Chapter 1: Escape
Deep within the Neverending mountain range, sat a lone mountain on whose top stood a small wooden cabin.
A young servant was madly rushing through the forest in a bid to get to the cabin in the quickest time possible. The terrain was perilous but seemed as if he was running on flat ground. Even as he ascended the mountain it seemed as if he was flying and he was not short of breath.
In the room there only two people both men, he quickly addressed the younger male.
“Young master, hurry and get up we need to go”
The room wasn’t anything special, it only had a small wooden table and a bed in the corner. On the bed lay the young master in question who was a young boy about 15 – 16 years old. He had normal facial features and woundnt particularly stand out. He had a dark brown skin tone, with long braided hair making him seem more primal and wild.
However the current state of his body would make anyone ghast. He littered with bloody holes across his body. He had weird belly concoction smeared across the bloody holes causing his flesh and blood to wiggle almost as if there where stitching back up.
From his appearance the young man looked extremely pale and weak as if a gentle breeze would instantly shatter him. This young man was the young master of the Devine Star family. There are one of the 4 major clans on the Titan Reach continent. They have enjoyed an ironclad rule for thousands of years and bought prosperity to continent and the people. They where much loved for their kindness and forward thinking, much to the dismay of the other clans.
This all changed not until a couple of months ago when the branch family had successfully instigated a plot to rid of the main family line. The plan was already a success when they killed off the leader of the family, the Clan Master with the help of the other heads of the top 4 clans.
And through a successive plan the experts of the main family were also hunted down. The young master was lucky to escape death by the hands of the branch but after a couple months of running, trouble had caught up.
The young master had yet to cultivate but the protector by his side was only second to his father the clan master.
“Hahahaha, today we will finally see you main family members going down”, a tall lean man by the name of Lucious Star called out. Lucious was an expert with an extremely strong cultivation. He had a tall stature and was had a lean built with a few handsome features. He had fair light brown skin tone and could easily reach over 210cm.
The branch had just charged up the mountain to the wooden cabin were the young master was hiding. But as soon those words left Lucious’s mouth suddenly a thunderous voice bellowed from the cabin, “Hphm if you have the guts come up”.
As soon as the voice faded away the world outside the cabin seemed to grow darker and darker until the blue sky was enveloped and the night sky once again reigned.
From the cabin came out a man completely dressed in black and due to the changing environment, he seemed to blend in.
“Giles the branch have been looking to recruit you for a long time now, I hope you will accept and enjoy the benefits”, a somewhat fearful Lucious called out to Giles. The man who was dressed in completely black robes was Giles, the Spiritual Protector of the young master.
“[Eternal Night – Meteor Shower]”
Suddenly without even listening to Lucious, Giles unleashed his technique. From the night sky could be seen a meteor shower that starter to descend upon the land, with the descent of the meteor shower came an unprecedented pressure that crashed upon Lucious and his men. In the blink of an eye, the sky was covered by hundreds of meteors, descending on the mountain. Each meteor was over 20 meters in diameter and wound render an area of a couple thousand metres to dust.
“Men, Retreat!!!” Lucious was already a Thousand metres away with only one step. The next couple of steps he was well outside the attack radius. Sone of the men where too late to respond and where simply crushed to death by the onslaught of meteors.
"So that's the Eternal Night Art, I have heard of its resounding might, able to bring an endless night of carnage upon its activation". Even as he he said this, multiple halos began to shroud Lucious. He began fly into the air, his short hair rustling about.
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"Hahahaha my cultivation may not compare but the leader gave me this treasure to deal with you", Lucious began laughing maniacally. Giles also put on a serious face as he spotted the halos as he had an idea of what there where.
Without any hesitation he took out a fist sized blue crystal and excuted two techniques.
He threw the crystal in front of him where it hovered and he began moving his hands in signs of mantra.
"[Eternal Night - Hide the Sun, Bring forth the moon]"
Suddenly from the pitch black surroundings, a lunar object appeared in the sky, shining its light and essence on Giles and the cabin. when that light encapsulated them, it seemed as if there where cut off from the world.
He once again moved his hands to excute another technique .
"[Eternal Night - Moon Splitting the world]"
It was then the crystal shattered into blue flakes that hovered around the cabin and Giles before giving of a deep blue light. It then combined with the silver white moonlight to create a surreal effect and within moments faded away to reveal nothing on the mountain top.
Lucious stood there in the air with no words to say, he had been unable to do anything as Giles had simply been too quick. It only took him 3 seconds to use 2 techniques of such high level. He hadn't even been able to use the the Glorious battle Halos. It was a treasure that allowed its host the ability to battle those stronger than oneself.
Truly angered he began barking orders to the man below, " search the area of a thousand miles find them", he then turned into a beam of light shooting off into the distance.
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In a forest within Fallen Gods Continent, it was currently night time. The moonlight and star light shone down on the forest illuminating the vibrant nature.
It was at this moment that distortion in the air in a random part of the forest began to occur. The moonlight began to gather at the site of distortion, turning into an expanding silver white whirlpool. When it was over 20 meters in diameter it faded to reveal a man and a wooden cabin.
Giles swept the surrounding with eyes,once he made sure everything was okay he went back into the cabin.
The young servant quickly went to support him as he looked unsteady. "Senior are you alright", he asked quite concerned. Giles had tanned white skin tone but from the redness of cheeks one could see he was exhausted. He sat down by the desk to catch his breath. He looked to be a middle aged man in his fifties. His hair was short and his features ordinary.
"I had to use all of my Essence energy as well as a top grade essence stone to pull off that long distance teleportation. Truth is I knew that our enemies where close so I had been preparing the technique for some time hence the quick deployment", Giles lamented as he sat by the desk.
"We are no longer on Titan Reach are we??", suddenly the young man spoke. Although his voice was bit shaky it was still firm.
"No young master, I succeeded in getting us to a location that should give us time prepare our next move", Giles replied
"Very well let me recover first then we will proceed with further plans", the young master then proceeded to close his eye and wonder into the land of dreams
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Back on Titan Reach
The Divene Star Family and just experience a whole new restructuring. The Main family was gone and all that was left behind was the branch family.
Within the clan headquarters, at the clan masters office, Lucious looked at the man seated in front of him with fear and respect. Just like Lucious he had light brown skin tone, quite tall and lean and looked to be in his thirties. However the truth of the matter was that he was older than that.
"Hmph, so they escaped huh. Oh well it doesnt matter, even tho the 《Dive Star Chronicle》 would have been ideal to have, my《Nine Evils and Five Terrors》doesn't lose out, replayed the new clan master O'Brien Star.
Such was the surname of the Divine star clan, for in their ran the power of stars.
"Anyway it doesnt matter they are pretty tired and wounded, what we should be doing now is focusing on grooming our younger generation as well as consolidating our position in the continent", said the clan master.
"Yes Sir" , Lucious replied like how a trusted number 2 would, and proceeded to leave the room to relay the orders.
After he left the room, the clan master began to laugh menacely, " He's almost complete, within the《Nine Evils and Five Terrors》, the 《Evil of Subjugation 》will make him a complete puppet of my mine. Hahahahhaha"
"My ambition has not been let down. That old fool Hebert never saw this betrayal coming, but this is only the start so I shall conquer the whole continent, hahahaha"
"What four great clans, there shall only be one supreme power, me."
The mad desires of O'Brien resounded off, as a new journey began.