88 Moving On! (1/2)
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”Woah! That's awesome dude!” Paul exclaimed excitedly, ”You have more options that any of us here.”
”That might be true but…” Raven frowned and continued, ”Having more isn't necessarily a good thing. All of them are good so it's kind of hard to choose only one you know?”
”I don't get it Avi...” Ellen said while frowning, ”I mean, what's the basis of affinity even? Is it bloodline? Spiritual Entity? Or Luck?”
”Cause if were talking about bloodline here, then there should be a Fire affinity. Like mine, I came from the Vermillion Sky Clan and our specialty is fire. If were talking about Spiritual Entity, then I don't have much idea about yours. So what's the deal here?”
Ellen's question raised point for everyone. Raven placed a serious expression and explained: ”It's a mixture of everything except luck, Ellen.”
”Look at you, the reason why your Fire Affinity is high is because of your bloodline which is the Vermillion Sky Clan and your Spiritual Entity, which is the Vermillion Bird.”
”Paul had Metal and Water. Metal from the Eternal Defence Clan, and Water from the Black Tortoise.”
”Mark had high lightning because of both his clan, the Marching Warlords, and his spiritual entity which is the Primordial Lightning Serpent.”
”Anne had triple affinity. Wind and Metal from the spiritual entity which is Annarosa's Bow. The water comes from the Western Star Clan.”
”As for Luna, the Lightshield Clan as well as the Archangel Jubileus makes her affinity towards the Light element extremely high.”
”But you do remember what happened after we left the clan right?” Raven's simple question greatly startled Ellen. Suddenly, memories of their childhood flashed before her eyes, it didn't take long before she realized what he was referring to, and just to make sure she had the right guess…
”You don't mean…” Ellen wanted to express her words freely but she can't, this topic had been a bad memory for the both of them and it's also one of the main reasons why she hated those people.
”What? What happened?” Paul's eyes narrowed, based from Ellen's reaction, he could guess that it wasn't a great thing. It wasn't only him who noticed this, the rest also felt the heaviness of the atmosphere.
”It's no big deal really.” Raven waved his hands casually to disperse the heavy atmosphere, but he knew of all people here that such thing wasn't possible.
”When mom, dad, and I left the Burning Heaven Clan. They purged us from the list of descendants.”
”THEY DID WHAT??”
Their exclaims echoed inside the room. Raven flinched a bit due to their loudness but once again waved his hand and said: ”Like I said, It's no big deal. It only annoyed us for a bit, nothing more.”
”It IS a big deal bro!” Paul slammed his fist on the table. ”It's not like they merely erased your name on the list! They Purged it!”
”That right!” Mark's eyes flashed with incredible coldness, ”Purging someone off the list of descendants is worst than being neglected or disowned by the clan. Once your name is purged, you will lose all of the benefits of being a part of that clan. You will have no rights towards their inheritance, their resources and the very blood that run through your veins.”
”Now that you mention it, everything makes sense now. The reason why your a Red-grade Talent, the reason why Sir Luis is greatly hindered by his cultivation. All of this was because of that. The purge dissolved the potential on your blood, lowering your talents similar to that of a commoner. That is just too cruel.” Anne explained in a low voice.
”You do know that Royal Palace strictly prohibited this process right? Why didn't you say anything?” Luna asked exasperatingly.
”Calm down you guys…” Raven chuckled, ”Let me explain.”
The team sat down and listened closely to him.
”It's true that what they did was cruel. I struggled with it too you know. But we made an exclusive decision that we are drawing a clear line away from the clan. We returned everything that we could and those things we can't, we reimbursed using money. It was after we left that they did the Purge, and if we really want them to take responsibility then dad would've done something about it already.”