"What the hell do you think you are doing?" The Third Prince asked as he looked at Ezio. His eyes were staring daggers.
"What?" Ezio asked nonchalantly.
"Why are you engaged to my baby sister?" He asked as he held his collar. They were in the bathroom, and the Third Prince used a strong talisman to block out their voices. "I thought you were a good man. Is this how you avenge your master?"
"I don't avenge the dead," Ezio said as he smiled. He opened the Third Prince's hand forcefully and straightened his clothes. Then he whistled out of the bathroom. The Prince clenched his jaw as he punched the wall. He left a fist-sized depression on the wall and left after Ezio.
After a few hours, the celebrations ended, and guests went away. Ezio kissed his fiance on her forehead and left too. When he was in the city, he could feel people were following him like shadows. He was used to this. Ever since he left the Demeter's Blessing Sect a year ago, people were following him. But he wasn't worried, no one in the Kingdom could do anything to him, because his backer was the strongest person in the Kingdom, or so everyone thought.
"Master, I am back." He shouted at the garden, then walked in. Yontu was in the house, working on something. People who were following Ezio left when he was close to this house. Yontu bought it a year ago. It was a courtyard with a giant garden and was far from the center of the Capital. It was quiet and nice.
"Welcome back, Master." Yontu kneeled on the ground as soon as he saw Ezio.
"Get up," Ezio said as he sat on the couch. "Any trouble?"
"No, Master. No one dares to approach here. I only showed myself a few times." The creature, who was in the form of Yontu a second ago said, as he changed his form. Now it looked like a rainbow in a humanoid shape.
"Good job, Pride," Ezio smirked. He found this creature in the domain while he was discovering it. It was in the shape of Xiao Chen so it gave Ezio quite a scare, but luckily, its power wasn't as impressive. After the scare, Ezio kicked its ass and tamed it. The creature had the natural ability to take any shape, and its technique was so good that he could even create flaws in Ezio's technique. So when other people checked, they would see Yontu but would think that he was using a technique to hide his real form. Just like how Yontu first appeared.
Over the year, Ezio learned many other disguising arts he traded in Mysterious Room. He now had better control, and not many could see through his disguises. But Taro Mars was too strong and could still see he was indeed altering his shape, thus he ordered Pride to do the same.
He couldn't last long if it wasn't for his identity as Yontu. But he also knew he couldn't tell Ezio was his disciple as Yontu and Yontu was his master at Ezio. Two of them had to appear at the same place at the same time. Cultivators were paranoid creatures after all.
He walked towards the basement, as he changed into Yontu. Pride this time turned itself into Ezio and walked beside him. At the door, he let his Qi and Mana flare in a certain order before it opened. This was a Formation Lock that Formy came up with. Studying the formation of Poseidon's Kiss and Zeus's Fury increased his mastery over formations by leaps and bounds. Finding some documents and manuals about formation allowed him to create this lock. A lucky trade was helpful too.
He walked down and arrived at an expansive underground cave. There were many doors on each side of the cave walls. And when he walked down, all of them opened up, and disciples, elders, and a Sect Leader walked out. All of them bowed at the same time, as they saluted, "Welcome, Master Yontu. Young Master Ezio."
These were old members of Zeus's Fury Sect. As Taro initially suspected, Yontu didn't kill members of this sect. Oh, he was going to. He definitely was about to, but he found something interesting that changed his plans.
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A year ago, just after Ezio asked the question,
"Ezio, I am so sorry," Grandma said with tears in her eyes. "Aodhfionn, he— he died."
BOOM!
A killing intent lashed out from Ezio's body. It was so potent, that it toppled the glasses on the table. The walls started to crack while the chandeliers hanging from the ceiling moved in all directions. Ezio's eyes were red. They literally changed color from dark blue to demonic red. It was as if he went berserk as high-tier demonic beasts did. His pupils turned into slits, while his all existence was shouting murder.
Envoys rushed back into the room in a panic, as they thought they were under attack. When they noticed the killing intent was originating from a kid in his 16s, they were shocked. One of them was about to move, but Grandma stopped them.
"Ezio, please calm down. Aodhfionn—" As soon as he heard the name, Ezio's Qi flared up. It was as if his essence was rubbing against the air to create frictions. Golden lightning was dancing around his body. They were destroying everything that came close to him. "Your master wouldn't want you to waste your life. You have to live in his stead."
"Who?" Ezio asked in a hoarse voice.
"It is not important, Ezio. You have to look forward."
"I said who!" He said but the voice was different. As if it was coming from the depths of hell. Even the envoys shivered when they heard him speak. The red eyes were locked on Qiu Tu. She couldn't help but say.
"It was Xiao Chen. When he left the domain, he showed his Signium. He was the new ruler. With Princes in the domain, and his fiance supporting him, he took the throne and ruled over the country. He decided to help the old King and said he would reward anyone who could heal the old King.
Your master had an antidote and went to heal the King. He thought maybe Xiao Chen was serious. Now that he had gotten the title, he wouldn't stop him. But when he took out the antidote, he was attacked on the pretext of trying to assassinate the King. It was too late to stop, as Xiao Chen stabbed his heart. I am sorry, Little Ezio, I couldn't help him." Grandma said with tears falling off her face.
"He gave this to me. He told me to give it to you if something happened to him."
"Ezio, wait." She called as she saw Ezio was leaving after he took the Spatial Ring, but there was no stopping him. He slapped her hand and walked out of the sect. After that, he never went back to Demeter's Blessing.