Chapter 900: Regretting Not Acting Before
“WHAT!?” A shout was let out by the many elders of the Dark Plains sect in unison.
All of them had heard of the request of the Zhan Kingdom and the Peony plains kingdom. It was a request for help as well as a warning that a disaster was coming. Of course, most powers were reluctant to help them.
To the powers, this was simply some enemy of the two kingdoms plotting against them. Even if the two kingdoms fell, the one to benefit would be the surrounding powers as they would slowly annex the remains.
As for whatever enemy that targeted the two kingdoms, they could care less about it. After all, according to them, no expert would want to go against tens of powers of the continent at once.
But today they had been proved wrong.
“How is that possible?” One of the high elders questioned.
“We have confirmed reports as well as proof verifying it now. There is no doubt… all they said is true.” The patriarch of the Dark Plains sect answered. “Show the recording!” he ordered the hooded man standing nearby.
“Yes patriarch!” The hooded man came forward and took out a fist sized orb.
The orb slowly floated up into the air before a white glow appeared from it.
~shua~
The white glow became brighter and expanded past the orb’s body. It turned into a vast curtain of light over five meters wide and three meters tall. For a minute it was blank, but then small flickering lights of many colored appeared on it.
These lights swam in the white curtain like carps before finally arranging into specific patterns. These patterns then turned into images that started to move.
The very first image that the elders saw was dark.
A massive creature towered over a desolate city. The buildings and houses in it had collapsed and flames could be seen burning everywhere. Blood was also splattered in many places, but surprisingly no corpses could be seen.
“Heavens! What is that thing?” The elders were stunned upon seeing the dark being on the curtain.
It had dark black scales of varying sizes that covered the entire length of its body that was visible over the ground. There were tens of tentacles that spread out from its body having different characteristics.
Some of the tentacles had spikes on them, some had teeth on them, while some were simply smooth.
They then saw one of the spiked tentacles move like a lightning bolt, striking before they could even realize. And when they saw it again, they realized that the tentacle had two corpses strung on it.
“Isn’t that Jun Lan of the Jun clan? He’s at the Dao shell realm.” Someone recognized one of the corpses.
“And now he’s dead… that too in one move.” Another person muttered.
The elders continued to watch the images in the curtain, but suddenly felt a hint of fear.
“Ah~ I see I got some spectators. Don’t worry, your turn will come soon.” The creature in on the curtain turned towards them and spoke.
Its words were clearly recorded in it, and considering how it had looked straight towards the hidden recording spirit tool, it was sure that it had intentionally done so.
~Shua~
And once the creature finished speaking its word, the images on the light curtain faded away, leaving it blank.
“That thing can speak?”
“Speak? It threatened us!”
The elders were in an uproar.
On one had they had a new fear in their hearts seeing how the creature had killed Dao Shell realm cultivator with ease and on the other hand they were infuriated with how the creature had taunted them.
The tone of the creature was vile to them and clearly held contempt for them, as if they were nothing but mere insects.
“Patriarch! We can’t just take this lying down. We have to dispense justice!” One of the hot-blooded elders shouted.
“Before you say that, perhaps you should know the rest of the story.” The Patriarch said with a hint of helplessness in his voice.
“What?” the hot-blooded elder asked.
“There’s more?” the others were curious.
“This is merely one of the locations it destroyed. There are several more. And from the reports we’ve gotten, it has already killed and consumed seven Dao Shell realm cultivators, forty one Nascent soul realm cultivators and who knows how many core condensation and Qi refining realm cultivators.” The patriarch explained.
Upon hearing this, the hot-blooded elder’s demeanor changed, and it was like he had run out of steam. He shrunk back into his seat and no longer looked as eager as he looked before.
In fact, he was now afraid that he might be the first one to be picked for an offense if they ever mounted one.
‘One Dao shell realm expert was fine… not seven and multiple nascent soul realm cultivators. Forget that, it has already eaten multiple settlement! No way I can go against that.’ After all, the hot-blooded elder was also at the Dao Shell realm too.
“What are we to do now, patriarch?” The elders were at a loss.
“What else? We have to do what we should have since the very start… provided the two kingdoms assistance while we gather more power.” The patriarch stated.
“I understand the sending help part, but how do we gather more people?” A more level-headed elder asked.
“We have to ask others that can help, of course.” The Patriarch replied.
Hearing this, the expression of a few elders became dark.
“Patriarch, you don’t mean to say we have to ask the dogs of the Chan set for help now?” A female elder said with a hint of anger on her face.
“They are our only choice. While we might be able to mobilize the help of surrounding kingdoms, the don’t have sufficient experts to handle this. Anyone weaker would only be a free meal for that calamity.” The Patriarch said in a sad tone.
One could tell from this that the relations between the Dark Plains sect and the Chan sect weren’t really good.
