Not Afraid of Trouble

Amelia slashed from downward to meet a powerful sword slash looking to slice her body into two. They seperated and attacked again. Both people are very fast anď precise. The power of every strike is lethal and deadly.

The techniques they are both using against each other is exquisite and powerful. Everytime their weapons meet, the people watching hold their breaths. The fight is intense and informative. Afterall, it is a class for weapons combat.

A year ago, the Japanese Assassins couldn't wait anymore and attacked five major bases all at once killing tens of thousands of people. It is in a scale of a terrorist attack but they also tried going to Jiangkang base and failed miserably like their predecessors.

The hidden families finally came out to organize an attack to fight back the assassins and this time they had to bring their own foot soldiers because all the bases lost most of their fighting power in the attack.

Amelia was put in a group that consisted of the Yan family's young master who is not a fan of Amelia but for some reason was holding back.

A year ago

Amelia and the recruits were trying to use the armor while minimizing the amount of mental power they consume in the process. Amelia and Blake's emergency line rang and they both left the training grounds after instructing the recruits to return.

Amelia sat in a table filled with angry people. The place they are meeting in is no longer the Ye family. "We will travel tomorrow morning and hopefully get there faster." Yan young master declared.

"I have a question. Why the hell! Do you have a barrier around your base and never shared it with the rest of the class?" A burly man from S city looked at Amelia with blazing eyes and slapped the stable hard making it shake.

"Amelia, what he said makes sense. You could have at least sold it to us." Qin Feng said on the side. His tone suggests that he is disappointed with her selfish behavior.

"That barrier has been up for over a year. You all have spies inside and outside Jiangkang so you are all aware of it, you just didn't think it was worth it for you to lower your heads and make a deal. Now that you have been humiliated and exposed, you want to use me as a shield to protect yourselves from the guilt that is eating you up inside." Her tone unapologetic. She continued to rip them a new one.

"Besides, I didn't make that barrier. I found it when I was scavenging for resources. If I give it to you, there wont be any for me." She lied with a straight face.

"If you have a problem with that. I welcome any of you to try and take it from." She concluded with a smirk.

"I will like to challenge you." Another one from G city spoke and Amelia laughed.

"Didn't my kids steal all your ammunition a few years ago? How is your base still standing?" Amelia laughed at the man.

His face turned from green to red but Amelia continued laughing at him.

"So it was your people!" Someone standing near the man exclaimed.

"I never go looking for trouble but I am not afraid of trouble. Ask the Qin family over there, isn't that right Lulu?" She blinked at Qin Feng looking adorable.

The woman who hasn't said anything stood up and her hands caught fire. She seems mad enough to burst.

"Blake." Amelia didn't even look at the woman. Blake's back straitened and the eyes he used to look at Xiang became colder.

The queen looked at Amelia with distaste. "What else do you know except hiding behind a man? Face me for what you have done!" She shouted but she still managed to be graceful even as she raged on.

"For what I have done? Or who I have done?" Amelia smiled looking at the woman as her face turned pale and then red.

"What you have done! Do you know how many people had to work two days straight without rest just to produce half the food you stole?" She really is angered by Amelia. This is the face of a queen whose aches for her people.

"You have harmed tends of thousands of innocent people. So stand up and accept the punishment for your sin!"

*Chuckle.*

"You are way off base ma'am. Ask your husband and that old man what they did to deserve my special care. Like I said, I don't start trouble. But I always finish it. So watch yourselves...all of you." The warning is clear and if she can go up against the almighty Qin family, how much more them?

"Are we cool?" Amelia asked the deflated lady. Seeing her being stubborn she raised her voice but it is colder than before. There is no longer any playfulness in it. "ARE WE COOL?!" She asked again standing up.

She didn't realize her words are now laced with power. It made everyone except for the powerful cultivators tremble. The queen hurried to nod her head with her eyes not meeting Amelia's.

As soon as she did, the terrible pressure disappeared as if it was never there. "We're all friends here, lets not put each other on the spot alright?" Even though the voice is soft everyone nodded. Amelia smiled joyously and sat back down.

The three hiddn families watched as Amelia quieted the group of people who had been hell bent on holding her accountable a minute ago. She seems at ease with the situation as if she can handle anything thrown her way. Her charisma is unmistakable.

The plans went on and soon they are boarding Amelia's hovering trucks. A total of 23 trucks that can carry 22 people hovered in the air and then dropped to take the group to their destination.

"I thought cultivators can fly." Qing Xi asked Amelia.

"They can, but they need to be at a certain level or have a skill that allows them to float. It will take too much energy to do so."

"Can you fly?" Qing Xi asked in a low voice but everyone can hear.

"I can." Amelia answered unconcerned.

"I see. What are you doing?" He asked in surprise as she pasted a yellow paper on each vehicle. And then the paper bursts into yellow flames and disappeared.

"There is a cloaking mechanism in each vehicle but It is low level and can not mask the auras of the people inside or mute the sound of a moving vehicle so I improvised with magic." Amelia gave him a talisman to study.

Qing Xi took the talisman and studied it closely. "What is that language you recite every time you paste one on the car?" He asked intrigued.

"It the language of the elves. They were always the sharpest when it came to runes and inscriptions." She continued socializing while working. Soon enough, all the cars didn't make any sound or leaked people's breaths from inside.

"So how to make sure they don't knock on each other in the air?" Qin Xiang asked Amelia.

"They can sense each other, all hovering systems do." Blake answered for her because she is busy checking the talismans and making sure they won't stop working halfway through the journey.

"Thank you for the transportation Miss Amelia. Can I drive one of them?" Even a cultivator from the hidden territory couldn't hold back. These trucks may have laege spaces but they look so cool with a deep black color that gives of a menacing feeling.

"No can do soldier, but I can sell you a hovering sport car. This one is mine but I can get you one at a reasonabke price of course." Amelia answered with a smile and tok out her hovering sport car that is a beautiful model. It has sharp looking edges that make it seem like a ans alien spaceship.

All the people looked at her car with longing and awe. They want to drive it. Even the women were not unaffected.

While everyone is mesmerized by the beauty of the sport car, she took it back. "Focus people. We're on the move."

They got inside the trucks and the drivers who came with the cars drove away. The journey was not so daunting as she was expecting.

When the car is up in the sky, the land is on full display. The increase in virgin forestry is astonishing when one looks from a high position.

The assassins didn't know what hit them as they were busy putting the explosives they were planning on using on the Xia soil.

Amelia and the rest decided to use these explosives to get rid of their enemies just like they were planning on doing to them.

She and a few others teleported the explosives all over the eight mountains. They made sure to put it deep with in the living space of the assassins and then at the same time dedinated the explosives.

Boom Boom Boom...

The entire terrain became a gaping hole. Anyone who crawled out of the hole got killed. When there were no more life signals a few days later, they went back home.

Amelia had a worry about not seeing Shane's dead corpse. She had a bad feeling about that guy not being completely dead. If that happenshe will come back and with the empire coming this way in less than a dacade, Shane will be like a fish in water.

No one wanted to stay in this place any longer so they all left but Amelia discreetly left monitoring equipment and informed her intelligence department to keep a close eye.

When the party came back, they separated on somewhat good terms. Most leaders had to go back and take care of the aftermath of the attack.

A few days later, Amelia had an alert sent to her smart bracelet. Shane survived the bombing. He crawled out of the whole with both his legs missing but Shane is an S level power, this will not make him concede.

"So, what now?" Blake had asked Amelia upon their return.

"First tell me what wrong with you?" Amelia challenged. She looked into his gorgeous brown eyes questioningly.

"What do you mean?" Blake faint ignorance.

"You were off the entirety of that trip. Something on your mind?"

"I want to became yours, and for you to become only mine. Why do you keep ignoring this?" The brown eyes narrowed slightly.

"Where did that come from?" Amelia asked surprised.

"I am tired of giving you time to think about it. It's been a year. Do you like me or not? Because I am falling deeply. If you are not interested in me let me know now."

Amelia swallowed hard. "I can't be in any kind of relationship Blake. I'm sorry, it means opening up and being vulnerable with another human being...it's too much." She answered back.

"Are you attracted to me?" Blake asked after hearing her. He thinks if she lkes him, the ret should fall in line but he is over looking Amelia's inability to move past her history with men.

"Yes."

Not even a moment to think about it. This answer is to his liking. Blake walked closer, he lowered his face to look at her. "Do you want me?" He asked her still looking into her eyes as if he'll know if she lies.

"I do." She admitted. He took a deep breath, his eyes no longer on her eyes but on her full sumptuous lips. His breathing quickened, he goes in 90%, all she has to do is move in 10% and they can just not think about anything else but the taste of the one they want.

Amelia fights all her impulses and steps back. She has never had a problem with controlling her lust. But she has also not been so close to a man before. The smell on him makes her close her eyes and savor it. She wonders if his neck would smell as intoxicating.

"Amelia..." He called her name softly. So close yet he felt like she is not close enough.

"Blake..." She called his name still trying to breath him in.

"I will wait until you are so frustrated by need that you will wish for me to bend you over this kitchen counter and fulfill your every desire. I will be patient but in the mean time...you are already mine Amelia...no one is allowed to touch even a single hair on your head." He said into her ears making Amelia's breath hitched.

She finally understood what this is about. In the waiting area when they were killing off the survivors, Qin Feng had followed her into a tent and had her conered trying to ravage her but before she could say anything he way thrown out with one hand by Blake who then left the tent without looking at her.

"I wouldn't touch a married man." She defended.

"Now I know." He said calmly. "But you and him.."

"Slept together twice. It was my idea...he was poisoned...I agreed to cure him as long as he will become my husband. He had to go but I didn't call him."

"Why."

"I changed my mind about having a husband." Amelia explained. She had actually wanted to know if she and Lu Feng had any destiny. As a cultivator she can wait for however long it takes to test her own path with a partner. She jumped into a relationship once out of desperation for companionship, she will not repeat the same mistake.

"You haven't answered my question. What now?" He asked her again.

"I will bring the kids this side." Amelia had already told Blake about opening a school for cultivators. They have been going through the initial cleansing.

Amelia hired a group of men and women to work in the school. They were promised an opportunity in the future to learn something from the school for free if they do a good job.

These servants are already up in the years so Amelia will not have them as disciples of the school but they will be allowed privileges to learn a few things after earning a certain amount of points.

The post said it is a cultivation school. They can learn one thing between cultivation, alchemy, formation, talisman, and artisan. Many people joined to learn cultivation in the future.

They are servants of the school who will be assigned to take care of the needs of a few students. From cleaning their rooms to preparing their meals and helping them carry things.

The students do not have to have servants but they are not allowed to hurt the servants. If they do, they will be punished or have their points deducted.

....

In the present

Amelia had made the students attend compulsory subjects and then have an option to choose one elective. There is a place where students can go to self study the books there but they are not allowed to bring in recording devices or take the books outside.

Amelia scanned and printed the books in the Xia language and English and then placed the books in separate venues for the students to study. Of course the futuristic robot machines did all the work while Amelia checked the results and she was very impressed with it.

The school is essentially running itself. For instance, Linruo wakes up and joins the morning practice with the regular soldiers and then after showering goes to self study the basic knowledge about cultivation.

The venue is larger and has the compulsory section that will be tested in three months so every student is trying to learn this information. The information covers all the knowledge a beginner cultivator must know.

From theory on spiritual energy, acupunpoints, meridians, cultivation stages and so on.

Linruo's next class is about techniques. A student is suposed to choose an attack and movement techniques and reach the forth level in each technique with in three months.

Each venue has basic knowledge and then everything else. They are all very large venues its hard ro believe each one caters for only one part of cultivation.

Then Linruo will go to read up on the creation of artifacts. She is expected to be able to identify material in the next test. A robot will test each student, submit their answers and also grade them accordingly.

The school allows students to buy resources using points. When a student enters the school, they have to continue with the cleansing process and the physical combat training which they take with an inhibitor on to protect the teachers.

They can earn points by completing missions on the school website. They can then use the points to buy resources such as spirit stone, pills, artifacts and more.

This sort of school may be impossible for other type of kids but these students all received mental fruits at the beginning of their school year so their minds are very powerful and mature. They can comprehend content better than some geniuses in the mortal world.

Amelia then enlisted the second batch of students one that is below 20 years of age after the first batch has had enough time to adjust. Again, she didn't care if they have spirit root or not. She has a lot of spirit root fruits.

The new students are level 0 in the student ID and database until they pass the next exam and move on to level 1.

If they are feeling up to it they can challenge the next test and become level 2. The tests are already available in the system just waiting for them to apply.

Three years later, the initial students have become professionals and are earning points by teaching in the school or taking more dangerous missions to buy more powerful cultivation pills. Because of the constant cleansing practice, they all reached foundation establishment realm in three years.

It is ironic that Linruo took three months to reach the same level. After foundation establishment realm each student can learn any technique from the venue and their progress is only tested in the axams.

Cultivation techniques are separated according to the spirit root of each person so no one will learn an unrelated manual. Currently the school has 28 000 students only 8 000 have reached establishment realm.

But these do not discourage Amelia because many of these students are now alchemists and talisman masters, these will help them in the future where technology has taken over.

There are still separate parts of the school but the soldiers who have passed the test of piloting a mecha to an expert level are allowed to enroll in the cultivation school.

Amelia allowed them so that they will have more arrows in their arson. The years then became easy as Jiangkang base maintains its current size and scope of influence.

Many had anticipated that Amelia would demand other bases submit to her because she is more powerful than them but Amelia was never seen again after the expedition.

The Jiangkang base's numerous city lords have been carrying out recruitment missions from other bases to replenish the quantities that have gone to become cultivators.

The most baffling thing is that they are not recruiting the strong people, they come in and recruit anyone who has a wish to become strong.

They especially like the weak women and useless children on the streets. These people go and never come back so someone wondered if they are being eaten in the Jiangkang base.

The suspicion went on un answered until the people being recruited asked the man who had come to recruit them. The man didn't want to respond at first but then there was a big commotion in the G base.

The man just asked for anyone they knew who had been recruited. When a young girl's name was given the man called a trainer in the base school and a few minutes later the face of the girl came through the screen.

They couldn't believe it was the person who used to be so frail she would be blown by the wind outside. The girl in the screen is healthy and lifting heavey weights like a body builder.

She smiled and greeted them through the screen. When they asked her questions to confirm her identity she calmly answered them one by one.

It was unbelievable but the words of the Jiangkang base when recruiting are actually true! They are looking to make people strong and powerful so they can turn them into soldiers.

Everyone wanted to come to this base but the recruiting team was suspended for an entire year after that. Jiangkang base didn't want to take people away from other bases and create conflict.

The recruiting was then done only for the truly suffering people in all the bases. Just like this, the army under Amelia in the Island increased while the people living under each city lord and the inner base increased steadily but not in an unsustainable way.

The Jiangkang base did not increase in size because the graduates are taken to train in the Island and there is no need for increase in structures.

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