Currently Theo and others were having an intense stare down competition with both sides refusing to back down.

Theo also knows that as soon as he shows any weakness, he will be facing the attacks of all seven of them.

Theo still has some hope in his heart and is frantically trying to recover his Elemental energy.

The seven people look at each other and as if they have made a decision, one of them condenses a thunder elemental ball in his hand and throws it in Theo’s direction.

Seeing the thunder attack nearing him, Theo sighs and knows that he cannot maintain his façade any longer.

Theo waves his hand and a large amount of talismans flow from his hand towards the seven Lords.

Seeing the large amount of talismans coming towards them the seven lord’s frantically retreat several kilometers away and put up all of their defenses in fear of another attack like that spatial slash.

“Boom”.

As Theo did not have, enough Elemental energy left the talisman only flew for a little while before they all exploded in air, producing a loud sound and a mushroom cloud.

Theo, wasting no time takes out another talisman and uses his soul energy to activate it, as the talisman takes effect Theo transforms into a small blinding light that charges toward Kiera quickly.

As the seven people see Theo turn into a small light and running away, they are all dumbfounded for a moment, ‘Aren’t you supposed to be super strong right now? ? ?’

Soon their embarrassment turned into anger as they recalled how they were afraid to even attack a little brat and that they had been played by someone who is much younger than they are and weaker … ahem, Forget about that last spatial strike it does not count.

While they all are busy regrouping, Theo reaches near Kiera, takes out another key like artifact from his storage ring, and throws it towards the eye of the sealing formation.

As soon as the key artifact makes contact with the sealing formation, a reaction like that of ice, that is suddenly exposed to fire happens, and the formation soon starts crumbling.

‘Kiera, prepare for the energy transfer arts’ Theo shouts as he gets nears Kiera, while watching the sealing formation crumbling down.

Kiera hearing that immediately sets aside a capsule looking thing that she has in her embrace, keeping it near her she makes out some hand signals and chants “Energy Convergence Art, Transfer”.

As Kiera finished, two green color chords formed on her back giving off an ethereal aura.

When Theo approached Kiera, as if the two chords have found their target, they rapidly extend and lodge onto Theo’s back.

When the chords formed a connection with Theo, magically they both started glowing blue.

If anyone observed carefully, he would see massive amounts of energy flowing through the two chords, transferring from Kiera to Theo.

Theo could also feel his Elemental energy recovering rapidly, but he shakes his head dejectedly.

Theo also knows that he could only buy them both a little bit more time, but they would both still be caught eventually.

He only hopes that the family’s reinforcement can arrive before that.

As Theo nearly recovers 30% of his Elemental powers, he hurriedly sets up a defensive formation to buy more time.

Theo takes out another two defensive artifacts from his storage ring to set up another two minor defensive formations.

As the seven Nihility realm experts approach Theo’s location, they see him set up three formations and are speechless.

They really want to ask him ‘you do know that we are only here to capture you,

And not kill you… right?’

However, when they thought of Theo’s background, they all understood what he is trying to do.

They all look at each other and one of them let out a low laugh while saying ‘He is trying to stall for some time hoping that someone from his family will come and rescue him.’

‘Alas, he does not know that someone from his family has already sold him, which is why we could always track him down easily’

While the seven are discussing about who will go over to break Theo’s fantasies about being saved.

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Old man Shi, who was contemplating his life choices, recovered a little and came over. Seeing Old man Shi coming over the other seven are a little embarrassed as they all had totally forgotten about him.

Old man Shi did not even stop to look at them and went on towards the barrier that Theo has set up.

“I will go over and have a little conversation with him you all don’t mind do you?

Old man Shi says through gritted teeth.

They all agree instantly. As they also know that having suffered a little by someone weaker greatly hurt his pride and now, he wants to see the despairing expression on Theo’s face as he gets to know that he has been set up, and by no one else but his own blood brother who wants to occupy his position.

In addition, Old man Shi has another little gift for Theo and his brother.

Theo also notices Old man Shi who has recovered and moving towards him all alone, Theo is puzzled by the fact that only Old man Shi is coming towards him and the other seven just stood there behind him, looking over towards Theo, as if waiting for a good show to happen.

Old man Shi also sees Theo’s puzzled expression and lets out a laugh and speeds up, coming in front of the barrier, he just stops and does not attack the barrier.

“Confused aren’t you? Why did we all stop attacking when we can easily catch you right now?” Old man Shi says, “Do you think we do not know that you are only stalling us and waiting for your family members to come and help you out” Behind the mask Old man Shi makes a twisted expression before continuing.

“Don’t you want to how we got your exact location every time you used the escaping orb? Why no one has appeared even though you have asked for reinforcement countless times?” The more old man Shi speaks the louder he gets as if gloating over Theo’s situation, he looks over, hoping to see a despairing or dejected expression on Theo’s face but is disappointed as Theo maintains a straight face all the while listening to him speak.

While Theo makes out an indifferent face on the surface, deep down he is feeling dejected knowing that someone from the family has betrayed him, although he was suspicious of it before and had thought of it multiple times he just did not want to believe it.

Nevertheless, how could he not know it after hearing what Old man Shi just said?

Seeing that Theo did not have the expression he was hoping to see Old man Shi could not help but be sad. He was hoping to some sad tragedy scene.

However, he stops taunting Theo, and proceeds to take out a communication orb from his spatial ring and starts to contact someone.

Soon a light screen is projected on top of the communication orb.

A young man that has black hair and face that has a striking resemblance to Theo’s face appears on the projected screen.

For the first time Theo’s expression changed drastically, he revealed a shocked expression upon seeing the person who was projected.

Old man Shi also nods seeing Theo’s expression,” yeah that’s the expression I was hoping to see,” he thinks.

How can Theo not recognize his third brother, Eric? He never expected one of his own blood brothers to betray him.

Eric’s face turned a little awkward upon seeing his big brother.

Eric also knows what he is doing is not right but the family head’s position is too lucrative and besides it is not as if he is killing his big brother.

“His big brother will just be imprisoned for 100 years or so, till then I will already be in the Upper house and brother can no longer do anything to me” Eric thinks.

“Is it all done?” Eric asks Old man Shi.

‘Yes it’s almost done, Have you gathered all the members of your family to witness him being imprisoned?’ Old man Shi asks back.

Hearing this Theo in the back is stunned,” Am I being treated as a circus material?”

“Yeah, there are more than half of the members present over here, as long as they see big brother being imprisoned. I’m sure they will follow all of my commands,” Eric said.

Due to the Upper and Lower house being too close to each other Eric made a camp thousand kilometers away from the house to host this gathering.

Therefore, no one from the Upper house will ever get to know anything about this matter.

Hearing this Old man Shi is secretly happy inside.

He turns towards Theo and asks “Don’t you resent your brother? without waiting for Theo to answer he continues.

“Well if you do resent him, you’ll surely like what is going to happen next,” Oldman Shi says and stops speaking and looks towards Eric, as if waiting for something to happen.

Eric also heard what Old man Shi said, as he was not trying to hide it from him.

Eric is confused, “What is going to happen? Eric asks to Old man Shi,

However, Old man Shi does not even bother to respond to him.

Suddenly the situation on Eric’s side turns erratic as the camp where he is in is bombarded by attacks and there is fire and smoke everywhere.

From the projected screen, one could see Eric and all the members present in that camp being surrounded from each side by thousands of people who are flying in the air.

Eric’s expression changes from the all the happiness he was feeling to the current despair, he could not believe he has been deceived.

Theo also notices the situation changing on Eric’s side from the projected screen.

He feels a conflict of interest “Should I be happy or sad?”

As he is thinking, Old man Shi cuts off the communication orb cutting off the scene that was being projected.

Theo also sees this and knows that he probably would not receive any help and his fate is already set in stone.

All eight Nihility Experts also start attacking the barrier after this.

After an hour, the energy of the formation barrier is nearly exhausted and it breaks down.

Theo also accepts his fate, not knowing what will happen to his child.

The eight people come closer and seal both Kiera and Theo.

As they seal Kiera, they all notice the capsule that Kiera was trying to protect even while being sealed.

Old man Shi approaches the capsule and puts his hand forward to picks it up.

As soon as Old man Shi’s hand touches the capsule, a pressure descends upon him and the other seven experts.

They are all stunned and think that maybe this is also an artifact that can attack.

They all back off hurriedly.

The space near the capsule distorts and from there an ethereal pendant appears, as soon as the pendant appears it begins to shine brightly and covers the whole capsule.

Two bright lights appear from the pendant, which shot towards Theo and Kiera, who were sealed.

The light hits both, Theo and Kiera but nothing happens and the light retracts back into the pendant and the pendant along with the capsule disappears from that place, as if it was never there in the first place.

They eight people who witnessed this scene are stunned to look at each to confirm that they are not hallucinating.

They all checked on Theo and Kiera and upon seeing that nothing is amiss, they all chose not to mention anything about the pendant.