[Chapter 32] The Truth Gets Out

[South Korea, Eminence Headquarters] 

[Afternoon 2:15 pm] 

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A couple weeks have gone by, and the white tiger concluded it was finally time to solve the phoenix and hydra's clan misunderstanding. They split into 2 teams of 15, as each group figures out how to approach the clans without seeming hostile. 

And knowing that there will be dragons and basilisk's clan members monitoring them, makes it a bit difficult, but not by that much. As with the help of Eminence's A.I, they were able to pinpoint all the spies. Moreover, their senses have increased by 4 times, making it easy to differentiate awakeners base on the different energy everyone gives off. 

But they are still unable to sense awakeners who has strength way above them, like those in the Top 50's. That was proven when they innocently tried to sense their chairwomen's power, earning them a smack in the face by Chelsea, who misunderstood their intentions and thought they were peeking on her like a pervert. 

That misunderstanding was quickly settled when Yulius calm her twin down enough for the defendants to explain themselves. Listening to their pure honest mistake, caused Chelsea to rub the back of her head awkwardly as she apologized sincerely. 

This is because, Chelsea did not just stop with one strike to their faces, but stroked them multiple times, causing several bruises to pop right out of their heads, as they sit Japanese style, both arms raised in the air, with teary painful expressions.

The victims were quick to apologize and say it was alright, just a misunderstanding, when Chelsea wouldn't stop bowing her head apologetically, as she continued saying, "I'm so sorry," or "if there was bigger word than sorry, I would've said it by now!" Those string of apologies kept coming right out of her mouth as the injured tried to reassure her that all was well. 

She of course didn't listen to them, and only stopped when Yulius got annoyed by the situation going nowhere, karate chopping her right in the head, efficiently knocking her right out. Every member stared at the scene perplexed.

'What the actual f*ck just happened?' 

Went through everyone's mind, but a simple smile that did not meet Yulius's eyes, sent everyone their merrily way, as they went back to doing their tasks, not caring one bit about Chelsea's fate, as her twin drags her by the collar up the stairs, and into their office. 

That day, everyone learned, do not peek or even dare try to sense their master's aura. As misunderstanding like those, will be the death of them. Which was why, they made a side note, to remind new recruits of the do's and don'ts. Spying on their master being the don'ts of course. 

Point is their sensing capabilities has increased dramatically, making it hard for people to sneak up on them. Adding on, the chairwomen created another well-developed force control called Observational Haki. Weird name if you ask them, but the technique is well refined. 

This technique is obviously brought to you by One piece, a useful technique Yulius didn't mind copying in order to strengthen Eminence's awakeners, giving them the advantages of sensing their enemies even when they are blind sighted. 

In a more in-depth explanation, Observational Haki is a form of Haki that grants the user a sixth sense that allows them to sense the presence, strength, and emotions of others, as well as gain limited precognitive abilities.

That is just of course the basic form of it as the advance form of Observational Haki allows the users to look into the future by a couple of seconds, ranging from 1-10 seconds, depending on how talented the user is.

10 seconds is the maxed amount of time someone could look into the future using Color Observational Haki as someone like Shanks from One Piece, who's extremely talented with using Haki, said so himself, that looking over 10 seconds into the future, is the most that any character has done to this day.

But of course, those limitation does not apply to the twins since Yulius and Chelsea manipulate time. Even then, their time ability has limitations. Limitations they are sure to surpass in the later future, but as of right now, they have better things to focus on.

Moreover, their body is still too young to fully wield most of their awakened abilities to its fullest. All they can do is be patient and grow at a steady rate. Doesn't mean they won't overdo it at times, as it's better and more efficient to train until your legs give out, or even better, till you faint, in order to gain better results. 

Speaking of gaining better results, making a force control for Observation Haki was indeed a bit difficult, but with the help of her time affinity, everything went well. Currently, all the members already got Basic Observational Haki down, but none have breached the advance stage of it just yet.

From what they were told by their masters, you can only improve Haki from actual live combat. And only during extreme circumstances, will their Haki manifest stronger, leading to a breakthrough. Something, regular training cannot grant them. 

No worries there, as they are in no rush to obtain the advance form of it, knowing that their current selves are already strong enough for a couple of them to single handedly take down all of the hydra or phoenix clan.

The only reason why the white tiger decided to be in groups of 2, in order to successfully accomplish their current mission, is because they didn't want their new profound confidence to lead to their arrogance getting the better of them, and thus misleading their judgement, putting their people in danger. Moreover, it's better to improve their synergy and overall, compatibility for teamwork. 

With that thought in mind, Edgar, a talented white tiger member, took on the leadership role in leading their group of 15 to the phoenix clan, who got note of their arrival. Not that they weren't expecting it, as a couple days earlier, Eminence sent a formal invitation to them. 

The phoenix clan didn't see any reason to refuse them, as they didn't believe they were inferior to the awakeners of Eminence. Furthermore, what Eminence has to offer might be a good thing as they too, are well aware of the rumors going around about them. 

Some good, some bad, most worse than others, they've heard it all. They are still slightly cautious about them, but their overconfident nature dismisses their meaningless worries. Arrogance will always lead to one's downfall.

If it were any other organization, they would've used their overconfident nature to their advantage and eliminate the phoenix clan. But most organization has viewed the Mythical Beast Clans as weaklings, so they didn't really pay much attention to them.

Then again, there's always rankers who destroys anyone and anything just because they can, so I wouldn't put it behind them to magically destroy all of the Beast Clans. Luckily for them, Eminence has no intention of starting a war with them. 

But with the dragons and basilisks pulling the strings behind the scenes, it may as well be completely unavoidable. Even with solid evidence, the phoenix and hydra clan might still side with them. But who's to say they won't linger on to that strand of hope, that the hydra clan was indeed falsely accused. 

That they were truly innocent and both parties were set up. 

Letting that thought sink in, it's impossible for anyone in the phoenix clan's place to not suspect the dragons or basilisks. As all the evidence leads back to them. Moreover, as they allowed their brains to process the red flags they missed due to their rage clouting their overall judgement, everything that occurred between the 4 clans were too coincidental.

Making up their minds, understanding what they must do in order to write their wrongs, they joined Eminence. As they required their assistance to settle their problematic affairs with the hydra clan from continuing on any longer than it already has, and to get revenge on the dragons and basilisks clans for managing to trick them, while also preventing whatever they were planning from working. 

Luckily for them, the other white tiger squad cleared up the misunderstanding on the hydra clan side, and thus recruiting them into EAO, short for Eminence Awakened Organization, as both clans were finally able to meet up in person, after so many dreadful years, at their new headquarters.

There, apologizes were given out multiple times over and over again until eventually, they came to an agreement to let bygones be bygones as they cannot change what has happened in the past and should focus on the future. That future contains, getting straight down to the point on why the basilisks and dragons went behind everyone's back and broke the agreement. 

Hypocrites, if you ask anyone.

They speak all high and mighty about how everyone should abide to the peace agreement, yet they've broke it long before anyone else has. Going as far as pitting the blame onto other clans in order to cover their trails, to human trafficking, and worse, experimenting on children.

Gosh, how they get the icks just thinking about it, further elevating their rage for them. Certainly not all of them, as they are well aware on the different fractions going on within both clans, completely against whatever shady business the main fraction is doing but is too powerless to stop them.

Which was why Eminence sent spies to secretly communicate with those fractions, in order to finally put an end to those clan's madness. Little did they know, the true master mind.

Leaving many to question who, or what, or why? More questions popped up, one after the next, leaving many confused with the many unanswered questions they had. But one thing was for sure. Chaos was soon to ensue. 

And neither side were prepared. 

Except for EAO's members.

Who looked under the underneath. 

Like true ninjas/shadows.

Brought to you by the Seo twins! 

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