9 Meeting of the Elders (1/2)

After Nanea left the Elder hall, the Head Elder called for a meeting between all the elders of the sect.

He asked his attendant to send a notice to all the elders to gather in the conference room in the elder hall, where all the meetings between the elders is conducted, and he also said to the attendant to relay that the meeting was obligatory, if the elder didn't come to the meeting then a severe punishment would be given to that particular elder..

After sending the attendant to notify the elders of the meeting, Head Elder went to the conference room and where he waited for the other elders to come.

Soon after other elders began entering the conference room. They all were surprised to see that head elder had been waiting for them to come and all elders thought of the same thing 'What reason could it be for the Head Elder to be the one to wait for us elders? Could it have something to do regarding the sect?' but soon after bowed to greet him.

”Greetings to the Elder Zheng!!!” [All the Elders] (T/L: The head elder's name is Zheng )

All the elders have been wearing different colored robes but all the robes had one thing in common, they all had a special kind of seal on their back similar to the seal present on the Head Elder's robe but they were still less domineering then his. And not only that, there was another seal on their chest, which symbolized the factions they belonged to.

The head elder began.

”I thank you all for attending this meeting, today I gathered you all here to talk about a rare genius, who could be our sects pride and the one to take our sect to the top of the world.

Today few hours ago, I accepted him in the sect. while he is only 14, not even reaching the mark to attend the outer sect, but is already at «Spirit Qi Core Formation Realm» on par with Inner Sect Disciples. If it isn't rare talent then what is it.” [Elder Zheng]

Hearing elder Zheng talk all the elders were shocked. They all had a sudden urge to meet this talented genius and if possible take him under their own tutelage as personal disciple. But it didn't dwell anymore on their mind on the next remark of elder Zheng.

”That young man's name is Astra Takeshi. Meeting a talented person like him, I could leave him to waste so I immediately took him under my tutelage. Tomorrow he'll be visiting the contribution hall to collect his inner sect disciple robe and his disciple token.

But that's not the main reason why I called you all here. He is too young to walk around the sect as everyone will try to pick up a fight with him and if not he might get full of himself and get in trouble other disciples. So, I called you all here to help me nurture him properly to be the pride of the sect. But that's the case when he's in the sect, if he is on missions to other cities then there might be a spill mud on the name of our sect, while Astra could lose his life, because of his arrogance.” [Elder Zheng]

All the elders were in deep thoughts after the Head elders remark about the young man. There had been many cases like the mentioned by elder Zheng, so it wasn't new to them but if it happened to their sect then their names would be sullied as the elders of the Heavenly Sword Sect couldn't even nurture a disciple properly and the worst case the sect would lose its value.

Then, an elder spoke up. He was an elder of martial arts faction.

”Then, if I may ask why did head elder Zheng decide to immediately accept him as the inner sect disciple. Wouldn't it have been better to let him go through the tests of selecting of outer sect disciples and making him stay in the outer sect to slowly but steadily building up his character?!” [Martial Arts Faction's Elder]