxed, it doesn't mean that he dropped his guard at all. Even as he sleep, he's still was aware of his surroundings but the invader from before never returned. 

Raven didn't mind that at all, in fact it would be for the best if that never happens again. This way, he experienced rare moments of peace and quiet during these past few days. 

Unfortunately, it was cut off shortly due to ship's alarming vibration. 

From what he saw from the interior of the ship and knowing Ancient Elysium Sect's prestige, he never expected that they'll be attacked, specially considering that they are using a specialized route to travel. 

Of course, this did pique his interest. So without hesitating, he exited his room and swiftly went towards the place where Henry showed them the interior design of the war ship. 

He arrived rather quickly. He was actually the first one to arrive. Raven quickly glanced outside of the ship and saw numerous flashes of light. 

Raven activated his ocular vision in a heartbeat. This allowed his senses to fully penetrate the ship and reach the area where the commotion was happening. 

Without a doubt, a fight was going on outside. Upon looking closely, he saw that it was Henry fighting against some deformed humanoids. Seeing these humanoids reminded Raven of something…

'Space Beasts? But how!?' Raven gasped inwardly. 

Indeed, the humanoids that Henry's currently dealing with was a species called Space Beasts. These race could be said as the apex predators of the Divine Realm's Outer Space and also the main headache of the Outsiders. 

As the name suggests, Space Beasts, these species could move freely and, at some degree, could also control space itself. Space Beasts are inherently violent to others except for their kind. Their hides are unusually tough, and due to their inherent ability of controlling space, they could ambush and flee anything that they set their sights to. 

The reason why Raven was shocked to see Space Beasts here is because technically, they shouldn't be here. Many natives of the Divine Realm are aware of the existence of Space Beasts and the terror they bring, hence it's natural for them to have some people monitoring or hunting them. In fact, there should be an array that could detect and prevent Space Beasts from infiltrating this specific area of the Divine Realm's Outer Space. But for some reason, a few Space Beasts managed to bypass that array and attacked the ship. 

It was at this time that the rest of the disciples also arrived where Raven were. They saw him looking outside with a serious expression and couldn't help but to look outside too. 

Unlike Raven, all they could see was flashes of colorful lights due to the distance and speed of the combatants. As for Raven, he was able to observe a little bit better. 

Henry was fighting against six Space Beasts alone. Since Raven was familiar with Space Beasts, he could tell that these ones were relatively on the weaker side. 

Raven never really had an in-depth knowledge about how the Space Beasts cultivates so he could only gauge their strength at some degree. The most obvious detail that represents the strength of a Space Beast is its horns. Simply put, the more horns a space beast has, the stronger it is. However, this shouldn't be all there is to them. There are some cases where space beasts a fewer horns are capable of killing someone who should be 'technically' stronger than them. Additionally, cutting off a Space Beast's horn doesn't mean that it'll grow weaker. 

Judging from the amount of horns he managed to see up until now, Raven made some rough calculations and judged that these Space Beasts must be somewhere about Saint Knight - Lord Knight in strength. 

On the other hand, Henry shouldn't be too far away from Empyrean Realm, which means that he's 'technically' stronger than these Space Beasts. 

And judging by how peaceful Henry looked as he dealt with them, Raven was somehow relieved since he could tell that their Senior Brother should be able to deal with them easily. 

"Oh, so this is what a Space Beast looks like." Someone commented by Raven's side. 

Raven didn't even need to turn his head around to know that this is Jason. However, his remark caused some people to be alarmed. 

"Space Beast!? How can that be? Isn't there supposed to be an array that prevents them from invading?" It was Michelle who reacted this way. 

"I've seen some records about them and if those records were correct, then there should be no mistaking that those are indeed Space Beasts." Jason replied without looking away from the fight. "As for how they managed to get in, heck if I know? I'm not responsible for that." 

"Can you see who's fighting them?" Nelson asked Jason. 

"I'm not sure…can't see it clearly, they're too fast." Jason frowned, he then pointed out to Raven and said: "How about asking this guy? He arrived before us after all." 

Everyone's attention then turned towards Raven, who glanced sideways at Jason briefly before answering: "It's Senior Brother Henry." 

"Oh, so its him. Then this battle should be over soon." Jason commented, "Be it Space Beasts or others, facing a War God is just courting death." 

"Hey, you." The rough and somehow rude voice of Madman Floyd echoed through Jason's ears. "You seem to know a lot. Is that title really important?" 

"First and foremost, my name is not 'You', it's Jason." 

"Don't care, won't care and will never care. Answer the damn question." 

Jason was momentarily speechless with Floyd's rudeness but he just shrugged it off. "Yes, the title is indeed important. Even Empyreans won't carelessly slight that title off. The Ancient Elysium Sect only bestow that title to their strongest. According to what I heard, a single War God from the Sect should be capable of suppressing an entire Great World all by themselves. Also, there's a rumor saying that, along with the trials given by the sect to bestow some the title, cultivation realm isn't included."

"Which means that so long as you passed the tests given by them, it doesn't matter if your cultivation rank hasn't reached the Empyrean Realm just yet. Just look at Senior Brother for example. He's a War God but he's just in the Immortal Knight Emperor Realm. That means, he's Realm Surpassing Genius."

Jason then turned around to look at Floyd, saying: "Actually, I'm more surprised about you asking this question. I refuse to think that you haven't measured Senior Brother's strength before."

"Che." Floyd clicked his tongue and didn't answer. In fact, even if he didn't the answer should be quite obvious enough. 

Of course it's natural for anyone to gauge someone's strength. None who reached this cultivation realm of theirs would miss out on that chance. Every single one of them is guilty of that, but it not really some kind of offense really. 

Even though their perception differs from one another, all of them concluded the same thing after gauging Henry's strength. 

That guy was a monster. 

"It's done." Raven softly said as he turned around and looked at the platform ahead of them. 

As soon as he did so, Henry appeared within the ship and in front of them, carrying six carcasses of Space Beasts.

"Oh! You guys are all here, perfect. I was just planning on calling everyone." Henry smirked and threw the carcasses of Space Beast in front of his Junior Brothers. 

Looking at each carcass closely, although they might appear different, they all died the same way. 

Pierced on four different locations on their body using Henry's sword. 

"Some of you might know what they are but for those who don't, then let me explain." Henry stated, "These are Space Beasts, if anything there aren't much different from Demonic Beasts, the only difference is that they are humanoids and exists in the Outer Space of the Divine Realm."

"Usually, you wouldn't see even one since there is massive formation capable of preventing them from invading." Henry stepped forward and crouched down, "Although it sucks to admit this, Space Beasts are actually troublesome to deal with. Not only they are extremely durable, they could inherently use the Space Element and Law to their advantage, so they're slippery as hell. They could come and go with ease, and if you're not careful in future, it's possible that you'll get ambushed by them." 

"The most common things about Space Beasts are their horns and hearts. Their horns represents how strong they are, the more one has the stronger they are. As for the hearts, all Space Beasts has four. In order to kill them, you need to destroy all hearts. You can do it consecutively but they could regenerate really fast, you only have one minute interval on each heart you destroy before they could regenerate it. If you could destroy them all at once, then that would be for the best." 

"Enough about that, actually the reason why I want to call you guys here, is to entertain you." Henry grinned mischievously, "I'll have Elder Toad to reanimate these Space Beast so that you can fight them.. That way, you won't get board during this trip."