In the Frost Hearts family, all the people that went to the city today had returned, they didn't have even a wound on them, except their gloomy faces, at this moment.
The fifth elder looked at them and said,
"Family head, elders, I'll be leaving for seclusion, I feel like I can breakthrough this time"
"Oh , so fifth is going to break through, congratulations in advance, I also remembered that I was doing something before all what happened earlier, so I won't accompany you all see you" said another elder as he quickly moved away.
It was like all the elders got a gist of what was going on, all of them started having excuses just in order to go away from the hall, meanwhile Dasak was looking at them with anger,
"Second elder, make sure that all the elders that are going into seclusion don't come out unless they have broken through, as for those with things to do, monitor them and see wether they have done them, it's time for the family to be busy, you've been slacking off recently, to even get the time to gossip around " said Dasak, at this time, he looked at the ninth elder and said
" Ninth elder, I think you should visit the family's guardian beast and feed it for a week"
Just after he said this, the ninth elder who has been ordered to feed the family's guardian beast had a dead pan expression on his face, this was a very big punishment for sure!
The guardian beast, as it's name implies is a kind of beast raised by all martial families in the Zenji kingdom from a very young age, and the Frost Hearts family also had one, but the reason why he was having this kind of expression is because their beast is a bear, lovely and fluffy? Hell no!!.
This beast was anything but lovely even though it was very powerful, compared to a 2nd grade martial artist, but it seemed like it had a screw loose in it's head, that beast had a lot of conditions for someone to feed it.
In order to feed it, you go to it's yard, but as a bear, it's naturally very lazy, it's always sleeping, and in order to wake it up, you blow a flute for hours!.
And when it wakes up, it first have a round of punches with whoever woke it up, and you have to endure the beating, when it's tired of beating someone that doesn't retaliate, it would sit down by itself and start eating.
When the family got to know this, they had someone to specially feed it, and that person had to be a normal person with out martial arts as it disdained fighting a weak person.
But now that the ninth elder heard that he was the one to feed it for a week, he felt like he would be dead by the time the 'punishment' ends, no, he had to get another form of punishment, this was too much for his weak body!
"Family head, I was actually going to tell you that I have a severe headache so I don't think I will be available for the task you've given me , sigh this headache will kill me for sure" said the ninth elder as he looked for a way out of the current situation.
But what he was thinking didn't happen as Dasak just continued with his words, this time, he was even harsher than the last time.
"It's okay, there's no hurry, you will do the two weeks feeding after you heal, I'll let the person that has been feeding it to continue feeding it untill you are ready for that 'task' " said Dasak.
At this moment, the ninth elder understood that this was inevitable, he had to feed the beast, if he fed it now, it would only be one week, but if he decided to feed it next time, then it would be two weeks , even a kid could see what was easier to do.
"Family head can I have a change in punishment?, I think I didn't do anything wrong this time" said ninth elder
" Yes, you can change, I'll call all the elders to teach you something and--" before Dasak finished his words, the ninth elder had already run away, only leaving words
" Family head, I think feeding the family's guardian beast would do just alright, I'll be leaving now "
After all that happened, Jason was currently in his room, he just experienced the taste of powerlessness, he wanted to breakthrough all levels at once!
[Master, you can't breakthrough like this, you will be damaging your foundation, you broke through many stages in one day, now it's not been many days and you want to breakthrough again] Said Athena.
As Jason wanted to continue with his complaining, his grandpa came and knocked on his door,
"Jason, come to the dinning room, there's something we wish to talk to you , it's about the Zenji Academy Meeting " after Jera said this he was already gone.
After a few minutes, in the dinning room, three people could be seen sitting on the dinning table, one was a young man who seemed to be in his teens, while the other appeared to be in his forties, as for the last one, he was in his seventies, these were Jason, Dasak and Jera.
" Jason, where did you get to know that innate stage martial artist in the city? Did you perhaps get to know the reason why he came here? " Asked his grandpa
Jason looked at the two of them and shook his head.
" No, he isn't in the Innate stage, as for the reason why he is here, even after asking him many times, he didn't tell me anything, he would not even say were he came from" said Jason as he looked at them
Meanwhile when the two of them heard what Jason said, they were shocked, that person wasn't in the Innate stage, then didn't their family provoc someone that was in that legendary stage?.
Hiisssss!
Hisssss!
"Cough -cough, let's leave that aside for now, Jason, the reason why we called you here is because you are going for the meeting tomorrow, but there was a chance in the rules, I don't know what is going on, but according to the news from the Zenji family, there won't be a need for the whole young generation of the family to attend, only the most powerful among them will represent the family"
When Jason heard this, he was relieved, he didn't want to move around with some nonsense young boys, he just wanted to travel alone , meanwhile his father continued with his words
"And this is the reason why we called you here, I think the meeting is not just a talk, there's something wrong about it, you should be very careful"
At this moment, Jera, who has been quite cleared his throat and said something
"Actually, what is going to happen there is no secret, it's just that I didn't want to talk about it, but now that the rules have been changed, let me tell you something, that meeting, no calling it a meeting is wrong, it's a competition" said Jera
"Competition? For what!" Asked Dasak, this time, he didn't look like a family head at all!
"It's a competition between all the young generation, most especially the ten prodigies of the Zenji kingdom, as for the reason, only that stupid king knows about it , he won't even say a thing about it, only said that those that are going for the competition will know " said Jera angrily
" Then we should change, we can't let the supreme elder guard you, we will be giving you of the family's aces, this competition is overly suspicious " said Dasak
When Jason heard that their was another kind of powerful martial artists in the family, he wondered if the family didn't have a 1st grade martial artist, they always had something in their sleeves!
When Dasak saw his surprised expression, his bragging sicknesse kicked in and he said
"Hehe, when I said that if we want to, then we can overthrow the Zenji family, I wasn't lying, we have more martial artists than what you think, when I became the family head, the family had seventeen 2nd grade martial artists , but can you believe, they all died in different ways, now it's been twenty years, and many 2nd grade martial artists in the family continued dying , don't you think that this is unusual " asked Dasak
When Jason heard this, he was genuinely surprised, 2nd grade martial artist died like chicken? How is that even possible?
" In actual sense, all of the martial artists in the family, once break through to the 2nd grade, are taken somewhere to train, now we have five 1st grade martial artists , hehehe imagine, the Zenji family has one 1st grade martial artist and they have been reigning all this while, as for us hehe "
Yeah, lazy these days, I don't know why, do you perhaps know something? Help me out