The moment these two adhered, it cause a massive chain reaction, as the others also genuflected and pledged allegiance to Vin.
".... At your service here my Lord"
"I pledge to follow you to the death"
"You have shown us grace, we will follow you"
"Since you all have acknowledged it, then let us create a new order in this world, we shall punish sinners who have dedicated their lives to harming this world and its inhabitants, anyone who causes pain and suffering to others, especially children are all enemies of Eridoria, and all enemies must be eradicated"
"From now on, our order shall be called Exodus ~ meaning departure from our old ways of suffering and entering a new age of redemption, like a Phoenix breaking out of its cocoon" Vin declared loudly.
The whole mountain shook at his declaration as if the very essence of the world was acknowledging his words.
The temperature of the entire stone room suddenly increased by a few dozen degrees as a tongue of violet flames appeared on Vin's palm, he then used the flames and conjured an image of Phoenix breaking out of the chains binding it.
The image looked so realistic that it felt like it was alive, even Vin had always suspected that his Hell Flames were more of an entity that normal flames.
He waved his hand and the image shot through the air towards the thirty kids, on the way the Flames duplicated the image in thirty places before they embedded themselves on the right arms of the kids.
"From now on this shall be the symbol of the Exodus order, but before we do anything else, there's something I must settle first" Vin stated as he turned to the inner court deciples trio who had stayed quite during the entire process.
"And what is that?" Raya asked with faint smile on his face "Don't you think we need to cleanse this place of it's filth" Vin chuckled as he strolled out of the stone room and went back to the large cavern room.
Everyone in the stone room including all the hundred kids followed him there, when they all entered the large cavern room, they were met with the gruesome scene from the aftermath of the battle.
The dead bodies sprawling on the floor, the different body parts spread throughout the cavern, and the blood flowing everywhere.
It almost looked like a miniature version of the saying "Mountain of corpses and seas of blood".
The four grown ups were still fine, but when the other kids saw it, they almost fainted from the sight of it, the thirty new members of the Exodus Order were still able to retain a sliver of composure but the rest started puking one by one.
Some of them even started crying, but one thing that did affect everyone one of them was that, a shiver ran down their spine.
"Members of the Exodus Order, listen up, I want you to engrave this scene deep into your minds as this is what you'll be facing in the future, and this is only your starting point, and so for our first mission. We shall eradicate this vile organization called the 'Eye of the midnight sun'.
"They have dedicated themselves to causing pain and agony to the inhabitants if the Cloud plane continent and so they have become an enemy of ours. We shall burn them all to the ground, do you all understand?!!" Vin shouted loudly.
"YES SIR!!!"
A loud affirmation was heard from the Exodus Order.
Hearing this, Vin raised his hands and the temperature rose so high that it seemed like, they were standing above a lake of magma, as a huge ball of violet flames appeared in the air at the center of the cavern.
The flames kept getting bigger and more condensed until it almost covered the entirety of the cavern, by then everyone had already fled the scene when the flame had first appeared.
They all seem to know what was going to happen, so no one wanted to be a collateral in the aftermath, especially the inner deciples trio as they had heard how terrifying Vin's flames could be.
When Vin saw this, he looked down at the bodies of his enemies felt an impulse to say something.
"In a world where chaos thrives, only I will rein supreme. Burn, you sinners of Eridoria"
"Dio Graze!!"
And with a downward motion of his hands the huge ball of flames fell and burned everything in sight , even the sea of blood was not spared as they were also caught in flames.
The entire cavern was dyed in a thick violet hue, seeing the violet flames burn all those bodies was like standing right in front of hell itself.
Everyone stood in silence watching, as the flames burned for three hours straight before it finally died down, and the scene they saw left them in awe.
Except for the two alters standing strongly at the center, the entire cavern was sparkling empty, as the flames had burned everything so not even ashes remained.
After that Vin turned around to face the crowd, "I guess it's time to leave" he said to them.
"Uhh, I get the fact we'll have to take these seventy or so kids back to their home, but what about the new recruits of your newly formed Order, you're not really thinking about bringing them to the sect right?" Fourna asked at this time.
"About that, if we're able to find more evidence about what the Tenebrous Taskforce was experimenting on, would this mountain still be important to the sect?" Vin asked a question of his own as he turned to face Raya.
"Not necessarily, since this place has already been compromised I'm sure the Eye of the midnight sun is already aware of it, so they wouldn't be coming here ever again and would choose another location for their shenanigans, since that's the case, this place has already become useless to the sect as they have no use for it." Raya replied.
"So that means the sect would lose interest in this place?"
"Yes that would be the case"
"In that case, the sect wouldn't mind if I decided to take possession of this mountain right?"
"What!"
"Huh!"
"Whoa there!"
Three different exclamations were heard from the trio. "Are you serious, what for?" Fourna asked.
"Well I plan to use this place as the new base of the Exodus Order, obviously I can't bring them to the sect as you said, and there's no other safe place I can think of, besides the safest place is the most dangerous place right, this entire mountain is covered in a array that both serves as defense and beast repellent." Vin replied.
"Well that much is true" Marco said. "But are you sure about that" Fourna interjected "Yeah I'm sure, it's fine" Vin replied.
"Since you say it's fine, then it's fine, you just need to inform Elder Ling when we get back, so now let's spread out and m search the entire place to see if we can find anything else we might have missed, Marco and Fourna, you both can move on your own, I'll go separately too, Vin you can move with your Exodus Order, as for the rest of you" Raya said as he turned to the rest of the kids.
"You kids can wait for us in the stone room, we'll come get you in an hour after we've explored this place, and then we can leave, okay?!".
After dishing out orders, they all went their separate ways, the kids went into the stone room to wait as instructed, Raya and the other two also went their separate ways leaving only Vin and the Exodus Order standing in front of the large cavern.
"Let's go in" Vin said as he walked into the cavern and sat down on the middle throne at the head of the cavern, the rest of the Order also walked in.
"Now then, before we head out let us settle a few things" He began "First of all, the thirty of you should divide yourself into four groups, the nine oldest on one side, while the other twenty-one on three sides, with the one who can be considered as the oldest standing alone."
When they had done this, they were arranged in nine, ten, ten and one person(s) in the four groups.
Seeing this he continued "There's going to be an hierarchy, and all of you will also be assigned to your roles in the Order, first of all my name is Eremiel Vin Celestra, but you can refer to me as Zero. The nine if you will now be referred to as the nine Nexus Primes, you will only be below me and above all else, you will take orders only from me.
"The ten of you, will be called the ten Paragons and will be in charge of the Paragon legion, the very army of our Order, in the future you can chose your own lieutenants as you see fit. You're the blades of the Exodus Order, that means you have to be ready for battle anytime.
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