The Guest Hall
The guest hall is actually not a building but a garden filled various exotic flowers and trees and ground paved with soft cloud like green grasses, there is various type of little birds and insects like bees flying around happily and it have high concentration of mana and natural energy
Here there is a small table on which there is a hot pot of tea with two cups and two chairs placed beside the table in the cloud like grass, on one of the chairs sit an elderly man who look like he is in his seventies with long white grey beard and hair and wore a white robe his brows were furrowed together as he was in deep thought if you look closely you will find he is little pale as if his vitality has been drained
Suddenly Theodore appeared inside a semi-circle created of flowers surely there lay a teleportation portal below it through which he came
Seeing appearance of Theodore the elderly man's brow straightened and he came back from his thought and he got up from his seat bowed and said "Grand elder of sun 'n moon clan William Yang greets family head"
Theodore give a slight bow keeping his right hand on his left chest "It's my pleasure to meet you grand elder William please sit" gestured Theodore
Then they both sit in opposite Theodore poured the already prepared tea for both of them
While William who was watching Theodore from side thought 'the only reason clan head sent me to Leon family is because he said they can be trusted and they believe in karma so if we inform that news to Leon's, clan head believe they will surely give us a helping hand. if everything go as planned, all the price clan paid will be worth it. now looking at the behavior of this young man, I feel clan head might be right, they are really different from others he is not like leaders of other super-forces who has eyes above their head, he is showing respect of a young one shows to elderly, with help of Leon's if any young ones of our family got any inheritance from that place we will surely become one of powerful force and might even be able to get a position in super-forces of world'
Seeing the grand elder has gone into a trance Theodore coughed and asked "so elder I heard from your clan disciples you are here to discuss something? May I ask what it is?" Inquired Theodore politely
Hearing the cough the grand elder reverted back from his trance he sighed and said "forgive me family head I got caught in my thoughts"
Seeing this Theodore thought 'look like they really are in great trouble' then he said "grand elder please say what trouble you are facing if it is something we can help with, we can discuss about it" said Theodore thinking it will be a good thing giving them a favor
After all sun 'n moon clan is not your normal clan they are a family of oracles, seer and treasure hunters they are a clan who is closely related fate, chance and luck. Though Leon's have contact with them before but like every other forces it was not deep, but more like business like relationship as the sun 'n moon clansmen are afraid of being their karma mixed with others and changing their fate by getting over contact with other people they usually keep a safe distance from others and they will try to have minimum karma with others, so having chance to make deep ties with a gold lying goose is good thing thought Theodore
Grand elder took a long breath and spoke "family head then I will be direct as you know our clan has always watched the change of fate in world to observe great disaster and great fortunes befall on world, as a part of it we usually conduct a special ceremony called Great revelation ceremony, ones in hundred years to check if there is any special change in fate of world, with a price of-course, which is a small amount of lifespan of our clansmen who conduct the ceremony"
"That is a new knowledge for me! I never knew you conduct such a ceremony" interjected Theodore
"Actually it's our duty to warn the world if there is any danger and we have been conducting it diligently but eight years ago at January first there was a heavy change in fate that even without using any spell we sensed it, infarct not us most fate readers must have sensed it but we have ability to look the root of that change and by order of clan head we performed the the Great revelation ceremony behind the schedule, from it we learned a shocking secret which caused half the life span of those who participated in ceremony to lost" when Grand elder talked till here he stopped and looked at Theodore and said "so family head I'm here for ask help from Leon family with that secret as compensation for your help please give me a satisfactory answer" elder stood up and bowed when he bowed we can see his face and hands are quite pale as if vitality has been lost from that we can know he too is a participant and he too lost half of his life span which was already a little due to his age and he is most likely at end of his lifespan
Hearing this Theodore had a serious expression if even the one of most powerful oracles have to pay such price it must be known that it won't be a simple news so he asked "what secret is it? That made your clan even ask help from others?"
"Forgive for my rudeness but only if you promised us your help we can disclose the secret, as we had paid a heavy price for it, more than fifty percent of our elders lost half of their lifespan for this secret and twenty percent of our elders lost their life to reveal this secret our very foundation itself is in shambles so our only hope and bargain chip is this secret please give me your answer family head" the elder asked still bowing
Theodore can feel determination and decisiveness in his voice, if any one tried to pry the news from him he most likely kill himself, but he was not planning something cheap like that if they can afford the price they will buy the secret if not he don't care so he asked "what favor do you want, for you to keep such a big secret in other plate the favor must be huge"
The elder stood straight and cupped his fist and said with gratefulness"I thank family head for showing kindness to me, we only have two demands"
Theodore waved his hand and said with a smile "I'm not some barbarian who will attack just because you denied, I know you are here bearing the weight of your entire clan so I can understand it, its normal for you to bargain, tell me what is your two demands"
"Our demand might be a huge matter to us but I don't think it will be a big matter to you" said grand elder and he continued with expectation "we want protection as we have just performed the Great revelation ceremony eight years ago it will take a long time for us to recuperate but some forces are forcing us to deduce their fate and luck, even if we say we can't. because of those prediction it even caused death of one of our elder if this continue we will annihilated in coming chaos so we want two hundred year protection it will take that much time for us to recuperate fully if you can't give two hundred at-least one hundred year of protection" said grand elder with an anxious face even though it's nothing for Leon family giving the clan protection for two hundred years as they were somewhat demanding this, it might cause some displeasure in Leon's but when he looked at the young man there was no such displeasure in his face so he continued "second demand is we hope Leon family will take our disciples to participate in the secret this is our two demands"
Hearing this Theodore didn't think much and replied "both request are acceptable and as family head of Leon family I can promise you we will fulfill this requests" said Theodore as grand elder said this are not some serious matter to them they can solve this problem easily, but for the sun 'n moon clan it is last hope of their clan
Hearing this the grand elder who kept his composure till now shuddered a little and his eyes moistened, still he recovered fast after all he is not some three year old kid, he bowed first and said "thank you family head our clan will never forget this kindness and we will definitely repay you" he stopped hear and he sit his seat and drank the tea with a single sip from this we can how anxious he was
Seeing this Theodore smiled and said unhurriedly "elder please explain what did you saw in the ceremony"
Hearing this the elder sighed deeply and said "family head as you know during ancient era our world had many planes which spread throughout the world, we top forces and super-forces all have one or more than one of our own planes we control, but do you heard of a moving plane which has no particular destination in legends that place is called deity sanctum"
"Yes I heard of it, isn't it some myth? it's said before the ancient beings left they left behind their inheritance in that plane which is called deity sanctum but didn't historians criticize it by saying they were almost hit unexpected and had no time for such things as leaving behind their inheritance and they even said deity sanctum is just a myth don't tell me the secret....." Theodore's eye widened from shock
"Yes family head it's what we saw if it wasn't something left behind by those ancient beings how could the black slash be stronger that it effect our entire clan" Said grand elder with expectations in his eyes he continued "from calculations we done we confirmed that it will appear thousand miles west of deity continent within ten days"
What a sun 'n moon clan they are really top in matter of prediction in world thought Theodore
"So those historians were wrong, sigh you are right how could the deities leave without living a escape route for the inhabitants of thousand deity world" said Theodore with respect
"those historians are wrong not only they left their inheritance in deity sanctum and the deity sanctum they left is not some simple plane its like a treasure trove, there is many resources that any races of our world can use to evolve their innate power or let them increase their level like its nothing and we even saw the most precious universe energy there but as a universe energy mine not some crystal or stone pieces!!!!" Said grand elder with very serious face
When he heard it Theodore was thunder struck, 'universe energy' this word made him shocked to the core, because universe energy if combined with other energy can form respective high tier energy they may be universe mana or universe warrior energy or other type of special energies used in other class, this combined energy are the only energy that can allow one to shed their mortal body to reach above Admantium level
Whenever there was a appearance of ancient ruins or such dwellings the super-forces intervene themselves only if any source of universe energy appeared even if its the lowest, low level universe stones
Because ancient beings had sealed the world although the world can receive origin energy which is given by cosmos directly to its planets, the universe energy is something that planet can only absorb from space or universe it stand, due to the seal the flow of universe energy from outside space was cut off and there was no one in thousand deity world who could level up above Admantium level due to loss of universe energy
No matter how much great genius you are you will never will be able to break through above the peak of Admantium level and many super geniuses with weak will has even killed themselves knowing this truth, as it was literally squashing their dreams they strive for from their birth till now
So universe energy is something that everyone fight for without considering whom they are fighting even a low level forces will not cower to fight super-forces in-face of universe energy
Of-course this was the reason Theodore was so shocked, if he was not a family head and instead is a normal family member he might not even know what is universe energy as only top echelons of forces of world know of this matters, in-order not effect the future growth of normal members its hidden from normal members
But what shocked Theodore even more was its a damn mine not a few pieces that is normally scene in those ruins this is really a big secret even for Leon family
It must be known the thirty super-forces are super-forces for a reason it's because they all have a being above Admantium presiding over them also they have a artifact above earth grade in their forces and a powerful ancient battle ark this is minimum requirement and top seven are top seven because they have more than one being above Admantium level
But all this is a secret, which is only known to top forces of world and to their top echelons not even middle level and high level echelons know of this, the super-forces become super-forces is all thanks to few bits of universe energy stones or crystal they collected from various ancient ruins
And now there is a plane where you can literally hatch out super-forces like hatching chickens how could Theodore not be shocked
But to Theodore's shock grand elder was not finished "beside that we saw various long lost class stele and many artifacts pills and even some top earth grade artifacts" hearing all this Theodore almost lost his breath
In thousand deity world weapons, pills and artifact were classified as mortal grade, spirit grade and earth grade were earth is now peak of the world and each grade further divided into ten stars
its said in ancient time the weapons pills and artifacts deities used were all above earth grade but as it can only created by deities and is even a treasure for them they were all taken for the war and even the method for their creation was lost in the war
"But elder how could you see all this even if you saw it in vision to see all this.." said Theodore with confused expression after all the information is little too detailed for a vision
Hearing this elder laughed and said "yes you are right its not just a vision but a message too it was sent to us using our ceremony as a medium by some force in deity sanctum"
Hearing this Theodore frowned and asked "elder do you think its a trap?"
"No it's not" William firmly said
"Why are you so confident"asked Theodore
"Because our young mistress has awakened a special bloodline power which allows her to confirm how much percent there is chance for a prediction to succeed and she confirmed what we saw is ninety-nine percent truth" said grand elder William with proud face Theodore was also shocked
Only seer can predict 99% correct future and that is only because it's immediate future but if she can confirm the chance of a prediction to succeed, it's simply terrifying, though there is still uncertainties but it can always let you know the most probable scenario
"So we are sure its truth that external force might be a will left behind some deities but we know that will can't control the plane because if it's controlling the plane there is no need for the presence to take difficulties sending the message through our ceremony " said grand elder William Yang
"Yes you are right if it was a trap he can directly sent the message to all world and there is no need of such difficulties" said Theodore
Even if it was trap all forces will be scrambling over there as if they have gone nuts
Then grand elder William said with serious face "the most precious thing in the deity sanctum is the inheritances of eight deities I'm sure of it because I saw eight gigantic statue it must be the inheritance left by deities for next generation"
"Isn't there thousand deities why only eight statues? " asked Theodore
"This... I too don't know, perhaps those statue might signifying some other things" said grand elder he too was confused of this matter if deities left behind the deity sanctum why was there only eight deity statue
"Sigh... the matters of deities is always unfathomable grand elder William I have to thank you for this invaluable news as I said I will keep my word, please inform your clan head to prepare suitable place for our armies accommodation I will sending a battalion from our vortex army and please elder William stay in our guest villa as our guest, I will be ashamed to know a friend staying in inn after coming to our city, I will order butlers to show you the way please wait here until we prepare for our journey" Theodore stood up and said "I have to discuss this matter further with ancestor and others please excuse me" Theodore bowed and left
Till Theodore walked off grand elder's heart haven't calmed down, he knew he succeeded his mission. Though clan head said Leon's can be trusted he still had some doubts because to become a super-force you have to be selfish but Leon's kept their word
After all Theodore didn't said, he will not keep his word or shoo him away he said he will sent a battalion of soldiers to protect sun 'n moon clan, if he is not going to do so there is no need to say so after all sun 'n moon clan can't do anything against Leon's
As for thoughts like battalion was sent to kill already dying clan he never thought such thinks after all appearance of deity sanctum will surely cause huge phenomenon on world no one can hide such things, if can they won't come here with this request to Leon's, to be their backer and help them enter Deity sanctum