"my lord do you believe him, do you believed that a strange senior really fix his affinity to element?" The barons advisor who was left alone with him after the guard left asked
"I don't know Rufus but am sure that boy has a lot of secret and I want it all, I may have not step into the transformation stage just yet but am close and I can tell that beast outside has sentient, I could feel a soul inside it, he definitely don't want to tell and am going to force it out of him, maybe this secret can help me advance further."
few hours later all the noble in the council gathered in the barons meeting room with the baron sitting in the lead.
"I called this meeting to discuss what I believed you all have already heard about, Duo caelus the orphan kid we welcome to our home open handed, today return back to this same city with a tame beast and a cultivation base of first stage of meridian refinement, when I ask he was spatting rubbish about some senior who help him and gave him a mortal beast with sentient."
hearing this the nine noble present, greed showed in their eyes, the couldn't control their lost for the secret behind such advancement.
"that is why I called this meeting, to have all nine noble agree to work together to get what ever secret he hold, we will need that thing in the inner treasury, you all know the requirements to open that place, it must be the nine of us"
"are you talking about the soul searching artifact, that thing will destroy his soul, which is same as killing him" Valdel mono retorted
"what are you all saint about, the boy is a nobody in the first place, what gave him the right to hid secret from us, it's an insult to us noble, not to mention the part that once we could get our hands on the secret of how he fix his trashy talent to be able to cultivate, we will have a lip in our own cultivation" Matias wick roar back at him
"well for me I don't have any thing to say about this, I will stand with whatever the council decides" Rylee heart commented. Stanford turned to the other but they simply nodded saying the agree with the decision of obtaining the secret.
"it's settle then, first sun ray tomorrow morning we shall head to the treasury to retrieve the artifact. What ever secret we get from him will be shared equally amongst us here".