?chapter 646 is chaos better than order? (part 1)

    the two female protectors from the group of the redheart or more accurately blazeheart family as aster has directly said, who managed to listen to a part of the previous conversation between aster and the girls, gritted their teeth.

    "that bastard, from the very beginning knew what we were doing and provoked us so that the young masters would attack he without justification in the open, could it be that the fey know..., said the younger protector through a spirit transmission.

    ''don''t overthink, let alone the young masters, only a couple of people know about the young lady''s orders, it costed us a life and death soul oath just to be assigned to bring the little bitch back, that fraudulent contract and him getting in our way was probably instilled by young miss layla who recently had a fall out with the young lady, said the older female protector.

    she thought so, because according to the rules of the redheart family, only the law enforcers of the respective branch to which one''s belong can touch a direct descendant and unfortunately for them, iris left the family with permission from the ancestor of her family.

    so, no one from her own family could force her to leave the myriad occupation sect if she didn''t want to, however, if she took the initiative to attack the members of the other branches openly without a proper reason like her life being threatened by them, she could be taken into custody by the representatives of the respective family.

    of course, aster didn''t know any of it and he didn''t care, even if the red-haired sword obsessed girl would have beheaded those two, he wouldn''t have let the redheart family take her back against her will.

    speaking of aster, he ignored the fact that a certain mischievous dragon mother, blocked the two female protectors from listening to anything that wasn''t insulting to them, causing them to get the wrong impression.

    ''let''s give them a little push in the right direction, she amusingly thought as she gazed at both aster and iris''s group.

    unaware of lilia moving the ''strings'' behind scenes, aster''s attention was drawn towards the area where the spaceships from the sect were stationed, since a portal had just opened.

    at this point, practically all the members of the sect that were supposed to be here, had already arrived, so let alone aster, even valentina and william didn''t expect any other spaceships to appear. what''s more while that spaceship had the emblem of the myriad occupation, unlike the others, this one was in a pretty rough state, with scratches and cracks all over its surface, clear signs of having participated in a fierce battle not too long ago.

    since lilia didn''t pay any attention to the spaceship, aster knew there wasn''t anything fishy going on, but the other representatives of the sect immediately raised their guards and william took the initiative to fly towards the spaceship, which had stopped moving already.

    the main gate opened and an interestingly diverse group of disciples came out, but aster''s attention wasn''t initially drawn towards them but towards the one leading the group, which was the core elder of the green lotus faction that aster had met a few times before, ophelia.

    william''s frown further deepened the moment he saw the current state in which the green and brown-haired ophelia was, her skin looked a bit pale and she had light but still noticeable dark circles under her eyes.

    now the previous might not sound like anything too concerning, just maybe fatigue or a bad result. while meditating, however ophelia is a nature attributed void manipulation realm energy cultivator.

    in other words, her vitality and thus recovery rate is way above her peers and she is also an alchemist, meaning that she has access to a lot of elixirs and pills, so the fact that she is in this emaciated state is something worth of attention, not to mention that she isn''t supposed to be here.

    too.

    "what happened, i thought you were almost finished with your task and on your way back to the sect by the time we left?", asked william, his usual carefree expression nowhere to be seen.

    "we were ambushed when we were about to pick up the last batch of disciples, had it not been because sister amanda joined with me along the group she was in charge of, one day before, none of us would have made it out alive due to the damn distortions messing up everything rule related'', she said, referring to the glasses wearing core elder from the silver cauldron faction, who is also related to william.

    william looked around and couldn''t find amanda, which gave him a bad premonition but he still asked.

    "how is she?", he said with the calmest voice he could pull off, to which ophelia seriously answered. "as you know i''m not focused on combat so sister amanda took the vanguard and working together we managed to break through the encirclement but she suffered heavy wounds in the process, i treated her while piloting the spaceship to escape so her life is not in danger but... some of her meridians ruptured and she woken up yet'', said ophelia with a tinge of guilt behind her voice.

    that explained why she was in this state, she probably also participated in the fight and had little to no time to recover properly but had to use her spirit energy and other resources to apply emergency measures to

    "i sec...", william''s voice was calm, however the space trembled around him as his spirit pressure seeped out of his body, however he managed to regain his cool to then say.

    "who were they?", ophelia shook her head in response.

    "they were all wearing masks, disguises and used non-exclusive techniques, which is a shame because i would have loved to see their expressions when sister amanda appeared in the battlefield and killed two of the three people leading them, so it''s obvious that they didn''t take her presence into account", she said with a serious voice.

    based on the fact that the enemies all had attributed that directly countered hers and that she was ambushed, meant that someone informed them beforehand, luckily amanda became an unknown factor which resulted in them being able to escape.

    "your better not let me learn if you were involved or knew about this, otherwise whether you participated or simply kept your mouth shut, you are dead meat, said william to all the ones who were watching the drama, making them grit their teeth.

    all the other people who were gloating on the disgrace of the myriad occupation sect, had a change of face, while the treaties prevent all the tier one forces and their direct affiliates from openly kill each other without a proper justification.

    in fact, besides death and other circumstances that are considered at the same level like permanently crippling a relevant direct descendant, an all-out fight won''t even be brought to the table, because that would mean weakening one''s forces, thus giving others the chance to surpass them.

    but the talis are a special case for two reasons, first and formal, while they have inner conflict like the other three ruler families, any bad blood is left for later when dealing with outsiders, not because of familiarity but because they believe in killing their enemies with their own hands so in a strange turn, having an enemy within your own family had advantages if you were a talis and

    second, they are... crazy.

    so, no one here doubted that william won''t give a damn about statuses and will aim for the kill, if needed.

    "stay in the spaceship and accompany amanda in the meantime, sis will heal her later, so there is nothing to worry about", said william, to which ophelia nodded, not without looking at the group of disciples to then say.

    "you all can go participate, elder riley will be in charge of you for the time being", after saying that, ophelia returned to the spaceship, while the group of disciples which consisted in fifteen people, flew towards the area where the distortions were in plain bloom.

    as they passed through the area where aster and the girls were, one of those girls, who was wearing a familiar badge that consisted in a purple lotus flower, gazed at aster for less than a second before continuing her way.

    seeing aster''s confusion, given that all the members of the purple lotus had already left the sect, after julia died and he killed edward, lieze took the initiative to explain.

    "while at the main branch of the sect, the guys from the purple lotus faction were practically either related or worked for the purple mist family of the poison valley from which julia came, there are a few who refused to follow them and chose to reside at secondary branches or take missions that require long times of absence, i have met them a few times before", she said to which aster nodded, that also explained why he didn''t recognize them, even after having dealt with practically all the members of the purple lotus and red sword factions at least once before.

    besides the ten girls from the purple lotus, there were also five girls wearing the badge of the silver cauldron faction, which are rarer to see outside of their respective workshops at the rune mastering peak, since not many rune masters become combatants, below the latter half of the transcending realms, except those extremely talented like eris of course.

    "amazing, we can make a sword for each one of us with this", mumbled one of the youngest looking

    girls.

    "min, last time that red eyed sister from big brother''s family broke my sword", exclaimed another of the girls, referring to alice.

    the others as if reviving a traumatizing moment, all sighed, for the youngest/weakest girls, alice and

    the others allow them to challenge them in a group of five, naturally they are not merciful with them, in fact they go a bit more serious against those that choose to team up, but alice is... a bit too fierce,

    ripped clothes, broken weapons, cutting some hair locks, those are her favorite ways to deal with

    them.

    she doesn''t take it too far, but is still seen as a demon by those young girls, so this resource they obtained gave them chance to improve their one-on-one battle prowess and also obtain a weapon that should survive the mischievous attacks of the fierce dragon princess, since it was a peak stellar grade ore of some kind, needless to say they were quite happy.

    their merrily time was interrupted by a large group of people approaching them, which made the

    leader of the group to send the ore into her spatial ring then coldly say. "what do you want?, it''s important to mention that the attitude of the black sword faction''s girls, is

    totally different when dealing with aster than when dealing with other guys, it''s not like they disliked

    men specifically, but they were quite indifferent towards them, the exception being aster who has earned their admiration.

    this of course earned them the animosity of other guys, but the truth is that they were just angered

    about the fact that they couldn''t reach the threshold needed for pick the curiosity of those fierce yet

    young girls.

    and why are we talking about this you might wonder, well, because the cold and completely indifferent voice and gazes from those five girls, made the newcomers feel their chests being filled

    with anger.

    not only that, a few of them were rather familiar, as in they used to be members of the sect but now were using uniforms from the marsh domain and pleasure palace sects.

    "see i told you these stupid bitches wouldn''t even look at you, they are crazy, so let''s get down to it",

    viciously said one of the guys using the uniform of the male disciples from the pleasure palace, yellow robes with the word ''yang" written on the back.

    "tsk, what a waste, fine do it", said the oldest looking of the group who was also a male disciple from

    the pleasure palace, the five girls frowned upon the sight of a group more than five times larger than theirs, surrounding him, that being said they all unsheathed their swords and prepared for the battle. but then the one leading them, felt that something was off and flashed as fast as she could, reaching

    the youngest of the group and blocking a black needle with her sword. "hissss!", sizzling sounds came from the part of her sword which made contact with the needle, making the leading girl fiercely glare at the group from the marsh domain. "that was a lethal poison you bastard", she said, to which the enemies smirked as they charged

    towards them, their stances, techniques and overall aura, made it obvious that they weren''t aiming to steal the resource they obtained but to outright kill them instead. valentina who immediately noticed the change in the situation, fiercely turned around to see the core elders from the marsh domain and pleasure palace sects, a masked middle-aged man and a woman wearing a blue dress with the word "yin'' on the back, who seemed to be in her late twenties. "what is the meaning is of this!", she demanded, while stealing the resources was allowed and even encouraged, since that was the whole point of the mission, those guys not only formed a group many times larger than their target, but were openly attacking with the intention to kill instead of trying to

    obtain the resources.

    "since tsarai, zoldia and galatia are openly competing to raise their ranks, it''s understandable that the young ones get a bit heated, right elder keller-" said the blue robed woman with a seductive voice to one of the two half step heavenly realm protectors from the pleasure palace, who nodded at

    her with a knowing smile on his face to then say.

    "of course, if the disciples of the myriad occupation sect are that fragile, then they can give up, leave their all possessions behind and retire from the distortion''s area, i promise that my disciples won''t attack them anymore, if they don''t, then they must be prepared to lose a limb or two while they are

    chased out of the battlefield, that''s the fate of weaklings''.

    "oh, really?", a sudden voice amused voice, interrupted the merry time that the group from the pleasure palace and marsh domain were having while laughing at valentina''s angry face. "i''m glad you see it that way", a mocking voice was followed by a loud thunder and the elders and representatives, who weren''t paying attention to the battlefield, tried to look for the origin of said voice, they weren''t allowed to even use spirit sense, so they have to use their eyes for the first time

    in a really long time.

    luckily for them, a hint of aster''s current position was "kindly" given to them the next second".

    "ahhhhh!".

    "nooo!"

    "help!".

    pained screams accompanied by cries of help, made the elders look in a certain direction, just for

    them to catch a glimpse of a peculiar kind of rain... a rain of severed arms and legs.