Chapter 3 – Growing up (2)

It's been two weeks since i came to the family mountain and the people began to understand that i am not the trouble maker my dad was.

“Kessler pass it here!!” “okay”, i am currently playing with the younger generation of the medlar family, they include my cousins the bodyguard trainees the servants' children, etc.

I was relieved when i found out that my family doesn't discriminate in social statuses and that there none of the expected jealous , arrogant cousins, the cold uncles and all that cliché stuff.

As it turns out, it is the normal for the family members to be loving to their family , who would have thought!!

But i guess it can linked to the old man's foul proof raising of his children and their children, why? Because according to his reasoning he was the only one allowed to spoil them and he did it so much that even their mothers thought they ought to be disciplined more strictly.

And so this generation was raised into such upright and capable human beings.

“young master Kessler the grand patriarch is asking for you”

“I'm coming”

If you're wondering about the young master part then yes since i am from the main lineage then i am one of the candidates to the patriarch and truthfully if i do get the position i will give a heck about the responsibilities that comes with it and just enjoy the power that comes with it and leave everything else to the people i trust.

Unfortunately, yet fortunately, the next patriarch is supposed to be the most skilled, medical practitioner among this generation.

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I went to meet the old man , and i was shocked by the size of his ‘room'..... how the heck is that a room? That's a friggin soccer field, does a room even need to be that big?

Okay might be exaggerating a little but his room was not really a room at all, but more like a hall the walls where made of a green jadelike material.

If i didn't know any better i might have thought it was jade.

Later i learnt that it was really jade but the reason for the hall being made solely of jade and the place where the old man slept wasn’t just a show of noveu riche.

As i entered the hall i saw a solemn looking old man wearing an old bronze armour over his chest ‘huh, isn't that the old man?’.

“WHO ART THEE!!!” suddenly his extremely loud voice resounded in my ear and made my head spin so hard i felt like dying and then everything turned black ‘so it is supposed to turn black when you faint' was my last thought as my body fell to the ground.

“Eh!! It wasn't supposed to be like this .....umm Kessy, wake up my boy” the old man's solemn face suddenly became filled with panic and concern.

“What do i do? Terry will be mad at me “

Thankfully i was knocked out then or as the chinese would say i would have spit a mouthful of blood from that.

5 hours later ~~

‘ugh......’

As my vision slowly retuned to normal and i escaped the dazed condition i was in i became more aware of my surroundings.

I was still in that great hall, just on the bed, which looked much greener than the walls.

Sitting on the side of the bed the old bastard, who made his own great grandson faint (yes l am still salty about that sneak attack.....), was looking very panicked and concerned while holding my wrist.

I may have not been here for long but i have been long enough to know how amazing he is.

Don't be deceived by his usual shameless act as only my family of three and the young innocent can this side if his, the others can only see an awe inspiring stone cold ruthless clan head.

I was told multiple stories but the one which surprised me the most was when the clan was at war with another clan (yes its clear my family isn't only a clan of hidden doctors)

The other clan used treacherous methods and invited three other clans of the same power and managed to ambush the clan head at the time , my grand father, and kill him.

My great grandpa was enraged after he came out of seclusion and went on a killing spree to massacre the four clans and their respective heads.

‘he came back with his whole body drenched in blood and injuries’ i was told, some was his but most was his enemies.

After that he went on another killing spree, this time though, he massacred the traitors who gave the enemy my grandpa's location.

He purged more than 60% of the clan elders who were involved in the inner conflict of the clan and the remaining ones where punished and demoted for being neutral and not helping unite the clan and suppressing the conflict when he was gone

When i had heard all of that i thought that the medlar clan also had its internal issue.....

Every other clan thought the Meddlar clan would decline rapidly after that, but were very quickly proved wrong as grandpa chose new fit elders and changed the clan rules and put new rules as well, including how a child was to be raised and spoiling would beget harsh punishment but children were children after all and needed to be spoiled as children.

And that role actually fell to grandpa, i think he was using that to quell his grief though.

Even though he treated that generation of children very well, the way he treated my father was pretty extreme.

Whatever dad did no matter how bad it is he would forgive.

He must've felt guilty towards my father for not being there when his son needed him.

“kessy, you're awake!” no matter how salty i was i was still pretending to be a good boy in front of my parents and had to keep the old man deceived.

“ugh, grandpa what happened just now” i said with the most honest and sincere face i could make.

And it really worked ,the last bit of the suspicion he had in his eyes were totally gone instead replaced by a look of awkwardness 'so the old man had moments like this too' i thought.

“errr ,you're probably really confused about what happened” “ the reason i just attacked you with my spirit was to see if you would have been able to take it.”

'Attack me with his spirit? Wasn't this a game world....how would you attack someone with your spirit in the first place'

“Was it something you found in the library grandpa?”

“Yes and i will tell you but first i need to explain to you something about our family......our species to be exact”

When i heard his story I, for the first time in this world, had my poker face broken down like ice melting.

So basically from what i understood from grandpa there are some people in this world who have an extra gene.....the conduit gene.

Many organizations know that but not many know the origin of that gene.

It is said in the story passed down in the main lineage that our first ancestor is actually not from earth.

He and a group of others crashed here on earth millions of years ago when they were traveling across the galaxy.

This group of aliens were actually just human, but as a result of evolution their bodies changed fundamentally.

They became much stronger and gained an extra organ called ‘Elemental root’, which was said that be situated in the pubic region of the human body.

This group spread across the different cultures of the world and decided to settle down on earth since it was impossible to go back to their home with earth’s technology at the time.

They started communities and made use of their abilities to explore the planet.

They were astonished at the natural resources this planet had and thought to build their own eternal empire.

Of course that was only a thought which was quickly purged as each one had their own selfish desires of sole power belonging to them.

They first put built their advanced shelters which had actually become invulnerable to the attacks of the various species at the time.

The group intended to not interfere but quickly changed their minds as they were enraged at how arrogant and domineering the dinosaurs acted and used their powers to annihilate them.

Actually not all of the group made a move as some felt that they shouldn't affect the natural evolotion of the still growing planet.

The other few though didn't care and indirectly controlled the earth's atmosphere to a degree using their powers skillfully and caused a natural disaster to spring up and annihilate the dinosaurs.

And that was only few of them, the weakest few in fact.

The group of seven then separated into various places on the planet and started their own cultures while carefully introducing the different new concepts like fire to humanity.

They also wanted families and so but humanity at the time was too primitive and ugly (yes i know it's not nice but it's the truth) and so they decided to speed up their evolution.

It seems that the civilization they came from was THAT advanced!

After that they began to leave behind their offsprings and the very first generation was the best of both worlds.

They had both elemental roots & strong bodies, and the strong evolutionary abilities of humanity at the time.

But as the generations increased the elemental root alone became scarce and eventually degraded to become only a recessive gene hidden deep in the human genotype, which came to be known as the conduit gene of today.

When i digested what the old man told me i was stunned for quite a bit.

Unfortunately, he didn't give me time to gather my focus before telling me some thing that made me almost crumble inside.

“You must be wondering why i am telling you this ...... well,when i was in the ancestral library i found two reasons that might be the cause of your growth rate” ,at this point his face was extremely solemn with a hint of grief in his eyes.

“I tried to confirm if it was the first one just now but unfortunately that wasn't the case....”

“Kessler what i am about to tell you might be very shocking but you must get a hold of yourself”

I was pretty numb at this point and felt that nothing was going to be so surprising any more but boy was i wrong.

“Kessler............your mother is dying!”

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*Dong*