"The Ancestor will present the reward for the Future-Heir Sanjay." The Faction said as he stood still and the rest of the candidates, the elders, and every other person stood up.
An old man came into the seating area of the faction head slowly. He has long white hair and a long white beard. He wore loose robes and has an aura of a monk.
Behind him, another person also came out, and he is the uncle of Sanjay who is holed up in that dark room.
He decided to come out since his grandfather is coming out as a sign of respect.
All the people in the faction are looking at the old man with respect.
They are more respectful to him than the Faction-head. Even though he is not the strongest and definitely not stronger than the current Faction-head, he is not weaker than him either. If anything, he can at most tie with the Faction-head.
But what is making them give his respect is his status of the older generation and his wisdom and experience been far greater than the Faction-head.
The Consummate Realm of cultivation has much more than strength and since he stayed in that realm far more than the Faction-head, his experience is more valuable.
"You did a good job." He looked at Sanjay and said. Sanjay looked at him and gave a deep bow before saying.
"Ancestor, with all due respect, I want to say a few words before we proceed." The Oldman nodded his head without much thought.
"I need some answers and I would like you or the Faction-head to answer me genuinely. If I don't get the answer today and if I was lied to, I would relinquish the title of the Future-head."
His words shocked everyone, including Sam and Watt. They are outsiders who do not belong to the faction and even they are stunned by this, because even they who don't know all the privileges of the position, they could guess how important that is.
But now this guy is straight up saying that he is leaving that if he doesn't know the answer.
They are all wondering what is it that he wants to know so badly.
As everyone was staying silent, Sanjay continued.
"Twenty years ago, what happened? Who is the man who was labelled as a traitor and also why is he labelled as a traitor? I read some hidden records accidentally and knew, before that incident he is the man who brought glory, his achievements were way past his peers, even my father the current faction-head was left behind far away.
Who is he?"
The Oldman widened his eyes in surprise, he took a deep breath and looked at Sanjay with a discerning look. He could see those eyes are full of determination and knew that Sanjay would do what he said, if he really didn't say so.
He then looked at the Faction-head whose face is distorted with anger and shook his head, before turning to Sanjay again.
"Why do you want to know this all of a sudden?"
"Because, a few months ago, a young man who resembled that person a lot was labelled as a bastard and was targeted as the most wanted criminal by the Faction-head himself. Some people of our faction, even resorted to using our spies in other major powers to deal with him.
Why so much hatred towards that person? Even though, his father might be a traitor, why show so much hatred towards that person who doesn't share anything from his father except for the blood and kinship?
Today, I am determined to know."
The ancestor was extremely surprised, he looked at the faction-head whose face was extremely dark with anger, hatred and a twisted expression and understood what Sanjay said was truth.
He looked at the audience and the rest of the candidates, elders and everyone else.
"This is not something to be discussed in front of everyone. We can talk this after the ceremony is over. Let the rest of the ceremony continue and we will be discussing it after that in private."
The Faction-head looked at Sanjay with extreme anger, but the latter didn't care.
The next part of this will be awarding the winners and other rewards for the merits obtained by other people.
But there is no excitement in anyone as the ceremony moved on, rather the atmosphere is so tense that one could cut it with a knife.
Meanwhile, Sam is pondering. He knew for one that Sanjay is talking about him and from what he heard, it seemed to be something related to the father of the Original Sam to whom his current body belonged to.
He didn't feel anything when he knew this, because, he was orphan through and through in both lives and even the previous owner of the body went through a horrible childhood and has no sense of kinship towards his parents who he doesn't know.
Even if that person who is supposed to be the father was still alive, Sam might have beat the crap out of him in anger of letting him suffer that horrible childhood, rather than feeling happy about that.
Because, one could wait only so long for their parents and they need them when they are in most vulnerable state.
One might say, that one has to be grateful for their parents for giving him the life, and he knew that is true, but if the situation was like his, where dying would have been better off than living by million times and the worst part being, not being able to kill himself when he wanted to, there would be no gratitude left.
He didn't ask for birth and let him into the world and once that father and mother gave birth to him, they have to take their responsibility, no matter whatever the circ.u.mstances might be.
If they are not capable of facing the circ.u.mstances and not sure whether they can survive the circ.u.mstances, then they better off not giving birth to the kids.
Sam felt that it would be better if that father is really dead, because at least that would be acceptable reason to abandon him. [A/n: These are not exactly my views, these are the opinions of Sam's twisted mind. Please take the story as a story]
He waited and waited for the right time, so that he could execute the plan. He is a little bit interested to know the father, but that is only a little bit, for him saving Watt is priority. He doesn't have anything to do with the Beast faction and neither does he want to find this body's birth parents. Since, he was already separated it would be better to keep it that way.
The ceremony continued and the outer sect disciples are making their way out. Sam who is wearing the same uniform and a cloak to cover his face in the back, just stayed there even after almost all the outer court disciples left.
When the ceremony reached an end and the Inner court disciples and the Core disciples are also about to take a leave, Sam suddenly made a move.
His body turned into a dazzling light as activated the light elemental fusion and leaped off of the seat and jumped into the battleground.
At the same time, Watt also leaped towards the battle ground and surprisingly he reached the full wind elemental fusion.
A bright light flash and a concentrated wind, both met in the ring and were about to zoom past the way.
"Block the entrance, now" The Faction-head who noticed the moves, commanded and the nascent who is incharge of the only entrance which was open blocked the entrance.
Sanjay who noticed Watt's movements also made his move and the Flood dragon roared.
A giant Ice wall appeared and surrounded Sam and Watt.
Both of them clashed into the wall and broke it, but this slowed them down and the entrance was already blocked and the inner court disciples and the Core disciples who are yet to take their leave all got ready to attack.
Now, Sam and Watt are standing inside the battle-ground along with Sanjay all three of them surrounded by more than five hundred disciples and other Nascent stage cultivators, Pre-transcendent cultivators, Transcendent cultivators, three Consummate cultivators all ready to make a move.
There is a worst possible position.
Sanjay looked at Sam with an excited expression. He knew he would come.
But the rest of the people had surprised expressions, they didn't expect that someone would come for Watt and he would be stupid enough to make his move here in middle of all these people.
Sam removed his cloak and the uniform and is with his Black vest, he didn't wear the coat.
He looked at Sanjay calmly without any expression.
The Ancestor and Sanjay's uncles are looking at Sam with stunned expressions, they could see the resemblance to that person who they are all too familiar with.
