"Hehehe" Inside a luxurious carriage in the middle of the Serpentine Spear head formation, the supreme leader broke into a sly smirk. He anticipated the bone serpent old man making a move and so many more.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to deal with any others except the bone serpent clan. But if he had to? He was completely prepared to. This was a testament to how deep his plans went.
"Shit!!!" Back at the bone serpent clans formation, the bone Serpent old man(chieftain) gashed his teeth with annoyance. Who would have thought that the old bastard of the bloodserpent clan would bring out his most powerful guard with them on this trip?
It didn’t make much sense, these guys combined were insanely powerful and would probably give him a run for his money on a good day. But if they were here....who was taking care of the bloodserpent clan?
Back at bloodrock city, inside the bloodserpent clans main hall. A tall man in all black robes sneezed slightly as he looked up at the sky. No one knew he was seated here at the moment if not all the clan elders would blow their fuses.
No one was allowed in here when the supreme leader was gone, and yet, there sat Malphas Greyback on the seat that helmed over the entire clan.
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"That’s....." Leon still looked somewhat bewildered as he watched the troops of the bone serpent clan being held back by 5 men.
This was utterly embarrassing wasn’t it? And the old man of the bone serpent clan (chieftain) couldn’t even intervene.
"You’ll do well to Remember this kid. The supreme leader is always one step ahead. In fact, these guys aren’t our only preparation for the security of this convoy. Be at ease" Zeke said to Leon from his horse before pulling its regins and falling back to the rear of the carraige..
He was here to guarantee Leon’s safety yes, but he was also here to make sure the kid didn’t act out of line. So he had to drive this notion into his skull.
"I see" Leon nodded seemingly understanding what Bran meant when he told Leon to be careful of the supreme leader.
The old man was a schemer.
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"There it is" inside the Serpentine formation, several bloodserpent clansmen looked into the distance with awe.
Right infront of them was a mountain that towered into the clouds. From this spot, they couldn’t even see half way up the mountain.
"What a magnificent structure" Leon commented as he looked at this mountain. Before getting here, he had done alot of research on Griffins Peak and knew a few things about it.
Just like bloodrock city, Griffins Peak was a preexisting structure in the holy lands. In fact, it probably had a much longer and richer history than bloodrock city, but most of it was shrouded in mystery.
As they approached Griffins Peak, the shilouttes of several other clans and their formations began to come into view in far corners around the mountains base.
The bloodserpent clan was not the first to arrive, but they also weren’t the last, about 30 minutes later, the supreme leaders personal guard joined the formation and behind them the bone serpent clan followed.
"Hmmm, it’s right about that time" the supreme leader called forth his disciples, both direct and outer, and they slowly moved forward on foot to the base of the mountain.
Seeing this, the other clans from all over the sacred land followed leaving their carriages behind and walking forward.
" hmmm, so many powerful auras" Ember commented next to Leon. Because of the curvature of the mountain, she couldn’t see every single clan here, but the energy signatures were off the roof.
"Yes, there are some pretty powerful energy signatures around here," Leon muttered.
Just from his gaze, he could already pinpoint a few powerful clans already. The Titanium Giant clan, famed for their dominating strength. The Fireback turtle clan, Unique Claw clan, Severed Wing clan....there were alot of them and all gathered here to give greetings to the Golden Griffin clan.
This was because in truth, the Golden Griffin clan was the defacto leader of the sacred land.
Prior to now, they already had two level 5 existences helming their current generation and with just that, they were already considered the most powerful clan in the sacred lands....but a year and several months ago, they had produced a third making them the undisputed Kings of the sacred lands.
It would be utterly foolish for any clan of the level of substantial infulence and power to not come over to give congratulations....it could be termed as having a death wish even.
—Wang
As they reached the base of mountain a beam of light shot from the top illuminating the clouds around it.
"Make your way up" the supreme leader commented before flying up up slowly and dissappear into the clouds.
As he flew up, Yolan Qarc one of the outer disciples mirrored his motion before anyone else. However, he quickly understood that this was stupid.
Like a paper in the wind, gravity to its toll on him and smashed him into the ground. It seemed like he was biting off more than he could chew.
"Flight is not allowed on Griffins Peak" Rengoku walked forward with a blonde man and Victoria standing behind him.
But, even before he reached the mountain
"Hmp!!" Kang harrumphed before jumping ontop the mountains side and in a blink of an eye, he started climbing by jumping forward bit by bit.
"Hmmm none of you should copy that, go slow, or else you’ll just harm yourself" Rengoku shook his head at kangs display, then proceeded to do the exact same thing .
Following him, the other direct disciples of the supreme leader and others from the myriad clans of the sacred land.
The climb to Griffins Peak had begun.
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"You guys will have to come with me" Zeke said to Arian and Ember as they stood beside Leon.
"Hmm?" Arian nodded without hesitation. She knew that Leon would have to face this alone and so did Ember.
"Good luck" Ember said before waving at Leon and heading back to the carraige.
"Maximum effort" Leon sighed then started walking forward too. He was going to climb with the others to Griffins Peak.