Chapter 271: When Is He Coming?! (1/2)

Lord Ice Moon POV

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”This is the third day since he received the letter.”

”If he doesn't come today, we had won and ridiculed him.”

”Really? If he just ignored us, then wouldn't he be winning here? I mean, what can we even do?”

”S-Shame him! Of course, that's what we can do.”

Ten Rank 3 Elders of my Sect, all of them with different families, abilities, appearances, and temperaments sat down around a large wooden table, I, as the Sect Master, was sitting in front of this table while watching this quartet of fools speak whatever they come out with.

The challenge for the tournament had arrived in Drake's hands almost three days ago, there was a time of three days before he was to accept, so I suppose if this is the third day and he hasn't come, then it can be assumed that he had no interest in the petty games of these Elders.

Now I am beginning to regret having allowed them to have their way with this… I believe this was just a stupid thing. I might have gotten too far with my own ideas. Or perhaps that dream with the dragon ended making them dumber. Nonetheless, I don't think this is even necessary, to begin with.

”Well, if he dares to ignore us, we cannot possibly let it slide, right?”

”Indeed, we should revoke his access to our dungeons, after all, he's getting too cocky with it.”

”Yeah! Does he think he owns it or something? Our sect arrived here hundreds of years ago, it is our property.”

”But he pays a lot for it, more than we actually make by ourselves in a week. He has actually helped our slowly falling economy… And the constant flow of magic items helps us extract them for useful materials. We had even been dismantling them to make personalized artifacts and weapons… I think he has been of great help.”

”What?! He's an egocentric and selfish man, the other day he didn't let me speak with him! And even kicked my butt!”

”Stop lying, he would never do such a thing, Lord Drake is a very polite man, he sells me his stuff and he has a charming smile… I think of him every day. Too bad he has a wife.”

”I disagree, he's a disgusting man that actually allows those lowly beasts and those small people to serve him as non-slaves, without using his authority as a superior giant over them… It feels like he's mocking us that we have our slaves…”

”All of you, that's enough. I am losing my temper already.” I sighed. I was about to end this and tell them to not do this tournament nor try to bully this man again. I believe it would be interesting to see his capabilities, but to go this far seems quite unfair to me.

Nonetheless, if I could get the chance to know him better and perhaps slowly assimilate his sect to mine, it would be for the best. But he seems mysterious and strong, we cannot play around with a man like this, even if I really wanted to see if I could suppress him and absorb everything he has. Deep down, there needs to be some decency before we touch rock bottom and we end up acting as a demonic sect. After all, we belong to the righteous sect's faction.