7 The Six Clan’s Status (2/2)

Accepting visitors was one thing, but bringing people that are bound against their will, is what made them feel that how far they are going to insult their founder, who didn't even treated them differently because of his cultivation background and trained them.

He didn't even ask for any form of compensation when they entered his land.

So the elder thought for a while and choose to do a compromise, which didn't conflict with their principles.

”…Bring slaves that can help the clan, if they contribute to the clan then we will reward them with their freedom, afterwards we will decide to find their families and welcome them as a subordinate family, having people work for our clan means they must be rewarded for their efforts, even if they are slaves.”

The elder remembered words from his father.

'If you do good things to others, then someday they will return the favor.'[3]

”Yes, elder!”

Felix bowed again with a sigh of relief, his family were originally commoners, so they were treated like outsiders, after being accepted to the Boars Clan and entering their ranks, he was more devoted to serve it after finding out they were different from other cultivator clans.

He was a six year old when they were accepted, he was now currently 26 this year, so was able to understand how the Boars treat outsiders.

”Be vigilant, how you approach is by your discretion so be careful, get as much capital as you need, and bring about 20 personnel with you, if we have received this, then other clans have received the same notice. Where is their current location and when is the due date of their departure?”

The elder was aware of how a traveling market does its deal, they announce their arrival by sending letters, then depending if a vacant spot was available to any clans, another letter will be sent including dates and areas.

Afterwards, they wait for other customers, and finally leave to another location after the time limit has passed it's due date..

They even provide special offers to clans, such as reserving specific slaves, branding a captured prisoner, even given priority over other customer's orders.

Even if a powerful cultivator were to object, offending a clan was not a small matter.

Nonetheless, the current circumstances of the Boars was grim, so they have to be incognito, to not alert other clans.

”…If I remember correctly, the location was in Red Lily Valley, it's unowned territory with no monster reside in it because of the famous flowers, the Red Lilies, have some natural pheromone that ward of beast I believe, it about a three day journey from our location.”

Felix looked at the sky, seeing the red sky he calculated the time needed.

”…The total time was 15 days, today is the tenth, so we have about one day for preparation, and it will two to three days if we are to use horses for departure, but if we immediately leave tomorrow afternoon we will there in the less time, we are on a deadline, so I will prepare right now. Goodnight, Elder!”

Felix bowed and said his goodbyes for tomorrow's preparations.

”Wait! Do not push yourself, physical condition are important but mentally taxing yourself is more difficult to heal, take you time and pick the necessities, after that rest properly, I will personally do the preparation, so you can go rest first Felix.”

The elder was sure, after all the reports came one after another with shocking news, including compiling and investigation, Felix was reaching his mental limit and might over exhaust himself.

”...Thank you very much elder, I'll keep it in mind.”

Felix once again bowed and left, towards a tunnel leading to his residence.

'Stay safe Felix, there are still many things you can still do, so we must go through this endeavor.' The Elder then turned his back, walking towards the temple.

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With all the Boar Clans preparation, there was another event taking place elsewhere.

At a forest in the territory of the Naga Clan, a child is seen climbing out of a hole, it appears as though he was placing something to the ground.

”Phew, I suppose that about does it.” Stigma is in a forest near Red Rock Valley.

After observing for a while, he realized that he had no idea on which direction Gus and Frank were going, so his only option was to get them to go to the direction he wanted.

So he started using Dusk to make a trap to immobilize them, he can only use some things on him, Dusk who obeys his command, his gaming knowledge on hunting, and wood which was everywhere.

His plan was simple, the enemies were already in an intoxicated state, so he just needs to make use of it to his full advantage.

If his enemies are dangerous when they are alert, then he just needs to attack them when they least expected, in the shroud of darkness.

After looking, the sky was getting dark, at the direction of the cave, light from a fire was still present, so they were still present.

Stigma had then double checked to be sure everything was set, after covering the last one he turned around.

”Now, all I have to do is wait.”

Stigma had already made his preparations for the encounter, all he has to do was make sure that no one else was coming to get involve.

'It's my first time doing this, I hope everything goes well.' Looking away for a moment. He took a deep breath, and ordered Dusk to bring the collected rock.

Afterwards he headed towards the cave where the light was still radiating.

[1] Butterfly effect – a phenomenon where one incident is connected to another incident, and another that will lead to a huge accident, similar to the domino effect

[2] nonobjective –emotionally based; based on inner experience rather than fact, such as religion or origin theories.

[3] an idiom that basically mean karma.