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Chapter 21 - Punishment

Some of the other parents there who had some insider information could already guess Lucius identity, no one who could become a breaker was stupid and these people who had the ability to gain news about Lucius were without a doubt influential figures within the family, as breakers they had to be able read situations and infer some details from the environment around them. The way Omar reacted to Lucius suggestion was a dead giveaway, the fact he didn't show any sign of refuting or punishing Lucius was also important to why they knew that this boy was someone important, added to the fact that he even said his name when he raised his hand, led to these people coming to the conclusion that, the boy in-front of them was the prodigy, whose grandfather was the patriarch of the family. The other parents who didn't know this information were quite displeased, these were what could be called 'novae riche', currently they made up about a quarter of the room, they had the same surname but lived in branch families, if it wasn't for their children, who showed enough talent to be granted a spot in the headquarters elite class, they would never be here. Although they knew that everyone here may be more powerful than them, they believed that due to their children talents they could speak on fair terms with anyone here as in the future as Omar said these were the future leaders of the family. It must be said that frogs at bottom of well once out is more than likely to jump into the mouth of a lion thinking it is a cave.

Finally one of the five persons, new to the headquarters couldn't hold in his anger anymore, his name was Johnathan and his son name was Jordan, Johnathan was stuck at level of Intermediate tester unable to move pass the threshold of transmuting the gas present within his brood space to a solid form, Luckily for him his son showed exceptional capabilities since birth and when he was tested it was found out that he had decent enough bloodline concentration, while his cultivatable physical traits, included his left and right hand. Normally this wasn't enough to get him a place in the elite class but as the unrest within the Civilization continued each family was trying its best to try to gain as much breakers as possible giving young Jordan and his father this opportunity. In fact if it were before the elite class would only have about 8 students each generation, this batch was considered quite large. "Boy I think it would be best if you let Mr. Omar continue and not say anything stupid", said Johnathan. Johnathan was surrounded by the other 'novae riche' as they had already formed a clique prior to this, all of them around Johnathan nodded their heads in approval hearing this.

The official members from the main family were in shock, although knew that someone would be stupid enough to refute the young master, one had to admit this man was quite brave. First off one must realize out of the 20 children present with 5 hailing from the branch families of the King bloodline being around Johnathan at the moment, it was obvious anyone who was outside their little clique was from the main family and had an immense background to begin with, so the fact that'd he be so harsh in his rebuke of the young boy knowing this was quite a surprise as well. Everyone from the main family and they children began to retreat to a corner after hearing this, they knew that these five individuals wouldn't have a good life ever again. Even if the patriarch was merciful in his reproach of them, obviously others would try their best to suppress and ill treat them to curry favor with patriarch.

Hearing this Adam simply sighed while Lucius looked on with a cold expression, these people were merely ants in his eyes, was catering to the opinion of ants something the strong would do, he slaughtered trillions of these insignificant pest in his past life, without batting an eyelid, would he even care if one spoke against him now the answer is still no. Lucius simply looked at Omar as if he didn't hear Johnathan. Johnathan sensing the room atmosphere, immediately noticed something, the other noveau riche parents noticed something odd as well, only their children especially Jordan looked on with a proud expression. He admired his father a lot for his courage to speak out against the boy previous over-confidence. Omar knew Adam left the decision of punishment up to him, although Adam was the patriarch, Omar had full control over the elite class he won't interrupt with that process. Omar understanding this decided to do the harshest thing possible to try to show his goodwill towards Lucius as he had quite a good impression of the boy, not only that, the fact he became a tester at his age was testament in itself to his amazing talents. "You and your son are hereby remove from the elite class program effectively immediately, not only have you interrupted me showing your poor character, but you made unfounded claims about other members ". Omar said. Then he turned to face Lucius with a smile as if he just didn't ruin someone life 5 seconds ago. "How about this Lucius you will be excluded from the competition entirely considering your circumstances and be placed first, everyone else can fight for the other spots, considering that we're down to 18 students, I guess it would be two groups of 9 then".