Rise of The Demon General

One person came out of the crowd. It was Yan Long. Gao Dou didn't come, so Yan Long considered himself the leader. Even if Gao Dou was here, Yan Long still thought that he was the better cultivator, considering he scored higher than Gao Dou in all three exams. Still, the Gao clan was more prominent than his Yan clan, so he didn't dare to show his arrogance when Gao Dou was around. Now, however, that person was not around.

Yan Long spoke, "Lin Mo! Don't think just because you are the first rank that you can do whatever you want! Do you know what you have done? How dare you anger us five great factions of this academy?!"

Instead of responding to Yan Long, Amon looked around at the other factions. "Did the nobles faction speak for you all?" He asked.

"Of course not!" Xian Hu exclaimed. He also came out and stood a little bit forward compared to Yan Long. Virtuous and Nobles had always been competing. How could he let people think that the Nobles spoke for Virtuous?

"Lin Mo!" He pointed at Amon. "You have wounded our members. You will apologize now and give us compensation of one thousand aer stones! Then, we will consider this issue settled."

"That's all you are going to ask?" An Ling walked out as well. She was not going to let these two factions be the star of the show. "Well, you might be satisfied with those, but I'm not. Lin Mo, you have to also give me access to your house. Let me use the training room inside. The bloodless will not only forgive your transgression, but we will also protect you from the other factions. Considering you are from the Lin clan, you can join us the same as all the Lin descendants who came before you."

"What? Then I'm demanding access to your house as well!" Xian Hu uttered.

"Hmph! You, Virtuous people, have no shame. You can't think of good demand and imitate mine instead," An Ling mocked.

"Now, now. We are all here to demand compensation," Ming Jin joined the faction leaders. "How about this? We all enter Lin Mo's house and train together. The house for the first rank should be big enough to accommodate us four."

"Five!" The representative of the Heroic faction came forth. "My leader, Yong Gan, will want access as well!"

"Hahahaha!"

The sound of laughter stopped their chatter. They turned to the person who had laughed.

"Lin Mo! Do you find anything funny?" Yan Long asked.

"Yeah. Watching you clowns sure is funny," Amon replied.

"What did you say!"

"Are you looking to die?!"

"You have better apologize now!"

All five raised their voices at Amon at the same time. Their words mixed and everyone was having trouble understanding them. What everyone understood was their expressions, they looked like they were ready to lunge at Amon.

Amon, however, didn't show any sign of being intimidated. He slowly stood up.

"It's good that you people come here so I don't have to waste my precious time looking for you all," he said with a clear and loud voice, drowning theirs. "I will let you know, from here on. This garden and the small woods behind me until that river over there will be Vicious' territory. If any of your members dare to enter without permission, they will be dealt with accordingly. If any of you dare to lay a hand on Vicious members, you can expect retribution coming."

"Hahaha!" It was Yan Long's turn to laugh after hearing Amon's declaration. "Vicious? A new faction? What a load of bull! Do you think we, the five great factions, will be afraid of someone who daydreams? Do you think you can just have two people and call yourself a faction? Do you think you can go against us with just the two of you?"

"Do you think it's just us two?" Amon grinned.

Xin Wuming who stood behind him made a whistle. Numerous students came out of the woods behind. They then stood behind Amon and Xin Wuming.

Yan Long looked at those students with disbelief. He had heard that Amon had been offering the students they bullied to join his newly-made faction, but how could he already have so many members in such a short time? There were more than thirty people there.

Although the number was not as many as the five of them combined, it was still a considerable increase in threat. Before, they were facing only two people. Even if one of them was the first ranker, they never thought of him as a threat. No matter how strong Amon was, no way he could fight them all. Now, with thirty additional people backing him, it was a completely different situation.

Of course, their real number was not just the one they brought here. They had many more members. They only brought around ten people so that they could intimidate Amon. Now they wished they had brought more.

The five respective leaders looked at one another. If a fight broke out, would they be able to cooperate? They themselves were enemies to each other, after all.

"Are we going to fight or are we going to just stare at one another?" Amon asked.

When the five didn't respond, he bellowed, "If you don't want to fight, then scrammed! Our territory no longer welcomes you!"

"Do you think you can make us?" Xian Hu yelled.

"Continue to stay and you will find out," Amon threatened.

"Hah! Do you think you are so great because you are the first rank? You don't even have any affinity!" Yan Long shouted. He then turned to the students standing behind Amon, "Why do you people follow him? Do you think he is anything special? He has no affinity! In five years, we will all be better practitioners than him! You are all very dumb if you let yourself be tricked by him!"

"Then what if I also join?" A thundering voice bellowed. A large man jumped passed the crowd and landed next to Amon. It was Wu Di.

"If you fuss about affinity, no one can top mine! I choose to help the Vicious faction! What are you going to do?"

"You…!" Yan Long was speechless. It's this aggravating brute again.

Amon looked at Wu Di, wondering why this man came to his aid again.

"Wu Di? What are you doing? Come over here!" Wu Yang, the young master who had a small conflict with Amon when they entered Qishurg City, said. He was standing with the group from the Nobles faction. He had been eager to scold Amon as well, but he knew he was just a small player compared to Yan Long, so he kept his mouth shut. However, when Wu Di, his fellow clan member, appeared, he couldn't help but speak.

"Oh, it's you, the spoiled child," Wu Di said after noticing Wu Yang.

"You…! How dare you say that to me. You are just a bastard. You come over here now! Our Wu clan is always under the Nobles faction. If you dare to oppose us, don't expect to be let back into the clan anymore."

"Hah! You dolt! Why do you think I fight to get the chance to enter this royal academy? I have no intention of going back to that shit hole!"

"You…!!"

"Haha, what a crowd. Let me join in as well!" This time, it was a woman's voice. This woman jumped into the inner circle in a similar manner as Wu Di. When she landed, Amon saw that it was Tuang Yin.

"What do you want?" Amon asked.

"Some people wanted to harass my boyfriend. Of course, I come to help," She declared.

Boyfriend? Everybody was wondering whom she meant.

Amon ignored her. He returned his attention to the freshman faction leaders. "I will give you people one minute. If you don't vacate this place by then. We will settle this with our fists," Amon declared. After that, he folded his arms and counted the time internally.

"Do you think you can scare us with these ragtag members?!" Yan Long yelled.

"Lin Mo, it is better that you not provoke us," An Ling said.

"Sister Ling is right. If you truly want to build a new faction, building a good relationship with the existing ones is better compared to making an enemy out of all of us."

Amon just stared at them. He didn't bother to respond anymore.

"Hey! Do you listen?!" Ming Jin uttered.

"Forty seconds more," Amon said instead.

"You lunatic!" Ming Jin scolded.

"Haha, let's have a good fight!" Wu Di exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Xin Wuming showed his readiness, he shouted to the others behind, "Everyone, get ready!"

"Hmph! Let's leave! He is not worth it to get called into the tutor's office for having a large-scale fight," An Ling said. She turned around and left. Her members followed her.

One person left causing another to follow. The Heroic faction also left. The leader was only a representative. If they got into a fight here and caused members to be wounded, he would have to answer to Yong Gan, the real freshman leader of the faction.

With two factions leaving, their number was now equal to Amon's group. Ming Jin didn't see it as a prospective fight. He also issued the order for his members to leave.

The Nobles and the Virtuous were the last to leave. They both left threats before they left.

"You, watch your back!" Xian Hu threatened.

"Don't you think this is over!" Yan Long also said.

Amon snickered. He was amused that retreating people enjoy throwing such threats. As if it would save their pride.