In the ruined Stone Vault, Shatter and Mukuroshibo stood amid the rubble.
Shatter said, "Fine, Shenrai won't be necessary… until for now." Mukuroshibo relaxed visibly. "I'll need some Legend and God ranks. Call Metalbjorn, Magnus, K'zari, Raizen, and you." Shatter asked, "Anyone else?" Mukuroshibo replied, "The rest may have to stay here to guard the planet." Shatter nodded. "Good. Now we need a plan to infiltrate the planet where they kept the stone."
He called out, "Guard!" "Yes sir, Shatter." "The scroll inside has the names of the people I need you to bring. Go to the telepod and put the scroll in to give the message to them." "Yes sir." "And also, bring up the cleaning crew to clean this rubble and the roof."
Nearby, Riven and Tetsuro had been listening near the destroyed doorway. Mukuroshibo spotted them. "You two, what are you doing here? Looks like you two got lost finding your rank spot." "Yeahh that's true," Riven replied.
Shatter stepped forward. "You two have met 2 Throne Gods now… and those two were especially deadly. I wonder how you two survived. But remember this: you can never win against them now as they are at the level you can Never Reach."
"Both of your weapons could break easily, and you should always depend on your chi. What I'm trying to say is learn the three fundamental masteries of chi."
After lecturing them, Shatter continued, "I'll leave you to Mukuroshibo now." He looked at Mukuroshibo. "The planning room in 10 minutes. Everyone I requested should be there." Mukuroshibo replied, "Got it."
As Shatter left the stone room, he turned to Riven and Tetsuro. "Boys, your rank room shall be led by a guard. Guard!" "Yes Mukuroshibo sir," a guard replied, coming from a hallway. "Take these two men to the Elite Warriors room." "Yes sir."
Outside the main gate, a blue portal opened. "All guards please stand by and open the gate for Sir K'zari and Sir Magnus! I repeat—open the main gate for Sir K'zari and Sir Magnus!"
The gate opened. Out of the portal came a black-suited man with sharp finger gauntlets, a stone glowing on the right one. Beside him was a giant being who stood at 20 feet with a shield on his back, a glowing stone embedded in it, and wore heavy armor.
They both entered the gate. Raizen was there waiting.
"Welcome back K'zari and Magnus. You're right on time," Raizen said. "I have heard the stone was stolen Raizen. This heist should not be an ordinary one," K'zari replied with his African accent. "So where is Metalbjorn?"
As they walked inside the castle, Raizen answered, "Metalbjorn is on another planet doing a mission. He should be here by now."
As they reached the planning room, a guard approached. "Sir, Metalbjorn sir has arrived at the main gate just now."
They looked toward the main gate and saw a gigantic sonic jet plane landing slowly and transforming into a giant silver knight with blue finishing. "Welcome back Metalbjorn sir," said a guard. "Is everyone here? Did everyone reach the castle?" "Oh yes sir, and they are already moving to the planning room." "Very well."
Mukuroshibo arrived at the planning room and saw Shatter sitting there. Behind him came Raizen, K'zari, and Magnus. As Magnus entered the door, he slowly shrunk from 20ft to 6ft and stepped inside too. Everyone took a seat.
Right after everyone sat and waited, Metalbjorn entered. He was already tall enough, and the room supported his 50ft height difference.
"Well then I'm sure everyone got the message on what happened. The Throne Gods can't use the stone unless they have the Divine Relic: Bloodlust," Shatter said.
K'zari asked, "Now to ensure the safety of the stone even more, where is the Divine Relic kept again?" "It's in the Relic Chamber with other artifacts," Shatter replied.
"And also Shatter, are you not gonna think that the Bloodlust belonged and is enchanted by Master Tyranox's chi?" Magnus said.
"Are you trying to say the Divine Relic can be used by someone related to him? Are you telling me Molgathar is supposed to be the successor of the Spirit Stone?"
"If you put it that way, yes. The Red Blood Chi Tyranox kept on the weapon was meant for only the demon-dino hybrids to unlock its awakening of the weapon and the stone. The others who wield it won't awaken it but just simply wield with minimal powers," Magnus replied.
"We have to find Molgathar now. I just realized something," Shatter said. "The only way to bring back Oblivion Prime—from what I learned through Master Orion's scroll—is that they need 4 of the chi's they used and a power equal to Oblivion. That is the 12 Universe Stones."
"This is not good. We don't even know if they got all of the chi's or not," Magnus said.
Riven and Tetsuro arrived at the Elite Warriors room. The guard who led them there said, "Well I shall leave you two now. Don't forget to show them your forearms to verify."
They nodded and opened the door. They saw many warriors in a very big hall. One of them stood out—very big and wearing yellow and blue armor.
"Warriors! Fall in line!"
All the warriors went in line, and so did Riven and Tetsuro.
"As you all know what happened to the Norse planet and how there was no response to the warriors, so I will need a few warriors with me to the planet. And for that to happen you will all go through a series of challenges to prove you all worthy. Am I clear, warriors!"
"Yes General!"
"I shall give you the signal of the first challenge. Dismissed!"
Everyone went back to their training. The general spotted Riven and Tetsuro doing nothing.
"You two boys, come here!"
"I've never seen you here before. Show me your forearms."
They both showed their right forearms and they glowed. "E.W" appeared in red for Riven and yellow for Tetsuro.
"Well then red and yellow huh, you guys don't look elite at all."
"Well we just scanned our rank a while ago," Riven said.
"So is this supposed to be your first rank ever? Who got you two boys?"
"Mukuroshibo sir got us in, General."
"Well you guys must be special. I'm General Godsmen. I'm the general for all ranks except for Legend and God rank. You'll need to get your rank name soon, which is not your real name—basically a code name to not reveal your name."
"Now I want you two to go to your dorm room and you can learn and do whatever you want, but the next training session is in one day and I need you two to at least learn the three fundamental masteries of chi and bring your rank names."
"Guard!" "Yes General!" "Assign these two warriors in the same dorm room." "Yes General."
They reached their dorm room. It looked good for both of them: it had a bunk bed for the two of them, a punching bag, and a large table for them to use.
"This is your dorm room number #1499. Enjoy you two and remember the upcoming training session," the guard said before leaving them to enter.
They entered the dorm room and suddenly Riven said, "The top bed is mine, yours is below Tetsuro."
"It's not like that matters right now. We need to learn the 3 masteries of chi and make our ranking name," replied Tetsuro.
They sat at the table and brainstormed the scrolls given at the table and a holographic tablet.
The scroll Tetsuro opened contained:
The Three Fundamental Masteries Of ChiFlow Chi: Lets out external chi to flow out of you. Armament Chi: can coat anything with to harden, amplify and protect, that includes your body and weapons. Core chi: Chi is the energy of your body and could be preserved as a backup and be used to see the future or enter the slow world.
After they finished reading the Core Chi explanation they saw a small note from the writer: only a few were able to master all three of them and mastering core chi is the most difficult of them all. —Master Zen
They looked at each other and Tetsuro said, "Master Zen?" "We should know who that is."
They went ahead and searched in the holographic tablet and found out that Zen is one of the four founders of the universe stones and owns the chi called white and they read the other 3 founders and they were called: Tyranox owned the red blood chi, Orion owned the golden magnificent chi and Armageddon owned the black impure chi.
They also found out that each one of them mastered some of the fundamental chi masteries: Orion mastered all types of chi which is flow, armament and core, and Zen mastered only flow and core but not armament, Tyranox only mastered armament but he mastered armament so good he's the best at it out of the entire 4 founders, and Armageddon had mastered core and flow but he's the best at core more than anyone.
They all took a while to memorize everything they just read and they decided to sleep as it's night time.
"Well looks like we learned everything about it, now we just have to demonstrate it tomorrow," Tetsuro said.
"Let's not forget to put our rank code names onto the scrolls we were given," Riven replied.
End of Chapter 5