brewing war

Back at the academy the senior from the medic is kneeling with tears running down her cheek before Vivian at a secluded corner, regret written all over her face with her eyes redden showing how much of tears she had shed already

"you made the right choice lily, your mother would be so proud of your choices" she toss a little purse of gold to her walking away as she had got what she came for "take that as compensation for your effort, I will be holding on to your mother for now"

Stopping at the bent leading out of the corner both of them had been she stop shooting a playful smile at the other "I won't feel too bad breaking the trust of some random kid who got favour by the blaze"

"why are you still holding her when I already told you what you wanted to hear already, just let her go" ignoring her little consoling words, that wasn't needed, the deed is already done, there is no looking back anymore, all she care for now is for her to fulfill her end of the bargain

"calm down, I will see her free like I promised, I still got some work for you, if you cooperate you will be rewarded not just with the freedom of your mother but also be assimilated into the onyx outer family, think of it as an honor"

"and if I refuse" doing this young ladies dirty job isn't part of her agenda, it just so happen she is powerless before her, how wish she had the strength it take to protect her love ones

"its simple, you will get her corpse as reward, worse your betrayer would be made known not just to the authorities but also the youngster you care about so much"

Lily bite her lips in regret, she has been blackmail to give up all the information she had about Davis when the blaze patriarch visited, as if that is not enough she is planning to make her do more despicable things

"what would you have me do" he eyes became dead still, she is already in the moment she compromise, best she could do is get it over with so her mother could be released in one piece

"that lad seems to trust to some extent now, I want you to create an avenue to get close to him, let me know of all his move, every little detail nothing short" she smiled explaining what she wanted her to do, more she explained more her smile widen "lastly if you ever get a chance....... Use it"

Lily dead pin eyes widen at the last statement "how are you expecting me to get close to him, he is now a privilege student and is been trained by the blaze themselves" refusing to believe her ears more like avoiding to talk about that in particular

Noticing she is dodging the last statement she didn't push, she explained her plan on how to get her close to Davis after which she left the broken lily sobbing within herselve for been so unlucky to encounter this demoness

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"lord Gary news about the other had just come in from our spies in their camp and the mansion" a man in warrior attires entered one of the many tent in the set camp, many other warriors are about their own business for the moment

The man who had entered the tent knelt down before a youngster sitting cross leg in a cultivation mat with his eyes shut not bothered with the presence of the figure that had just entered

On his robe is the insignia of the blaze family, a symbol of respect and power, not waiting for response he began giving all the information he had gathered one after the other from the happenings in the camps of his fellow contestant and finally to the recent happening in the mansion

"news just came in from the castle about a new contestant had been added to the list of succession, his bloodline rumour to be... to be" he couldn't find the courage to say what he heard before this young man

Sweat could already be seen pouring of his forehead stammering over the last part of the information, the young man before him who had been silent and still like a statue ever since eye start twitching with deep frown itching on his face as he wait for the man to complete his statement

"you know best not to keep me waiting, are you dating to see what I could do to you" he spoke slowly like a wisher with his eyes still closed but the pressure those words left on the other was even more terrifying than when he hasn't said a word

stilling his resolve he decided to say "rumour have it he had a purer bloodline than you my lord" the moment the word left his mouth his vision turned hazy and spinning, seconds later he recognized a figure tall figure standing before him looks to familiar

The familiarity is so much he could swear it was like starring at an exact copy of himself, the only problem is he is was taller than he could imagine, trying to see his face was even more difficult till he saw the body falling down with blood spraying of his neck

Now he understands, his head had just been slice off and the figure he saw was a copy of himself but his actual body that has been beheaded, slowly his vision soon follow, he is dead, he couldn't even see how he died

On the other hand the young man sitting cross leg all along with his eyes shut is starring dagger at the dead body before him with anger spilling of his eyes, he had taken the head of his subordinate with an energy slash moments ago out of anger

Soon few other subordinate rushed in, the had seen the energy ray cutting through the tent flying some distance, only dispersing when it cut a tree in half, they had quickly rushed in to see if he was under attack

Seeing the body of their fellow on the floor, his head a few distance from the body they didn't need a prophet to tell them what happened, they knew the temper of the young man before them, just that they got nothing they could do

He is a warrior mage, the son of the patriarch and a runner up for the sit of succession, giving a chance they would love to teach him a lesson but can they, do they even have the strength talk more of go against the entire family

they wouldnt be running in here to check on him too if it was their job, who could possibly sneak into their camp to harm him, that is a wide dream if it ever happened but sure enough they would be happy if that is to happen

"discard of his body and send someone to come clean this mess up, secondly assign someone else to the his place, make sure that person gather all the information about the new development in the mansion" he order his second in command as he close his eyes to cultivate once more

Everyone sprint to action, the tent was clean in a matter of minutes and the discarded as order, everyone is doing their best to avoid that tent as they could tell the young master is in a bad mood, they wouldn't want their body to be next to be discarded

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In another camp same news has just been delivered to two females, their reaction is rather funny when they heard the news, knowing the personality of Gary couple with him been the one with the highest pure bloodline they both had giving up on the succession position

They stop their in fight and became best of friend working together, now when they heard their is another with an even purer bloodline than Gary they couldn't contain their amusement "Cynthia what do you think he would do"

"honestly I don't know, I don't need remind you what he did to the other when he became too challenging, not to mention his purity of bloodline been chosen at such a time by the patriarch also speak volume of him been a possible genius"

"you are right but can any of us even win against him, he is the only one that could form a forth center of power, though he couldn't cultivate to technique after that and was force to drop it for another he had found a way to keep the forth center functional"

"you know how much i hate that guy, he just so happen to be my cousin and the strongest amongst us, anyway am glad Noah had recover" she changed the topic, it's best not dwell on something they can do nothing about

"me too, either way I would love to see how her been picked this time, if he is nice I might advice him to drop before any harm comes to him, but if he is anything like Noah I will sit beside and watch" Cynthia nodded her head in agreement as both of them returned to what they were doing

Unbeknownst to the young man sitting cross leg cultivating in the mansion peaceful the level of danger looming in the dark waiting to take his life with the slightest chance they got.