The kids were standing opposite side towards each other, the hall became quite everyone was curious if the challenger could get the fifteenth place or would simply fail to go higher, the two kids were quite surprised by what happened next, Vice-Leader Helios has jumped on the stage and clapped his hands than said, - "I can see that everyone is eager to see these two young man fight each other so for one round we will make an exception and remove the rule that doesn't allow the participants to kill each other's soo we can see the kid's true potential" The crowd started to clapping at Helios words they were agreeing with his suggestion, as Helios walked down from the stage he whispered to [Ray Echo], - "I don't care what you do or how you do, but you have to kill him" as he finished saying this, he continued his way towards Cyra as he was smiling at her, he was thinking: How dare someone no name kid Glare at my little sister like that, this should also serve as a lesson for others, there were not many things that could piss of Helios but disrespecting him was one of them, and openly staring at Cyra with hundreds of witnesses managed to hit the Mark.
Ray nodded slightly as he acknowledged what Helios said, he put on his Brass Knuckles and started slowly walking towards [Zane Ember] he was still fazed by what he had heard, he didn't expected that a simply glaring at Cyra would get him killed, there was nothing he could do anymore, he had to survive this fight.
The fighting before was simple, Zane after fighting his opponents learned how to counter them, but it took a long time to do this and here he had no time to thing, Ray jumped in front of him and started throwing punches like there was no tomorrow, Zane couldn't even defend against the attacks since he didn't know Rey fighting style, while his opponent possibly saw all his matches with the other kids, so he won't be giving him time to counter instead throwing in all he had for a fast knockout.
With each passing second Zane time started to run out, he wasn't familiar with the fighting style of his opponent at all, ha was constantly receiving fatal blows, soon a cracking sound could be heard, his arm that he used to defend against the incoming blow has been broken, than a second crack could be heard, this time he received a blow with his skull which in return cracked under the impact of the punch and he instantly passed out, but before he could say Give up he received a punch once more this time his skull broke into hundreds of pieces and penetrating his brain, with a loud Thud his lifeless body has fallen to the ground.
"Does anyone else wishes to fight?" asked Helios as he was smiling at the kids.
There were no one else to fight, the fight between the rest of the kids ended hours ago, while Zane was fighting, soon 2 middle aged man came who took the dead body away, seeing that everything went as he planned Helios walked to the middle of the stage and started to talk, - "I am happy to announce that the 237th Gathering of the clans has successfully ended, but before everyone leaves let's reward our winners, the first place will gain 100 Stage 2 Essence Crystals, the second place will gain 90 Stage 2 Essence Crystals..." after finishing to announce the rewards Helios walked of the stage towards Cyra who was still sulking, Helios though to him self: she is still mad at the little kid even after he died, I will have to teach her how to let the grudges go.
Cyra on the other hand was looking at the hundred Stage 2 Crystals with interest, her greed has kicked in and her bad mood has faded for now, the smell of money has calmed her down for now.
So your telling me that each one of these can increase my essence by 1?
[Yes Host to be exact +1.00 Essence but yes it's a huge boost for Host Cultivation]
The moment the competition has ended everyone returned to their rooms, they had to change since in a few hours there will be the ending ceremony of the Gathering of the clans, it was a big event so thousands of people has gathered before the Great Hall, it was now the place of the banquet which was hosted by the clans who Hosted the selection for the participants and the winners of the big event.
The event went rather well the kids weren't bickering with each other anymore and nothing mayor has happened so after celebration everyone returned to their rooms.
The next morning everyone has packed their belongings and left, the clans waited until the crowd dispersed than the Vice-Leaders headed towards the City Center where a formation could be seen, the first one who activated the formation was Helios, but he didn't step in instead waved his hands towards the rest of the leaders since this time he was the main organizer, he decided to be the last one who leaves,when everyone else has left he stepped into it while being followed by Cyra and the rest of the kids, their vision blurred and the next second they were standing in the middle of a Golden Hall.
The Golden Hall wasn't exactly ordinary but at the same time it was simply built around the formation there were 7 pillars with seven different colored dragons on them, as they were leaving the Hall they were confronted by the sight of a Giant city, It was the Capital City of the dragon clan Atin, this city was also known as the golden city, it was well known that humans were greedy but mixing this greed with dragon blood you will creat an even greater greed as it could be seen by anyone that visited this city, that some dragons lived to gather a lots of gold.
The design of the city was rather odd, similar to the 7 pillar there were 7 regions inside the city, after walking out of the teleportation formation they immediately entered the first region, this wasn't that fancy there was a lot of people walking around with bows and weapons they were hunters they were capturing and killing animals explained Helios, as they walked deeper into the city they soon entered the second region there were hundreds of people were walking side by side with different kind of pets they were doing Taming animals as their jobs the regions were set up according to the different jobs needs, the third region was filled with fighters, they were more of an army this part of the city was filled with barracks and military training grounds.
"As you can see the City has many different kind of jobs that you can learn, each job has its advantages and disadvantages, the hunters have greater strength while the tamers have higher intelligence, but bot of them has a weakness on the other hand the fighters try to increase both at the same time which makes them steady while progressing with cultivation." Explained Helios.
The next 3 regions were more fused with each other it was rather hard to tell them apart, these 3 regions were the inner part of the City this was the place where most transactions and businesses took place since the Rune,Alchemy,Blacksmith association were housed here, there was constant screaming soo it was rather hard to understand what people were saying but the 3 association's name could be clearly seen, so Helios wasn't talking much about them.
"These 3 associations are different in many ways, Alchemy requires absurdly high intelligence and large amount of Essence, Blacksmiths required to have inhuman strength and giant Essence, as for Rune It's need all 3 to be extremely high, the hardest but also the most worthy job, it's also hard to find Rune Masters." Helios Continued to explain to the kids.
"The clan is in need for all 6 jobs, but they depend on each other, you will need great effort to learn one of the first 3 jobs of Hunting,Taming,Fighting these are mostly done by stage 1 members, but some people simply choose to strive for being higher ranked in these 3 jobs, but if you reach stage 2, according to the path you have chosen you have the right to take a job advancement test and become member of the Rune,Alchemy or Blacksmith association" Helios finishing explaining leaded the kids towards the City Core Regions where the houses of the clan members could be seen.
The core region was similarly lively to the city, but it was for a different reason, since the Vice-Leader came home with the kids, countless couples came by to adopt promising children's into their families, to their surprise one of the kids were taken away by the Vice-Leader.
Meanwhile Cyra was heading towards the Clan Leader, Cyrus was angrily roaming the surrounding islands for any living creatures that he could kill, the urge that he felt as Cyra for fighting had a black lashing on his main body, which in return destroyed anything and everything that was unlucky to be in his way.
Helios walked into the Clan Main Building where he saw the Leader [Herald Ember] The other 2 Vice Leaders [Helia Ember] and [Hestia Ember] Also the 6 Head Elders [Hugo Ember], [Kiran Ember], [Tyson Ember], [Vulcan Ember], [Uri Ember], [Rai Ember], there was also a Giant measuring formation similar to what was set up at the gathering but this one was much more stable and precise.
Helios walked to the formation and put Cyra on it, which in return lit up and Cyrus could be seen, the moment they saw the dragon cold sweet has appeared on everyone foreheads, because this time the dragon wasn't calm as Helios has described it, instead they could feel its rage, a rage that they couldn't withstand even if they wanted, 2 of the head elders instantly passed out, while the rest of them were powerlessly laying on the floor, Cyra seeing what had happened stopped her main body from emitting it's presence and made it lay down, which in return removed the pressure that was crushing down on the people around her.
"Is everyone all right?" asked Herald while walking towards Cyra, he picked her up and stopped the formation from working.
"Yes" said everyone in union, the two elder who passed out from the pressure has already woken up too.
"Listen here child, I am the Clan Leader of the Dragon Clan Herald Ember, also I am your father from now on, we activated this formation in hopes of talking with the dragon who has granted you 100% bloodline purity, we know our mistakes soo please tell it when your able to that we are sorry" said the clan leader.
"Helios take the heir to her new home" said Herald.
"Wasn't I a Core Member?" asked Cyra.
"No, who told you that?" asked Helios with a surprised expression.
System?
[Host, I just assumed based on your situation]
"What is a heir?" asked Cyra.
"Heir is a unique rank that only 100% pure bloodlines can get, The Heir has the most power inside the clan just below the Vice-Leaders, also the only rank that Hair can advance to is Leader, and after that they can become Ancients" said Helios as he was smiling at her as always.
Soon they arrived at Cyra new home, it was huge, Helios wasn't joking when said a Heir had a lot of powers, there were tens of maids inside, also at least a hundreds of soldiers whose only job was to take care of Cyra safety, after choosing a room where she would like to sleep Helios left, but not before giving her a paper, Cyra was way to tired to care about it and went to sleep instead.