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Chapter 53 - The calm before the fight

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The legions ever since entering this new world, have spent a considerable amount of time at the base of another faction known as the hunters. A faction that is ranked as a B according to its size and strength. They would have probably gone beyond this rank a long time ago, but because they had chosen a life of seclusion, it wouldn't be an easy thing to do.

Being a considerably large faction themselves, they had laid down rules and fundamental principles that had guided them up until the point they were now. And it had taken quite a long time for them to build the faction to the point it was at now. And that is why their grand leader, Master Tofu, would not hesitate to take Swift action against any factor that posed as a threat to the integrity of the faction.

Earlier on, he had given the command that the arrest be carried out. The ones in question to be arrested were none other than the legion faction members along with Master Yang. Why master Tofu took this action was because of the case brought before him by master Damien.

"I think they deserve a fair hearing" Mr Tofu said to Damien who sat opposite him in the same room that had been used to knock the legions and Yang out. Though a while ago, the room was a complete mess but now on looking around, one could see that the place had been cleaned up and everything was back to normal making it look like nothing had happened to begin with.

"But master, you know our ways. We don't wait for something to harm us when we can prevent it!" Damien said in a bid to convince master Tofu to continue going along with his plan. Master Damien and Master Tofu were currently having a discussion about the legions and Yang. And the main topic as of the moment was if there was need for a trial as the evidence and circumstances around the entire case had somewhat proven legions and Yang guilty.

"I know you have the hunters best interest at heart, but have you forgotten Yang is also a leader and he should at least be given this much respect?"Master Tofu said to Damien.

"Respect?" Damien said and began to laugh. The next minute he stood up and walked into a door and minutes later returned with the same pouch that housed those items from earlier. And just like before, he opened the mouth of the pouch and began to turn the contents out of the bag allowing it to fall to the ground.

"Because of this!..a middle advanced crystal, Yang sacrificed the life of my men. And stole the kill from me. And you say respect?". He has brought in total strangers into our base and have given them everything!. Our gears, our training and worse of all he had the guts to steal the ring from us and give to those outsiders!. Just look at what they have done with the ring" Damien pointed at the rings trying to prove his point. But the only thing wrong with point at that moment was that there was no ring in sight. And it didn't take him long to realise this fact that it was only the crystal that had fallen out of the pouch.Master Tofu on the other hand, was long wondering when master Damien would figure it out but because he was too passionate and angry about the current situation, it had taken him quite the time to find it.

"Where...where are the rings?" Damien questioned but didn't get any reply as all Master Tofu did was stare him with an expressionless face. This particular kind of situation was what angered him the most as yet again, Yang and his cohorts were trying to make him look like a fool in the presence of Master Tofu.

"I assure you, this is their doing. They are strange, they all have powers this early which isn't supposed to be so. There are so many things Yang is hiding. Just let me handle this master Tofu".

" Damien, I respect you a lot for all you have done for this faction. But remember that Yang is also a leader, so I expect he is being treated like one down there. The only reason I had allowed you to poison him from earlier was because he could have proven hard to convince. All the same, I will trust you on this one as you seem to have everything all figured out" Mr Tofu said to Damien.

Damien was pleased with this outcome as this was what he had been waiting for. With him having total control, there was no way Yang would escape this time he thought.

"Oh I'm treating him like an elder alright. Now i have to send someone to fetch those rings. How he did it I'm not sure but I know he must have taken it while he was here. Some of the things that man is capable of honesty surprises me. But no matter, i have always been a step ahead" Damien thought to himself as he walked out of the room. As he had gotten to the outside of the big faction main house, he sent a message to someone with his ring.

"Make sure you check on them, i don't trust those three idiots and while at it, search for the rings. Get back to me immediately you find it" Damien ordered through the ring and then when he was done, a smirk appeared on his face.

"That one, the fire in his eyes. He is the most useful one among the three but sadly he is just as useless as the other two without powers. When all this is done, I'll have to take care of them"Damien said to himself.

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Meanwhile back at the cellar, Corey was in the middle of something with the trio lying on the ground. He had approached them with his hands out and this scared them a lot as after having knowledge of what he could do, they just didn't want anything to do with him, no they didn't want anything to do with any of them.

" Just shut your mouth and let me help you!" Corey scolded as he bent down and placed his hands on Orin. Orin began to beg more than ever as he felt his end fast approaching. Just then it looked like his pleas had finally gotten through as Corey removed his hands from him.

" I have started the healing process on you already. You may or may not be back on your feet soon" Corey said to Orin as he stood above him. Hearing this Orin began to cry and said.

"Thank you...thank you for removing the poison".

And just as Corey heard him say this, he turned around and looked at everyone around him and only him began to laugh as the others weren't sure what exactly was amusing about what Orin had said.

" oh I'm sorry, I didn't remove the poison. Don't get me wrong, I can remove the poison but don't you think that would mean I'm being too lenient on you?" Corey said immediately a grin appeared on his face that made Orin fear him the more.

"Don't give me that look. Well if you must know, I didn't remove the poison, I instead took the other approach. I poisoned you again"Corey said.

Hearing this, even the legions were a bit shocked but knew Corey had to know what he was doing as he wouldn't take such risk without being sure. This was true to some extent as Corey knew the dangers involved in taking such risks. There was a chance that the poison being introduced might instead harm the person instead of neutralizing each other but because this was someone who had caused them so much trouble, he was willing to take this risk.

" Yang, you might be wondering how we are less affected. Well as you can see, Corey here has the poison ability. He has before now given us a lot of antidotes to different poisons. Maybe you should let him extract yours out....the right way that is" Rodney said to yang.

The others found this explanation quite strange. They didn't understand why Rodney was explaining this to Yang of all times. More so why did he have to lie about how they had gotten immunity. This was quite strange to them as they weren't aware that a certain voice kept screaming in Rodney's head to do a cover up story.

"I'll be fine..I just need some time to consume the remaining poison" Yang replied to Rodney. Immediately he finished saying this, the others turned and looked at Yang with a questioning look.

"Consume, you don't eat poison do you?" Blair asked. The others also had a question in line with what Blair had asked although not the way Blair had put it. Hearing this question, Yang was genuinely not surprised as he knew very few people knew about CHI let alone being able to use it to the level he could. He was more than happy to give a quick lecture about it while they waited for Orin to recover. With the latter now sweating more than ever with consequent pain filled groans accompanying it.

But just as yang was about to explain what he meant, a sound travelled through the air and hit all their ears as they all looked in one direction, the main entrance to the underground cellar. The sound they heard was the sound of locks clicking and they knew immediately that they had company.

Immediately the legion members knew this was trouble. But they had one advantage, the dark. Without wasting time they had all gone back into their cell to pose as if they were still tied up. It didn't take long for their guest to get to their cells.

Two men dressed in the same outfit that the men from earlier wore came in and began to check around. But they had surprisingly not bothered about the supposed prisoners. Instead, they were looking for three other people. And this was the part of their plan that was flawed. With the place only dimly lit, the men cared not for the prisoners after seeing that the figures were still in their respective cells. But then when they couldn't find Orin,Tuffy and akira.

"Where did these boys go to?. This is exactly what Damien was worried about". One of the men said to the his partner. The person being spoken to had simply shrugged and began to walk off to another direction.

"Hey where are you going?"

"Oh, I'm just going to turn on the lights, something doesn't feel right". The man replied and just as he said he had flicked a switch illuminating the area. And the sight before them both surprised them as they found the three boys they were looking for were all inside the cell with the prisoners but they were laying on the ground.

"Hey...what's going on" one of the men said as he approached the cell door which he soon discovered was open. He drew his weapon and walked in on the boys while his partner remained outside the cell monitoring the other prisoners. While in the mist of the chaos, the legions hadn't really paid attention to their respective cells as they were now all scattered around in different cell. And the cell the man armed with a sword walked into, was currently occupied by Mia.

"Hey, what's wrong with you three?" The man asked as he carefully approached them. But just then, the unexpected happened.

"Help, its a trap!, they are no longer bound" yelled none other than Akira. Hearing this Mia panicked that the Akira had found them out and immediately.

*Air flush!*

She released a powerful gust of wind that hit the unsuspecting man sending him traveling and hitting the metal bars hard. He fell on the ground on his face lying still. The next moment, he began to quiver and soon after blood rushed out from his mouth and he stopped moving.

His partner seeing this was stunned but not for long as he saw the same attack heading his way through the bars. Not wasting time, the man quickly dodged the attack moving out of the way and drew his sword with the intention of subduing the escaped prisoner and that's when reality had dawned on him that the female attacker wasn't the only free one as the rest of them had now gotten out of their fake sleeping pose. Right then and there he had to make a decision if he would stay and fight this people that clearly outnumbered him, not to talk of Master Yang who was now free also or make a run for it. But eventually he chose none of those options and had instead done something worse.

"The prisoners have escaped, the prisoners have esc.." He was about to repeat before he got smashed by a flying rock right on the head and he had passed out and was bleeding. But his work was done as right now, men were rushing to the underground cellar.