This five-man group consisted of a burly, scrawny, fat, tall, and a young-looking youth that all wore red clothing except the young youth. The person in front of the five-man group was a burly, bearded man was holding a gigantic sword that could cover one’s body, which was the size of a human law-like scar running along his bare chest.

Behind the burly, bearded man, there was a scrawny male with a long nose wore a red cloak. The scrawny long-nose man was holding a wooden staff that was beautifully crafted and was emitting a green-colored aura, as if it contained a bit of nature’s essence.

On the right side of the scrawny long-nosed man, there was a fat man who was holding a 4-meter long staff made of steel. The fat man was big enough to make you think; how can he even stand? With each step he took, his fats would jiggle and one can clearly see every movement on his body. He had a bald head and ugly face full of pimples and wore a red coat that outlined his curves.

On the left side of the long-nosed man, there was a tall man. He was slim but had toned muscles and was not skinny like the long-nosed man, he carried a meter-long sword, and wore a red overcoat.

Behind the four was a young-looking youth wearing a tattered cloth shirt and pants; making him look like a beggar. He was around the age of 14. This youth had short bright red hair, well-built toned body full of scars, and along with chains that were cuffed on his wrists that allowed his arms to have a distance of 1-foot away from each other. His legs were no exception but had enough room for him to run only half of his original speed.

“A slave…” Diana said in a low voice.

Luc, of course, had heard what Diana had said and thought to himself ‘a slave huh?’.

“A slave can’t be that bad right?” Luc said towards Diana with a clueless expression.

“You are unbelievable!” Diana quickly yelled out in anger, not believing that Luc would ask such a dumbfounded question like he really didn’t know how slaves were in the society, even a child would know of such a subject to an extent.

Luc was truly confused and frustrated because no matter what he had said or done this lady would just shut him down, ‘Are all humans like this?’ Luc thought while sighing out loud and feeling his energy within him boiling faster and faster.

Upon seeing that it was only Luc and Diana in the surrounding, the scrawny figure pointed towards Luc and Diana and said with an arrogant face, “If you two hand over the treasure right now I, Taric Bellavard, will let you two off” Taric said.

Diana was the quickest to reply out loud “Taric Bellavard!?! You are really from the Bellavard family?” Diana did not want to believe what she was hearing, hoping she had heard it wrong.

“Correct! Since you know me you should know my family’s background, so why don’t you hand over the treasure?” Taric said with an arrogant tone.

One should know that within the eastern side of the Northern Continent there were many powerhouses, but there was only a few handful that was many times stronger than the rest from the rest. Each and every single one of these super-power houses had an enormous amount of resources and power, if compared to twenty regular power-houses the latter would pale in comparison. The Bellavard family was one of these super powerhouses and quite influential, even a king wouldn’t dare be rash against them.

Diana was not afraid of the Bellavard family, although they are strong, Diana’s background was by no means weak. But she could only shake her head in disappointment of her current situation as she said coldly “There is no with us treasure.”

One can hear a voice filled with anger coming from Taric “Preposterous! Us five had clearly seen the golden lights in the sky, which indicated that a treasure had appeared, that had led us to this current location and yet you dare claim there is none? You must have hidden it for yourself!” Taric said turning around and looking towards the group of five as only four responded back nodding their head, except the young red-haired youth who gave no response whatsoever. The group of five ignored the response given by the red-haired youth again this time.

“So hand over your bag of holdings and any other materials you two have on your body for compensation! However, I can make an exception if you, pretty lady, come warm my bed for tonight”, Taric said with a demanding tone and lustful eyes locked on Diana’s bare-chest.

Diana’s face turned red from embarrassment and anger by Taric’s gaze that was directly on her bare chest and his comment. Although Diana had covered her bosom with an arm; however, Diana’s arm was not big enough to cover every part on bare-chest.

Just when Taric was about to continue pressing onwards on Diana, suddenly a bright light had enveloped Diana from head to toe, within a second, the bright light that enveloped Diana had disappeared. Earlier Diana’s was covered in dirt and looked disheveled, but once the bright light had enveloped her from out of nowhere she felt clean and even calm without even noticing the changes on herself as if someone was preventing her from noticing. What was at first a messy looking lady that wore a tattered dress, was now replaced with a golden gown that outlined her perfect curves could be seen, healthy straight black hair, and a clean, beautiful face that was even more shocking once her appearance was tidy up.

Taric was drooling and panting at such a goddess in front of him, while pointing towards Diana, “Grab her for me right now!” Taric said impatiently and completely looking like a dog eyeing its treat.

The red-haired youth, who had a disdainful look towards the other four man in the group, scoffed at such a load of nonsense coming from Taric, “Your family is so powerful and almighty and yet they actually gave birth to a useless piece of trash who relies on other’s strength to do his biddings?” the red-haired youth said while sneering.

Taric and the rest of the five-man group had clearly heard what the red-haired youth had said and traces of anger could be seen on their faces. The one to take action was a burly, bearded man with the large greatsword in his hand, he brought up his free hand and with a shout, he slapped the red-haired youth across the face at an extreme speed. The force behind that slap caused the red-haired youth to fly horizontally from the ground, before coming to a stop at ten meters away. One can hear a thundering popping sound coming from the slap.

“Do you dare to still be so insolent!?! Be more respectable when you are in front of the 4th young master! You lowly worm!” the burly, bearded man shouted in a deep loud voice at the red-haired youth that was bounded in chains.

The red-haired youth took a moment before standing back up from his knees, while wiping away the blood that was leaking from his mouth, coldly saying.

“You pillage my village, killed my parents, raped and enslaved my sister, and sold my dear younger brother that was only 9 years of age as a slave. Yet you still expect me to look at that trash with respect? Even a beggar could be respected standing beside such a load of crap”, the red-haired youth said with cold eyes looking towards Taric.

“You are courting death kid!” Burly, bearded man said, as he dashed towards the red-haired youth, swinging his greatsword like in an arc at the red-haired youth. If an ordinary person was to be standing in such pressure emanating from the burly, bearded man, they would feel as if they had chains wrapped around their body that weighed hundreds of pounds. However, when he sliced through where the red-haired youth was last standing, there was no blood or flesh that could be seen. Only the remain of dust and intense gust blowing from such frightening strength, the burly, bearded man strength could clearly be seen at the peak of 1st level Condensation stage.

Diana had forgotten all about the fear and curiosity she felt towards Luc, she was more focused on the group of five and was trying to pry their cultivation level, and had an expression of worry for the red-haired youth. Once the dust cleared out from everyone’s view, Diana’s expression was now full of shock and surprise.

“How fast!” Diana exclaimed while scanning where the red-haired youth could’ve gone too.

A young voice could be heard from above, “Yet you are still too slow, even though I am still chained up, if I was not chained up I could have killed you over ten times.” The red-haired youth said, hanging on a tree branch with an arm.

“You wouldn’t dare do such a thing you puny brat! You are just a village kid at the Peak of the Foundation stage, don’t forget who holds your sister’s life.” A fat, ugly man said with a tone full of arrogance while smirking and pointing towards the red-haired youth. The fat, ugly man was releasing a pressure that would make one feel as if a mountain was pressing down on them.

Taric brought his hand and placed it on the fat, ugly man’s shoulder “Joe stand down. Bo, teach this brat a lesson but don’t kill him because he still has his uses later.” Moving his hand from Joe’s shoulder, pointing towards the red-haired youth. “However, as for the other two strangers just kill the male”, Taric said with an evil smile while indicating Bo to teach the red-hair youth a lesson and to kill Luc after, as he slowly striding towards Diana that was looking at him with disgust.

The fat, ugly man called Joe, turned back with a sneer and sat down on a nearby rock. A tall man with an emotionless face that had stood motionless next to Taric at the beginning ever since they encountered Luc and Diana; this tall man was called Bo. He would have remain motionless and had only reacted when Taric had ordered him to teach the red-haired youth a lesson. Bo was now heading towards the red-haired youth at Taric’s order, moving at an incredible speed, not slowing down at the very least but increasing speed to the point where he was turning into a blur. Slowly pulling out his sword without unsheathing it, he slashed out at the air in front of him in the direction of the red-haired youth, who was looking at the tall man with blood-red eyes. A beam of white lights could be seen coming off Bo's sheathed sword slash as it slowly formed into a vague outline of a sword that was emitting an intense pressure, along the pressure was tingling sensation. That sensation was filled with sharpness, a sharpness that made one feel as if a sword was pressed against one’s neck.

‘Sword intent!’ Both Diana and the red-haired youth thought at the same time, upon seeing a vague outline of a sword and the feeling of a hundred blade being pressed down on them.