482 The Arrival of Tan Sitong, The Vice Leader of the Auraboros China Branch (1/2)

Day 125 - 7:47 PM - Daraitan Elementary School, Barangay Daraitan, Tanay, Rizal

The sky was already dark when every member of Auraboros was alarmed by the cracking of space.

They immediately gathered as it was the signal that their leader would arrive. Before the portal could widely open, everyone had already gathered to welcome the arrival of their leader.

Once the unstable portal widely opened, several figures came out of it.

Leading the group of eleven people was a man that seemed to be in his early thirties. He wore a long dark blue colored Chinese robe with golden embroideries and a mark of a golden dragon at the center of his torso. On his head, there was a black hat that had the shape of a boat. From how his clothes looked, it seemed that it had a style of a civil officer in the Qing Dynasty.

The man's face was pale as a corpse. However, for a very contradicting manner, his body exuded a thick aura of vitality.

Still, the stitches that were present on his neck and the line on it indicated that this person should not be a living one.

Behind him were ten people who moved in pairs. They had the same kind of attire, but less gallant and a talisman that hung from their hats covered their faces. They did not walk either but jumped behind the man as they followed.

As the man stepped out of the portal, Chaaya humbly spoke.

”We welcome the arrival of Leader Tan Sitong.”

Everyone prostrated.

Sure enough, everyone here respected the man, and it was not from fear. The man also seemed to not look down on anyone even though they prostrated in front of him.

Nevertheless, even though he seemed to value his subordinates, the darkness in his eyes could tell that he would not hesitate to abandon them when needed. A kind but sinister person, that was how everyone here knew this person was. If he saw that a person was of value, he would not hesitate to cherish them. Lose that value, and they would not be worthy of his glance.

Tan Sitong was a different person when he was still alive. However, as his death and resurrection tainted his body, the previous him was no longer present.

After all, ”he failed to kill the robbers because of his lack of strength. And died because of it.”

As the group stepped out of the portal, Tan Sitong looked back as the portal immediately closed.

”This portal is very inconvenient. It took two weeks to set up and needed a lot of virgin sacrifices. Yet, it only opened for several seconds.”

Tan Sitong said with a tint of annoyance in his voice. He then turned to his subordinates and spoke once more.

”All of you stand up. Chaaya, Long Yue, I need more information about our goals here.”

”Thank you, Leader Tan Sitong. Please follow us.”

Chaaya said as she led the leader back to the place they prepared for him.

But of course, in the eyes of their leader, this was rather bland. Chaaya knew that, and such, she immediately said.

”I apologize if it was not to your taste. It is rather hard to gather better things as we can find nothing much here but mountains.”

Tan Sitong took the center seat in the room without saying anything. The people behind immediately scattered, standing in different directions of the room with their backs on the walls.

Chaaya felt relieved seeing that. And thus, they reported everything that their leader needed to know.

After half an hour, Tan Sitong closed his eyes in contemplation.

”I see...” He said. ”There is an unknown factor in that place. It is possible that whatever it is, we will have to face it. To be able to go in and out of Féth Fíada, it seemed to be a strong one.”

”Leader, do we have to prepare about it?”

Chaaya asked.

”Definitely. Being prepared is far better than not.”

Tan Sitong nodded.

”But leader, what are we going to do? We can't transport new weaponry of call for reinforcements now, can we?”

It was Huo Long Yue that asked this time.

”There was no need.”

Tan Sitong shook his head.

Then, he waved his right hand towards the two, making a hundred yellow paper talismans flew out of his sleeve that landed in a stack in front of them.

”Capture some soulless ones. I will lend you these aides for this mission.”

Tan Sitong said making six of the people that came with him, jump forward.

”Put the talisman on the head of the soulless ones, and they will activate it. We configured those talismans to control the soulless ones for a day before burning out. Gather the strongest that you can, but do not use those talismans immediately. Prepare for another day, and we will start at night of the next day after.”

”Yes, Leader. We will accomplish this immediately.”

Chaaya and Huo Long Yue replied together.

”Then, all of you are dismissed.”

Tan Sitong said, which made the two go out with the six aides lent to them.

”Are you done eavesdropping?”

Tan Sitong said.

Then, a person entered through the window of the room.

”To think that the vice leader of the Chinese Branch personally led this. That Shadow Woman and that insane cultivator were too tight-lipped to tell.”

The fox lady said as she leaned on the window.

”You sure had the guts to stand like that in front of me.”

Tan Sitong was offended by the conduct of the fox.