A black robbed man five feet tall with his face covered stumbled into the green lake city , the man literally radiated despair, a despair so deep even the so called outcasts and outlaws of the edge simply passed him or outright took another route .
True, it was partly because years ago a similar situation unfolded and a group of newbies tried to rob the man and in the process accidentally killed him, less than two days later news of their deaths along with the deaths of anything with in a thirty meters radius of their homes was flattened.
After such an event not even the toughest of gang's dared rob recklessly and yet here in comes a man whose despair exceeds the first.
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Carl's POV.
I Carl Landsteiner, are not a good person. Like any cultivators out there, I've killed and plundered to grow my strength. Even though I come from a family of moderate great renown, I've lived more like an itinerant cultivator so when I received an invite from the family, I was quite surprised.
Upon reaching the family headquarters, I heard cheers of jubilation.
From the gates to the main hall, decorations in bright red covered the area while cheers and music sounded out. In confusion, I pulled a servant to the side and asked whose marriage was being celebrated only to receive the greatest shock of his life perhaps as great as the day his grand father suddenly out of no where or any notice in a public setting announced my exile from the clan and forbade anyone even my own mother from lending a hand , if that was all I wouldn't think it traumatic at all as I'd never received anything from the clan except food and shelter.yet to add insult to injury, he also announced the marriage of my mother to her own uncle, an old man who had lost his own sight.
After leaving the clan and calming my emotions, I knew it as a better fit as even though the old man was blind and old,he was one of the kindest people I'd ever met .
Hardly had a year passed when mom sent news that her new husband Edward had broken through to the spirit king level, which was equivalent to the heavenly immortal realms and that he had reached it's peak in one leap. This not only made him the second strongest in the clan but also the third strongest in the entire spirit world.
All wondered how the spirit warrior who had stagnated in cultivation had skipped the spirit lord stage and become a spirit king.
After a few years, they had a son of astounding talent and wanted me to meet him, by now we had become a true family and had already started seeing the old man as a father and even though he changed to look like a middle aged man I liked calling him grandpa.
The time I met my little brother, was one of the most glorious days of my life and from that day onwards harry became the pillar of our small family.
The old man withdrew himself from family politics while I refused to come back as a member of the Landsteiner family even with the wide spread renoun I'd gained.
Instead our little family had chosen to settle on the periphery of the Landsteiner territory.
I'd come from my adventures and brag to my little brother Sven while giving him the best cultivation resources I could find and it's in one of these precocious resources from my adventure that problems started from.
An elixir that claimed it could activate any dormant physiche . knowing that my talented brother had a dormant Constitution, I risked my life and got it for him and woe and behold, upon ingesting the elixir, his Constitution activated and caused a great commission.
To everyones surprise,it was the thousands spirit constitution that rivaled the royal family's heavenly spirit constitution. Instead of joy,their was worry on everyone's face as not long ago I'd been exiled because of pressure from the royal family and there were hints of them coveting my mother's beauty and now this. Ever since then ,the Landsteiner family made no big moves and tensions cooled down, so it was surprising when this servant told me that Sven was getting married to the daughter of the spirit empror, a chill went down my spine and a look of vigilance appeared on my face.
Even when the bride arrived, I stayed vigilant as my intuition sensed danger ,in response, I gave my little brother a life saving talisman and warned my mother and the old man yet it all came to naught as we were all drinking, the old man and my grandfather coughed up blood.
The moment that happened, from the children to the old men regardless of gender pulled out their weapons ready to fight to the death which stunned the guests and then came in the devil as I'd call him for a lack of better name.
An oppressive bloodline with golden eyes and qi, which other race could this be but the celestial race .
Then as though practiced my brother's so called wife walked up to him and kissed the man . from there everything went to shit ,everyone started off with their greatest attacks yet nothing worked. A legion of celestials wiped the floor with us yet that didn't come with out consequence as of the thirty celestial soldiers sent, ten died while the soldiers of the royal family were wiped out.
The old man and grandfather died fighting five celestials who had attained the heavenly empror realm their bodies torn asunder while my little brother had his cultivation and Constitution striped away from him leaving him hollow with nothing but dead eyes as his life slipped away.
As for me, the man leading the celestials took special care to make sure I lived through this as he crippled my cultivation as I witnessed the last of my Landsteiner blood, my brother die, it's then he said, " this is for the insult I suffered at the hands of your human father, halfling" unaware that I'd been setting up a teleportation array and at that instance disapeared along with the necklace around my brothers neck containing the souls of the entire Landsteiner family.
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Clink,clink.
The door opened and in came the results of my plan the last fifty years. And in his eyes unfathomable hatred, despair and a glimmer of hope.