5 |Dissension|

Every few minutes of silence the forest continued to experience its onslaught of rain. under such harsh and eccentric conditions, a group of cloaked figures appeared at the heart of the forest. The six formed a circle and evaluated each other with their eyes, which were well hidden regardless. They wore dark violet robes and seemed to each have the air of an expert fighter.

They each confirmed themselves to be of Bishop rank and from the church of Massacre. Their guards eased up and the youngest among them was a boy named Jian Greed. He seemed fairly out of place here.

"Hm! why is there a kid here? ", One of the Hooded bishops commented as his gaze landed on Jian. He seemed to be of a high standing in the group from his tone.

A figure to the right of Jian replied, "He is here to help us, which we desperately need right now Sir John.. I hope you wouldn't turn down help when it's so badly needed right? or can you get us out of this situation?!"

"Tsk", The figure named John knew he was right. The last month or so has been hell for the Blood Scorpion branch. In fact, it seemed like misfortune plagued their every move from the moment they left the Massacre Region. It had been ok, at first but it seemed the Church of the sea god had gotten wind of their activities and begun to push against them.

In just the last few weeks alone they had last a whole three-fourths of their branch and aside from a few scattered members here and there, those present are all that is left of the upper circles of the Scorpion branch. Thus, John could do nothing but stand in silence, while inspecting the kid who emitted waves of energy on the same level as himself?!

Jian looked around at the others and seemed unaffected by what was going on, he didn't appear to have even noticed John's comment as he was still a bit dazed. He did not know what had gone wrong from the beginning. His branch was ranked #14 in the Massacre region, not to mention they were rising, but out of nowhere seemingly... they fell.

A stronger branch invaded them and with no other choice, they fled to the Sea-god's Holy Bridge Region. He thought that they could recover and go back home, but as they had sacrificed the last poor citizen of the Amethyst Captial their ceremony was crashed by strong Bishops from the Church of the sea god. They massacred the lower leveled worshippers and with numbers adding up to fourteen High-level Bishops bolstering their assault.

His branch turned to shambles while only a lucky few escaped.

"You ok Jian? I won't have anyone push you out of the group nor give you the short end of the stick so you'll be fine.. got it?" , The figure to the right sent his voice directly into Jian's head, so only he could hear.

Jian nodded in response to this but did not respond verbally. However, he didn't do this because he was spacing out, but due to the fact he just broke through and gained the powers of a Puesdo-Bishop he had yet to master them. This power was still a shocker to him as he closed his eyes and sensed his strength. The power scale. He recalled the elementary book he studied in his scripture classes:

[Bishop: This Realm realm reveals the gates to our lord. Blood is the path to him and so let the blood flow through you. Envision a world of combat and savagery. Kneel before the bodies of your dead families. Drink of their blood. And you shall ascend to begin the lords' work.]