(six months earlier)
"my lord, we still have no news about him, he is not the neighbouring city and have search the forest with some guard and guild but still no sign of him, it seem like he disappeared, no trace of him at all"
"you may leave now"
"yes my lord"
'where can he be, I don't believed he is difficult to find just that we don't know where to search: Stanford murmur to himself
"Rufus gather the council"
"yes my lord"
Stanford went into his chambers lost in his own thoughts
'he really is bent on having that secret for himself, I pity that little kid, he is in for a tough one for sure, nothing I can do to help, am just an advisor in name anyways, the baron does anything he like and no one dare question him' Rufus thought to himself while on his way to convey the barons message to the nobles
(wick mansion)
"father are you telling that brat got away and couldn't be stop by any of you? that is unbelievable, my ears are failing my right, how could a trash be so strong all of a sudden, we need to get our hand on his secret father, we can let him slip off just like that!"
"calm down Reynard, we are searching the city and possibly the city close for him, even the baron want him caught. that forbidden art he has was too formidable, if I could get my hands on it even the baron can't stop me, too bad even the baron wants it and we are all working together now to get it, too bad I couldn't get my hands on it first" matias said to himself
"patriarch a message from the baron, you are need for an emergency meeting'
*sigh* "like I thought, you can go now"
"Yes my lord"
"Reynard I'm off to, go cultivate and prepare to leave for the city in 3 days"
"Yes father"
(heart mansion)
"father tell me the truth about what happened at the baron mansion, I know that Dio didn't steal anything from the baron"
"josh how well do you know Dio, can you really tell if he did or didn't do it?"
"father Dio is my soul brother, I know what he can do and won't do"
'What if am to tell you that Dio attack me and the other council member while we were are the baron mansion, if not for my movement skill I would be long dead"
"father what are you saying, how can Dio kill you, he can't even cultivate, talk less of killing a revolving core stage expert in peak of 7 stage"
"son I don't know what happened to Dio after the awakening when he went off cliff but as of now he is a ruthless demon who practice a forbidden demonic art, he attempt to kill us but fail, so he fled from the city without a trace"
"-"
'Dio why did you have to do this, practising a demonic art just so you can have power, its on like you, what happened to you, I just wish I can get my brother back' josh thought to himself