IDOLIZING CHAOS

Some words with Mom

Aeries Mother had her suspicions long ago; it wasn't hard to pick up the hints from his cold distant attitudes.

But anyhow she cracked her brains, she still couldn't figure it out. She only knew that something game-changing had happened during that fight... One that was miraculous enough to turn a Carp into a Dragon, A crippled into a Genius.

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"Mom, the truth was... I had been seriously injured then, the wound enough to bleed me to death. But in my darkest hour, I saw—"

"You met an Old ancestor and he took pity on you and made you his disciple?" She cut him off in surprise... Unknowingly, she had described a perfect example of a typical Xanxia MC trying to hide his profound powers.

Aeries brow became sweaty... It's too obvious!

"N-not that Mom... I had a futious encounter in the woods. I type of crystal with enough Qi to scare the surrounding monsters. In my desperation, I ran to the only place I had believed would keep me safe. I grabbed that Crystal... But it was the start of all of this... Blessing with a curse.

When I held it, I realized what it was, a crystalline form of an old Bastard-coughs-ancestors memory and a part of his Pure Refined Qi. The strange part was after I absorbed this Crystal, my demeanor suddenly changed and I find myself questioning if am really your son or the clone of the ancestor... That was why I had been unfocused for a long time.

" B-but, who were those kids almost the same age as you? And they seem to call you 'scourge'?"

"I've thought about it and came to a shocking realization... That crystal wasn't the only one around. And if my guess is right, there should be some conditions before one could absorb the soul fragments. One of which is to be younger than 15, another one is to a cripple."

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Several lines later, his teary Mom had finally come to terms with her 'new' son but she was still worried, “Then, are you, my son... Or the ancestor?"

“I am, and would always be me. Don't worry mother. If I get lost in this measly test then I won't have the face to be called the son of Krieger. But to get rid of this curse, I have to do far away for some time. I've been hesitating before but what happened today changed everything. I don't know when I'll be back, but I will.

“But your father. You can't leave without letting him know. And the capital should be in a state of unrest. I need to help him—"

“You're still injured, Mom. Forget helping him, you won't even make it there alive. Don't stress yourself."

“N-no, I have to. Please, your father can be strong-minded and even dumb at times but still, he cares for the Family and does everything to keep us safe. If I let him die now... Won't that make me an ungrateful worm?"

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*Sigh*

"Although I said I'll save him... With the information from Lauren, I have to think carefully about all my steps if I want to make it out of there alive."

“Ke-Ke Ke-Ke, Brat, Are you forgetting me? Although this great king's soul has been injured after so long and dropped all the way to what you might call the Peak of Martial Flying Lord Realm, This king still has one or two tricks to turn the situation around."

“Old ghost! Who are you trying to fool? Tell me the truth, what do you want?"

“Nothing much... Only the Soul Precious resources are hidden in the King's Treasure Room. I want all of it!"

“Pte! Who do you want to use as a broom? I'll do all the hard work and you get to choose the treasures? And what King's Treasure room,? It'll be a stretch if I can make it out alive. Forget it, let us just stick to the plan."

"Brat we can talk things out—”

“We're here. The King's Plaza. What grandeur. Super wealthy” Aeries stood in a daze for a few seconds before grinning from ear to ear like an idiot...

" Old Ghost... Let's ravage this castle to our fill. PILAGE all!!!"

"O-okay." What's wrong with this brat, Old Plaque grew frustrated trying to think, One minute he is against my ideas now even before offering him benefits he's all for it... Weird. But it's great that way, we get to Pillage and I don't get to share... Double kill.

What Aeries was thinking was different... This was because he heard the long-awaited Ding notification of the system...

[Dear Player 'Scourge Ruin' You have received a new mission...]

“Let us make this place bare as a hairless newly born baby shall we...

In the King's Plaza...

Currently, the mansion, large enough to complete 2 hectares of land was surrounded by soldiers for as far as an eye could see.

But these individuals weren't cooperating though, they formed a division of two teams, One wearing Red and the other, Purples.

Needless to say, These groups were the combined effort of the Two main Princes, the red being For the First prince... Crowned Prince Xiao Jail. The purple belongs to the refined and handsome prince, Second Prince Yang Hansel.

These two were stark opposite and even the nature of their teams showed the same manner today.

The Purple coalition had a more seasoned look on them, masters of unknown origin sat on a huge floating boat and started at the castle with condensed looks. Counting their numbers; they weren't more than a dozen, but each of them was seasoned warriors in their own right.

And amongst them, an old man was sitting on a praying man with a stalk of ordinary spearhead grass sticking from his mouth... He mumbled some chants while chewing on it softly. But one could tell with one look that he wasn't ordinary. A ten-meter radius was void of cultivators; all of them hanging at the edge of the floating ship... And they were all Cultivators at the Great General Realm! Yet they strayed far from this man like a plaque and peeked with frightening looks.

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On the Red side, it wasn't this organized or grand... A word to call this group was 'Unruly!' Their savage looks could scare even the demons and their weapons were the most unorthodox of all; Hammer-headed Clubs, Spiked stakes, Poisons snakes, Thigh Bone of an Ape... All sorts of diverse weapons could be seen. And although the Cultivators at the Great General Realm weren't as much as the Purple team, they made up for this difference with more numbers — almost doubled