Chapter: Disturbing the peace

Lord Chonglu's features were gaunt, his eyes not leaving his children's beds as they laid there, barely breathing.

He had personally administered the different concoctions he had been given and he was waiting on Master Eri's support. He could only curse inside as he gripped his fists together, hoping that the aid would come sooner and he could stop their suffering.

Mira, what did we do wrong to bring this suffering down upon them? We thought that your father would be happy to know that you settled down and you were finally able to awaken your bloodline. Who knew that he would send members of the clan to take you away and poison our children?

Hot tears filled his eyes as he blamed himself for pushing his wife to pass word to her grandfather, he knew how it hurt her so not being in contact with her family, he had hoped to repair things, but it had only made them worse.

There was a knock at the door.

Chonglu's pent up anger and frustrations were released, his eyes turning cold as he beckoned at the door, it opened to reveal Quinn. Seeing and feeling the killing intent that rolled off of Lord Chonglu Quinn dropped to his knees.

"Lord, there is a commotion going on at the Healing Moon House!" Quinn said, forcing out the words as his face was pale to the extreme.

"What!" Chonglu stood, his veins bulging out. He took half a step forward before he looked to his children. "Send out the guards to assist, you will lead them. Ronhou!"

The last word carried through the palace as a it was answered by a howl.

There was noises in the palace before a large black beast dropped down into the corridor, it moved towards its master, the beast was smarter than average, a powerful aura surrounded it, making others feel oppressed, but when it's eyes fell on Chonglu's children, its expression altered between sad and angry. Ronhou had seen them grow up and was highly protective of them both.

He was no young beast anymore with scars showing through his sleek black fur. To someone from Earth he might look as if he was a mix between a tiger and a bear, a tigers body with the mass of a bear and the face of one.

"You will obey Quinn and listen to his commands as if they are my own," Chonglu ordered.

Ronhou dropped his head in understanding, the mutual contract between them passing their feelings and thoughts back and forth.

It raised its head and looked at Quinn, assessing him before he turned to the side.

Quinn bowed to Ronhou and to lord Chonglu.

"Thank you for your trust.”

Quinn didn't wait any longer as he jumped up onto Ronhou's back.

The creature took off as Quinn started to send messages through his sound transmission device.

"Seal the palace," Chonglu said, his voice ringing with power. He was the lord of this city, a level fourteen existence that had traveled across the second realm. His strength wasn't simple.

Hidden experts in the room passed the word as the lord's guards were awakened, moving to their positions.

The doors closed to the children's room as Chonglu pulled out a seal of office, this was directly connected to the city itself and allowed him to command the city interface.

Through it he could see roughly what was going on.

***

Grandmaster Eri turned over in his sleep at the loud bang down below. He turned grabbing at the woman to his right, waking her up.

She let out a stunned and then excited noise.

Eri couldn't help but smile as he played with her nipple.

His eyes slowly opened with a frown as he heard another noise from downstairs. He was about to continue what he was doing when the noise only increased.

With an angry snort, he got out of bed, pulling on his robe and checking his appearance before he strode for the door.

He lived on the highest part of the third floor, he went to the balcony that looked over the healing house, he looked down to see streams of mana blue lighting up the scene below as fiery red explosions went off or arrows cut through multiple people.

His face turned white at the destruction below.

What experts did we offend to have them come here?

"Please, can we not resolve this matter!" Grandmaster Eri yelled out below.

The fighting stopped as the men looked upwards.

"Are you the leader?" One asked.

Grandmaster Eri gulped, looking into those eyes even three floors away he felt his knees were weak and his back cold, there wasn't any explicit killing intent, instead if felt as if he was the one being looked down on, some insignificant ant beneath this other person's shoe.

Eri could only nod.

"Good!" the man jumped up, reaching the banister of the first floor and jumping to the other side.

“Put down your weapons and I will not attack you,” the other man with a bow yelled.

The aura of the ten realms was descending as some of the guards that couldn’t take it anymore unleashed what attacks they had prepared.

The man’s arrows cut them down, as others threw their weapons away, not getting into the fight. His accuracy and the power of his arrows left one shocked.

The other man was climbing, up the bannisters, he was already up to the second floor and leaping for the third.

Eri back pedaled, nearly tripping over his robe as he ran for his door.

He slammed it closed, locking it as he looked around his room, the two women in his bed looked at him in alarm, he ran for his desk.

The door to his room shook once, the iron lock bending, the second kick broke the lock and bent the hinges.

The women in Eri's bed screamed as the man that had been downstairs walked into the room.

Eri was filled with fear as he tried to look through his desk. Something shot out of the man's hand, shredding the desk, the desk exploded, and peppered Eri with splinters, but it revealed a piece of wood with runes on it and a crystal at it's top.

Eri grabbed the wand, a fierce look on his face as he fired it at the mysterious man, the man dove but Eri knew he had hit him.

He got up, unable to see over the remains of his desk.

The man was waiting, his mana bullet hit Eri's wand, causing the crystal to shatter and then explode.

He hit the wall to the side of his desk.

The man stood up and moved forward.

Eri looked up at him whimpering. He could see the hole in the other's right arm, he had hit him, but the man didn't seem to care, there was even bone showing.

The man's arm started to regenerate before his very eyes, a healing spell appeared over the wound as he started self-healing.

"W-what do you want?" The man asked.

"Grandmaster Eri, I've been hearing a lot about you," the man said, crouching down. "Heard that you don't like any opposition, that you're a miracle healer." The disdain was clear in his eyes.

"This is the Healing Moon House, if you do anything to me you will be hunted across the first realm!" Eri said, some fire returning to his eyes.

"I also heard that you were the one to okay an attack, on a 'peddling healer'," the man continued, ignoring his words.

"I-I," Eri's words died in his throat, he hadn't okayed it, but once the man and his friend ran away, and the guards didn't come looking for trouble he had told it to some of his rivals to incite fear and show his new strength in Chonglu City. Trying to take it back when he had said it was his plan all along was impossible now.

Eri's mind was still sharp though.

"You're the peddling healer!"

"Got it in one," the man said as he stood up, grabbing Grandmaster Eri's robe and lifting him up with ease.

Eri tried to struggle but it was like a baby trying to fight an adult.

"This is the city guard, put down your weapons and come out, you are under arrest for disturbing the peace.

A chill seemed to run through the man's eyes.

He threw Eri backwards, breaking the large window behind his desk.

"Count the peace as disturbed!" The man yelled out, Eri screamed before he slammed into the iron spear like fence below, his blood splattering on the city guard outside of the healing moon house.