Chapter 16 - 500 Gold Is Enough

Dhum! Dhum! Dhum!

As the familiar sound of the drums echoed through the mountain again, the people began to wake up from the overbearing noise.

Most of the people were getting ready to go to their classes but many had already left for theirs. Every front house was closed and looked like the residents had already left it. This of course included luan and Angela too.

They woke up early because of a certain thing they wanted to ask their colleagues. When they went inside Class A they noticed some of the classmates present there.

The team sat back to their usual spot at the back. Luan at the right and Angela at the left.

Besides Angela was a 15 year old girl with average looks and hourglass body with deep dark hair. Her two leaf-shaped ears were pointing at opposite directions. She was an elf. The same girl who raised her hand on the first day.

She was sitting in a formal position with relaxed expression.

"...Eloise" Angela spoke towards her.

Eloise raised her eyebrows and looked at Angela.

"What is it Angela?"

Angela then gestured to luan who was waiting to get their attention.

" Yes?"

"Do you know a person named Alden? The guy with pink hair." He asked her with a neutral face.

She was a little confused but answered right away.

"Yeah what do you want to know about him?"

"Tell me everything"

Luan found that guy a interesting as he was controlling people stronger than him and his behavior was strange, so he wanted to know if Alden had something special he could use for his own.

Hearing him Eloise was a little surprised because someone like luan who was a Qi gathering 3rd expert took intrest in Alden.

"Well, I have heard he almost always fighting beasts in the vicinity or ask for books to random people. He us sometimes found with people from this class and many other. I think he is in class B, just below ours." Eloise said.

"That's it?" Luan asked.

"Yeah, not much is known about him."

Eloise quickly caught everyone's attention. The reason was because of her outstanding performance in academics and the knowledge of people.

It had only been 4 days since they joined the sect but ironically, Angela and Eloise became friends rather quickly.

Luan started thinking about Alden. Under normal circumstances he wouldn't have stand out, but there was something different about him from everyone else. Except his hair colour of course.

But he didn't had much time to time as teacher Isla came into the class.

"Ah hello everyone good weather we're having today." She said in a tired voice.

The students were getting used to her speaking like this.

Despite her weak sounding voice and frail looking body, she was in the Meridian Opening 5th realm and also great at teaching.

Isla asked them about their progress in the cultivation book she gave them. Many said they were almost done and many didn't learn it including Luan, Angela and Eloise.

Luan and Angela didn't learn the spell book as they were already practicing the breathing technique of the forgotten sect.

The class started and everyone listened to Isla for the time...

•••

"Haaa, today's class was interesting but I'm exhausted. Btw do you want to hang out with us later?" One of the people from Class B said as he walked on the ground.

"Oh no, I'm going hunting straight from here." Alden said and brought his hands closer to him in defense.

"Ha! why do you go hunting everyday anyway? You must have enough money to go by for a few months. Anyway, we'll enjoy Instead of you." The person said and went his way.

"Yeah...." Alden spoke behind him and started going down the mountain.

He found a spider beast of 5 meters. A beast of Qi gathering 1. It was resting on a tree and didn't know Alden was close. He saw this as a chance and attacked the beast with his spear and focused his Qi on hands.

"SHH!!"

Unfortunately for him, the beast had incredible flexibility and he just dodged it.

Now it was angery. Alden tried withdrawing his spear back but the spider caught it.

"SH!!"

"Oh no"

He ran away from the spider like it was his last day. But the spider was faster and he could outrun him easily. The spider used it's one of many legs to Injure Alden's right leg.

"Arkh!" The attack hit his bones but didn't pass through his body. Alden saw a cliff in front of him and he jumped without thinking too much.

"Better than dying like this!" He said while falling.

Thud!

Aafter a couple of seconds, he fell straight on a boulder. It made his ribs go numb and he started losing his consciousness. He felt as if his body was falling apart piece by piece.

"I-I can't die yet... I want to sav-" He lost his consciousness while saying this.

...

Alden woke up after a small nap. He was still on the rock but his Injuries were better. He sat up and looked up the cliff.

"Wow you really survived that fall." A voice just ahead of him startled him.

He saw luan besides a tree.

"What happened to the beast?" Alden said.

"Someone already took care of him."

"I... See. How were you here?"

"Hm? This is our hunting spot you know?" Luan continued.

"Now. Tell me how you're gonna pay us."

"Wait, pay?"

"Yeah. If we weren't here you would surely have died from your injuries."

"You don't expect to be saved for free do you?" He narrowed his eyes and looked dead serious at Alden.

Alden gritted his teeth and thought for a few seconds.

"I...Understand you can have 500 golds." He said with eyes pressed closed.

"Ohhh, the deal is pretty good. It's final then" Luan said and Angela came behind him.

She was fighting the spider but it didn't look like she was tired at all. Let alone she didn't even had a scratch.

•••

While all of this was happening, there was something going on in a particular mountain far away from where luan and Angela were.

There were houses in the area, or one could say 'rooms'. They were all around the area of at least 100 to 200 meters.

There was a person going inside one of the rooms. He was wearing glasses and had black hair. He was Asher.

Creak

He opened the door to find a person drinking a tea gracefully. That was the sect master of the 10 flowers sect.

Sect master looked at Asher for a second and continued drinking his tea.

"So, how was the mission son?" He asked Asher.

"Well, you wouldn't believe what I found."

"Oh? It is about the upcoming moves of the kingdoms?"

"No, even better than that." He said in a vicious smile.

The sect master waited for him to say something.

"There are 2 kids who have potential to reach Pure energy realm."

The sect master spilled his tea and coughed multiple times.

"Wait are they in our sect?!" He asked Asher excitedly.

Asher looked at his excited father and told him everything. From his meeting with luan and Angela to how they defeated the breasts.

When it was over, the sect master looked at the ground and let put a little laugh.

"Haha, it has been so long since we had someone with that potential. After the tenth disciple, everybody thought we'll not get another legend." The sect master continued.

"I'll keep an eye on him. Oh and what about the movements of the kingdoms?"

"We are already in the cold war and things are looking quite bad." Asher told in a serious expression.

The sect master let out a nervous laugh and touched the corners of his eyes.

"I already anticipated this, people of higher continent has too much hostility against of the lower continent. And to top that off, every nation is starting to act against us."

He looked at the roof and Asher did the same.

"This world will have an abrupt change in the next few years.

"That seems to be the case, father."

"Haa, well enough of that. How are the preparations for the outer sect tournament coming along?" The sect master asked him.

"Everything is going great we just need to decide a time for it."