POV: Abraham (sect-master of Ancient blade sect)
"What was that about old man? Even if she is the cursed child, dumping her onto a brat who is barely older than her just to clear of the promise is too much." Quinn, the sect master of the Martial sect complained.
"Exactly, by doing what you did, you are dragging yours as well as your sect's reputation in the mud." The sect master of the valley of fallen blossoms, Fiona reinforced his statement.
Since we were no longer in the public, their masks came out. Hearing their pitiful complaints after they failed to drag my sect's reputation down the mud made me want to punch these two's face until it caved in. But as they were the disciples of my late friends, I endured it in..
"A brat you say? You two are even lucky to live till now after openly showing hostility towards that master."
"Master? who? That brat? That brat only showed the strength of an average earth realm practitioner.
And you call that kid a master? There should be a limit to bullshitting." Quinn said with a clenched jaw as veins started to stick out of his forehead.
This is the reason why you shouldn't put someone with only power and no experience or wit to follow, into the sect master's position. I don't even know why the elders put these two youngsters into the sect master's position when there were more suitable candidates even if they had less combat power than these two. Maybe to control the power of the sect master from the shadows?
Looking at their face I can certainly say that these two are not happy that I got the Child of fortune. At least try to hide it.
Haaa..For god's sake, the kingdom is on the verge of defeat and here, there are two idiots thinking ways to drag down one of the major sects of the Opheus kingdom. if the kingdom falls the first thing the Falcon empire and the kingdom of Caelum would do is wipe out all the sects associated with the kingdom of Opheus, and as the major sects in the kingdom of Opheus, we will wiped out even before the remnant of the nobilities are exterminated. But..
"Yes, a master. Listen here you little imbeciles, if what I saw is not wrong, that kid whom you are trash talking now is a master of Lord realm." I said each word loud enough to enter their ears.
An unidentified Lord realm practitioner apart from the ones from the kingdom of Caelum and Falcon empire appeared in the territory of the kingdom of Opheus. There is nothing more to think about it, it is most likely the Lord realm expert that the kingdom announced a few days ago. To think that it's not a false rumor made up by the royalty to stabilize the kingdom. God must not want Opheus to fall now.
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"Pardon me sect master Abraham, but how did you come to that assumption?" Fiona asked with a worried face.
"The crystal."
"Crystal?"
"Yes, the crystal on his forehead. It was glowing." I said in an awed voice.
Three years ago, during the war between the three powers of the continent, I have seen the Lord realm practitioners of the empire and the kingdom. It took them less than ten seconds to kill off the previous sect masters of the Martial sect and the Valley of fallen blossoms along with thousands of earth realm soldiers. They were in leagues of their own. One thing that I noticed during that time were the crystals on their forehead, it had a colour to it like the one on the kid.
I don't know why, but after going through a murder spree, they retreated, never to be seen on the battlefield again. But that one time was enough, enough to carve the terror of a Lord realm master into the mind of the soldiers of kingdom of Opheus.
"Impossible! That kid? A Lord realm practitioner?"
"Hmm.. I have heard rumors that once you enter the Lord realm, you can change your body's size and shape to your desired level temporarily." Fiona said something sensible.
"What!.. Even you Fiona?" Quinn said with a concerned face.
"Quinn, you can trust sect master Abraham on this. He won't lie about something of this magnitude."
"Bu- But..Haa... okay, I will believe in you."
This! Did Quinn readily believe what Fiona said? This level of trust. Hoho, am I smelling something? Like maybe a 'romance'? Well, it can't be helped since they are at that age and I have heard that these two were childhood friends.
"Anyway, don't try creating trouble for the senior, if I'm not wrong he must be the Lord realm master that the kingdom announced a few days ago."
"Come to think of it, since the Lord realm master is willing to take in the child of misfortune then doesn't it mean that she too is talented like her sister?" Quinn said with a sudden realization.
"Arghh... I should have taken in her, what a blunder." Fiona muttered under her breath upon coming to the same realization.
Oh, boy! these two have wonderful delusions. They are forgetting the fact that the ability of the child of misfortune is strong enough to affect Heaven realm experts, which includes them too.
"So old man, do you know the identity of that Lord realm master? Last I know, there were no peak heaven realm experts apart from you and our late teachers." Quinn asked.
I wonder, as far as I knew, there was no earthshaking talent in our kingdom for the last thirty years or so. The most likely option would be an expert from another continent.
"It doesn't matter what his identity is. For now what the kingdom urgently needs is a master of Lord realm."
It would be for the best if the Lord realm master is not from this kingdom, else after the war there would be a large internal conflict waiting for the kingdom.
"Anyway, I will be leaving this village tomorrow early morning itself, I can't risk getting in to any accident with the child of fortune with me."
With that I left the room, leaving those two to their own devices. Since I managed to secure the child of fortune, I will turn a blind eye to their little forbidden love for this one time. Still I wonder why the Lord realm master didn't forcefully take both the twins?