Meanwhile in the Boneflare kingdom.
All the normal people had already accustomed to the appearance of the tornado in their daily life and continued to do their usual work, without any care about what would happen if the tornado decided to move its way towards the kingdom. The whole kingdom looked very peaceful, unknowing of the internal storm brewing in the people's hearts of the both Royal hunter academy and the Royal Palace.
In the same meeting room of the royal hunter academy palace, people were gathered like previous time to discuss the countermeasures for the tornado disaster. But unlike the previous time, the head seat which was vacant earlier now had an old man in his fifties sitting on it, the old man had a long white beard and wore simple white robes without any gold jewelry on him like others. The old man is Huyan Yong, the head of the royal hunter academy, a person second only to the emperor of the kingdom.
"Sir, it has been nearly two months already and still there is no news of the tornado vanishing down, the participant's parents are still worried about their children. Apart from that two days ago all teams except the one still inside the tornado, all of them released their flares and were disqualified, the reason they gave was that the beast behaved very abnormally and continued to attack them in groups, and even some lower regions beast had made an appearance. As for causalities apart from severe injuries, there were no deaths, as our high level hunters interfered on time and saved them." Rong Hai one of the instructors gave a detailed summary of all the incidents happening in the kingdom to the academy head.
"Academy Head, I personally think that the tornado is not really a kind of ominous sign but rather a sign of giving birth to a supreme treasure. As for families of the participants in the trial on Ashbluff mountain, we should just give some kind of remuneration and declare that if they are lucky to survive we will definitely give them a hunter's license and if they can't survive then even we can't do anything as it is a natural calamity." General Lamius Werner gave a suggestion to all the members as if it was just a trivial thing for him.
"Good, we will do the same as Werner has said. As for the appearance of the treasure we can only wait till the tornado vanishes." Academy head said with a pleasing sign on his face, obviously happy with the shrewdness of the general.
"Academy Head sorry for my interruption, but there is a son of an ex-general in that group." Agni, Angun's father who was a vice general said with a worried face.
"hump, it's his own fault to be placed in the last group, if he had cultivated with full effort he would have been placed in another group, so why care about him." Lamius Werner said with a frown on his face as he could not tolerate the upbringing the matter of his past enemy.
"No worries, I will talk personally with Brother Dravyn to ease the situation as nobody could do anything in this matter. If they are no other objections we will…" The Academy head was just going to dismiss the meeting when suddenly a steward opened the door and came in with a youth who looked like a beggar.
"Pardon me Academy head for breaking the rules, this person here is named Chuan Xi and was the leader of the group for the trial on the Hallowedsorrow mountain. He was lucky enough to survive the calamity so we brought him here for instructions." The steward said with a very respectful tone obviously afraid of the academy head.
"Speak about what happened there and how did you are the only one to survive." After a bout of surprise, a colonel returned to his calm mind and spoke first.
"All sirs actually I also don't know how the tornado birthed there, we were just hunting beast when suddenly a red bull charged out from the inner circle and sneak attacked me which threw me far away. As for survivors except for the three persons team for the herb team, I don't believe anyone else survived. Also when I was thrown away I happened to see the sky was torn apart and two blood rays descended on that mountain. After that, I don't know what happened later as I turned unconscious due to the injuries and later woke up in a crude shaped cave." Chuan Xi said unhurriedly every detail that he saw with a sad face as the crude cave that he mentioned was due to the collision of him on the ground.
"Ok you can go now, steward Zhou give him the rewards that he would be given after mission completion." Academy head said with a contemplative face.
"Academy head I think that the two blood rays that the kid mentioned should be two supreme treasures or two cultivators from that place." One of the colonels of the five colonels present said with a sullen face as no matter which one possibility is presented it would be a disaster for the kingdom.
"Don't speak the matter that isn't proved yet, maybe the kid just dreamed about it in his unconscious state. Let's just wait for the tornado to clear up, the problems which have to come will eventually come why to worry about it now." Lamius Werner said in a reprimanding tone to the colonel.
"We stop here no more discussions are allowed on this topic." Huyan Yong, the head, said and directly dismissed the meeting and moved out of the room giving no room for quarrel on that subject, obviously avoiding all further comments as if it was a taboo to speak of some matters.
In an another corner of the kingdom opposite to the other end of Royal Hunter Academy stood a large palace fully made of gold and silver. In this palace only nobles that is rulers of the kingdom lived and thus called the Royal palace. In one of the large rooms a similar kind of meeting was going on, but here topic was entirely different and people were also less than that of the royal hunter academy. Five people were present in this hall, four of the people wearing all jewels and riches in their mid-30s, sat on both sides of the emperor's seat. On the seat of the emperor, a person with a tall physique, handsome face with a noble aura sat, which is the ruler of the kingdom.
"Big brother this is the only chance that we have got to capture all the mountains in one fell swoop, if we miss this chance no one knows when the other chance will come, you should make your decision fast." A tall and bulky man, who is the second brother of the emperor spoke in a greedy tone.
"Second brother is right, the biggest obstacle we faced was the bird that lived on the Hallowedsorrow mountain which is now covered by a tornado. While all the other beasts of the four mountains have a cultivation of 1st level of bone condensation they would be very easy to subdue if we invite the rulers of the other two provinces. After that when the tornado clears up, we will band together and attack that bird, let's see if it can be as arrogant as earlier when it faces four bone condensation experts." The third brother who was somewhat short in comparison to the other two brothers said with a shrewd and arrogant tone.
Actually, not all the beasts were as strong as rumors were told in the kingdom except the only one that lived on the hallowed sorrow mountain. Moreover, the worst part wasn't that, if anyone attacked the beasts of the other mountain peaks, all the rest of the beasts left would band together and attack that person. So it was impossible to eliminate this beast without blocking the king of the beast, as long as the king remained it's army would not fall.
"My lord, I also agree with the dukes, last operation we only failed due to a fluke. If we succeed this time not only we could get resources for my lord to advance but also various materials for weapon crafting and alchemy in overall boosting the strength of the kingdom." The third person seated below the king's seat spoke, he was also a commander of the imperial army.
As for the last person seated below the king's seat is the vice commander of the imperial army, maintained silence refraining himself from speaking anything as he was only qualified to be seated there and he had no strength to give his suggestion on such matters.
"You all don't have to worry about this matter, I have already sent a decree to the other two province leaders ten days ago, they will definitely arrive by tomorrow. After doing all military preparations we will attack all mountains 15 days from now on, and all of you start making preparations for the war. Although four of us including the academy head will attack the beast on the mountain, I'll need your help to hold down the other low leveled beast."
[Dukes here are referred to as the younger brothers of the king, it was done so to avoid confusion later on due to the introduction of prince and princess.]