Welcome My Nine Shadows !

After Ace reached the middle of the city , he took another detour and arrived at the end of the street, in front of him was a small gate, after he and Joanna entered it, they reached outside of the city, after Ace saw that they were out of the city, he went into the forest that was near them, this was the 'Broken Ridge Forest '.

In the forest, there were many beats but the way Ace took was empty, no beast came in there way, quickly, they arrived at their destination, here, there were two mountains , and quickly, they came near one of them, then Ace started tapping on it in different ways, after, unknown mechanisms were heard, then All the stones moved and made a way, after seeing this, the two of them entered inside, after they were inside, the 'door' closed with a bang

After Ace came inside, he looked at the hall that was lit up with spirit lights, after a few seconds, he went inside, meanwhile inside of the hall, there were eleven,stone made seats.

At this moment, nine of these seats were occupied by nine youths at the age of ten, the eldest among them was only eleven, at this moment, all of them were looking at the end of the hall, there, Ace and his maid, Joanna appeared, meanwhile after the nine youths saw them, they stood up and saluted.

"Welcome Master"

After they saluted, they all sat back in their seats,. Meanwhile after Ace looked at them, he asked

"Did you train according to the way I told you? I came today with all the weapons that you asked for, I also brought you some clothes that you will wear in case there is a mission I want you to go to"

After Ace said this, he accessed the system's storage and moved all the weapons and the black robes out side, after the youths saw the clothes and the weapons, they were excited, meanwhile one of them said something after he caught one of the daggers in his hands

"Master, these weapons, why are they different from the ones we used when we were training?, I feel like they are more times heavier and powerful, are they ranked weapons?"

After Ace heard what the youth said, he first laughed and then said,

"Shadow1,they are not ranked weapons, but they are also not far away from being One, so you can call them 'Pseudo ranked weapons'.

As Ace looked at their eager expressions , he told them,

"Each of you can choose one weapon, and one robe, after you finish choosing, then we will move to our next task"

After the nine of them heard what Ace said, they were excited and all of them wanted to choose, but as if remembering something, all of them looked at the youth that seemed to be older than them, it was as if they were waiting for the leader to choose first.

As Ace looked at them, he looked at the youth that all of them were looking at and said

" It seems that you chose 1st Shadow as the leader, I told you that none of you can beat him"

"Master,we had no other choice, Shadow 1 is so powerful,he actually told all of us to attack him at the same time,but we still lost,we were beaten to submission, none of us was able to give him a hard time, we were beaten, we nolonger want to fight with him "

After Shadow 1 heard what the other youth said, he looked at Ace and said

" Master, it's not that I'm powerful, it's them that are very weak, even though I beat them up, I was still beaten up by the shadow Master, he beat me until I fainted, I think we should change the trainer otherwise, I will be dead by the next time you come here "

As Ace looked at Shadow 1,he couldn't help but feel like laughing all of a sudden, he was the one that used his Manifestation talent and made the so called 'Shadow Master',he also knew what happened during that time,it can only be said that it was Shadow 1's fault.

Shadow1 was really arrogant, after he beat up all the eight companions of his, he felt like he had graduated from his Martial Arts course, he went to the 'Shadow Master' who was in his room 'sleeping' and arrogantly challenged him, after that fight, Shadow1 became obedient, he put in even more efforts in his training, the aim?, To beat the Shadow Master !

"You really are confident, that person is powerful, even if you become a cultivator, you won't be able to beat him, even fighting him to a draw will be a miracle" Said Ace as he looked at shadow1 who was choosing his weapon and robe

"Master, you mean that he is a cultivator? Hiss!!, I was fighting with a cultivator all along, remembering my arrogance at that time, he even went easy on me" Said shadow1 as he finished choosing his weapon and robe.

Meanwhile as he looked at the robe in his hands, he felt like it wasn't normal, it was not like the clothes they wore usually.

"As expected of Master, nothing around you is normal, even the clothes are special"

As Ace looked at him, he couldn't help but think about a few days ago. A few days ago, Ace went to the City Square to buy the weapons and clothes, at that time, he bought a hundred weapons for each type of weapons they wanted, and he also bought a hundred clothes, then he Synthesised all of them, what he got was nine pseudo ranked weapons, and nine pseudo ranked defensive robes.

After Ace looked at the Synthesised weapons and robes, he went overboard and used his talent and made a 'Soul Mark', as long as one used his blood to mark the robe and weapon as his, then it will be his for life, he also added a talent to them , it is a powerful talent that allows the weapons and robes to be as powerful as their masters.

Put it like, if the nine of them managed to become cultivators in the Body Tempering Realm, then all the weapons and robes will become 9th Grade spirit artifacts , if they cultivated and reached the Divine Realm, then all the weapons and rob will be 'Divine Artifacts '.this can show just how powerful the talent is!.

"Don't look down on these weapons and robes, they will accompany you for life, they were made by an expert, they can change the way they look to the way you want them to be, they have a Purification Rune on them they are ever clean,they also have a Soul Mark, as long as you use a drop of your blood to mark them, then unless your soul is burnt to ash, it will be with you, "!

Meanwhile after Joanna heard what Ace said, she looked at the clothes and weapons with shinning eyes, she looked at him and asked

" Young Master, can I also have one of those? They are really powerful and have potential, I want to have a full closest! "

After Ace heard what she said, he looked at her and said

" I'll get you one if you want when we go back "

After the 9 Shadows chose their weapons and robes, they made them recognize them as the masters, after that, they wore them and kept their weapons on their waists , meanwhile after they finished weapons selection, Ace got a spirit stone from his storage and put it down, then looked at them.

"Come here, let us start the main event of today, first of all, I want to ask you, do you know the reason why I brought you here and trained you when I got you from the slave house? "

After Ace finished his words, all of the nine Shadows looked at him, this time, all of them were very attentive.

" The reason why I did all of that was for today, I want to train you into powerful' Shadow Guards', I want you to be my confidants, I want to trust you with my life, you guard me and the people I tell you to guard I'm someone with many enemies, some known and others are unknown, if any of you feels like he won't be able to accompany me to the peak of cultivation, then the doors are open for you to leave "

After all the nine Shadows heard what he said, they looked at him in daze, it was as if they were looking at a monster, they all thought from the moment they were trained that their was something wrong, but as 'his' people, they could only train as he ordered them to, they never thought that his dreams would be this big, the peak of cultivation? They have never thought of that because there was a big problem!

"Master, you have given all of us a new life, here, none of us doesn't eat, and we don't do any hard work, all we do is to practice with the Shadow Master, we can't be that ungrateful and leave you, we will stay with you until the end, but, we can't cultivate".

" When we were brought to the City, we were tasted and we had no cultivation talents, we can't cultivate " said the 3rd Shadow

" Talent? Don't worry about it, I'm the father of talents, if I say that you will cultivate, then you will cultivate "