The ground and walls of his room were stained with black liquid and the air was permeated with a cloud of thick blackish smoke.

If it wasn't obvious by now, Blade spent most of the night cultivating and at the same time, puking up this weird substance that was still unknown to him.

Entering the room, Blade took off his black slim fitted turtle neck shirt, revealing his upper body that beautifully portrayed his physique that was what those in the modern days would call the rumored Greek god physique.

"It's time to begin cultivation!" He said while mentally preparing for slightly over three weeks of constant cultivation.

...

One week had passed in the blink of an eye. Well, at least for Saber that is. During this one week, Saber only exited his room to eat the breakfast that Dolion had cooked for him. Even if he didn't fully trust this Dolion, he couldn't help but eat the food Dolion cooked, especially since he was always a sucker for well-cooked meals.

To him, it was confusing why Dolion hadn't gone for a mission yet, and since he didn't dare entertain the thought that Dolion was also planning to break through to the Fourth Level of the Meridian Opening realm, Blade was left even more confused.

He could feel it, Dolion wasn't at his level of strength, yet there was still this instinct in him that warned him to not let his guard down when close to him.

Anyway, most of the time, he would be in his room cultivating, and since he told Dolion such, Dolion knew not to disturb him. Unless one was enemies, one would never disturb someone when they're cultivating.

And, if one was disguising as a friend, they would also have no choice but to not disturb their target as it would most definitely raise suspicion.

...

Knock... Knock!!

The sound of one's door being knocked entered Dolion's ears. He who was once more preparing breakfast for Blade, but this time with a stone-cold expression, was slightly surprised by the door knocking as he approached the door to the cabin and opened it, with his signature bright smile back on his face.

"Where is Saber?!"

Athena's voice laced with killing intent aimed toward Dolion, echoed throughout the duo's surroundings as her sharp eyes peered into the eyes of Dolion who had still managed to retain his kind and caring expression.

Sigh!

"When one open's their door after hearing a knock, the last thing they would expect is someone shouting at them as soon as it is opened." With a tone of utmost calmness, Dolion replied with a sentence that didn't answer Athena's question whatsoever.

Athena immediately squinted her eyes as she then said once more...

"I'm not playing any games with you." She said, "Where is Blade? He hasn't exited here for his missions in over a week and seeing as we three were going for our last mission already, I decided to come and invite him to see if he wanted to come, yet here you are trying to prevent that... Are you hiding something?!"

As Athena said this, a dangerous light flashed through Dolion's eyes when it came in contact with Alexandria, who stood quietly in the back. Her eyes tried to peer behind Dolion, and deeper into the cabin...

After hearing Athena's words, Dolion's smile widened as he then replied.

"Oh my, isn't that truly a pity. I mean, at the current moment in time, Blade wouldn't be able to meet you since he is busy with something, and wouldn't like anyone to disrupt him.

I truly wouldn't want to see the relationship between Blade, and you, become ruined simply because he finds you annoying..!"

THRUM!!

"You!"

Brittany, who stood behind Athena shouted in anger when interpreting what Dolion was hinting at. She couldn't believe that this Dolion was acting soo annoying even though they merely wanted to invite Saber to a mission so that he could quickly get one of the three mandatory missions under his belt.

Raising her hand to stop Brittany was an Athena who was unable to fully hide the brimming anger that she currently felt. Her cheeks were red as a vein was throbbing on her forehead. With her eyes bloodshot, a thought flashed through her mind as she then went on to do something that shocked Dolion, along with the other two.

At a speed that the three were unable to react, Athena passed through the space Dolion was blocking when he opened the door...

She successfully entered the cabin where she was able to perceive a living room, as further down was a pathway with walls on both sides. On the walls was a door on one side, and a door directly opposite.

Sensing a strong presence in one of the doors, she quickly knew which room Saber stayed in as she began approaching that door while the three others were still shocked in a stupor. Well, at least that was what ran through her mind moments before...

Urgh!

A grumble escaped Athena's mouth as she suddenly felt as if a huge boulder had been placed on top of her shoulder. If that wasn't enough, her legs used to walk, felt as if there was water reaching to her waist, making it incredibly hard to properly walk. Immediately, her skin paled as cold sweat trickled down her spine.

As if there was a ruthless and bloodthirsty monstrosity located behind her. That was how she felt and right after...

"Where do you think you're going, bitch!" Dolion's angered voice resounded throughout the living room as his face was nothing like ever before.

His eyes were utterly cold and unfeeling, arrogant, and prideful as if looking down on all life as in it, contained a thread of killing intent. Yet, this thread of killing intent was enough to totally incapacitate Athena as she remained rooted to the ground in true fear.

"To think you people would be soo bold to dare do such arrogant things in my presence! As I said before, Saber is busy and can't be disturbed, but seeing as you require someone to accompany you to your mission, I'll take on the responsibility, though reluctantly, of being the man in the squad!"

In a tone filled with utter coldness and neutrality, Dolion proclaimed as he decided to leave the Sect for the first time in a while!

...

Two and a half weeks had passed since that little incident and the relationship between Athena and Dolion had seemingly turned for the better.

In his presence, Athena wouldn't ever be as presumptuous and even go as far as to watch the tone with which she spoke. It seemed to say that their relationship had gotten better was slightly too farfetched as it was more like Dolion was gaining respect through the use of fear.

And, in this time, Dolion, who had previously not left the Sect in many years, had already left the Sect three times. The first is with Athena and her group of friends, as the other two times, to finish the mandatory missions. This, he did alone.

As time progressed and Athena with her group of friends already gained enough Life Stones to pay for their accommodation, and also some extra, the cultivation of Blade underwent some dramatical improvements...

Seeing as he was completely focused on cultivation, Blade didn't even exit his room for the past week as he drew infinitely closer to reaching the breaking point. At the current moment in time, the amount of Life Energy that had been gathered by Blade in this fourth meridian was soo dense that it made him feel as if he could unclog his meridian at any time.

There was a bright smile on his face even as sweat trickled down to his chin as the budding excitement he felt was becoming uncontrollable. For him, there was nothing better than that feeling of becoming stronger, and after spending a month of continuous cultivation, he had finally begun seeing the result he wanted.

It was like a fat person entering the gym with the hope of becoming shredded. Now that he was seeing signs of becoming shredded, wouldn't this person also feel a buddling excitement?

As the mass of energy contained in his meridian slowly began to condense, Blade began to manipulate it every soo slightly as soon enough...

Crack!

A sound akin to a glass window being broken exited his body right after...

BOOM!

URGH!

An explosion that came from inside him echoed throughout the room as he spat out a mouthful of black liquid unconsciously. From his pores, black liquid oozed out and added even more stains to his Inner Sect clothing.

Thankfully, the clothing of the Inner Sect consisted of a turtle neck black t-shirt and black pants with black shoes. But, the smell that it now reeked was something that almost made Blade faint as his expression twisted from disgust.

It was soo disgusting that even he completely forgot about the massive power boost he had just received.