Anger of a Father

In the depths of the Eastern Grass magic forest, 3 people dressed in light-blue clothes is walking leisurely, completely lax about the dangers that lays within this magical forest that the Eastern Grass City is named after.

The 2 seems to be lightly exploring the ins and outs of the trees, just relaxing, sometimes going faster if something caught their attention.

Any beasts that they encountered that is only rank 0 or rank 1 gets jumped on, and killed, the most valuable parts of their carcass being ripped apart from the rest of the dead corpses', causing them to be left behind, eaten by too-weak-to-be-hunted prey or just rotting.

But at the same time, they seem to have a specific goal in mind, considering their behavior that doesn't look like people that has no directing force behind them.

"How long is this going for" A Rank 0-perfect male complains with an annoyed tone.

The other man that looks like the leader of the group, the one that emanates the highest amount of energy, which was talking with the single female member of the group, glanced at him.

"Why are you always so whiny? This is experience, precious precious experience. Besides the thing we are looking for could help improve our magical rank, I just barely entered Rank 1-Early, and both of you are still Rank 0-Perfect."

"Yeah yeah, but still, how do you expect us to come out in top of next year's tripartite youngling competition"

"I didn't say we have to come out in top, we just need to do good for our honor, and well the lucrative rewards"

"Well? Define good."

"I regret taking you with me, you have been doing nothing but whine all the way"

"You fool of a brother! This is your operation in the first place"

"Huuuuhhhhhhh, did you just insult me, you little brat. I forced you to come for your own goddamn good, how dare you be ungrateful"

"Ungrateful! Tsk, how can I be grateful when you always eat the last slice of the pie? karma is real for gluttony, you pig!"

"Uh, of course, I was the first one to ge- wait, did you just call me a pig? You lazy brat"

"You knuc-"

The younger one of the 2 men suddenly went silent, his eyes turning stern and his face stoic. The elder one of the 2 went silent too after realizing the seriousness that his younger male sibling is exhibiting.

The female member of the 3 also followed suit in being serious, glancing around his surroundings.

The environment, has weirdly changed. The birds and insects have stopped crying with their annoying or pleasing voices, the rate of Rank-0 beast encounters have unusually lowered, and the atmosphere got cold despite the hot rays of the sun.

The Rank 1-Early man of the 3 draws a bronze longsword, the weapon having a slight sheen of green, contrasting with the deflected light on the sword's blade.

The female one raised her palm, cold mists starting to appear above her up-facing palm, while the other male member of the group is not making other movements, beside the turns of his head, and the sharp eye he is giving to every direction.

The 3 relatively good magical cultivators have sharpened their self, ready for what may come this way when, but unfortunately for them, every preparation they did is all for nigh.

A presence suddenly appeared above them, causing them to look up, only to be greeted by the scythe of death.

After a slight struggle between the newcomer and the group, everything turned silent, with only the Rank 1-Perfect coming out alive, with his body bleeding out blood like crazy.

His misery was ended, when the thing struck again. This time, finishing the man off.

Another body fell from the tops of the trees, still fresh. His body's remnant energy signature implies being at least Rank 2, with the head of the body being nowhere to be seen.

Slowly, the predator took care of the corpses, taking them away from the view of others, most likely to be eaten later.

Meanwhile, inside the estate of the Ice Silk Clan, 4 oval stones or is it crystals? broke inside one of the luxurious mansions, the sound waking up the guard of the life seal room.

The guard was dumbfounded by the broken pieces of the life seals, quickly leaving the room to inform his superior about what happened.

A black-haired mature looking man is eating his luscious breakfast enjoyably, worrying not of the world's troubles. This harmony between the noble design of his room, his formal attire and mannerisms, is broken when someone banged the door loudly.

The calm face of the man scrunched, in an obvious display of his irritation, but despite his dissatisfaction of this disturbance, he replied to the knocks.

"Who dares to disturb my lunch?"

"I deeply apologize, Sir, but you have to see this immediately" The knocker of the door replied with great apprehension and fear, as a reply to the deep and threatening voice from inside the room.

A deafening pause dominated for a few seconds, but quickly disappearing after the 2 doors of the room opened and the noble man inside came out, staring daggers into the soul of the thing that disturbed him.

"This better be good, or else, red will be the new color of some flowers at the garden" Combined with his intimidating aura, and slim body, produced a contrast that can make anyone feel confused, but at the same time terrified.

As the sounds of their heeled shoes hit the ground, the heartbeat of the servant intensifies, as if to imitate the intensity of a hummingbird's flaps.

They arrived in the room, the servant quickly showing the dark pieces of the once glowing life seals.

He didn't mutter a word, a single sound even, just a nerve-wracking silence. This did not ease the servant's heart, further worsened when he spoke words heavier than a mountain.

"How did you not notice the life seals slowly lose its light?"

"My lord, my oh so merciful lord, they just got shattered immediately my lord"

The room went weird for an instant, when a silver flash came in and out of existence, with the only effect of that occurrence being the rolling head of the begging servant.

"A pity that you lied, I might have let your family go if that was the case"

Footsteps once again rang, as the man left the headless body in the room, to go towards another place.

Commotion started to rise in the Eastern Grass City, when the Ice Silk Clan started to move, gathering people for an beast-hunting expedition, alarming the other 2 powers of the local region.

The Golden Light clan and the City government originally started to deviously plan, to somehow damage the Ice Silk clan in any way possible, on top of the possible expenses of such an expedition into the Eastern Grass forest.

But this was all cancelled when word got out that the person that ordered for the mobilization of the Ice Silk clan, is not your run of the mill person.

It is a person from the Governorate City, which just returned from his exploration of the world.

His powers and position within the Ice Silk clan makes it so that he is de-facto equal in power to the Clan Head and Supreme Elder. Rumors also speaks of the connections he established in the capital, making the scheming eyes of the City Government and Golden Light clan, less oriented to the weakening of the Ice Silk.

Word quickly spread, and almost the entirety of the city knows the coming expedition, that contains substantial reward for any participants.

Due to this rather tempting rewards, many people flocked to be accepted into it but not all, of course, is within the requirements set, causing some to return back to their normal routine with disappointment.

Days passed, and the date of the expedition finally came, with the 3 powers of the local region and city supporting it, the force gathered is something to be reckoned with, born from vengeance and desire.

"Hoyyyyyy" A male person shouts at a pair of women that is still a bit far in the distance, causing them to wave at him.

After almost a minute of waiting by the guy, the 2 women finally caught up.

"Why the heck were you 2 late? The start of the expedition is only an hour or 2 from now" The guy said with annoyance.

"Sorry, I woke up late"

"I waiting for her, she was still asleep when I went by to visit her house on the way"

"Worry no more I guess, let's go, you 2 still need to be approved by our recruitment managers"

The 3 quickly walked towards the gathering of people, just outside the edge of the eastern grass forest.

"There, he is the guy you need to talk to, he needs to confirm you 2s presence"

The 2 walked to line up behind a normal-looking man, someone that the guy seems to recognize, considering that he widened his eyes, and seemed to want to greet him.

"Next" The recruitment manager roughly said, with the 2 women quickly going forward and the normal-looking man getting out of the way.

The male member of the group of 3, gets closer to the guy and says.

"Wanna group up with us?"