Chapter 414: An Awesome Strike (2/2)

”Guan Yan.” And he heard his name announced, it would be time for him to speak up.

His legs were melting as if, his head was buzzing for no reason. He was searching for that one familiar face in the hall, through every corner and stopped at last.

Mr. Zhu Feng was there, standing at the corner silently. He looked calm. No encouragement, no lecture, no slam and clap to wake him from his daydreaming. Somehow, Guan Yan had calmed down.

Shi Wuwei's face was grim as he watched Guan Yan presenting relaxingly. He was not in a good mood to be honest. Shi Mingbei next to him was looking at Ye Chong too. Their expressions were indescribable.

Technically, every representative of other families looked with an indescribable expression as well. They never expected such a heavy plot twist, such a comeback from a banishing family. Their stares enviously were projected at Guan Zhengyuan. And everybody knew who the real culprit of this mutation was, it was no one other than that indifferent young man at the corner.

Looking at Guan Yan, Ye Chong was feeling odd too. At first he presumed Guan Jin would be the talent who would discover a breakthrough the first. But fate was strange and capricious, eventually it turned out to be Guan Yan the silent and ordinary one who made the breakthrough.

The hall was silent, with Guan Yan's innocent voice resounded in the space. The audience was listening to him attentively, while being unaware of the horrible happening out there.

...(at the outside)...

Guan Jin was biting her finger as she proudly looked at the porch of Shi family, where large pile of bodies laid. The survivors of the family were looking frightful.

”What? Nobody wants a challenge?” asked Guan Jin innocently as she lifted her tiny chin, leading a row of young Guan apprentices.

10 points to Guan family.

0 to Shi.

It was a shocking figure. Guan Jin led 30 trained apprentices to hit on Shi family, as an mini examination for the trainees while being also a form of demonstration to the families outside.

Of all timings! Thought Shi family in fear. They were truly unlucky today. Shi Wuwei, the leader of the family had already brought the adepts to the House, while the other adepts had headed out for a mission a while ago.

No one would have expected being raided when the family was at the weakest.

The remaining members did not take the challengers seriously at first, since... well those were just a bunch of primary schoolers... with the leader being a 12-year-old girl.

They thought they could kick these children back to kindergarten while receiving compliments from the leader, but things just changed.

Nothing flashy, nothing fancy, the children were simply fast. And it was such insane speed that destroyed everything the Shi's knew about battles, as they started to realize how unnecessarily flashy their moves were. Combination of potions? That did not matter. The appropriate countermeasure for the little attacks? That never existed. The chance of fighting back? Wait, they could fight back?

The army of children felt like the chivalrous swordsmen whose strikes landed rapidly. The attack had been done before the foe even drew the sword.

”Teehee~ Good bye Shi family!”

Guan Jin led the army away in bright smile of victory.

On that day, two things happened. And every family held their flasks. The two incidents seemed unrelated at first, till they involved Guan family. The House meeting, the Shi massacre.

It was a sign, a sign of Guan's resurrection, resuscitation of hope.

Of course the family raised again as they stepped on the bodies of Shi's. The Shi family had weakened dramatically. It had been rumored that Shi Wuwei fainted after coughing a splash of blood upon returning home.

The raise of Guan family actually created a brief peace period in the ridge.

People were anticipating the next war, between Guan family and Shi family. IT would be a never-before-seen major war between two large families, and the outcome of this war would affect the balance of forces between the old and new generations in the ridge.

It was a brewing storm.