Nobilis of War novel Chapter 55

While Darren was in his quiet reverie, several people appeared on the platform of the training ground. They were elders of the Chu Clan. Besides them, Toby, the Captain from the Governor's Office, was seated in the middle of the platform.

"Everyone, silence," one elder announced, gesturing for the crowd to be quiet.

The noisy din died down quickly.

"Thank you for coming here. As you know, today we are going to elect our chief. Please allow me to introduce our honored guests. The Elder of the Yun Clan—Will Yun; the coach of the Wen clan—Cary Wen...

Of course, the Captain of Governor's Office, Toby Yun honors us with his presence."

After introducing these important guests, the elder announced the rules for the election. "There are three battle rings on the training ground. Anyone from our clan who thinks himself a perfect candidate for the chief can walk onto the stage and receive other people's challenges. As for our young generation, they can get one helper from their relatives considering their age."

The rules were simple. The wives of the former chief had invited strong cultivators from their maiden families to assist their children who intended to join the selection.

For such elections, young people usually went onto the stage first. To avoid exposing their real strength, the powerful cultivators would wait to show up as the election was about to close.

"I'm Nicholas. Who dares to challenge me?" Nicholas asked, glancing around.

He was the first to head onto the ring battle. 'If a respectable elder comes onto the field, I will graciously surrender. But if weak young cultivators want to challenge me, I will teach them a lesson, ' he mused.

"Blake, go teach that guy a lesson."

"Got it!" Blake replied, springing into action.

But suddenly, a maiden walked through the crowd, heading towards the field.

"It turns out the genius of the Chu Clan is a ridiculous clown," she said defiantly, an expression of fierceness on her face.

"Who are you? How dare you stir up trouble here?" an elder of the Chu Clan shouted at the girl with a stern expression.

"Good question!" the girl took another step forward and threw a token at him. She nonchalantly replied, "As a part of the Chu Clan, I'm qualified to run for the chief!"

The elder took the token, and his face changed instantly as he saw the characters on it. Hurriedly, he handed it to the Chief Elder.

"This is Gavin's token. He mentioned her and her mother before. She is his illegitimate child," the Chief Elder confirmed, displeasure written all over his face.

"Even though you have the blood of our clan, you're not qualified to attend the election. Your mother is an unvirtuous woman and she brought shame on our clan. You have been exiled. Just leave," the Chief Elder said gravely, staring sternly at the girl.

When she heard this, the maiden's face darkened with rage. 'How dare he have the nerve to call my mother an unvirtuous woman!'

"Old man, how dare you insult my mother?" she said menacingly, glaring at the Chief Elder.

The Chief Elder snorted, dismissing her with a wave of his hand. "You best behave yourself here. That woman was caught sleeping with a servant in the storage room soon after she was married into our family. If Gavin hadn't shown her any mercy, we would have already thrown her into the lake. You should be grateful that we only exiled you and your mother. If you don't want to get in trouble, get lost right now."

"Screw you! You're a liar. You're cowards. You're afraid I will take the chief's place, so you're making up lies to fool everyone! Are you blind? Look at that loser on the stage. You even call him the most promising cultivator in the young generation! That's ridiculous!" the maiden screamed, a resentful sneer on her face.

Her remarks made Nicholas lose his temper. His face turned dark in an instant.

"How do you have the guts to scold me, you little bitch?" Nicholas said, glaring at the maiden. With his chest rising and falling, he turned to the elders and demanded, "Please allow this pathetic bitch to fight with me on the field. I will end my life myself if I fail to defeat her!"

Nicholas had made up his mind to murder that arrogant maiden. His pride had been wounded.

"Your mother is a whore and so is your grandmother!" the maiden retorted, as she took a leap onto the battle ring.

The elders of the Chu family remained silent, granting Nicholas' request. 'This girl is about twelve years old. There is no way she will even come close to matching Nicholas. We should let Nicholas teach her a lesson so that she will leave here obediently, ' they reasoned.

"Your mother is an unvirtuous woman. I'll beat you to death," Nicholas declared angrily.

Once he had lobbed this insult, the maiden suddenly vanished into thin air.

He looked around but saw no sign of his opponent.

Out of the blue, he got slapped. Before he could realize what was going on, someone had landed dozens of slaps on his face. He was stunned, for the maiden was still nowhere to be seen.

"How could it be? She has reached the Spirit Realm!" the Chief Elder exclaimed in disbelief, narrowing his eyes. He rose from his seat instantly and shouted hurriedly at Nicholas, "Get out of the battle ring!"

"Get out of here? It's too late!"

The maiden's voice resounded, before she reappeared and chopped off Nicholas' head with her sword.

Everyone present was taken aback by her actions. 'She murdered Nicholas in public! What will happen to her next? She is done for!' they thought.

Before the crowd could recover from their shock, the maiden leaped onto another field and beheaded two other young men.

Three young geniuses of the Chu Clan were dead in a flash.

"How dare you?" With indignant shouts, several Spirit Realm masters rushed towards the maiden.

As they nearly reached the battlefield, they were forced to stagger backwards by a strong vital energy. An old man appeared in front of the maiden.

They growled, leaping towards him and gathered all their vital energy to attack.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

All of them, including the Chief Elder, spat out blood as they were flung backwards into the air!

"He has reached the ninth stage of the Spirit Realm," the Chief Elder gasped in astonishment as he steadied himself.

"Sir, please help us bring him to justice!" The Chief Elder turned to Toby for help, running out of options.

Like the Chief Elder, Toby was also at the sixth stage of the Spirit Realm. If he stood up and battled that mysterious old man, he knew he would meet the same fate.

"Humph! What are you doing? Who are you? I'm from the Governor's Office. How dare you defy me?" Toby revealed his identity in an attempt to intimidate the old man. After all, Governor's Office was a government agency. If that old man continued to cause trouble there, he planned to turn to the local government for backup.

"So what? I didn't do anything wrong. What can you do to me?" the old man responded calmly.

"You killed people in front of me, how dare you claim that you didn't break the law?"

"Is that so? Have you seen me murder anybody?"

"Your girl murdered three people. You're her accomplice. Do you think you can get away with this?"

Placing his hands behind his back, the old man replied casually, "According to the rules, officials are not allowed to get involved in the internal strives within a clan. Even if people get killed, the clan reserves the right to take care of it. My disciple is a member of the Chu Clan. She accidentally killed people during the election for chief. Does that have anything to do with the Governor's Office?"

"You're twisting logic!" Toby growled, knowing that the old man had found viable loopholes.

"Ina, you can continue your business," the elder said to the maiden.

The girl cracked an evil smile. Pointing at a young man with a high cultivation base, she said coldly, "You, come fight with me."

The lad at the seventh stage of the Primary Realm stepped back in a panic. Shaking his head, he cried out, "No, no! I didn't plan on competing for that place!"

"It's not up to you," she snorted, and dashed off the stage. She grabbed the young man by the collar and dragged him onto the battle ring. She kicked him onto the floor, then swung her sword and cut his head.

'She has gone too far!' Darren thought.

With his eyes on the field, he walked slowly to the stage.

Toby was feeling terribly helpless at the sudden turn of events. But he spotted Darren among the crowd and his face lit up.

"Old man, don't be too sure of yourself. My distinguished guest is here. Don't think you can run away!" Toby said loudly. Having witnessed him slay a diabolic beast with Demonic Blood Skill, he was confident that Darren could easily handle that old man.

Keeping his eyes on Darren, Toby said respectfully, "Sir, please uphold justice and help the Chu Clan out."

When the elders heard this, hope rekindled within them. They followed Toby's gaze immediately, searching for this guest.

'Who is he referring to? I don't see any strong cultivator?' they pondered, perplexed.

"You've already taught them a lesson. Just stop!" Darren's distant voice came, surprising all the Chu Clan members.

"What's going on? It's him!" Several elders of the Chu clan exclaimed, looking at each other with amazement. They had certainly never expected him!