After the talk with Chaos, I honestly felt a little awkward now. I’m not sure what I was expecting during the conversation but I guess I kinda thought something would happen during that very moment.

  But now…here I was still sitting in the meditation room, with not even a day passing.

  I’m sure the Black Dawn hasn’t even departed yet and I kinda made it seem like I would be indisposed for the time being not able to join in. Well…might as well use the time to get my thoughts in order.

  Things kind of moved extremely quickly after the breakthrough and it kinda feels like my plans just keep on changing. Of course that makes sense since plans need to be flexible for goals to be achieved.

  And despite all the change in my immediate plans, my long term goals have not changed one bit. I will get stronger and grow a truly powerful clan along the way while fighting strong opponents along the way. Or in recent memory getting help to fight these strong opponents. Tch.

  Any way things have changed again, one of my siblings is on their way here, and how knows how long they’ll take to arrive. Rellia a future member of the clan and a peak 2nd Stage Immortal is out doing her own test to enter, one that will come with its own implications.

  On top of that, we are currently about to engage with some powerful spider beast and build some relationships with this High Flame Sect. Izanshi is even currently trying to break into the Immortal Realm at some point.

  So essentially, the Clan is about to have three Immortal level beings while I’m still in the Nascent Soul Realm. It didn’t necessarily bother me, but at the same time it didn’t necessarily make me happy either.

  Then there is Sendoira, she is out somewhere trying to find information on her race and how to progress.

  Should I just leave her alone?

  Something about that bothered to me.

  Sigh

  I stepped out of the meditation room to see Vrusha standing by.

  “Vrusha, send a squad to find Sendoira, support her and protect her, that is all.”

  “Patriarch, there is no need to find her, we have kept close tabs on her location since she has departed and have been protecting her in secret the entire time. We could make her protection detail more public if you wish though.

  I was genuinely a little surprised but I suppose I shouldn’t expect anything less from my people.

  “No that’s fine. Well done and keep at it.”

  He nodded and I’m sure some orders and commendations were quickly passed around after that, but I left it alone.

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  I decided that I still wouldn’t be joining Lidaz and the others spider hunting since even I knew a little bit of shame, but that was only part of it. I wanted to be here when my sibling dropped by.

  Though, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was one I already met or interacted with. Was it the one who helped me when I did…whatever it was that I did to Earth? Or perhaps it was Elder Zal’s Matriarch and the reason I had over 6000 Clan members now.

  Well I was wrong on all accounts.

  I thought I would have to wait weeks or even months for this sibling of mine to show up, but I’ve been wrong before and I was wrong again. Who would’ve guessed that just as I was walking across the training ground that a hulk of a man would just appear in front of me?

  I probably would’ve already roused the flames within me and attacked with all I had if I couldn’t instantly feel the same connection I felt before with two others before him. This was the sibling in question.

  Vrusha and the others couldn’t feel the connection I felt so I fully expected the man and the other guards surrounding the area to be halfway through an attack by now and would have to stop them, only to see Vrusha not moving at all.

  He caught my eyes and a message was quickly transferred to my mind.

  ‘Patriarch, this man is Patriarch Tivanus.’

  Ah, so he recognized him.

  Anyway, the man known as Tivanus didn’t seem to be paying much attention to me at the moment. He seemed lost in thought as if he arrived here while he was thinking deeply about something.

  Funnily enough, I couldn’t sense an ounce of power from him at all, and he could easily pass for a regular person who hadn’t even begun cultivating. Well a regular giant person, but regular, nonetheless.

  Definitely around 12 feet in height, a gruff beard, a pristinely bald head, brown skin color, and dark red eyes. Dressed what looked to be very simple Chinese style robes. I guess Infernals really liked their robes.

  Anyway, both Vrusha and I just stood there in silence for a bit as we let the man settle his thoughts and a few minutes passed by like that before he finally seemed to get to the bottom of whatever was on his mind and paying attention to his surroundings.

  “Rai…”

  A deep rumbling voice and that almost caused an earthquake came out of his mouth before he stopped himself abruptly and waved a hand.

  “Ahem, sorry about that. It’s been a while since I’ve had to restrain my own voice. Raizen right? It’s good to finally meet my newest brother. Come, there is a lot we must discuss. Ah and don’t worry, every single Infernal on this planet and even the one traveling some distance away will all receive a message about your departure.”

  I didn’t even get to agree or argue before he waved another hand in my direction and before I knew it, I was standing…I don’t know where I was standing or if I was even standing anymore.

  All around was me was just…nothing.

  It didn’t feel like the nothing that existed in the space around planets, but like…true nothing.

  “Ah that’s much better. The laws in that Universe are far too cramped and there’s no need to restrain my voice here. Plus no one will bother us while we talk, I’ve always said the void was the best place to have private gatherings but no one ever listens.”

  So this is the void…yet here I stand uninjured and facing no level of harm whatsoever. My eyes shifted back to my sibling and while I knew for a fact he was far stronger than me, I had to raise that assumed power level much higher in my mind.

  Because surely it took something near the peak of the world to be able to stand in the void like this based on all I’ve heard about it.

  “Hm, well your not exactly wrong little brother, weaklings cannot survive here without assistance from someone like me, and unfortunately little brother, that is precisely what you are at the moment.

  “A weakling.”

  Immediately I wanted to speak out, but I didn’t even get the chance.

  “You will not speak until I allow it.”

  His voice was calm, and his words didn’t even come across as stern, but what they felt like had nothing to do with the reality of what they were.

  I couldn’t talk.

  No matter what I tried or attempted, which actually wasn’t much…I couldn’t talk.

  “Don’t worry little brother, I said we will have conversation and we will, but for now you will listen.”