Published at 14th of November 2026 7:44 am

Chapter 1247: Round 2.

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Their shock stemmed primarily from a single, unprecedented fact, that none of them had ever heard of a city possessing two city heart cubes.

Yet, George did not doubt the truth of it for a single moment, he swiftly handed the City Lord token of Estonia City over to the Fourth Elder, and gave a swift command:

“Head over to the city heart of the city hall, and see if you can sever this city’s link to the northern capital as its subsidiary city, that way they won’t have access to our teleportation nexus.”

Finishing his orders, George turned his gaze toward Draco, who now bore a noticeably more mature air, a single glance was all Draco needed to understand the Patriarch’s intent, and without hesitation, he led the group straight to the meeting room.

Upon entering, the Patriarch was astonished to find an actual city heart like cube resting right in the center of their clan compound, in their meeting room. Hearing about it was one thing, but witnessing it with his own eyes was an entirely different experience.

Stepping forward, George slowly approached the floating cube and pressed his right palm against its surface, instantly the sky-blue radiance surrounding the artifact expanded outward, enveloping the Gordons’ Patriarch completely before fading away five seconds later.

However after the bright light faded the cube now displayed the Gordons’ clan emblem on it, while also glowing with the deep brown hue of the earth element, at the same time, several system notifications materialised in the Patriarch’s view:

[? Clan heart has scanned the bloodline of the new Clan master, confirmed to be of the Gordons’ Bloodline]

[? As Clan master you can contact any clan members who is a city lord without any restrictions, number of clan members who are city lords: 2]

? Alec Gordons’ (Wilderness King Region.)

? Eidar Gordons’ (Northern Kingdom Region.)

Once George finally managed to regain control over his emotions, he spoke,

“Co...Connect with Alec Gordons’.” Had anyone told him earlier that he would get the opportunity to speak with his grandson so soon, he never would have believed it.

Although the old man had always presented himself as a stern, unyielding leader, however; beneath all that facade lay a grandfather who deeply missed his grandson.

And then, a voice he had been longing to hear for so long finally reached him through a voice transmission:

“Old man....”

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Just as Alec was about to charge toward David and the three Takeda avatars before him, he froze as a familiar voice echoed directly inside his mind via voice transmission:

“Co...Connect with Alec Gordons’.”

He had initially dismissed the voice as a prank played on him by the enemies before him, however;Alec was quickly proved wrong when a system notification confirmed the caller’s true identity, his grandfather was reaching out to him.

[? someone from your lineage with the Clan master authority is trying to communicate with you.]

“Old man....” Alec blurted out immediately still in surprise, he just instinctively addressed him by the very title his grandfather despised.

“Hahahaha.” However; the old man’s hearty laugh was what resonated back in response.

As Alec stared off into the distance, momentarily distracted by the mental conversation, the Takeda avatars sensed a shift in his focus, realizing that he dared to divide his attention to communicate via mental energy while he was in combat, they decided to seize the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on him with the Wind Takeda in the lead as he had the fastest speed.

As they closed in, Alec felt his ears twitch while the Greater Sanguine tattoo on his back grew faintly warm. Though he was not currently merged with his bloodline, however; after his Devourer bloodline’s recent baptism from the heavenly tribulation he had realized that he was now allowed to access certain active abilities of his soul beasts even if he was in his unmerged state.

And now thanks to this heightened awareness, he caught their rapid approach immediately.

“Grandpa, let me get back to you in a moment, I have a small matter to handle here.” Alec said as his right hand moved to his sword hilt, drawing the blade slightly before letting it snap back into its scabbard.

Though the motion appeared subtle and brief, yet that single action unleashed a wild arc of lightning, the bolt streaked through the air and struck with violent precision against the Wind Takeda avatar’s descending katana strike.

Boom!

The force of the strike not only repelled the downward attack but also sent a shockwave through the Wind Takeda avatar, leaving him temporarily paralyzed and numb.

“Blood Arrow,” Alec uttered immediately, extending the index and middle fingers of his right hand directly toward the path of the retreating Wind Takeda.

From the vast surge of blood circulating around him, a thick blood-formed bow instantly materialized, and began being pulled back to its absolute limit, resting on the string was a lethal blood arrow, which was infused with Alec’s newly refined Qi.

Even in the heat of combat, Alec had seamlessly visualized the attack in an instant, it was a clear demonstration of the edge his superior mental energy gave him over other Tier 7 mages, allowing him not only to effortlessly control his spells across a three-hundred-meter radius, but to do so with total precision.

Thring! Bang!

As Alec pulled his two fingers back, a faint tension hummed through the air as the Blood bow reached its absolute limit, and then the moment he released his grip, the manifested blood arrow launched in sync with his fingers, streaking directly up into the sky.

Alec also noticed that while he was drawing the bow it had triggered reactions in more than just his Greater Sanguine bloodline; the Blood Reaper mark embedded deep in his right hand resurfaced for a brief moment, as he figured it was because he was manipulating blood.

As the arrow shot forth at near light-speed, the remaining two Takeda avatars instantly converged to intervene.

Taking the lead, the Earth Takeda acted as a vanguard, as he began tracing his hands in a swift pattern in mid-air as if drawing a tachi diagram, while he channeled the surrounding earth elemental energy to form a massive Earthen shield, which was aimed to block the blood arrow’s path to protect the immobilized Wind avatar, until he regain control of his body back again.

Meanwhile, the Flame Takeda launched a swift counteroffensive in contrast to the Earth Takeda, as he appeared a few meters before Alec in a split second, he then proceeded to hurl two shurikens straight toward Alec.

Unfazed by this action, Alec raised his left hand, which was still firmly gripping the scabbard of his Changdao at the middle, and flicked it twice with precise movements to easily deflect the incoming projectiles, from different angles.

Ting! Tang!

While Alec was occupied deflecting the shurikens, the Flame Takeda avatar moved his left hand forward to initiate a spell, drawing together a concentration of fiery elements before his outstretched palm.

[? Low Tier Ninjutsu - Fireball. ?]

A small, highly compressed fireball hovered dangerously before the avatar upon completing the spell, yet he held the sphere back from launching.

[? Mid Tier Ninjutsu - Fire Breath Jutsu ?]

Before Alec could fully process the attack, the avatar rapidly wove hand signs and exhaled a wide cone of expanding flames from his mouth directly into the floating fireball, even before the fire breath fully resolved, the avatar was already weaving his next technique.

[? High Tier Ninjutsu - Dragon Calling ?]

“Roar!!!” As of this moment a ferocious roar echoed from within the avatar’s body as he charged headlong into the massive flare of flames he had created.

“What the fuck, this guy is insane!” Alec muttered, a sense of foreboding settling over him as he sensed the dangerous energy building up.

[? Combination Ninjutsu - Fire Dragon Descent ?]

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