Heavenly Dao Child 252 The matriarch

Ryuu slipped in to the shadows as he scoured through the Mendez Clan compound mapping the entire thing in his mind as he moved through the place sticking through the shadows while actively trying to avoid the clan members and the guards, normally he would have easily scoured the entire clan easily but where was the fun in that, as Ryuu made his way to inner part of the mansion as he went from one ceiling raft to another he was keeping his eyes and ears open for anything suspicious.

As he passed through in front of one of those rooms he heard some people speaking, "So how are the new slaves."

One of the voices snorted clearly a male spoke with an uninterested tone, "meh they are okay I guess, but more importantly what about the project?"

The former voice another male replied, "Well it is going well, a few more batches and we would be invincible.", Ryuu almost snorted at that as he thought, 'Invincible please there are beings who can wipe out a planet with a casual swipe of their hand and this people are not even strong enough to wipe out a single block of this city by the swipe of their hand.'

Ryuu sat on top of the raft but he did not hear anything spectacular he sighed before he moved again, he eavesdropped at that as he tried to gather more information but he got none, he sighed as he moved from that place until his attention was drawn to a garden and a herbarium adjacent to it, as he inspected the contents of the garden and the herbarium, a large grin etched on his face as he took out more than a dozen of talisman he quickly touched them as an array spread on them which he send it towards the garden and the herbarium, the talismans glowed briefly before it disappeared completely Ryuu grinned before he left from that place.

It was nearing dawn as such he quickly left and once again slipped inside his room without anyone after a quick change in cloth he took over his bed as he deactivated the array inside the room, Ryuu aka Liam Nanda did not have to wait much longer as a knock on the door was the indication for them to wake up. The woman who had taken the bed beneath Ryuu and whom Ryuu did not even bother to remember her name awoke as she opened the door, Ryuu climbed down from top of the bed, as he stood beside her, the person who came to awake them stifled a laugh as well as the woman.

Liam asked in a confused sleepy tone, "Is something wrong?"

The person composed himself as he spoke, "Well wipe out the drool from your face."

Liam was startled before he put his hand on his cheeks as he felt the sticky fluid causing him to blush intently at that as he politely apologized before he dashed to a nearby well in order to wash his face with water.

Half an hour later after the rather 'sumptuous' breakfast given to them, promptly found its way into the gutter after which Liam and the others made their way to the family library, an empty library, Ryuu aka Liam could feel the array around him he snorted at them he could easily bypass them if it needed be, as they entered a person with white hair appear as he spoke, "Hello everyone my name is Emanuel Mendez, I am the keeper of the library since you are new to this place I will explain the rules to you, you cannot take anything without notifying me the librarian, there are many floors but each of them can only be accessed when you reach a certain level, currently you have access to the ground floor only, if you wish to access to higher floor you will have to reach higher level of cultivation, now if you have any question you may s or else you may choose a single skill for now, only after you have mastered you may have chance to choose another, oh also you are only allowed to borrow it for 4 days and if someone is found stealing from the library he/she will be executed irrespective of their status."

The others nodded at that as the one whose name once again a certain someone forgot to remember spoke, "Your Holiness you do not need to worry as long as I draw my breath I will…"

Emanuel sighed as he spoke in s stern voice, "If you have nothing to ask please see the skill you want to use otherwise leave I have no time for anything else."

The group quickly broke as they went through the selves searching for a technique, Liam copied others as he put up an appearance of searching through the books for various techniques as he moved through them he scowled, 'Who in nine heavens designate this as a Rank 4 technique, this should not be a Rank 1, not only that most of the part seemed to be missing, this is a waste.'

A few hours later everyone had selected a skill to learn including Ryuu aka Liam who had selected a book on footwork skills, he sighed as he cracked opened the book, 'This book on the footwork technique is so horrible, it seems that the creator of the skill believed that a new born toddler can run before they learn to walk, worthless.'

As they let the library they once again were lead to a field for them to practice their arts, Liam shrugged before he picked a training dummy and began practicing his spear arts, 'I feel so dirty now how long will I have to keep the façade, seeing me holding and using spear in such an unsightly way my 3rd big sister would be ashamed as well as enraged with me.'

A few hours later the sweaty and tired group of newly minted guards who were still under training stopped as a certain someone appeared near the field escorted by a couple of people one of whom was the person who awoke them from their sleep, Liam had put up a look of tiredness as sweat dripped from his brows, 'tch, what kind of training is this, I had trained twice as more when I was 7 years old.'

"Everyone please assemble", a shout came to their ears as they quickly stood up and made their way towards the group.

"Everyone please greet our clan head Her Highness Lady 'Narcisa Mendez'", a person spoke with a reverent tone.

The group bowed deeply towards her including Liam who gritted his teeth in anger, as he looked up he gazed towards the Matriarch of the clan, and he felt a shiver ran down their spine, 'The look in her eyes I have seen too many times, whenever my 1st Mistress got some rare ingredient her eyes shone just like that, troublesome that woman is clearly planning something under the calm and gentle façade of hers.'

Narcisa: "Please there is no need for such a thing, I simply came to see the newest members of my family, please carry on with your work.", with that she turned around as she left with her entourage, as they were near the inner sanctum of their clan ground far away from the training ground occupied by the newest guards, she spoke with authority, "That Child he said his name is Liam Nanda right?"

One of the person accompanying her spoke, "Yes, Your highness, just give us your word and we would eliminate the last od the 'Nanda Clan'."

Narcisa sighed as she spoke, "I do not think he is remotely related to that clan from what I have heard he is an idiot, childish and naïve."

Another one spoke, "So we leave him then."

Narcisa snorted as she spoke, "Of course not, double up the surveillance on him I do not know why but my sixth sense was screaming at me that he is an extremely dangerous individual and I trust my sixth sense so make sure to treat him like others are treated and when you get a chance, in our world well accidents occur right." , she finished with a malicious grin which was a far cry from her previous kind and gentle look on her face.

The others simply nodded at that as a few let out a smirk.

Chapter end

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