Shining Duos

"But first we just have to know giving how we can't precisely sense your aura and despite those hoodies, we can guess you're all extremely young from what little of your faces we can see, are you all new geniuses of the Great Cloud sect in our Kelp City?" When saying that sect name the plump woman had a certain amount of reverence in her eyes about it.

Although for the trio all it told the City name they were close to and a strong sect that resides in the city.

Casually shaking his head Kazami answered;

"Now we're just some rogue travelers who manage to got lucky and find some special items."

This made the uniform trio stand up and become laxer while the plump woman then decided to inform them;

"Ah lucky rogue cultivators I see and young ones at that too. This makes our offer much more appealing, you see we hail from Launder Mercenaries and we're a really strong team full of rouge cultivators. And you all seem to have great talent and luck in finding something that hides one's realm so our offer is; you give us the corpse and we'll let you join our Mercenaries and the three of us will even look after you kids."

In the Launder Mercenaries' thoughts, they concluded they discovered big with these three kids. They were at first only on ordinary route to bring in more monster corpses or any other valuables items but the muscle man notice the trio when they were close to the city at first and their odd cloaks.

They could tell it was a magical item as they couldn't sense the trio cultivation realm and there was plenty of books that discuss special items that could hide one level. From this oddity, they thought maybe they were from the strongest sect here the Great Cloud sect and try their luck with swindling three naive kids.

But now hearing there only lucky rogue cultivators gave them even more courage in gaining something valuable as while they didn't witness the trio killing the beast they assumed they must've gathered an extraordinary tails man or item that allowed them to kill the beast since it was next to impossible for them all to be unscathed and kill the beast in such a short amount of time.

However, all they got was;

"Sorry we refused, we quite like our group already." Lun Yuo replied to their question with a smirk not hesitating to reject them at all.

The three mercenaries stalled for a second before muscle man spoke up;

"Hmph worried that you might get deceive right? Don't worry we're not common fodder in the Launder Mercenaries we truly have some say and power." As he said this, the three chose to flex their auras a bit and unleashed their Origin aura intentionally planting pressure on the trio.

The kind-looking man and muscle man were at the 6th level of Origin Formation and the plump woman was the strongest being at the 7th level!

Noticing their tricks they were trying to pull Kuzumi only carelessly taunted them saying;

"Hooh, trying to panic us now into accepting whatever drivel you're saying. Not bad but you should try it with a bit more flare next time."

"My my quite an arrogant child are we? Look kid were being nice so we won't force you to join but you have only one option now, give us the corpse and we'll handsomely reward you." Getting a bit annoyed with the unconcerned attitude the three were taking and how they seemed unmoved by their auras the kind-looking man spoke up this time.

"Ah can't you three just be more apparent; we either give you the corpse and you give us some bullshit and will probably still try to come for us later anyways, or you simply kill us and take what you need right?" Kazami proceeded to agitate them even more with his words.

The mercenaries looked angry for a moment but soon turned into a smile with the plump woman saying;

"It's good when the youth finally understand how the world work and aren't naive. Well hurry up we don't have all day and don't worry we'll give you something good."

Finally deciding they played around enough the trio unleashed their Spirit Formation 7th level aura to the three mercenaries.

Feeling their auras the mercenaries dawned on an insulting smile and started to chuckle.

"Heh what this, are you trying to scare us with your pitiful Spirit Formation aura? At least this does confirm you must have some very high-grade items to kill that monster." The plump woman scorned them even more and started to stroll to the trio followed by the other two only shaking their heads at the trio supposed foolishness.

"Well now seems like they don't believe I legitimately killed that monster. Shall we show them Kuzumi, Yu?" Still standing in their spot without any alarm Kazami asked and all the other two did was nodded their heads with nasty smiles.

"Kid I don't know what you're planning but items won't help with g-" Was all the plump woman said before a flash of red lighting appeared right in front of her.

"Don't blink now," Kazami said and struck out with his hand only in his red lightning aura.

'Pa!'

A reverberating slap sent the woman flying while the other two men were utterly shocked by the boy speed.

'Pa!'

'Pa!'

Two more slaps blew it out as the other two men were sent right next to the woman thanks to Kuzumi in her blue lighting aura and Lun Yuo in her green grass aura.

The three mercenaries got right back up only now with a huge slap mark on their cheeks.

"F.u.c.k.i.n.g little shits! You chose a slow painful death it seems!" Despite how they managed to hit them the mercenaries only believed it was because they caught them off guard with some item that monstrously heightened their speeds.

On the mercenaries, bodies light crystal blue aura donned them instantly and they sped at a ridiculous speed to the trio. The crystal blue aura is pure genuine Origin Qi that the trio could visibly see this time.

While they were training Cathal would only send it out an invisible blast of Origin Qi not giving the trio a good look and the monster they usually fought were only in the first level of Origin Formation most of the time and those monsters would use latent abilities than Origin Qi.

Even the bear they fought sent out invisible Origin Qi to shred the trio. Their color being light blue also show just how strong their Origin Qi is as well.

Kazami, Kuzumi, and Lun Yuo weren't idle when the mercenaries rushed them and meet their speeds similarly taking off towards them.

'BANG!'

They clash right in the middle and contrary to the mercenaries' expectations the youths weren't annihilated off to the distance and they had to take 5 steps back while the Kazami group only had to take 3 steps back.

Without even a moment to breathe Kazami, Lun Yuo, and Kuzumi rushed them this time and went to knee the three in the stomach. Kazami was attacking the plump woman, Lun Yuo was striking the muscle man and Kuzumi was attacking the kind-looking man.

The mercenaries only reacted on instinct and blocked the knee strikes which pushed them away a little bit. Their arms however felt bruised from it.

Their hoodies had fallen off allowing the mercenaries a good look at the trio.

"What the hell are you, kids!" They just couldn't believe how they not only manage to knock them back but also are so god damn quick!

"We'll tell when you all are close to death. Let kick it up a bit shall we guys." And with that Kazami unleashed his ice lighting aura, Kuzumi, and her blue fire aura, and Lun Yuo sprouted two vines coming out of the palms of her hands.

With even greater speed than before the trio rushed the mercenaries taking on their respective opponents.