Sect leader

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*Next day at the Dojo/sect

Kei woke up in the morning feeling like shit

His body felt alright, the only problem was his mental state

'Damn it, if this continues, more will be destroyed in the future, perhaps even...'

~Knock knock~

"Kei I'm here with news"

Akira had come to the guestroom to tell Keisuke something

Kei got up and opened the door

"What is it? Is it something to do with the school, were we exposed?!"

Akira put his palm up to stop Kei from talking

"Calm down, thanks to the cloaks we were not recognissed, its something else. My father, the sect leader wants to have a talk with you."

"Wh-what? Why?! I don't even know the sect leader's name! His cultivation base! Hell! I don't even know YOUR cultivation base!"

Akira now surprised after realizing that Kei had never met his father, says

"Ah. I forgot." (I forgor💀)

Akira started telling Kei about what he had kept from him

"I'm one step before Nascent soul stage, Golden core, I recently just broke through. My father has broken through to Nascent soul. and our sect? We are a long lost branch of the Mount Hua sect that in the long past came and expanded to Japan. We call ourselves the Cherry Blossom sect."

"Wait... Do you have ties with China?"

Akira slightly loosing his composure after hearing Keisuke's obviously idiotic question

"Kei,,, you are a dumbass."

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*outside of the door leading to the throne of the sect leader

'Damn, sure is a fancy door'

It was 2 big gates with cherry blossoms engraved on them

Kei pushed open the door with a heavy heart

Kei went stand in front of the sect leader as he was sitting on his throne, like a commoner going up to a King

"Good evening"

Keisuke said as a means to not look intimidated

"You have come, Akira has also told me that you have some answers to this "situation" we are facing"

"Y-yes.." Keisuke was rightfully scared

the imposing aura the sect leader produced was no joke

He looked middle-aged and was wearing traditional Chinese cultivator garments, but he had probably lived a lot longer than a middle aged man, seeing as he is at his Nascent soul realm he could have lived for a millennium

Keisuke looked around and he saw another familiar face, Akira's sister standing to the side with a lot of others, most likely elders of the Cherry Blossom sect

Akira was standing behind Kei

Keisuke took a deep breath

"Explaining may take a little time..."

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*After explaining the complete situation to the patriarch

"So it is you that God wants to... Isekai."

At that moment he had such an intimidating and suffocating aura that Kei could barely move

"W-will you kill me in order to make him stop?"

Keisuke asked as his hands were shivering

"Good heavens, no! If I kill you someone else is bound to take your place as god's next victim eventually, its best if we are prepared for a fight with his minions in the meantime instead of killing innocents" The sect leader announced his stand on this matter

One or two Elders had an opposed look

"Sect Leader you cannot! If we let him live many others will die in his stead! THINK OF THE PEOPLE!"

The Elder who spoke did make sense, it was lucky that nobody innocent had been injured yet, but as things kept progressing... Losses were bound to happen.

The sect leader was not angry even if that elder was opposed to his will

"Elder Yin, even if we sacrifice this child, who is to say "God" will not come for another of our children? What if "He" keeps needing new sacrifices all the time, what if... the next sacrifice was your own child? I do not serve a false god who demands the death of an innocent."

The elder took a step back and looked to the ground as he was in deep thought, he got the point The Sect Leader was putting down

"I-I understand... I was too foolish."

The heavy atmosphere now broken by the benevolent words of sect leader

"But, if this continues, more innocents may really lose their lives"

Kei said

Some part of Kei was trying to think logically about humanity but the other part wanted to survive

"Boy, it is sad to lose anyone in life, but that also includes you. I believe both my children Akira and Akari, would be sad to lose you"

Sect leader said in a gentle voice

"I-I see... Then I will have to be a little selfish and survive"

Kei said as a nervous smile started forming on his face, Kei certainly still had a certain guilt eating at him, who was he to live as others' lives were in danger

"Boy, even if some die in the future, it will not be your fault, it wasn't you who chose to summon monsters to this world"

The sect Leader tried to comfort Keisuke as he sensed Kei's feelings

"You are right! I shouldn't beat myself for someone else's faults"

-HAHAHA! Well said! Our Cherry blossom sect shall assist you as much as we can, why don't you join the sect? We could even teach you our martial arts!"

"Thank you for the offer, but I have my own martial arts, but other than that, Sect leader I will gladly accept your assistance! May I ask for your name?"

"Please call me John"

Announced the sect leader

"..."

Keisuke was dumbfounded, John... Why would Akira's father, who has ties with China be named John.

"Thank you, John..." But even so, Kei accepted his name

Keisuke without missing another beat announced to John

"Now let's get serious, John, we need to make a device that can locate Gates so that we can dispatch them before they get the chance to cause a dungeon brake. It has to be a device that can counter God's stealth magic."

"Indeed, this is top priority for now, I'll get in contact with our best alchemists right away, i'm sure they can figure something out, of course I'll help too"

John spoke hastily

"Hold on, I believe you will benefit if you partner up with (hands over piece of paper) this guy"

Kei handed over a piece of paper with the name of the news guy he gave a grimoire to

"THIS...! who is this?"

Of course John didn't know about the true nature of this being, this being, this was the first time he had heard of that name

"You could say he is technically my "disciple" I gave him basic knowledge of magic and he has talent, in fact I believe he will be the key to making something to track Gates. Just mention that the "Universe cultivator" sent you and he will be happy to help your cause. Other than that... We need a way to leave the dungeon once we get in it, since it closes the moment we enter we have to figure out a way to not get stuck. In many mythical books, people used "Return stones" which would teleport them outside the dungeon but instead the stone would be unusable and break after one use. If you could make this happen many people's lives will be saved. Possibly mine too..."

Kei explained basic knowledge of what needed to be done from now on

"I see... You are quite wise and knowledgeable about these Gates"

"I have read a lot about them"

"Thanks to you it seems like finding the locations of Gates will be easier, now about the return stones, maybe I should make a teleportation array... Hmmmm"

John went into deep thinking and Kei started taking his leave

'Thank god I loaded all the magic on "That guy", best decision of my life. I'll make as much use of him as I can, after all, I was the one who gave him knowledge about magic'

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*To be continued

Author's second coming: Only one more to finish with the first volume ,ahh this hell is close to being over.