Chapter 894: Holy Judgment Sect (1/2)
A couple of weeks later, Siral contacted Gravis again.
”I found a suitable target, Master,” Siral said.
”Tell me about the Sect,” Gravis answered.
”The Sect is called the Holy Judgment Sect, Master. They are a Sect of Weapon Cultivators that use the Brilliance Element for their support. Most of the Element-related Sects are affiliated with the Nine Elements Sect, and this is one of them.”
”What about the Sect's philosophy?” Gravis asked.
”They act kind and righteous, but in reality, their rules are draconian. They strictly control the movement and actions of their disciples, stopping them from ever betraying them. Apparently, when the Sect had implemented stricter rules in the past, a lot of disciples had left the Sect, weakening it immensely.”
”However, instead of lessening the restrictions of the rules, they doubled down. Anyone that enters the Holy Judgment Sect is bound by a Formation Array in their mind, which allows the Sect Elders and Sect Master to kill any disciple from a distance,” Siral explained.
”How did you find this Sect?” Gravis asked.
”I entered a couple of assassination strongholds of Underworld and checked the missions, Master. Some of the disciples that managed to escape this restriction by paying a ton of money to the Life Sect to destroy the Formation Arrays in their mind pooled their resources to request a hit on the upper echelon of the Holy Judgment Sect,” Siral explained.
Gravis' eyes gleamed. He needed some money right now.
”What's the reward?”
”100 million Immortal Stones for the Sect Master and ten million for every Elder. The Elders also act as Vice-Sect Masters, which means that there are five Vice-Sect Masters in total. All of them are in the Late Major Circulation Immortal King Realm. If you kill everyone, you can earn 150 million Immortal Stones, Master.”
Gravis nodded. ”Meet up with me, Siral.”
”Yes, Master,” Siral said.
Gravis directly went to the location of the Holy Judgment Sect and inspected their Sect. He wanted to see everything for himself.
With his Law of Perceived Reality, it wasn't difficult for Gravis to hide his Spirit Sense from everyone below the Immortal Emperor Realm.
When Gravis arrived, he saw a bright and friendly Sect. Everyone was talking politely and with a kind voice with everyone else.
However, Gravis was able to see through the façade of the weaker Cultivators. They were only putting up a front. In reality, they felt afraid and stifled.
Gravis also saw the bottles filled with small parts of Spirits, surrounded by a gigantic Formation Array.
Sure enough, everything that Siral said checked out.
After seeing everything he wanted, Gravis went to the Nine Elements Sect. However, he wasn't going there to visit it. No, he wanted to visit someone else.
”You said that your stronghold also acts as an assassination stronghold, right?” Gravis asked the bartender of Underworld.
”Yes. Would you like to request a hit?” the bartender asked.
”The opposite. I would like to accept a mission,” Gravis said.
The bartender was pleasantly surprised. ”No problem. Any missions you are interested in?”
”Killing the upper echelon of the Holy Judgment Sect,” Gravis answered.
The bartender inspected Gravis.
Gravis was just a Late Major Circulation Immortal King, and he was intending on taking on one Peak Immortal King and five Late Major Circulation Immortal Kings in the confines of their very home?
That would be very difficult to achieve.
However, the bartender didn't care. It was Gravis' decision.
”Alright,” the bartender answered. ”I put you down for the mission. You have 100 years to accomplish it. Please pay 10% of the mission reward as a contracting fee. If you are successful, you will get the contracting fee back.”
This was important since missions would be locked as soon as someone accepted one. Everyone in the world could accept the missions. They didn't need to be part of Underworld.
This restriction was put in place to stop the Sects from blocking their own missions. Like this, they would be required to pay a ton of money to Underworld every century. Missions like this were worth a lot of money, and a Sect would slowly succumb to such an insane expenditure.
”I will be done in less than a week,” Gravis answered evenly as he paid the ten million Immortal Stones. That was nearly all of his money, but not for long.
”Quite a boast,” the bartender answered. ”I hope you can back that up.”
”See you later,” Gravis said, directly ending the conversation.
The bartender looked with amusement at Gravis as he left. Obviously, all of this had been done via voice transmission. While Gravis and the bartender had been talking about the death of a High-Rank Sect, the bartender was happily serving customers.
Gravis went back to the Holy Judgment Sect. When he arrived, he saw that Siral was already waiting for him.
”Master,” Siral said with a bow.
”Late Major Circulation Immortal King,” Gravis said. ”Can you do it?”
”Yes, Master,” Siral answered.
”Will the assassination serve as tempering for you?” Gravis asked.
”Yes, Master,” Siral answered.
”Good,” Gravis said with a nod. ”Then wait near the southwest of the Holy Judgment Sect. I will lure an Elder out, and you can directly assassinate them. After you've finished the assassination, inform me. I will quickly return. You have to hide until then since the Sect Master will come very quickly.”
”Yes, Master,” Siral said. However, one could hear a slight trembling inside his voice.