"This place… is absolute… trash… *sigh*…
How did I get screwed here…?" Spina lovingly rubbed her head against Rahzils neck who was in turn looking out at the damaged buildings scattered throughout the area known as the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect.
The buildings were either falling apart from the damage they'd incurred from the environment or poor maintenance.
When Rahzil had arrived at the wall that safeguarded the Sect that was hidden in the mountainous region, his eyes were first drawn to the poor state of the crumbling wall that stood tall at 20 metres or so.
But the second thing he noticed was the lack of people and students around the facilities of the Sect.
Rahzils sent out a drone from the space to observe and scan the Sect so he could get a sense for the number of people on the premises, but Rahzil was shocked to learn the number of people was less than 100.
Because of the power carried by the name of the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect, Rahzil assumed they would be powerful enough that they had some authority or pride but seeing the shoddy clothes of the disciples and poor shelters they lived in, Rahzil felt like escaping.
Arriving at the stone wall that guarded the Sect, Rahzil told one of the students who was in charge of managing the entrance that he was here to join.
They felt looked at him like he was a dumb idiot, with one of the students warning him to leave, but Rahzil insisted and so they let him enter and another student was waiting beyond the gate doors, who led him to the only building that seemed partial maintained.
Thinking he might get tested for his ability or aptitude, Rahzil thought about preparing his body for any test that he might come across.
In the end, nothing of the sort happened other than being handed some long tunic looking clothes that were dyed black with a trip of red and gold.
Handed some pills and told to leave by the person who was sitting behind the desk on the first level of the multilevel building, Rahzil was taken to a room by the same person he met after entering the Sect walls.
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Currently, Rahzil was complaining and moping around in his small room with Spina on his shoulder, looking at the despicable pills within his hands.
They seemed to be pills to help him gather energy into his body and develop it at the same time, but Rahzil noticed they were trash that would end up harming him instead.
It became obvious to him that Part 1 of the quest hadn't been completed either which required him to simply register with the Sect, leaving Rahzil to wonder what he should do.
"Let's go see if there is anyone else here…" Rahzil got up from the stuffy room that had nothing but hay in the corner of the room to sleep on.
While massaging the bony head of Spina that was rest on his right shoulder, Rahzil walked out of his room, pushing aside the wooden plank in his way.
Outside of his room, Rahzil found nothing but one student near the end of a long corridor of empty bedrooms which must have been set up for students.
Quick calculations made Rahzil realise there was over a thousand rooms in the four corridors that he passed before entering the last, that was off from the wide passageway that led deeper into the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect.
Each corridor seemed to have around two hundred and fifty rooms, which offered enough space to sleep and practise with some freedom.
Around 3.5 metres by 4 metres, which could be seen as a fair large when nothing was in the rooms, beside some hay but Rahzil suspected there was a time when students must have owned much more than the bare minimum.
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Reaching one of the last doors of the corridor his own room was in, Rahzil knocked on the wooden plank door of the room, which housed the only other student.
Rahzil had used the CE-01 Armoured Suit to scan the uniform of the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect before changing taking on the appearance.
Not wanting to wear the shabby clothing, Rahzil much preferred the Armoured Suit instead, since it could improve the appearance of the Sect uniform, while keeping him alerted of the surroundings without him needing to do it.
The student who moved the panel aside to there was also shocked at the sparkling uniform.
Instantly, the student prostrated themselves, believing Rahzil to be someone of a higher rank within the Sect.
"Senior!
How can this lowly one help you…" Rahzil watched the young child, no more than twelve years old, scream his lungs off when calling him a 'senior'.
Apparently, the students throat wasn't aware of the important task required of it, so it ended up giving out when the student tried to ask Rahzil what he needed.
The voice ended up squeakier than a rubber duck toy, making the student feel embarrassed and scared of the consequences.
"Ahh… Hi…
I'm Rahzil, I just joined the Sect today… well I'm not sure I did actually… could you help me out?"
The student looked up with a sore forehead that'd scraped against the cold ground, before scrutinising Rahzils appearance properly.
He couldn't understand how Rahzil was able to get his hands on such a well-made uniform, but after hearing what was said just before, he found the courage to ask Rahzil a question.
"Where the hell did you get such nice uniform!!
Look at mine!
I have holes for God's sake!
How the hell am I supposed to patch this up!!
Ahh!! I hate this place!!" clearly over the discrimination he'd felt since day one, the student whose name was Meng Shi (A/N - surname, first name) couldn't hold back his emotions any longer after hearing someone that had just joined was given such a well-made uniform.
He continued with his outburst that led to tears and heavy crying while Rahzil watched on.
Not concerned with the outburst of Meng Shi, Rahzil instead looked around the childs room to find it like his own room which only contained hay.
'They all live like shit here… *sigh* I'm going to make some damn changes…'
Rahzil made a mental thought of all the changes he wanted to make around the Sect, but before that he waited for the child to end his moping session.
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"Urgh… how far we have fallen…
*Sigh*… I really should have stopped him from leaving back then…" Wang Jie, an elder of the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect and maternal grandfather of the Sect Leader, was complaining aloud to himself while sitting alone.
He was relaxing in the highest room of the tower in an outer wing of the Sect.
There were several outer wing sections spread across the mountainous ranges, with the Sect controlling the whole area, as the deeper one travelled, the closer they would get to the centre of power that leads the Sect.
Wang Jie remembered the days when his grandson, the Sect Leader, was present and managing the Sect, but after he left to find some precious materials to help his cultivation, the Sect was attacked.
Losing the powerhouse that had gain them knowledge, wealth, and status throughout the world, many people who were greedy and wanted what the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect had attacked and slaughtered many.
Many powerhouses attacked leaving the Exalted Night Heavenly Sect tattered and broken.
Wang Jie and the dozens of Elders that survived the attack were left to rebuild what was left of the Sect but after doing so for a hundred years now, Wang Jie knew everyday the Sect was failing to survive.
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While Wang Jie was reminiscing about his grandson and the past glory of the Sect, one of the servants of the Sect entered his room.
The servant's face was bright red from all of the running he had done to reach the top floor of the Red Tortoise Wing Tower.
"Elder… Wang Jie… theirs someone… downstairs… requesting to meet… you…"
'Huh, who could call for me?' Wang Jie was surprised that the person hadn't given their name to the servant, unless the servant themselves forgot to say it.
Also, as an Elder of the Sect, other than another Elder calling for him, nobody could simply ask for him to walk over to meet them.
"*Sigh* Send them up, and next time as for their name as well…" Wang Jie waved off the servant who nodded and bowed deeply several times before racing out the doors and going down the long-winding stairs.
Waiting to see who the individual was that dared to call for him, Wang Jie was utterly stumped when he saw Rahzil enter the room.
"Who are you?!" Wang Jie shouted out of shock after noticing the fine design and sleek appearance of the clothes Rahzil was wearing looked better than his own.
Too eager to wait for a reply, Wang Jie sent out his mental energy to get a better understanding of the materials that made up Rahzils uniform and possibly steal it for himself.
However, as Wang Jies Mental Energy sweep neared Rahzil, it slammed into a barrier that seemed impregnable.
Even part of Wang Jies Mental Energy rebounded back in his direction.
Cancelling out his Mental Energy before it impacted the body, Wang Jie prepared himself to be counterattacked however nothing happened.
Instead, what he heard made him feel quite down casted and wronged for all he had done in his pursuit of the path towards immortality.
"Ah, you must be Elder Wang Jie.
Its nice to meet you, I'm Rahzil, a student that's joined the Sect as of today, however I'm not entirely sure anyone really registered me, so I asked to meet you.
Could you help me deal with the problem?"