Patriarch Gavin was now stuck between a rock and hard ce.


    Either sacrifice your daughter or condemn the n to a hopeless war against a Martial Adept level cultivator!


    Murmurs of agreement amongst the elders grew louder while both Patriarch Gavin and Reba remained silent instead of trying to fight back against the swaying opinion seemingly epting the inevitable oue.


    Just as Dante was about to stand up for Reba and speak out somebody beat him to it.


    Seeing the difficult situation his brother and niece were in Winton wouldn''t just stand by and do nothing about it


    Instantly a horrifying aura burst out of him silencing the whole crowd.


    "You people really are a bunch of shameless pigs, I''m embarrassed to even share the same blood as you " spoke Winton with utter disdain


    "As soon as times get tough instead of banding together as a n and seeking to ovee these difficulties together , you bastard seek to sacrifice one of our own . Do you really think that ter n would really spare all of us ? " continued Winton.


    "But what other option do we have , we can''t fight against a martial adept realm cultivator ourselves!" Said one of the elders


    "Speak for yourself " replied Winton coldly


    "Just because you are too weak to skip levels and fight somebody at a higher cultivation level doesn''t mean everybody else around you is "


    But Winton was then interrupted by Grand Elder Harrison


    " How can we be sure that you have the strength to fight a martial adept realm cultivator ?"


    "Well you can''t, but you can be sure I can beat your ass and that doesn''t just go for you but for anybody else in the room. I''d happily take any challenges if you doubt my martial prowess" said Winton with a sadistic evil smile. And Winton was speaking his aura began to bubble as tendrils of smoke and darkness began to swirl around him creating a small storm around him scarring elder Harrison and any other elders into silence.


    "Well, I''ll take the silence as yes then. Anyway we have 2 ninth level, martial journeyman cultivators, on our side and numerous eighth and seventh level martial journeyman level cultivators, even if the ter n joins in they''ve never been our match in the first ce so we have nothing to fear " as Winton finished speaking he went back to his seat, retracting his horrific aura and allowing everyone too breath again


    Whilst Grand elder Harrison and the remaining elders still had ugly expressions on their faces. Patriarch Gavin and Reba had wide smiles on their faces.


    Turning towards Winton, patriarch Gavin gave him a nod of appreciation before going up to speak


    " now that the problem of the uing inter-npetition has been solved feel free to leave unless you have any outstanding questions for me to answer." said patriarch Gavin


    Despite the unwillingness many elders felt, they soon started leaving despite the unpleasant feeling they had.


    While many elders began leaving Dante took a chance to speak to Reba.


    "Now that the situation around the Martial adept cultivator has been solved. How do you feel about the inter-n tournamenting up? Do you feel like you can still take on Curtis?"


    "Curtis ?" replied Reba " trash will always remain trash, I dealt with that waste once and I can deal with him again but this time I won''t spare his measly life." said Reba with an evil scowl on her face " just wait and see," said Reba as she walked off.


    Just speaking to Reba allowed Dante to realise that the aura around her hadpletely changed. It had changed from being more kind and weing to a more sinister and cruel one even giving Dante goosebumps all over his body. This was surprising for Dante because for as long as he had known Reba, she had always been a kind and weing person and for her to show such hatred and anger something had to be really bad.


    But I guess it made sense. Who wouldn''t be mad if their own family turned against them and almost got them sacrificed?


    Dante could only send out his condolences to Curtis''s family because he knew that when Reba got a hold of him in such an angry state it wouldn''t be pretty.


    Thinking of this Dante slowly strolled back to his room. And as he entered his room he remembered his spoils that he had collected from his whole ordeal in the ''Howling Beast Forest'' but because of this sudden meeting and all the frantic panicking and arguing going on he had forgotten to even Check the loot he got from the ter n Elder .


    So he brought out the space pouch he had managed to scavenge. It was just a in animal skin pouch with nothing remarkable about it and no mystical embellishments.


    the only colour on it was a simple blue string used to open and close the pouch. If he hadn''t seen it open himself even Dante would have doubted that it was a real and authentic space pouch.


    I mean who could even me him, which normal person would keep such an expensive and rare natural treasure and make it look like it could be found in the local trash bin