"Rise Elder Mio,as from today henceforth, you will no longer be known as an Elder,but this town's lord."
Shock.
That what everyone in the throne hall,,including Mio felt. They all expected Marg to bestow Mio with a great administrative position but not the position of the town's lord.
That was a position above everyone else and only below one.
"I shall leave matters concerning to the management, development and expansion of this town to you. If you ever need my assistance, just tell. As for the territory and region,leave it all to me."
Marg had made his stand clear. Mio's jurisdiction was within the town and also applicable to all areas concerning the wellbeing and development of the town,as for everything else,it would be handled by him.
"Yes my Lord."
Being a wise man,Mio understood that Marg planned on leaving the territory, thus bestowing the town's lord position to him,a man that he trusted and acknowledged, was the only way he would journey the outside world while at peace.
Two weeks later,Marg led the three guild heads,and six of the rank one profound realm cultivators towards the portal.
Each person had been asigned their task.
The merchant guild head was to gather information concerning trade and trade several spirit tools handed to him by Marg. The coins would then be used to purchased bags of grains,wheat,cotton and seeds.
The adventurers guild master was to access the strength of the regions they would portal to and acquire skills manual and techniques.
While the spirit master's guild head was to gather information, materials, resources and books concerning spirit power,formations and spirit masters.
As for the other six profound realm cultivators, Marg had them mingle with the crowd and learn everything they could about this new world. What he lacked at the moment was knowledge.
[Access of portal granted,please choose a destination]
On his transparent screen, a couple of names popped up,all this were portals that offered access to the public.
To Marg's surprise, there was a single earthen ranked portal amongst the five mortal ranked portals.
"Why not visit all of them."
Marg decided as he selected the nearest mortal ranked portal.
[Portal: Mortal Ranked]
[Used to portal from one human settlement to another.]
[Portal Destination: Kanga Town]
[Number of travelers:10]
[Cost:0 spirit stones(first portaling is free)]
From the system alert,Marg learnt that they needed spirit stones to activate the portal, thankfully for him,the first activation was free.
Marg did not posses any spirit stones. He had only learnt of them from the Mortal Ranked Spirit Technique Manual.
Spirit stones were naturally formed crystals that were full of natural energies, beneficial to cultivators used as a cultivation resourse,a form of currency or as materials for forging spirit tools and in spirit formations.
In short, spirit stones were quite essential to cultivators.
The spirit stones,just like everything else concerning cultivators,had ranks.
There were nine ranks,white,red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo, violet,obsidian.
White spirit stones were the lowest in the ranking while the obsidian spirit stones were the emperor amongst the other spirit stones.
The spirit stones could only be obtained from mines.
Unlike other mines,the spirit stones mines were rare and quite few.
As Marg chose to be teleported to Kanga Town,the runes inscribed on the portal and the platform lit up,before a white light engulfed all of them.
The residents who were within the vicinity of the portal platform exclaimed as they watched the white light reside.
The light had only appeared for a couple of seconds, engulfing everyone on the platform.
"I need to search for spirit stone."
Marg thought as he felt his body weight lighten before his vision went blurry for a minute.
When he opened his eyes,he was standing on a teleportation platform, similar to the one at his territory. The only difference being that this platform was inside a large hall,or rather a large hall had been built around the platform.
The hall was gland.
It roof was fifteen metres high,supported by thick pillars,curved on them were numerous spirit formations.
Marg managed to pick out a dozen different spirit formations from all those present.
There were defensive formations, different kinds of offensive formations, tracking formations and more.
He could tell that these formations, though powerful,were all laid down by a master mortal ranked spirit master.
The hall was not empty.
There were a dozen people dressed in brown cloaks either seated behind benches or carrying out different duties.
From their uniform cloaks and the symbol on their back,Marg could tell that these were administrative workers of Kanga Town.
Apart from Marg and his party,there were other people,not part of the administrative batch,present in the hall.
These people had arrived before Marg and his companions and were currently undergoing regestiration.
Some had boxes and bags of goods with them.
Mostly of them were merchant who had come to trade with residents of Kanga Town.
"Kindly step away from the teleportation platform.."
A gentle sweet voice reached Marg's and his companions ears.
The voice was from a young lady clad in a brown cloak. Though she was young,she had an authoritative aura around her.
The brown cloak,she was in was a bit different from the rest,as it had an insignia on it.
Marg had noticed that at the moment they teleported into the hall,all eyes had landed on them for half a minute.
After accessing them,the brown cloaked individuals had all looked at the young lady that was currently approaching Marg and his companion.
To Marg,it seemed that the young lady status was higher than all the brown cloaked individuals.
"Esteemed guest,this young miss welcomes you all to Kanga Town."
The young lady said with a bow.
"So she is the young miss of Kanga Town."
Marg thought as he acknowledged her greetings.
"May I know what brings esteemed guests to our little humble town?"
The young miss of Kanga Town was polite towards Marg and his companions.
This was due to the fact that the aura emited by Marg's group was unfathomable. And also the fact that they were all clad in black cloaks that were inscribed with peak mortal ranked formations.
To these people,Marg and his companions were not people to be triffled with.
"Thank you young miss,"
"Have no worries as we are just passing by, though we will make a few purchase in town,as well as sell a few goods "
Marg said,but his voice was changed to that of a middle aged man.
Thanks to the masking formation inscribed on the cloaks,none of the people present could discern the real identity and age of Marg and his companions.