Chapter 4: Awakening the Martial Soul

Some time passed.

Two months had passed since Shirou's arrival in the Douluo Dalu world. During these two whole months, Shirou's schedule of activities that started in the morning was doing work in his study. The workspace has a size of 50 square meters with complete furniture in it. Furniture consists of a long wardrobe, red carpet, long table, various piles of HVS paper, various writing instruments, various work equipment, and a work desk located in the middle of the workspace.

During the morning, Shirou would do various jobs in the study such as designing weapons, drawing, writing a novel, and doing various other activities. When the time has entered the noon hour, Shirou will stop his work and start enjoying leisure time such as watching movies, playing games, walking in the forest, and doing various activities to relax the mind as well as the physical condition of the body.

After the afternoon check-in time, Shirou would begin preparations to practice improving his physical fitness. During these two full months of training, Shirou's physical fitness had improved greatly. Shirou was now training under 15 times the pressure of gravity in the training room. This result can not be separated from the remaining energy of the 10,000-year-old Edelweiss Etile Flower as well as the determination and enthusiasm for himself to become stronger.

With the training that was done, Shirou's body slowly began to form very well and his muscles began to tighten and strong. Shirou's training was very fruitful because now Shirou's physical fitness was the same as that of an Elder Soul Master.

With Shirou's current fitness, he could at least absorb a soul ring that could be absorbed by a Soul Master of the Elder Soul level, which was 1300 to 1800 years old. But it was different if Shirou had awakened his martial soul and soul power. Because with the awakening of his soul power, Shirou's physical fitness will also increase along with that Shirou has also planned to absorb two immortal plants to increase his soul power before absorbing the first soul ring.

At least according to Shirou's estimation, he could absorb a soul ring with a lifespan of 3000 - 5000 years for his first soul ring. This in itself was good enough because, with the absorption of the soul ring beyond his age, Shirou would also gain a lot of extra energy gained after absorbing it.

Every time Shirou finished training, Shirou would drag his tired body to the medicinal bath that he prepared. Thanks to the medicinal bath, any fatigue Shirou had suffered after training disappeared instantly. Besides that, with the addition of various other medicinal herbs, Shirou's appearance became even more perfect than his first appearance in the Douluo world.

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Barracks Kingdom, Fasano Province, Notting City.

Notting City was a small city that was on the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Lou Empire. With a very dangerous location, the City of Notting built a large wall to prevent various threats that would occur. Apart from building walls, the City of Notting also puts various kinds of guards in the area around the walls. This is what makes every time visitors or outsiders want to enter Notting City, they have to check and pay 10 copper coins to get into Notting City.

With the location of the house being only 3 kilometers from Notting City, Shirou quickly arrived at Notting City. Just like the other visitors who came, Shirou also took part in the inspection and made a payment of 10 copper coins to enter Notting City. Shirou who had entered Notting City looked like the western continent's medieval city that existed in the previous world.

Shirou is a little nostalgic seeing the street scenery made of paving blocks, various kinds of horse-drawn carriages, many vendors selling their various goods around the streets, as well as various residents doing their daily activities.

Shirou's appearance had changed a lot since he came to this Douluo Dalu world two months ago. Shirou's height increased by a few centimeters, his erect and vital body and his blue hair had started to grow long until he had to tie his hair back. The clothes Shirou was wearing himself were just the standard clothes of a white long-sleeved shirt rolled up to the elbows, blue trousers, and white shoes. Shirou himself didn't want to be too flashy so he only wore standard clothes.

Feeling nostalgic for the sight of Notting City, Shirou didn't go straight to Wuhan Hall to awaken his martial soul and soul force. Instead, Shirou went sightseeing to see the various beauties and sites of Notting City. Moreover, there was a possibility that after Shirou awakened his martial soul and soul power, he would often come to Notting City to do things and other things. That's why Shirou must know about the state of the city and the layout of things

After Shirou was satisfied looking around Notting City, Shirou started to search Wuhun Hall by asking some of the civilians around him. It was not difficult to get the location of the Wuhun Hall building especially after asking the civilians. Shirou who had received a directive, rushed towards the direction the civilians had given him. Not long after searching, Shirou saw a very large building.

It was the largest building in Notting City. In front of the large building, two guards wore metal armor and carried spears guarding the entrance of the building. Shirou immediately knew that the building was the Wuhun Hall in Notting City and that it was his destination.

Shirou paused with a sigh and stared at the Wuhun Hall building thinking, " Money controls everything. Even the propaganda that the Wuhun Hall put in place to attract many great Soul Masters into their army was due to money as well as resources. Many would also be interested in joining the Wuhun Hall. Moreover, the Soul Masters on the civilian side had very great talent. With the lure of financial power, and also high honor. Surely they will join instead of waiting for uncertain things to be obtained from the Empire's"

"If only the Imperial side were more daring in spending money. Besides that, it would be very difficult for the imperial side as well. Moreover, many nobles are arrogant and do not dare to take risks. Just like various things like theories, and also their way of utilizing soul power. They just always fixate on the past and do not dare to try to innovate. What a shame~" Shirou shook his head as he tried to calm himself down before entering for the martial soul-awakening ceremony.

Shirou walked leisurely towards the Wuhun Hall, as soon as he was 5 meters away from the Wuhun Hall. The guard guarding the front door looked at Shirou and one of them said in a serious tone, "Stop! This is the Wuhun Hall Territory. Children, please go!"

Shirou stopped right in front of the guard as he raised his brow and said, "Sorry Mister Guard. I came here because I wanted to awaken my martial soul. Am I allowed in?"

Hearing this answer from Shirou, the two guards looked at each other and looked back at Shirou seeing that he did look 6 years old. The guards immediately lowered their guard as one of them said, "Fine. You are allowed in. You can go straight up to the second floor and look for the Awakening Hall room. There is Master Su Yuntao who will help you to awaken your martial soul. You just need to say your purpose for coming to him."

"Good. Thank you." Shirou nodded and walked leisurely into the Wuhun Hall.

" Hmm~ Master Su Yuntao? Is he the one who will awaken my martial soul? I think I now understand why many fans of Douluo Dalu's novels say that he is the greatest traitor of this novel. How come? He was the one who awakened the martial soul of the greatest enemy of the Wuhun Hall. Forget it~ I don't want to talk about other people's problems either. Just enjoy this life that has been given and has an interesting adventure."

Arriving inside the Wuhun Hall, Shirou wasn't too interested in the design of the Wuhun Hall building. Moreover, in the previous world, many of the building designs they had were better than those of the Wuhun Hall's. Shirou immediately walked to the second floor and searched the Awakening Hall's room as the Guardian said.

It didn't take long for Shirou to find the room of the Hall of Awakening while slowly opening the door of the room. The room is 100 square meters in size, with a large crystal ball in the center of the room, small tables in the eastern part of the room that have various awakening stones, and we can see a man who has the appearance of an adult wearing Wuhun Hall clothes. was sitting by the entrance.

*click*

Hearing the sound of the entrance ringing, Su Yuntao immediately opened his eyes and saw a boy walking in. Su Yuntao immediately said, "Kid, did you come here to awaken the martial soul?"

Shirou who heard the call immediately turned his head to look at Su Yuntao and nodded as he said, "Yes. I came here to awaken the martial soul. Are you the Master Su Yuntao that the Guardian Lord said? Previously, I was ordered to come here and see Master Su Yuntao help me awaken my martial soul."

"Right," Su Yuntao nodded as he got up from his chair and said, "You come forward and stand right in front of the crystal ball."

Shirou nodded and immediately walked towards the crystal ball and stopped right at five meters from the crystal ball. Meanwhile, Su Yuntao went to pick up the 6 awakening stones and walked towards Shirou while standing beside the resurrection stones in front of Shirou.

Su Yuntao directly arranged the awakening stone in a hexagon pattern using his soul force. After finishing setting up the awakening stone, Su Yuntai glanced at Shirou and said, "Before we begin, introduce my name Su Yuntao. I am a level 26 Soul Master with Lone Wolf martial soul, strength development department. I am here to help you to awaken your martial soul. I hope you won't be afraid after this."

Shirou nodded casually because he knew that Su Yuntai would summon his martial soul. Shirou himself was also a little curious about martial souls because until now he had never seen anyone release martial souls.

"Lone Wolf, Own it." Su Yuntao muttered under his breath.

Suddenly Su Yuntao's body began to expand, his muscles began to increase, his previously black hair slowly turned blue, his pupils turned into wolf eyes, from behind Su Yuntao's body a 2.5-meter tall wolf shadow appeared, and two rings white and yellow floated from under his feet.

The pressure from a Great Soul Master instantly hit Shirou. However, Shirou who had trained his body to the level of Elder Soul's physical fitness felt the pressure that Su Yuntao was giving off he didn't feel. Su Yuntao himself was a little surprised to find Shirou didn't feel the pressure he was giving off as he thought, " Does this kid come from a family that has a Soul Master?"

Su Yuntao's thoughts were not wrong because indeed if there were children from families who had a Soul Master, they would be very familiar with martial souls. Su Yuntao instantly erased the thought and began to inject his soul force into the awakening stone. The awakening stone immediately responded by emitting a golden glow that formed a small golden cube.

"Let's go forth and stand in the middle of the awakening formation"

Shirou nodded and immediately walked towards the center of the golden dome. Arriving at the center of the dome, Shirou immediately stopped. Seeing that Shirou was ready, Su Yuntao started to inject more of his soul force.

Shirou's body slowly began to float in the air, a huge dew of light began to surround Shirou's body. Shirou who was following the process of awakening his martial soul felt that from within his body 2 things wanted to come out of his body. Shirou didn't let the two martial souls escape accidentally, because he knew that his martial soul was very strong and might cause something or other that he didn't want.

" This..." Su Yuntao who saw this was immediately excited because he knew that there was a possibility that Shirou would awaken a powerful martial soul. Su Yuntao had thought about inviting Shirou if he could awaken a strong martial soul.

Moreover, if Su Yuntao was able to recruit very great talent to enter the Wuhun Hall, he would likely get many things such as salary increases, promotions, and various other benefits. This is also included in the Wuhun Hall's propaganda to be able to make many of their members strive to increase their fighting strength.

Just as Shirou felt his two martial soul powers awaken, Shirou also felt an energy that increased his physical strength greatly, " This energy? Is this soul power? Amazing~ Physical fitness has improved very significantly. At least my physical fitness can now withstand the pressure of 500 kilograms of gravity. With this physical fitness, I can at least compete with the physical fitness of a Boundary-level Soul Elder. Let's forget about this, we need to trick the Wuhun Hall a bit by letting them write I awaken a trash martial soul"

"Son, put your hand forward," Su Yuntao said calmly, but in his heart, he was already very excited waiting for Shirou to awaken his martial soul.

Shirou nodded and raised his right hand forward. A fist opened as he manipulated his lightning martial soul into a tiny needle. On top of Shirou's palm, according to his manipulation, a blue needle suddenly appeared above his hand.

Su Yuntao saw the blue needle appear in Shirou's hand, the joy and pleasure he was experiencing earlier immediately turned full of disappointment as he looked at Shirou and sighed saying, "You have a little needle martial soul, kid. It's one of the tool-type martial souls and has little attack power. Come on, you can retract the martial soul using your mind, after that we will test your soul power. If you have soul power, even if your martial soul is a trash martial soul, you still have the possibility of becoming a Soul Master."

Shirou nodded and paid little attention to Su Yuntao's words. Shirou instantly retracted his martial soul and slowly his body descended to the ground. Shirou raised his head and looked at Su Yuntao saying, "How do I test my soul power, Master?"

"You can go ahead and place your palm on the crystal stone." Su Yuntao said as he gave way to Shirou.

Shirou nodded and walked towards the front and placed his small hand on the surface of the crystal ball. Waiting 10 seconds, the crystal ball gave no light indicating that Shirou could become a Soul Master. Su Yuntao shook his head and said, "No soul power, can't become a Soul Master. Son, let's go back"

Shirou nodded while putting on a sad face. Shirou slowly walked back to his position and lowered his head. Su Yuntao who saw this didn't care. Su Yuntao pulled back his martial soul and collected the resurrection stones and said, "Kid, the awakening ceremony is over. Your martial soul has been resurrected. You can come back already." Su Yuntao said calmly.

Shirou nodded as he lifted his head back and said, "Master, thank you for your cooperation. Later in the future, I will try to help this Master's favor." Shirou bowed slowly.

Su Yuntao waved his hand, "No problem, you can come back already. I still have a lot of things to do." Su Yuntao said as he walked towards the table to place the resurrection stone.

Shirou nodded and immediately walked out of the Hall of Awakening. Arriving outside the room, Shirou heaved a sigh of relief, " Let's quickly leave this Wuhun Hall and return home. I can't wait to absorb my first soul ring." With a sense of calm, Shirou immediately walked out of the Wuhun Hall and headed back to his house.