Show off

"I'm sorry I'm late!"

Adonis said as he made his way toward the group. The reason Adonis was late was that he was putting the final touches on his new flower garden in his soul domain.

The team looked at Adonis and each of them gave him a different look.

The girl with brown and yellow streaked hair said,

"My~ you brought quite a handsome guy Lena, is that why he caught your eyes?"

"No, although his face is a perk, he also has something more."

"Ohhh~ are you saying he has a big-"

"Juniper."

The girl with navy hair said sternly.

Juniper immediately became quiet once she heard that.

"Hehe...sorry leader."

The girl with navy hair ignored Juniper and walked toward Adonis.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you, my name is Mila. Yours?"

"My name is Adonis."

The guy with a scar on his forehead was jealous of Adonis due to his good looks, but when he heard Adonis's name, he knew who Adonis was.

"HAHAHAHA!"

The guy with a scar on his forehead laughs hysterically.

"Why are you laughing Barrett?"

Juniper questioned,

"Because that kid is the trash of the Lock Family, Adonis Lock! Hahaha!!"

Barrett figured this out mostly due to Adonis's hair color, as children of the Lock Family have all been known to have red hair that resembles fire.

Juniper and Mila were surprised to hear this, as they had heard that Adonis had joined the sect but they never saw him, so they believed it was a rumor.

Other disciples in the Mission Hall heard what Barrett had said, and started to talk about Adonis, all making some type of insult and laughing at him.

Lena was annoyed with Barrett's remarks and wondered if this affected Adonis. Meanwhile, Adonis thought, 'Wow, to think my name would travel to the inner disciples.'

Adonis didn't take it to heart since he was used to this type of treatment.

Also, the elders and Sect Leader decided to keep Adonis's improvement a secret, since they decided that he would be their trump card for future events.

Barrett stood up and walked up to Adonis.

"Hey trash, do even know what you're getting yourself into?"

"Lena gave me the gist of it."

"Oh, then you must be trying to get yourself killed then? You're trying to go out with a "bang" aren't you?"

"Barrett!"

Lena yelled

"Quiet, Lena, you're the one that brought this trash here expecting him to help us, what are you, blind?"

Lena was pissed at Barrett and was prepared to beat the shit out of him, but a hand stopped her, which was Juniper, who simply shook her head as she couldn't fight in the Mission Hall. Lena hated that she couldn't do anything and tried to look for the elder of the Mission Hall but they were nowhere.

Barrett got close to Adonis and said, "Despite being from such a grand family with a high affinity for fire, you don't even have that affinity, so let me show you what powerful fire looks like."

Barrett opened his hand and a fireball the size of Adonis's head appeared. Barrett actually had quite a high affinity for fire, obviously not at the level of the Lock children, but it was high for someone in a minor nobility.

"See! What do you think of that?"

Barrett said as he was showing off.

Mila finally had enough of watching Barrett bullying and was gonna stop him, but she stopped when she heard.

"Meh, it's average."

"Eh?"

That's all Barrett and the other disciples in the Mission Hall could say before Adonis started to speak again.

"Here, let me show you mine."

Adonis opened his palm and a fireball appeared, although it was smaller than Barrett's, the fireball flooded the entire mission hall with fire energy.

The team and all of the disciples were shocked by the amount of fire energy a fireball from Adonis could make, not only that, but the energy was thick enough to be seen by the untrained eye.

Barrett was so shocked that he fell to the ground, and looked at Adonis who only had a small smile on his face as he looked at the fireball.

As the other disciples in the Mission Hall were equally surprised, many of them were having trouble breathing as the fire energy was so strong it was pushing away other elements in the atmosphere, making it hard to breathe and very hot.

Mila knew if Adonis decided to ignite the fire energy he was emitting it would blow up the entire mission hall, which was about the size of your average mansion. She also saw the disciples starting to faint and cough a lot.

"Adonis put the fireball away!"

Mila yelled, Adonis, hearing this, extinguished his fireball and crouched down to Barrett.

"So, what do you think?"

Adonis said with a smile that says he is proud of his fire.

Barrett thought, 'WHAT THE FUCK!! THIS GUY IS CONSIDERED TRASH?! THAT IS A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BULLSHIT!!!"

It wasn't only Barrett that thought that, but it was also all of the conscious disciples only thought.

Barrett regretted trying to make Adonis seem lower to him and once he stood up, he did a perfect 90-degree bow to Adonis.

"I'm-I'm sorry for the way I acted!"

Adonis was confused by Barrett's sudden change.

"Umm, you don't have to bow to me. I honestly kinda wanted to show off anyways."

Adonis said, kinda embarrassed with what he did.

Barrett continued to apologize as he did not want to get on the bad side of Adonis. Meanwhile, the girls stared with bewildered eyes at what they just witnessed. Lena was the first one to recover and put on a proud expression.

"See, I told you he'd be useful."

Lena said as if she knew that Adonis had that much strength.

Mila wasn't buying it, but Juniper had stars shining in her eyes.

"Holy shit! You found an amazing person, Lena! He's handsome, strong, and from the looks of it, kind!"

Juniper said as she looked at Adonis trying to get Barrett to stop apologizing gently.

Lena felt more proud, but then Juniper leaned to her ear and said,

"Do you think he's single?"

Lena sighed at Juniper's question and pushed her away. Lena then looked at Mila and from her look, she was telling Mila 'What do you think of him?'

Mila nodded, approving Adonis for the mission, she then yelled for everyone's attention.

"Ok, everyone, settle down!"

"We are now gonna go to the Beast Land Cave, if you don't want to go, you can back out right now."

Nobody said anything.

"Ok, then follow me, we are gonna go straight towards there."

Mila walked out of the mission hall and the rest of the team followed.

Adonis couldn't feel anything but excitement for this new mission, as he took a step out of Mission Hall.