231 Larken City (1/2)

The group entered the area belonging to the Larken Clan in Imperial City; almost all of them called that area Larken City although it wasn't an official name.

It didn't look too different from the outside with the exception that everyone in Larken City had the Sword Bloodline or was married to someone who had it.

The outer area of Larken City was for the outer members of the clan; those who had very faint bloodlines and would probably stop being considered members of the Larken Clan in a few generations if they didn't manage to solve that problem.

Everyone in that area bowed deeply to Herken's group; the status in the clan of those geniuses and the members of the outer clan couldn't be compared.

In fact, even Herken had a better status than them because he was from a branch, a weak one, but still not expelled to the outer clan because their bloodlines were still better than those who were sent to the outer clan area. Moreover, after having that improvement in bloodline thanks to Yale, his branch was fated to improve.

People like Herken lived in the middle area of Larken City, which was also the biggest one in population. All of them were branch members and lacked someone with an elder position, so they were under the orders of an unrelated elder. However, a branch member could still succeed and become an elder someday, but the chances of someone of the outer clan doing it were almost inexistent; their only chance would be having the luck to obtain some awesome legacy.

”Do you know what your mother did? How do you plan to pay up for our loss?”

A tall guy was shouting to a kid who was kneeling in front of him.

”As expected of someone of the outer clan, they had no honor to kill themselves after such a big failure. Moreover, that woman was just someone who married into our Larken Clan, and her husband has already died. I don't know why we should let this kind of people live in our Larken Clan. This kid shouldn't be allowed to live in an area for noble people like us. I doubt that he should be allowed to live in Imperial City. No, this kind of trash shouldn't exist in the whole empire.”

Another guy commented beside the first one while looking to the kid like if he was looking a cockroach that had entered into his house.

”Sirs, it was only a hair in your soup, and it was too short for being from my mother. You are making a mistake here!”

Yale and the others heard that conversation and found it completely unreasonable to make that big of a fuss for just a hair in the soup that probably wasn't even from the kid's mother.

”Shut up! You are only someone who is pitied by the clan! Don't think that you are a true member of the Larken Clan like us!”

The man who was scolding the kid from the start kicked the kid on his faced sending him some meters backward.

”It is a lucky matter than you have turned ten the past week or we wouldn't have an easy way to punish you for dishonoring the clan. You are a criminal for defending your mother, who is an outsider who planned to poison ususing her dirty hairs!”

No one would be poisoned for eating a hair even if it was dirty; if someone wanted to poison the soup there was no need to put a hair, they could just add the poison to the soup directly.

”Let's start with your right arm. I hope you don't think that just a kick would vent my anger. Don't worry after cutting your two arms I will spare your legs. You are just not worthy of wielding a sword due to your corrupted personality, but fleeing is still something that an inferior being like you is allowed to do.”

That guy took out a sword and slashed it towards the kid on the ground, but the sword never reached that kid's body; it was intercepted in the way. That shocked him because no one in the outer area had dared to be that bold given his position in the clan.

”I doubt that the rules of the Larken Clan indicate that you can cut both arms to a kid because of a hair on the soup.”

Yale was the one who rushed to stop the attack.

”Those two are also traitors.”

Immediately, Yale sent a message with the Spiritual Sense to Herken, who wasn't surprised about that because those two belonged to one of the three factions they had already identified as traitors.