IDOLIZING CHAOS

Kriegars Family History Part 2

"Yes! Exactly, You.. How much did you know about the Great purge?" The Earl was greatly surprised. Although he never outrightly said anything, of course he had heard about this his son's preferences.

  One would always find the previous Aeries in gambling pits, c**k fighting, horse racing dens, all the famous tea houses; and this was because his mother had set a rule not for him to go anywhere near brothels and whorehouse, he would always be seen in Dog vs Cat or any other competition with different types of animals, even going ahead to attend the legendary c**k strangling contest at countless times. 

    The c**k strangling contest was as bizarre as it was dumb in the eyes of everyone, Chickens would be brought and lined up for the noble young masters of different families to - just as the name implied - compete to see who could strangle the most chickens to death. The only people who had shown great interest were the young nobles themselves and the onlookers who, for obvious reasons, would wait till the bored nobles leave the dead chickens for them to struggle for, as they also believe it would be some kind of entertainment.

     "En, it was the new King who took over the throne that started the whole eviction, although it wasn't wholly said, it definitely was because he was scared of the power the Kriegars had then"

 The image Aeries had unconsciously put off now was nothing like the weak Slick Pants people knew him to be. Could it be that my son has stopped trying to be the way ward child and has now started being prodigal? Earl Thorres thought with imaginary tears, 'if that's the case maybe he'll be able... What am I thinking.. One step at a time'

"True.. But that wasn't all to the story, You see kings who took over the throne all had pretty much low cultivation, this is because every royal noble with a high cultivation or aptitude were always taken to the Empire or even went by themselves to strive a way in that place deemed to be the highest stage for all affiliate country. Even if a king could live past 200, it was a tradition for him to step down after 80 years.

Now listen,  in most parts of the continent, the kings and emperors have always stood on Family discension to choose their heirs. It is a contest between all the legitimate princes of each country and the Kings would turn a blind eye to everything as long as they don't pitied themselves to death or injuries, any casualty that happened to commoners were considered as simple collateral damage. 

 The Kings even secretly encouraged it as they would then choose the most befitting for the Throne. In such occasion, most noble families would indirectly or openly aid the prince they deem worthy of the Throne; sending resources or even people to jointly fight for him,  if he succeeds in taking over it, their ranking would soar up as more position and power would be given to them, but if he doesn't.. Only very large and influential families could remain the same, the rest would be suppressed greatly".

"Is that what happened to our Family, Although we might have lost the bet it was too cruel of a suppression the King did".

 "Hn  It was the opposite, our family choose the second prince because of his intellect and wits, because of the family reputation and power then, the dying King had chosen him. In fact it was because the hassle for the throne was so predictable and without struggle then, it caused the now King to fret, fearing our power.... He then drugged all the wine during the celebratory dinner with Pink Jade Venom, carrying out the out right s*******r" 

  The more Aeries Father kept telling him what happened, he grew more angry and aggressive with every second. 

"The Pink Jade Poison is a very effective sedation drug that could even put to sleep a Great General Martial Cultivator. This drug is very hard to make as it require countless dilated Venom from Demon Beast higher than rank 8!... To buy a Vail of it one would need to spend countless resources and that's even if he could see it to purchase"

  "That's right son, En... Nobody knows how the King got it but it was exactly because of it that our family lost all our high ranked cultivators and thus became what it is now"

"But what I don't understand is why the King didn't completely wipe out the entire family with the chance he had" Aeries immediately cursed himself for saying such heartless words, he never cared about this his new family because obviously he still kept his heart back on earth, but seeing the distressed face of his father, he knew that he was still angered and frustrated greatly.

     Waving his hands dismissively Earl Thorres explained "It's not that he wouldn't have,  it's because he couldn't. A king can never despite any reason completely wipe out a family, This is because of the Empire!.. The Blue wing Empire is like a very large scale country spreading it's tentacles into every other smaller country. The empire then built large organizations in the hidden agenda of recording every piece of news that happens in the country. It also put restrictions on the Kings of the countries, one of which is that verdict. Do you understand all am saying Son?"

"En, that the King and the royal family are the true enemies of the Kriegar Family and although they wouldn't take any open action against us they would always try cunning and tricks on us.... Am I right? "

"En.... Good.... Good" the Earl praised aloud while he thought in his heart, this my son... Could it be possible that he was just showing Virgin rebellion.. Humph, I'll send more beautiful women if it would make him more matured. He he."

     The next day, the Earl went to see his son again. And accompanying him is a man with a large frame in a Armor curiass and a gray sleeveless shirt under, his smile seem to reach those his clouded eyes. This man was the previous weak looking Mr Charles.

  Aeries frown deepened when he saw this, 

"Could it be this man is a sore loser and wants to take me on after the light blow I dealt to his son?... Why dress up in armor with a sword on your waist... This.."

"You are up Early, Young Aeries... "

"Come over boy, now Charles.... .” The Earl said without any politeness “Can you see if he has Spiritual root colour?”

   Aeries had researched about it after the talk with his Father so he wasn't as confused before. 

    Every Martial arts cultivator would have an indepth class of his spiritual sea or consciousness, this is called the spiritual root, if different physique were used to classify the body, then spiritual root could be used to clarify the Spirit consciousness.

       The colours were; Red for fiery flames, Calm Blue for water, Green for Wood and vitality, Purple for the feared Lightning, Chilling White for Ice, and Dusty Tarwny for Earth, Grey for wind, Darker than black for Demon cultivators. There were also some other colors that represent some unholy spiritual root, and their possesors tend to fall into the evil path. 

  Cultivators with any of the said colours were far stronger than the original cultivators with colourless spiritual root they have the privileges of passing through the great Martial Great General Realm boundary and reaching great heights,

  They receive the best treatments and are well sort after by noble families. 

   A strong cultivator in the Martial War General Realm with coloured root can rival a small army during a war. Any Large family will want to recruit them even going as far as checking the aptitudes and spiritual root colour of all commoners below 13 to train them so that they'll grow and become the future foundation, not just for their ability, but also what they could achieve in future. 

The Earl led Charles and his son into a concealed dark room.

“Listen Young Aeries.” Charles said while preparing his tools he took out a some tiny particles of golden dust and poured in some precious herbs together in a miniature claudron. 

"Tell me kid, what do you think Spirit is?”

What is Spirit? Aeries hesitated when he heard this question. He was very curious about the way of cultivation in this world. Although he had already reached the Martial Warrior realm, he hasn't been tutored and only relied on trial by error.. And some how, everything seemed to work out just fine. 

Seeing as Aeries furrow his brows and didn't answer, Charles laughed at himself and thought this question was probably too deep for such a Slick Pants.

  “Spirit is your inner man, your real you. It’s the path for humans to reach the ultimate power. To understand this world cultivators must first understand their inner man, and then uncover all the hidden potential humans were gifted with .”

Charles’s voice sounded some what pure and soothing. However this did not affect Aeries.  He remained with his silent expression deep in thought. Charles then took out a crystal ball from under his robe.

“Spiritual root is used to measure if a person has the talent for cultivation, although it’s not the only criteria used, it’s the most important one. But alas they are no tools to examine the grade on one's spiritual root, only the colour”

 Charles then proceeded to grind the mixture into a paste and rubbed it all over Aeries palm. Immediately he did that, Aeries felt a deep stinking pain on his palm, like countless ants biting into it. 

"Don't worry, the pain won't last okay, after this you'll feel like you have been overloaded with the pure Heaven and Earth Qi, I want you to direct it all into the Orbital in my hands while letting your Spiritual consciousness connect with the Orb too."

   Aeries had already started feeling that effects while Charles was still talking, his body was overloaded with the energy he didn't know he had, and his suppressed cultivation was beginning to surge, trying to break free.